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Episode Notes [03:47] Seth's Early Understanding of Questions [04:33] The Power of Questions [05:25] Building Relationships Through Questions [06:41] This is Strategy: Focus on Questions [10:21] Gamifying Questions [11:34] Conversations as Infinite Games [15:32] Creating Tension with Questions [20:46] Effective Questioning Techniques [23:21] Empathy and Engagement [34:33] Strategy and Culture [35:22] Microsoft's Transformation [36:00] Global Perspectives on Questions [39:39] Caring in a Challenging World Resources Mentioned The Dip by Seth Godin Linchpin by Seth Godin Purple Cow by Seth Godin Tribes by Seth Godin This Is Marketing by Seth Godin The Carbon Almanac This is Strategy by Seth Godin Seth's Blog What Does it Sound Like When You Change Your Mind? by Seth Godin Value Creation Masterclass by Seth Godin on Udemy The Strategy Deck by Seth Godin Taylor Swift Jimmy Smith Jimmy Smith Curated Questions Episode Supercuts Priya Parker Techstars Satya Nadella Microsoft Steve Ballmer Acumen Jerry Colonna Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin Tim Ferriss podcast with Seth Godin Seth Godin website Beauty Pill Producer Ben Ford Questions Asked When did you first understand the power of questions? What do you do to get under the layer to really get down to those lower levels? Is it just follow-up questions, mindset, worldview, and how that works for you? How'd you get this job anyway? What are things like around here? What did your boss do before they were your boss? Wow did you end up with this job? Why are questions such a big part of This is Strategy? If you had to charge ten times as much as you charge now, what would you do differently? If it had to be free, what would you do differently? Who's it for, and what's it for? What is the change we seek to make? How did you choose the questions for The Strategy Deck? How big is our circle of us? How many people do I care about? Is the change we're making contagious? Are there other ways to gamify the use of questions? Any other thoughts on how questions might be gamified? How do we play games with other people where we're aware of what it would be for them to win and for us to win? What is it that you're challenged by? What is it that you want to share? What is it that you're afraid of? If there isn't a change, then why are we wasting our time? Can you define tension? What kind of haircut do you want? How long has it been since your last haircut? How might one think about intentionally creating that question? What factors should someone think about as they use questions to create tension? How was school today? What is the kind of interaction I'm hoping for over time? How do I ask a different sort of question that over time will be answered with how was school today? Were there any easy questions on your math homework? Did anything good happen at school today? What tension am I here to create? What wrong questions continue to be asked? What temperature is it outside? When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for celebration or heartbreak? What are the questions we're going to ask each other? What was life like at the dinner table when you were growing up? What are we really trying to accomplish? How do you have this cogent two sentence explanation of what you do? How many clicks can we get per visit? What would happen if there was a webpage that was designed to get you to leave? What were the questions that were being asked by people in authority at Yahoo in 1999? How did the stock do today? Is anything broken? What can you do today that will make the stock go up tomorrow? What are risks worth taking? What are we doing that might not work but that supports our mission? What was the last thing you did that didn't work, and what did we learn from it? What have we done to so delight our core customers that they're telling other people? How has your international circle informed your life of questions? What do I believe that other people don't believe? What do I see that other people don't see? What do I take for granted that other people don't take for granted? What would blank do? What would Bob do? What would Jill do? What would Susan do? What happened to them? What system are they in that made them decide that that was the right thing to do? And then how do we change the system? How given the state of the world, do you manage to continue to care as much as you do? Do you walk to school or take your lunch? If you all can only care if things are going well, then what does that mean about caring? Should I have spent the last 50 years curled up in a ball? How do we go to the foundation and create community action?…
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1 A One-stop Shop for Flourishing: The Story of Revive Church 40:04
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In this episode, we talk with Kyle Morris who is the Lead Pastor of Revive Church in Arvada, CO. We hear about his church's decision to stay where they were and seek the shalom of their neighborhood rather than move to a different (and wealthier) part of the city. This decision forced the church to deal with a problem of too much space through the acquisition of a shopping center, and then radically re-thinking how they used all of the space. Rather than starting with needs within the church, they asked questions about needs within the neighborhood. And what they discovered was that their neighborhood needed 1) childcare, 2) workforce development, 3) affordable housing, and 4) new business incubation. This process led the church to redevelop the shopping center into an exciting project called The Bridge where they partner with other local organizations to help meet some of the city's identified needs. Kyle talks about the challenges of leading a church while also leading a number of initiatives. He discusses finding a balance between investing in the neighborhood where you live and where your church is located. And, he talks about the challenge of adapting while staying mission focused with changing circumstances. Episode Contributors Kyle Morris, Lead Pastor of Revive Church Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Revive Church The Bridge - The shopping center owned by Revive Church that has been revived physically and is home to thriving for-profit and non-profit organizations that are collaborating and working to serve vulnerable families. Beyond Home - A nonprofit whose mission is to provide a comprehensive approach for families to become self-sufficient for life Marsh Collective - A team of consultants that works with