The KC Underground Podcast

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Phil Alessi. Phil was a key mentor for Cory around engaging the jail context. As an outsider, Phil had to effectively utilize the Person of Peace strategy to see movement in the jails where he was planting the gospel. Finding a person of peace in your own context will accelerate mission. "You will be most effective in the places where you have a reason to exist." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Mike Jensen. Mike is a disciple-making and microchurch leader with the KC Underground. He was once a pastor of predominant model church in a mainline denomination. Now Mike is a local business leader in KC and also leads a freedom and deliverance ministry called Freedom Fighters. Along with the local Freedom Fighters work, he and his wife also travel the country and train other teams in this important work. "I was an abnormal Christian. I wasn't actually doing the things Jesus said. That's the difference. Now I just do what he said to do." Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Jon DeWitt. Jon is one of the primary leaders within the Share the Hope network. His story begins as a person attending Share the Hope to currently serving as the Coaching Director for the Share the Hope Hub. In this role, he coaches microchurch leaders as they reproduce disciples and microchurches among formerly incarcerated men and those walking out of addiction. "We are not building Share the Hope for God. He is building his Kingdom his way, which means we are just free to be. We get to come alongside him as he does the work!" Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Chad Chambers. Chad has been engaged in disciple-making within the rodeo context for years. The Chambers family plays a significant role in shepherding the microchurch among the youth rodeo circuit. Chad shares his own story of meeting Jesus and how he continues to join Jesus in disciple-making with the people to whom he and his family feel the greatest level of sentness. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview Ryan and Bre Wiebe. Ryan and Bre are founding members of the KC Underground. They are disciple-making and microchurch leaders in the Western Shawnee area. Bre is the ongoing coaching director of the Underground, and Ryan is the aquatics director for a local municipality. We'll walk through the story of how their microchurch emerged and what Jesus has taught them on this journey over the last 3 - 5 years. "If you journey with Jesus long enough, it will always go to Jesus." - Bre Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

In this episode, Cory and Brian interview David and Cheryl Johnson. David and Cheryl are founding members of the Kansas City Underground. They are disciple-making and microchurch leaders in a couple of different contexts from neighborhoods to the state prison. We'll talk through why this paradigm is so important to them, how their microchurches have emerged, and the real stories that have shaped these extended spiritual families.  Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

The podcast you listen to will be the fifth in a series during 2022 around the themes of grace and supplication. These episodes will be dropped at various points throughout the year. We hope that you will head over to kcunderground.org/prayer-fasting and grab the prayer guide associated with this podcast. As the KC Underground, we believe that we can only go as far and as fast as we can on our knees. We have committed as a network to extraordinary prayer and fasting. This series of podcasts on grace and supplication in 2022 is our invitation for more of you missionaries that are listening to join in that commitment with us. If you happen to be one of the listeners outside our city, we hope that you'll use that prayer guide and join us in prayer for this city from a distance, as well as using it for your own city. Grab a few people. Invite them to start praying intentionally with you for the sake of a move of God right where you are.

Cory and Brian talk through the definition of a microchurch for the Kansas City Underground. We say that the KC Underground is a network of missionaries and microchurches, but what do we mean by that. In this episode we'll talk about the biblical foundations for microchurches, what we mean when we use the word, and what we don't mean. Over the next few weeks, we'll hear from local microchurch leaders to see how our definition is fleshed out on the ground. "There's no such thing as church planting in the New Testament. There's disciple-making that leads to the church emerging in new contexts." Cory Ozbun Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory McElvain and Brian have a conversation with Desiree Foster and Moses Tasse, two of the summer interns who have jumped into mission with the KC Underground for the summer of '22. We'll share a few stories of what they've done over the past eight weeks, how it's shaped the way they see disciple-making and the church, and how they see Jesus leading them forward. Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground

Cory McElvain and Brian interview Creighton Smith-Allaire, a committed missionary to high school students in Kansas City. What makes Creighton perfect for this? He is a high school student. We discuss Creighton's specific roles with the Zero Hour Hub and how he has been equipped by this Hub to be an effective disciple-maker in his school. "I know I'm called to people who are not believers at my school, and now Zero-Hour is equipping me to do it." -Creighton Next steps with the Underground: Subscribe to our newsletter Connect with us for Coaching Support the Underground