Raymond Chang and Kara Powell on the Future-Focused Church
Be the Bridge Podcast with Latasha Morrison
Be the Bridge
4.9 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Be the Bridge Podcast, host Latasha Morrison engages with guests Kara Powell and Raymond Chang to discuss the book they co-authored with Jake Mulder, The Future-Focused Church. They explore the challenges facing the church today, particularly regarding youth engagement and diversity. The conversation emphasizes the need for churches to adapt and change, focusing on relational discipleship, modeling diversity, and loving neighbors. Ray and Kara share insights from their in-depth research and the work of Tenx10. This is a helpful discussion especially for those in church leadership but also for anyone who needs to feel hopeful about the church.
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Executive Producer - Latasha Morrison
Producer - Sarah Connatser
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, be the bridge family. |
| 0:03.2 | We have some of my favorite people here today, people that you may have known up, |
| 0:09.1 | but some may be a few new voices for you. |
| 0:12.8 | But we love to make sure that we are introducing great scholarly work to our community |
| 0:19.5 | so that you can use for tools and resources in your perspective |
| 0:24.3 | areas. But today we have Dr. Kara Powell. She is the chief of leadership formation at Fuller Theological |
| 0:32.5 | Seminary, the executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute, and the founder of the 10 by 10 collaboration. |
| 0:41.6 | Named by Christianity Today is one of the 50 women to watch. |
| 0:46.1 | Kara speaks regularly at national parenting and leadership conferences. |
| 0:50.8 | Kara has authored and co-authored numerous books. She and her husband, Dave, are regularly |
| 0:56.2 | inspired by the learning and laughter that come from their three young adult children. |
| 1:02.0 | And then we have Mr. Raymond Chang here, who is the executive director of 10 by 10 collaboration. He is |
| 1:10.6 | also the president of the Asian American |
| 1:13.4 | Christian Collaborative, a pastor and a writer. Prior to his role at Fuller, Raymond served as the |
| 1:19.3 | associate chaplain for the discipleship at Wheaton College. He has worked in the for-profit and |
| 1:25.9 | nonprofit sectors and served in the Peace Corps in Panama. |
| 1:30.6 | Learn something new, Ray. |
| 1:31.9 | He and his wife, Jessica, are proud parents of their beautiful baby daughter, Sophia, and they reside in Chicago. |
| 1:40.8 | So welcome to the Be the Bridge podcast. |
| 1:43.5 | Welcome to the Be the Bridge community. Ray, you've been here before. |
| 1:46.7 | Kara, I think this is your first time. I think that's right. Being with us. Yes. And it's so good to |
| 1:51.3 | see you. We have one in the Illinois, Chicago area and Karras in here from California. So we're all |
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