Love Your City Podcast

Tish interviews Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees who shares candidly about the intersection of faith and politics and how the church in his city has stepped up to provide real solutions to community issues.

Tish interviews Kerryn Pell from Whitehorse, Melbourne. Kerryn is employed by several congregations in Whitehorse to co-ordinate resources so that the church in Whitehorse can more effectively meet the needs of their community. For more info check out http://whitehorsechurchescare.org.au

Ian Shelton interviews Peter McHugh, senior pastor of Stairway Church in Melbourne. Peter has profound insights about what it means for the church in a city to be one. Also, hear about Peter’s upcoming books.

In this episode Sam chats in depth with Colin Stoodley on the things church leaders should be thinking about as covid restrictions gradually ease. As a specialist in leadership and church planting, Colin's thoughts are insightful and thought provoking.

In this episode Sam and Tish discuss disagreement among Christians. How do we deal with disagreement between each other, between church, between denominations without destroying unity? How do we foster unity in the midst of differing opinions? Tish refers to Kris Vallotton’s blog post on unity. You can read it here https://krisvallotton.com/the-one-thing-everyone-is-doing-that-kills-unity-and-it-s-not-disagreeing

In this episode Sam chats with musician and songwriter Evan Shelton about the role music plays in a Gospel Movement. This episode also features a live performance of Evan’s song “The Earth is the Lord’s”. See the links to access The Earth is the Lord’s on Spotify and iTunes https://open.spotify.com/track/4znTOmXGbMQSi9TwRXVaSR?si=GFXp_jIRSWauVa1-HuCyJA https://music.apple.com/au/album/the-earth-is-the-lords/1437980102?i=1437980103

Sam and Tish celebrate their 50th episode by discussing their favourite episodes, other favourite podcasts, favourite books, favourite events and favourite city stories. Here's links to the favourites they discussed: Favourite Love Your City episode Ep41 Jason Hubbard https://www.movementday.com.au/resources/podcast/episode-41-interview-with-jason-hubbard Ep15 James Kelly https://www.movementday.com.au/resources/podcast/episode-15-interview-with-james-kelly-from-faithtech Favourite Book Prophetic Lament https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B015TBK2UC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 The Patient Ferment https://www.amazon.com.au/Patient-Ferment-Early-Church-Kreider/dp/0801048494 Favourite Event Global Summit to End Sexual Exploitation https://endsexualexploitation.org/cesesummit2020/ LICC International Forum https://www.licc.org.uk Favourite City Story Love Your City

Colin Stoodley is a prophetic voice to the church in Australia. He has had decades of experience in church leadership and currently serves as a leadership coach, especially to church planters. In this episode, Letitia chats with Colin about how the church might emerge from the current situation, and what creative forms it might take.

In this episode, Letitia chats with Debra Stevens, long time Salvation Army member, now leading that movement in Victoria. Debra first experienced strategic unity in a small town of 900 people, and now, armed with those lessons and principles, is pursuing strategic unity across the state of Victoria.

Mike Hey is a church planter in Playford, South Australia. In this short interview, Mike talks about the gospel movement happening in his city around five key factors.

Andy Street has lived in Bristol for almost three decades, allowing time for an investment of prayer, friendship, and love for his city. In this episode, Letitia interviews Andy about the incredible way God is at work in Bristol.

**Special Series** During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Letitia, via Zoom technology has been able to connect with leaders and have some brilliant conversations! These have been posted on the Movement Day Australia Facebook Page, and shared here through the LYC Podcast... In this episode, Letitia chats with Karina Kreminski and Armen Gakavian, founders of Neighbourhood Matters, an organisation committed to forming reflective practitioners for service in the ecology of the urban neighbourhood.

**Special Series** During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Letitia, via Zoom technology has been able to connect with leaders and have some brilliant conversations! These have been posted on the Movement Day Australia Facebook Page, and shared here through the LYC Podcast... In this episode, Letitia interviews Movement Day Australia native, Rick Prosser. Rick has been in the game for many decades, his passion for his city driving some brilliant innovation and collaboration. Hear Rick tell of how the church in Newcastle is responding amid the current pandemic.

**Special Series** During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Letitia, via Zoom technology has been able to connect with leaders and have some brilliant conversations! These have been posted on the Movement Day Australia Facebook Page, and shared here through the LYC Podcast... In this episode, Letitia speaks with Matt Bird, founder and director of Cinnamon Network International, an organisation that exists to help churches transform their communities. Listen in as Matt shares stories from around the globe during this time of crisis.

**Special Series** During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Letitia, via Zoom technology has been able to connect with leaders and have some brilliant conversations! These have been posted on the Movement Day Australia Facebook Page, and shared here through the LYC Podcast... In this episode, Letitia chats with Greater West For Christ pioneering pastor, Mark Chapple. The current pandemic has brought many struggles, along with many opportunities for the church - hear how GWFC are responding.

**Special Series** During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Letitia, via Zoom technology has been able to connect with leaders and have some brilliant conversations! These have been posted on the Movement Day Australia Facebook Page, and shared here through the LYC Podcast... In this episode, Letitia interviews Jason Hubbard from Whatcom County in the US. Jason has been part of an incredible gospel city movement in his city, undergirded by remarkable prayer and unity among the churches.

In this episode, Sam & Letitia chat with Debbie Dodds about her extraordinary work through RAHAB Ministries. RAHAB offers concrete solutions to human trafficking by putting Truth & Love into action. Debbie is a Toowoomba local, as are Sam & Letitia - good friends = good conversation!

**Special Announcement** about Movement Day Australia. In these unprecedented times, so many things are up in the air. Along with the suffering, there is opportunity for the church to be the church. In this episode, Sam & Letitia chat about Movement Day Australia, as well as things happening in their own city of Toowoomba, Australia.

It's been a loooong break, but Letitia and Sam are back with the Love Your City Podcast. In this episode, Tish & Sam catch up on what they've been doing, and look forward to the year ahead...

Dr Allan Meyer trained as a Secondary Teacher and lead Careforce Church for 26 years. Co-founder of Careforce Lifekeys along with his wife, Helen. His doctoral project produced the Valiant Man course designed to fortify and strengthen the moral and spiritual integrity of men. Passionate about speaking to men, Dr Allan speaks for Christian and secular audiences across the globe.