leaders, companies, patrons, and developers to help clarify vision for their city, business, or team Lionheart Children's Academy - A nonprofit Christian organization committed to excellence in early childhood education CrossPurpose - A non-profit organization abolishing relational, economic, and spiritual poverty through career and community development Colorado Foundation for Conductive Education - A nonprofit organization that offers an intensive, holistic alternative approach to traditional therapy for individuals with motor disabilities "Churches Don’t Have to Be Lousy Stewards. Here’s Proof" Story of Revive Church by Amy Sherman and Jacob Baldwin in Common Good Magazine: Issue 11, May 2023 Canoeing in the Mountains by Tod Bolsinger Art of Neighboring by Jay Pathak and Dave Runyon Church Unleashed by Frank R. Tillapaugh Key Terms - Proximity - Placemaking - Affordable Housing - Shalom Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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1 Being a Place in the Neighborhood: The Camp House & Mission Chattanooga 35:47
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In this episode, we talk with Matt Busby who is the Senior Associate Pastor at Mission Chattanooga. Matt describes for us the evolution of a relationship between a specific church (Mission Chattanooga) and a coffee shop/restaurant/event space (The Camp House) in three different neighborhoods in downtown Chattanooga. Mission Chattanooga and Camp House began renting in the Southside neighborhood, moved to the MLK neighborhood, and now are located in the Onion Bottom Neighborhood. This conversation highlights some of the ways that a church can bless the neighborhood in which it is located. The Camp House has been a gathering space, a cultural incubator, and a forum for important community conversations. And by drawing people into the neighborhood this entity has helped to enliven the neighborhood. In addition to gathering a diverse community for worship, Mission Chattanooga has sought ways to bless the neighborhood through mercy ministries and civic engagement. Matt shares with us some of the tradeoffs between working with volunteers in a non-profit setting and paid employees in a for profit endeavor. He also talks about his shifting pastoral identity as he navigates dividing his position description between event coordination and pastoral ministry. If you have ever wondered about how a church building can be utilized to bless a neighborhood throughout the week, this is an episode you won't want to miss. Episode Contributors Rev. Matt Busby is the Senior Associate Pastor at Mission Chattanooga Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Mission Chattanooga Chattanooga Design Studio Sidewalks in the Kingdom by Eric O. Jacobsen The Space Between by Eric O. Jacobsen Eugene Cho Mike Watkins Architect - Urban design and architecture firm dedicated to designing and implementing a walkable, lasting, and beautiful public realm that fosters community Key Terms - Charrette - Third Place - Chronological Connectivity Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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Stained glass, digital photos, or a pile of rocks. Today, we join the co-hosts of the Device & Virtue podcast to talk about how the church builds memories and the role of technology in this space. It’s a podcast inside a podcast. Memories help people establish identities and build communities, and physical places are fertile ground where memories take root. But are new digital spaces uprooting our memories, or giving them new soil to grow in? As Christians, God consistently calls us to remember all that he has done and the ways he has been faithful. How can we root our memories in physical places and digital spaces, and cultivate the benefits of both? We asked our friends Adam Graber and Chris Ridgeway, the co-hosts of the Device & Virtue podcast, to help us sort this out. Call it a podcast playdate. We ask each other questions such as: What does memory look like in digital and built spaces? How do these spaces shape the capacity, and content, of our memory? Hear stories of churches that have established creative practices that both embrace lament and celebrate God’s healing. If your church wants to build memory and community through digital and physical spaces, check out this episode! Learn more about the Device & Virtue podcast on their website , Twitter and on Instagram . Listen on Apple , Google , Spotify , and everywhere else. Adam Graber co-hosts the Device & Virtue podcast, is a consultant with Leadership Network and FaithTech, and a coach at Wheaton College’s Center for Faith & Innovation . Adam researches and writes on emerging technologies , and consults with Christian leaders on digital spiritual formation. He has developed tech courses for Northern Seminary and Fuller Seminary . Chris Ridgeway consults and coaches on digital transformation, brand strategy, and teamwork + leadership for businesses and non-profits. He writes and comments on: digital privacy, culture, tech, ethics, strategy, & leadership. He cares about justice and urban environments. He has developed a course teaching nervous cyclists how to become confident commuters. Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen, Sara Joy Proppe, Adam Graber, and Chris Ridgeway Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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In this episode, Eric and Sara Joy listen to the story of Kevin Finch, the Executive Director of Big Table and a former pastor who was moonlighting as restaurant critic. During his days as a pastor and a restaurant critic, Kevin was exposed to the high levels of need that existed among workers in the hospitality industry. As he sought a way to provide help and care for this often overlooked sector, he could not find a single nonprofit that was dedicated to serving this particular community. Then he received a very unusual and distinct calling from God to step up to the plate to address this need. This calling led Kevin to begin Big Table in 2009, a nonprofit solely dedicated to meeting the needs of workers in the restaurant and hospitality industry. Operating on a referral model, Big Table helps cover rent, provide cars, assist navigating health issues, etc. for those in the hospitality industry. Kevin impresses upon listeners the need to really see the people in your community and neighborhood who are so often overlooked because these relationships are too often viewed as purely transactional. He sparks a new way of thinking and a new population to consider when it