In this episode of the Groundswell podcast, Heath Mullikin and Jeremy Summers talk with JD Walt and Andrew Dragos from Seedbed and the New Room Conference. They share with us some of the great resources coming out from New Room, plans for the upcoming New Room Conference, and also a special invitation is given to Washington, DC to pray on election day with the team. We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. Check out what's happening at Seedbed. Register for the New Room Conference. J. D. Walt is the chief sower and visionary for Seedbed. He works through the Word of God each day on the Seedbed Daily Text, but most important, he demonstrates the Seedbed mantra of Sola Sancta Caritas (only holy love) as he gives leadership to Seedbed’s vision, development, design, and tribe. Andrew Dragos is the editorial director for Seedbed’s online content. He served in local ministry before transitioning to publishing and developing theological resources for the church. In his free time, you can find him reading, designing, or doing photography for his friends and family. The post #058: JD Walt and Andrew Dragos from Seedbed and the New Room Conference appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
Today we talk again with JR Woodward. This conversation is about his role with the V3 Movement and the Praxis Gathering. You can hear our other interview with JR about his book, Church as Movement, here. The V3 Movement website, Twitter, and Facebook page. Register for the Praxis Gathering. We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. The post #057: JR Woodward from the V3 Movement appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
Today we talk to JR Woodward, author of Church as Movement. JR Woodward has been passionately planting churches that value tight-knit community, life-forming discipleship, locally-rooted presence and boundary-crossing mission for over twenty five years. He has helped start and multiply dozens of missional-incarnational communities from Blacksburg, Virginia, to Los Angeles. He has experienced both failure and fruitfulness, suffering and good times. JR co-founded and currently serves on the board of the Missio Alliance, a movement of hopeful, centrist evangelicals envisioning a church reimagined for a world recreated. He is an active board member of Reliant Mission (formerly called GCM), which serves over five hundred missionaries in North America and around the world. He currently serves as the national director for the V3 Church Planting Movement, helping to train church planters across North America in movemental ways of being the church. He is the co-founder and co-director of the Praxis Gathering, an annual gathering for planters who want to grow in grounded missional practices. JR is the author of Creating a Missional Culture (IVP 2012) and a regular contributor to newchurches.com, theV3movement.org, and gospel-life.net. He contributes to both academic and popular journals and blogs, including Religious Studies Review, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Leadership Journal, Gospel Centered Discipleship and the Verge Network. He speaks at conferences and gatherings across the country, including Inhabit, Fresh Expressions, Missio Alliance and the Praxis Gathering. He graduated with a master of arts in global leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary and is pursuing a PhD at the University of Manchester (UK) on the topic of how a theology of the powers shapes a leadership’s approach to power and structure for mission. JR loves to surf, travel, read, skateboard and meet new people. He enjoys photography and film and attends the Sundance Film Festival whenever he can. Church as Movement website Follow JR and Dan on Twitter. We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. The post #056: Church as Movement with JR Woodward appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
This is Kevin Watson's presentation at the online Missional Discipleship Conference hosted by Southern Wesleyan University. Kevin M. Watson is the author of Pursuing Social Holiness: The Band Meeting in Wesley's Thought and Popular Methodist Practice, The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience, A Blueprint for Discipleship: Wesley's General Rules as a Guide for Christian Living, and the co-author of Reclaiming the Wesleyan Tradition: John Wesley's Sermons for Today. The Assistant Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, he is an ordained elder in the Oklahoma Conference of The United Methodist Church. His writing explores the role of small group formation in early Methodism and considers its relevance for contemporary Christianity. Watson blogs at http://vitalpiety.com Thanks to We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. The post #055: Kevin Watson from the Missional Discipleship Conference appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
