NCMI Podcast

We chatted to Ethan Venerable (Upward Call, Chino, California, U.S.A) at the Global Equip 2025 to talk about following the call on your life, being an elder at a young age, and the importance of local church.

We sit down at the Global Equip 2025 to talk church planting with Fred Dalais, who leads La Cité church in Paris, along with his wife, Vanessa.

We took the podcast on the road at the Global Equip '25 and spoke to Christine Nicotra (GGC Life, Australia) about prayer and the prophetic.

We took the podcast on the road at the Global Equip '25 and asked Paul Szczesiak (Cornerstone Church, Abu Dhabi) questions around leadership in his context.

0:00 - Intro to Paul
1:02 - Leading in a new culture
3:03 - Advice to someone stepping into leadership in a multicultural context
4:20 - Fostering unity while honoring a diverse range of cultures
5:36 - A story on how cultural differences influenced certain decisions
6:25 - Key leadership challenges for Paul
7:35 - Most important governance principles for local church
8:53 - Balancing crucial conversations
10:40 - Being a "support elder" and growing teams
12:33 - Playing a key role in operational background and project management
14:12 - Paul and Nadia working as a team
15:30 - Connecting marketplace skills with local church and ministry
17:40 - Marketplace (and visa) pressures
19:33 - Recognizing seasons
22:07 - The "power of the pause" for burnout and coming out of it
24:38 - The impact of the gift of administration
26:53 - The power of reliability

Craig & Taryn Herbert lead Citadel, NYC - a city with a different culture to the one they grew up in. Craig & Taryn's journey includes leading a site of Cornerstone Church in South Africa, then joining a church's leadership team in Wichita (Kansas, USA) before moving to NYC to plant a church - which ended up becoming a transition instead.
In this interview we unpack their journey and Craig's thoughts on leading in these vastly different contexts.