NC Baptists

Mission Trips That Make Disciples

How could we leverage short-term missions to partner well with our missionaries overseas, while at the same time discipling our members to live their lives for God’s global mission here? This episode examines how your church can make the most of mission trips. Speaker: Matt Willis

How to Study the Bible for Yourself

Have you ever wanted to know the Lord and hear His voice? This episode will provide tools to use in the inductive study of Scripture so you will be able to study the Bible. Speaker: Ashley Allen

Growing a Culture of Discipleship Through Accountability

This episode discusses the importance of recapturing biblical accountability and its necessity in growing a culture of discipleship, as well as look at practical ways of implementing accountability. Speaker: Tony Blanchard

Gospel-Centered Life Design: ‘God’s Great Work’ in You

Most church members struggle with how to articulate God’s unique calling for them and how to plan their everyday lives around that calling. This episode aims to equip you with a basic tool kit for life design. Speaker: Brian Upshaw

Goodbye Millennials, Hello Generation Z

This episode will cover the basics of how Generation Z differs from millennials and help your church be prepared to engage them with the gospel. Speaker: Tom Knight

Girl, Go Obey: Abide in Me, not Abide in me

This episode is designed to help listeners understand how to seek the will of the Lord, why obedience is important, how to obey the Lord and why this provides greater satisfaction than doing our own thing. Speaker: Missie Branch

Cultural Mastery: A Roadmap for Leaders in a Culturally Complex World

This episode aims to equip ministry leaders to be more effective in connecting and collaborating with people of diverse cultures in their efforts to evangelize and make disciples who will multiply. Speaker: Ken Tan

‘God’s Great Work’ in Reaching Singles

This episode will teach how to not only reach single adults of all ages and backgrounds but also get them involved in the overall growth of your church. You too can reach every “single” person for Christ. Speaker: Kris Swiatocho

‘God’s Great Work’ in NC’s Pockets of Lostness

This episode features a report on what God is doing through N.C. Baptist churches that are impacting lostness and how your church can do the same. Speaker: Cris Alley

‘God’s Great Work’ in Homes and Neighborhoods

Do families in your congregation see their homes or neighborhoods as a mission field? Are parents in your church equipped to engage their homes and communities with the gospel? This episode will focus on learning more about how equipping your parents can lead to revitalization in your church. Speakers: Mark Smith, Jamie Burkett, Stephanie Jackson, Eric Simmons

‘God’s Great Work’ Among Military & Veterans

Who will take the gospel to our leaders on the frontlines? It takes a man or woman of courage to step into the mindset of America’s fighting forces to urge them to seek inner peace through Christ. Speaker: Thomas Watson

Moving People From the Sidelines Into the Game

This episode focuses on the importance of assimilation to connect people to where real church happens. Speaker: James Zik

Preserving ‘God’s Great Work’: Effective Strategies for Historical Research and Publications

This episode is designed to help churches that are seeking to preserve their histories in written and digital formats. Speaker: Nathan Saunders

Protecting Our Teens: What You Don’t Know Could Hurt

This episodes discusses ways our churches can provide a safe place for teenagers to grow as followers of Jesus Christ, addressing facility safety, recruiting volunteers, incident reporting, who should serve as chaperones and more. Speaker: Merrie Johnson

Reaching Muslims for Christ

This episode will focus on sharing Christ with Muslim neighbors and friends who live in America and will also include a brief overview of Muslim beliefs, rituals and traditions. Speaker: Kambiz Saghaey

Safety & Security in Your Children’s Ministry

This episode features policies and procedures that protect the children of your church and outlines steps for writing effective policies and enforcing essential procedures that set protection as a priority. Speaker: Cheryl Markland

The Sending Church Collective: God's Great Collaboration

This episode will share the story of intentional reproducing church planting in North Carolina using real-time stories and family trees from across the state. May God convict others to become a sending church! Speaker: Mike Pittman

What's Going On?

