

Reach Australia Podcast
Reach Australia
Interviews from church leaders across the country, plus talks and workshops from Reach Australia's National Conference.
Also check out our shorter podcast The One Thing – designed to give you one solid, practical tip for gospel-centred ministry, every week.
Reach Australia is a network of churches - working together to seeing thousands of healthy, evangelistic, multiplying churches across Australia.
Also check out our shorter podcast The One Thing – designed to give you one solid, practical tip for gospel-centred ministry, every week.
Reach Australia is a network of churches - working together to seeing thousands of healthy, evangelistic, multiplying churches across Australia.
Episodes
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Mar 8, 2022 • 20min
12.1 An Introduction To Church Buildings and Renovations (Church Buildings Part 1)
Should your church renovate or build something new? Why do church buildings even matter? Is it achievable to fix your inherited church building? Andrew Robson joins Dave Keun.
0:00 an introduction to church buildings and renovations
0:45 can’t we just meet outside?
5:53 what about smaller church buildings?
8:15 a worked example
11:22 considerations
13:00 a mineshaft opened up in our church car park
14:15 air con
14:57 owning and renting
18:10 church plants

Jan 11, 2022 • 31min
Special: Do I Have What It Takes To Plant A Church?
Church planters come in many shapes and sizes, not just the hipster inner-city alpha male. Derek Hanna, general manager of the church planting arm of Reach Australia (Geneva Push), recorded this talk for the Melbourne Church Planting Conference in November 2021.
Get the video here.

Dec 14, 2021 • 42min
11.5 Ecosystem Thinking
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Watch the video version of this episode on youtube.
Dave Keun (Reach Australia church consultant) lays out the Reach Australia framework:
1. Clarify the big thing
2. Be faithful to the means
3. Take responsibility, build responsibility
4. Break it down
5. Ecosystem thinking
End music: https://youtu.be/z8x1MCnD4SU

Dec 8, 2021 • 50min
11.4 Break It Down
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Dave Keun (Reach Australia church consultant) lays out the Reach Australia framework:
1. Clarify the big thing
2. Be faithful to the means
3. Take responsibility, build responsibility
4. Break it down
5. Ecosystem thinking
End music: https://open.spotify.com/album/4ccwJQMwYC3NESfEyR80xw

Nov 30, 2021 • 50min
11.3 Take and Build Responsibility
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Dave Keun (Reach Australia church consultant) lays out the Reach Australia framework:
1. Clarify the big thing
2. Be faithful to the means
3. Take responsibility, build responsibility
4. Break it down
5. Ecosystem thinking
End music: https://open.spotify.com/track/5s2CM4dtoCz6YHTdJvYP3U?si=891a62a5202f441c

Nov 23, 2021 • 42min
11.2 Faithful To The Means
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Watch the video version of this episode on youtube.
Dave Keun (Reach Australia church consultant) lays out the Reach Australia framework:
1. Clarify the big thing
2. Be faithful to the means
3. Take responsibility, build responsibility
4. Break it down
5. Ecosystem thinking
End music: https://youtu.be/c9UbmfPNcXw

Nov 15, 2021 • 42min
11.1 Clarify The Big Thing
Get the free ebook.
Watch this episode on youtube.
Dave Keun (Reach Australia church consultant) lays out the Reach Australia framework:
1. Clarify the big thing
2. Be faithful to the means
3. Take responsibility, build responsibility
4. Break it down
5. Ecosystem thinking
End music: https://youtu.be/k2YHMcANKf8

Oct 28, 2021 • 53min
Special: Pastoring - Leadership and Taking Heed (Andrew Heard and Paul Grimmond)
This episode accompanies a free e-book written by Andrew Heard and Tony Payne, available at reachaustralia.com.au/resources.
The video of this interview is available on the Reach Australia youtube.
0:00 Introduction
1:03 Unhelpful understandings of pastoral ministry
2:13 The language of pastor in the Bible
10:17 Training incoming pastors
23:13 Meeting with your people
26:53 Models of ministry
30:40 Bad shepherds
33:15 Accountability
37:38 Is team pastoring really pastoring?
43:51 Leadership is noble
47:49 Men and women

Oct 25, 2021 • 18min
10.17 Mobilising Women in 2021 (Cathie Heard)
As a sequel to Cathie Heard's TED Talk on 'Mobilising Women for Ministry', Cathie teaches on mobilising women to reach Australia in 2021 at the 2021 Reach Australia conference. Registrations are now open for the 2022 Reach Australia conference, held at EV Church on the NSW Central Coast, from 17th to the 20th May 2022. Get your discounted earlybird ticket at reachaustralia.com.au

Oct 20, 2021 • 19min
10.16 Mission To The Nations (Kanishka Raffel)
Kanishka Raffel teaches on 'Mission To The Nations' at the 2021 Reach Australia conference. Registrations are now open for the 2022 Reach Australia conference, held at EV Church on the NSW Central Coast, from 17th to the 20th May 2022. Get your discounted earlybird ticket at reachaustralia.com.au


