Dream. Create. Enjoy.

Bonus Episode - Why should Christians care about place? How can we become integral characters in the story of our neighborhood? How do we accept small acts of neighborliness as important work?  In this episode we interview Steve MacDouell about these questions and hear his story. When he's not pastoring with FreeChurch Toronto or teaching at Fanshawe College, Steve can be found working on place-based projects and inviting everyday citizens to leverage their time, their ideas, and their creativity for the sake of their neighbourhoods. He's the co-founder of Good City Co., a civic organization that creates projects, platforms, and activations to help citizens take a greater ownership over the places that they call home. He writes about the intersection of community, place, and praxis for Strong Towns.  Steve lives, dreams, and conspires in Little Portugal—a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario.

Bonus Episode - What does it look like to find joy and delight in loving your neighbor? What does it look like to reorient your life around place? How do we live as "holy fools?"  In this episode we interview Dr. Preston Pouteaux about these questions and hear his story. He is a beekeeper, neighborhood enthusiast, and pastor at Lake Ridge Community Church. He is an engaging speaker, writer, and curator of conversations about faith and neighborhoods. Since 2015 his syndicated column, Into the Neighbourhood, has been printed over two million times in weekly newspapers and his latest book, "The Bees of Rainbow Falls" won a 2018 Word Guild Award. Preston lives in Chestermere, Alberta, with his wife Kelly, their daughters Scotia and Ivy, and a few thousand honeybees.

Part of Season 3 - In this episode, Drew Thurman, Fabricio Paes, and Christine Lee talk about the struggles of overcoming metrics from prevailing models of church. What does it look like to be faithful and patient in a microchurch? How do we not reduce God's work to nothing more than counting? We discuss together. 

Part of Season 3 - In this episode, Drew Thurman and Jace Rasche talk about the realities of living for the common good of the neighborhood. Jace shares the story of starting a business, and what redemptive entrepreneurship and pursuing your God dream looks like in reality. 

Part of Season 3 - In this episode, Drew Thurman and Christine Lee talk about the realities of living out diversity, equity, and inclusion in a microchurch. Christine shares parts of her story and wrestles with the where the church can grow in these areas. 

Part of Season 3 - In this episode, Jacob Vangen and Victoria Roberts talk about the realities of living out the way of Jesus in a microchurch. Victoria shares her story and peels back the curtain of her own microchurch so listeners can hear what it is really means to be the church in this expression. 

Part of Season 3 - In this episode, Jacob Vangen and Robert Meyer talk about the realities of joining God on mission in our everyday spaces and places. They wrestle with the sacrifice and difficulty of doing ministry in this manner, and how God shows up in the midst of it all. 

Part of Season 3 - In this episode, Drew Thurman and Jacob Vangen kickoff a brand new season of the Dream. Create. Enjoy. Podcast. In this episode, they interview Fabricio Paes, one of the microchurch leaders of Renaissance. He talks about the importance of being rooted in your neighborhood and discovering God where we already are. 

Part of Season 2 - "Essentials." In this episode, Drew Thurman, Jace Rasche, and Jacob Vangen continue to chat through the Renaissance essentials, a manifesto of sorts. This episode is all about a lifestyle grounded in listening/prayer - as Renaissance values humility, listening and praying first rather than always pushing an agenda. 

Part of Season 2 - "Essentials." In this episode, Drew Thurman, Jace Rasche, and Jacob Vangen continue to chat through the Renaissance essentials, a manifesto of sorts. This episode is all about a lifestyle of openhandedness - as Renaissance values generosity, helping people live simply and give freely rather than being slaves to materialism.