Small Churches Big Impact Podcast
Somehow, regardless of what the church says otherwise it seems like the message we keep getting as congregational leaders is size matters, so we've come together to seek a different message and to identify and amplify the beauty and grace of small. Small churches. No matter the impact you think you're making, join us to hear more about small churches making big impacts with God walking right alongside. You're with the Small Churches Big Impact Collective.
Episodes
The Rev. Leyla King, Canon for Mission in Small Congregations for the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, sits down with guests the Rev. Kevin Diehl, Rector of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco, the Rev. Suzanne Smith, Rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Alvin, Texas, and Ed Carrette, Community Missioner also at Grace Church with Rev. Smith.
Kevin describes how St. John's, a small church in the Mission Dist...
In this episode of the Small Churches Big Impact Collective, host the Rev. Rebekah Hatch, Canon for Lay & Ordained Vocations in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, speaks with the Rev. Candice Combs, pastor of New Life Lutheran Church in Dripping Springs, Texas - a unique congregation that worships exclusively outdoors.
Rev. Combs shares how New Life, a congregation focused on grace, discipleship, children, and creation, has fo...
In this episode, the Reverend Allison Sandlin Liles, Vicar of St. Stephen's in Hurst, Texas, sits down with the Reverend Dr. Elizabeth Mae Magill, pastor of the Small Church Collaborative which includes Rindge Congregational Church in Rindge, New Hampshire and Ashburnham Community Church in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Liz shares her experiences leading two “micro-congregations” and building a collaborative ministry with a neig...
In this episode of the Small Churches Big Impact Collective, host the Rev. Stacy Williams-Duncan sits down with the Rev. Dr. Paula Miller, Rector of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Lincoln Park, Michigan and the Rev. Nandra Perry, Vicar of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Hearne, Texas.
Paula shares how St. Michael's in Lincoln Park, Michigan, is working to improve the social and economic well-being of their comm...
The Rev. Leyla King, Canon for Mission in Small Congregations for the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, sits down with guests the Rev. Halim Shukair, Priest-in-Charge at Christ Episcopal Church and Priest-in-Charge at Mother of the Savior Church, the first Arabic worshiping community in the Episcopal Church, both in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Rev. Lauren Grubaugh Thomas, church-planting priest of a year-old Episcopal community call...
The members of the Small Churches Big Impact Collective are joined by The Rev. Lydia Kelsey Bucklin, President and Dean of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in conversation about this upcoming season. Each episode centers around communities of faith and their understanding of social justice. Listeners will hear about the variety of ways justice can be lived out and witnessed to, even in smaller congregations.
Episode Links:
- Trinity Church, Boston - https://www.trinitychurchboston.org/
- Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, OR - https://www.trinity-episcopal.org/
- Episcopal Diocese of Michigan - https://www.edomi.org
- Dr. Paul Farmer’s funeral at Trinity Church
- Catechesis is Trinity Cathedral’s ”five-month immersion in scripture, history, worship, and Christian practices is also a chance to learn more about this community of faith.”
- Music: I Love to Tel...
Grace Episcopal Church, Hartford, CT (on the web)
https://gracehartford.org/
Reference this earlier episode of our podcast to understand more about the “Baby Big Church” idea
https://smallchurchesbigimpact.buzzsprout.com/1806781/9656901-baby-big-church
Grace Episcopal Church, Hartford, CT (on Facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/GECHartford
“What is Anglo-Catholicism?”
http://www.stmarymagda...
- Skip Eller
- St. Aidan’s, Tulsa, Oklahoma: www.facebook.com/saintaidantulsa
- Manhattan Construction: https://manhattanconstructiongroup.com/manhattan-construction-company/
- Elizabeth Felicetti
- St. David’s, Richmond, Virginia: www.stdavidsrva.org/
- Author’s website: https://elizabethfelicetti.com
- Book: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802882349/
- Mike Kugler
- Church of the Savior, Orange City, Iowa: www.facebook.com/grou...
