The Movement Cast

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Greetings, friend.
Today in our on “Making Ministry Self-Sustaining” my guest Sevanand Kumar and I will be talking about Building Sustainable Disciple-Making Movements.
Sevanand is one of the handful most effective disciplers and church-planters I’ve met in my entire life. Not only that, he has helped build some of the most self-sustaining Christian movements I’m aware of today. If you want to make your ministry last, you’ll want to listen to him and benefit from his hard-won wisdom.
Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.
Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

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Peace to you—especially in a world that feels increasingly at war. When Iran appears in the news, we usually hear about conflict, crackdowns, and instability. Yet beyond the headlines, God is moving powerfully.
In this episode, I’m joined by Phil Moore for a second time to look at the rapidly growing house church movement in Iran—marked by courageous witness and an “intentional and intense” approach to making disciples. Phil has served alongside this movement for years, and he’s recently written about the reasons behind its remarkable growth in The Forgotten Manifesto of Jesus: How Revival in Iran is Spreading Across the World. You can find more insights from the Iranian revival in the book.
Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.
Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

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Peace on you in a world at war! The media headlines on Iran tell us about bombings, targeted assassinations, civil unrest, and mass arrests. But behind the scenes, God is at work in remarkable ways.
Phil Moore joins me to explore the growing house church movement in Iran, highlighting their confident evangelism and “intentional and intense” disciple-making. Phil has been engaged with this movement for several years and recently wrote a book uncovering why it has been growing so rapidly: The Forgotten Manifesto of Jesus: How Revival in Iran is Spreading Across the World where you can find more insights from the Iranian revival.
Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.
Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

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Greetings in Jesus name!
We’re excited about how our podcast continues to grow. For the first time, an episode has been downloaded more than 2,000 times! My conversation with Alan Hirsch on “How Church Multiply” has been listened to 2,598 times to date, to be exact.
We’ve received a great deal of thankful feedback that we tackled the tricky topic of money and ministry in our last podcast. Here is Part 2 of our conversation, “When Money Hurts Ministry.”
If you’ve ever thought, “If we just had more money, our ministry could really take off,” this episode is for you. I speak with movement practitioner and author Brett Butler about how funding can unintentionally weaken movements, why “more money” is rarely the real solution, and what it looks like to move toward truly self-sustaining ministry. We also explore biblical principles for handling money wisely and practical ways to discern when funding helps—and when it quietly harms.
If, after listening, you want to go deeper, you can do this on Brett’s website www.movementsandmoney.org, or check out his book To Whom Much Was Given in audio or print, offered at subsided prices.
Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in multiplying leaders.
Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist

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A blessed New Year to you! I pray you are stepping into 2026 with a fresh passion for your God-given vision, expectant faith for God-sized faith targets, and clear priorities. I’ve just returned from a few days of personal retreat where I cultivated all this in my heart. Such personal retreats I take at the turn of every year—to evaluate, listen to God, and determine faith goals for the next year.
If you’ve ever thought, “If we just had more money, our ministry could really take off,” this episode is for you. I sit down with movement practitioner and author Brett Butler to tackle one of the trickiest issues in ministry - money. Together we explore the theme “When Money Hurts Ministry.” Drawing on years of conversations with movement leaders, Brett unpacks how funding can unintentionally damage movements, why “more money” is rarely the real solution, and how leaders can move toward truly self-sustaining ministry.
We dive into biblical principles for handling money wisely, and how to discern when funding actually helps—and when it quietly harms. This conversation is especially for frontline movement practitioners and leaders who wrestle with the financial side of multiplying disciples and churches.
If, after listening, you want to go deeper, you can do this on Brett’s website www.movementsandmoney.org, or check out his book To Whom Much Was Given in audio or print, offered at subsided prices.
Who in your network will benefit from this? Please forward or restack—it could inspire someone’s next step in making their ministry more self-sustaining..
Warmly, Emanuel Prinz - Father’s beloved & movement activist