Podcasts about project transformation

In today's episode, Dr. Manoj Krishna and I talk about how wisdom, examining one's inner thoughts and feelings, will help us address stress, anxiety, relationship issues, addiction, and climate change.  Curiosity is a key concept that could unlock our ability to connect with others and find a sense of inner peace. Bio: Manoj Krishna trained as a doctor in India before coming to the UK to pursue a career as a spine surgeon. He left that career after 25 years to write the book, Understanding Me, Understanding You- an enquiry into being human, and launch the Human Wisdom Project, which aims to help people access their own wisdom which comes from self-knowledge. This can be life-changing and make the world a better place. His new book Stress Free, was published in May 2022. The HumanWisdom App for adults launched in July 2022. He believes that understanding ourselves and how our minds work awakens our inner intelligence, which leads to wisdom, and can lead to transformation. This understanding can prevent and solve many problems which begin in our thinking: stress, anxiety, relationships breakdown, violence, addiction and climate change. It leads to the realisation that deep down, we are the same human being because our minds function in similar ways. This results in compassion, goodness and a sense of peace. By understanding ourselves, we can understand others better, leading to fulfilling relationships. Rather than just deal with the symptoms of stress, this approach uncovers the root of it in our thinking, and can end it completely. He thinks if we could scale this wisdom to the world, we could create a better future for humanity. He works in education to bring this wisdom to children, who are the future of humanity. Our current education system only educates you about the world around us and can make you a successful doctor or bus driver, but to be an excellent human being you need a different kind of intelligence, which comes from this understanding of how our minds work. For more information visit humanwisdom.me and follow him on social media via this link: https://linktr.ee/Humanwisdom.me ========================================== To get our FREE resource: 3 Ways to Reduce Burnout & Boost Well-being, visit colorofsuccesspodcast.com to sign up for our mailing list!   Ways you can support the show for FREE: Share our content Join our communities on streaming platforms and social media to give your suggestions on guests and reflection questions: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts YouTube Instagram LinkedIn Facebook Twitter

With his new album dropping December, 10th we got classmate “TheCharm” to stop by and share where it all began before the Project Transformation. Speaking Mental health East Texas community & 2 or 3 women being just enough. Stay till.

What wakes you up in the morning?  For Luke McDonald and Ellie Crain it's serving others in community.  Listen in as they share their passion for service and love for the non-profit organization Project Transformation, who's mission is to transform communities by engaging children, college-age young adults, and churches in purposeful relationships.  Both Luke and Ellie share their unforgettable experience of serving as a summer intern.

On this special Bonus episode, we are re-releasing Episode 3 from our first season of Podcasts with the Church At Work Podcast.  In this episode, Drew talks with members of the Project Transformation TN team as well as Sally Millsap about their awesome community outreach ministry. Visit https://www.projecttransformation.org to learn more about them.  Make sure that you subscribe to the Church At Work Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.  The Church at Work podcast is a ministry of First United Methodist Church of Murfreesboro, TN.  If you have an idea for a topic or have a question you’d like us to explore, please email me at ben@churchatworkpodcast.com   You can find the Church At Work Podcast here.  You can find the FUMC Boro Podcast here.

Summer camp isn’t cancelled for this ministry partner! They are providing weekly bags that include a book, game, activity, and snack to all the students that they serve. Christ Church has committed to provide 100 bags for the ministry this July. Each bag costs $10 to fill. To purchase one (or a few!), please donate to the Mission Fund: christchurchmemphis.org/give