Heath and Jeremy are joined by Pastor's Anthony Smith and Troy Evans. Part of our conversation is about the meaning of Black Lives Matter and how many have misunderstood this phrase and movement. Both of these men are on the front lines of working for the Kingdom of God to become a reality in their communities. For further study check out Prophetic Lament. Anthony Smith lives in Salisbury, NC. Anthony is one of the curators (along with this wife Toni Cook-Smith) of Mission House, a kingdom experiment in Salisbury, NC. He is the ‘resident emerging theologian’ of an Emergent Village cohort in Charlotte and a co-host of the emergent cohort in Statesville, NC. He also serves on the leadership team of TransFORM, a global network of missional leaders and communities. He facilitates a blog, Musings of a Postmodern Negro, that is an investigation into the intersection of theology, philosophy, race, popular culture, politics, and emerging culture. Follow him on twitter @missionhousenc. Troy Evans is the founding Pastor of the Edge Urban Fellowship in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His complete bio can be viewed here while his book, The Edge of Redemption can be found here. Connect with Troy on Facebook. As always, our desire is to be a part of the conversation and bring healing and reconciliation in our troubled world. We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. The post #054: Pastor’s Troy Evans and Anthony Smith on racism and reconciliation appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
Heath Mullikin interviews Chris Way, the founder of the Atinga Project at the Follow 2015 Wesleyan Youth Convention. The Atinga Project sells shoes made by Africans. Specifically, recycled taxi-tire sandals made by Rwandans. These sandals are not your typical flip-flops. They are hand-crafted by skilled artisan-shoemakers. For more information check out the following links: http://www.atingaproject.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheAtingaProject/ https://twitter.com/AtingaProject We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. The post #053: Chris Way from the Atinga Project appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
This presentation was part of the online Missional Discipleship Conference put on by the Church Multiplication and Discipleship Division of the Wesleyan Church. The rest of the conference can be viewed here. Kent Carlson (BA, Trinity College. MAR, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the founder (1984) and co-senior pastor of Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California. Kent also serves as the Vice President for Leadership Formation at the North American Baptist Conference. He lives in El Dorado Hills, California and has been married to his wife, Diane, since 1982. They have three daughters, two granddaughters, two dogs, two goats, one cat and a bunch of chickens. He is the co-author of the book, Renovation of the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation (IVP) and believes that the Chicago Cubs will soon win the World Series and then the end will come. We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. The post #052: Kent Carlson from the Missional Discipleship Conference appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
Dr. Lenny Luchetti serves as Associate Professor of Proclamation and Christian Ministries at Wesley Seminary of Indiana Wesleyan University. He has served as a local church pastor for more than 15 years and continues to preach and teach at colleges, churches, and camps in the United States and around the world. His book, Preaching Essentials, has been recognized by Outreach Magazine and Preaching Magazine as one of the best books on preaching in the year of its publication. We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. The post #051: Dr. Lenny Luchetti, author of True Depth appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
Our conversation today is with Pastor Steve Johnson. Steve posted a video on Facebook discussing the shooting in Orlando which prompted this call. Steve, a graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, is an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church where he has served for the last 12 years. In 2006, Steve moved to Western New York to serve as a Pastor of Student Ministries. That year he also met his wife Lindsey. They have now been married for 8 years and have two children, Ava (4) and Charlie (2). In 2014 Steve & Lindsey left his ministry position to become bi-vocational and move into the city of Buffalo to pursue a calling into urban church planting. Their church, Anchor Church, launched public services in January 2016. We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. Here is Steve's Facebook Video. Contact Steve through AnchorBuffalo.com Resources mentioned in the conversation: The post #050: Pastor Steve Johnson on the Orlando Shooting appeared first on Missional Discipleship.
I had the chance to talk with Christ Smith, author of Slow Church, at the recent CCDA Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. Chris is the editor of the Englewood Review of Books and member of the Englewood Christian Church community in Indianapolis, IN. Check his website out at http://www.slowchurch.com and look for his latest book, Reading for the Common Good. We would love your feedback by commenting on the blog, joining our Facebook group, or tweeting us @heathmullikin and @jeremysummers using the hashtag #groundswell. For more information on the Spiritual Formation Department of the Wesleyan Church click here. The post #049: Chris Smith, Author of Slow Church appeared first on Missional Discipleship.