294. Interview with Mike Fontenot about His New Book: "Spiritual Leadership, Developing Qualities Worth Following"

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner In this episode, my wife Pam and I talk to Pat Gempel, a pioneer of women’s ministry and one of the "30 would-be disciples" who gathered in a living room in Boston and propelled the church to 60% annual growth for 10 straight years.  She shares: How she came to Boston What it was like at the beginning of the Boston Movement How she found her daughter that she had put up for adoption 23 years earlier How she lost her husband, Bob Her view on women’s ministry and the current discussion of women's role in the church This episode was originally recorded and released in December of 2021 as Episode 136

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner   Jose Luis Palacios was born in Spain, studied at the University of Idaho and played tennis there.  He graduated and started working in corporate America.  He was posted to Saltillo, Mexico, the "Detroit" of Mexico.  There he met and reached out to his future wife, Rosario Padilla.  He brought her to the nearest church 90 minutes away in Monterrey, Mexico.  He began meeting with his small group on Wednesdays and after a few years helped form a team from Monterrey that supplemented the growing group of disciples in Saltillo.  When he left after ten years, the church was at 30 members.  The church is still there and Jose Luis continues to support his "organic" church planting through his tithing.  Find out how they did it in this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast!

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner I met Natalie Do when she visited our campus devotional in the fall of 1991 at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.  She was a powerful young woman from Hong Kong and became a Christian in only ten days.  She went on to do missionary work in Japan and then Vietnam.  She returned to the US and she rose up in the banking world to become Vice President of Torrey Pines Bank.  Listen to her story on the Rob Skinner Podcast!

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner Tom Nuelle leads a church in Madison Wisconsin.  When he took over the church in 2016, the church was in disarray and was bleeding members.  After starting over with 60 members, he has since grown the church to nearly 100 and one of the tools he is using is social media.  In the last six months he has baptized 10 people and most of them found the church through the church's social media outreach. Tom was also a cofounder of pure and simple, an organization to help men and women live a pure life in a dark world.  Find out what Tom is doing in this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast!

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner Dima and Marina Dudnik lead a church in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Originally from Ukraine, they trained for ministry under Shawn and Lena Wooten and started leading the church in Sofia in 2020.  Both studied music growing up and Marina gave up her professional career as a violinist to serve Jesus on the mission field.  Listen as they share about their romance that started at the age of 12 and led to marriage at the age of 19.  

ow to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner   Felix and Rita Raju live in Chennai, India.  They have two adult children.  Converted in 1990 into a church of 40 disciples, they grew in faith and passion.  They were married in 1994 and went on the mission team to Kolkata, India.  They spent 9 years in Kolkata doing charity work for HOPE worldwide, building the church and serving in the administration of the church.  They returned to Chennai in 2003 and Felix started working for his cousin's Art Gallery.  They currently lead a group of around forty disciples in the Chennai church.

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner   Joel Peed is a church leader and heads up Eremos Ministry, which helps ministers with spiritual wellness.  He wrote a book on how to make the most of a sabbatical, how to view sabbaticals and how to make them a part of a healthy ministry career.  Listen as I interview him about his book.  

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner   Dennis Keating has terminal cancer.  Yet you would never know it by talking to him.  He is in love with Jesus and has made peace with his future.  His wife Patty stands by his side and shares his deep faith in God.  Listen as they share the secrets to facing and navigating death as a disciple of Christ.

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner You can reach Rob at [email protected] Matt Flores, long time disciple and civil engineer is a great friend and great role model of devotion to God, family and the kingdom.  He spent 11 years in Tucson and demonstrated amazing generosity and discipline in his personal and financial life.  I interviewed him in the wake of recent turbulence in the financial markets.  Matt is an advocate of bitcoin as a wise asset during times of inflation and uncertainty.  Find out why in this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast.   Reach Matt Flores at:  [email protected] Books recommended by Matt: The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous Thank God for Bitcoin by multiple authors The Gospel According to Bitcoin by Daniel Sherman Others not mentioned on the Podcast, but are great as well The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth Softwar by Jason Lowery

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/robskinner   Can an older church resume growing?  Chris Schwartzenberger and the church in Spokane, Washington shows it's possible.  After hovering around 100 disciples for years, the church has gone from 100 to 140 members in the last two years.  Find out what God is doing and what Chris is doing in leading the church to greater things.