Iowa Church Leaders Podcast

Clayton Hentzel is the Lead Pastor at The Crossing. The Crossing is an independent, non-denominational church headquartered in Quincy, Illinois [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy,_Illinois], associated with the Christian Churches [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_churches_and_churches_of_Christ] in the Restoration Movement [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_Movement].[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crossing_Church#cite_note-1] The church oversees locations in Hannibal, Missouri [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal,_Missouri], Jacksonville, Illinois [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville,_Illinois], Keokuk, Iowa [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keokuk,_Iowa], Kirksville, Missouri [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirksville,_Missouri], Lima, Illinois [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima,_Illinois], Macomb, Illinois [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macomb,_Illinois], Monmouth, Illinois [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth,_Illinois], Mount Sterling, Illinois [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sterling,_Illinois], Pike County, Illinois [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County,_Illinois], and two locations in Quincy, Illinois [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy,_Illinois] and maintains an online presence.

Greg Baker is the Executive Vice President of the Church Ambassador Network. In this discussion, we discuss various topics related to the role church leaders can play in representing the Kingdom of God in government. Greg provides a better way of viewing the impact we can have as church leaders: it's less about politics and more about building bridges with our state leaders and representatives. If you want a fresh approach to how Christians can influence government, listen to this very insightful conversation.

In high school, Matt was a National Merit finalist who enrolled at the University of Iowa as a journalism major. But after hearing God’s call, he transferred to Ozark Christian College in Joplin, Missouri. Now instead of broadcasting the bad news, he’s proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. Matt has served as a youth minister, preaching minister, Bible college professor and is now president of Ozark Christian College. He was the president of the 2013 North American Christian Convention and he serves as a contributing editor for Christian Standard magazine. His writing includes two books, Finish-Line Faith and Victorious.  He enjoys reading, cheering for the St. Louis Cardinals, and traveling widely to preach about Jesus. Matt is especially grateful to God for his wife Katie and their six children—Luke, Lydia, Clara, Carl, Conrad and Caroline.

In this episode we have an in depth conversation with David Fincher about Central Christian College of the Bible [https://cccb.edu/about-cccb/faculty-staff/david-b-fincher-phd]. We talk about how CCCB is serving the needs of churches in training men and women for ministry. We cover the changes taking place in ministry as well as the growing demand to fill the ministry needs of churchs, as well as some very practical solutions. We hope you find the converstaion to be helpful!

Travis Roehm is one of the pastors at Adventure Christian Community in Davenport. I got him to hangout and talk about ministry. We are really not experts in anything, just two guys serving Jesus in the local church. We took some time to review what we learned from ministry this last year as well as project where things are headed for leading churches in 2024. We hope you find it helpful!