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Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast and thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to join us. Today we're honored to have Carey Nieuwhof with us. Carey is the founding and teaching pastor of Connexus Church just north of Toronto. Carey describes Canada as being a...

American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay called “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” to the editor of The Journal of Paris in 1784. In the essay, he suggested, although jokingly, that Parisians could economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in...

Welcome back to the unSeminary Podcast. Today I’m super excited to be talking with John Finkelde again. John is a church leader from Australia and runs an organization called Grow a Healthy Church. Australia is a very secular culture and less than 10% attend church regularly. Australians are a very...

Welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast and thanks for joining us today. We have lead pastor Robert Manda with us from Eastern Light Presbyterian Church in Malawi in the southern part of Africa. Eastern Light was started by South Korean missionaries in 2006. It is a church that is still...

Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to join us today. I’m excited to have Ross Lester with us all the way from Johannesburg, South Africa. He’s the pastor at Bryanston Bible Church. South Africa is full of opportunity and challenges as far as ministry goes....

Hello, everybody, and thanks so much for joining us today. I’m excited to have Yoshito Noguchi with us, all the way from Tokyo, Japan. The greater area of Tokyo is about 36 million people and less than 1% are Christian. There are only 1,000 Christian churches in Tokyo to serve...

Thanks so much for joining us today with this week’s unSeminary podcast. This month we’ve been talking with church leaders around the globe about what God is doing in their part of the world and what we can learn in our own ministries. Today we’re speaking with Ken Costa, the founder and...

Hello and thank you for joining us for this week’s unSeminary podcast. We’re super excited this week to have Tyler Reagin with us from Catalyst. The Catalyst organization runs Catalyst Conferences around the country. The organization was started about 16 years ago by John Maxwell, who wanted to connect and invest in...

We're honored to have Kevin Negaard guest posting for us today. He is the executive director at Sunnybrook Community Church and he has a passion for helping the church steward its resources well, including the people on staff. In mid-July of 2015, it hit me that the new ministry season was right around...

The Walt Disney Company continues to be an organization that churches should learn from. Obviously, our "core business" in the local church is totally different but there are many similarities in what we're attempting to do and what Disney does: We're both attempting to keep people engaged with "life span"...