comes to caring for the least in your neighborhood. Sara Joy and Eric also speak with two field guides who provide more insight into the work of Big Table and the needs that so many service and hospitality industry workers face in their daily lives. Paul Cunningham, head pastor of La Jolla Presbyterian Church, shares how his church helped establish a Big Table presence in the San Diego area. Through funds and connections to the local restaurants, the church has been a catalyst for expanding Big Table to southern California. Paul also shares how their collaboration with Big Table has inspired his congregants to be kinder and more generous people to those with whom they come in contact in the service industry. He reiterates the importance of seeing the unseen people in the community and caring for them in tangible ways. Eliza Harris Juliano, another field guide for this episode, provides a helpful perspective from urban planning as she notes that housing and transportation costs together are large factors that affect the livelihood of hourly wage workers, like those in the restaurant and hospitality industries. She highlights that when workers have to live far from their job, they are more dependent on reliable transportation which can be costly when it comes to maintaining a car. She also points out that deficient and/or unreliable public transit is another hurdle that these workers face, particularly when being late to a job because of a slow bus can actually cost them their job. Providing affordable housing in places near jobs and increasing public transit infrastructure to serve these areas are ways this sector of the community can be better supported. In that regard, she encourages listeners to pay attention to zoning and advocate for better policies that create the places where people of all socioeconomic classes can live together. Episode Contributors Kevin Finch is the Executive Director of Big Table based in Spokane, Washington. Rev. Dr. Paul Cunningham is the Head Pastor of La Jolla Presbyterian Church Eliza Harris Juliano is a Principal in the Urban Design studio and serves as the firm’s Director of Urbanism at Canin Associates based in Orlando Florida. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. Sign up for the free online Community Forum on November 22, 2022 to discuss this episode with Eric, Sara Joy, and Chris and other podcast listeners. Register today ! More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Big Table Big Table | Serving Hope Video La Jolla Presbyterian Church The Center for Neighborhood Technology Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Yes In God's Backyard (YIGBY) Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It by M. Nolan Gray Key Terms - Affordable Housing - Inclusionary Zoning - Missing Middle Housing - NIMBY (Not in my backyard) - YIMBY (Yes in my backyard) - Zoning Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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In this episode, Sara Joy and Eric talk with Pastor Dwayne Cline about James North Baptist Church and their journey towards providing affordable housing in their neighborhood in the north end Hamilton, Ontario. With a vision for incarnational ministry, James North has been serving their neighborhood for over 130 years. As one of the most economically depressed neighborhoods in the city, they have faithfully provided care and resources for many of those struggling to make ends meet. As the neighborhood tide began to change with new development and rising property prices in more recent years, the church recognized a growing need to provide affordable housing options for the long-time local residents. Their solution was to build affordable housing into their church property plans. The church had already drawn plans and paid over $700K in costs for designing their new church building when they hit the pause button to rethink their property. In prayerful consideration, they decided to go back to the drawing board and design a new building that would also accommodate 45 units of affordable housing. The total project cost was $22 million with half of those costs related to the housing and half related to the church. They used a mix of government funds and a church capital campaign to cover the development expenses. Additionally, they worked in close collaboration with Indwell, a faith-based affordable housing developer, to guide the project to successful completion. Indwell also provides the property management and supportive services necessary for the property. The level of grit and collaboration required of the church has been great, but their relationships with the city officials and local neighborhood players opened doors for a successful project. Eric and Sara Joy also speak with two field guides who provide more insight into the affordable housing context and resources that exist to guide churches in participating and advocating in this arena. Jill Shook, founder of Making Housing and Community Happen, explains classifications of affordable housing and talks about how churches can advocate for policy changes that allow for more affordable housing production in their communities while also considering opportunities for churches to play a direct role in providing it themselves. Patrick Duggan, Executive Director of the United Church of Christ Church Building and Loan Fund, gives some practical steps for churches to assess whether affordable housing makes sense in light of their location and their mission. He also shares about ways churches can mitigate risks by partnering with organizations like his to guide the development process. Episode Contributors Dwayne Cline is the Lead Pastor of James North Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ontario. Dr. Jill Shook is the Founding Director of Making Housing and Community Happen , working with churches to bring about housing justice in the United States. She is author of Making Housing Happen: Faith Based Affordable Housing Models . She has developed and taught Housing Justice and Community Organizing in the Azusa Pacific University MA Social Work Department. Today she does a variety of workshops, including One-Day Housing Justice Workshops around the US. Rev. Dr. Patrick Duggan is the Executive Director of the United Church of Christ Church Building and Loan Fund . He is responsible for advancing the mission and growing the capacity, reach and social impact of CB&LF products and services. Patrick has more than 30 years of experience in bi-vocational ministry, serving the local church while working in the public sector, including education, government, nonprofit organizations and economic and community development. