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It’s year-end reflection time! Hosts Ryan Dunn and Pierce Drake review the moments they felt like God “showed up” in 2021. How did you see God showing up in your midst?
Month: December 2021
What was the Christmas Conference?
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We hear so much about the Christmas Conference as a crucial piece of Methodist History, but what exactly happened there?
GUEST:
Rev. Bonnie McCubbin serves bi-vocationally as the Director of Museums & Pilgrimage/Conference Archivist for the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church where she oversees 33 historic sites and as the pastor of Old Otterbein UMC (Baltimore, MD), the Mother Church of the United Brethren in Christ branch of our denomination. Her research interests includes Cokesbury College, the first Methodist College in the world and Baltimore Methodism; and her most recent publication was as a contributing author to When Kids Ask Hard Questions, volume 2, ed. McCleneghan & Jackson (Chalice Press. 2021).
HOST:
Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff, General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. Dreff earned her PhD from Drew Theological School’s Graduate Division of Religion, specializing in both Methodist/Wesleyan Studies and Women’s/Gender Studies. She is the author of Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights (2020) and Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality (2018).
Give Love: Keeping kids safe in Honduras with Desiree Segura-April
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Desiree Segura-April and her husband are United Methodist missionaries serving throughout Latin America and the Caribbean and currently living in Honduras. As a Resource Person for Children at Risk Ministries, Desiree is passionate about creating safe spaces for children and shares with us how her life growing up in the Pacific Northwest continues to influence her current ministry.
A season 2 review of Pastoring in the Digital Parish
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We’re stuffing your stocking with digital delights for online ministry as we close out season 2 of Pastoring in the Digital Parish. While this episode details a handful of things learned in previous season 2 sessions, it also dives into a big question: What measurements really matter in digital ministry?
Give Love: Serving Liberia’s Children with Helen Roberts-Evans
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Helen Roberts-Evans grew up in the United States, in Chicago. But returning to the continent of Africa, to Liberia, where she was born, was a lifelong dream. Today, Helen is a United Methodist missionary, serving in Liberia. In this special Advent episode of “Get Your Spirit in Shape,” we chat with Helen and learn the story of how God weaved together a series of incidences that led her back to the country of her birth.
MyCom podcast Ep. 068: Podcasting 101
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On this episode of the MyCom podcast, Dan talks to fellow podcaster Ryan Dunn, host of the Pastoring in the Digital Age and the Compass podcasts, about the basics on how to get started in podcasting.
For more information on Ryan, you can take a listen at his podcasts at:
https://www.umc.org/en/rethink-church/compass-podcast
https://www.resourceumc.org/en/agencies/communications/church-and-conference-resources/podcasts/digital-parish-podcast
or contact him at: rdunn@umcom.org
Here’s info on some of the tools talked about on the podcast:
https://fireside.fm/
https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/sm58
https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/sm7b
https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/atr2100-usb
https://www.bluemic.com/en-us/products/yeti/
https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/podtrak-recorders/podcast-recorders/podtrak-p4/
https://focusrite.com/en/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarlett-2i2
https://zencastr.com/
https://www.audacityteam.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/UMCPodcasters
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Healing our divides with Amy Julia Becker
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Amy Julia Becker is helping us disrupt the cycles of division in our society. Overcoming systems of injustice feels overwhelming for one single person, we don’t feel like our efforts could make a difference. Amy Julia shares her experience with those doubts and committing to justice anyways.
Amy Julia Becker is an award-winning writer and speaker on faith, family, disability, privilege, and healing. She is the author of four books, including “To Be Made Whole: An Invitation to Wholeness, Healing, and Hope”, releasing in Spring 2022, and she is the host of the Love Is Stronger Than Fear podcast. Her work is featured alongside the writings of other Compass contributors in “How to Heal Our Divides”.
Time-saving digital tips for local pastors
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The biggest stressor for most of us when it comes to digital ministry is that the digital parish is not necessarily the campus to which we’ve explicitly been hired or appointed. Rev. Dan Wunderlich delivers valuable time-saving tips and tactics for staying on top of our digital ministries while trying to keep balance with the other demands of ministry.
Dan Wunderlich is pastor at Lakeside United Methodist Church in Florida. He’s the host of the MyCom marketing podcast. One of our sister podcasts with the United Methodist Communications. Also, Dan is the founder of Defining Grace ministries.
Understanding our online behavior with Kelly Price
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In this session of Pastoring in the Digital Parish we hear from Dr. Kelly Price. Dr. Price provides an in-depth perspective on why many of us do the things we do online and how understanding our digital consumer behaviors helps us meet people and form community in digital spaces.
Dr. Kelly Price is associate professor and master of digital program for East Tennessee State University. She presents at conferences on topics relating to consumer behavior. Her research interests include digital behaviors and online teaching.