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Episode 005: The Lenten Season and Co-pastors
Click the link or photo above to listen to Episode 005 of The Local Pastor Podcast! Welcome to The Local Pastor podcast! Andrew interviews Pastors Kaitlyn and Braden Haley Deisher of Ceres Valley View Church of the Nazarene. Andrew and Amanda discuss The Lenten Season and the desire to skip over the hard parts and Read more
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Episode 004: Paternity Leave, Holy Week, and Church Business, Oh My!
Click the link or photo below to listen to Episode 004 of The Local Pastor Podcast! Andrew interviews Pastor Jesse Ruby of South Austin Church of the Nazarene. Andrew and Amanda discuss the impending birth of their son and the work work work climate of our culture. All this and more on Episode 004 of Read more
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Episode 003: The Lay Pastor
Click the link or photo below to listen to episode 003 of The Local Pastor Podcast! Welcome to The Local Pastor podcast! Amanda interviews Pastor Cydni Waldner of Vale United Methodist Church and discusses her calling as a lawyer and lay pastor and all the challenges and blessings that have lead to it. Andrew and Read more
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Pastor’s Report, Feb ’23
Let me start with some simple honesty. As I think about these next two months, I am overwhelmed. Spring is always a busy season. On the one hand, this is the season of Lent. I like to think of Lent as a time for spring cleaning. The word “lent” is actually a reference to spring. Read more
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Episode 002: Too Sick to Preach?
Click the link or photo below to listen to episode 002 of The Local Pastor Podcast! Andrew interviews Pastor Tim Brewer of The Ontario Church of the Nazarene and discusses the unique difficulties of state border towns and the value of preaching. Plus, when vacation ends in sickness – who preaches on Sunday? All this Read more
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Episode 001: Vacation Crunch & Beauty’s Influence
Click the link or photo below to listen to the first episode of The Local Pastor Podcast! Read more
About us
and the show
Hi! Our names are Andrew and Amanda Sinift. Andrew is a pastor in Washington State as part of the Church of the Nazarene. We felt like there were lots of resources and podcasts for large churches, but not necessarily for the small, local church – even though it makes up 80% of churches. We wanted to fill that gap so that other pastors know they are not alone in the struggles and oddities of ministry.

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