Mindful Leader
Episodes
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Episode 9: A Mindful First Chat with Annie Arnoldy
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Our guest today is Annie Arnoldy, Superintendent for Vitality and Connectional Ministry at the Mountain Sky Conference of the United Methodist Church.
I have known Annie since her student days at Colorado State University when we collaborated a little on Youth Ministry. In addition to her studies at CSU, Annie holds a Master in Divinity from the Iliff School of Theology and a Masters Certificate in Organizational Leadership from Denver University. Annie is a Mountain Sky Conference Elder and she entered ministry from Hope UMC in Greenwood Village, CO.
Her local church experience includes Grand Junction First UMC and Highlands Ranch Saint Andrews UMC.
I consider this part 1 of what I expect to be a continuing conversation on the direction of the Mountain Sky Conference in the area of Leadership Development.
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This podcast was released on September 4, 2023. My next guest along with topic will be confirmed on September 5. That podcast will be released on September 18, 2023.
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Episode 8: Sarah Calvert, Virginia Conference of the UMC
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
The topic is urgency and anxiety.
Our guest is the Reverend Doctor Sarah Calvert, Northern Virginia District Superintendent for the Virginia Conference. Sarah and I were colleagues in the Wesley Theological Seminary Doctor of Ministry Program where both of us also got our Master of Divinity. She also holds degrees from Mary Washington in Virginia and George Mason (Scalia School of Law).
Sarah's LinkedIn is HERE and HERE is a bio used at Northern Virginia welcoming.
Some links from the Podcast follow:
Linsky and Heifetz: Leadership on the Line. Excellent book. We discussed it briefly. Very briefly. Will probably come back to it another day.
Paragraph 2553 of our UM Book of Discipline is HERE. This was passed in order in 2019 in order to provide an avenue for churches unhappy with the current wording in our polity the means to leave the UMC. Ironically, the intended user in 2019 is not using the provision, rather, it is by and large the forces that developed the policy.
Enneagram is HERE. Other examples exist. Fairly long. Do it when you have a few minutes.
Strengths Finder is HERE. There is a cost. Sorry.
Franciscan Blessing -- Sarah goes to this blessing at the end of our talk. I indicated I would share it with all ...
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We are on a two week schedule on Mondays. This one was released on August 21st. My next guest is Annie Arnoldy, the Mountain Sky Conference Director of Connectional Ministry.
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Episode 6: Zach Bechtold-- Bozeman UMC
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
Sunday Jul 23, 2023
The change in tone and direction of today from earlier podcasts is intentional. I hope to be moving more to church leadership in a mindful manner on these excursions and use colleagues both in the Mountain Sky Conference and other conferences to talk an idea (or two or three or six) of leadership.
Our guest is Zach Bechtold. Zach has completed his first year as Pastor at Bozeman UMC in Bozeman, Montana and is part of a wave of younger clergy leading a number of our pillar churches. Zach's LinkedIn page is HERE and is part of where I got my introduction.
Our theme was making new from old.
Zach sees the church year, i.e., Ash Wednesday, All Saints, Easter, as important elements to help him discern how to make new from the old. He also sees connecting with where he has been planted while retaining the connection with remote colleagues as important.
Zach and (new) fellow Mountain Sky pastor Matthew Franks (Castle Rock UMC, Castle Rock, Colorado) have their own Podcast. It is Bearded Theologians and their podcasts are HERE. Both of them are baseball fans, which means by definition, they understand failure, success, sacrifice, perseverance and getting home, safe.
During our discussion, we talk a little about David Foster Wallace and "This is Water." HERE is a good place for both sound (in two bursts on Soundcloud) and the actual text. It is probably NSFW but quite good. I listen to it regularly and I don't agree with all of it, I do find it quite compelling.
Captain Midnight Secret Squadron Decoder Ring Information:
UMCOR is United Methodist Committee on Relief.
A CRM is a Congregational Resource Minister -- a Mountain Sky "thing."
A DS is a District Superintendent -- the Bishop's representative over a subset of the Conference.
I try to keep these to about 40 minutes but it is a podcast. Stop and restart if you have finished your walk, exercise, dishes, household chores, whatever and we are still talking. This one is 46 scintillating minutes.
My blog is HERE. I will try on occasion to write a piece or three about the topic at hand.
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I apologize for the four + weeks since last podcast. People are simply out of town. Plan I think will be every two weeks. That schedule should start on/about 23/24 July. I hope.