Awe and Dread A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli for Foundry UMC May 31, 2020, Pentecost Sunday. “Life Interrupted” series.  Text:  Acts 2:1-21 When the day of Pentecost had come, there were gathered online for worship people from many places, shaped by different cultures, inhabiting radically different contexts, each with their own language.  On this day some—like the first disciples of Jesus—are waiting to receive power from on high, the promise of something unexpected that can change everything, turn the tables, make things right, shake the foundations. Among this group, in this moment, in the wake of report after report of the disproportionate toll that COVID-19 has taken on communities of color, added to the daily indignities suffered by racist aggression increasingly caught on film, followed by breaking stories of the racist murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, our black and brown family, friends, colleagues, lovers, and leaders are gutted. Tired. And doubtful that anything will change. White words and outrage—that is, words and outrage from anyone who is not daily at risk—are a day late and a dollar short. A dime a dozen. Choose your idiom. They’re not worth much. Come, Holy Spirit and do something radical! Others—like the pilgrims in Jerusalem, gathered for the Jewish Festival of Weeks—may come expecting the familiar ritual of a Sunday service and hoping—even desperately needing—to receive a word that helps them simply get through another week with the way things are. Some of these folks have already begun to feel themselves shut down or put defenses up at the naming the most prominent headline of the past few weeks, even some who really care but just want a break. Come, Holy Spirit and give us peace! Different languages, different expectations, different experiences from within the same world, within the same nation—a world and nation fractured and frayed at every possible level, creation and creature trampled and abused, disease breaking bodies and revealing broken bonds of mutual concern and broken systems, family members and neighbors rejected, despised, and gasping for air.  Who can communicate what is needed in such a reality? Well, let’s look at our story for clues. You’ve got the Galilean disciples—probably around 120 women and men, mostly uneducated, working class folk. What can they possibly say that will connect, for example, with the proselytes from far-flung, rich and powerful Rome? But somehow they all speak in their own language yet communicate God’s power in ways that everyone can understand. And then there’s Peter from among them whose track record for saying the wrong thing is epic, but who, on this occasion seems to have a shining moment. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the primary communicator in every case in this story is Holy Spirit. // It is Spirit I call upon today to make another Pentecost miracle of communication that allows my limited, privileged, white self and my imperfect offering to speak something of the power of God’s liberating and life-giving love into the hearts and minds of so beautifully diverse a gathered body. May it be so. Amen. The Holy Spirit that is poured out upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost is the same Spirit who moved across the face of the waters at the moment of creation to bring life out of chaos and to separate light from darkness. This Holy Spirit had filled prophets and sages and holy people from the beginning of creation, empowering them with gifts and courage beyond their own. This Holy Spirit is the one who from the dawn of time had been convicting and cajoling and creating and comforting God’s people in order to keep the dream of God’s Kin-dom alive. And this Holy Spirit had been dwelling in a very concentrated way in and around Jesus while Jesus was on earth. And now this self-same Spirit, newly soaked in humanity as a result of indwelling Jesus, is poured out upon the followers of Jesus and the power of God is unleashed in a very new way. From that first day of Pentecost right down to this very moment, Holy Spirit is at work in and through those who seek even in frail and faltering ways to follow Jesus. And that means that Holy Spirit is poured out upon you and upon me.  And let’s pause and consider the fact that in this story She is not coming in gently. The church tends to tame the story, to make fire into crepe paper or felt or a few candles on a birthday cake and makes the mighty wind the gentle breeze of an oscillating fan. But the experience is described as looking and sounding like a violent wind and fire.  This is not a birthday party, this is a revolution igniting a dream. It is not a cotton candy cloud dream, but a cling-tight-to-love, hold-on-to-your-humanity, remember-what-really-matters, things-about-to-get-real, life-and-death turning-point dream. It is the dream perceived and agitated by the prophets, it is the dream kindled in Jesus’ parables of the Kin-dom, stirring our moral imagination and bursting our self-centered bubbles, it is the dream of love, peace, justice, and beauty that Spirit will not let die. The dream is possible because Spirit is the dream-maker…and Spirit knows all our languages and knows what each one of us needs to hear—not what we want to hear, but what is needed for the dream… Spirit spins the vision of the Kin-dom which is at one and the same time both judgment for some and promise for others—a call to conscience and repentance AND assurance of justice and reparation. And no matter what part you most hear today, the Kin-dom vision is good news for all. It is not just a message of hope for one tribe. Our God is determined by the power of Spirit to draw all into a place of greater dignity and flourishing, oppressor and oppressed, poor and rich, persons of every conceivable design.  