Refuge N.E.T.

Pastors Matt and David discuss the importance of properly evaluating your church events, and how to get the maximum feedback and insight from them.

Fresh off the 2025 Refuge Staff Retreat, Pastor Matt shares insights and experience on how to have a successful and productive staff retreat!

In this episode, we were honored to welcome Pastor Terry Nance! He is the author of the best selling book God's Armor Bearer and he shares about what God is doing in this season to equip the Body of Christ to become all we are to be!

Pastors Matt and David talk about the dynamic of their staff meetings at Refuge, and what Pastor Matt has over time found to be invaluable about how to conduct them.

Coming off his most recent ministry assignment away from Refuge, Pastor Matt shares about how a pastor should approach going to preach outside their church. Also, for any minister, what should our heart and prayers be when asked to come preach as a guest speaker?

Pastor Matt and Pastor David unpack five struggles that every minister deals with in their relationship with God according to pastor and leadership mentor, Carey Nieuwhof.

Pastor Matt shares the importance of preaching, how we should approach it, and tools and resources to do it more effectively.

Pastor Matt and Pastor David welcome Refuge Church Worship Pastor, Rhonda Vacco, to join in a discussion about creating a worship culture in your church that produces true worshippers!

Jesus is coming back for a glorious Bride that is united around His glory! Pastor Matt brings a powerful and challenging message for the Church to lay aside everything that divides us and come together in unity!

Pastors Matt and David discuss the importance of avoiding burnout and anxiety in ministry no matter how difficult the season may be.

Pastor Matt masterfully unpacks a very real and dangerous issue that everyone in ministry has to overcome, and teaches how Christ overcame it in His ministry to show us how we can!

Pastors Matt and David tackle the "Summer Slump" mentality as well as discuss some ways you can maximize the middle of your year and build momentum in your church!

Following up on his Multiply breakout class, Pastor Matt gets into the nuts and bolts of how to develop a powerful prayer life and let that birth a powerful prayer culture in your church!

Pastors Matt and David discuss the importance of mobilizing volunteers in your church, ways to do it correctly, and how to maintain a church culture where serving is celebrated!

Pastors Matt and David welcome in Multiply Conference Coordinators, Taylor and Bronwyn Moore, and Refuge Staff members, Aubrey, Kaytie, and Zac to recap the 2025 Multiply Conference!

One week before the Multiply Conference, Pastor Bill Marion from Abba's House in Chattanooga, TN joins Pastors Matt and David to discuss ministry culture and things that are happening in the Church!

Pastors Matt and David welcome Pastor Greg DeVries, the lead pastor at The Well in Scottsboro, AL, a man with a prophetic preaching ministry to the Body of Christ, and the guest minister for Night 1 of MULTIPLY 2025!

Pastors Matt and David welcome Glenn Dorsey who has served faithfully in ministry over 50 years and will be speaking as part of MULTIPLY 2025!

Pastor Matt breaks down the importance of casting off all you think and see about yourself that is wrong, and embracing who you are uniquely created to be in Christ!

In the first episode of 2025, Pastors Matt and David unpack having dreams and desires in your life, how to determine whether they are from God or not, and how to develop a culture of people who dream God's dreams! It's also the first episode in our new studio so be sure to go subscribe to the YouTube channel for the video content! https://www.youtube.com/@refugenet

In this episode, Pastors Matt, Micah, and David talk about end of the year reflection and planning for the new year. It’s been a great year and a new one is fast approaching!

In this episode, we welcome father and son tandem of evangelists, Chris and Noah Owensby to share their heart and what God is doing to prepare the Church for revival!

In this episode, Pastors Matt, Micah, and David talk about the similarities and differences among their separate campuses and the importance of having unity but not uniformity. If you have or desire to have multiple campuses, this will be a good listen!

In this episode, Pastors Matt, Micah, and David discuss the role of a ministry leader when it comes to politics and offering a correct and balanced perspective to those we’re leading.

In this episode, Pastors Matt, Micah, and David are joined by fellow Refuge Network Pastor Nate Morse of Friendship Assembly in Jonesboro for a group discussion about gaining influence within your local community.

Growing as a leader and developing leaders under you is so important in the Kingdom of God! In this episode, Pastors Matt, Micah, and David discuss Leadership Development and the process within the Refuge Church campuses known as LEAD Team!

Pastor Matt sits down with special guests, Kevin and Anne Durant, to talk about being in tune with the Spirit and allowing Him to lead in ministry.

In this episode, Pastors Matt, Micah, and David discuss the importance of having a healthy church, how your health as a leader is connected to the health of your church, and how you can create a healthy legacy as a result.

How do you start a prayer ministry? Who needs to be a part of it? What qualities do you look for in an intercessor? Pastor Matt sits down with Refuge Church staff members, Deborah Lewis, Tonya Henderson, and Jane Richardson who also serve faithfully as intercessors for the church leadership and campuses.

In the Fall of 2022, Refuge Church experienced the beginning of what has become known as The Outpouring! Pastors Matt, Micah, and David discuss how this event came to be, preparing for a move of God, and stewarding it once it comes!

Our first ever Multiply Conference is just a few weeks away! Pastors Matt, Micah, and David sit down and preview the event, the guest speakers, and why it will be a unique and powerful encounter with God!

It's part 2 of the first episode of the Refuge N.E.T Podcast! Pastor David sits with the N.E.T. pilot and co-pilot, Pastors Matt Smith and Micah Cottrell, to discuss the core values of the N.E.T. and give a preview of the first MULTIPLY Conference on February 28 - March 1, 2024!

It's the first episode of the Refuge N.E.T Podcast! Pastor David talks with the N.E.T. pilot and co-pilot, Pastors Matt Smith and Micah Cottrell, to discuss the origins and layout of the Refuge N.E.T.!