Our first role model interview is Dr. Brent Peterson. Dr Peterson is a professor of theology at Northwest Nazarene University.

Announcement: our first Young Clergy Meetup is at the USA/Canada Theology Conference September 28-29. For more details visit the Events page of our website at www.thisnazlife.com.

Also, if you are not in the US, why not host a meet up for young clergy where you are? We’d love to put it on our website!

Melanie Gering is a young Nazarene pastor currently serving in Raleigh, NC. She talks about her church, Tapestry, and their non-profit, Neighbor to Neighbor. . This episode is sponsored by A Plain Account. A Plain Account is a free Wesleyan Lectionary Commentary that seeks to provide a heterogeneous perspective of homiletical based commentaries from the Revised Common Lectionary. Find out more at www.aplainaccount.org.

The resources Melanie mentions are:

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The House I Live In on Netflix

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Rev Deanna Hayden is a young Nazarene senior pastor in Raytown, MO, a suburb of Kansas City. We hope you find Deanna's story of faithfullness to her calling as powerful as we do.

This episode is sponsored by Our Neighborhood empowered. Find them at www.oneokc.org.

Rev Jason Smith is a young Nazarene associate pastor in Oklahoma. We talk about funerals, opportunities in ministry, and spiritual formation. You can find Jason on FB as Jason K. Smith. This episode is sponsored by the OUNSC at ounsc.org.

Joseph is a young Nazarene professor and district licensed deacon in the Church of the Nazarene in Manchester, England. We talk about Nazarene higher education and a resolution he’s working on regarding baptism of licensed ministers. Check out a copy of the resolution in the Files tab of our website thisnazlife.com.

Update: It is 5 GA delegates, not just 5 elders to submit a resolution to General Assembly.

Welcome to This Nazarene Life, a podcast featuring the stories of young Church of the Nazarene clergy and their role models.