Helping Parents Make Decisions with Dr. Angela Gorrell

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Familying the Faith

Vibrant Faith

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On Familying the Faith Podcast, we know how much your calling to home-centered ministry matters to you—you’re craving new ways to fuel that calling, and new sources of hope for taking the next faithful step. To do that, you need tools to lead well in a challenging ministry environment, and proof of hope embedded in the stories of other leaders. We’ve each served more than three decades as national ministry leaders, investing in a home-centered, church-supported approach to faith formation. Learn what’s working through stories from leaders who, like you, are cultivating Jesus-centered families.

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Helping Parents Make Decisions with Dr. Angela Gorrell

Familying the Faith

38 minutes 29 seconds

1 year ago

Helping Parents Make Decisions with Dr. Angela Gorrell

Hello Friends,

Welcome to Episode 16 of the Familying the Faith Podcast by Vibrant Faith.

We’re all about connecting with ministry leaders who want to dig into THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB in today’s church, and that is connecting with and uplifting parents— the primary faith-forming agents in our world and helping them grow in their capacity and confidence as they share a vibrant faith in Jesus with the next generation.

We have such a special treat for you today! We asked our friend Dr. Angela Williams Gorrell to join us for a conversation about Familying the Faith.

Angela has worked with us several times in the past 5 years. She’s a youth minister, a professor, a consultant and an author. Her research has been highlighted in media sources such as the NEW YORK TIMES, NPR, and THE WASHINGTON POST. She has both a Ph.D. and 21 years (and counting) of experience mentoring, speaking, teaching, planning, and guiding.

Her first book, Always On, was so helpful to us as we worked during and after the pandemic to help churches embrace engaging families online.

In this episode, she digs into a wonderful conversation with Rick and Nancy around her most recent book Braving Difficult Decisions: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do.

Rick and Nancy had such a great conversation with Angela about:

Her own family, and how they nurtured her life of faith.
Her work in youth ministry and how she learned to nurture and support the gifts of parents as they were seeking to raise their children as followers of Jesus
The framework she created in Braving Difficult Decisions. She describes a faithful decision-making process as moving from Stirring to Surrendering to Seeing to Sensing to Summoning, Shedding Sifting, Selecting, Searching, Striving to Sated Joy.
How the process of describing Godly decision-making has changed her own view of God.
What she wants to say to faithful parents who are making tough decisions and don’t know what to do.
How the church could and should enter the process of decision-making with their people.

You can learn more about Angela by visiting her website: ⁠www.angelagorrell.com⁠

Dig into this one! There’s so much for you to learn and apply.

Join us as we help you take that next faithful step!