Category Archives for "Podcast"
Welcome to the Columbia Metro Connection, a podcast where you can go to get valuable, relevant, and quality resources for you and your congregation.
OPP 049: Pandemic Progress
This week, George Bullard, Executive Director, Julia Bell, Communication Director, and Chris Reinolds, local CMBA pastor, consider the positives we’re seeing in churches as a result of the pandemic.
OPP 048: From South Carolina to New York City
This week, we had the opportunity to talk with George Russ and Kevin Cabe from the Metropolitan New York Baptist Association.
OPP 047: Associational Appreciation
This week, we’re taking some time to appreciate the ongoing work of the supporting ministry of the Columbia Metro Baptist Association.
OPP 046: Spreading the Gospel Through Hunger Ministries
This week, we’re speaking with CMBA’s own Ministry Mobilizer, Cathy Locklear, to explore the growth of hunger-related ministry that’s continued to flourish amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
OPP 045: The Journey Together
This week, we’re sitting down to explore the covenantal relationship that exists with churches and their association.
OPP 044: ReGathering the Church Pt. 2
This week, we’re wrapping up our ReGathering the Church podcast series by speaking with two pastors who are ministering to their church and community in unique ways.
OPP 043: Pastoring in a Pandemic
This week, we had an opportunity to sit down with David Sturgeon, Pastor at Temple Baptist Church, to discuss the perils of pastoring in a pandemic. Pastoral ministry was difficult before March of 2020, but the tensions we’re seeing in pastoral ministry are higher than most have experienced in our lifetime.
OPP 042: ReGathering the Church Pt. 1
This week, we had an opportunity to sit down with a handful of pastors, as part one of a three-part series, to discuss the up’s and down’s and in’s and out’s of their regathering their churches in midst of a pandemic.
OPP 041: Andre Rogers & Brian Thomas on the Road to Racial Reconciliation
This week, we had an opportunity to sit down with Andre Rogers, Pastor at Concord Fellowship Baptist Church and Brian Thomas, Pastor at NorthStar Christian Center, to discuss the crucial need for education and action on the road to racial reconciliation.
OPP 040: Robbie McAlister on Reaching the Unreached Locally
This week, we had an opportunity to sit down with Steve Perky, a ministry applied technology strategist and consultant to discuss how churches can launch an online campus within their church’s model of ministry.