What a long Sabbatical that was. Here's what has happened and a little bit of what you can expect.

Here's Don and Natalie after seeing Sound of Freedom as they discuss why every church needs to watch this film.

Hear what's in store for the upcoming season. We will focus on the Pastor Shortage. We will have a panel discussing this issue already here. We will hear from pastors in the deep south, mid-west, from NAMB, and even state leaders.

A recent survey shows that nearly 130,000 people left Massachusetts in 2022. This will impact churches and is starting to in smaller churches. While this will help some nearby states, we consider why and why pastors, denominations, and networks should be concerned.

Last week's promised episode is lost, so Don and his church got a preview of Jesus Revolution, and he gives his thoughts on the film.

We break into our regularly scheduled episode to discuss the topic of the moment.

Don and Natalie talk about why vetting is essential when having people called to ministry in our churches.

How is the current financial crisis hurting churches? We look at this in a "lost" Practical Revitalization Podcast episode.

Natalie is back and catching us up on things in ministry from the pastor's wife's point of view

New name and some other new things. We discuss why the name change and how that fits into church revitalization. Music by Coma-Media from

Small church pastors in revitalization often look at what they perceive as healthier larger churches as being much better. However, the old saying goes that the grass isn't always greener. Today we look at the Grass is Greener Syndrome.

In a Mashup episode, Don gives a warning about something that recently reared its ugly head in his life, as well as a preview for a future episode.

It's been several months, but we are back. Don gives a very raw look at things and issues a plea for people to come to the Northeast and New England to help plant, replant, and revitalize churches here. Over the last several months, we have seen and heard of churches closing their doors, and we see pockets of areas with large populations and no chu…

Don gives a heart-to-heart about his mindset and what's in store for the podcast.

In the last few months, popular pastors have submitted to their elders in church discipline. Don discusses how these two instances show how this works, how we should react, and what we can and should do.

Don gets back from a New Hampshire vacation to give some things going on for the future of the podcast

Don gives an update as to why no new podcasts recently and also asks you to pray for him and his wife with future decisions.

From Legacy Church archives.

In any church we often hear people quote a theologian or scholar on a particular subject of the Bible. This is an acceptable help often in getting the point across. However, when we see people quote these men more often than the Bible or on equal footing, we have to question if the person really knows their Bible. Do they idolize the theologian/sch…

A brief talk about what many are seeing in the lives of the church as many churches close

looking at the recent SBC report and why both sides need to find balance and understand that there is good and bad from both sides of the argument in the debate.

Natalie takes the lead talking about her recent time away and what she was studying and how we must be practicing this in our revitalizations.

As observed by Aldag and Fuller (1993), the groupthink phenomenon seems to rest on a set of unstated and generally restrictive assumptions: The purpose of group problem solving is mainly to improve decision qualityGroup problem solving is considered a rational process.Benefits of group problem solving:variety of perspectivesmore information about p…

Taken from the Wiki Irving Janis identified three antecedent conditions to groupthink:: High group cohesiveness: Cohesiveness is the main factor that leads to groupthink. Groups that lack cohesiveness can of course make bad decisions, but they do not experience groupthink. In a cohesive group, members avoid speaking out against decisions, avoid arg…

Type I: Overestimations of the group — its power and morality Illusions of invulnerability create excessive optimism and encourage risk-taking.Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causes members to ignore the consequences of their actions. Type II: Closed-mindedness Rationalizing warnings that might challenge the group's assumptions.St…

Do we do discipleship right? maybe and maybe not, but the main thing is are you looking at the makeup of your church and investing time properly with new Christians as well as integrating them into established groups? DO takes a look at this in this week's short take.

Bring Glory to God If We Allow All Churches to Die It Says Our God Is Weak Because It Was Once a Plant and an Established Church History We Love to Restore Other Things Cars Furniture Tools

In this episode, Don talks about lost opportunities churches miss and also rants about how this affects the area he is in as both an Educator and Pastor in the state of Massachusetts.

We said no new episode this week, but Don decided this had to be said pointing out the pastor controversies the last few weeks, the crisis we are in in the Strauss-Howe Theory that he is working out for churches. This is an episode that you will want to hear to help you think through what is going on in the capital "C" Church…

Matt Henslee talked at the 2021 Replant Summit about thriving in a rural replant. As more than half the revitalization in New England are in rural areas, we pray you are blessed by his words of wisdom.

