Michigan Ministry Network L3 Podcast

S4 EP22 featuring Morris Moos: Stewarding Facilities Well

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, guest host Jim Riley sits down with Pastor Morris Moos to discuss the physical side of ministry: Stewarding your facilities well. Does your church building draw people in or subtly push them away? Pastor Morris shares insights from over 30 years of pastoral experience on how your physical space can become one of your most effective tools for connection. Jim and Pastor Morris unpack the importance of "curb appeal," the power of creating intentional connection areas and why keeping your building clean and decluttered removes unnecessary hindrances to the Gospel. If you want to transform your facility from a simple meeting room into a welcoming environment where relationships flourish, this highly practical episode is for you. For more information on the Michigan Ministry Network, please go to our website at mmn.ag.

S4 EP21 featuring Adam Bell: How to Support Your Leadership Team

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, guest host Jim Riley sits down with Adam Bell to flip the script on staff dynamics and discuss a crucial topic: How leaders can best support their teams. While there is plenty of training on how to serve your leader, how well are you serving the people who report to you? Jim and Adam unpack what it means to want more for your team than you want from them, emphasizing that leaders must invest in their staff as people, not just as producers. They discuss the vital role of humility in leadership, the danger of holding onto staff members too tightly, and the importance of adapting your leadership style to fit different personalities and generations. If you want to help your team members become the best versions of themselves, this conversation is for you. For more information on the Michigan Ministry Network, please go to our website at mmn.ag.

S4 EP20 featuring Karen Yancey: Letting Go of Quiet Resentment

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we are joined by Karen Yancey for a deeply personal and spiritually refreshing conversation about the necessity of letting go. Pastor Aaron and Karen discuss the danger of leaders holding a "death grip" on their burdens and unpack three specific things every minister must release: unresolved outcomes, unrealistic expectations, and quiet resentment. Karen shares powerful wisdom on overcoming the heavy, toxic feelings of ministry wounds and explains why we can act our way into a new way of feeling, but we can never feel our way into a new way of acting. If you are carrying the heavy weight of pastoral disappointment or feeling too spiritually "full" to receive anything fresh from God, this episode is a beautiful invitation to experience His guarding peace. For more information on the Michigan Ministry Network, please go to our website at mmn.ag.

S4 EP19 featuring Terry Yancey: Defeating Complacency

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we are joined by a very special guest, Dr. Terry Yancey, stateside ambassador for Project Rescue and former network superintendent. In this episode, Pastor Aaron and Dr. Terry tackle a silent but deadly threat to every leader, marriage, and ministry: Complacency. Drawing from a fresh study of Proverbs, Dr. Terry unpacks a powerful definition of complacency and reveals how settling for "good enough" can subtly rob us of our future impact. He breaks down the "Four D's" of destruction, living distracted, stopping developing, stopping dreaming, and stopping daring, and shares a compelling acrostic highlighting the subtle warning signs of a complacent heart, from conflating intention with action to pouting over past losses. For more information on the Michigan Ministry Network, please go to our website at mmn.ag.

S4 EP18 featuring Herbert Cooper: The 5 H's of a Healthy Church

Welcome to the L3 Podcast! We hope this podcast will be helpful to both you and your ministry. Today, we are joined by Pastor Herbert Cooper, Lead Pastor of People's Church in Oklahoma City and one of our Network Council speakers, to tackle a crucial leadership topic: Creating and shifting church culture. What happens when you realize you are pastoring a church with a toxic culture that you don't even enjoy attending? Pastor Herbert shares his transparent journey of taking "extreme ownership" to completely transform his church's environment. Pastors Aaron and Herbert discuss why culture will eat vision for lunch every time, the importance of gaining buy in from key influencers by asking questions rather than making statements, and how to establish clear language like People's Church's "5 H's" to define your values. If you want to build a church you actually love attending and foster a healthy, long-lasting staff, this episode is a must-listen. For more information on the Michigan Ministry Network, please go to our website at mmn.ag.