Show Notes: Bishops Who Support Small Church Ministry
Seasons 1 & 2 of the Small Churches Big Impact Collective podcast
Part-Time is Plenty by Jeffrey MacDonald: https://www.wjkbooks.com/Products/0664265995/parttime-is-plenty.aspx
Episcopal Parish Network webinar: What is Making Small Churches Thrive? https://youtu.be/jSCNMyTW44g
College for Congregational Development: https://www.cdcollege.org
Small Church Network gatherings i...
- St. Jude’s Episcopal Church, Ocean View, HI: http://www.stjudeshawaii.org/
- St Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Edinburg, TX: https://www.stmattrgv.org/
- Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd George West, TX: https://www.facebook.com/p/Church-of-the-Good-Shepherd-George-West-TX-100083034745597/
- Information about St Jude’s shower ministry, food, and wifi ministries: http://www.stjudeshawaii.org/outreach.html
- To inquire about being a Visiti...
- Iona Collaborate: https://iona.ssw.edu/
- Iona Collaborate Thriving in Bi-Vocational Ministry: https://iona.ssw.edu/thriving-in-bi-vocational-ministry/
- Learning Forte! https://www.learningforte.com/
- Gathering of Leaders: https://www.thegatheringofleaders.org/
- Canon 9 Ordinations with Local Formation: In 1988 the 69th General Convention of the Episcopal Church established Title III, Canon 9 that allowed bishops to ordain lay folk to ...
Host: the Rev. Stacy-Williams Duncan
Guests: the Revs. Leon Sampson and Joe Hubbard
The Episcopal Church in Navajoland
Good Shepherd Mission, Fort Defiance, AZ
St. Christopher’s Mission, Bluff, UT
Episcopal News Service (ENS) article about Navajoland deputation at General Convention
Leon Sampson is a 2019 graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary and currently serves as the curate priest at Good Shepherd Mission in Fort Defiance, AZ. ...
Host: The Rev. Leyla King
https://smallchurchesbigimpact.org/
https://thankfulpriest.home.blog/
Guests:
The Rev. Mark Nabors is the Vicar of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and also serves St. Peter's on the Prairie Episcopal Church in Tollville, Arkansas. A graduate of the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (BA and MPA) and Sewanee (MDiv), he is passionate about liturgy, hy...
Host: the Rev. Allison Sandlin Liles
Guests: the Revs. Leigh Ellen Hall and Robert Hartmans
St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, New Hamburg, NY
St. Thaddaeus’ Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, TN
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Hixon, TN
ChattEY - Chattanooga Episcopal Youth
The Agile Church by Dwight J. Zscheile
The Rev. Robert Hartmans serves as the Priest-in-Charge of two small churches in the Diocese of East Tennessee— St Thaddaeus Episcopal Ch...
The Rev. Stewart Lucas, currently vicar at Holy Innocents’ in Sandy Springs, GA; former pastor of The Church of the Nativity and Holy Comforter, Baltimore, MD.
https://nativitycomforter.org/
https://nativitycomforter.org/becoming-lutherpalians/
https://www.holyinnocents.org/
The Rev. Anthony Estes, Rector, All Saints, Detro...
Host: the Rev. Leyla King
Guests: the Revs. Rebekah Hatch, Allison Sandlin Liles, Stacy Williams-Duncan
In this introduction to Season Two, the four core members of the Collective reflect on the learnings of the past year in small churches and lay out some themes to expect in the rest of the episodes of the season - from the ecclesiastical church ladder to the joys of serving in nimble congregations.
HOST: Leyla King
GUEST: Kit Lonergan
http://saintjamesgroveland.org/wp/
Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress: https://mdsc.org/
Mark 4:26-28 -
26 Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 But...
HOST: Rebekah Bokros Hatch
GUEST: Stacy Williams-Duncan
https://learningforte.com/learning-forte/
Festival of Homiletics: https://festivalofhomiletics.com/
Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard
Podcast produced by Polymnia
HOST: Kit Lonergan
GUEST: Susie Shaefer
Learn more about the CREDO conference, and find some of their resources, at https://www.cpg.org/credo/
St. John’s Church in Clinton, Michigan: www.stjohnschurchclinton.org
“The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the uni...
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