You did not step into ministry leadership to manage a weekend program. You stepped in because you believed the local church is meant for something bigger.
Somewhere along the way, the rhythm of church life made it easy to forget that. The next service to plan. The next sermon to write. The next attendance number to track. Sunday becomes the gravity that pulls everything else inward, and the mission of the church slowly contracts to fit the weekend.
But the local church was never meant to be a Sunday operation. It was meant to be a Kingdom movement.
That is why Beyond Sunday exists. Hosted by Dr. Rupert Loyd and Dr. Gia Tatone, Beyond Sunday is a Church4Today podcast designed for the leadership beyond Sunday worship. Drawing on decades of consulting experience through Church Doctor Ministries, the show brings honest, practitioner-led conversations to the leaders who refuse to settle for maintenance.
Every other week, Beyond Sunday helps you and your team do three things:
- Name the leadership realities most ministry resources ignore
- Have the conversations your leadership team has been avoiding
- Apply one practical insight to advance the mission of your church
When leaders stop investing in the work that happens beyond Sunday, churches drift. Mission shrinks. Leaders burn out. The Great Commission scorecard stays flat.
But when leadership teams take the offstage work seriously, the entire trajectory of a church can change. Imagine your team a year from now: healthier, clearer, more missionally aligned. That is what investing in leadership beyond Sunday produces.
Subscribe to Beyond Sunday today. Then share it with one leader on your team. The mission of your church deserves more than the leadership of one day a week.
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.