In this episode, Rob and Ted talk from their experiences and the wisdom and advice they've received about balancing ministry and life. Church ministry can cause you and your family to sacrifice time and energy, and the hope for this conversation would be to provide tips to help navigate this balance. ---- Calvary Vista Reliance Church
May 13, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 44
In this episode, Ted & Rob talk in detail about their respective processes in sharing the teaching ministry at their churches. This conversation will include identifying and discipling faithful servants of the body into opportunities of teaching ministry, practical training for sermon preparation, and providing healthy insights for peer feedback and encouragement. ---- Rob Salvato -- Calvary Vista Ted Leavenworth -- Reliance Church...
Mar 11, 2025•59 min•Season 4Ep. 43
In this episode, Rob and Ted talk from Galatians 5 about the seen (physical) and the unseen (spiritual) works of the flesh and how they reveal themselves in life and ministry. ---- Calvary Vista Reliance Church
Feb 04, 2025•35 min•Season 4Ep. 42
Ted Leavenworth and Rob Salvato are joined by Mark Foreman (North Coast Calvary Chapel) to talk through the nuances and dynamics of passing on the ministry and what a healthy transition of pastoral leadership can look like. --- North Coast Calvary Chapel -- northcoastcalvary.org
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 41
Ted Leavenworth and Rob Salvato are joined by Brett Meador (Athey Creek) to talk through the nuances and dynamics of pastoring through seasons of heightened political climates. --- Athey Creek - atheycreek.com
Oct 17, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 40
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Josh Blevins (Grace Calvary Chapel) to talk through the Christian Nationalism vs. Christian stewardship in American politics. --- Grace Calvary Chapel - graceontheweb.org pastorjoshblevins.com | Article by Josh Blevins
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 4Ep. 39
Rob Salvato is joined by Daniel Fusco (Crossroads Community Church) and Zach Vestnys (Calvary Petaluma) to talk through building a flourishing culture of partnership and collaboration amongst our church and ministry and teams. --- Crossroads Community Church - crossroadschurch.net Calvary Petaluma - calvarypetaluma.org
Jun 24, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Rob Salvato is joined by Daniel Fusco (Crossroads Community Church) and Zach Vestnys (Calvary Petaluma) to talk through building a flourishing culture of partnership and collaboration amongst our church and ministry and teams. --- Crossroads Community Church - crossroadschurch.net Calvary Petaluma - calvarypetaluma.org
Jun 10, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth continue their conversation with Sean Morgan (Leaders in Living Rooms) and Tyler Scott (Community Presbyterian Church), talking through maintaining integrity and avoiding compromising pitfalls as a leader in ministry. We hope that this conversation will provide wisdom, insight, and encouragement as you serve faithfully. --- Leaders in Living Rooms: https://theascentleader.org/leaders-in-living-rooms/ Community Presbyterian Church: https://www.cpcdanville.org...
May 23, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 36
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Sean Morgan (Leaders in Living Rooms) and Tyler Scott (Community Presbyterian Church) to talk through maintaining integrity and avoiding compromising pitfalls as a leader in ministry. We hope that this conversation will provide wisdom, insight, and encouragement as you serve faithfully. --- Leaders in Living Rooms: https://theascentleader.org/leaders-in-living-rooms/ Community Presbyterian Church: https://www.cpcdanville.org...
May 09, 2024•43 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Brady Boyd (New Life Church) to talk through enduring pain and heartache in ministry. In pastoral leadership, pain is inevitable, so we hope that this conversation will provide wisdom, insight, and encouragement as you serve faithfully. --- New Life Church -- north.newlifechurch.org
Apr 02, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Jason Duff (The Garden Fellowship) and Jim Gallagher (Calvary Chapel Vero Beach) to talk through the various forms that church momentum can look like and how to foster it and help your ministry flourish. --- The Garden Fellowship - thegardenfellowship.com Calvary Chapel Vero Beach - ccvb.net...
Mar 05, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Tim Chaddick (Reality Ventura) and Andy Deane (Cornerstone Community Church) to discuss the valuable benefits of building and fostering a culture of collaboration within our churches and leadership teams. --- Cornerstone Community Church - go2cornerstone.com Reality Ventura - realityventura.com...
