The 95 Podcast: Conversations for Small-Church Pastors

It's time to celebrate! 

We are releasing the 300th episode of the 95Podcast today. Wow! That's so hard to believe. Our first episode was released on July 31, 2019, featuring Austin Savage as our host. Austin was so instrumental in the launch of the podcast. He had a vision and an understanding of the potential impact a podcast could have, specifically focused on serving small and midsize church leaders. As of today, there...

Todd Miechiels is a story advocate, shepherd, midwife, and missionary. For more than 15 years, he has walked alongside others to help uncover, unlock, and unleash stories of God’s work—especially among those who feel stuck, hesitant, or unsure how to begin.

He lives with his wife Kim, and sometimes hosts his three adult sons, north of Atlanta, Georgia, and is waiting on the Lord, while co-laboring on Steps of Courage—a guided path a...

Tim Sprankle currently serves as the executive director of Charis Fellowship (2024–2026). Since 2007, he has served as lead pastor at Leesburg Grace Church in northern Indiana. His Charis connections extend widely, including previous ministry in Fellowship churches in Arizona and Ohio, co-leading the Charis Symposium, co-hosting the More of Us podcast, teaching at Grace College, writing curriculum for Momentum Youth Conference, and...

We all experience worry, hurts, and conflict. Often we suppress our emotions and keep others at a safe distance. But we end up imprisoned, settling for shallow relationships with God, family, and friends. The key to deeper connection? Empathy for yourself and others, says psychologist-therapist duo Bill & Kristi Gaultiere.

Empathy is often misunderstood, even maligned as nothing more than coddling or rescuing. Yet true...

Whitney Shafer is a pastor’s wife, a certified mental health coach, and the founder of Vibrant, a space created just for women in ministry who feel stretched thin and overlooked.

After more than 25 years in church life, she has seen how easily pastors’ wives lose themselves in expectations they were never meant to carry. That’s why she wrote Burn the Boxes! Whitney wants to help you rediscover who you are in Christ and sta...

Matthew Sonke and his wife Ashley spent the first years of marriage working and living among college students. This experience gave them a first-hand perspective of the shackles that come with college debt and a strong desire to mobilize this generation.

You can feel his passion for developing missionaries and helping churches create a healthy missions focus on today's 95Podcast. His desire to reach the unreached will...

Ian Dunaway helps church teams grow with purpose through coaching, communication tools, and youth-focused leadership strategies. He also works to inspire church leaders to reach people creatively and effectively by building relationships to accomplish their goals through developing practical ministry tools. He and his wife Hannah have one child and currently serve at G6 Church & G6 Allies in Owasso, OK.

Ian joins Dale ...

Jason Moore is a church tech leader, bestselling author, and practitioner who has been at the forefront of integrating technology into ministry for over two decades. With a passion for helping churches engage with modern tools while staying rooted in faith, Jason has led numerous trainings on AI in the church. His work has empowered church leaders across the country to embrace new technologies with confidence and purpose.

Jason join...

Doug Beutler received his ministry training and graduated from Fort Wayne Bible College in 1982.  He was ordained in 1990. He has planted two churches during his ministry, in 1994 and 2004. He started LifeWater Community Church in 2004 in his living room and it has grown to what it is today. Doug has a passion for church planting and for lost people. His mission is to help each family, find and fully follow Christ.

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Hannah Ashwell is a therapist, counselor, and executive coach specializing in the unique emotional challenges faced by Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, emergency responders and those wishing to find freedom from ‘modern day’ addictions such as food and weight related issues, unwanted sexual behavior, pornography and gambling. Drawing on deep clinical expert...

Russ Ewell says, "Fortune smiled on me the day I became a father of a family with disabilities. Human limits became real as I watched my sons fight to overcome Autism and Down Syndrome. Their inspired efforts increased the intensity of purpose shared by my wife and me. We learned to live differently."

Significant numbers of people fear being different. Disability has served to help my family and I overcome this fear. It ha...

Dr. Michael Shafer is a seasoned pastor and the Executive Director of G6 Allies, a ministry dedicated to equipping pastors and their families with the tools they need to be resilient leaders who build healthy churches.

He’s also the creator of Stocks for Pastors, a financial education platform that helps ministry leaders invest wisely and build long-term financial confidence. Dr. Shafer teaches the same biblically grounded...

Josh Spinks serves as a vice president of e3 Partners, overseeing the North American initiatives for the ministry, including I Am Second. In his role, he seeks to partner e3 with churches and ministries across the country. These partnerships help equip churches and believers to engage lostness both in the U.S. and around the world.

Josh has pastored in local churches with his family of eight for the last twenty years. He r...

Nick Hall is an evangelist and the founder and president of Pulse Evangelism, an organization that exists to make Jesus known by reaching the lost and unleashing the evangelist. In 2004, Nick wrote a paper in his college English class titled “Pulse,” casting a vision to see his campus and generation transformed by the hope of Jesus. That paper sparked a student-led grassroots movement, which soon grew beyond the campus and led to t...

It's time to celebrate!

We are releasing the 300th episode of the 95Podcast today. Wow! That's so hard to believe. Our first episode was released on July 31, 2019 featuring Austin Savage as our host. Austin was so instrumental in the launch of the podcast. He had a vision and an understanding of the potential impact a podcast could have that was specifically focused on serving small and midsize church leaders. As...

Jason Kovacs, of the Gospel Care Collective, joins Dale on today's 95Podcast to discuss the emotional, mental and spiritual health of ministry leaders. The Gospel Care Collective was started to provide counseling, consulting, and Biblical counseling training to individuals and churches. With over 20 years of leadership experience in church and non-profits we specialize in serving pastors and ministry leaders around the world. ...

Matt Steen has served the local church for over two decades as a youth pastor, church planter, and executive pastor. Originally from Baltimore, Matt currently lives in the Orlando, FL area with his wife Theresa, and has a B.S. in Youth Ministry from Nyack College and an M.Div. and MBA from Baylor University.

Certified as an Urban Church Planter Coach by Redeemer City to City and as a StratOp facilitator by the Paterson Center, Matt ...

As culture has evolved, each generation has developed its own general set of values and views that may align with those of the other generations. Not surprisingly, these differences extend to the Church--how we view the Church's purpose, ministry approaches and even the type of worship songs we sing.

In his new book The Multigenerational Church Crisis: Why We Don't Understand Each Other and How to Unite in Missio...

Polly Hamp understands the effect of living a lifetime of traumatic events. Some of her earliest childhood memories deal with the abuse she suffered from multiple people. However, she has allowed the Lord to turn her darkest pain into a pathway to freedom for herself and others, as she has spent many years ministering to those with similar stories.

Recently, Polly made another discovery that has taken her freedom journey t...