Signal Café Podcast with Chris Forbes
Signal Café Podcast with Chris Forbes
Podcast Description
Brought to you by Forbes Nonprofit Strategies and Incite Futures Labs, Signal Café, hosted by Chris Forbes, explores the signals, trends, and drivers shaping the future of ministry. Each episode invites pastors, nonprofit leaders, and faith-based strategists to think ahead, discern cultural shifts, and respond with clarity and conviction. It’s a space to scan the horizon and prepare faithfully for what comes next.At Signal Café, we apply the best practices of strategic foresight to spark meaningful conversations about the church’s future. Episodes cover topics such as digital discipleship, spiritual formation in a fragmented culture, rebuilding trust in institutions, generational transitions, the rise of global Christianity, and emerging models of funding and cooperation.This podcast is for those called to lead with wisdom in uncertain times. Whether navigating denominational change, rethinking missions, or anticipating what’s next for ministry, Signal Café helps you see what’s emerging and respond with grounded hope.This isn’t just another ministry podcast. It’s a curated foresight lab for leaders ready to engage complexity with vision and courage. If you’re planting churches, leading networks, or stewarding resources for lasting impact, Signal Café offers future-focused insight for faithful leadership.To learn more about Strategic Foresight for Faith-based Nonprofits, visit: https://www.forbesstrategies.com/
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes such as digital discipleship, spiritual formation amidst cultural fragmentation, rebuilding institutional trust, generational transitions, global Christianity trends, and innovative funding models. For instance, episodes like 'The Next Era of the Cooperative Program' dive deep into how strategic foresight can address contemporary challenges faced by Southern Baptists.
Brought to you by Forbes Nonprofit Strategies and Incite Futures Labs, Signal Café, hosted by Chris Forbes, explores the signals, trends, and drivers shaping the future of ministry. Each episode invites pastors, nonprofit leaders, and faith-based strategists to think ahead, discern cultural shifts, and respond with clarity and conviction. It’s a space to scan the horizon and prepare faithfully for what comes next.
At Signal Café, we apply the best practices of strategic foresight to spark meaningful conversations about the church’s future. Episodes cover topics such as digital discipleship, spiritual formation in a fragmented culture, rebuilding trust in institutions, generational transitions, the rise of global Christianity, and emerging models of funding and cooperation.
This podcast is for those called to lead with wisdom in uncertain times. Whether navigating denominational change, rethinking missions, or anticipating what’s next for ministry, Signal Café helps you see what’s emerging and respond with grounded hope.
This isn’t just another ministry podcast. It’s a curated foresight lab for leaders ready to engage complexity with vision and courage. If you’re planting churches, leading networks, or stewarding resources for lasting impact, Signal Café offers future-focused insight for faithful leadership.
To learn more about Strategic Foresight for Faith-based Nonprofits, visit: https://www.forbesstrategies.com/
In this first episode of Signal Café, Matt Tullos interviews host Chris Forbes about his new book, The Next Era of the Cooperative Program. They discuss how strategic foresight can help Southern Baptists respond to challenges like declining trust, generational shifts, and the future of shared funding.
The conversation draws from Chris’s work on the Future Commission 2050 Project, which invited SBC leaders into structured foresight processes to explore what cooperation could look like by mid-century. The book unpacks seven drivers of change, four future scenarios, and a set of questions every church should be asking now.
A key part of that journey was Incite Futures Labs, a foresight resource developed by Chris Forbes to help ministry leaders engage real trends, explore future scenarios, and design practical pathways toward long-term faithfulness.
If you're leading in a time of uncertainty, this episode offers fresh insight and faithful imagination for what’s next.
Order your copy of The Next Era of the Cooperative Program today!
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