Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership, change and personal growth.

The goal, to help you lead like never before.

In your church or in your business.

And now your host, Carrie Newhoff.

Well, hey everybody, and welcome to episode 44 of the podcast. My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time

together today helps you lead like never before. I think you're gonna love our

guests. Today we are gonna talk to Jeannie Stevens who's doing some incredible ministry in downtown Chicago.

I don't know whether some of you are trying to do urban ministry.

I know a lot of churches are moving downtown.

There was the flight to the suburbs in the 90s and the 2000s and maybe even as far back as the 80s.

And I mean that's legit ministry, but a lot of church planters are moving back downtown.

And so Jeannie Stevens is going to tell us all about that

and a cool part of her story is like some of you might be thinking about maybe

quitting a really comfortable job to plant a church or get involved in a church. That is her

story. So she and her husband, Jarrett, were comfortably employed first at Willow Creek

then at North Point Church, two of the best known large churches on the planet.

Had great jobs, great ministry, God was using them there,

but there was this little thing inside that said,

hey, I wonder if we're like called to plant a church.

So they left everything comfortable and off they went to plant a church in downtown Chicago.

So if you are a church planter or if you've thought about planting a church or if you get a really comfortable job and are wondering, hey, God, are you calling me to do something else?

I think you're going to love this interview.

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