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The Pastorate PodcastPreston Pouteaux on Pastoring with a Tender Heart, the Sacred Work of Neighbouring, and the Power of Presence in Pastoral MinistryIn today’s conversation Preston Pouteaux shares what it means to be a tenderhearted pastor in a fast-paced world. Speaking from Chestermere, Alberta, Preston invites us into a vision of pastoring that’s slow, rooted, and profoundly local. From RCMP ride-alongs to keeping bees and loving neighbours, Preston offers a poetic yet practical vision of what it means to love and serve a place and its people. In this conversation Preston shares about: How pastoral imagination is formed,How curiosity and inquiry is a needed pastoral posture, Riding along with RCMP officer...
2025-05-0546 min
Placed For A PurposeCountdown to 2025: Our Top 10 Highlights of the YearThis year-end episode is a highlight reel of the most inspiring and transformative moments of 2024 on the podcast—just like your Spotify Wrapped! We're diving into listener favorites, from the surprising power of small talk and reimagining gospel conversations to the earthy beauty of neighboring through trees, bees, and community gardens. Plus, we revisit raw and meaningful discussions on grief, humility, and loving neighbors in tough circumstances. Packed with standout clips and reflections, this episode brings you practical insights and heart-stirring stories to inspire purposeful living in your neighborhood.Top 5 episodes:
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2024-12-3149 minPlaced For A PurposeTending Your Neighborhood: Bees with Dr. Preston PouteauxBeekeeper, pastor, and neighborhood enthusiast, Dr. Preston Pouteaux, shows us the parallels between beekeeping and neighboring: both are slow, messy, sweaty, painful and sticky… but also delightful. Listen along as we discuss his book, The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighborhood. Trust us, his joy is contagious. You will find yourself wanting to truly know and love your neighbors… and possibly keep bees, too. Go buy: The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your NeighborhoodCONNECT ON SOCIALS: Instagram
2024-03-1239 min
Dream. Create. Enjoy.030 - (Bonus Episode) - A Conversation w/ Preston PouteauxBonus Episode - What does it look like to find joy and delight in loving your neighbor? What does it look like to reorient your life around place? How do we live as "holy fools?"
In this episode we interview Dr. Preston Pouteaux about these questions and hear his story. He is a beekeeper, neighborhood enthusiast, and pastor at Lake Ridge Community Church. He is an engaging speaker, writer, and curator of conversations about faith and neighborhoods. Since 2015 his syndicated column, Into the Neighbourhood, has been printed over two million times in weekly newspapers and his latest b...
2022-11-2557 min
The Resilient Caregiver PodcastResources That Transform (Part 12): Telling A Different Adoption StoryWe love heart-warming adoption storylines. And this week, we are excited to share an interview with Preston Pouteaux, one of the producers of a new documentary called "I'll See You Later." I'll See You Later is a documentary that tells the life altering stories of adoption, profoundly carried between families learning to embody love together. For those who have an adoption story, this film resonates with a heart-aching richness and reflects the beauty of self-giving love; stories that reveal the very best in each of us. Some stories of adoption do not say “goodbye,” but, “I’ll see you l...
2022-11-1833 minThe Resilient Caregiver PodcastResources That Transform (Part 12): Telling A Different Adoption StoryWe love heart-warming adoption storylines. And this week, we are excited to share an interview with Preston Pouteaux, one of the producers of a new documentary called "I'll See You Later." I'll See You Later is a documentary that tells the life altering stories of adoption, profoundly carried between families learning to embody love together. For those who have an adoption story, this film resonates with a heart-aching richness and reflects the beauty of self-giving love; stories that reveal the very best in each of us. Some stories of adoption do not say “goodbye,” but, “I’ll see you l...
2022-11-1833 min
The Courage ToThe Courage to IMAGINE - Preston PouteauxPreston Pouteaux is a husband, father, church planter, author, bee keeper, and a promoter of community. Preston imagines deeply but it is rooted out of intentional listening and seeking of opportunities, which makes him such a great person to talk to about the courage to imagine!
