Donny's Desk

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps. Carey Clark is from Omaha, NE and currently lives in Greeley, CO. She is the Family Ministries Director at Cornerstone Community Church.

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps. Meg Chestnut lives in Greeley, CO with her family and is the creator of an educational devotional blog for children called Little Imprints.

Natasha Hurt was born and raised in Greeley, CO and is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Love Made Claim. Love Made Claim, Inc. was a resource for people who are involved in, or who have transitioned out of, the sex industry, providing hope, love, and empowerment through advocacy and personal support. At the end of 2020 LMC dissolved as an organization. In the intro to this episode Natasha shares about that decision.

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps during the pandemic time. Atkelt and Lisa Simon share about their lives and ministries in this episode. Lisa and Atkelt are Executive Directors of El Shadai Child Development Center and Atkelt works for Children’s Hope Chest as a Community Partnership Manager for Guatemala. Both Atkelt and Lisa are alumni of CSU and they currently live in Colorado Springs. In this show we talk about the role of Compassion International in Atkelt’s life, how they got involved with El Shadai Child Development Center, how they met and fell in love, and what it has been like parenting during the pandemic.

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps during the pandemic time. Dr. Josh Packard is a sociologist, professor and researcher at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the Executive Director of the Social Research Lab and of Springtide Research Institute. He is also the CEO of The Packard Group. In this episode, Josh talks about his work at the Springtide Research Institute, sociology, the decline of institutional trust and how it is related to religious affiliation, and parenting during a pandemic.

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps during the pandemic time. Ryan Dougherty is the Director of Youth for Christ’s World Link Initiative, a pastor at Church Project, and a co-owner of Sky Service Pros. In this episode, we talk about transition, ministry, seasons of leadership, and navigating the death of a loved one during the COVID era.

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps during the quarantine, pandemic time. Nichole Miller returns! Nichole is a counselor and spiritual director. She talks us through five spiritual disciplines from Adele Calhoun’s book on the topic.

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps. I am talking with Patty Pell who is the Director of the Justice and Mission program at Denver Seminary and an active member of the Cornerstone Community Church preaching team. Patty shares about her background, her work at Denver Seminary, her doctorate program in Bristol, and some of her thoughts about the ongoing quarantine time.

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps. I am talking with Bill Hoyt who was Professor of Oceanography at UNC Greeley for three and a half decades. We chat about what it is like to be retired, faith and science, the importance of being rooted in community, and Professor Hoyt shares some personal stories.

My desk episodes are designed to provide thoughts, resources, and stuff that helps. In this episode I am talking with Jerome Kayl. Jerome works for Zephyr Hats in Loveland, CO and also for Cornerstone Community Church in Greeley, CO. We touch on music, art, the days when Jerome had dreadlocks (what!?), a story from the book Creativity Inc., Faith Walking, and the Enneagram.