April 2022 – UMC.org Podcasts

EarthKeepers: Loving Creation across the Generations with Cary and Caleb James

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No plastic for 30 days! That’s the challenge the Rev. Cary James Jr. and his 16-year-old son, Caleb, recently undertook in support of their roles as EarthKeepers, trained by the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, to address topics such as environmental justice, green technology and waste reduction in their communities.

Hear about the outcome of the “no plastic for a month” endeavor along with why the James family is passionate about environmental stewardship.

Holistic evangelism and salvation with Mark Teasdale

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Ready to tackle a couple tough ideas? In this episode of Compass, Rev. Dr. Mark Teasdale helps us adopt a healthy understand of the Christian ideas of evangelism and salvation.

Mark Teasdale is E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He is ordained in the United Methodist Church, and is the author of Evangelism for Non-Evangelists, Methodist Evangelism, American Salvation AND, most recently, Participating in Abundant Life which was the prompt for our conversation here on the Compass podcast…

Youth ministry in the digital parish

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How have the emergence of digital-first culture and the cultural developments related to COVID-19 affected youth ministry? Are there ways we can utilize digital environments to safely and responsibly connect with young people? Chris Wilterdink joins Pastoring in the Digital Parish to share some ideas about youth ministry in digital space.

Chris Wilterdink is Director of Young People’s Ministries Development at UMC Discipleship Ministries. He has over 15 years of local-church youth ministry experience. Chris and Jeremy Steele co-host the Youth Worker Collective podcast.

MyCom podcast Ep. 072: Vacation Bible School

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Summer is quickly approaching, and your ministry team is no doubt ramping up for one of the great summer church traditions: Vacation Bible School! So on this episode of the MyCom Church Marketing Podcast, we are talking all things VBS!

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Rethink Church audiomagazine for April 2022

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Throughout April of 2022, our content focused on seeking after Jesus. And we have some great posts about some teachings of Jesus that challenge us and nurture us. In this edition of the audiomag, we’ll hear:

“Christian judgement and the blessing of grace” by Joseph Yoo

“Batman, Easter and rebirth” by Nathan Webb

“Three teachings of Jesus for value-filled living” by Madison Myers

And “Why Christians care about the environment” by Ryan Dunn

Let’s enter into our April 2022 edition of the Rethink Church audio magazine.

Powering up through engagement and repurposing

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We’re going to explore creating digital content that engages our online audiences WHILE we engage in a spiritual practice that hopefully gives us, personally, a bit of a power up in the midst of our busy digital ministry lives.

This episode takes an older piece of content that is a great example of content that engages our digital community and reworks it into something useful for the audience of this podcast. This meditative prayer is going to help us refresh for the work of the busy digital minister.

Woman’s Home Missionary Society

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How has the United Methodist tradition evangelized to non-white persons via the Woman’s Home Missionary Society?

GUEST:

Alex Parrish is the Methodist Librarian at Drew University. His is currently a PhD Candidate at Garrett Evangelical School of Theology where his research focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American Methodist missions.

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).

CORRECTION: Mr. Parrish misspoke during the recording of this epsiode and said there had not been any Caribou in Alaska prior to their being brought from Russia. However that is not the case. Caribou existerd in much smaller in numbersand had not been domesticated until that point.

Jesus’ path from pain to triumph: a guided meditation with Cindy Serio

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You are invited to ponder the events of Jesus’ final hours on earth through the contemplative spiritual discipline of guided meditation. The Rev. Cindy Serio, a retired United Methodist pastor and current spiritual director, leads us through the narrative as we stay attentive to God’s invitation to us.

You have gifts and you are a gift

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You have gifts and you are a gift to the world around you.

Don Everts is a pastor who had a startling realization while dealing with the ups and downs of pastoral and personal life: everyone is a gift. Including that vocal parishioner. Including that strange relative. Including himself.

Including you, too.

Don is the senior pastor of First & Calvary Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Missouri, and is a writer for Lutheran Hour Ministries and the Hopeful Neighborhood Project. Don has spent almost three decades helping people on college campuses and in the local church become good stewards of their God-given gifts. His many books include The Reluctant Witness, The The Hopeful Neighborhood, and, most recently, Discover Your Gifts: Celebrating How God Made You and Everyone You Know… all of which feature original research from Barna and biblical insights for our everyday lives.

Establishing safe spaces online

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Is it safe to do ministry digitally? A lot of people have foreseen some possible scenario where our digital ministries enable someone with nefarious motivations to do harm to a member of the community.

Churches and youth organizations have long utilized guidelines to help protect both vulnerable populations of people and the caring people who work with them. But how do we translate those guidelines for digital ministry?

In this session of Pastoring in the Digital Parish, our adjunct professor is an old friend, Pastor Nathan Webb. Nathan shares with us the procedures his all-digital ministry, called Checkpoint Church, is putting in place. By sharing their system, you should be able to discern some necessary procedures you can put into place in order to keep your online ministry space a safe place for all people.