What happens when a "brooding seminarian" who doesn’t fit the typical apostolic mold starts listening to a church planting podcast? In this episode of Always Forward, host Molly Ruch sits down with Kris Rolls (Rector and newly appointed Dean of Michigan) to share an unconventional story of patient formation. Instead of rushing to launch as fast as possible, Kris’s plant took an unexpected journey: gathering a core team in Grand Rapids, uprooting to commute forty-five minutes away for a multi-year residency in an established parish, and then returning to officially root down. Kris opens up about how the Always Forward podcast served as his vital conversation partner during those early days in an admissions cubicle, and how his church weathered COVID-19 by dropping off the sacrament and praying through windows. Now a thriving parish of over two hundred people, Kris shares their innovative "home parish" model and explains why the secret to long-term multiplication is acting less like a corporate franchise and more like a patch of Midwestern hostas.
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