It’s a dream where Spirit falls upon all flesh and that breath is not choked out of any because of the color of their skin or the language they speak or whom they love or any other thing; where things that divide and set us at enmity are burned down; where the twisted, learned perceptions that blind us to the humanity and beauty of others are cut away like cataracts; where the layers of resentment, hatred, prejudice, and greed are blown away as in a destructive, Oklahoma tornado. And what is left, the ashes and the wounds and the destruction, provides the raw material and necessity for new creation. The Spirit who moved across the waters to bring order and life out of chaos flows, rains, blows, a mighty storm to stir and move us to do something. I am not suggesting that God is causing violence or desires it. But rather, that Spirit’s power flows to make things new and that always means that things change, really change, are lost, really lost, are sacrificed, really sacrificed from our own lives. On the day of Pentecost, Spirit comes in hot to set us on fire, to give energy and hope to those exhausted from a lifetime of struggle and to those who are newly awake to the work, to blow out of apathy those whose privilege allows that response, to remove the scales from our proverbial eyes so that we might perceive not only the pain and rage, but the history of which this present moment is but a part. Spirit blows into all the places we are today to move us precisely as She knows we need to be moved. And here’s the thing. We see in the story today that it’s possible to Spirit-proof yourself. “They’re just drunk!” To Spirit-proof yourself is to allow layers of gack—cynicism, hatred, control, selfishness, defensiveness, bigotry, fear, indifference, distraction and all sorts of other crusty, corroding things—to close your heart and soul from allowing Spirit to dance with you and move you and give you what you need. Spirit flows freely and God’s grace and presence is ever-present, regardless of how closed off we might be, no matter how determined we might be to sneer and scoff at signs of Spirit’s power. But God will not overpower, control, manipulate, or bully us. Part of God’s love is found precisely in restraint that allows for our freedom, our dignity. We are free to choose.  In this moment when things could so easily go even more wrong than they already are, what will you choose?  Will you choose the status quo or will you allow yourself to be open to Spirit’s power and dream? Will you allow yourself to be drawn into the center of God’s activity in the world, to live not only for “you and yours”—your family, your tribe, your nation, your issue, your experience of injustice, your vision, your 401k, your property values, your comfort, but rather to understand that any hope for this beautiful, broken world depends upon our living with and for others, the future flourishing and dignity of all people depends upon our standing in solidarity with those who are most vulnerable and hurting? In these days, it is very tempting to be reactive instead of responsive. There is too much happening all at once. The pain, the needs, the brokenness, is all too much and it is overwhelming. Fight or flight tends to kick in. Part of the beauty and promise of this day, is that Spirit helps us recalibrate and get perspective. She is determined to move into our hearts to help the brokenness make space for more of the world to be held there. Spirit will take all the broken pieces—the ash, the wounds, the destruction—and guide each one of us to the place where our particular passion, gifts, and energy will best serve the dream of a creation and human family no longer enflamed with hatred and violence and fear, but on fire with love and compassion and with ears to hear, eyes to perceive, and hearts to understand the gift of this life and of life together.  As you are moved by Spirit to respond, I encourage you to connect to the place in Foundry where your passion serves others. The way to begin is to begin and start where you are. Washington Interfaith Network is rebuilding our strength as we imagine a new vision for DC that is more just and equitable for people of color, low-income people, the unhoused, and all residents. In June, I’ll be hosting a ZOOM with Rev. William Barber to share information about how to engage with the Poor People’s Campaign. Project Transformation, ESL, LGBTQ advocacy, Green Ministry Team for environmental justice, and more are all ways that your engagement or financial support will impact the intersections of justice that will fuel the Kin-dom vision. We are not alone. You are not alone. When Holy Spirit is poured out upon you, you are bathed in love and grace that will hold you in your rage and exhaustion from being a person of color in this racist culture. When Holy Spirit is poured out upon you, you are bathed in love and grace that will hold you as a white person when you risk getting it all wrong while trying to make things right.  http://foundryumc.org/

