Small Churches Big Impact Podcast

Host: the Rev. Stacy-Williams Duncan Guests: the Revs. Leon Sampson and Joe Hubbard The Episcopal Church in Navajoland Good Shepherd Mission, Fort Defiance, AZ St. Christopher’s Mission, Bluff, UT Episcopal News Service (ENS) article about Navajoland deputation at General Convention Leon Sampson is a 2019 graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary and currently serves as the curate priest at Good Shepherd Mission in Fort Defiance, AZ. Good Shepherd is located on the Colorado Plateau, in the Four Corners Region of the Navajo Nation. Joe Hubbard serves as Vicar of St. Christopher’s Mission in Bluff, UT and Ministry Developer for the Utah Region of the Episcopal Church in Navajoland. Before attending Virginia Theological Seminary, Joe worked as an attorney in Montgomery, AL and served in the Alabama House of Representatives. In the summer of 2020, Joe and his wife Ashley, their three children Hill, Hattie, and Hannah, and dog Bubba joined Episcopal Church on Navajoland in assisting with their COVID relief efforts. Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

Host: The Rev. Leyla King https://smallchurchesbigimpact.org/ https://thankfulmemorial.org/ https://thankfulpriest.home.blog/ Guests: The Rev. Mark Nabors is the Vicar of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and also serves St. Peter's on the Prairie Episcopal Church in Tollville, Arkansas. A graduate of the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (BA and MPA) and Sewanee (MDiv), he is passionate about liturgy, hymnody, and church administration. Mark and his wife Molly were married in 2017. Together they have two dogs, Pete and Fancy, and a cat, Gunther. https://stalbansstuttgart.weebly.com/ The Rev. Anne West has been blessed with a rich and rewarding ministry. She is West Virginia born and raised. Ordained in 1989, she has served churches in West Virginia, Virginia and New Jersey. Eighteen of her 33 years in ministry were spent serving as School Chaplain in 3 different Episcopal boarding schools. She is passionate about small community ministry and thrives in small church settings. She loves the Episcopal Church and feels honored and humbled to serve God in this part of the vineyard. https://www.gracechurchstanardsville.org/ Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

Host: the Rev. Allison Sandlin Liles Guests: the Revs. Leigh Ellen Hall and Robert Hartmans St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, New Hamburg, NY St. Thaddaeus’ Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, TN St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Hixon, TN ChattEY - Chattanooga Episcopal Youth The Agile Church by Dwight J. Zscheile The Rev. Robert Hartmans serves as the Priest-in-Charge of two small churches in the Diocese of East Tennessee— St Thaddaeus Episcopal Church in Hixon and St Albans Episcopal Church in Chattanooga. Robert grew up in Knoxville TN and was raised in both the Pentecostal and Episcopal traditions which he feels brings a richness to his faith journey. In seminary, Robert served a small parish in Georgetown D.C. where he developed a passion for smaller congregations.In 2020 he married the love of his life, Casey Miller, and in 2021 they welcomed a son ‘Lannie,’ Robert’s three legged pitbull goes everywhere with him. The Rev. Leigh Hall has served as the rector of St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in New Hamburg, New York since 2017. Prior to that, she lived and worked in the Diocese of Georgia for eight years, both in diocesan and parish ministry. At St. Nick’s, Leigh found a home in small church ministry and began to grow and cultivate the deep relationships that have become the hallmark of her vocation. She especially enjoys working with children; teaching others about the faith and The Episcopal Church; the liturgy, including singing the service from time to time; and hearing people's stories as she walks alongside them in pastoral ministry. Leigh is married to Edmund Roberts, and together they are raising a newborn son named Solomon, their Boston Terrier, Boo Radley; a Boxer rescue called Scout; and the eldest of the menagerie, a black and white shorthair named Bianca. Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

