For Pastors podcast
Season 02, Episode 05 is out
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Real talk for real pastors
Solace’s For Pastors is hosted by Vic Francis, who combines his background in journalism with decades of pastoring, national church leadership and practising as a supervisor and spiritual director to champion pastors and their holy calling in an uncertain world.
It’s tough being a pastor. And while we have leaders’ conferences, church growth books and training programmes aplenty, there is little that specifically supports pastors in the grind.
As part of the solution, For Pastors explores issues pastors face and hears from well-known and lesser-known Kiwi pastors for collective wisdom and inspiration.
Vic is passionate about supporting pastors and church leaders, and offers For Pastors to inspire, encourage and help them keep saying yes to the call of God on their lives.
S02, E05: Ministry, Money and Me
Vic Francis is joined by Bruce Anderson and Grant Harris to talk about the delicate subject of money, and how we can be smart, yet faithful, in this area of our lives.
Listen to Ministry, Money and Me wherever you get your podcasts.
S02 E04: Speaking Truth to Power
An interview with 88-year-old Rev Dr Patricia Allan, honoured this year as an Officer of the Order of New Zealand for four decades championing the victims of sexual abuse within the church in Aotearoa.
It’s an episode all of us need to hear, even if it might be a little uncomfortable at times. Patricia, who calls herself an unlikely warrior, is inspirational and confronting in equal measures.
Listen to Speaking Truth to Power wherever you get your podcasts.
S02 E03: Making Friends out of Conflict
Conflict. It’s all around us – on the world stage, in our families and workplaces, often deep within ourselves.
And it’s in our churches – from the volume of the music to centuries-old theological debates.
Yet we hardly ever talk about conflict, and as a result we often do it pretty badly.
In this podcast, Vic Francis talks to the Rev Dr Karen Kemp from Laidlaw College, an expert in conflict, to find out how we can handle it better.
Listen to Making Friends Out of Conflict wherever you get your podcasts.
S02 E02: Out of Egypt, He Called Them
Vic Francis is joined by Father Bishoy Mekhaiel in an exploration of the Coptic Church from Egypt and its small but vibrant presence on the New Zealand Christian scene.
They also discuss the foundations of Coptic orthodoxy, Pope Mark, persecution and martyrdom, and why the Coptic Easter is at a different time to others.
Listen to For Pastors: Out of Egypt, He Called Them wherever you get your podcasts.
S02, E01: There Must be a Better Way!
Vic Francis is joined by Sam Harvey and Richard Black, and asks in the wake of recent scandals with Philip Yancey and Shawn Bolz - and so many others before them - whether there's a better way to pastor and lead a church.
Listen to There Must be a Better Way wherever you get your podcasts.
SO1, E07: Doing Well
How can pastors keep their faith, their marriages, their families alive and thriving among the rigours of pastoral life and ministry?
This week Vic Francis is joined by Glenn Melville and Fran Francis, two people well qualified in this critical subject of doing well.
SO1, E06: Burning Questions
This week's podcast takes a different tack, a Q&A where youngish pastors ask an older, seasoned pastor their burning questions of ministry.
Meet Amy Tait from Palmerston North and Barry Dunn from Whangarei as they ask their big questions of Nigel Dixon from Tauranga.
Listen to For Pastors: Burning Questions wherever you get your podcasts.
S01, E05: How Long, Lord?
Pastor Don Barry and Major Susan Goldsack look at the often-vexed question of length of tenure in our call to ministry and how long to stay and when to go.
In Episode Five, we hear of Susan’s regular transitions with the Salvation Army and Don’s long-term tenure at Gateway Church in Hamilton.
Listen to For Pastors: How Long, Lord? wherever you get your podcasts.
SO1, E04: Not a Mega-Church
Pastors Odele Habets and Brent Davie explore the beauty and wonder of the small to medium-sized church, which let's face it is the size of church most people pastor.
In Episode Four, we hear of joys and challenges in their pastoral journeys.
Listen to For Pastors: Not a Mega-Church wherever you get your podcasts.
S01, E03: An Archbishop in Tension
Archbishop Justin Duckworth lives in the tension of being part of the establishment and yet deep down being what he calls an "edge" dweller.
In Episode Three, we hear how Justin navigates that tension, and of his challenge to the Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Listen to For Pastors: An Archbishop in Tension wherever you get your podcasts.
S01, E02: Pastoring When Tragedy Strikes
What happens when tragedy strikes, either personally or in our congregations, and we as pastors have to process deeply while still fronting up the next Sunday and the Sunday after that, and the Sunday after that.
In Episode Two, Vic Francis is joined by Sarah Park from Clevedon Anglican and Murray Smith from Bridges Church in Cambridge, two pastors who have seen significant tragedy and yet found ways of continuing to prosper in their ministry.
Listen to For Pastors: Pastoring When Tragedy Strikes wherever you get your podcasts.
S01, E01: In Search of Young Pastors
The church is facing a crisis, with many pastors in their 60s close to retirement and only a trickle of new pastors coming through to take their places.
In Episode One, Vic Francis is joined by Alisha Wiseman from Central Vineyard in Auckland and Aaron Hardy from Te Rautini in Hamilton, two youngish pastors who have bucked the trend – committing themselves to pastoral ministry when many of their generation are preferring not to.
Listen to For Pastors: In Search of Young Pastors wherever you get your podcasts.