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. Sign up for the free online Community Forum on August 23, 2022 to discuss this episode with Eric, Sara Joy, and Chris and other podcast listeners. Register today ! More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources James North Baptist Church Growing to Serve: The Story of James North - video Indwell - a Christian charity that creates affordable housing communities Making Housing and Community Happen - a faith-based nonprofit that equips congregations, community leaders, and neighbors with practical tools needed to transform their communities to end homelessness, and to stabilize the cost of housing United Church of Christ Church Building & Loan Fund - an institution that transforms communities by helping the Church live into God’s economy, helping congregations plan, raise, finance, and build transformative projects CNU - Members Christian Caucus: Churches + Affordable Housing Case Studies Ministries of Mercy by Tim Keller Christianity's Surprise by C. Kavin Rowe Making Housing Happen: Faith Based Affordable Housing Models by Jill Shook Key Terms - Affordable Housing - Displacement - Entitlements - Gentrification - Inclusionary Zoning - Tax Credits - Zoning Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
In this episode, Sara Joy and Eric talk with Pastor Gabe Coyle about the fruition of Four Chapter Gallery, an art space developed, curated, and managed by Christ Community Church in downtown Kansas City. As an artist himself, Gabe discusses how his passions and dreams have taken on new shape by planting a church with the intention of connecting with the local arts community. The Four Chapter Gallery was born in 2013 from both the passion of church staff and the neighborhood request to see gallery space as part of the church development. Using the biblical framework of four chapters (movements): creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, the Four Chapter Gallery seeks to bring flourishing to the local arts community by offering beautiful gallery space and valuable support in promoting the work of the artist and treating each artist with care and dignity. Additionally, Christ Community Church has chosen to make the art gallery a significant budget line item so that everything is funded by the church, which provides the flexibility to not take a percentage from the artists. The gallery has gained a respected reputation among artists and their shows are currently booked out through January 2024. The Four Chapter Gallery hosts concept-based art exhibitions that engage culturally relevant themes and ideas. They have three core values when it comes to the kind of work they desire to present in their space. These values are: Art with ideas - artwork that has been created around particular themes, ideas, or research. The work of emerging artists - they has a special desire to boost emerging artists. Art that creates generative conversation - they love exhibiting work that presses into issues relevant to the culture, city, and neighborhood in a generative way. Eric and Sara Joy also speak with two field guides who provide more insight into the value and characteristics of good gallery space and programming for art and the ways that churches have engaged art throughout history. Sandra Bowden, an artist and curator, discusses the value of gallery space and programming that supports the artist and provides thoughtful, educational connections with the art to steward a viewer's experience with the art itself. David Taylor from Fuller Theological Seminary provides the historical framework on the connections between art and the church, highlighting various movements in history and within specific theological traditions that have come to shape the way churches engage with art. Episode Contributors Gabe Coyle is the Campus Pastor of Christ Community Church in downtown Kansas City, MO. Sandra Bowden is a visual artist based in Chatham, MA. She has been interpreting Scripture and her own spiritual walk through mixed media for more than forty years. She has been acclaimed as one of the most unique, impressive and inspiring Christian artists in America. Bowden’s work has been featured in books, magazines and gallery shows across the United States, Canada, Italy and Jerusalem. She is co-author of Seeing the Unseen: Launching and Managing a Church Gallery . David Taylor is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. Prior to his appointment at Fuller, Dr. Taylor served as a pastor for ten years in Austin, Texas. Taylor serves on the advisory board for Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts as well as IVP Academic’s series, “Studies in Theology and the Arts” and has served as board member of Christians In the Visual Arts (CIVA). He is the author of Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts and The Theater of God’s Glory: Calvin, Creation and the Liturgical Arts . He is editor of For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts . Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. Sign up for the free online Community Forum on August 23, 2022 to discuss this episode with Eric, Sara Joy, and Chris and other podcast listeners. Register today ! More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Christ Community Church - Downtown KC Four Chapter Gallery Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) Agents of Flourishing by Amy Sherman Seeing the Unseen: Launching and Managing a Church Gallery by Sandra Bowden and Marianne Lettieri Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
