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Heart the Mission Podcast
Heart the Mission is a podcast for pastors and church leaders navigating the challenges of ministry. Each episode offers practical coaching, honest conversations, and encouragement for the journey.
Heart the Mission Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 8- Walt Tanner: Going After the 60%: Walt Tanner on Planting a Church for the City
Be the church, not just a church service.When Walt Tanner and Chris Barrineau moved into a Fountain Inn garage apartment on 08/08/08 — newborn in tow, both jobs left behind, house sold, no insurance, in the teeth of the Great Recession —...
Episode 7- Chad Merrell: I Should Not Be a Pastor
Chad Merrell should not be a pastor.He was a 22-year-old warehouse supervisor married to a full-blown opiate addict. He found his 3-year-old son locked out in ankle-deep snow, in a diaper, while his wife watched from the window upstairs...
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Episode 6- Dwight Easler: Loss, Identity, and Leading Through the Unthinkable
What do mission and identity look like when grief has taken everything from you? In this episode I sit down with pastor and AMS leader Dwight Easler, who lost his son Benji in a tragic accident. We talk about the overwhelming weight of that los...
Episode 5 - Adam Spurlock: Faith, Responsibility, and the Day Everything Changed
Adam didn’t get a pause button.In this episode, Adam shares what it looked like to lose his father and keep leading anyway. While his family grieved, he stepped into a new reality overnight, carrying the weight of pastoral leadership an...
Episode 4 - Pat Gillen: Church Planting, Burnout, and the Identity No One Talks About
This isn’t a highlight reel.It’s an honest conversation about ministry, identity, burnout, leadership, and what happens when calling costs more than you expected.Pat Gillen shares the real story behind church planting, team failure,...
