Some Church Stories
// podcast one-pager — 2026 Season One
Some Church Stories

Perfect
Real.
Church.

Most church content is about opinions, strategies, and personalities.
This is about stories — where the church has been, told honestly, and what those stories reveal about where it's desperately trying to go.

The church that almost closed — and found new life anyway.
The volunteer who quietly changed a congregation.
The pastor who made the hardest call and still wrestles with it a decade later.
The young leader trying something nobody's tried before.
The church history story that got lost — and suddenly feels relevant again.
The staff split nobody talked about publicly — and what it revealed.
The moment a congregation surprised their own pastor.
The stories we tell about the church reveal what we value, what we fear, and where we're headed. Every episode starts in the past and ends in the future — and the distance between those two things is where the real conversation lives.
The past
A real story. Specific. Textured. True.

Not "what have you learned" — but "tell me about the time." We're looking for scenes, not sermons. The moment a church almost didn't make it. The decision nobody saw coming. The thing that happened in a back room that changed everything. Stories guests have never told on a stage — because those are always the best ones.

The future
What that story is telling us about what's next.

Based on what you've lived — what's already breaking that nobody's naming? What's quietly blossoming that deserves more attention? Not hot takes. Not trends. What future stories will be told about this moment in the church — and what do the stories from your past tell you about that?

Not this

This is not a pastor interview podcast. We're not asking for leadership frameworks, opinions on cultural trends, or platform-building advice. We want the stories that are too specific, too human, and too honest to fit inside a keynote — and the unfiltered read on where the church goes from here.

40 years in ministry

Tim Harlow

Senior pastor turned storyteller. He's seen churches built and broken, leaders rise and fall, congregations do things that surprised even him. He knows where the real stories live — and how to tell them.

Next gen strategist

Tommy Carreras

10 years in ministry. Coaches church leaders to build connection cultures and engagement pathways. Now working at the intersection of established leadership and the next generation — asking the questions Tim's peers are too polite to ask, and the ones younger leaders are too intimidated to voice.

40+
years of ministry stories Tim brings to every episode
2
generations in the room, asking different questions
0
hot takes. just real stories from people who lived them
Ian Simkins
Lead Pastor · The Bridge, Nashville
"The church that almost went bankrupt — and what God did with a 29-year-old who had no business saying yes."
Kevin Queen
Lead Pastor · Cross Point Church, Nashville
"Walking into a high-profile founding pastor's shadow, a tornado, and a pandemic — in that order."
Darren Whitehead
Founder · Church of the City, Nashville
"An Australian who accidentally got a pastor's visa — and built one of Nashville's fastest-growing churches."
Jon Rush
Formations Pastor · Holy Saints, Franklin · @jonwrush
"Bible teacher, content builder, ancient future thinker — what it looks like to build something new while staying rooted in something old."
Scott Sauls
Senior Pastor · Christ Presbyterian, Nashville
"Burnout, anxiety, and what no one tells you about leading a flagship church."
A church planter
Nashville area · TBD
"Year one from scratch — what they wish somebody had told them before they started."
A worship leader
Nashville area · TBD
"What it's like to shepherd a room full of people week after week from behind a microphone."
A longtime volunteer
Story TBD
"The ordinary person whose quiet faithfulness changed everything — and never got a stage."

The church learns best from itself. Right now, it really needs to.

Church leaders are tired, and trust is eroding. At the same time, remarkable things are happening in congregations everywhere — resilience, reinvention, quiet faithfulness, unexpected transformation.

Most of those stories never get told. The ones that do mostly stay inside one building, one denomination, one circle. Some Church Stories exists to change that.

$25,000
// founding investment · season one · 8 episodes

One founding partner launches Season One — a full run of episodes plus short-form content built from every conversation, distributed across platforms and put in front of the leaders who need it most.

Production & editing (8 episodes)~$3,500
Short-form content from every episode~$1,500
Cameras & gear (one-time setup)~$2,000
Branding, launch assets & website~$1,500
Guest outreach & story development~$500
Platform hosting & distribution~$500
Production management & strategy (90 days)~$12,000
Buffer & contingency~$3,500
Total Season One$25,000

Founding partners receive prominent recognition across all Season One episodes and platforms — and a front-row seat to something that doesn't exist yet in the church content space.

Some Church Stories