In this episode, Eric and Sara Joy chat with Pastor Scott Woller about the model of building both a church and a coffee shop. While Pastor Scott does not say it directly, in essence, he aimed to develop a "third place." Third place is a term coined by Ray Oldenburg to describe those places that we find ourselves visiting on a fairly regular basis that are not our homes and not our places of work. Third places can take a variety of forms. They can be coffee shops, pubs, barber shops, or even a collection of mailboxes near some seating. Third places play a crucial role in connecting people in a neighborhood and breaking down barriers presented by demographic differences. With a mission to reach the urban dweller who may have little interest or experience with a church, Scott and his wife started Corner Coffee as a way to connect with neighbors and build relationships within walking distance of where they live and worship. He started Corner Church alongside Corner Coffee in order to reach regular customers in the neighborhood with the gospel. A distinctly different model than a church with a coffee shop in the lobby, Corner Coffee is the main user and lease holder on the property and Corner Church leases space from the coffee shop in order to meet there on Sundays. The pastoral staff of Corner Church also serve in management, service, and administrative capacities for the coffee shop. The financials between the church and the coffee shop are completely separate, and Pastor Scott shares about the risky and sometimes tough road it has been to build both a profitable business and a sustaining church. Despite the difficulties, they have been dedicated to creating a place that cultivates regular, consistent interactions with the neighborhood so they can make a difference in people's lives. A coffee shop has been their chosen venue for turning a localized customer base of "regulars" into friends and community members. He also discusses their church's foundation of evangelism being centered on "redefinition." This approach means they want to be at the forefront of redefining what is means to be a follower of Christ, what it means to be the church, and walking relationally with people through the learning process. This is their "why" and what motivates them to continue pressing into the daily grind of coffee shop work and pastoring. Since its inception in the North Loop in 2005, Corner Church has planted three additional coffee shops and churches in walkable neighborhoods in the Minneapolis metro area. Eric and Sara Joy also speak with two field guides who expand upon the concept of third places in communities and the important role these play in our civic relationships and well-being. Hazel Borys with PlaceMakers shares her definition of third place, why these spaces matter, and important characteristics that make them successful. Rich Heyman from the University of Texas provides the historic background on the development of third places and the positives and negatives that can be associated with these communal spaces. Episode Contributors Scott Woller is the North Loop Pastor of Corner Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Rich Heyman is a Lecturer in the Department of American Studies at University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include cultural geography, urban geography, critical theory and Marxism, history of geography, pedagogy, and public space. He recently contributed to an article in The Atlantic entitled Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’ . Hazel Borys is the Managing Director at PlaceMakers . As Managing Principal, Hazel inspires the company to deliver an exceptional product to a developing marketplace. She guides governments through zoning reforms — allowing walkable, mixed-use, compact, resilient places to develop by-right — and helps developers get things built under the increasingly-prevalent form-based codes and character-based land use laws of the new economy. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. Sign up for the free online Community Forum on August 23, 2022 to discuss this episode with Eric, Sara Joy, and Chris and other podcast listeners. Register today ! More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Corner Church Corner Coffee PlaceMakers Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a ‘Third Place’ - The Atlantic The third place: What is it & how does it relate to coffee shops? - Perfect Daily Grind The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg Season 5: Episode 2 - Social Infrastructure and the church - The Embedded Church Podcast Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website: - Pedestrian Shed - Proximity - Third Place - Social Capital - Suburbanization - Zoning Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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In this episode, Eric and Sara Joy talk with Pastor Scott Pontier about how Jamestown Harbor Church has explored the needs and opportunities for creating a "center" in their suburban community. After a few years of conversation with the local township board and other organizations, they landed on partnering with a local sports program to design a facility that provides gathering space for the church and also serve as a sports complex. Though not using the term specifically, it is evident through this interview that the missional heart of Jamestown Harbor Church has been to create "social infrastructure" in order to be a blessing to their community. Social infrastructure is a term coined by Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist from NYU, which refers to the physical spaces and places that are the venue for the formation of civic, social bonds with those in living in proximity to one another. The journey of Jamestown Harbor Church demonstrates a church leadership team and congregation that has sought to identify where there is a deficit of social infrastructure in their community and discern how their church can play a super important role in creating a venue that fills the void and builds opportunities for people to form relationships in their suburban context. Pastor Scott stresses the importance of being flexible and being more in love with your mission than your stuff as essential qualities for taking on partnerships and building places that are to be used freely by the local community. He acknowledges that the process has been arduous at times with dead-ends or outcomes that look vastly different than anticipated, but trusting that God is at work and staying laser-focused on the mission of blessing the community has enabled this vision to move forward despite the unplanned pathways. At Jamestown Harbor Church they are intent on creating a place where relationships are formed and deepened among members of their township so that people can experience the fullness of shalom found in Jesus. Eric and Sara Joy also speak with a couple of field guides who provide professional expertise to expand upon the sociological and design facets of social infrastructure. Eric Klinenberg of NYU shares his definition of social infrastructure, why it is so important, and how it differs from social capital. He also discusses the ways churches can either support or detract from building cohesive and integrated communities with their facilities and programs. Greg Snider with Aspen Group gives more color to the community process that Jamestown Harbor Church engaged before landing on their current plan for to include a sports complex. He also highlights several avenues churches can pursue when considering the type and design of social