Working on a new series called 'Random Places' where I go to random spots on the map and have an adventure! Got a van renovation project going on as well, so I'm going to hop into the 'Van life' scene. I talk about all of this as well as my career goals, whats next, and a little bit of advice and my 2 cents. This is the first episode to be released on video! All future podcasts will now be available on YouTube! Make sure to check it out, set notifications, and subscribe! Follow Bokeh Explorer on other platforms: Instagram: @BokehExplorer Twitter: @BokehExplorer Facebook: @BokehExplorer LinkedIn: @CJMata Website: www.bokehexplorer.com YouTube: Cj Mata --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week, Drew sat down with our own Sally Millsap as well as Taylor Davenport and Allison Fasig from Project Transformation TN.Visit https://www.projecttransformation.org to learn more about this amazing ministry.Make sure that you subscribe to the Church At Work Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.  The Church at Work podcast is a ministry of First United Methodist Church of Murfreesboro, TN.  If you have an idea for a topic or have a question you’d like us to explore, please email me at ben@churchatworkpodcast.com

This week, Drew wrapped up his conversation with Dr. Ryan Korstange and Dr. Andy Polk, to try and answer the question, “what is the church?”Dr. Korstange is an Assistant professor in the University Studies Department at Middle Tennessee State University with a background in biblical interpretation and Dr. Polk is an Assistant professor in the History Department at MTSU with a background in History Pedagogy and American Religious History.Tune in next week as Drew sits down with the staff of Project Transformation to discuss the amazing things happening in their ministry.Make sure that you subscribe to the Church At Work Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.  The Church at Work podcast is a ministry of First United Methodist Church of Murfreesboro, TN.  If you have an idea for a topic or have a question you’d like us to explore, please email me at ben@churchatworkpodcast.com

Project Transformation is back with a new episode featuring Luis Perez, along with returning guest host, Ryan Wolfe!Luis talks about the trials and tribulations of his last few weeks and Ryan also chimes in with a few different issues he has encountered.Despite their respective bumps in the road, both Luis and Ryan continue to be unphased.Listen in for more!

Luis Perez is back with another episode of Project Transformation!Luis talks with John Escobar, former independent wrestler and one half of the former tag team "The Bonecrushers".John talks with Luis about his own transformation, weight loss, eating habits and more.Tune in and catch the latest Project Transformation episode!

Mr. Perez is back with another brand-new Project Transformation episode! This week, Luis is joined by good friend and fellow "transformer" Evan McCloud.In this episode, Luis interviews Evan about his personal transformation - what made him want to make a change, how he continues to keep himself going throughout the entire process and more!Listen in and learn more about the transformation of Evan McCloud!

Luis Perez is back with the latest installment of "Project Transformation".Luis is joined by Ryan Wolfe to discuss how things have been going for Luis in his weight loss journey. While the news is not always good, there are many ways to keep yourself on track.Both Luis and Ryan discuss ways they have setup short, intermediate and long-term workout goals to keep themselves on-track. Listen in!

Welcome to the journey that is "Project Transformation".Luis Perez, better known as Mr. Perez throughout the GERE Network airwaves, has been on a journey that he wants you to join him on.Luis has been working on cutting his weight down to a much more healthy, manageable number. While doing that, he wants to inspire others out there to be their best selves.While Luis highlights his personal struggles and successes, he will also look to the community to find people and businesses who go through the same thing.Come along for the ride!

We sat down with leaders of Project Transformation to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this now nationwide ministry with young adults for children in local churches. Founder Sarah Wilke shares about the earliest days of PT in Dallas, TX. And, Courtney Aldrich tells us what it's like running one of PT's newest chapters. More about Project Transformation at https://projecttransformation.orgPlease FIND, SUBSCRIBE, & RATE "REVERB: The United Methodist Young People's Podcast" on iTunes or Google Play to help us raise awareness of these important ministries. Links available at http://umcyoungpeople.org/podcasts. Thanks!REVERB is a project of Young People's Ministries, a unit of Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church. More at http://umcyoungpeople.orgMusic ByAaron Hale: https://aaronhale.bandcamp.comHookSounds: http://www.hooksounds.com

We sat down with leaders of Project Transformation to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this now nationwide ministry with young adults for children in local churches. Founder Sarah Wilke shares about the earliest days of PT in Dallas, TX. And, Courtney Aldrich tells us what it's like running one of PT's newest chapters. More about Project Transformation at https://projecttransformation.orgPlease FIND, SUBSCRIBE, & RATE "REVERB: The United Methodist Young People's Podcast" on iTunes or Google Play to help us raise awareness of these important ministries. Links available at http://umcyoungpeople.org/podcasts. Thanks!REVERB is a project of Young People's Ministries, a unit of Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church. More at http://umcyoungpeople.orgMusic ByAaron Hale: https://aaronhale.bandcamp.comHookSounds: http://www.hooksounds.com

I’m Chris Pepple and today I’m going to talk about a program that works with kids over the summer to help them maintain and improve their reading skills. Project Transformation brings together college-aged young adults, children and churches to transform entire communities.

