The Church in Action Podcast

Updated: 15 Jan 2024 • 168 episodes
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Conversations with New England leaders about critical issues that impact how Christians engage in our culture to accelerate evangelism. Join us as we focus on making disciples, doing justice, and sharing Jesus to accelerate evangelism in New England!

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For Martin Luther King Jr. day, we’re sharing a highlight episode with Rev. Esau Vance of Mt. Olive Pentecostal Church in Worcester, MA, who grew up in the deep south during the 1950"s as a Black man, where he and his family had to navigate the injustice of racism.  Now, as a pastor, he sits down with us to reflect on

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Rev. Dr. Gordon MacDonald joins us to look ahead into 2024, examining how our world"s brokenness has impacted the Church and our communities, along with how he believes the Church should respond to effectively serve as God"s ambassadors and "keep the lights on." 

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Happy New Year! As we celebrate the start of 2024, we"re taking a break from our regular content to share an episode on findings we"ve uncovered on the Post-Pandemic Church... President Charles Galda shares research findings from a series of focus groups we conducted, where we asked more than 100 ministry leaders from

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Merry Christmas! We"re taking a break from our regular content to share an old favorite on Foster Care Ministry... Currently, there are over 425,000 children in the American foster care system, approximately 24,000 of whom live in New England. Join us and Jonathan Reid - Executive Director and Founder of Fostering Hope

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Rabbi Daniel Berman of Temple Reyim joins us to kindly share how he, his family, and his community have been impacted by Hamas terrorism and the resulting war.  Rabbi Berman will also detail common misconceptions surrounding these difficult dynamics, and help us better understand the history behind the current conflict

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Are you looking for methodology to better make disciples in your church?  Then check out this episode on practical disciple making with Adam Mabry,  Senior Pastor at Aletheia Church (a multisite Church based in Massachusetts) and author of multiple books, like The Art of Rest! 

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