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Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Interim Unified Agency of the PC(USA) | Mid Council Ministries
101 episodes
4 months ago
As we bring Season 3 of Along the Road to a close, your hosts Martha Miller (Nourish) and valerie izumi and Manuel Silva-Esterrich (Encounter) give thanks for a season full of conversation, laughter, and learning in our engagement with each other but especially with our guests and with you, our audience! We hope that you have found engaging with Presbyterian identity meaningful and fruitful. We encourage you to continue to reflect on how and what that means to you and share your thoughts and ...
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As we bring Season 3 of Along the Road to a close, your hosts Martha Miller (Nourish) and valerie izumi and Manuel Silva-Esterrich (Encounter) give thanks for a season full of conversation, laughter, and learning in our engagement with each other but especially with our guests and with you, our audience! We hope that you have found engaging with Presbyterian identity meaningful and fruitful. We encourage you to continue to reflect on how and what that means to you and share your thoughts and ...
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Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: Engaging, Embracing, and Embodying Joy!
As we bring Season 3 of Along the Road to a close, your hosts Martha Miller (Nourish) and valerie izumi and Manuel Silva-Esterrich (Encounter) give thanks for a season full of conversation, laughter, and learning in our engagement with each other but especially with our guests and with you, our audience! We hope that you have found engaging with Presbyterian identity meaningful and fruitful. We encourage you to continue to reflect on how and what that means to you and share your thoughts and ...
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6 months ago
27 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: Called to Serve
Faith came alive when Andrew Shen became involved in the feeding ministries of Friendship Presbyterian Church. Feeling called to serve has transformed his life and reinforced his faith and values. For more information about this congregation and its work in the community, read this article and view the accompanying videos.
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6 months ago
16 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: Presbyterians do Mission in Partnership
Hello Church People! In this episode, Rev. Mienda Uriarte, Deputy Executive Director, and Rev. Jihyun Oh, Stated Clerk and Executive Director of the Interim Unified agency, reflect on the importance of doing mission in partnerships and what it has meant for our denomination and churches since the adoption of the document "Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership" by the 215th General Assembly (2003), the transforming essence of Mission and the partnerships that are to continue to form in the f...
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6 months ago
40 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: Church Leaders as Difference Makers
Sometimes we all need a reminder of the impact that we make in the lives of others. Krista Langley, deacon and ruling elder, shares her journey and how family, church leaders, and her faith have made a real difference in her life and how she continues to live out what she has learned from and through them.
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7 months ago
18 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: From Reformation to Re-formation: Co-Creating Something New
Join Shawna Bowman as they share how embracing change from a Reformed theological perspective created a new thing that brought life and light to the covenant community of faith and the mission and ministries they support. For more information: Chicago church finds a home in the homes it supported | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Friendship Presbyterian Church at info@fpcchicago.org We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing to alongtheroad@pc...
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7 months ago
31 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: Reflection - Non-Bitter Spirituality
Using Matthew as a basis, Amos Mendez connects coffee to our spirituality; encouraging us to build up our spiritual lives to avoid getting burnt up and creating bitterness
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7 months ago
13 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: Joy: Engaging in God's Transformative Justice in the World
Join Neal Presa as he shares why we cannot keep God's joy to ourselves. That by working and praying together in community for justice - where everyone is valued and included, that all will flourish, we live out God's call upon our lives. That is worship - not just in church on Sunday but throughout our Mondays - Saturdays as well. We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing to alongtheroad@pcusa.org. Thank you!
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7 months ago
25 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: Spiritual Practice of Music
Music can touch our souls and connect us to God. Bill Buchanan joins us to stir our curiosity in various genres of music and encourages us to expand our horizons as we listen to find new ways that God may be speaking to us. As an added bonus, Bill has provided his own Spotify playlist of soul music
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8 months ago
18 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: Ser y Pertenecer: Honoring Faith, Culture and Identity
Hello Church People. Today, our guest, retired minister Carmen Rosario, shares with us the history of Presbyterian identity in her family, ministry, and the work she has done and continues to do with the National Presbyterian Hispanic and Latino Caucus and the communities that develop Latin American leadership in the PC (USA). She also shares the resources and networks Mid Councils have with Hispanic Latino leadership. We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing ...
