Podcasts about young adult minister

Who says young adults have abandoned the Christian faith? Young Adult Minister at Family Church, Chris Kish says young adults are looking for meaning and are hungry for connection and that the gospel is the answer. On Wednesday’s, Mornings with Eric and Brigitte, Chris will discuss the formation of Gospel Communities to Reach a Searching Generation. Becoming the HouseholdDonate to Moody Radio: http://moodyradio.org/donateto/morningshow/wrmbSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's episode we speak to Wini Heron, a mum of three adopted children (17,8 and 8). Originally from Malaysia she now lives in Tasmania and is the Pastoral Care and Young Adult Minister at her church where she runs Parenting for Faith courses. She's chosen to speak about gaming, which is a chapter of the A - Z of Parenting for Faith book (out October 2025). Links: Send us your questions about Easter or anything to do with helping kids and teenagers meet and know God at parentingforfaith.org/podcast or email us at parentingforfaith@brf.org.uk Hear the original PFF podcast episode that the Gaming chapter is based on at https://on.soundcloud.com/T15NrERav7hzxrEa8 or scroll back to episode 116 of the very first season. The Forge Online - https://www.brfonline.org.uk/collections/parenting-for-faith-events/products/the-forge-gathering-online-2025 The Forge in-person - https://www.brfonline.org.uk/collections/parenting-for-faith-events/products/the-forge-gathering-in-person-2025 Thank you for listening today. If you are able to contribute to the cost of producing this podcast, please click here to give a one-off or regular gift: www.brf.org.uk/get-involved/give/ Parenting for Faith is part of the charity, BRF. We are reliant on donations from individuals and churches to make our resources available to as many people as possible. We are grateful for all donations, big or small. They make a real difference. Thank you so much for partnering with us.

In this episode, Luke Long fills in for Chris Amaro as we host Parker Snider, Brook Hills' Young Adult Minister in a conversation about hospitality. We're recapping the breakout sessions from our Fall 2024 Leader Gatherng. The official breakout title was "Building Biblical Community & Hospitality: How to Help People Connect with One Another and With Guests." Listen in and gain some tips for connecting members to one another and connecting guests to the group. Send us a textThanks for listening to the Great Groups Podcast. Please visit GreatGroups.org for a list of all our episodes.We'd love to hear from you! Click here for our contact form. Jay Gordon is the Small Groups Minister at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Chris Amaro is an IT professional and serves as a Small Group Leader and Elder at Brook Hills.

Blessed are those who mourn. This week Stephen Walker, our Young Adult Minister, takes us through the importance of trust during the grief in our lives and how God is present with us in those moments.

In this episode, Jay interviews Parker Snider, Brook Hills' new Young Adult Minister. Listen in to learn about Parker's background, hobbies, spiritual story, small group, and a little about young adult ministry. We'll also discuss spiritual growth catalysts and helping people grow during crisis.Thanks for listening to the Great Groups Podcast. Please visit GreatGroups.org for a list of all our episodes.Jay Gordon is the Small Groups Minister at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Chris Amaro is an IT professional and serves as a Small Group Leader and Elder at Brook Hills.

Today our Young Adult Minister, Brad Holmes, brings the word from Jeremiah 17:5-10

