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Send us Fan Mail Why are so many scandals rocking Pentecostal churches in New Zealand and Australia? This question, debated in the Alphacrucis Bible college staffroom, led four Pentecostal academics and pastors to invest

Hosted by Vic Francis · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 14 episodes
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Vic Francis combines his background as a journalist 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. For Pastors aims to inspire, encourage and help pastors and Christian leaders keep saying yes to the call of God on their lives.
Vic Francis hosts For Pastors, a religion show with 14 episodes published.

Send us Fan Mail Why are so many scandals rocking Pentecostal churches in New Zealand and Australia? This question, debated in the Alphacrucis Bible college staffroom, led four Pentecostal academics and pastors to invest

Send us Fan Mail Artificial intelligence. It's all around us. As pastors, what are the advantages - and the potential disadvantages - with the way we handle AI as we follow our call and lead our churches? Can something n

Send us Fan Mail Pastors don't do it for the money. But we do need money to exist. And we understand it's a sacrificial life. But we don't want to disadvantage our families. And we are trusting God. But we also want to b

Send us Fan Mail For over four decades, the Rev Dr Patricia Allan has advocated for the victims of abuse in the church, work which was recognised with the awarding of an ONZM in the New Year's Honours list this year. Pat

Send us Fan Mail 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 debate

Send us Fan Mail Vic Francis is joined by Father Bishoy Mekhaiel in an exploration of the Coptic Church out of Egypt, and its small but vibrant presence on the New Zealand Christian scene. Vic and Bishoy explore the foun

Send us Fan Mail 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

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Vic is joined by Fran Francis and Glenn Melville, looking at what pastors need to do to "do well" in their lives, marriages and ministries. For further exploration, you can read Glenn's

Send us Fan Mail This week's podcast takes a different tack - a Q&A, where youngish pastors Amy Tait and Barry Dunn ask older, seasoned pastor Nigel Dixon their burning questions of ministry. For more information on Vic

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Vic is joined by Pastor Don Barry and Major Susan Goldsack, looking at the often-vexed question of length of tenure in our call to ministry and how long to stay and when to go. For more

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Vic is joined by Pastors Odele Habets and Brent Davie, looking at the beauty and wonder of the small to medium-sized church, which let's face it is the size of church most of us are past

Send us Fan Mail 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 this podcast, we hear how Justin navigates that tension, a

Send us Fan Mail In this second episode of a seven-part pilot, the new For Pastors podcast considers what happens when tragedy strikes, either personally or in our congregations, and we as pastors have to process deeply

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of a seven-part pilot the new For Pastors podcast goes in search of young pastors, with older pastor Vic Francis talking to younger pastors Aaron Hardy and Alisha Wiseman about thei
Bruce Anderson
CEO · DecisionMakers
1 appearance on this show
Grant Harris
Certified Diversity Executive · Windsor Park Baptist
1 appearance on this show
Richard Black
Director, Policy & Strategy · Ember
1 appearance on this show
Sam Harvey
Psychiatrist and Executive Director and Chief Scientist · Black Dog Institute
1 appearance on this show
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