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8 months ago
44 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: Acknowledging the Original Inhabitants of the Land
Lauren Sanders helps us learn and understand more about what a land acknowledgment is and what it shouldn’t be, how we can educate ourselves beyond the importance of the names, and some of the actions we can take to live into our call as Christians.
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8 months ago
16 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: Bringing Our Theology Into Everything We Do
Join our guest Kerri Allen as she talks about Reformed theology and how the practice of naming where and how we encounter the Holy can help shape how we approach our daily life and engage the world with our theology shaping and informing all that we do We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing to alongtheroad@pcusa.org. Thank you!
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8 months ago
39 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: The Foundations of Our Presbyterian Identity
The Foundations of Presbyterian Polity, the first section of the PC(USA) Book of Order, helps address our “why”. Barry Ensign-George gives more insight into this important part of our constitution as we all continue in our journey as church leaders. For additional insight into the Foundations, follow along with our series of articles within Regarding Ruling Elders: A Monthly Series for Serving Faithfully. Get more information here and subscribe to receive the monthly links.
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8 months ago
16 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: Reflecting on how Worship shapes our Identity
Hello Church People! Our guest Dr. Marcus Hong, dives into the connections between the practice and theology of Worship and our Presbyterian identity. Why is Prayer central to the heart of Worship in Presbyterianism and Reform tradition? This an other questions will be answered in this episode. Find more information about Dr. Hong's project with the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the "Sun-Walking Fellowship" by contacting him at mhong@lpts.edu We'd love to hear from yo...
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9 months ago
45 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: The Journey of Call and its Surprises
Satoe Soga, Chaplain Educator at Houston Methodist Hospital, shares her story of call as a journey of cultural transition and claiming identity in which she discovered her gifts along the way.
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9 months ago
18 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: Intentional Outreach towards a diverse community
Join us as our guest, Galen Zabala Sherby, shares his inspiring journey from being a pastor's child to becoming a labor rights advocate and community organizer. Now a young adult Ruling Elder in the PC(USA), Galen illustrates how political justice is integral to the Presbyterian identity, all in pursuit of the greater good of the Great Commission. Don't miss this enlightening discussion! We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing to alongtheroad@pcusa.org. Thank...
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9 months ago
31 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: Connecting Ecumenically
Ecumenism, connecting with other churches and denominations, is a part of our Presbyterian DNA. Dianna Wright, PC(USA) Director of Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations, helps us understand why these relationships are important and how we can grow within them. Spend some time at the Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations webpage for more information or contact Dianna directly
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9 months ago
15 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: We Are Part of a Bigger Family Around the World
Join Mirna Wasef and her father, Mofid Wasef as they share the importance of knowing our identity -- what it means to be a Presbyterian - who we are, what we believe, and why we are called as a church "to go forth as agents of God's mission in the world." [Book of Order, W-3.0502] We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing to alongtheroad@pcusa.org. Thank you!
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10 months ago
35 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: Becoming Presbyterian
Many current Presbyterians do not have backgrounds within the denomination, including Ryan Knauber who grew up Catholic became Buddhist and is now a Presbyterian. Hear Ryan’s story and reflect upon your own while thinking about what it is about being a Presbyterian that is most important to you.
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10 months ago
15 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Encounter: So That the Ministry of the Whole People of God May Flourish
Scott Anderson was called to be a pastor in the PCUSA when he sixteen years old at a time when our polity did not allow for the ordination of LGBTQIA+ people. Yet he stayed in the church even when he could not openly claim his authentic self. Scott, the first openly gay person ordained to teaching elder in the PCUSA, shares how his sense of call and advocacy with More Light Presbyterians and the community of support around them sustained him and his ministry as a PCUSA pastor. We'd love to he...
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10 months ago
27 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
Nourish: Spiritual Practice of Reading
Katrina Pekich-Bundy shares how the spiritual practice of reading has played a part in her curiosity to learn more about the world, neighbors near and far away, and has enhanced her relationship with others and with God. She even provides a list of recommended books!
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10 months ago
15 minutes

Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders
As we bring Season 3 of Along the Road to a close, your hosts Martha Miller (Nourish) and valerie izumi and Manuel Silva-Esterrich (Encounter) give thanks for a season full of conversation, laughter, and learning in our engagement with each other but especially with our guests and with you, our audience! We hope that you have found engaging with Presbyterian identity meaningful and fruitful. We encourage you to continue to reflect on how and what that means to you and share your thoughts and ...