The third episode in a 4-part series titled “The Bible, the Body, & the Brain”------------------------Episode Summary/For Further ExplorationThese are lessons and recordings from our Young Adult Ministry-wide "Summer Bible Study Series" in the summer of 2023. In this episode, join our Young Adult Minister, John Lemons, along with special guests Christina Hearne, Kristin Prasad, and John Holloway as they talk about what the Bible has to say about aging and why it is an important part of how we follow Jesus.*If you have thoughts or questions, we'd love to talk with you! Email your questions to youngadults@fbchav.org or john@fbchsv.org*------------------------Items Referenced in the Episode:Book: How God WorksQuotes from book referenced in episode:“Data from across the world shows the effects of that storm. Wherever you look, people's happiness across the life span follows a U-shaped curve, with its nadir occurring right around age fifty. Happiness starts to decline in the late thirties and early forties, bottoming out between the late forties and early fifties, before beginning to rise again from the late fifties into the seventies and eighties. At that point, people's happiness tracks show a good deal of variability that depends on whether and when serious health issues arise….“...A similar pattern is revealed by antidepressant use. Data from twenty-seven European nations documenting the consumption of these drugs shows an [hill-shaped] pattern across the same ages. Antidepressant use starts increasing in the mid-twenties, peaks in the late forties, and then drops through the sixties and seventies. In fact, the data make clear that people are three times more likely to take antidepressants around the age of fifty than around the ages of twenty or eighty.”David DeSteno, How God WorksScriptures Referenced:Psalm 90:3-6, 103 You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” 4 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. 5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—they are like the new grass of the morning: 6 In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered... 10 Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.Ecclesiastes 12:1-81 Don't let the excitement of youth cause you to forget your Creator. Honor him in your youth before you grow old and say, “Life is not pleasant anymore.” 2 Remember him before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky. 3 Remember him before your legs—the guards of your house—start to tremble; and before your shoulders—the strong men—stoop. Remember him before your teeth—your few remaining servants—stop grinding; and before your eyes—the women looking through the windows—see dimly. 4 Remember him before the door to life's opportunities is closed and the sound of work fades. Now you rise at the first chirping of the birds, but then all their sounds will grow faint. 5 Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral. 6 Yes,...

The second episode in a 4-part series titled “The Bible, the Body, & the Brain”------------------------Episode Summary/For Further ExplorationThese are lessons and recordings from our Young Adult Ministry-wide "Summer Bible Study Series" in the summer of 2023. In this episode, join our Young Adult Minister, John Lemons, along with special guests Lauren Frederick, Morgan Starks, and Emily Lemons as they talk about what the Bible has to say about our mental health and why it is an important part of how we follow Jesus.*If you have thoughts or questions, we'd love to talk with you! Email your questions to youngadults@fbchav.org or john@fbchsv.org*------------------------Items Referenced in the Episode:Wall Street Journal Article Sorry, Pal, I Don't Want to TalkScriptures Referenced:Romans 12:1-2Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.Romans 8:28-3028 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.Philippians 4:4-84 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.Philippians 1:12-1412 Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel. 13 As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ. 14 And because of my chains, most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the Lord and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear.Philippians 2:5-125 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ...

The first episode in a 4-part series titled “The Bible, the Body, & the Brain”------------------------Episode Summary/For Further ExplorationThese are lessons and recordings from our Young Adult Ministry-wide "Summer Bible Study Series" in the summer of 2023. In this episode, join our Young Adult Minister, John Lemons, along with special guests Shelley Mills, Cameron Howell, and Ian McGuinness as they talk about what the Bible has to say about our physical health and why it is an important part of how we follow Jesus.*If you have thoughts or questions, we'd love to talk with you! Email your questions to youngadults@fbchav.org or john@fbchsv.org*------------------------Items Referenced in the Episode:Scriptures Referenced:Galatians 5:19-2119 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.1 Corinthians 3:3...for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?Romans 7:55 For when we were in the realm of the flesh,[a] the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. Footnotes Romans 7:5 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.1 John 4:2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God…2 John 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the Antichrist!James 1:27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.Ephesians 6:12...for our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.Romans 8:22-24a22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved…1 Corinthians 6:12, 18-2012 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything… 18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.Key...

Frisco First's Young Adult Minister, Shamoir Griffin, sits down with Noisy Narratives to talk about his time growing up in the Projects of New Jersey, why he loves his mom despite a life of addiction, and how Jesus is taking his origins and building something new. Shamoir shares the despair and dangers of growing up around drugs, sex and addiction. His story demonstrates how God sees us even when we feel lost and alone. The discussion is raw and real, and incredibly moving. We know you will be blessed by his story.

