By Brett Hetherington* When Will Fenton-Jones, director of Multicultural Ministries, set out to create a space for clergy and laity in the East Ohio Conference to share a role-playing game experience no one in the group could have imagined that it would have led to ministering to people at one of the most family-friendly and [...]
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6DfC0f38IsnIKOkd7X6T2W Episode 42 is titled “Belonging & Inclusion: Sharing the Love of God with Gamers”. This episode features a conversation with UMC Rev. Derek White, known as “The Geek Preacher”, a long-time pastor to table-top gamers who recently partnered with clergy in the East Ohio Conference to serve as chaplains at the Origins Games Fair [...]
By Rick Wolcott* Love requires listening and listening requires love. Sound simple? Yes. Easy to put into practice? Not always. In resourcing pastors, congregations, and faith communities to live into our shared East Ohio Conference vision, the Connectional Ministries team brought in Rev. Luke Edwards to lead a workshop teaching the principles of his Listening [...]
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