069 Jeff Hoffman Project Transformation Catching the Enthusiasm—Project Transformation After three summers of listening to his wife's and his children's enthusiasm for their experiences in Project Transformation (PT), Jeff Hoffman took the plunge. He'd been reluctant because he knew his work schedule at the time would not allow him to make a regular or extensive time commitment, but with PT he found no pressure—just a welcoming of whatever he was able to share with the program. Project Transformations mission is summed up in three C's: To engage college-age young adults in purposeful ministry and leadership, to support underserved children and families, and to connect churches to communities in need. Initially, PT was a summer-only program with a focus on helping children, K–4, gain and retain the reading skills that are so essential to doing well in school and life. Building upon the early success of that goal, the program has expanded to be year-round and to include middle school youth, as well as elementary school children. The growth also incorporates all areas of schoolwork and social-emotional learning, as well as increased connections with the families through special events such as the Family Fun Nights and home visits. The college-age young adults are hired for summer or for the school year to provide authentic, hands-on, high-quality programs for the children and youth. PT, however, offers these interns much more than "a summer job." Living together in intentional Christian community, they have opportunities to explore their faith and discern their path forward into leadership, service, and other areas of ministry. The churches chosen to host the PT programs had been struggling as the communities around them changed. But PT has opened new channels for reconnecting with their neighbors, and the churches begin to thrive once again. How do volunteers fit in this endeavor? In the summer, volunteers—including youth and school-age children with their parents or grandparents—come on their church's designated week especially to read with the children in the program, providing role models as well as improved literacy. During the school year, many individual volunteers make regular commitment to be homework helpers, encouragers, or mentors. These volunteers also build those special relationships with the children that create opportunities for social-emotional learning, specifically through being listened to and cared about. Other volunteers bring food to the college-age interns and sit down with them to share the meal—and conversation that is often deeply meaningful for both interns and volunteers. Like Jeff Hoffman and his family, volunteers can easily find a welcoming and rewarding niche for however they choose to commit. So who experiences transformation? Children, families, young adult leaders, congregations, neighborhoods, and volunteers! Begun through The United Methodist Church in the Dallas area, the program is open to people of all faiths and is active not only in Texas but also in Indiana, Oklahoma, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Tennessee (Nashville, Memphis, and Clarksville). As volunteers and former interns move to different areas of the country, PT pops up and transformation begins anew. For more about Project Transformation, visit projecttransformation.org or view their Facebook page.

What does it mean to serve in the name of Jesus? If we look at Jesus' ministry, it looks less like providing for those in need from a distance and more like being in relationship with people. It looks a lot like what Project Transformation is doing in cities across the country. This week we welcome the Chief Executive Officer of Project Transformation National, Eric Lindh. He shares with us not only the meaningful work that Project Transformation is doing, but the heart behind it - and challenges each of us to consider new and bold ways of serving in the process.

016 Taylor Davenport—Volunteering with Project Transformation Purposeful Ministry—Project Transformation As a year-round Fellow with Project Transformation Tennessee, Taylor Davenport has been inspired by the many volunteers (homework helpers, encouragers, and mentors) in the program. Project Transformation’s mission is three-fold: To engage young adults, like Taylor, in purposeful ministry and leadership, to support underserved children and families, and to connect churches to communities in need. As one of the young adult interns, Taylor works with volunteers to provide authentic, hands-on, high-quality programs for children and youth both during the summer and the school year. In addition to leading the children and youth, Taylor and the other interns also value learning from them, going the extra mile with home visits to gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the families. A 2015 graduate of the University of Mississippi with a BS in Integrated Marketing Communications, Taylor is currently pursuing her Masters of Education in Nonprofit Leadership at Belmont University. When she's not coordinating volunteers, preparing marketing material, or studying, she enjoys cheering on the Ole Miss Rebels. Potential Project Transformation volunteers can contact Taylor at davenport@pttennessee.org or 615-810-9620. Additional information can be found at the Project Transformation’s website www.pttennessee.org. For more about coming podcasts, sign up for Ed’s free Retire-To newsletter: retire-to.com/ed-s-newsletter and visit retiretovolunteering.com.