Along the Road: A Podcast for PC(USA) Leaders

As we bring Season 3 of Along the Road to a close, your hosts Martha Miller (Nourish) and valerie izumi and Manuel Silva-Esterrich (Encounter) give thanks for a season full of conversation, laughter, and learning in our engagement with each other but especially with our guests and with you, our audience! We hope that you have found engaging with Presbyterian identity meaningful and fruitful. We encourage you to continue to reflect on how and what that means to you and share your thoughts and reflections with us at [email protected].

Until the next time, take good care and we will see you along the road, peace!

Faith came alive when Andrew Shen became involved in the feeding ministries of Friendship Presbyterian Church. Feeling called to serve has transformed his life and reinforced his faith and values. 

For more information about this congregation and its work in the community, read this article and view the accompanying videos. 

Hello Church People! In this episode, Rev. Mienda Uriarte, Deputy Executive Director, and Rev. Jihyun Oh, Stated Clerk and Executive Director of the Interim Unified agency, reflect on the importance of doing mission in partnerships and what it has meant for our denomination and churches since the adoption of the document "Presbyterians Do Mission in Partnership" by the 215th General Assembly (2003), the transforming essence of Mission and the partnerships that are to continue to form in the future. You can access the document by clicking on this link. Stop, listen, and be inspired by this reflection on our recent history on Mission.

Sometimes we all need a reminder of the impact that we make in the lives of others. Krista Langley, deacon and ruling elder, shares her journey and how family, church leaders, and her faith have made a real difference in her life and how she continues to live out what she has learned from and through them. 

Join Shawna Bowman as they share how embracing change from a Reformed theological perspective created a new thing that brought life and light to the covenant community of faith and the mission and ministries they support. 

For more information: 

Chicago church finds a home in the homes it supported | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 

and Friendship Presbyterian Church at [email protected]

We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing to [email protected]. Thank you!

Using Matthew as a basis, Amos Mendez connects coffee to our spirituality; encouraging us to build up our spiritual lives to avoid getting burnt up and creating bitterness 

Join Neal Presa as he shares why we cannot keep God's joy to ourselves. That by working and praying together in community for justice - where everyone is valued and included, that all will flourish, we live out God's call upon our lives. That is worship - not just in church on Sunday but throughout our Mondays - Saturdays as well.

We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing to [email protected]. Thank you!

Music can touch our souls and connect us to God. Bill Buchanan joins us to stir our curiosity in various genres of music and encourages us to expand our horizons as we listen to find new ways that God may be speaking to us. 

As an added bonus, Bill has provided his own Spotify playlist of soul music 

Hello Church People. Today, our guest, retired minister Carmen Rosario, shares with us the history of Presbyterian identity in her family, ministry, and the work she has done and continues to do with the National Presbyterian Hispanic and Latino Caucus and the communities that develop Latin American leadership in the PC (USA). She also shares the resources and networks Mid Councils have with Hispanic Latino leadership.

We'd love to hear from you! Please share your thoughts with us by writing to [email protected]. Thank you!

Lauren Sanders helps us learn and understand more about what a land acknowledgment is and what it shouldn’t be, how we can educate ourselves beyond the importance of the names, and some of the actions we can take to live into our call as Christians.