In today's episode we talk agin with Angelica Regalado Cieza, founding pastor and mission developer at Estamos Unidos Moravian Ministry in Winston Salem, NC. We talk about how the ministry was born and how their outreach became a faith community. You can find the Estamos Unidos Facebook page here.   Our music is "No Good Layabout" by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4140-no-good-layabout License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license ..read more

We're starting a new season of the podcast and narrowing our focus. In season two, we'll be having conversations with church leaders about building community. And with this new focus we'll be going with a new name. We hope you will join us for new episodes of Faithful Community ..read more

In today’s episode we talk with Rev. Wendy Hudson, Pastor of Two Rivers Church in Charleston, SC. Wendy is a church planter in the United Methodist Church. We talk about how her congregation quickly adapted the essential elements of church to the realities of social distancing. The interview was recorded on March 24th and much has changed since then, but I’m confident you will find Wendy’s insights to be helpful as we continue to adapt our churches to the realities of a pandemic.   For more information about Two Rivers Church here.   Today's episode brought to you by the Church Devel ..read more

In today’s episode we talk with Rev. LeDayne McLeese Polaski, Executive Director of MeckMIN, an interfaith collaboration of nearly 100 member congregations representing more than a dozen faith traditions that works to foster understanding, compassion and justice in Charlotte, NC. She is an ordained Baptist minister and the grant coordinator at QC Family Tree. We talk about how congregations can support marginalized populations during the COVID-19 epidemic.   For more information about MeckMIN you can check out their facebook page here.   If you are in the Charlotte area, MeckMIN has ..read more

In today’s episode we talk with Melanie Childers, Clinical Chaplain at the Watauga Medical Center in Boone, NC. In our interview today she offers some invaluable advice for clergy and other church leaders seeking to offer pastoral care in the midst of this pandemic. She is ordained in the United Church of Christ and is a board certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains. She has over 20 years of experience in offering spiritual care in the midst of crisis.     You can read more about Melanie Childers here.   You can read an article on the difficult decision ..read more

In today’s episode we talk with Angelica Regalado Cieza, the Founding Pastor & Mission Developer of Estamos Unidos Moravian Ministry in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Estamos Unidos provides Christian community and educational opportunities for first-generation Hispanic immigrants in the Winston Salem Area. In our conversation we discuss how this ministry came about, how Angelica’s experience as an immigrant herself has informed her ministry, and how the rich tradition of education in the Moravian Church influenced her work. For More info about Estamos Unidos you can visit their facebook p ..read more

In this episode we talk with Elaine Heath, a United Methodist Minister and Author, serving as the Abbess of  Spring Forest, an intentional Christian Community and farm in rural North Carolina. We talk about her book God Unbound, missional ecclesiology, the importance of lay leadership, and how she developed a passion for church history that inspires her innovative work today. Books mentioned: Elaine’s Book on Post-Christendom : God Unbound  Elaine’s book on the Mystics – The Mystic Way of Evangelism  Books She’s Reading: Who Do We Choose to Be By Margaret Wheatley  Universa ..read more

In this episode we talk with Brandon Wrencher, minister, organizer, and facilitator working across the US within faith, education, and non-profit sectors at the intersection of decolonizing church, contemplative activism, and local presence to build beloved communities. We talk about the The Good Neighbor Movement, the church he leads as well as the Liberating Church Project, a network seeking to decolonize new and established expressions of church by looking to hush harbors, the church of enslaved Africans, as a model having contemporary relevance for decolonizing the church.   Books men ..read more

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