infrastructure elements on their properties. Episode Contributors Scott Pontier is the Lead Pastor of Jamestown Harbor Church in Hudsonville, Michigan. Eric Klinenberg is Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. A New York Times bestselling author, he has written several books including Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Crown, 2018), Going Solo : The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (The Penguin Press, 2012), Fighting for Air : The Battle to Control America’s Media (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and Heat Wave : A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2002). Greg Snider is a Ministry Space Strategist at Aspen Group . He has more than 20 years of construction experience in residential, light commercial, and interior build-out. Fifteen of those years were spent building churches, including Living Water Church in Bolingbrook, Illinois, West Side Christian Church in Springfield, Illinois, and Community Christian Church in Naperville, Illinois. At Aspen Group, he works diligently to obtain an intimate understanding of the mission and vision of each church. He then uses this knowledge to guide the project team as they translate that vision into effective design and ultimately into a finished, ministry-enhancing facility. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. Sign up for the free online Community Forum on July 26, 2022 to discuss this episode with Eric, Sara Joy, and Chris and other podcast listeners. Register today ! More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Jamestown Harbor Church Aspen Group Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg The Celtic Way of Evangelism by George G. Hunter III Season 1: Episode 2 - Community Collaborations (Third Church Community Charrette Process) - The Embedded Church Podcast Season 3: Episode 6 - Reading Palaces for the People - The Embedded Church Podcast Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website: - Charrette - Civic Sphere - Fragmentation - Public Belonging - Social Belonging - Social Capital - Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) - Social Infrastructure - Threshold Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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In this episode, Eric and Sara Joy talk with Pastor Cynthia Wallace about how the Oasis Farm and Fishery was implemented and is operating out of Bible Center Church in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Originally begun as an educational initiative to help families learn how to eat and cook healthier, the program has evolved into growing food for the local community. This work began as the church gained a deeper understanding of the food insecurity, or lack of access to food, that so many of the local neighborhood residents are facing. Pastor Cynthia reminds us that listening to God and your neighbors is a vital part of recognizing what needs the local church is called to fulfill in the community. The process can be slow and full of small steps, but God has been faithful to expand the work of Bible Center Church in a well-timed and manageable way. The Oasis Farm and Fishery has been in operation for almost nine years, expanding to include gardening classes, cooking classes, farm stands, and vegetable box delivery in the community. Eric and Sara Joy also speak with a couple of field guides who provide professional research expertise to expand upon the social and economic implications of food insecurity in our communities. Both Dr. Stephanie Boddie of Baylor University and Dr. Norman Wirzba of Duke University help us better understand the extent of how poor access to healthy food in our communities is detrimental to our well-being and contrary to the way God designed us to eat and enjoy food. Each of these field guides provides inspiring challenges to churches to be a light of the Gospel in their communities through growing and enjoying food together. Episode Contributors Cynthia Wallace is the Executive Pastor of Bible Center Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is also the Executive Director of the Oasis Project, which includes the Oasis Farm and Fishery . Dr. Stephanie Clintonia Boddie is Assistant Professor of Church and Community Ministries with affiliations at the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, the George W. Truett Theological Seminary, and the School of Education at Baylor University. Boddie is also a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society and an alumni fellow at the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program. Her research interests include Congregation-Based Social Surveys, Trends in Faith-Based Initiatives, and Social Entrepreneurial Approaches to Disparities in Wealth, Health, and Food Insecurity. She teaches a course entitled: Black Churches: Past, Present, and Future. Dr. Norman Wirzba is Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke University. His research and teaching interests are at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. He has written several books including The Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity ; Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating ; This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World ; and Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land (forthcoming). Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. Sign up for the free online Community Forum on June 28, 2022 to discuss this episode with Eric, Sara Joy, and Chris and other podcast listeners. Register today ! More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Oasis Farm and Fishery Bible Center Church Hope in Homewood – article about the Everyday Cafe run by Bible Center Church Black Church Food Security Network Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land (forthcoming) by Norman Wirzba Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating by Norman Wirzba This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World by Norman Wirzba The Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity by Norman Wirzba What’s Not to Like: All the Good Things that Happen in School Gardens (Tricia Elisara's Blog) Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website: - Embodiment - Food Desert - Hospitality - Localism - Zoning Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
We're kicking off Season 5 in just a few short weeks! Tune in to the trailer to hear more about this season's theme - "Outside the Box: Placemaking & gospel mission beyond the church walls" along with the ways we're changing up the format a bit.
