We are excited to announce that Small Town Summits is launching a podcast!
Over the past three-plus years, Small Town Summits has hosted small, local gatherings for pastors and lay leaders serving in the small forgotten places of New England. Beyond our six regional gatherings, we’ve held a New England-wide event at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, an auxiliary event on rural ministry at the TGC national conference, a women’s Bible training and an online pastor’s gathering during the COVID pandemic. In all these events, we are repeatedly inspired by stories of how God is working in amazing ways through the faithful endurance of his people, and convinced that ministry to small, forgotten places is vitally important for the advance of the gospel in New England.
The goal of The Small Town Summits Podcast is to resource and encourage those serving in small places by taking the rich theology and lived experience we get to enjoy at our summits and making it more accessible to listeners, wherever they live and minister. You will hear conversations with faithful pastors and leaders in small places that will seek to develop a robust theology and share inspiring biography. Theology gives us an iron backbone and biography puts fire in our belly. Theology strengthens our resolve to minister with perseverance by grounding our ministry in the very character of God, while biography inspires us as we reflect on how others have struggled and succeeded as they’ve pursued their callings.
In our first episode, we sit down with Stephen Witmer, the co-founder of Small Town Summits and author of A Big Gospel in Small Places, to hear the story of how God led him to pastor in a small town and to reconsider the beauty and value of ministry in small places.
You listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Learn more about The Small Town Summits Podcast below: