Noah Filipiak interviews Pastor Doug Logan about planting an urban church in Camden, NJ; Camden was rated the most violent city in America in 2015. Pastor Doug is an expert on missiology, urban ministry and what it looks like for the whole Church to live out the whole Great Commission. He is the pastor of […]
Shane Claiborne, Author & Activist – Episode 29 – #GoPublic against the death penalty, celebrityism as idolatry, speaking the truth in love, and how to engage in being an ordinary radical if your spouse isn’t into it
Noah Filipiak interviews Shane Claiborne about how to engage churches in helping the poor, activism and justice issues. They talk about celebrityism within popular Christianity, about what can be done to stop the death penalty (Shane’s latest book is Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us), and about how […]
Dennis Hammond – Episode 20 – on being raised in inner city Lansing, finding Christ and going to Honduras
Noah Filipiak interviews 18-year-old Dennis Hammond on being raised in inner city Lansing, how he found Christ, his June 19-26th trip to Honduras and how the odds are stacked against inner city black youth. The catalyst of this interview came from Noah helping Dennis fund-raise for his $1600 missions trip and realizing how different it […]
Can you purchase some Bibles for our inner-city youth coming to Christ?
Can you help provide some NLT Bibles to our urban youth? God is using our awesome youth pastor, David Singleton, to lead inner-city youth in Lansing to faith in Jesus Christ in our church, the inner-city parks, as well as the juvenile detection facility where David preaches regularly. We have given away almost all of […]
Podcast Interview with Youth Pastor David Singleton on Race, Urban Ministry
Episode #5 of “Behind the Curtain” Ministry Podcast is here! Youth pastor David Singleton and I talk about the different narratives of the white and black cultures and how this relates to the Church. We discuss the Baltimore riots, racial segregation in churches, the differences between suburban and urban youth ministry, and steps we can […]