This episode will discuss some of the best practices in disciple-making throughout North Carolina. Speaker: Josh Reed

How to Safeguard Your Church Against Sexual Abuse

Widespread reports of sexual abuse and misconduct in almost every setting have prompted business, political and church leaders to admit we have a desperate problem. While churches are taking steps to respond and create safer environments, some don’t address the issue. This episode includes an honest conversation about what you can do to safeguard your ministry from sexual misconduct. Speaker: Eddie Thompson

Blessing Every Home in ‘God’s Great Work’

This episode features a brief overview of the “Bless Every Home” tool, and how it is helping one church focus on the work of evangelism and discipleship in its community. This episode can help you learn how to get the tool and begin implementing it from a pastor’s perspective. Speakers: Jeff Blackburn

A Toddling College Ministry

Do you want to start a college ministry through your church but have no idea how or where to begin? This session shared the basics of starting a college ministry, providing the tools needed to mobilize your members to reach college students and help you identify resources you already have to meet the needs of college students. Speaker: Yana Conner

Mirroring Your Community: The Gospel According to the Technicolor Church

Staff from First Baptist Church, Duluth share experiences of leading a church from “traditional” monoethnic programs to a ministry that reaches “every nation, tribe, language and people.” They shared what worked, what did not, and what is still in the process to “love, reach and disciple all people for Jesus.” Speakers: Keith Murdock, Todd Jones, Abioye Tela

The Nations in Your Neighborhood: Interpreting your Community Demographics through a Gospel lens

This episode will help you discover, understand and engage the diverse people groups in your community. We will explore research tools to examine the demographics in your area, discuss points of connection for engagement with internationals, and provide an overview of gospel-centered resources and processes for disciple-making. There will also be suggestions for next steps to move forward. Speakers: Russ Reaves, John Davenport

Reaching Multicultural Children

In this episode, we will discuss how to adapt to the challenges of multicultural children and their families while developing an inclusive, spiritual environment for children to grow in their faith. Speakers: Jan Langston, SoYoung Lee

Reaching Hindus for Christ

This episode includes a brief overview of Hindu belief, rituals and tradition. We must create a sense of urgency among believers to reach Hindus for Jesus and to give practical training for sharing Christ with Hindu neighbors and friends who live in America. Speaker: Charlotte Kumar

Minorities Reaching Minorities

Yesterday’s mission field becomes today’s missions force! This episode highlights how one ethnic minority church reaches other ethnic minority groups. First Korean Baptist Church has been faithfully serving and reaching refugees at Cedar Point Community. You will hear practical examples of how they reach other ethnic minorities for the Kingdom. Speaker: YongCheol Jung

Loving the Foreigner through Immigration Issues

This episode focuses on what the Baptist State Convention is doing on the immigration front to assist our churches in loving their neighbors in their various cultural contexts. Speakers: Amaury Santos, Larry Phillips, John Faison

Heaven on Earth

First Baptist Church, Duluth, a long-time traditional Baptist church, now experiences heaven on Earth by pursuing oneness in worship with its multi-ethnic congregation of 47 nationalities. Live interpretations in Korean, Spanish and Mandarin help ease the differences and difficulties in worshipping with one mind and one voice (Romans 15:6). Dynamic ESL, on the other hand, assists American society and the church in adapting to a multi-ethnic community. Speaker: Seung-hee (Cindy) Rhe

Gospel Conversations

Have you ever wanted to have a gospel conversation with someone but had no idea where to begin? “How to Begin Gospel Conversations” leans on best practices for how to have these conversations across various contexts. This episode surveys tools, tips and resources for turning conversations toward the gospel, by drawing from Scripture and stories to help produce solutions. Speaker: Andrew Ivester

Five Congregations, One Location

In today’s ministry landscape, partnership is the name of the game. Whether renting space to a new church plant or purposefully partnering with an ethnic or language church, congregations of any size and shape can more effectively advance the cause of Christ by opening their facilities to multiple congregations. This episode will explore the positives (and negatives) of these partnerships while making the case for how we can begin to view our facilities as an extension of our God-given mission. Speaker: Tyler Ward