Today we’re going live with Pastor D, lead pastor of House of His Glory, visionary developer of The Church Coach App, and a Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. Pastor D has dedicated her life to equipping leaders with practical tools and Spirit-led strategies that help churches thrive both in person and in digital spaces. She doesn’t just talk ministry theory — she lives it, building bridges between technology, discipleship, and real-life transformation. This livestream is more than a c...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 352
What truly drives your ministry? On Tuesday, August 5 at 1pm Eastern, Jeff Reed will sit down with Dr. Tim Yee to explore this question through the lens of TruCenter— http://trucenter.co - a faith-based, narrative-driven assessment that uncovers the motivations God wired into each of us.Dr. Tim Yee, a seasoned pastor and leadership coach, has a wealth of experience helping individuals and teams discover their unique callings. His work with TruCenter focuses on helping people understand their cor...
Aug 06, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 351
What if the future of digital missions isn’t about going viral but about going deep? What if ministry could thrive on less money, more risk and bi-vocational calling? Jeff Reed, founder of theChurch.digital, is living that tension.While livestreaming from his Tesla, Jeff shares the raw realities of leading a global digital ministry while stepping back into physical church work. It’s about decentralizing. Moving from being the guy to building the framework. From going solo to inviting a movement....
Jul 30, 2025•56 min•Ep. 349
What if your church’s website could talk back? Not with static forms or outdated contact pages, but with real-time, intelligent conversations. That’s the future Eric Kidwell is building. As the founder of LiveAI.co, Eric is pioneering conversational AI tools that transform how churches engage online. His mission: to replace passive digital experiences with dynamic, responsive interactions that meet people where they are. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | Web | Instagram...
Jul 16, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 348
Could deconstruction be more than trendy rebellion and actually mirror Jesus flipping tables in the temple to clear the way for something true free and life-giving? If your questions ever made you feel like a heretic or left you feeling spiritually homeless this conversation is for you.What if questioning your church model brought you back to the biblical standard and invited you into genuine digital discipleship?
Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 347
What if your smartphone could become your most powerful evangelism tool? On Tuesday, July 1 at 1pm Eastern, Jeff Reed from theChurch.digital sits down with What if sharing the gospel happened with a tap on your screen? Imagine your next disciple-making conversation happened over a screen share.GodTools equips everyday believers with bite-sized evangelism tools and micro-learning lessons. We’re leaning into the frontiers of digital ministry. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp...
Jul 02, 2025•59 min•Ep. 346
What if the next revival didn’t come through a pulpit but a podcast, a livestream or a VR headset? What if digital spaces weren’t support tools but used for Kingdom purposes? missionary.digital is launching four summits that will equip and activate. We’re leaning into the wild frontiers of ministry. Where recovery isn’t just healing, it’s leadership formation. Where gaming isn’t escape, it’s mission. Where livestream isn’t broadcast, it’s church. You’ll hear from leaders building gospel-fluent c...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 345
Join Jeff Reed (theChurch.Digital), Jesse Carbo (Digital Missions Project), and missiologist Alan Hirsch (5Q/5G) for a groundbreaking live stream conversation that reimagines incarnational ministry for the digital age. In a world where people grieve on Facebook, wrestle with doubt in Reddit threads, and seek prayer in Instagram DMs, this trio unpacks what it means to “move into the neighborhood” online. They challenge the Church to stop treating platforms like pulpits and start treating them lik...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 344
What if your data didn’t just measure ministry but multiplied it? What if your app wasn’t a feature for convenience but a map for mission?It’s time to stop reading reports like accountants. Start interpreting them like missionaries. When we treat platforms like places and data like discipleship trails, we stop counting people and start commissioning them.
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 343
What if 4,000 GenZ and GenA students encountered Jesus—every single day?That’s not a dream. That’s the digital reality EveryStudent is living into.This isn’t just a website. It’s a multilingual, global movement. 40+ languages. 4,000 Gospel encounters daily. Powered by a bold vision inside the CRU family and spearheaded by Marilyn Adamson, EveryStudent is proof that the digital mission field is active and ripe.And now it’s your turn.
