The Pastor's Heart with Dominic Steele

Archbishop Laurent Mbanda joins us to share his wonderful story from being a barefoot refuge in the East African nation of Rwanda to a Burundi refugee camp, where he and his parents were saved. A long walk to Kenya followed, then he was miraculously accepted into university, after weeks sleeping on the streets.After university, he was a staff worker for Campus Crusade for Christ, before doing a masters and doctorate in the United States, and eventually lead the Compassion International Aid work following the 1994 Rwandan massacre.Then there’s amazing work leading the church in Rwanda, explosive growth, with thousands saved, to now starting an East African Christian University.Archbishop Mbanda is deputy chair of significant movement within Anglicanism, GAFCON, and in 2020 will host the Anglican Bishops conference in the Rwandan capital Kigali. Check out Laurent Mbanda's biography on Amazon. The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

How does mentoring work for senior leaders? And can how having a mentor help, especially through those seasons in ministry when everything goes pear shaped.How can ministers be cared for spiritually, emotionally, relationally and theologically.  And what can be done to help a minister who is having a spiritual crisis? Presbyterians David and Kathy Thurston have planted two churches, and mentored over 80 young ministers, and now work full time supporting younger ministers through http://church2church.org.auThe Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

National Director of The Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students, Richard Chin, reflects on God’s ‘severe mercy.’  How he learned from God, as he supported his wife Bronwyn, through her death from pancreatic cancer, six years ago.Richard shares theological, strategic, pragmatic lessons from 25 years of ministry, advice on dating at 50 and a new marriage to Jeanette.  The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

Minister of St Stephen’s Christchurch Jay Behan tells the heartbreaking story of leading his church away from the traditional Anglican Church in New Zealand and working to form a new Diocese for faithful Anglicans. Jay Behan tells of his tearful resignation from the New Zealand Anglican Church’s General Synod, just hours after the Synod voted to abandon the teaching of Jesus on sexuality. He recounts the months of anguish leading up to his and other New Zealand churches decisions to leave the now apostate church and of the support of Gafcon and Australians in forming a new diocese in NZ.Check out the interview with new GAFCON Chair Foley Beach and General Secretary Ben Kwashi last week on The Pastor's Heart.UPDATE 17.11.2019: Rev Jay Behan has been elected first bishop of the 'Church of Confessing Anglicans Aotearoa/New Zealand' by the inaugural synod of the church.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

A special edition featuring GAFCON’s new leaders Archbishops Foley Beach and Benjamin Kwashi.The most significant movement within the Anglican Church globally is GAFCON, representing 50 million of the world’s 70 million Anglicans. GAFCON aims to remain faithful to Jesus and the scriptures, and not follow the cultural winds.The GAFCON Primates Council resolved last week in Sydney to hold a global conference of bishops just six weeks before the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lambeth Conference.  Read the communique HERE.The new GAFCON Bishops conference will serve Bishops who won’t participate in Lambeth because of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision to invite Provinces which have formally abandoned the teaching of Jesus in the area of sexuality.The new leaders of GAFCON, Primate’s Council Chair, Archbishop Foley Beach (of the Anglican Church in North America) and General Secretary Benjamin Kwashi (of Jos, Nigeria) sat down with Dominic Steele to talk about their heart as pastors and the future of GAFCON and the Anglican Church. The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

Do you sometimes wonder how effective your growth groups are in growing disciples? Want to know how to measure the effectiveness of your growth group ministry? Peter Mayrick talks to us to gather insight on changing growth group ministry to focus more on outcomes rather than just input. As church leaders how can we be confident with the answer to the question "are people growing in Jesus?"Subscribe to our Podcast here and take the Pastor's Heart with you! https://www.thepastorsheart.net/footerABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUEST, PETER MAYRICKAfter a career in Senior Business Management, Peter joined Moore College's Centre for Ministry Development in 2012 to support and coach Pastors as they lead churches in Christ's mission. Read more about CMD at https://cmd.moore.edu.au/The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

How can we preach better? How can we work together to do this? It's through collaboration.Steve Cree leads the ministry team at Queensland’s influential Living Church (formerly known as Creek Road Presbyterian).Steve’s taken a significantly innovative approach, helping pastors work in collaboration with pastors of other churches to better teach and pastor their flocks. Steve says, by working together, we can serve our people better.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

Ten so-called Christians from across the theological and denominational spectrum came together for a week in a reality TV program called ‘Christians like Us,’ screened in Australia on SBS.One of those housemates, Assumpta Venkatachalam shares her story of a week inside the house, where they navigated topics including women in ministry, homosexuality, child sex abuse, speaking to atheists, biblical authority, sex before marriage, abortion, and the future of Christianity. Assumpta is joined by Russell Powell, CEO of Anglican Media Sydney, who originally suggested her to the program’s producers.Check out this article by Assumpta.The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

Dean of Sydney Kanishka Raffel says it’s now difficult if not impossible for people to be Christian, respectable and successful, and yet so many of our people are used to being all three of these. Kanishka says church leaders today face significant external and internal pressures today, in the new era post Same Sex Marriage, post George Pell’s conviction and post the Royal Commission into abuse in churches. Kanishka reminds us this cultural shift is not new for Christians, in parts of Egypt the word for Christian is ‘garbage collector.’  But it’s a massive cultural change for us in the west. He calls on us to refocus on 2Timothy 3-4 and Preach the word, in and out of season.  Reminding us that it never feels like the right time to speak, but we need to summon up our courage do that. How do we demonstrate our conviction of the sufficiency of God’s word?How do you prioritise what you do as a church leader?How do you keep your preaching from being predictable, formulaic or dull? How do we lead a team, when there are so many team bust ups these days?The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show

How can we do evangelism better?  What is working?  What can we do better? Where do we shoot ourselves in the foot?  In a change to our regular format we feature a live panel discussion from the Nexus Conference, Evangelism lets do better.In a ‘no holds barred’ discussion, the panelists are Village Church Annandale pastor Dominic Steele, Unichurch UNSW’s Alison Napier and St George North Anglican pastor Phil Colgan. The discussion is chaired by UNSW Unichurch pastor Carl Matthei. The Church Cothechurchco.com is a website and app platform built specifically for churches.  Advertise on The Pastor's HeartTo advertise on The Pastor's Heart go to thepastorsheart.net/sponsorSupport the show