Thoughts On Multi-Site | Podcast
Multi-site, multi-congregation, multi-church… call it what you want, it’s a complex animal indeed! But it’s one we’ve grown to love at Common Ground. Here, we gave the mic to two different perspectives to shed some honest light on all we’ve learnt as we continue to plant deeper and wider into our city.
Thoughts On Kids Ministry | Podcast
We caught up with some of our best leaders in our Kids & Teen Ministries – to glean from them what we can to help any other churches looking for some fresh inspiration on how and why to impact the next generation!
Thoughts On Pre-Marriage | Podcast
Preparing for a healthy marriage that can stand the test of time and the times, Common Ground has devoted decades to fine-tuning our pre-marriage course.
In this podcast, we catch up with two of the leaders, Mike and Jane Hampton, to chat around what makes this time work as well as what advice they’d give to other churches considering starting something similar.
Church Finances | Podcast
Let’s talk about money! How do we set salaries? How do we diligently steward the resources God and his people have entrusted to us? And what are some practical tools every church could benefit from? In this podcast, Allan Gibbon shares his hard-earned insights with any other church leaders looking to be freshly inspired in this regard.
Leading Together | Podcast
Instead of espousing himself as the one and only leader of Common Ground, Rigby Wallace likes to say he leads the team that leads Common Ground. This is not simply semantics, but a value that runs through his leadership style and the many leaders he’s raised up over the many decades. Partnering closely with Ryan TerMorshuizen, listen in on some of their hard-earned lessons and advice for all church leaders, everywhere!
Thoughts On Planting | Podcast
Roger Haynes, a church planter from the Common Ground family, joins us in the studio to share his reflections on their journey of planting a church in an entirely unknown suburb and culture to what he and his wife had known and been used to.
Thoughts On Preaching | Podcast
There’s almost as many different thoughts on preaching as there are preachers! But one of the people whose opinion and thinking on this subject has significantly shaped our approach, is Terran Williams’. In this 3-part series, he and Matt discuss the what we preach, the why behind the what, and finally – the most important ‘hows’.
Calendar Planning | Podcast
Calendar planning… it’s administratively intense, it takes more time than we’d like, but it’s absolutely critical too. After all, what we choose to put in our diaries will ultimately reflect what takes up the lion’s share of our head and heart space too.
If you would like to check out a template of our calendar planning process and the multiple levels and layers we consider: here we go!
Big Thinking About Small Groups | Podcast
Thinking big about how, why and what kinds of small groups we are creating should be a big deal for us as church leaders.
Listen in on Terran Williams chatting with Garth (one of the Bosch pastors) about the importance of evaluating your Life Groups as church leaders.