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 342
What if your reporting system wasn’t just tracking numbers, but unleashing missionaries? What if the key to multiplying disciples wasn’t more budget, but more clarity?Tampa Underground didn’t mimic megachurch models. They built their own path. A network of sister churches linked by shared mission, supported by a custom-built, no-code tool tracking disciple-makers, leaders and networks across cities and continents. For free. Lucas Pulley unpacks how their grassroots system turns raw data into rea...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 341
What if digital missionaries could learn from monks? What if the quiet revolution for online discipleship was already happening in places you least expect, like the Vatican?Catholic digital missionaries aren’t just posting content. They’re building discipleship ecosystems. They’re forming community at scale, embedding ancient rhythms into digital habits and showing up online with spiritual consistency most Protestant creators never touch.
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 340
Digital missionaries from across the world showed up. Pakistan. Germany. New Zealand. Nigeria. Even someone claiming Antarctica. Not a metaphor. What surfaced was fire: calls for deeper equipping, more contextualization, faster training and support for missionaries burning out while carrying too much, too alone.Here’s what we rolled out at the town hall:- Four digital missionary conferences this fall.- A shortened Equipping Digital Missionaries (EDM) course.- A growing equipping library- Transla...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 339
Can digital discipleship actually work in every culture? Or are we turning digital missions into digital colonization, leading missions with our methods instead of their cultural realities?When local leaders reshape the delivery, the message finally lands. That’s not failure. That’s the future. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | Web | Instagram...
May 19, 2025•44 min•Ep. 338
Is content enough to reach people in digital missions? Or does digital ministry demand more than just clicks and views? Content may connect, but without community, it doesn’t disciple. And that disconnect is the silent killer of digital ministry.This isn’t about scaling sermons or mastering reels. It’s about building trust at the speed of relationships. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | Web | Instagram...
May 12, 2025•56 min•Ep. 337
Is the digital mission field breaking digital missionaries? What if soul care was the key to sustaining digital ministry, not a side note? Digital missionaries are pioneering in isolated spaces, often without support, facing grief, burnout and trauma no one sees. It’s not about sermons or strategy. It’s about presence. From Discord prayer threads to trauma healing groups in the metaverse, this is about showing up in the mess, not fixing it. Listening over preaching. Connection over content....
May 05, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 336
The digital mission field is exploding, and The Church Digital is leading the way. In this episode, Jeff Reed shares a personal update before diving into new community breakthroughs on Discord, Twitch, and more. Virtual ministry is not just growing, it is transforming, and you are invited to be part of the movement.Get ready for big news: multiple focused fall conferences, a European digital missions partnership, and the launch of the Digital Missions Ambassador initiative. Fifty leaders rising ...
Apr 28, 2025•55 min•Ep. 335
What happens when an 84-year-old hijacks your digital missionary conference and it turns out to be one of the best moments of the week? In episode 334 of theChurch.digital podcast, Jeff Reed unpacks the Digital Missionary Conference chaos. Bootlegged streams. VR prayer circles. Unexpected partnerships. And a surprise metaverse legend named Mr. Pete. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | Web | Instagram...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr
What happens when 1,400 digital missionaries from 85 countries collide? This episode of The Church Digital podcast goes deep behind the scenes of the Digital Missionary Conference. Jeff Reed breaks down the highlights, from VR gatherings and unexpected connections to the raw stories that are pushing digital ministry into new territory. If you’ve ever questioned whether digital discipleship is real, this one’s going to wreck your doubts. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | W...
