The decisions that actually shape your church’s future rarely happen on Sunday morning.
They happen on Tuesday afternoon in a staff meeting nobody else will remember. On Thursday night in a difficult phone call with an elder. On Friday morning over coffee with a leader who is quietly drowning. On Saturday in the quiet hour before you finalize a decision that will ripple through your congregation for years.
But most ministry leadership resources skip that work entirely. They focus on the platform: the preaching, the worship, the production. The work that determines whether your church thrives or quietly fades is the work nobody is talking about.
That is a problem. Leaders who never get help with the leadership work that matters most eventually find themselves running on instinct, isolation, and increasing exhaustion.
Beyond Sunday is built for that exact gap. Hosted by Dr. Rupert Loyd and Dr. Gia Tatone, the podcast takes the conversations most leadership resources avoid and puts them at the center. Each episode is built around three practitioner-led questions:
- What is the leadership reality nobody is naming?
- What does honest, missional leadership look like in this situation?
- What is the one decision worth bringing back to your team?
When leaders never engage the offstage work, the mission of the church slowly suffocates. When leaders take it seriously, churches advance in clarity, courage, and Kingdom impact.
Imagine your next staff meeting with a different quality of conversation. Imagine your next board gathering with sharper missional clarity. That is the kind of leadership Beyond Sunday is built to support.
Subscribe to Beyond Sunday today. The leadership conversations your team needs to be having are waiting.
Dr. Rupert Loyd Jr.
Dr. Rupert Loyd Jr. has a BA in history from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston, and a PhD in Leadership from Union University in Cincinnati. He has over 40 years of pastoral experience in both urban and suburban churches, including multiethnic, multi-congregational churches. Throughout his career, he has maintained a presence in both the church and the academy. Dr. Loyd currently teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in the College of Business and Leadership at Lourdes University, and he holds the post of lead pastor at Marketplace Community Church in Toledo, Ohio.
Dr. Gia Tatone
Dr. Gia Tatone is a leader, educator, and award-winning author who lectures at Robert Morris University, Penn State University, and Winebrenner Theological Seminary, teaching organizational leadership, communication, and conflict resolution. She has developed executive-level leadership training and previously served on the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Board of Trustees as Chair of External Relations, as well as in local government. Named one of the top 50 influential women in the U.S. in Role Call: Women’s Voices, she recently coled an international research team studying God’s calling in the workplace. Dr. Tatone presents her work nationally and internationally and lives in Western Pennsylvania with her husband.