The Rev. Stewart Lucas, currently vicar at Holy Innocents’ in Sandy Springs, GA; former pastor of The Church of the Nativity and Holy Comforter, Baltimore, MD. https://nativitycomforter.org/ https://nativitycomforter.org/becoming-lutherpalians/ https://marylandepiscopalian.org/2018/11/28/lutheran-and-episcopal-congregations-form-federation-as-lutherpalians/ https://www.holyinnocents.org/ The Rev. Anthony Estes, Rector, All Saints, Detroit, MI; Rectory, St. Matthew’s and St. Joseph’s (“Matty Jo’s”), Detroit, MI; and Associate and Partnership Missioner at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit, MI. https://detroitcathedral.org/ https://www.facebook.com/SMSJDetroit/ https://www.allsaintsdetroit.org/ https://detroitcathedral.org/detroit-church-partnership/ Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

Host: the Rev. Leyla King Guests: the Revs. Rebekah Hatch, Allison Sandlin Liles, Stacy Williams-Duncan In this introduction to Season Two, the four core members of the Collective reflect on the learnings of the past year in small churches and lay out some themes to expect in the rest of the episodes of the season - from the ecclesiastical church ladder to the joys of serving in nimble congregations. https://smallchurchesbigimpact.org/ https://thankfulmemorial.org/ https://stalbanssimsbury.org/ https://www.ssechurst.org/ https://www.littleforkchurch.org/ Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

HOST: Leyla King GUEST: Kit Lonergan http://saintjamesgroveland.org/wp/ Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress: https://mdsc.org/ Mark 4:26-28 - 26 Jesus also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

HOST: Rebekah Bokros Hatch GUEST: Stacy Williams-Duncan https://learningforte.com/learning-forte/ Festival of Homiletics: https://festivalofhomiletics.com/ Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

HOST: Kit Lonergan GUEST: Susie Shaefer Learn more about the CREDO conference, and find some of their resources, at https://www.cpg.org/credo/ St. John’s Church in Clinton, Michigan: www.stjohnschurchclinton.org “The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.” - Ephesians 4:11-13, New Revised Standard Version “And now the Lord says, who formed me in the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the sight of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” - Isaiah 49:5-6, New Revised Standard Version Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

HOST: Stacy Williams-Duncan GUEST: Leyla King Content Warning: the topic of miscarriage and Leyla’s decision to disclose it to her congregation is discussed throughout the first half of the episode. Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church: https://thankfulmemorial.org/ - https://thankfulpriest.home.blog/ Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

HOST: Susie Shaefer GUEST: Allison Sandlin Liles St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Hurst, TX Episcopal Peace Fellowship Invite,Welcome, Connect Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times by the Most Rev. Michael B. Curry Acts in Easter - a Bible Study created by the Rev. Becky Zartman PFLAG Fort Worth The Woman with the Alabaster Jar from Matthew 26:6-13 Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. But when the disciples saw it, they were angry and said, ‘Why this waste? For this ointment could have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the poor.’ But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, ‘Why do you trouble the woman? She has performed a good service for me. For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. By pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial. Truly I tell you, wherever this good news is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.’ Canon to the Ordinary: This member of the Bishop’s staff is referenced multiple times by Susie and Allison in this episode. The Canon to the Ordinary is often the person who works with clergy in transition and oversees the search or transition process with congregations. The Canon to the Ordinary works directly with the Bishop to do any additional work that needs to be done, which varies from diocese to diocese. Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

HOST: Allison Sandlin Liles GUEST: Rebekah Bokros Hatch Jen Fulton’s article, The Small Church as Icon Gil Rendle’s book Quietly Courageous: Leading the Church in Changing World StoryPath - connecting children’s books with lectionary readings from Union Presbyterian Seminary Lesson Plans that Work: free formation curriculum from the Episcopal Church Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

1 Timothy 4:14: “Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.” Music: I Love to Tell the Story, Benjamin Grove, keyboard Podcast produced by Polymnia

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