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We want to learn more about who is out there listening! Please take this short survey to tell us more about who you are, why you listen, and how we can make the podcast better for you! In this final episode of Season 4, Sara Joy and Eric, along with Josh Yates and Chris Elisara from Ormond Center , unpack some of the common themes and fresh discoveries of the past 9 episodes. Here are a few snippets from this conversation. Audience : We discovered that we have at least three distinct audiences for our podcast. Obviously we have pastors listening as the majority of our guests have been pastors. But we have practitioners who have been trained in or work in the built environment (developers, architects, planners) listening as well. And, we have a number of listeners who are neither pastors nor practitioners, but are very interested in this subject. We call these listeners the piqued. Which of these categories best describes you? Churches : Churches are important anchor institutions in most communities. Churches play a unique role in bringing shalom to particular places. Local churches can help to contain and sustain the narrative in a neighborhood. While we are committed to the idea that the church scattered can contribute to shalom, we continue to be inspired by all the surprising ways that the gathered church (with a humble, outward posture) gets drawn into what God is doing in the neighborhood. Geography : The guests for Season 4 come from a variety of geographic contexts. Whether its better to define those contexts in terms of cities or states depends on how important it is to you that Texas gets named. In any case, we noted that we want to continue to expand the geographic variety of our guests. Shalom as Soil : We discovered that our metaphor of soil being made in a bucket as a picture of the conditions needed for forming shalom was great, but needed to be developed a bit. The bucket analogy helps us see how local materials are transformed and utilized to bring new life to a community. But the bucket analogy is somewhat limited in its usefulness to leaders because it suggests a mostly passive role for community leaders who are seeking shalom. We turned to a compost heap as a helpful auxiliary metaphor for seeking shalom. The compost heap also makes soil, but unlike the bucket, it makes soil by an active process of someone adding materials to it. We talked about how those seeking shalom need to be adept in both passive waiting for and active contributing to the shalom of the local community. Challenge : We end this episode by thinking of specific challenges for each of our three listener groups: Pastors, Professionals, and the Piqued. We’re hoping that every one of our listeners will identify with one of these groups and will consider taking on one of our challenges. This has been such a fun and productive season. We are grateful to our partners at Ormond Center for collaborating to make it happen and to every one of our listeners for continuing to listen and share with others. We want to learn more about who is out there listening! Please take this short survey to tell us more about who you are, why you listen, and how we can make the podcast better for you! Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. Sign up for our email list and find more information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Jeremiah 29:7 Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight Essays by Wendell Berry Coda Challenges from Season 4 - developed by Ormond Center Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website: - Hospitality - Shalom Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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In this episode Sara Joy and Eric interview Jonathan Brooks of Chicago, currently co-pastor at Lawndale Community Church and the former pastor of Caanan Community Church in Englewood and author of Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods . Jonathan tells how his attempt to get out of Englewood by pursuing a career in architecture, led him right back to his old neighborhood where he had to learn to see it with different eyes. "Pastah J" shares about becoming a pastor in the neighborhood where he grew up and discovering that God was very much at work in this neighborhood of Chicago. Turns out that the narrative of Englewood involved much more than violence, drugs, and brokenness, and Jonathan found a lot of goodness and beauty throughout as he stuck around and got to know his neighbors. What makes Jonathan’s story particularly interesting is how he learned to ‘see’ his neighborhood while serving as a pastor at a local church. He learned that a local church could tip the scales towards the hopeful side of the narrative by engaging local residents and empowering them to make positive changes in the neighborhood. Jonathan’s insights about completing the narrative are not only for churches in under-resourced neighborhoods, but are relevant for middle and even upper class neighborhoods as well, where the tendency is sometimes to hide the pain and suffering within the neighborhood behind a façade of wealth and privilege. In those neighborhoods, completing the narrative involves being more honest about the brokenness. Whether your neighborhood feels rich or poor, this episode can help you and your church practice God’s faithful presence right where you live. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Jonathan Brooks Englewood Rising Christian Community Development Association Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods by Jonathan Brooks Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development by Wayne Gordon and John M. Perkins The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community by Paul Sparks Tim Soerens, and Dwight J. Friesen Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where You Are by Tim Soerens and Walter Brueggemann Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website: - Eyes on the Street - Food Desert - Gentrification - Parish - Placemaking - Social Determinants of Health - Third Place Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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In this episode, Eric and Sara Joy talk with Pete Kelly, the CEO of Apartment Life . For many reasons, Eric and Sara Joy are really excited to share with listeners this timely conversation. (Side note, Pete Kelly did visit Tacoma just two weeks after the episode was recorded and confirmed that Tacoma is way cooler than most cities in Texas -- this is Eric's note <--- [SJ would like to note that Eric is trying way too hard to make his city look cool] ). Over the past decade or so, there has been a renewed and encouraging interest in loving our neighbors within the Christian community. There have been some really helpful resources providing a persuasive call and practical suggestions for how Christians can engage their neighbors. Most of these resources understandably are focused on how to love your neighbor when they and you