The Missing Voices Podcast

Episode 12: From the Field, Part 2**COVID19 Edition**... "Youth Workers share their experience of ministry & COVID19"

Angelina Devincenzo, Wes Ellis, and Rachael McNeal are Youth Workers on the front lines of ministry today. Angelina is a first-year Youth Worker who only months in found herself in quarantine re-imagining youth ministry. Rachael and Wes are long time veterans of youth ministry and reflect on the changes taking place today. Together they share their insights and experience of this complicated season.

Episode 11: Megan DeWald**COVID19 Edition**... "The Essential Work of Ministry: A look at resources for the work we are all doing today"

Megan DeWald is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary. In this interview, Megan shares the resource she compiled in hopes of providing one central location of numerous resources to help youth workers do their important work. It is an incredible gift!

Episode 10: Rev. Aqueelah Ligonde**COVID19 Edition**… “The Church Beyond The Four Walls”

An ordained PCUSA clergywomen of Long Island, New York, Aqueelah Ligonde invites us to consider the church as an extended family moving beyond our buildings into a deeper engagement with the surrounding community. She shares powerful stories and practical tips for the minister who finds themselves longing for resurrection hope. 

Episode 09: From the Field**COVID19 Edition**…"Youth Workers share their experience of ministry & COVID19"

Makenzie Knowlden and Dustin Aagaard are Youth Workers on the front lines of ministry today. Mak is a first-year Youth Worker who only months in found herself in quarantine re-imagining youth ministry. Dustin is a 20 year veteran of youth ministry and oversees all children, youth, and family ministry at his church. Together they share their insights and experience of this complicated season. 

Episode 08: Trey Wince**COVID19 Edition**… “Leading Through a Season of Forced Innovation”

Trey Wince, from Ministry Architects and Ministry Incubators, points out the uniqueness of being a leader during the COVID19 pandemic.  As ministry leaders we are given permission to try new things, especially in this crisis.  This is an opportunity to leverage the moment and build new ways of being while we lead our people through the struggle of survival anxiety and learning anxiety.  

Episode 07: Rev. Dr. Angela Gorrell**COVID19 Edition**... "Compelling Online Engagement with Youth"

Author and professor Rev. Dr. Angela Gorrell has combed through research and recently released her own findings for compelling online engagement with youth.  Hear from the author of "Always On: Practicing Faith in a New Media Landscape," named a New and Noteworthy Book by Christianity Today.  Find her free resources for online participatory worship services and a guide for online youth ministry - https://www.baptiststandard.com/falling-seed/creating-online-participatory-worship-services/

 

Episode 06: Luke Langston … “From Behind Bars”

A prison chaplain, father, minister, and previous youth minister - Luke shares stories from behind bars and invites us to consider ways in which the Church might begin imagining nearby prisons or jails as the very locations where church should be happening!

Episode 05: Hayne Steen …. “Community, Mental Health, and Youth Ministry”

Hayne, a Flagler graduate and mental health counselor, speaks from years of experience in both youth ministry and mental health. Inviting us to consider the realities of trauma, Hayne exposes our need for counseling and mental health therapist in the youth ministry world. Hayne makes an open invitation to join him for tacos… so give him a call.

Episode 04: Katy Schafer …. "Transgender and Raised in the Church”

Katy is a lot of things, but in this episode she speaks with a mothers heart. She shares her story from that perspective and invites us all to listen a little closer to the stories of those who don’t fit classically embraced gender roles. This is a story of life and death, don’t skip this episode… our baptismal promises won’t allow for it!

Episode 03: Tyler Fuller … “Foster Care, Poverty, and other really easy issues to resolve…”

Tyler Fuller is a foster parent and Missions Pastor at Crosspoint Church in Niceville, Florida. Through personal stories from his family Tyler invites us into the world of foster care and how family can be re-imagined. He also speaks about his work in and around poverty, and how working across socio-economic boundaries has shaped the community he helps lead. Tyler is hilarious and witty and was in a heavy metal rock band. If we had been able to, we would have opened the episode with some of his scream-o music from long ago.