Field Preachers Podcast
1) Church is Changing: Episode 79 – John Jones & Shared Plate
In this episode, Paul Nixon interviews John Jones who leads Shared Plate, a food ministry based in a local church in Southern California. We explore how participants, volunteers, and the host church a...Show More
2) Church is Changing: Episode 78 – Turning Sacred Land into Sacred Shelter
In this episode, we dive into one of the most powerful intersections of faith and justice today: the movement to repurpose underutilized church land for deeply affordable housing. Our guest, Rev. Juli...Show More
3) Church is Changing: Episode 77 – Funding the Future: Church Trends and Transformation with Kay Kotan
In this episode, Beth Estock sits down with renowned church consultant and coach Kay Kotan to talk about the evolving landscape of local church funding. From declining tithes to rising creativity, Kay...Show More
4) Church is Changing: Episode 76 – Stacey Piyakhun
In this episode, Paul Nixon interviews Stacey Piyakhun, Director of Multiplication for Horizon Texas Conference. Their conversation focuses on the ways that church planting is morphing in the 2020s.
5) Church is Changing: Episode 75 – From Decline to Renewal: Rev. Jane Voigts on Church Transformation in the Desert
What does it take to turn a declining church into a thriving center of love, justice, and belonging? In this episode, host Beth Estock sits down with Rev. Jane Voigts, pastor of United Methodist Churc...Show More
6) Church is Changing: Episode 74 – Amber Baker
This week on Church is Changing, we talk with Amber Baker – a pastor, spiritual director, and Dinner Church pioneer in Morgantown, West Virginia. Amber has started five dinner churches around Morganto...Show More
7) Church is Changing: Episode 73 – Rodrigo Cruz
In this episode, Paul Nixon interviews Rodrigo Cruz, executive assistant to the bishop in the Georgia Episcopal Area. Our topic is ministry with immigrants in America in a time of deportation without ...Show More
8) Church is Changing: Episode 72 – Soul Revival Retreat
What if the unraveling we see in the institutional church isn’t a problem to fix — but a sacred invitation to a new way of being? In this deeply honest and hopeful episode, host Beth Estock is joined ...Show More
9) Church is Changing: Episode 71 – Joe Graves
In this episode, Paul Nixon interviews Joe Graves, pastor and planter of Cityview Church in Columbus, Ohio about the new face of urban church planting and the adventure of merger with a host church in...Show More
10) Church is Changing: Episode 68 – Church Vitality in the 2020s
In this episode, Paul Nixon interviews the church development directors of Baltimore Washington and Western North Carolina Conferences of the UMC: Bill Brown and Rob Hutchinson. The topic: the changin...Show More