Apr 14, 2025•53 min•Ep. 333
Is the metaverse dead? Not even close. In episode 332 of The Church Digital Podcast, Jeff Reed sits down with DJ Soto, Pastor Alina and Pastor Coco to break the mold of traditional ministry. This isn’t about streaming your Sunday service. It’s about global disciple-making movements happening in the heart of virtual spaces like Final Fantasy, Rec Room and VR Chat. These aren’t gimmicks. They’re churches. They’re communities. They’re mission fields. You’ll hear how VRMMO Church is doing what build...
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 332
Why do digital ministry spaces still struggle with gender equity? Episode 331 of theChurch.digital Podcast pulls no punches. Jeff Reed sits down with digital ministry leaders Amanda Souza, Nicole Howard, and Anne Bosarge to tackle the hard truth: women are still underrepresented in digital ministry leadership. They get raw about their experiences navigating male-dominated platforms and church ecosystems, both online and off. This isn't just talk. It's a challenge to the status quo and a rallying...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 17 min
What if digital isn't replacing the physical but expanding the mission field?For years, incarnational ministry has emphasized moving into neighborhoods, building relationships and living out the gospel in the community. But digital pioneers are proving that relationships and discipleship can grow deeper in online spaces. From Whatsapp discipleship in closed countries to virtual reality churches where real communities are forming, digital is more than a tool. It’s a mission field, ripe for harves...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 330
How do digital missionaries get funded? Can full-time digital ministry be sustainable, or is it something on the side? Many digital missionaries are called to reach people in gaming, VR, Discord and social platforms, but the biggest challenge isn’t just the mission. It’s financial support. The question isn’t whether digital missions can be funded. It’s whether we’re willing to step out in faith and invite others to be part of the mission. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | ...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 329
Can you truly be emotionally present for someone in a digital space? Some say deep connections can only happen face-to-face but digital missionaries are proving otherwise. The online world isn’t just a content platform. It’s a mission field where people are seeking real relationships, support and hope. Digital ministry isn’t just about engagement. It’s about presence. Too often, people hide behind content, missing the deeper connections that transform lives. But what if we could listen better? W...
Mar 04, 2025•59 min
The challenge isn’t whether digital church can work. It’s whether leaders are willing to step out of familiar models and go where people already are. The buildings will reach those who walk through the doors, but who is reaching the ones who never will? ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | Web | Instagram...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 327
What if digital missionaries had the strategy, support and community they need to be mobilized for the digital mission field? Church leaders and digital pioneers are stepping beyond traditional models that often dismiss digital ministry as secondary. Digital missionaries face real challenges, skepticism from legacy structures, lack of resources and the isolation of pioneering in an unfamiliar mission field. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | Web | Instagram...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 326
Connection without community is powerless, and discipleship without mobilization is reckless. If we’re not moving people from consuming content to engaging in real relationships and then stepping into mission, we’re missing the point. The goal isn’t just more content—it’s digital missionaries actively discipling others that disciple others. ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | Web | Instagram...
Feb 10, 2025•53 min•Ep. 325
What if the future of discipleship meant empowering ordinary people to become digital missionaries? The church isn’t confined to buildings anymore—it’s happening in DMs, voice chats, and virtual worlds where trust is built and the gospel is shared.
Feb 03, 2025•49 min•Ep. 324
Connection is vital to digital missionary work, but if all we do is connect with people, our ministry remains shallow and superficial. COMMUNITY is where trust is established, relationships are deepened, and digital evangelism and discipleship come alive! ►► Join The Fam! ►► Discord | Youtube | Whatsapp | Web | Instagram...
Jan 28, 2025•50 min•Ep. 323
Stop treating digital ministry like broadcasting. Platforms like Discord, Youtube, and VR aren’t just tools—they’re mission fields where deep relationships lead to gospel movements. theChurch.digital is equipping digital missionaries to go beyond the surface, building ministries that multiply and sustain impact in digital spaces. Connection without community is powerless. Community without equipping is pointless. Equipping without mobilization is reckless. Come rethink and reshape your digital m...
Jan 24, 2025•34 min