In this interview, Preston talks about building strong communities, creating a city sculpture, attentive listening, bee keeping, gardening, storytelling, and living ordinary lives in an extraordinary way. It’s sure to inspire us all.
What was your takeaway from The Courage to IMAGINE? I’d love to hear what you...
2021-07-201h 09
EucharistLove Your Neighbor as Your Celery: Gardening and Cultivation as Creation Care and Neighbor LoveDr. Preston Pouteaux is a beekeeper, neighbourhood enthusiast, pastor at Lake Ridge Community Church and the director of Plesion Studio. He is an engaging speaker, writer, and curator of conversations about faith and neighbourhoods. He studied at Covenant Bible College, Briercrest College, Regent College, Tyndale Seminary, and Jerusalem University College in Israel. He is the author of Imago Dei to Missio Dei [VantagePoint3], the award-winning author of The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighbourhood [Urban Loft Publishers], and author of The Neighbours Are Real and Other Beautiful Things [Plesion Studio]. He is a...
2021-06-2856 min
Unpacked PodcastDisagreeing with Preston PouteauxThis week we are chatting with, Pastor Preston, author, columnist, gardener and a father. Preston and Evan discuss the topic of disagreeing. They share a bit about what it means to disagree well, the fears around it and what is needed to disagree and remain in relationship. Spoiler alert they disagree from time to time! In the episode we share some of the key ingredients to work through disagreeing. Unpacked is a series of interviews and conversations with spiritual directors, counsellors, storytelling average humans learning about self-care and their experiences of being human. It explores soul care...
2021-06-0344 min
The Mere Disciple PodcastMere Disciple Interview: Preston PouteauxIn this episode, Pastor Jeff Strong interviews the charismatic and whimsical Preston Pouteaux on the importance of imagination, neighbours and neighbourhoods, and what it's like to be a pastor in a pandemic.
Music Intro/Outro: "Enthusiast" by Tours used under a Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
2020-05-1542 min
The Faith Today PodcastBeing Church and Neighbour in the Pandemic: An interview with Preston PouteauxPreston Pouteaux is an author, beekeeper and pastor of Lake Ridge Community Church in Chestermere Alberta. He shares deep encouragement for the Canadian churches finding their feet in this strange and difficult time.
2020-04-1320 min
The Faith Today PodcastBeing Church and Neighbour in the Pandemic: An interview with Preston PouteauxPreston Pouteaux is an author, beekeeper and pastor of Lake Ridge Community Church in Chestermere Alberta. He shares deep encouragement for the Canadian churches finding their feet in this strange and difficult time.
2020-04-1320 min
The Faith Today PodcastBeing Church and Neighbour in the Pandemic: An interview with Preston PouteauxPreston Pouteaux is an author, beekeeper and pastor of Lake Ridge Community Church in Chestermere Alberta. He shares deep encouragement for the Canadian churches finding their feet in this strange and difficult time.
2020-04-1320 min
The Embedded Church PodcastMoving From a 'Come and See' to a 'Go and Be' PostureIn this episode we talk with Karen Wilk who is the pastor of NEW (Neighbourhood Engagement Workers’) Community, a missional community in her neighborhood in Edmonton, Alberta. She shares with us about her transition from pastoring a large, traditional church to engaging a new paradigm of 'go and be' in the neighborhood. This has led to her work in developing practices and postures that encourage and equip churches to resource their members to develop intentional neighborhood networks within their home communities.In particular she shares about the Abundant Community Initiative she has helped develop and lead in Ed...
