It's Your Call

It's Your Call chats with Andrew Hyde, an ecumenical chaplain at Guelph University. Andrew is the first United Church Designated Lay Minister (DLM) to be interviewed on the program. Andrew is a United Church preacher's kid and grew up in the church. As a 10 year old, the 1988 United Church decision to open ordained  ministry to all, regardless of sexual orientation, was a formative event  in his own call and showed him just how complex and challenging  ministry could be. While taking time to choose between becoming a minister like his  father, or becoming a teacher like his mother, Andrew took a job as a  youth minister, and he's still involved in young adult and campus  ministry today. Andrew says, people are always called to where there is a need, and in his case, that was ministry with young adults, which is a specific niche that is both undeserved and a challenge because many young adults are seeking a spiritual home, but not active in congregational life. This generation of young adults has a strong desire for  authenticity, Andrew has found, and this is both a gift and a challenge to the church, as it compels us all to live out our faith everyday, everywhere, not just on Sundays in church. Responding to this challenge  has the potential to help us rethink ministry as we know it and embrace  change by meeting people where they are at. Andrew Hyde is the author of My Daily Discoverment: 40 Days of Vocational Discernment with Young Adults, available from UCRDstore.ca.

Your  hosts, Andrew Richardson and Karen Medland, sit down for a chat with  the Moderator of The United Church of Canada, the Rt. Rev. Richard Bott,  talking about his call to ministry — and specifically about his call to  the role of Moderator. Moderator Richard Bott on God's calling:  "...I might be being pulled or lured into a direction by the love of  God, but it's not until community, says, you know, yes, we see that in  you. My head has a sense that that's the moment of call — when the  community articulates what God seems to be saying." "It's Your  Call" is a podcast from Office of Vocation of The United Church of  Canada for those discerning a call to ministry. Listen to the full  episode: http://ow.ly/MozQ50J3vax #UCCan #Vocation #CalledtoServe

In this episode we talk to Cheri DINovo, minister, speaker, and writer, and one time MPP in Ontario. Cheri’s latest book can be bought at UCRD just follow the link: https://ucrdstore.ca/products/the-queer-evangelist-a-socialist-clergys-radically-honest-tale?_pos=1&_sid=e6099bbf2&_ss=r

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