Storyboard: Faith | Witness | Transformation EOCUMC

Multicultural Ministries Director Will Fenton-Jones leads a discussion with Rev. Dr. Sidney Williams Jr. and Rev. Michael Anthony Howard exploring the Church’s role in reaching, ministering with, and transforming communities through pro-racial equity networks, engaging in civil rights work, and combatting the impacts of redlining and segregation.

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With May being Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S., this episode features a discussion about the importance of EOC clergy and laity understanding and caring for their personal mental health, as well as being open to engaging and resourcing others in caring for their mental health.

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Episode 34 is titled “Experience of God Through the UMC: Building a Stronger Connection”. The episode features a discussion with clergy from churches in Medina County who are living into the connection of The United Methodist Church through partnering to frame a home for Habitat for Humanity and working together to connect with and support families in their local school districts.


View pictures of the Habitat House build at https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBp5Sg

Learn more about the East Ohio Conference at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.eocumc.com/

Episode 33 is titled “Influence, Connection & Impact: Just Action”. The episode features an ecumenical panel of clergy and laity discussing ways that churches and faith communities can respond to the ongoing negative legacy of red-lining that, generations since its inception, continues to impact who can live where in communities throughout the East Ohio Conference.

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One in 31 Ohioans is in jail or prison or out on probation and last year 18,000 people returned to communities after being released from prison. This episode features clergy from East Ohio sharing about All In Community, a modern-day, Biblical response to the impact and aftermath of incarceration. 

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Learn more about All In at https://www.eocumc.com/allincommunity/index.html

The episode features Bishop Tracy S. Malone leading a conversation with clergy and laity from two of the churches in the East Ohio Conference that host a life-changing week of Royal Family KIDS Camp each summer that ministers to six- to 12-year-old children in the foster care system.

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Learn more about Royal Family Kids Camp at https://www.eocumc.com/royalfamilykidscamp/index.html