One of YOKE’s major priorities at the start of each new school year is recruiting volunteer leaders to serve at a local middle school. Since many of these leaders come from local college campuses, we wanted to hear from some of our partners who help us find quality leaders. In this episode, we spoke with Rodney Norvell, the BCM Director at the University of Tennessee, about how YOKE and the BCM have been able to partner together over the years.

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For the final installment in our #YOKEis series, this week's conversation focuses on the most important element of YOKE's ministry: Kid Time. Two members of our Norris YOKE team, Ethan Stephens and Josh Kirk, joined us to help define kid time and share what it has looked like for their team.

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As we continue our #YOKEis series, we're focusing on a YOKE favorite: camp. Rutledge YOKE Folk Abby Orrick—who has experienced camp as a middle school kid, as a Future Folk, and as a YOKE Folk—joins us to share her experience with camp.

 

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In the third installment of our #YOKEis series, we are answering an important question: What is Club? To help answer the question, we spoke with team leaders Nick and Bridget Beam about their experience leading the YOKE team at Holston Middle School.

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On this second installment of our #YOKEis series, we are discussing the importance of YOKE's ministry being school-based. We spoke with Knox County Schools District Ombudsman Tammi Campbell (who also serves on YOKE's board of directors) about what it means to be school-based and what that looks like in the YOKE context.

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This episode kicks off a brand new series on the podcast called #YOKEis, in which we are focusing on some of the key elements of YOKE’s ministry. This week we are talking to two of our volunteers, Jacob Adams and Haley Cloud, about what it means to be a YOKE Folk.

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In this fifth and final installment of our series on YOKE's core values, we are focusing on Fun and Adventure. We’re joined YOKE’s West Knoxville area director Leah Carter and YOKE Folk Colton Jacoby to discuss why we believe that following Jesus should be fun, and what that looks like in the context of YOKE.

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In this fourth installment of our five-part series on YOKE's core values, we are focusing on Stewardship. We are joined by YOKE’s office manager Cindy Carter (known to some as "Mama Cindy") and local Chick-fil-a owner/operator Marshall Wilkins, who is a financial supporter and longtime member of the YOKE family. Cindy and Marshall share about how this value of stewardship is applied to YOKE's finances, and afterwards Jonathan talks to Blount County area director Eli Smith about what stewardship looks like in other areas of YOKE's ministry.

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In this third installment of our five-part series on YOKE's core values, we are focusing on Leadership Development. We are joined by YOKE’s team leader at Rutledge Middle School, Andrew Hodge, as well as one of his former YOKE kids, Zach Cameron. Zach is now a senior at Grainger High School and will be serving as YOKE Folk on the Rutledge team for the first time this year. The two of them share how the Rutledge team has been a model for what it looks like to develop leaders while serving.

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In this second installment of our five-part series on YOKE's core values, we are focusing on collaboration. We are joined by Kendra Berry, who is the site coordinator for the Community Schools program at Vine Middle Schooll, as well as YOKE's Vine team leader Heather Story and urban schools area director Daniel Lee, to discuss how the Vine YOKE team has been able to collaborate with the school to achieve YOKE's mission.

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