Episode 11: “Effectively Engaging Millennials” featuring Joshua Mitchell

Rev. Dr. Joshua L. Mitchell is the senior pastor of the historic Thirty-First Street Baptist Church in Richmond, VA. He is a lecturer and consultant on effective ministry to youth and young adults and is the founder and CEO of Digital Discipleship LLC, which is a consulting firm in the area of millennial church engagement. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Houston, Payne University, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. He wrote Black Millennials and the Church (Judson Press, 2018), available on Cokesbury and Amazon.

F. Douglas Powe, Jr., is director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership and holds the James C. Logan Chair in Evangelism (an E. Stanley Jones Professorship) at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Adept Church: Navigating Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Abingdon Press, 2020), available at Cokesbury and Amazon. He is also co-author with Jasmine Smothers of Not Safe for Church: Ten Commandments for Reaching New Generations (Abingdon Press, 2015), available at Cokesbury and Amazon. His previous books include New Wine, New Wineskins: How African American Congregations Can Reach New Generations; Transforming Evangelism: The Wesleyan Way of Sharing Faith; and Transforming Community: The Wesleyan Way to Missional Congregations.