This year we will focus some episodes directed specifically towards Youth Ministry and the you 'Youth Ministers.'  These episodes will be short (around 30 to 40 minutes) to hopefully showcase some of the challenges youth ministers come into and an opportunity to learn from the ups and downs of the ministers we have on the show. We have invited ministers who have had at least 10 years of experience in ministry to talk about certain topics or pitfalls of ministering to the young people.In this Youth Ministry Moment episode titled, "Short Season / Long Game" our guest is Melissa Acosta; the Youth & Young Adult Minister as well as Music Minister at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Rancho Cucamonga, California.  Melissa has been active in youth ministry since 2012 starting at Sacred Heart Catholic Church before moving to Sts. Peter & Paul.  A music minister, worship leader, wife and devoted mother of two, Melissa has many talents. She is a gifted singer, speaker and shares her love and knowledge of the Lord and His Church.  You can connect with her on her Instagram @melissamariee92 .Thank you for watching or listening. Remember to like, subscribe and recommend to a friend. Contact us at catholic.dad50@gmail.com. If you would like to help our podcast, you can be a patron on our Patreon page, or you may make a donation on our paypal or venmo @CatholicDotDad.Support the show - http://www.patreon.com/ThisConnectedFOLLOW on Instagram:@catholic.dad  &  @minitangledEdited by Tony Pimentel - http://www.youtube.com/TonyPimentelTheme Song by: The Parousia Band (Instagram @parousiaband )Re-imagined Theme Song by Tony PimentelTrack - "Forever" by Anno Domini BeatsLive a life of holiness,B Blessed & B 3rdBook your stay at the cabin, Running Springs, CAInstagram: @thecabin2021Support the showYour blessing of support is needed and appreciated: https://www.patreon.com/ThisConnected

Sermon Outline From Hypocrisy to HumilityFrom Works to FaithFrom Death to Life Table Discussion Have you ever had a conversation about not walking in line with the truth of the gospel? How did it go?What do you think is your "plus" to the gospel?What does it mean to you that Jesus not only took away your sins, but gave you his righteousness? **This sermon was preached by Lucas Turner, a former partner of missio Dei: Falcon, currently on mission in Central Texas as a College and Young Adult Minister at a Baptist church.

Ashley Chestnut serves as the Young Adult Minister at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, where she disciples women. She's the author of “It's Not Just You,” a guide for women who are fighting for sexual purity in the midst of a sex-saturated culture that opposes God's good design. This conversation is a must-listen for anyone who has questions about God's design for sex and for those who desire to honor God with their sexuality.

Proverbs 6 - Career Crossroads  |  Proverbs: Wisdom For The Journey  |  Stephen Sixtos, Young Adult Minister  |  Preached 9-5-21 10:45am   |  Tag: Job, Work, Career, Employee, Culture, Relationships, Solomon, Proverbs, Wisdom, Journey

Proverbs 6 - Career Crossroads  |  Proverbs: Wisdom For The Journey  |  Stephen Sixtos, Young Adult Minister  |  Preached 9-5-21 10:45am   |  Tag: Job, Work, Career, Employee, Culture, Relationships, Solomon, Proverbs, Wisdom, Journey