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Joe Tata (Calvary Chapel Pomona Valley) and Kyle Curry (The Table Fellowship) to discuss the many benefits of participating in pastoral leadership cohorts. --- Calvary Chapel Pomona Valley - ccpomonavalley.com The Table Fellowship - thetablefellowship.church
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Nate Holdridge (Calvary Monterey) to discuss the importance of setting boundaries, delegating responsibilities, and maintaining healthy rhythms in the context of church leadership. This is part one in a two-part discussion on this topic with Nate Holdridge. --- Calvary Monterey - https://www.calvary.com/
Oct 06, 2023•40 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Nate Holdridge (Calvary Monterey) to discuss the importance of setting boundaries, delegating responsibilities, and maintaining healthy rhythms in the context of church leadership. This is part one in a two-part discussion on this topic with Nate Holdridge. --- Calvary Monterey - https://www.calvary.com/
Sep 07, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Miles DeBenedictis (Cross Connection Church) and Daniel Fusco (Crossroads Community Church) for a conversation on creating, adopting, and reforming systems and structures in our churches. ---- Cross Connection Church -- lifeinconnection.com Crossroads Community Church -- crossroadschurch.net
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Pastor Mark Foreman of North Coast Calvary in Carlsbad, California joins Pastor Nick Cady of White Fields Community Church in Longmont, Colorado to discuss the topic of vision. ---- North Coast Calvary Chapel -- northcoastcalvary.org White Fields Community Church -- whitefieldschurch.com
May 04, 2023•53 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by David Guzik (Enduring Word, Calvary Santa Barbara) and Nate Holdridge (Calvary Monterey) to discuss the many facets of preparing, sending out, and supporting servants to plant new churches. --- Calvary Santa Barbara - https://calvarysb.com/ Enduring Word - https://enduringword.com/ Calvary Monterey - https://www.calvary.com/...
Apr 07, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Rod Thompson (Reliance Church) and Aaron Sabio (Calvary Vista) to discuss their experiences of learning to create and maintain robust and flourishing discipleship relationships. ---- Reliance Church — reliancechurch.org Calvary Vista — calvaryvista.com
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 23
In this episode, Ted & Rob talk in detail about their respective processes in sharing the teaching ministry at their churches. This conversation will include identifying and discipling faithful servants of the body into opportunities of teaching ministry, practical training for sermon preparation, and providing healthy insights for peer feedback and encouragement. ---- Rob Salvato -- Calvary Vista Ted Leavenworth -- Reliance Church...
Feb 23, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 22
In this bonus episode of the Leadership Collective, we are sharing a recent episode from our partners at the When She Leads podcast: In this episode of the When She Leads podcast, Brenda Leavenworth is joined by Jen Bursch (Calvary Murrieta), Annie Harley (Calvary Fort Lauderdale), and Shirley Ruiz (Reliance Church) in a candid conversation about the necessity and value of the presence of women at the table of church leadership. We pray that this conversation encourages you to continue to lead w...
Feb 02, 2023•47 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Benji Horning (Light Church) and Casey Kendell (Bridgetown Church) to discuss the benefits and importance of starting a new church with the support of a well-established planting network. ---- Light Church — https://www.lightsandiego.com Bridgetown Church — https://wearebridgetown.com
Jan 17, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Richard Cimino (Metro Calvary) to candidly talk about our experiences with healthy and unhealthy ministry workloads and the effects they could have on our family health and relationships. ---- Metro Calvary — metrocalvary.org
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Nick Cady (Whitefields Community Church) and Bruce Zachary (Calvary Nexus) to discuss the new equipping resource from Calvary Global Network called Cultivate. Cultivate will help with the assessment, training, and cultivating of prospective church planters. ---- Whitefields Community Church — whitefieldschurch.com Calvary Nexus — calvarynexus.org...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Clay Worell (Calvary Global Network) to discuss healthy pastoral transitions and succession. More specifically, we will talk about handling and walking through transitions pertaining to senior or lead pastors. ---- Calvary Global Network -- calvaryglobalnetwork.com/leadership
Oct 10, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 18
In this bonus episode, Ted & Rob talk in more detail about their respective board and church leadership structures. This conversation is a continuation of a previous episode with Wayne Cordeiro about the nuanced process of structuring and organizing a healthy church board, identifying toxic board behavior, prayerfully selecting board members, and organizing robust church leadership. ---- Rob Salvato -- Calvary Vista Ted Leavenworth -- Reliance Church...
Sep 22, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 17
Rob Salvato and Ted Leavenworth are joined by Miles DeBenedictus (Cross Connection Church) to discuss how current societal trends and economic forecasts help form our vision-shaping process. More specifically, we will talk through forming vision for our churches as move past the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and into an economic recession in 2022. ---- Cross Connection Church -- lifeinconnection.com
Sep 10, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Ted Leavenworth is joined by Ryan Sharp (lead pastor) and Jeff Johnson (missions and outreach pastor) of Impact Church in Menifee, CA to discuss some of the challenges and outcomes of successfully navigating a church merger. We discuss the different environments in which merging can become viable, and how the process can bring about the creation of more healthy and stable church communities. ---- Impact Church
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Brian Bell (pastor of Calvary Murrieta) has a conversation with Larry Hansen (missions pastor at Calvary Murrieta) and Matthew Ellison (founder and president of 1615) about ministering to unreached people groups. ---- Brian Bell & Larry Hansen -- Calvary Murrieta Matthew Ellison -- 1615.org
May 05, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 14