True North - True North Part 1
River Valley Church
Pastor Rob interviews his mom, Isabel Ketterling, about how having greater faith in God has impacted her family.
Episode 45: As a church, there can be what seems to feel like an unlimited number of events within the calendar year, let alone the calendar month! With all of your ministries going on, and each ministry needing weekly consistency combined with a few special events, it can be tricky to navigate planning the calendar. Our Associate Director of Experience, Michaela Johnson, and our Discipleship Pastor, Connor Ketterling, break down how River Valley plans their church-wide calendar, as well as their own personal calendars as they navigate ministry life on top of that. With the amount of campuses, staff, and congregants that River Valley has, we are excited to share our victories and lessons we learned with you!
Pastor Kirk continues our Christmas Series and encourages us to be bold about proclaiming our salvation.
Episode 64: Pastor Rob jumps into the conversation surrounding moral failures and dealing with conflict within your team, and outside of your team. What is the appropriate response to another church of the same denomination starting just a few blocks away? So many great lessons to navigate, so tune in now!
Episode 70: Cade Thompson, christian musician and songwriter, discusses what is was like to sign a record deal as a teenager, the challenges that he faced then, and the lessons that God taught him through starting his career so young. What was it like to hear himself on the radio back then? What are some of the thoughts and heart behind the songs on his newest album? Cade breaks down these questions and so much more!
Episode 49: At River Valley, we love to host, and we desire to be great stewards of hosting our guests. To ring in the new year, Pastor Logan Ketterling sat down to explain the heart behind hosting well, why it is so important. Here are 10 ways to help your church host people best. We can't wait for you to listen!
Episode 51: As a multi-site church, we get to minister to many different cultures of the cities around us! Our City Campus, which took ground in Minneapolis several years ago, is located in the heart of Minneapolis and sees a very different culture than some of our rural campuses. Pastor Anthony Cox is the campus pastor of our City Campus, and he sat down to break down his thoughts on pastoring an urban church, and how we can best serve the inner city communities. Whether you have a campus or church in the inner city, we encourage you to pray about how God wants to use you and your team there!
Pastor Rob shares some practical ways of how we can know if we are Christians.
Episode 57: Pastor Logan was in Portland a few weeks back with Pastor Rob, and he found a book that was published in the 1800's with stories from the famous Cambridge 7, Hudson Taylor and other amazing missionaries! Logan explains the background behind this historic book, beautiful passages and lessons from the author, and his encouragement to the network. Let's take a look back at what missions work was like 140 years ago!
Episode 55: We gladly and joyfully submit and live under the authority of Christ, but we often run into confrontation when we are challenged to submit to leadership. Pastor Rob jumps into the topic of living under authority, and he shares many stories of moments where he had to choose to submit to the authority God placed in his life. One time he tried to split the AG?! Listen now to hear the full story!
Episode 67: Listen to learn how to talk about the hard things as a pastor. Some people avoid these conversations but Pastor Rob has led his life as a pastor to talk about the difficult things despite the tough responses that can arise. Ultimately, we need to pastor like we parent!
Episode 68: Paul Olson is a member from our church who uses his gifts in education and theology to help Pastor Rob prepare and research for all of his sermons! Paul jumps into Talking Church to discuss his story, how he once made the mistake of loving the Bible and knowledge more than God, and how he let God pull him out of that season in his life. Don't miss this amazing story!