AVAIL Podcast

Fundraising is most taxing when the focus is on the funds. Today’s AVAIL podcast guest and fundraising expert Jerod Smith enlightens us on why fundraising is so often unsuccessful and draining: because relationships are taking a backseat when they need to be the driver! This episode will have you rethinking the classically flawed funds-to-friends strategy and compel you to adopt a superior one—friends-to-funds!

Personal growth doesn’t just fall into your lap. . . . it must be pursued. On today’s episode of the AVAIL podcast, Pastor Abram Gomez joins us in a candid conversation about the nature of personal growth; for leaders and non-leaders alike, it is not optional. He encourages everyone to courageously explore the depths of who they are created to be because we will never find what we aren’t searching for!

Our initial ascent to success may be smooth, but if we fuel our planes with dangerous attitudes, we’re bound for a rough landing. On today’s episode of the AVAIL podcast, Ricky Brown offers leaders of all shapes and sizes a lesson in piloting the aircraft of their lives with a fair warning of the greatest threat to leadership—hazardous attitudes. Ricky unpacks these attitudes from his new book, The Five Hazardous Attitudes, reminding leaders of the necessity of depending on God’s grace in the cockpit.

When the world sees disunity within the Church, they keep the Church at arms length. Today, Pastor Dave Stone offers a solution on today’s AVAIL—cinema! Pastor Dave discusses his involvement with new faith-based film Ordinary Angels and the power of entertainment to engage those outside the Church with the love that defines the work of Christ!

The battle doesn’t determine your future, but how you fight the battle does. On today’s episode of the AVAIL podcast, Hope Carpenter joins us and shares her heart behind her new book If You Don’t Fight, You Don’t Win. Through the book's pages, Hope’s resilience along her own rocky journey is a word of encouragement to allow life’s pressures and opposition to perfect us so that we may live out the purpose He has set before us!

Leadership is about more than business. It’s about people! On today's episode of the AVAIL podcast, we're joined by Rebecca Thomas, a trailblazer in the construction industry with an inspiring journey of her ascent to leading a major construction company, all because of a clear call from the ultimate leader, the Lord! Her final encouragement to all leaders is to go where God takes you and eagerly steward the people He places in your care!

Christians are a church-going people but are often missing the third Person of the Triune God that would change their lives forever—the Holy Spirit! Be endeared to the power and love of the Holy Spirit on today’s episode of the AVAIL podcast, as we are joined by Pastor Jeff Stanford. Pastor Jeff teaches us that a relationship with the Holy Spirit is necessary to walk in unity with God and that His presence in our lives transcends our emotions—whether we “feel” Him or not, at all times, He is waiting to capture our hearts!

In a polarizing world, church leadership is challenged more than ever to defy the cultural narrative of extremism and return to a counterbalanced approach to ministry. On today’s episode of the AVAIL podcast, guest Jeremy Yancey discusses how, as his new book Good in Tension delineates, this effort produces tension—tension that we must sit in, negotiate with, embrace, and engage!

Ministry with your spouse is not a solo journey, but a shared voyage! On today’s AVAIL podcast episode, Pastors Sergio and Franchesca Chavez discuss the beauty and challenges of the journey of collaborative ministry, the invaluable lessons they’ve learned along the way, and why success is contingent upon unrelenting submission to the Lord!

You can’t build a new house on an old foundation—as the ground begins to crack, the church begins to sink! On today’s episode of the AVAIL podcast, we're joined by Pastor Michael Pitts, who shares his profound insights on how an effective leader will shift as their values shift, welcome the lost rather than ignore them, and model love to usher in reconciliation in the church.