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Rev. Dr. Marjory Roth is  a young Presbyterian pastor living in Long Island, New York, a clergy couple, and mother of Three.  She shares about pop-culture and faith.  As well as the "secret" of children and young families in church. No magic secret Just faith lived and shared. Listen as this vibrant and joyful pastor shares her faith by recognizing its place and happening everywhere in her life.

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

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Jonette Invites, Adam Monaco and his better half and beautiful back up and support, Cate Monaco to talk about the thing that fills their souls and the gifts from God they diligently share from living rooms to the world, Music! Following this delightful  conversation, we are happy to share with you 3 works by the artist (including  his latest release, Nevermind) and 1 work from, Under The Oak,  featuring Adam.

Playlist
1."Nevermind"     Adam Monaco

2. "Dont Think Twice"   Adam Monaco

3."Beyond The Physical"   Under the Oak

4. "Recless Glory"   Adam Monaco      

Born in Long Island and now rooted deeply in the Philadelphia music scene, Adam Monaco is a singer/songwriter, nationally touring multi-instrumentalist, and composer, producing music for commercials, television, and various musicians. Monaco has dedicated much of his time helping the Philadelphia music scene grow through projects and events involving his own and other non-profit organizations. Monaco is currently recording and releasing singles with his seven-piece band, and plans to release a full album at the end of 2023. Monaco recently entered the world of film when he scored the documentary Burden of Memory which won Best Director at LA’s First Glance Film Festival.

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

Let’s build hope together!

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In this episode Bill Rhoads ,Director of Music and Organist of Otterbein United Methodist  Church, shares with us why we celebrate Music Appreciation.  Bill speaks on behalf of the  dedicated members of the OUMC Choir and Bell Choir, reminding us of the work and sacrifice they go to, above and beyond, to bring the congregation each week a worship service rich in sound and filled with vocal and instrumental praise.  Bill also shares a little about himself, his love of music, and how he came to give over 20 years of his life to this congregation. This Sunday May 21 is Music Appreciation Sunday and Bill and all the music department will be preforming the service in a wide collection of formats and works of music. So, come out, listen, and show your appreciation for this vital part of our worship.

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

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Remember that Recorder? or Tonette as Jonette remembers from her youth.  Most of us recall it as that squeaky instrument we so quickly set aside,  never knowing the rich history and beauty of its being and sound.  In this episode we invite you to rediscover its age old charm through the words and performance  of a true master of its craft Rainer Beckmann.  Take an enlightening  journey through a  soundscape of enchantment and whimsical beauty with four separate works of music, featuring our guest, Rainer Beckmann.  He plays recorder with a large variety of early music ensembles in the Philadelphia tri-state area. He is a member of New World Recorders and Vox Renaissance Consort. As featured soloist and guest musician, he has appeared with Tempesta di Mare, Piffaro, Mélomanie, Brandywine Baroque, Camerata Ama Deus, Philadelphia Bach Collegium, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra, and others. Before moving to the United States, he performed in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, Israel, and Brazil. Rainer is the music director of the Philadelphia Recorder Society. He is a graduate of the Utrecht Conservatory of Music (Netherlands), where he studied recorder with Heiko ter Schegget, Baldrick Deerenberg, and Marion Verbruggen.

1.New World Recorders performs Henry Purcell's  Chaconne 3 parts upon a Ground, Z.731. Recorded live in concert in Philadelphia PA on October 7, 2018.

2.New World Recorders performs Cipriano da Rore's Ancor che col partire, with divisions by Héloïse Degrugillier. Recorded live in concert in New York, NY on November 4, 2018.

3.New World Recorders performs Contrapunctus I from J. S. Bach's Art of the Fugue. Recorded live in concert in Philadelphia PA on April 14, 2018. New World Recorders Gwyn Roberts, soprano • Priscilla Herreid, alto • Héloïse Degrugillier, tenor • Rainer Beckmann, bass

4.Philadelphia's Tempesta di Mare performs J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, with soloists Emlyn Ngai, violin, and Gwyn Roberts and Rainer Beckmann, recorders. 

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

Let’s build hope together!

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Jonette takes a little time with Andrew Mashas,  from Church World Services to talk about the organization and about the great work they do to introduce and integrate refugees from all over the planet to their new home, here in our welcoming community. 

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

Let’s build hope together!

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This week we explore the world of environmental activism through a  spiritual connection to the land, understood and experienced by, Ashton Clatterbuck.  Listen as this talented and enthusiastic youth shares his harrowing story of strength, commitment, faith, and even incarceration.  

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

Let’s build hope together!

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Jason and Jonette sit together again this week to take some time to talk about the loss of a loved one, the loss of self through addiction and how Love can never leave you.  God is with us all the way and life is always a new opportunity to love.  When we find our selves grieving for someone we lost and even after having lost ourselves if we choose to hold on to love we shall be reborn forever.

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

Let’s build hope together!

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In this episode Jonette and Jason sit down together and share some experiences about Listening, meanwhile, contemplating just what It means to be heard.

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

Let’s build hope together!

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Pardon our absence, but we will be back next week with a new episode. We hope you will be filled with love during this holy week.

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

Let’s build hope together!

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Dawn Taylor-Storm is the Assistant to the Bishop of Leadership Development for United Methodist Eastern PA and Greater New Jersey Conferences and, as the Director of Connectional Ministry for EPA.   She take the time out of her busy schedule and sits down with us to share the good news about the UMC and its  opportunities for leadership, "opportunities for relational moments".    Dawn encourages us to "step out of the boat" and share our talents with the congregation, regionally and locally.    Perhaps, there is a place for you to participate in your faith, in a leadership role with  the United Methodist Church.  If so ? this episode is sure to "Lead"  you and provide an insight to what it looks like to be a leader.   Listen, as she shares her love for leadership and the people she has been called to guide.

Rev. Chris Eden is the pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church and Jason Burgess is the Media Specialist for OUMC. These two are happy to present to the congregation and beyond, something to engage the ears and hearts, as well as, mind, body, and spirit. This season will focus on an important mission: OUMC’s collaboration with various city and county organizations to build a much-needed low-barrier emergency shelter for individuals in our community experiencing homelessness. We will chronicle the journey of building this shelter from the ground up. Along the way, you’ll meet neighbors both with and without housing, as well as community leaders who are already working to care for unhoused individuals, providing resources and case management, and addressing the need for affordable housing.

Join us on this journey of compassion and commitment as we adapt our long-standing dedication to this community, now with a new shelter ministry in mind.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or via our website.

To learn how you can get involved or support the mission, visit our website at .www.OtterbeinLancaster.org

Let’s build hope together!