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Episode 96: PCRP Return of the Old Ways?

Three things we see shifting The return of midweek services    Wednesday and Thursdays nights are showing promise for families who are working hours that keep them away from Sunday services Youth groups and Bible Studies   Both are being combined and youth group on Friday nights from 8-10 is becoming a choice to get teens discipled, and parents to attend Bible study Smaller Church over larger church   People are choosing to go to smaller venues  for a variety of reasons.  Email ...

Episode 95: PCRP Pastors Encouragement Dinner Lierte Soares Jr.

At the 2021 Pastors Encouragement Dinner, Pastor Lierte Soares Jr. brought an encouraging message to the 30+ pastors gathered. Lierte’s ministry is unique in that he pastors two churches, Framingham Baptist Church in Framingham, MA (pop. 72,308) and Precision Valley Baptist Church in the small town of North Springfield, VT (pop. 644). Lierte Soares is a NAMB church planter missionary originally from Brazil and has been in New England since 2014. Pastor Lierte (or you can call him P...

Episode 95: PCRP Pastors Encouragement Dinner Warren White

Warren has served several churches in the elders role, providing pastoral support. He gave his testimony to the 2021 Pastors Encouragement dinner held 9/25/2021 at Legacy Church in Sutton, MA

Episode 94: Encourament for the week

After this brief episode, we will bring you the messages from the Pastors Encouragement Dinner that was held 9/25/21

Episode 93: PCRP Quick Update

Updating you all on the goings on here at PCRP

Episode 92: PCRP 082 Revitalization Leadership Continue Learning

Why continuing to learn on any level is a must for the replanter.

Episode 91: PCRP 081 Rebuilding Your Church's Reputation

In this episode we catch up with Don and Natalie and get a small update on Erik Maloy, then dive into the topic of the episode. Churches have a reputation in their communities and many in the churches do not know what they are based on. Don and Natalie shed light from a book they read together by Mark MacDonald, Be Known for Something: Revitalizing Your Church's Reputation. A. What are you known for? B. What does your church do well? C. Embracing a theme for your church. Books dis...

Episode 90: PCRP 089 Chad McDonald on Working With Other Churches in Revitalization

Chad McDonald came to Lenexa Baptist Church from Valley, Alabama where he served as Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church. He originally came to Lenexa to be the Campus Pastor at The Fellowship at Greenwood where he served for two years. He became the Senior Pastor Elect at the main campus in June of 2014. Here he shares why it is important for churches to work together and why some churches that are stuck or struggling to swallow their pride and reach out for help.

Episode 89: PCRP 089 Pastors, Their Wives', and Suicide (An Episode on Mental Health in Ministry)

Don and Natalie discuss the need for pastors and their wives to be transparent in their mental health as the discuss their own struggles after the recent suicide of Paige Hilken. Link on article of Paige Hilken Natalie's Blog New England Pastors Encouragement Dinner

Episode 88: PCRP New England Revitalization Updates

Some updates on what is going on in the New England Region with church revitalization. 

Episode 87: PCRP 086 Encouragement for Pastors and Wives

On this week's episode Don and Natalie talk about updates and encouragement for pastors and pastors wives. Links for what was discussed. Video for Legacy Church Natalie's Blog Don's Blog

Episode 86: PCRP 085 Updates, Flooding, and Other News

Don gives us updates on the podcast and future of the team. Also discusses replacing pews with chairs.

Episode 85: PCRP 084 Pastoral Plagiarism

Don talks about the recent plagiarism scandal in the SBC.

Episode 84: PCRP 083 Are We Headed to a New Reformation

Don talks about recent events and why he believes that we are headed into a new reformation in the Church.

Episode 83: PCRP 082 Planning For an Event

Don has Dr. David Jackson, Northeast Replanting Strategist for the North American Missions Board, John Brownlee, Executive Director for the Massachusetts Baptist Association, and Jim Fontaine, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Brimfield, MA to discuss Pastors Dinner Event.

Episode 82: Episode 081 Erik Maloy

Episode 81: PCRP 081 Jimbo Stewart: Characteristics of a Revitalization Pastor

From the boys travel to the Replant Summit 2021 in Kansas City, MO Jimbo Stewart, Pastor of Redemption Church, Jacksonville, FL and NAMB Replant Specialist discusses the 13 characteristics of replanters.

