Strength For Today's Pastor
107 Ingredients of a Healthy Church- with Bob Kopeny of Calvary Chapel East Anaheim
Welcome to episode 107 of Strength for Today’s Pastor.
Today we have as our guest Pastor Bob Kopeny of Calvary Chapel East Anaheim, CA.
We’re going to talking about the ingredients of a healthy local church.
Stay tuned, because I promise you … after listening to this podcast interview, you’re going to feel like you’ve just been to your own personal pastor’s conference.
In this podcasts, Bob will be sharing about:
~ What Calvary Chapel East Anaheim is known for
~ A venture of faith … and how he went from being a police officer to a church planting pastor
~ What happened in their fellowship during the COVID year of 2020
~ A unique and super effective way of discipling the next generation of leaders, while also learning from them
~ A missions strategy that has worked for them, and which is bearing lots of fruit
To learn more about Bob and his fellowship, just head on over to cc-ea.org.
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June 24, 2019
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Join host Bill Holdridge and Pastor Trip Kimball as they discuss some of the how-to’s of disciple making, especially within the ministry of the senior/lead pastor. Questions like, who should we look for? or what is the goal of disciple making? or how did Jesus do it? are part of[…]
June 19, 2019
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Every senior/lead pastor knows about the Great Commission and its importance in fulfilling God’s vision for the church. But what does that look like in the life and ministry of the busy pastor? Pastor Trip Kimball has a long history of pouring into people that they might follow Christ well.[…]
June 18, 2019
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