Episode 98: IS IT A SIN TO MASTURBATE?  "Am I the Only One?"This episode contains discussion about pornography and masturbation that affects all of us with a special focus on youth and young adults in our community.  It contains the personal testimony of the suffering of a young minister who lived through this suffering and was graced with the love of our Lord Jesus.  We encourage parents to listen to this episode with their youth and young adults to get passed the discomfort of the topic and face head on with accountability in order to achieve redemption from this addiction. An addiction that distorts the gift of intimacy.We chose a few listener questions which we included in the discussion:Is it a sin when it has become an addiction to masturbate? Perhaps you also masturbate when you are stressed out?What do you do when you are going to confession for falling into sin and you feel like you're not making any progress?I know many friends and students in my life who struggle with this but there are some girls (probably more than want to admit) who have confided in me their struggles. What would you say/encourage to  a student on how to break the habit or sustain the break from the habit?  What do you do when temptation of that kind strikes?I think too, a big thing is many people have the misinformation that girls don't struggle with addictions to masturbation and pornography.  Many Catholics are influenced to think that sex is bad and so all thoughts of sex can be bad but that's because there is no knowledge of TOB.I've actually thought about this before and I looked into it.  An yes it is a sin to fall into lust and lust is not only limited to sex and masturbation, it's really anything such as food and other things that lead you away from God.  that is what I boiled it down to.Does it ever eventually become easier to fight the temptation? For me the temptation come basically every day and sometimes several times throughout the day and the longer and longer I go without it [masturbation], the harder it seems to fight the temptation.I want to know if addiction to masturbate still exist in marriage?People downplay this struggle many face as natural. Women are also promoting this more and more.In society in which this behavior/addiction is normalized, how can someone overcome the "it's not a sin" mindset?Are there any programs or resources that help with this behavior?At the 1 hour 18 minute - Chaplet of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity (www.angelicwarfareconfraternity.org)We thank Delaine  Baronia, Young Adult Minister and CoHost and Co-creator of Chasing Magnanimity Podcast, for her courage in sharing her story.Resources:* Lifeteen - www.thevictoryapp.com* Covenant Eyes - www.covenanteyes.com * https://spiritualdirection.com/2014/11/25/sins-of-ignorance-and-sins-of-the-flesh* DM Delaine @delainejudith for more information on her walk towards redemption.Remember to like, subscribe and recommend to a friend. Contact us at catholic.dad50@gmail.com. If you would like to help our podcast, you can be a patron on our Patreon page, or you may make a donation on our PayPal or Venmo @CatholicDotDad.Support the show - Promoting the podcast, encouraging listeners to share and inviting them to become patrons.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThisConnected)

During the first season of ~ing Podcast, we've heard many stories from people who are leading, growing, and being as people of God. We've also navigated a global pandemic together. In the midst of this tension, we pause today to sit down with five different pastors who have been ministering during the pandemic. Rev. Greg Milinovich is Senior Pastor at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in State College, PA; Justin Fung is Pastor of Leadership and Spiritual Formation at Christ City Church in Washington, DC; Jen Gruendler is Youth and Young Adult Minister at Zumbro Lutheran in Rochester, MN; Rev. John Harwood is Priest in Charge at St. Mark's Episcopal in Lewistown, PA; and Rev. Matthew Yoder is Pastor of Grace Mennonite Church in Pandora, OH. We are grateful for the continued support of Everence, a faith-based financial services organization who believe it's possible to incorporate your faith and values with your decisions about money. To take a closer look at the difference it makes when your financial services company is rooted in something more than making a profit visit Everence.com. Securities offered through ProEquities Inc., member FINRA/SIPC. ~ing Podcast is a production of MennoMedia, a nonprofit Publisher that creates thoughtful, Anabaptist resources to enrich faith in a complex world. To find out more, visit us online at MennoMedia.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ing-pod/message

Episode 66 features Delaine Judith Baronia, Young Adult Minister at St. Margaret Mary Church in Chino. She is joined by Core Team Member, Jarell Culla.This is a fun episode with 3 Filipinos, talking about the call to ministry. Good info about Roots Young Adult Ministry at St. Margaret Mary in Chino California. Good info about the leaders, Delaine and Jarell as well as good boba recommends.Conversations about their edumacation, future psychologist and MFT's.Filipino Accents.Inspirations.You will just have to listen to this episode. Guaranteed to have fun.Sponsors:Anery PhotographyTaqueria dos PortrillosWinner of the Catholic Challenge Game: Winner as Queens.Support the podcast yall. Live a life of holiness, B Blessed & B3rd.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThisConnected)