Sometimes we just need to dress up or undress a church to make the right adjustments to make it modern in feel. Today Don shows us three things to consider 1. Undressing a church to exorcise the past2. Dress up a church to hide things3. Make sure that it works, and when to know it's time to change what you got.…

Don challenges pastors to take a bold step to have the revival they want in the revitalization they pastor. Don's Blog Article

5 Things Revitalizers Wish Visitors and Guests Understood. 5. We have more people than your seeing today 4. We really have children’s and youth programs 3. Our goal is to have missions giving, but we are just making it week to week 2. I’m not responsible for the mess 1. I’m stretched and have no more bandwidth to give.…

Most pastors burn out because they do not connect or keep connections going with other pastors or people in their church. Hear why this is important to do and keep up in a pastor's ministry.

Erik Maloy is back to discuss what has been going on with him and First Church for the last several months and some of what he has done, why, and what he is going to do in the future.

Don talks about the hopes and dreams for PCRP this coming year.

Chris McDonald shares why working with other churches in a revitalization effort is a key thing that replanters and revitalizers have to consider when things happen to block the church from healthy growth.

Don and Natalie interview Dr. David Jackson of the NAMB Replant team where he oversees the East region. Dr. Jackson has four decades of experience in Church planting and revitalization and shares his wisdom with the hosts. Dr. Jackson also served as Don's filed supervisor for his practicums in seminary this past year.…

At the 2021 Pastors Encouragement Dinner, Pastor Lierte Soares Jr. brought an encouraging message to the 30+ pastors gathered. Lierte’s ministry is unique in that he pastors two churches, Framingham Baptist Church in Framingham, MA (pop. 72,308) and Precision Valley Baptist Church in the small town of North Springfield, VT (pop. 644). Lierte Soares…

Erik and Don interview with Randy Adams, executive director of the Northwest Baptist Convention (NWBC), and nominee for president of the Southern Baptist Convention, top discuss his vision for the SBC as well as ask some questions on their hearts and minds. See Randy's site for his announcement: https://randyadams.org/2020/01/14/my-commitment-to-so…

Don and Natalie discuss the need for pastors and their wives to be transparent in their mental health as the discuss their own struggles after the recent suicide of Paige Hilken. Link on article of Paige Hilken Natalie's Blog New England Pastors Encouragement Dinner

Today we interview another of the SBC President nominees, Ed Litton, pastor of Redemption Church in Mobile, AL.

The final live episode of 2021 and Dona nd Natalie talk about three things they've learned while pursuing people for their church. 1. Pastors need to go after the people who "like the church, but................." 2. Pastors need to cast the vision for them 3. Pastors need to pray for God's will

In the second to last new episode of the year, Don goes over his big three after Praying and the Bible for a replanter. 1. Know your community that you are in. 2. Meet regularly with the people in that community 3. Create a battle plan to evangelize and minister to that community.

PCRP S4 E6 Special Needs Ministry in the Church Don interviews Natalie McKinnon on the need for special needs ministry within the Church and the missed opportunity to families that need it. 13% of Kids in public have special needs 1 in 83 are on the autism spectrum 7% of children 3-17 years of age have ADHD 8% of children 3-17 years of age have a l…

Barna’s article discussed the number of pastors ready to quit, with 46% of pastors under 45 prepared to quit. 1,000’s of these pastors are working in dying churches out there. Many do not see the looming crisis and need for pastors to encourage in the post-COVID world. 1. Pastors are doing their all in dying churches, and the results are burning th…

Don and Natalie interview Dr. David Jackson of the NAMB Replant team where he oversees the East region. Dr. Jackson has four decades of experience in Church planting and revitalization and shares his wisdom with the hosts. Dr. Jackson also served as Don's filed supervisor for his practicums in seminary this past year.…

In this episode Don talks about the importance of prayer in a revitalization and why we must do so fervently, but also as an example for those who may not be praying in their own relationship with Jesus.

From Replant Summit 2021, Andy Addis talks about revitalization through Multi-Site churches.

Nothing lasts forever, and T$G is ending next year. We give some thoughts on this and how this can be huge for local networks.