both live in detached single family homes. In these kinds of settings there are all sorts of organic ways to slowly build relationships with your neighbors. But the question of how to engage neighbors when they (and/or we) live in apartment buildings remains. This has proven to be a much tougher nut to crack. Apartment dwellers don’t have yards or driveways where they can naturally connect with others around them. Fortunately, Pete shares how the team at Apartment Life has been working on this issue for a long time and have come up with some really interesting and effective strategies for building relationships with and among the apartment dwellers in our cities. What makes their ministry model especially compelling is that it also works as a business model. Many apartment building owners contract with Apartment Life because it helps them avoid costly turnover by retaining residents. This is an important and timely conversation in light of the fact that we are undergoing a significant demographic shift right now and more and more people are eschewing the single family detached home in favor of higher density multifamily settings. As Christians motivated to seek the shalom of our neighborhood learning how to serve our neighbors in multifamily settings is going to be increasingly important. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Apartment Life Missional Living Curriculum developed by Apartment Life Videos featuring Apartment Life - Atheist Property Manager Plants a Church - From Dead End to New Hope - AL Team and Church Planters - Iranian Neighbor Accepts Christ Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery My Vertical Neighborhood: How Strangers Became a Community by Lynda MacGibbon Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website: - Affordable Housing - Belonging - Density - Hospitality - Missional Theology - Mixed Income Neighborhood Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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In this episode, Eric and Sara Joy interview Cynthia Wallace, Executive Pastor and Executive Director, about the providential birth of The Oasis Project , a community and economic development initiative led by Bible Center Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When their pastor in Michigan prayed over Cynthia and her husband, John, saying they would go to Pittsburgh and create an oasis, they had no idea how prophetic that moment would be. With John serving as the Senior Pastor of Bible Center Church and Cynthia heading up the church’s The Oasis Project they have actively responded to their call to 'seek the shalom of the Homewood neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Guided by the slogan, “the church has left the building”, their ministry to the neighborhood started small by simply picking up trash. As the church members noticed what they were seeing and listened to their neighbors, they began to see concrete opportunities to seek the welfare of their community. For example, a problem with school absenteeism, has led to a vibrant transportation ministry. A problem with access to healthy food has led to an urban farm. A problem with a lack of third places (and accessible wifi) has led to opening a coffee shop. And the list goes on. The Oasis Project now hosts a residential community, a business entrepreneurship training program, after school programs, a commercial kitchen, and a number of other practical ministry initiatives. And, Bible Center Church is able to do all this with a modest congregation of a couple of hundred members. Tune in for the inspiring story shared by Cynthia about how she and her husband responded faithfully to this ambitious call the Lord had placed on their hearts. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources The Oasis Project Bible Center Church Hope in Homewood – article about the Everyday Cafe Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website: - Third Place - Adaptive Re-use - Gentrification - Food Desert Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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In this episode, Eric and Sara Joy interview Rob Kaple of Grace Midtown Atlanta. The church came on their radar when they noticed in Public Square , an online publication of the Congress for the New Urbanism, that the church had won a merit award for good design in the Block, Street, and Building category of CNU's 2021 Charter Awards. It is somewhat unusual to see a church featured in an official publication of the CNU and even more unusual when the church is an evangelical mega church. So their interest was piqued. After a little investigating they connected with Rob Kaple who is the Lead Pastor of Grace Midtown and had a front row seat for that building project. In this interview our attention is turned to practical examples of placemaking. Rob provides listeners with a compelling story of how he and his congregation went through a paradigm shift as they considered how to best utilize their facility to support their mission. Their facility is located at the intersection of an upscale neighborhood and an underinvested neighborhood. At first they considered a complete tear down and rebuild of a new building that would be oriented towards the upscale neighborhood. But they decided that it was more in line with their mission to repurpose the main building and to orient their church towards the underinvested neighborhood. This initial decision led to additional decisions which allowed them to leverage physical connections to their neighborhood. And after they had begun their project, they made the happy discovery that the famous Atlanta Beltline would be coming right past their front door, making the church easily accessible to pedestrians and bicyclists. This was a fun conversation and an unusual story to be sure. Our hope is that this kind of story will become less unusual as churches learn the value of placemaking and taking the physical context of their neighborhood more seriously. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode. More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website. Related Resources Grace Midtown Atlanta A new kind of church, in a former warehouse on CNU Public Square The Atlanta Beltline Project Atlanta Olympics Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City by Timothy Keller Will Mancini on Upper Room and Lower Room Thinking For a Kunstleresque smackdown on Atlanta read “Atlanta: Does Edge City Have a Future” in The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition by James Howard Kunstler Congress for the New Urbanism Kronberg Urbanists + Architects Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website: - Embedded Church - Mixed Use - Border Vacuum - Redlining - Placemaking Show Credits Hosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy Proppe Edited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice Productions Theme Music by Jacob Shaffer Artwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative…
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