The Missing Voices Podcast

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/

 

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!

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.

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!

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.

Flagler graduate Zach Grant is interviewed about his ministry with and alongside folks with varying abilities. Zach shares personal stories and challenges the church to listen to his friends. He is the Director of Special Connections at St. James United Methodist Church in Tampa, Florida. You will fall in love with Zach just like we all have.

In this episode Justin Forbes interviews Martha Shinn, the long time professor of Youth Ministry from Flagler College. Together they discuss her roots and how she shaped a program that would year after year send people into ministry at the margins. Martha has come out of retirement to serve on The Missing Voices staff as the Congregational Liaison- or as Justin likes to call her- The Chief Listening Officer. Martha is amazing!

In this episode Mark DeVries interviews Justin Forbes, the Director of the Missing Voices Project, about the podcast and this new youth ministry project coming out of Flagler College. Justin shares the vision of The Missing Voices Project and how a particular teenager named James taught him about youth ministry in ways that no one else could.