Featuring Nicole Hailey, Young Adult Minister at St. Paul the Apostle Church, Chino Hills, California. We call this episode Spam, Rice and YAM and it was just a fun episode chatting with Hailey about being a young adult minister and cringy, funny chat about our mutual filipino heritage. We recorded this podcast in the morning while Hailey was at home and family were making garlic fried rice and corned beef, a usual filipino breakfast. Be ready to smile and laugh on this episode.Show Notes:- Advertisement, Taqueria 2 Portrillos- First 19 minutes was about growing up filipino (I think more about me than Hailey)- 20th Minute, Hailey Announcements and shoutouts to Tony - 38th Highs & Lows-44th Catholic Prince- 48th Jose Valdez Realty (Advertisement)-49th Delaine- 54th the LETTER 'E' episode is about EMOTIONAL CHASTITY.- Catholic Challenge - Nicole is the bearer of the Keys!!!** Bonus at the end of our chat during the break.Subscribe, Rate and Review the podcast. Check out our link in our Instagram Bio This Connnected Podcast and consider sending in a donation via paypal or venmo. Your donation goes to help volunteer youth ministries do what they can in keeping young people strong in the faith.LIve a life of holiness, we will be praying for you, please pray for us and most importantlyBBlessed & B3rdSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/ThisConnected)

Jamie Richards, Young Adult Minister for Revive at Lutheran Church of Hope, shares about her journey into leadership, how to discern God's voice, and finding people to speak truth over your life. Find Jamie at @iowashington and @_revivewdm on Instagram or connect with her directly via email. https://www.lutheranchurchofhope.org/west-des-moines/contact/staff/bios/jamie-richards/   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This Connected Episode 31- Bonus Pandemic Episode. We are living in an unprecedented time. A Time of anxiety, of fear, of what we don’t know, of what we can’t see. We are living in a time of stay home orders, loss of work, not being able to see family and friends, not being able to go to school. Not being able to go to worship God at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass together, in person with our friends. We live in a time when even our ministries that are called to go out to meet people and evangelize are challenged. Today we will talk to Edgardo Juarez, the director of the Ministry for Young Catholics in the Diocese of San Bernardino regarding what is happening with the ministry and what plans they have to continue to minister to the young people of our diocese.This Connected podcast is where we talk about experiences, points of views, of faith, life and whatever comes along the way. It’s Honest talk to connect generations and situations to not necessarily agree but definitely be listened to. I’m Catholic.dad YOUR host, joined by TODAY’S young adult co-host for the first time, Scotty Vanhorn, Assistant Youth Minister at Holy Innocents Church and Young Adult Minister for the High Desert Vicariate Young Adult Group called Oasis. As usual it is our hope - that by the end of this podcast, you too will feel like, This Connected.Our special guest to the podcast is Edgardo Juarez who is the Director of the Ministry with Young Catholics for the Diocese of San Bernardino. He shares his path to the directorship and what he and his team have been doing to bring Christ in the lives of young people. He also shares what the the MYC and the diocese of SB are doing regarding the answer to ministering to the faithful during this Pandemic. And of course we will find out who our guest will be the Patron Saint of.If you would like to help support our goal to provide funds for youth ministry and activities for youth and the continuing efforts of This podcast. Please consider subscribing as one of our patrons. Join the This Connected fam and subscribe at PATREON.COM/THIS CONNECTED | For as low as $5 a month you can be a subscriber and at $20 per month receive our special This Connected Perks, but most importantly help us provide for the youth of our community.REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE TO “THIS CONNECTED” ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM.EMAIL US YOUR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS TO CATHOLIC.DAD50@GMAIL.COM OR FOLLOW US AND SEND US A DM ON OUR INSTAGRAM @CATHOLIC.DAD. ALSO… SUBSCRIBE, RATE AND SHARE THIS PODCAST WITH ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND IF YOUR FEELING GENEROUS CONSIDER BEING ONE OF OUR PATRONS ON PATREON.COM/THISCONNECTED.REMEMBER…LIVE A LIFE OF HOLINESS, WE WILL BE PRAYING FOR YOU, PLEASE PRAY FOR US AND MOST IMPORTANTLY… B BLESSED AND B3RDSa ngalan ng Ama, ng Anak, ng Espiritu Santo. AmenSupport the show (http://Patreon.com/ThisConnected)

A conversation with David Zahl, author, founder and director of Mockingbird Ministries, editor in chief of the Mockingbird website, and College and Young Adult Minister at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became our New Religion and What to do About It Discussion Guide!

