here for good

Advent week 4 2018 Neighborhood

Hear the story of Billie Jean, Zeke, Myra, Josh, and Immanuel.  They're moving to your neighborhood.  How will you welcome them?

Advent week 3 2018- Body

How do I prepare my body for the coming of Christ?

Let's start with the feet.

Advent week 2 2018- Water

The river

Of my childhood,

That tumbled

Down a passage of rocks

And cut-work ferns,

Came here and there

To the swirl

And slowdown

Of a pool

And I say myself–

Oh, clearly–

As I knelt at one–

Then I saw myself

As if carried away,

As the river moved on.

Where have I gone?

Since then

I have looked and looked

For myself,

Not sure

Who I am, or where,

Or, more importantly, why.

It’s okay–

I have had a wonderful life.

Still, I ponder

Where that other is–

Where I landed,

What I thought, what I did,

What small or even maybe meaningful deeds

I might have accomplished

Somewhere

Among strangers,

Coming to them

As only a river can–

Touching every life it meets–

That endlessly kind, that enduring.

By Mary Oliver

Advent week 1 2018- Soil

"If I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. Always, the soil must come first."
-  Marion Cran, If I Were Beginning Again

Cultivating Community for the Common Good

What makes for community?  How do we cultivate community for the common good?

In this minisode, the 2018 Summer interns of QC Family Tree reflect upon their experiences and y talk about what practices and framework we need in order to cultivate community.

You'll hear the voices of Langley Hoyt, Gabrielle Corti, Zariah Nolan, Greg Jarrell, and Helms Jarrell.  We recorded this minisode halfway through the intern's 10 week long summer internship.  The internship will wrap up with an epic Big Trip with the QCFT youth to Washington DC, July 29-August 4th.  You can help to sponsor the Big Trip.  Every $20 you give helps to get us 1 mile further down the 800 mile road.  qcfamilytree.org/donate

 

Helms and Greg recap Season 1

Helms and Greg Jarrell recap Season 1 of the Here for Good podcast and we talk about what's to come in Season 2 in the fall of 2018.

Cultivating a Sense of Belonging with Special Guest Terri Springer

Cultivating a sense of Belonging is a part of what makes for abundant community.  Listen in as Terri and Helms talk about this and more in this episode.

Terri is a Board Certified Coach who has worked with clients in the areas of ministry, career direction, and life issues. She has served on the staff of churches in Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina focusing on Youth and Spiritual Formation.  Terri is a graduate of Indiana University and Southern Seminary.   When she is not coaching or ministering, Terri is an avid reader, traveler, and hiker.  She also serves as the on-site IT specialist for the Springer family. Terri is in the CHC-Carolinas region and can be reached at TerriS@chchurches.org. Read articles by Terri Springer.

Manifesting Abundance with Special Guest Ayanna Johnson Watkins

This episode is about abundance in the flesh: Possibilitarians, Incarnational practitioners, Manifesting abundance, Being Good for the Common.

 

Our Special Guest's unofficial title is "Abundance Identifier."  You'll see.  Ayanna knows something good when she sees it.  Listen in as we discuss what makes for the common good and how to live out abundance.

Playlist for the Common Good with special Guest Dawn Anthony

Dawn Anthony, Greg Jarrell, and Helms Jarrell talk about and sing songs of abundance in this episode.  

Self Care and Sabbath as Resistance with special guest Angela Whitenhill

“Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to the people and place around you? Not after or because you do some particular thing, but simply the miracle of your life. And that the people around you, and the place(s), have contributions as well? Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?

Are you actively practicing generosity and vulnerability in order to make the connections between you and others clear, open, available, durable? Generosity here means giving of what you have without strings or expectations attached. Vulnerability means showing your needs.” 
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

In this episode, Angela Whitenhill and I talk about Self Care and Sabbath as Resistance.