Bar of the Conference

Welcome to Season Two of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today's episode is with Rev. Dr. Jean Hauxhurst. Jean is an ordained elder in the Kentucky Annual Conference and currently serves as an ecumenical staff officer for the United Methodist Council of Bishops. Jean is passionate about Christian unity and belie

Welcome to Season Two of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today's episode is with Rev. Jeff Campbell. Jeff is the General Secretary and CEO of Discipleship Ministries, an agency of the UMC. He is an ordained elder from the NJ Annual Conference. Jeff has seen and heard a lot, and yet he remains steady, focused and

Welcome to Season Two of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today's episode is with Filipe Maia. Filipe is the Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University School of Theology. Raised in the Methodist Church in Brazil, Filipe’s theological education brought him to the US. He has authored several publicatio

Welcome to Season Two of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today's episode comes to us from the UMCNEXT podcast which launched in November 2023. Co-hosted and curated by Katie Dawson and Derrick Scott III, this podcast is series of inspiring messages that point to the future of the UMC. We’re sharing the first e

Welcome to Season Two of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today's episode is with Christine Flick. Christine is the conference lay leader in the Germany South Annual Conference. She lives near Stuttgart, Germany and has served on various committees and boards at multiple levels of the denomination. Christine help

Welcome to Season Two of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today's episode is with Rev. Caleb S. G. Dormah. Caleb is an ordained elder in the Liberia Annual Conference, where he serves as the conference director of ministry to at-risk youth. He also serves as the West Central Conference Regional Coordinator for th

Welcome to Season 2 of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today’s episode is with Molly Vetter. Molly is an elder in the California-Pacific Annual Conference and serves as senior pastor of the Westwood United Methodist Church in Los Angeles. In our conversation, we talk about her upbringing as the daughter of a U

Welcome to Season 2 of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today’s episode is with Mark Holland. Mark is a third generation United Methodist pastor and General Conference Clergy Delegate from the Great Plains Annual Conference. He is Executive Director of Mainstream UMC, a United Methodist advocacy group working f

Welcome to Season 2 of Bar of the Conference - a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. This special LIVE episode is with Sarah Wilke. Sarah is a leader, mentor, missional strategist and champion of discipleship in The United Methodist Church. After years of serving in multiple roles across the UMC connection, she currently serves as Director o

Hi friends, Welcome to Season 2 of Bar of the Conference- a podcast about the stories shaping the future of the United Methodist Church. Today’s episode is with Rev. Dr. Aleze Fulbright. Dr. Fulbright is an ordained elder and currently serves as a Conference Superintendent in the Indiana Annual Conference. Aleze and I discuss her life as a single mother and accounting professiona