My guest on the BiVo Podcast this month Tobi Omotayo is another Project Manager. When I first met him in Kingston Ontario, as a Masters Student at the Queens University, I was impressed by his love for God and for the things of God. Since then he has gotten married to his beautiful wife Egy … Continue reading BiVo Or Marketplace Ministry Discussion with Tobi Omotayo

BiVo Podcast: Encouragement for BiVocational Pastors and Cell church Ministers

BiVo Or Marketplace Ministry Discussion with Tobi Omotayo

My guest on the BiVo Podcast this month Cynthia Egbunonu is a busy Project Manager at her place of work. She shares how God has helped her work full-time at work, pastor with her husband, be a mom to three children and a wife to her husband. Listen and discover her secret.

BiVo Or Market Place Ministry Discussion with Cynthia Egbunonu.

My guest today on the BiVo Podcast is a good friend. I have known him since 2010. Over the past 10 years he has completed his PhD and started his own company. His testimony would bless you.

BiVo Or Market Place Ministry Discussion with Dr. Osayuki Osazuwa

Have you ever felt like a failure in ministry even when you are doing well at your workplace? On this episode of the BiVo podcast, I share my thoughts and experience with this.

How do you measure success as a BiVo Pastor?

What does it really cost to follow Jesus and serve as a pastor? On this episode of the BiVo Podcast, I share some personal experiences of the cost and benefits of being a pastor!!!

The Cost of Ministry – And The Joy

I picked this book from the public library in Cornwall, Ontario. I thought I would take a look at it and read it sometime later. As soon as I started reading it, I knew that I would have to suspend the other books I was reading to finish this one. It has been a very good and profitable read. I encourage you to pick up a copy. On this episode of the BiVo Podcast, I do a mini review of the book. This book is filled with good stuff. However, if you are going to read just one chapter, read

Good Leaders Ask Great Questions – John Maxwell

When I first learned about the importance of having a God-inspired vision, I thought I had discovered something quite powerful. And yes it has really made a big impact on my life. What I did not learn at that time is that it is even more important to learn how to communicate my God-inspired vision with the right people. And again very important to communicate it often. In this episode of the BiVo Podcast, I share what I have learned about communicating my God-inspired vision with the right people: How to communicate your Vision When to Communicate your vision With

Having a Great Vision is Fantastic but it’s not enough!

When I wake up in the morning and begin to run around doing what I have to do, I am often reminded that I need to be running the vision that is inspired by God not the one inspired by my ambition. I am amazed at the amount of impact (positive or negative) that an individual can make these days. How a young man or woman can create a youtube channel and make videos that would have millions of subscribers and billions of views. With this, they could make millions of dollars in a year. There are so many “shiny”

God-Inspired Vision or Ambition?

I came to Canada in December 2000 to get a Masters of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering. How did I end up as a pastor? How did I decided to leave all that training to pursue Ministry? How then did I decide to continue to earn money on the side as a BiVo Minister? In this episode of the BiVo Podcast, I answer the question of how to capture your God-given vision by sharing my own story. But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings,

How I Captured my God-Given Vision

Vision is your conviction of what the future looks like! It is a glimpse of what your future or that of your team looks like. Here are a few thoughts about vision for a BiVo Minister We don’t create our vision, we receive it from God. – We find in scriptures that God has a good plan for His people, that God has a good and perfect will that we can know and that we are co-laborers with Christ – These scriptures show that we can safely seek and discover what our Lord Jesus has planned for us. It is

BiVo 034: We Recieve Vision – Not Create it!

One of the chapters in the book “Developing the Leader Within you 2.0” by John Maxwell is titled “The Indispensable Quality of Leadership: Vision”. In today’s episode of the BiVo Podcast, I share a few of the lessons I learnt from this chapter. I’ll start by defining Vision – Vision is your conviction of what the future looks like! I believe it is a glimpse of what your future or that of your team looks like. Make sure the vision is clear – If vision isn’t clear, then the mist in your mind will eventually become a fog in your

BiVo033: Vision (People do what people see)

Pastoring is leadership! In pastoring, your goal is to encourage people to be all that God created them to be. You are called to encourage them, inspire them and influence them to accept the gift of salvation and become salt and light of the earth. As BiVo Pastors, we must learn to increase our level of influence with the people we serve. In this episode of the BiVo podcast, I share a few tips on how to do just that. The entire discussion is based on John Maxwell’s 5 Levels of Leadership that I introduced in episode 31 of the

BiVo 032: How to increase your level of Leadership as a BiVo Pastor.

The BiVo Pastor or Minister must be a very good leader because ministry is “influence”. Dr Maxwell defines leadership primarily as “influence” in his book titled “Developing the Leader within you 2.0”. In todays episode of the BiVo Podcast, I share my thoughts on the concept of the 5 Levels of Leadership. Here are the 5 levels. Position Permission Production People Development Pinnacle It’s neat that they all begin with the letter “P” so that we can easily remember them. If you would like to know more about the 5 levels of Leadership or read the book, here is the

BiVo 031: 5 Levels of Leadership – John Maxwell

In this episode I share more advantages of the BiVo Pastor. I also share some of what I took away from reading the book “Developing the Leader Within you 2.0” by John Maxwell.

BiVo030: Leading as an Example to the Flock of God

In this episode, I draw your attention to the fact that as BiVo Pastors we are paid to share the gospel 40hrs a week. I also share some tips on how to do this more effectively. 1) Pray for a move of God in your ministry everydays as you pray for a worldwide move of God on his church. 2) Pray for the individuals that you interact with as often as you can. 3) Ask the Holy spirit to give you an opportunity to share your story with them 4) Look out for opportunities to serve and show love to

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