I met Jervie Windham a few years ago at an exponential event and was immediately impressed.

Here's a guy who started three churches while he was a career military officer: one in Korea and two in the United States. So, he was a seasoned man with big ideas about planting a conventional church.

We talked about what we were beginning to call micro church at the time. To date, he's planted a hub church with micro churches all around his community of Texas City, Texas. They utilize unique locations in the city and in rural areas beyond it. A large group meets on Sunday morning, but there are far more people meeting in the small spaces.

In this podcast, he describes churches in barber shops. He started one microchurch in a barber college, got involved in counseling the young students there, and was invited to set up microchurches in three barber colleges and a beauty school. Now, those who graduated are starting little churches in their barber shops. They're doing evangelism and they're discipling their members.

As this caught on, they've got a crazy thing going on at a deer rescue ranch that will surprise you as he talks about it.

He goes on further and talks about personal problems and the pains that go on in ministry. He details the struggle in his own household when raising one of his kids was really, really tough. However, that story ends nicely. His “problem child” just graduated from medical school as a young doctor bent on using his medical practice as a way of bringing the Gospel to people.

This is an exciting, encouraging and encouraging podcast. If you're discouraged, this is for you. If you're encouraged and up, you'll be excited and encouraged that much further.

You can connect with Jervie at Resonate Church or [email protected].

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