Episode 80: PCRP 080 Looking for interest in a pastors quarterly dinner

Episode 79: PCRP 079: Pastors Need Pastors Preaching into Their Lives

Pastors Need Pastors Preaching into Their Lives Don discusses some observations he has seen and heard over the last several months and years and gives us reason if your area does not have a monthly meeting of this type, you need one. In those months Don briefly discusses how he has heard form veteran Pastors and even younger ones looking to connect with guys in their towns and close by for fellowship and to be fed the scriptures as they sorely need it. IRON SHARPENS IRON: Theologi...

Episode 78: PCRP 078 When Key People Leave a Replant

1. Perspective 2. Helping Church Deal 3. Emotions 4. Importance of Raising up Leaders 5. Are we Wrapped up in People? 6. Depending on size, the loss can be felt more or less Leave under good circumstances not bad.

Episode 77: PCRP 077 Checking In

Don checks in with an idea for Bi-vocational Pastors listening to our podcast.

Episode 76: PCRP 076 Pastor Don McKinnon He is Risen

Easter service at Legacy Church

Episode 75: Episode PCRP 075 Pastor Erik Maloy Palm Sunday

Erik Maloy discusses Palm Sunday for a community

Episode 75: Episode 6PCRP 075 Pastor Erik Maloy Palm Sunday4

Erik Maloy discusses Palm Sunday for a community

Episode 74: PCRP 074 When It Doesn't Go Right

Thoughts from tinted windows

Episode 73: PCRP 072 Using a Homecoming After the Pandemic

In church revitalization we’re told that keeping all the old things is not in the best interest of the church. This is true if your facility looks like it got stuck in a time warp and into 1970. Statistics show that people have an innate sense of new and old and stay away from what the perceive as old. This is why many churches should regularly look around and see if updating their facility is in order. A fresh coat of paint can change things, it transforms areas with out expensive r...

Episode 72: PCRP 073 The Pastor's Kids in Church Revitalization

Don interviews Casey and Kayla Maloy, Erik's kids, to find out what it's like to be involved in church revitalization compared to their previous experience with Erik church planting in Washington state.

Episode 71: PCRP 071 Interview with Ed Litton

Today we interview another of the SBC President nominees, Ed Litton, pastor of Redemption Church in Mobile, AL.

Episode 70: PCRP 070 Is A Pastor's Wife a Calling

In the changing landscape of the pastor's wife, churches have begun to offer the pastor's wife a stipend for the work she does. Yes, the pastors wife comes along with the pastor, but it is the pastor who is hired not his wife. Usually they take on roles within the church. Don and Natalie examine this and ask if being a pastor's wife is a calling.

Episode 69: PCRP 069 Thoughts on Ravi & J-Mac news, and a Feel Good Story

Don flies solo before a big week of interviews and lays out thoughts on the Ravi Zacharias and John MacArthur stories and then gives us feel good story that he saw bring a grizzled US Marine to tears.

Episode 68: PCRP 068 The Importance of Premarital Counseling and Marriage Counseling

Don and his wife Natalie discuss Premarital Counseling and why they see it as important to churches in light of many pastors not doing or seeing the importance of an intense counseling period before or even during a marriage. Open talk: Church life Why we are discussing this 1. Highest rate of divorce is now in Christian homes a. Doesn’t look well to the world b. Christians give into worldly view 2. Pastors focused less on marriage counseling a. Look to more professionals b. CEO sty...

Episode 67: PCRP 067 Interview with Randy Adams

Erik and Don interview with Randy Adams, executive director of the Northwest Baptist Convention (NWBC), and nominee for president of the Southern Baptist Convention, top discuss his vision for the SBC as well as ask some questions on their hearts and minds. See Randy's site for his announcement: https://randyadams.org/2020/01/14/my-commitment-to-southern-baptists/

Episode 66: PCRP 066 Six Questions Revitalizers Need to Work Through

In this episode Don asks Erik questions based on reading he has from training he is going through in revitalization at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in light of things the revitalization pastor must do to help his church along in the replanting process. The question includes: Do we focus too much on the family aspect that we neglect the missional aspect? Do we challenge the “spiritual” people in their “faith”? Do we understand the true family nature of the Church in light ...

Episode 65: PCRP 065 Getting Away From Toxic Social Media, Conspiracies, and Other Mind Numbing Things

In the events of the last few months how are we taking care of ourselves mentally? Don flies solo and explains Erik's absence and explains why he'll be taking time off social media. This is also a challenge to the American Church as he explains how vast its different from the Church of the 1st century. Don suggested When the Church Was a Family by Joseph Hellerman and here's the link

Episode 64: PCRP 064 The Church in Unrest and Uncertain Times

The events of the last few weeks and even year have given pastors a lot to think and sift through as we lead our churches and staffs in a new era. It has caused us to have examine how to handle and respond to the issues at hand, with people in our churches on both sides of the discussion. Tied to this is that churches may begin to meet in full again within the next several months as the anti-virus shot is taxed out. So, Don discusses three points in the messiness laid out that revita...

