We feature an interview conducted in church with a domestic violence survivor.  It’s a confronting and personal interview and does deserve a ‘trigger warning.’ Jenni Woodhouse and Dominic watch as the abuse survivor tells her story, then Jenni critiques Dominic’s pastoral handling of the situation.The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

There’s been lots of talk recently about ‘The Leadership Pipeline’ but what exactly is it and how can the senior church leader make the most of this new pastoral practice.The leadership pipeline is a super helpful tool to think about leadership development, for yourself as a senior church leader, but also for others.Senior MInister of Toongabbie Anglican Church Raj Guptahas been developing a training program for senior ministers of churches built around the leadership pipeline.The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

How do you care for people where a spouse has just left? Or committed adultery?There's pain and hurt. How do we care best for divorcees in the wider non Christian community?And if they are Christian often one at least of the partners ends up leaving the church.Michael Sheedy and Melinda Hunt have been leading Village Church Annandale's divorce care program for the last eight years.They've seen more than 100 divorcees helped and heal through this program.They join Dominic Steele to talk about the things they've learned along the way. Every divorce is different. But there are some common threads.The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

How do we go about employing people? What are the issues we face with with structure, culture, job descriptions?  How do you best 'onboard people' onto your team?  How you function in the first 90 days? How do you introduce behaviours that you plan to repeat such as, discipleship, positive feedback and trusted corrective feedback? What about ongoing management, six monthly reviews, delegation and coaching?The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

It’s less than two months to Christmas and we are sharpening ourselves on the practice of proclaiming Christ at Christmas. Whether you are speaking at a carols service, a gingerbread and wreath making event, a Kids service, Scripture Christmas Service or Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, this discussion will be helpful for you. We’re joined by Luke Tattersall from The Campbell Street Presbyterian Church and Kanishka Raffel, the dean of St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney. Some of my questions are: • In your preparation how do you think about a Christmas talk differently to a regular in series talk? • What else are you aiming to achieve in your Christmas meetings? • How do you choose your Christmas passages? • What does preparation look like for these occasions? • What's the goal of a Christmas talk? • What makes a boring / interesting Christmas address? • How much are you looking for guests and how much for regular members?The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

Today we are talking, ‘the profession and professionalisation of Christian ministry,’ with Archie Poulos.Archie lectures in ministry at Moore Theological College, and is completing a PhD on building the competency of ministers. In what sense are ministry leaders ‘professionals’?What separates ordinary Christian ministry/ministry leaders from amazing ones? Why is a theological eduction no longer adequate for Christian ministry?How can we do the task of ministry better?This is the heart of Archie’s PhD studies and we are looking forward to hearing from him. The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

UK pastor author Tim Chester is pastor of Grace Church, Boroughbridge, and author of more than 30 Christian books.He’s with us to speak about his new book, Enjoying God, but also how you balance a busy pastoral ministry with being such a prolific author. How do you have so many thoughts? How can you write them all down?The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

In a special extra edition of the Pastor's Heart, Freedom for Faith director Michael Kellahan joins Dominic Steele to discuss how Christians can best respond to Australia's religious freedom review.Recommendations are here http://bit.ly/religiousfreedomreviewThe Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

How can your church be more loving to newcomers? How do you do welcoming well? What are the strategies for best connection?Not so much the arrival on the first visit, but what is best practice to see people journey from that first visit to becoming a fully integrated member of your church - so that they are still with you 12 months later?How do you triage people? Then what resources/energy do you spend ministering to different people?How do you work out how not to put too much energy into people who will never come back? Andy Hobbs from Salt Church Wollongong and David Allen from Hunter Bible Church and Unichurch, Newcastle in Newcastle have both thought lots about these questions. The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.

In this revealing and frank discussion with former Archbishop Peter Jensen discusses the particular responsibilities of senior leaders and the pressures that senior leaders are under.Plus an extended review of the state of the Anglican Communion and the response around the world to #Gafcon2018.The Church Cohttp://www.thechurchco.com is an excellent website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Support the show--Become a regular financial supporter of The Pastor's Heart via Patreon.