2019-12-1735 min
Canadian Asian Missional PodcastEpisode 36 - The Practice Of Neighbouring (feat. Preston Pouteaux)Episode 36 - The Practice Of Neighbouring (feat. Preston Pouteaux)
What does the mission of God have to do with being a good neighbour? Turns out, quite a lot! We talk to author, pastor, and bee-keeper, Rev. Dr. Preston Pouteaux about the journey that God has led him on to seeing how He is present and working in his neighbourhood and how to join Him in pursuing what is good, beautiful, and lovely. Also, we unpack practical ideas on how to start imagining and living in new ways with the people around you to make space for...
2019-11-1542 min
The New Leaf ProjectEp 65 – Neighbourhood series – Preston PouteauxThe first episode of our new Neighbourhood Series is here!In this episode Elle has a conversation with Preston Pouteaux about his book, The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighbourhood. They talk about his community and what their presence in their neighbourhood looks like.Dr. Preston Pouteaux is a beekeeper, neighbourhood enthusiast, and pastor at Lake Ridge Community Church. He is an engaging speaker, writer, and curator of conversations about faith and neighbourhoods. He is part of the Forge Canada National Team and teaches at colleges across the country...
2019-07-0940 min
The Faith Today PodcastWho are the Keystone People in your NeighbourhoodWriter and pastor Preston Pouteaux's Faith Today article walks us through our neighbourhoods and helps us to see the potential for community and impact everywhere.
2019-03-1113 min
The Faith Today PodcastWho are the Keystone People in your NeighbourhoodWriter and pastor Preston Pouteaux's Faith Today article walks us through our neighbourhoods and helps us to see the potential for community and impact everywhere.
2019-03-1113 min
all that's holy: blue collar podcst3.12 in which our hosts agree the Peter is not a dolt & interview with Preston PouteauxTopics: Fasting; Time management; Lent; Country music; return of the sun and gardening; and Hockey, or soccer, or badminton.Check out the links below, or go to https://www.themissionplace.org/allthatsholybluecollar/ to review the lists of books, articles, music, movies, and other resources. Some of these might be great to worship resources, but more likely, ways to expand our imaginations.
2019-02-2600 min
Urban Loft CastThe Bees of Rainbow Falls (Ep. 3)In our 3rd episode of the Urban Loft Cast, we talk with Preston Pouteaux, a pastor/beekeeper. Preston Pouteaux is a renaissance man who tries to fully embrace an incarnational life living in Chestemere, Canada. The Bees of Rainbow Falls is Preston's massively popular book that shares his perspective on life, mission, neighborhood, and bees. We hope you enjoy the conversation!
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2018-03-0258 min
The Faith Today PodcastBeekeeping and our churches and neighbourhoods: an interview with author and pastor Preston PouteauxPreston Pouteaux is pastor of Lake Ridge Community Church, Chestermere Alberta, and part of the Forge Canada National Team and teaches at colleges across the country. His latest book The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighbourhood is an invitation to reorient our imaginations towards our neighbours and our neighbourhoods. Preston spoke to the EFC podcast about his book and how we become more attentive to our neighbourhoods and our neighbours.
2018-01-2219 min
The Faith Today PodcastBeekeeping and our churches and neighbourhoods: an interview with author and pastor Preston PouteauxPreston Pouteaux is pastor of Lake Ridge Community Church, Chestermere Alberta, and part of the Forge Canada National Team and teaches at colleges across the country. His latest book The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighbourhood is an invitation to reorient our imaginations towards our neighbours and our neighbourhoods. Preston spoke to the EFC podcast about his book and how we become more attentive to our neighbourhoods and our neighbours.
2018-01-2219 min
The New Leaf ProjectEp 43 - Hip hop culture & church planting in Calgary - Preston Pouteaux & Rohadi NagassarEpisode 43 of the New Leaf Project is here!In this episode, we hear from content contributor Preston Pouteaux and Rohadi Nagassar. Rohadi is an inner-city bi-vocational church planter and entrepreneur based in Calgary, Canada.Rohadi shares about his new church plant, Cypher Church, Hip-hop culture and what it looks like to intentionally engage with outsiders.