A conversation with David Zahl, author, founder and director of Mockingbird Ministries, editor in chief of the Mockingbird website, and College and Young Adult Minister at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became our New Religion and What to do About It Discussion Guide!

Eights are often called the Challengers, but I like to call them the Protectors or Defenders. Every type has a basic fear and desire coloring the waters of their personality.  The basic fear of an Eight is being not in control of their self. The basic desire is to avoid feeling weak or vulnerable. But Eights can often be misinterpreted. Though they can often appear blunt and aggressive, Eights are truly about justice and looking out for their tribe and making sure others feel like they belong. Eights have lots of energy.  They are high energy, movement people who like to see things get done. The downside of Eights might be that they are low on the vulnerability side of things. They only trust a small amount of people, and though it may take a lot to get in the trust circle, it doesn't take much for you to get out. It's very hard to get on the list, and then you just have to do one thing and you're off the list. But what does it look like when an Eight has done their work and views life through the healthy lens of an Eight?  Listen in as Patrick Chappell discusses various triggers and how he approaches them from the lens of an Eight. Patrick is southern born and bred, having been born in Birmingham and raised in Chattanooga. Patrick earned his degree in Oral Communication and Public Relations from Lipscomb University. He then served as an Admissions Recruiter for the University, traveling the country to bring students to Nashville for a Christian education. He is currently the College and Young Adult Minister at Otter Creek Church in Brentwood, TN. Patrick is passionate about life, spending many hours reading, going to concerts, taking in movies and his favorite TV shows, as well as spending countless hours over coffee with friends. He's also a big fan of the band Weezer.     

Tony Robinson joins us around the table to help ministers understand Generation Z, those 16 years old and younger. Tony has years of experience as a minister to students, preteens, and children. He now serves at Sagemont Church in Houston, TX as the Discipleship and Young Adult Minister.

On a recent (and EPIC) Mystery Trip Survey…Rubio and former admissions recruiter for Lipscomb University and current Young Adult Minister at Otter Creek Church, Patrick Chappell, discuss what lessons PC has learned from working with former youth...

Pastor Tacuma Johnson is a Messenger. He has accepted God's call to "build the infrastructure for the Kingdom of God." Jesus said, "I AM the vine and you are the branches." As you know, vines have to grow along another structure--unlike a tree they are not strong enough to stand upright on their own. In the same way, our lives grow along the educational, economic, familial, and religious institutions around us. In this season, Pastor Johnson believes that God wants us to rely less on the institutions of this world, and build infrastructure to support Kingdom Living. Pastor Tacuma Johnson, is a native of Winston-Salem, NC. He earned an undergraduate degree at Morehouse College in History . After his 1995 graduation, he returned to North Carolina where he gained business management, sales, and finance experience in the real estate business. However, during this time, he discerned the call of God to Christian ministry. He served as Young Adult Minister then Assistant Pastor for several years. Responding more decisively to his calling, he returned to school and in 2003, earned a Masters of Divinity at Wake Forest Divinity School. He also completed a chaplain residency program at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and interned a homeless shelter and street ministry as well as Hospice. Pastor Johnson was called to Greater First United Baptist Church in 2008, and served as its Senior Pastor through the Fall of 2014. Pastor Johnson’s wife, Dr. Michelle T. Johnson is in Kingdom Partnership with him to accomplish the mission of God. She is a graduate of Spelman College and the University of NC at Greensboro, where she earned her Ph.D. in English. She is the founder of Alabaster Woman Ministries, an international ministry offering education and inspiration across denominational, cultural, and regional lines.  The Johnsons have two young daughters, Mikhayah and Saraiyah who light up their lives and hearts.