Forming Church Podcast

Jo Saxton roundtable with Christine Redwood and Emma Pendleton

Jamie Freeman sits down with Christine Redwood (Senior Pastor, Seaforth Baptist Church) and Emma Pendleton (BYM) to unpack and flesh out all the goods from last week's episode with Jo Saxton. (If you haven't listened to Jo's episode go back and do that first, then come back here for the deep dive!)

Season 2 of Forming Church is brought to by our show partners:

• Morling College (https://www.morling.edu.au/)
• BFS (https://www.bfs.org.au/)
• Baptist Care (https://baptistcare.org.au/) 

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Forming Church is created by Gen1K Mission in collaboration with Lead by Story. Original Music by Josh Corkill and editing by Sienna Corkill. 

Women, leadership and lament with Jo Saxton

THE one and only Jo Saxton joins us for the first episode of Forming Church season 2. We talked about all kinds of things including gender, race, COVID, lament, leadership and discipleship. Lots of gold here. Enjoy!

Engage with more of Jo's work at: https://www.josaxton.com/

 

Season 2 of Forming Church is brought to by our show partners:

• Morling College
• BFS 
• Baptist Care

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Forming Church is created by Gen1K Mission in collaboration with Lead by Story. Original Music by Josh Corkill and editing by Sienna Corkill. 

Season 2 Trailer + New Format

Season 2 of Forming Church Podcast is coming at ya! Weekly episodes launching from Thursday 15th April. Get a sneak peak on what to expect, including an exciting new change to the format in this trailer. 

Forming Church is brought to you by Gen1K and our vision to see a thousand healthy churches in a generation. Our show partners are Morling College, BFS and Baptist Care. Forming Church Podcast is produced by Lead by Story. 

Jamie Freeman interviews Will & Benj (Season wrap-up)

Jamie, Will and Benj look back at the first season of Forming Church and break it all down. Roles are flipped as Jamie interviews the interviewers...and it all turns into its own roundtable anyway. What ideas stood out and what might the next steps be? 

Plus listen to the end and you'll get to hear a sneaky poem to wrap the season.

 

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Forming Church is created by Gen1K Mission in collaboration with Lead by Story and sponsored by Baptist Financial Services. 

Original Music by Josh Corkill and editing by Sienna Corkill. 

The mega, the multi and the micro with Kim Hammond

Kim is the Lead Pastor of Casey City Life Church in Melbourne. He, along with his family, spent five years in America as the Director of Missional Imagination of Community Christian Church, a thirteen-site, mega-church in Chicago. He is the author of the book ‘Sentness: six postures of missional engagement’ and the Tribe Director of Forge Global.

Kim holds a unique perspective on the broad diversity of church forms and expressions all the way from the multi-site mega-church to the missional community at the local pub. There's something in this episode for everyone. 

 

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Growing fast and building culture with Joel Cave

Joel Cave and his wife Ellen planted Glow Church in 2013 on the Gold Coast. In just 7 years they have grown to over 4000 people and have planted churches in Sydney and Melbourne.

We had a conversation with Joel about the story of Glow Church and his own leadership and faith journey. Some of the themes in this conversation were taking big faith steps, trusting God and seeking to constantly build and refine good culture. We're grateful Joel took some time to add his perspectives to this conversation! We got plenty out of it, and we're sure you will too. 

 

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Original Music by Josh Corkill and editing by Sienna Corkill. 

 

Developing leaders and networks with Ken Kamau

How do you handle leadership development in your context? Is it normative? Or are you stuck? And do you collaborate with other churches? What could this look like?

Ken Kamau brings powerful perspectives to this conversation integrating his background as a pastor at Nairobi Chapel in Kenya with his experiences in Australia both as the pastor of a local church and the Multiplication Facilitator at the Gen1K Mission Team. Yep, you guessed it - this is the same Ken who drops wisdom every week in the roundtable discussion. He's so good we needed to pick his brains a little further on a dedicated episode. 

 

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Original Music by Josh Corkill and editing by Sienna Corkill. 

 

Listening deeply to our First Nations Peoples with Brooke Prentis

Brooke Prentis is an Aboriginal Christian Leader from the Wakka Wakka peoples, and the CEO of Common Grace, a movement of people pursuing Jesus and Justice.

We had a conversation with Brooke about the role of the Church in Australia when it comes to historical and ongoing issues of injustice for our First Nations Peoples on this land. We also spoke about recovering a sense of connection to place and story, and learning to walk gently and listen deeply. 

This episode is essential listening for any Australian church leader or planter who wants to take seriously what it means to lead and establish church communities in Australia, while nurturing genuine relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. 

Learn more and connect with Common Grace here: https://www.commongrace.org.au/aboriginal_and_torres_strait_islander_justice 

Get the resources Brooke mentioned here: https://www.commongrace.org.au/aboriginal_justice_resources

 

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Original Music by Josh Corkill and editing by Sienna Corkill. 

 

Becoming a sending church with Craig Corkill

Craig Corkill is the senior pastor of Narara Valley Baptist Church on the Central Coast - the sending church for both Benj and Will's church plants. 

Craig is passionate about discipleship, leadership development and multiplication. He is an incredible example of generous, authentic and humble leadership. 

In this conversation we spoke with Craig about the shift towards becoming a sending church and establishing a network, and the journey he has been on over the last few years. 

 

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Forming Church is created by Gen1K Mission in collaboration with Lead by Story and sponsored by Baptist Financial Services. 

Original Music by Josh Corkill and editing by Sienna Corkill. 

The neighbourhood and the Church with Tim Soerens

Tim Soerens is the co-founding director of the Parish Collective, a growing network and global movement of Christians reimagining what it means to be the Church in, with, and for the neighborhood. 

His latest book is called “Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church, Right Where You Are”.  His co-authored first book “The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Transform Mission, Discipleship, and Community (Intervarsity Press, 2014) won multiple awards, including Christianity Today’s award of merit. 

He lives in Seattle, and he and his wife are helping to start South Park Neighborhood Church and are co-founding owners of Resistencia Coffee, a neighborhood coffee shop, as well as the South Park Idea Lab. 

Tim was such a delight to speak to and he breathed so much fresh life and energy into this conversation about the church, the neighbourhood and the things God is doing all around us. 

Also Tim recommended the work of Willie James Jennings. You can check him and his books out here: https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/willie-james-jennings 

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Forming Church is created by Gen1K Mission in collaboration with Lead by Story and sponsored by Baptist Financial Services. 

Original Music by Josh Corkill and editing by Sienna Corkill.