Mike Miller on Creating Culture, Building Teams & Planting a Church in Atlantic Canada
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In this episode Jason chats with Mike Miller. Their conversation explores the journey of co-pastoring a new church with his wife and family. Miller points out that often the toughest challenges in life are the most rewarding. He applies this principle to his experience in ministry and the calling he received to start Nova Church in Halifax. Their plant has been growing over the past five years and, as he notes in this interview, they have been both the richest and the hardest years of his life and ministry.
For Nova Church, calling always trumps comfort. They will move venues, change service times, and inconvenience Christians to reach people far from God. Their dream is to lovingly invade every aspect of culture — to be influencers in the manner of Biblical figures like Esther, Joseph and Daniel. The church Miller envisions is not just a refuge from culture, but a launching pad into culture.
To activate this type of calling as a church they need everyone to do their part. As such, this interview also speaks to creating a volunteer culture that is life-giving and rallies around the person of Jesus and the churches call to reach people far from God.
Mike Miller
For the past 20 years Pastor Mike has been passionately serving the local church in Europe, Africa and here in North America through pastoring, itinerant preaching and missions. In 2017 alongside his wife Nancy they planted and currently lead Nova Church in Halifax, Canada.
“God asked me ‘Do you want to be in your 40s telling stories from your 30s, or do you want more stories?’ ”
Show Notes
Book: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson
Website: Nova Church - Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald is Director of Global Focus and Strategic Relationships for The Bible Project, a crowdfunded non-profit creative studio dedicated to communicating a single, powerful message to the world: the Bible is one unified story that leads to Jesus.
Prior to joining The Bible Project his work included community empowerment projects focused on educational, micro/macro financing projects, conflict resolution, and economic development.
McDonald also lead thousands of Christian leaders on more than 200 trips around the world. He has also served on a number of boards—including Remember Nhu and Fly Fishing Collaborative—with a focus on ending child sex trafficking.
Mike lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Melissa.