2017-06-0700 min
The New Leaf ProjectEp37 - Slow, incarnational, neighborhood church planting in Quebec - Preston Pouteaux & Tim KeenerEpisode 37 of the New Leaf Project is here!In this episode, we hear from content contributor Preston Pouteaux and Tim Keener. Tim is a church planter with the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada in Montreal Quebec.Tim shares about what it is like starting a church plant in Montreal, what it means to have missionary eyes in the Quebec and the joys of slow, incarnational neighborhood work.
2017-04-1200 min
The New Leaf ProjectEp36 - Beekeeping, church planting, & becoming a neighborhood enthusiast - Preston PouteauxEpisode 36 of the New Leaf Project is here!In this episode, we spend time with our friend and content contributor, Preston Pouteaux. He is the pastor at Lake Ridge Community Church in Chestermere Alberta and is also a beekeeper, neighborhood enthusiast, columnist & theologian.Preston shares about his upcoming book, his love of neighborhoods and what it means to see and appreciate the small, the beautiful and even the boring.
2017-03-2000 min
Lake Ridge Community Church Sermon PodcastNext: the first covenantPastor Preston continues to teach the sermon series Next: the first convenient. He looks at the things Jesus brings in his covenant to us. God continues to make promises to His people. The bible is the book of God's promise to us, when Jesus held up that cup this is the new covenant in my blood he is painting a brand new relationship with God's people.
2017-01-2641 minLake Ridge Community Church Sermon PodcastNext: Trust & persistanceWhat does it look like to be faithful to God? Looking at the next part of the story of Noah, Pastor Evan shares on how was Noah chosen. God finds favour in Noah. What does it look like to find favour in the eyes of the Lord? It looks like grace. The question is do we believe God is who he says he is and does what he says he will do?
2017-01-2033 minLake Ridge Community Church Sermon PodcastNext: looking backPastor Evan kicks off the new sermon series "Next" with a look back at Noah's story. He shares the story from God's perspective as we look at what is happening in the midst of some pretty harsh truths. What would it look like to accept the truth in the midst of all the questions God has laid on your heart? Maybe those questions are meant to propel you into an uncertain, unknown space where God will meet you. Join as we use Noah's story to explore the truths and questions it brings.
2017-01-2036 min
Lake Ridge Community Church Sermon PodcastAdvent: Joy rises in unexpected placesJoin Pastor Evan as he shares on Christmas Eve all the places where God shows up in the Christmas story. The great story God is telling here is about him showing up in a dirty, messy barn. God is completely comfortable in our messy, chaotic lives.
2017-01-1313 minLake Ridge Community Church Sermon PodcastAdvent: Love rises from unexpected placesJoin Pastor Preston as he explores Jesus' unfailing love for us. Love came from an unexpected place from a young girl and her husband. As Pastor Preston discusses the ways that Jesus is the light for us and how he came to show us God's love for us.
2016-12-1931 minLake Ridge Community Church Sermon PodcastAdvent: Hope rises from unexpected placesPastor Evan shares this first Sunday in advent on hope. Hope grows in the waiting seasons of our life. God seems to do something significant in waiting. What can we learn in those periods of waiting?
2016-12-0534 min
Lake Ridge Community Church Sermon PodcastWise and otherwise: Bartimaeus & the questions Jesus asksPastor Evan unpacks the story of the blind man, Bartimaeus and the restoration of his sight from Jesus. Pastor Evan dives into the seemingly obvious question Jesus asks what do you want me to do for you? We, like Bartimaeus, ask Jesus to come into our stories and our lives to renew in us what is already there. We have to ask ourselves are we watching for those places? What would it look like for us to cry out and not let the moment pass.
2016-11-2841 minLake Ridge Community Church Sermon PodcastWise or other wise: Loved wisePastor Preston explores wisdom in knowing the extent that God loves us. Jesus demonstrated wisdom is lived in a loving relationship with God. And God wants us to KNOW we are loved and FEEL we are loved. But do we?
2016-11-2529 min