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Urban Ministry Podcast: Urban Church Planting in Africa

10th March 2021

Stephen Dinkins and his family moved to East Africa in 2013 to serve with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Stephen now serves as the Nairobi City Team Leader in Nairobi, Kenya. In this episode, Stephen and Timothy discuss the distinct dynamics of urban church planting in sub-Saharan Africa. For more information […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: africa, african, church planting, Dehoney Center, International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, Stephen Dinkins, urban, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast, Urban Ministry Traning

Urban Ministry Podcast: Replanting and Revitalizing Urban Congregations

24th February 2021

Thousands of churches in urban contexts are ripe for revitalization—but church revitalization isn’t easy! James Fields has spent nearly two years working with a congregation near Churchill Downs in Louisville, seeking to revitalize a once-thriving church. He joins Timothy Paul Jones to discuss what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what he’s learned. For more information about […]

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Filed Under: city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Churchill Downs, Harbor Network, James Fields, Sojourn, Sojourn Church, Sojourn Network, urban ministry

Urban Ministry Podcast: The Role of the Pastor’s Wife

27th January 2021

What is the role of the pastor’s wife? Amber Williams and Karen Cheong serve faithfully as members of Sojourn Church Midtown in inner-city Louisville, Kentucky, and they join Timothy Paul Jones to discuss the unique role that the pastor’s wife plays in the urban church. For more information about Sojourn Church Midtown, please go to […]

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Filed Under: black church, Blog, city, Family Ministry, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: family, family ministry, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Urban Ministry Podcast: Working with Local Businesses to Empower Urban Communities

6th January 2021

Nathan Ivey is president and founder of Seed to Oaks, a non-profit organization that brings real and lasting change in communities through collaborations between local churches, businesses, and civic agencies, filling the space between the three. These initiatives are proven, strategic and straight forward to implement; designed as a sustainable means for community change that […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Nathan Ivey, Seed to Oaks, urban, urban ministry

Peter Gurry and Elijah Hixson: Was the Bible Copied Accurately? + “You Belong to the City” (Glenn Frey)

25th October 2019

Has the Bible been copied accurately? Skeptics such as biblical scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman have suggested that it wasn’t. According to Bart Ehrman‘s book Misquoting Jesus, it makes no sense for Christians to refer to the Bible as God’s inspired Word “because we no longer possess the words that God supposedly inspired. … All that […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Bart Ehrman, city, Elijah Hixson, Glenn Frey, Peter Gurry, Textual criticism, urban ministry

Urban Ministry Podcast: Developing an Urban Missions Ministry in Your Church

30th September 2019

How could your church begin to engage the poor, the suffering, and the marginalized? And what might God do in your church, if this became part of your vision for the future? With us today is Jesse Eubanks, the founder and executive director of Love Thy Neighborhood. If neighborhood outreach is part of your church’s vision, you won’t want to miss this episode of Urban Ministry Podcast.

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Filed Under: black church, chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Love Thy Neighborhood, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Urban Ministry Podcast: Loving Your Neighbor in the Inner City

5th August 2019

GUEST: Jamaal Williams Click here to listen to this episode of the Urban Ministry Podcast. If you’re the pastor of an inner-city church, should you live in the same neighborhood as your church? And, if so, what are some of the unique challenges and opportunities of living in the inner city? That’s what we will […]

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Filed Under: Audio, black church, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: inner city, Jamaal Williams, Sojourn, Sojourn Community Church, urban, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Urban Ministry Podcast: Developing Deep Community in Urban Contexts

24th June 2019

Suppose God has called you to plant a church in the city, and you’re struggling simply to gather an initial core group to launch the new congregation. When someone asks you about small groups, you might wonder, “Do I really need to think about small groups? Why isn’t enough simply to have an outstanding Sunday morning worship experience and deal with groups later, after the church is growing?” If you think that gathering in small groups is optional, you need to listen to this episode of Urban Ministry Podcast. Today, my guest on the Urban Ministry Podcast is Brad House, the author of Community: Taking Your Small Group Off Life Support and the coauthor with Gregg Allison of the book Multichurch. The focus of our discussion is the unique dynamics of small groups in urban contexts and the need for small groups even in the early stages of church planting.

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Filed Under: Audio, Books, chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Brad House, cities, city, community, loneliness, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill, Multichurch, podcast, small groups, Sojourn, Sojourn Community Church, urban, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

Urban Ministry Podcast: What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Urban Ministry

29th April 2019

Ministry is filled with surprises—but the types of surprises you face in ministry will be different, depending on your context. Paul, for example, urged Timothy against “myths and endless genealogies” in Ephesus—but the warning he gave to Titus in Crete was against “empty talkers and deceivers.” This week, our goal is to help you to pay attention to the unique challenges of the context where God has placed you. On today’s episode, Timothy Paul Jones talks with Charles Shannon of The Mission Church about the challenges he’s faced in his first year as an urban church planter.

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Filed Under: Audio, black church, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Charles Shannon, church planting, leadership, mission, urban ministry

Podcast: How the Inner City Became the Way It Is

17th April 2019

To listen or to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, click here. The inner city is defined by poverty—literally. The inner city has been defined as a region in a metropolitan area in which 20 percent or more of households live in poverty and where the median household income is 50 percent or less than […]

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Filed Under: Audio, black church, chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: black church, inner city, racial, racism, urban ministry

Urban Ministry Podcast: Why This Podcast?

9th April 2019

Dr. Lilly Park talks with Dr. Timothy Paul Jones, director of the Dehoney Center for Urban Ministry Training, about why an urban ministry podcast is needed and why urban ministry matters.

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Filed Under: chuch planting, city, Lead, leadership, ministry, pastor, pastoral care, pastoral ministry, racism, urban, urban ministry Tagged With: Lilly Hae Park, Lilly Park, urban, urban ministry, urban ministry podcast

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