Pete Hughes & Tyler Staton on Contending for the Renewal of your City and Cultivating Deep Rhythms of Prayer

How can followers of Jesus inhabit their cities—through workplaces, commutes, and classrooms—in a way that reflects the hope of God’s kingdom breaking in?

In this episode, Tyler Staton (Lead Pastor of Bridgetown Church & National Director of 24-7 Prayer USA) and Pete Hughes (Lead Pastor of KXC Church in London) join us for a powerful conversation on prayer, renewal, and mission. Originally shared with our Emerging Leaders Lab, this discussion dives deep into the rhythms and practices that sustain personal faith and corporate transformation.

In this conversation, you’ll hear about:

• Finding rhythms of personal and corporate prayer, building a life anchored in God's presence

• Creating a culture of contending through storytelling, how testimonies fuel faith and shape church culture

• Seeing God’s redemptive vision for your city, engaging with the spiritual and social realities of your community

• The biggest threats to long-term ministry, avoiding burnout and establishing sustainable rhythms

Biographies

Pete Hughes is the Senior Pastor of KXC, an Anglican church in the heart of London. Pete and his wife Bee planted the church in 2010, establishing a community with the simple vision to recklessly give themselves away to God, each other, and the people of King's Cross and beyond.

Tyler Staton is the Lead Pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, and the National Director of 24-7 Prayer USA. He is passionate about pursuing prayer—communion and conversation with God—while living deeply, poetically, wildly, and freely in the honest and gritty realities of day-to-day life. Tyler believes that justice is kinship, stories are a gift, and prayer is an invitation. 

Tyler is also the author of Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools and Searching for Enough: The High-Wire Walk Between Doubt and Faith, and the host of the Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools Podcast. He lives in Portland with his wife Kirsten, and their sons Hank, Simon, and Amos.

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