bivocational

Welcome back to The Ferment Podcast! In this episode, Adam chats with Olu Meduoye about growing up in London in a Christian Nigerian family. They talk about balancing life between leading worship, a career, and family, and Olu shares about his songwriting journey and some of what the Lord is doing in his life right now. 

Olu Meduoye is a singer, songwriter, musician and worship leader from East London, UK. He currently serves as the worship pastor in his local church and also within the Vineyard Worship movement within the UK. His heart is for the church to seek intimate worship with Jesus and live lives completely abandoned to the will of God. He and his wife, Leshia, lead worship regularly in their church (Highway Vineyard, Stratford), and are regularly guest worship leaders at churches and events in London and around the UK.

 

Show Notes:
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In this episode of The Ferment, Adam chats with Leah Morrison about being a worship leader and a mother of 3 kids, including how she learned to work within the confines of her real life and some practical tips for pastors working with moms of young children. Leah also shares how motherhood has changed her worship leading. 

Leah Morrison joined the staff of Vineyard North in Grand Rapids, MI in 2015 after several years as an ordained worship pastor with her previous church. Leah spent some of her growing up years in Russia as her family did missionary work with the Vineyard, and after moving back to the US attended Kendall College of Art & Design. She and her husband are raising 3 awesome kiddos and have a passion for ministry in their neighborhood and a dream of doing work in the middle east.  

 

Show Notes: 

Leah's Instagram: @leah_morrison_creative

In this episode we discuss...

• going bi-vocational to better serve the rural church.

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• "Your heart is not the compass that Christ saileth by."  -  Samuel Rutherford

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In the second episode of our “Pastoring Worship” series, Adam talks with Tina Colón Williams about bi-vocational ministry. Tina shares what the Lord has been teaching her about integration, and how the pause provided by COVID allowed her to step back and reevaluate her priorities. Adam and Tina also talk about how church leadership can better include bi-vocational staff. This is an encouraging and practical episode for anyone who feels like they are pulled in multiple directions and are trying to do all of it well. Tina Colón Williams is an accomplished vocalist, immigration attorney, and worship pastor. Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, Tina moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 2005 to attend Yale University, and she and her husband Josh lead the Elm City Vineyard church in New Haven. Tina's powerful vocals are featured on a number of Vineyard Worship releases, including Vineyard Soul: The Chicago Sessions, Roll Like A River, Heaven’s Work and You Are God.  Her favorite things include: singing, worship music, meeting new people, eating all kinds of food, and the pursuit of justice in the world.  Tina and Josh have two young kids, ages 4 and 2.

 

 

“If I don’t approach work as my primary mission field, I’m wasting 60+ hours a week.” - Tyler

Show Notes:

No Place Left Army Website

Oikos On the Road Episode

Other NPL Army Podcasts

The Two Kingdoms

Jack the Entrepreneur

Jared the Military History Teacher

No Place Left Army on the Movements Podcast

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"My church would tell me every Sunday morning that 'I’m sent' but I didn’t know what it looked liked to be a sent one and I didn’t know how to do that 9-5 Monday through Friday at my job." - Ross the Financial Analyst. Listen for how things changed for Ross.

 

Show Notes:

On the Road Episode: 15 Second Testimony

Find some #NoPlaceLeft Training like the Gospel Conversation Training Ross mentioned.

Ross also mentioned his friends in London with some great training for living on mission in the work place. You can find that here: http://bit.ly/SealeTeamTraining

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What would you do with your time if you could support yourself on two work days each week?  Whose kingdom would you build with that extra time?

 

Show Notes:

Check out what #NoPlaceLeft is all about in this episode.

Two Kingdoms

More #NPL Training

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What does it look like to pursue the lost, make disciples, plant churches, and reproduce leaders... while managing a dry cleaning store? The very things you would expect are challenges also provide some of the best opportunities.

 

Show Notes:

Check out what #NoPlaceLeft is all about in this episode.

#NPL Oklahoma City Website

Dave shares more about living on mission in the workplace at Sentergy.us.

More #NPL Training

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For any people or place to be fully reached with the Gospel we need to see hundreds and thousands of followers of Jesus living out sharing the Gospel and making disciples as part of their everyday life. This season I wanted to celebrate and learn from those insiders. Everyone you hear interviewed is NOT getting paid by a ministry or church.

 

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Bobby talks with HFD EOP David Rodriguez about their time together on Squad 3, being a bi-vocational minister, and parenting a child with special needs. 

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Bivocational ministry is part of the backbone of the Southern Baptist identity. In this episode Dr. Iorg describes different models of bivocational ministry and what full-time leaders can learn from bivocational pastors.

Zach is a bivocational pastor and church planter and shares some of the pro's and cons of being bivocational while planting a church, and even after the church tops 100! A fun conversation with Zach and the guys LIVE, in the luxurious and opulent 200churches Podcast Studio! p.s. Are you ever jealous of other pastors and their Facebook bragging on Monday mornings??