The local church is more than a Sunday worship service.
Your leadership should be, too.
Welcome to Beyond Sunday!
Beyond Sunday is the podcast that helps church leadership teams move past Sunday-morning maintenance and into everyday mission.
Hosted by Dr. Rupert Loyd and Dr. Gia Tatone, Beyond Sunday delivers honest, practical leadership conversations for the pastors, staff, and lay leaders who know the most important work of the local church happens between weekends. Every episode is built to be listened to, discussed, and applied by the team you lead with.
Every week it feels like you are...
- Leading from isolation. You carry decisions and concerns you cannot share with your staff, your spouse, or your board. The weight of leadership becomes a lonely weight.
- Watching missional drift go unnamed. You sense your church is slipping back into inward survival, but you cannot quite put words to it, and no one else seems to be naming it either.
- Losing your best leaders to burnout. Your strongest staff and lay leaders are running on fumes, and by the time you see the warning signs, the damage is already done.
- Reaching the end of a faithful season with a church that never multiplied its impact. Years of faithful ministry, and yet the Great Commission scorecard barely moved. Mission stayed contained inside the building.
Every episode equips your leadership team to lead with clarity, courage, and Kingdom impact.
Practioner Wisdom
Honest conversations from leaders who have actually done the work. Beyond Sunday is not theory from a stage. It is the voice of practitioners who have led through transitions, conflicts, plateaus, and breakthroughs. You will hear what worked, what did not, and what they would do differently.
Team-Focused Insight
Designed to be listened to and discussed as a team. Every episode opens up the conversations your leadership team needs to be having. Drop an episode into your next staff meeting or board gathering and watch a richer dialogue unfold.
Missional Direction
Every episode points toward expanded mission and Kingdom impact, never toward church maintenance for its own sake. You will leave each conversation with a sharper sense of what mission looks like for your unique context and a clearer next step to take with your team.
Meet Your Hosts
Dr. Rupert Loyd
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 Pittsburghā€™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. inĀ Role Call: Womenā€™s Voices, she recently coled an international research team studying Godā€™s calling in the workplace. Dr. Tatone presents her work nationally and internationally and lives in Western Pennsylvania with her husband.
Beyond Sunday is a Church4Today resource, drawing on the broader Church Doctor Ministries ecosystem and decades of consulting experience helping established churches discover, design, and deploy their next season of mission. Together, Dr. Rupert and Dr. Gia bring the kind of practitioner wisdom most leaders look for and rarely find.
Three simple steps to put Beyond Sunday to work in your leadership:
Step 1: Subscribe.Ā New episodes drop every other week! Sign up below to get an email so you never miss an episode.Ā You can also find Beyond Sunday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.
Step 2: Listen together. Drop a new episode into your team meeting, staff drive, or board gathering. Beyond Sunday is built to be discussed, not just consumed.
Step 3: Apply one insight. Take one idea, one conversation, or one decision from each episode and put it to work. Real leadership change comes from real application, not more information.
Why Beyond Sunday?
Every Sunday, faithful church leaders pour themselves into a worship service that ends in 90 minutes. Then comes Monday, and the harder work begins. The staff meetings. The difficult conversations. The strategic decisions. The succession questions. The quiet leadership that determines whether a church thrives or slowly fades.
Beyond Sunday exists because the local church deserves leaders who are equipped for all of it, not just the weekend. We believe established legacy churches have a Kingdom future, not just a Kingdom past. We believe healthy teams are the engine of missional churches. And we believe the leadership conversations that most podcasts skip are exactly the conversations that change everything.
Every other week, Dr. Rupert Loyd and Dr. Gia Tatone sit down with practitioners, thinkers, and leaders to talk honestly about succession, team health, missional strategy, generosity culture, leader development, and the everyday work of leading a church beyond Sunday. The format is conversational. The tone is honest. The goal is simple: help your leadership team lead what comes next.
Lead what comes next.
Subscribe to Beyond Sunday and join the leadership teams who are taking the call to lead beyond the weekend seriously. New episodes every other week, free to listen, designed to be shared.
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