Stories of Transformation

Take Care
My life has not been easy in the midst of the murder of George Floyd and most recently the shooting and successive paralysis of Jacob

Learning In Community – Episode 12
Slow Down & Take Care It can feel challenging to prioritize our own physical, emotional and mental needs during a pandemic. It feels like we

Learning In Community – Episode 11
Young People ARE the Church It can be weird as a youth worker to connect with new young people and build ministry in the virtual

Learning In Community – Episode 10
Who Fights For These Kids? Part 2 (With Minta Buse) This is part 2 of our special interview with 15 year Seattle YFC Veteran Minta

Learning In Community – Episode 9
Who Fights For These Kids? With Minta Buse This week Josh is back with Rachel to welcome Seattle Area YFC veteran and friend Minta Buse

Learning In Community – Episode 8
Trauma Informed…At A Distance (with Erin Randle) Right now amidst COVID-19, young people who have experienced severe traumas are still in need of love, support,

I Miss You, Hans.
Derek is choosing to spend most of his time during this season in his bedroom with the door shut playing video games. It’s quiet in

Why Campus Life Military?
I still remember his pause as he thought through the question. He stretched out one finger at a time. “Seven,” he said. I had just

Learning In Community – Episode 7
You Belong To This Village (with Erin Randle) We’ve all heard the saying, “It takes a village,” but what does that look like practically? Today

Learning In Community – Episode 6
Seeking Kids On The Margins When we look at the vast landscape of young people there are so many different cultures, personalities, interests, subgroups and

Learning In Community – Episode 5
U.N.I.T.Y. Our families, communities, churches and young people are divided in so many ways and we as believers are somehow supposed to overcome all this

Learning In Community – Episode 4
Why Collaborate? We are not in the business of transaction, we are in the business of relationship — and that includes relationships in our community.

Learning In Community – Episode 3
Is The Good News Still Good? It can be hard to tell a young person the good news in a world that feels anything but

Who’s ministering to whom?
If you’ve been around Youth for Christ for a while–or not very long at all–you’ll hear the word “relationship” being used a lot. The very

Uncertainty, meet Certainty.
Several months ago, Covid-19 upended our existence. Work changed drastically and social norms and easy rhythms became fraught with uncertainty. Then came the struggles over

Learning In Community – Episode 2
Grief, Jesus, & George Floyd We don’t love young people in a vacuum and neither did Jesus. The murder of George Floyd and movement for

Learning In Community – Episode 1
Deep Ministry During A Pandemic – The coronavirus has no doubt had an impact on the ways we connect with young people, but as believers

Learning In Community – Episode 0
Welcome to Learning in Community! This podcast is for the equipping of leaders who have been called by Christ to love and serve young people.

Kristina’s Path To Graduation
When I first met Kristina in Remann Hall in July of 2018, she was in a suicide vest (a garment designed to prevent a person

What if the kids don’t show?
As the months have come and gone during this COVID season, many beautiful ministry stories have surfaced. Students are coming to know Jesus over Zoom,