Episode 63: PCRP #063 Pressure on the Pastor’s Wife

Being the pastor’s wife means more than smiling and supporting your husband. You have to deal with people who are not happy with him, and in many cases, you’re wearing as many hats as your husband in a revitalization. Today, Don interviews his wife Natalie on the pressures she’s felt since coming to Legacy Church as the wife of a church replanter. 1. You Feel Like You Have to Defend Your Husband at Every Turn. 2. You’re Wearing as Many Hats as Your Husband Is. 3. Parents Do Not Un...

Episode 62: PCRP 062 Leaving 2020 and looking towards 2021

Don reflects on the positives of 2020 and what the Church needs to do for 2021 Replicate link https://www.amazon.com/Replicate-Create-Culture-Disciple-Making-Right/dp/0802419992/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=replicate&qid=1609445152&sr=8-1 Preaching for the Rest of Us link https://www.amazon.com/Preaching-Rest-Us-Essentials-Text-Driven/dp/1462761623/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RJ4KC5O1IJKE&dchild=1&keywords=preaching+for+the+rest+of+us&qid=1609445241&sprefix=preaching+for+the+%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-...

Episode 61: PCRP 061 Mark Clifton

Mark discusses what replanting is like and the challenges many will face who choose this path for their churches.

Episode 60: PCRP 060 Updates

Don gives and update of the after affects he's having from contacting COVID

Episode 59: PCRP 059 Three Things COVID Has Changed.mp3

In this episode, Don looks at things churches are realizing and pondering when the crisis is over.

PCRP 058 Replant 2020 Andy Addis Rural Multi-Sight Replanting (Fixed)

From the 2020 Replant, Here about rural church planting and how God called Andy Addis of Crosspoint Church into an area he never realized he'd be in, doing multi-sight. As more replants are networking into smaller multi-sights, this episode will make you laugh, think, and rethink your direction.

Best of Episode: Interview with Mark Clifton, Bob Bickford, and Jim Harell

From 2019: Erik Maloy interviews NAMB Replant director and co-director, Mark Clifton and Bob Bickford as well as Overseed New England president Jim Harell on the future of revitalization in the US

Best of Episode: Generational Theory In Revitalization

We look back at Don and Erik discussing the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory and through their four generation cycle, may be able to see the life points of our churches as we lead in revitalization.

PCRP 057 Evangelism and Discipleship in New England

Don interviews Erik for an exit interview for a class tackling this subject to get a prospective from an area where Evangelism and Discipleship are needed heavily in an increasingly atheistic culture.

PCRP 056 Pastors Dinners, the Need for Encouragement.

In this episode, Don McKinnon talks about how he and a group of pastors have been meeting, but how they came to a conclusion that the lack of empathy and a malaise has kept pastors from meeting in encouraging and challenging ways. Don brings up the question “what happened to pastors dinners?” even before COVID happened. Don’s challenge at the end is that we should be planning for when we can meet again, but how.

PCRP 055 The Need for Revitalization Associations and Networks

Erik and Don share thoughts from reading the biography of Adonriham Judson And their thoughts on what is needed in the revitalization ministry not just in New England but through out America and beyond.

PCRP 054 REPLANT SUMMIT 2020

Don and Natalie discuss in a double size episode some of the things they learned and absorbed at this year's REPLANT Summit in Greenwood, MO Aug 24-25, 2020 The "Am I a Replanter?" Survey https://www.namb.net/church-replanting/join/

PCRP 053 Healthy Church Growth

Don breaks down an article he wrote for the Baptist Convention of New England. Just as baseball teams trade to get players they need for certain positions, church transfers in a healthy way can help a revitalization grow in the key areas that they need. Don's Article https://www.bcne.net/news/2020/8/3/healthy-transfer-growth

PCRP 052 Three Changes A Revitalizing Pastor Has to Make

Don and Natalie McKinnon talk about changes from their own and other pastors revitalization efforts that many pastors, including Don have balked at. Countdown from 3 3. Get Out of the Walls 2. Stop the "My Way Works" Mindset 1. Give Power Away and Trust God With the Results They also discussed travelers notebooks and here's two videos that Don used in making his. Travelers Setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCJPYq0SzT8&t=116s Ribbon Hack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wylTZhJmjF4

Special Episode: What is a Mini Mutli-Site Church?

Don tackles one of two questions he got from our last podcast in this special no intro version of PCRP.