Stained Glass Kids

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Rachel Pilcher about the life she loved growing up as a PK in the family business. She discusses overworking and what keeps her grounded in her identity and recharged. Hearing the voice of the Lord at a young age marked her. She unpacks the differences in disentangling her faith vs. the idea of deconstruction and shares why she st...

In this 100th episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Stacy Joy Hanna about her life growing up as a PK for 25 years in the same church. She shares how her parents lived with intention and what the signal of the briefcase by the door meant. She talks about how ministry becomes the mistress providing attention that fuels pride and ego. After walking with her husband as he recove...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with James Damey about his life as a PK carrying everybody else's expectation of who he was supposed to be. He shares his story of how the room began to shake when he was thirteen and heard God’s calling for him. After watching his family start and close a church, he understands deep hurts and family secrets but also realizes all he ha...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Hannah Denhart-Miller about her life growing up as a PK. The aftershocks of her dad’s job transition brought devastation. She shares about what happens when you get divorced from your church family and the religious trauma and triggers of it. Eventually she understood the Church is made up of imperfect people and how to extend the...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Josh Wilson about his life growing up as a PK and now as a touring Artist, Songwriter and Musician. The distinctions of both lives, being an introvert and the ambition to please people. He shares about his experience and struggles with mental health, anxiety, depression, and addiction, while inviting us to “tell God and somebody e...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Heather O’Brien about her life growing up as a PK and military kid. Moving states was an answer to her childhood prayer that always made her know God was real. Being called by her name, not a position, was something that mattered to her. After struggling with abandonment, a church split led her into a life of homosexuality, trauma...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Michael Shetler about his life as a PK and growing up in his Grandfather’s church. Could it be his family’s mission was this town and community where they have been called and planted for over fifty years? He shares how his faith growing up, was founded in fear and became a job more than a belief. After deconstructing those though...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Emily Saum about her life growing up on the road as an evangelist’s kid. What is was like to not be known for her identity but just as her father’s daughter. She shares what she is learning about identity and the day she felt the anointing shift to her. How the ministry legacy of her family became a want to, not a have to. She’s n...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Zach Shaffer about his life growing up as a PK, putting up walls and wanting his parents for himself. PK’s often guard themselves because they don’t have safe places to open up and talk about stuff that is going on with them or their family. Have you ever not wanted to go into ministry because of what you’ve seen your parents walk...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Nathan Silva about his life growing up as a PK in the Brazilian church. An obsession with soccer that led him to Europe until his desires shifted. He shares about the reality of how privilege taken out of context led to false righteousness and not wanting to do the right thing because as PK’s know: perfection is a hard thing to up...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Steph Bradac about her life growing up as a MK and being a third culture kid. She shares what shaped her love for the bride of Christ and how seeing her own prayers answered ruins you for the ordinary. Political instability, the Cartel, a stakeout coming for her brother and a hasty goodbye brought an abrupt ending to life as she h...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Christian Nuckels about his life growing up as a PK and then being jobless, homeless and churchless all at the same time. He wrestled with lens of cynicism that pushed him away from church work, initially. He shares openly about the isolation that led to his father’s suicide, which transformed how he is stewarding the legacy to wr...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Andrew Holt about his life growing up as a PK and how a shift in his dad’s job was part of his steps being ordained for the life he’s now living. After being on church staff from when he was a teen, he shares about his identity being wrapped up in his role, the season when he was completely dry and numb and how encountering God’s...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Morgan Sgambato about her life growing up as a PK and the letter she penned “Dear Pastor’s Kid” to remind us: the sadness is not a bad thing, it means that it was good. Endings are rarely simple. She shares about living in a new city and ministry context without her parents for the first time. Being seemingly forgotten and erased...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Katie Bush about her life as a missionary kid and PK. She moved often from Texas to Costa Rica, Panama, China and Thailand. She felt like she was told not asked and like she didn’t have a say. As an adult she shares how being a submissive wife is what transformed her marriage and husband. This conversation is about strict rules, t...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Aaron Minick about his life as a PK and navigating transitions with his own PK’s. He started playing the drums when his foot didn’t even reach the pedals, but become aware of his calling into ministry as an adult. This musician turned Pastor shares his experiences with the currency of honor and leaving with both dignity and charac...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Adrienne Neale about her life as a third-generation PK and how she found identity separate from being the Pastor’s daughter. She survived abusive leaderships in leadership and with a boyfriend and testifies of the healing that has taken place. Grateful for the life experience she witnessed simply by tagging along to work with her...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Tom Tillman about his life as a PK and as one who raised PK’s. He shares how Life Magazine started his family on a journey where he watched his parents come to the Lord. After an accident changed everything about the direction he thought his life was headed, he now gives oversight to 5,400 churches in his state. This conversation...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Angela Bainter about her life as a PK and how she carried that into her workplace and career. Always looking for harmony in relationships and a lifetime of putting on the face began a journey of anxiety. After an uninvited exodus from a 35-year-history while her Mom battled cancer, she had to reconcile “they lost their friend too....

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Israel Shows about his life as a PK. This 18-year-old already has a rich testimony that took him from believing lies, living life online as an LGBT activist and headed towards taking his own life. However, one experience at the altar changed everything for this teen. Followed by a healing that proved to him Jesus was real. This co...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Jacob Rosenberg about his life as the son of a Rabbi and his long, winding road of becoming one himself. The category of Messianic lends itself to a life of being misunderstood by family, peers and even Christianity. Rabbi Jake shares how we’re tuned to the same tuning fork and challenges us about the tapes we hear on replay and t...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Melissa MacDonald about her life in ministry as a PK, enduring staff abuse, coaching ministry leaders and now foster care. She shares about bringing your kids in on the process of change and intentional parenting that helps your kids wrestle with the hard WITH you. PK life is abnormal but it’s normal for ministry kids. This conver...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Aaron Bauer about his life growing up as a staff kid. His Mom gave him an up close, behind the scenes perspective of ministry that has shaped him to this day. He shares how being told about changes in staff ahead of time helped him process and help his peers. This conversation discusses how it’s hard for church staff to have both...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Matt Lee about his life as a PK and his own journey to defend the weak and the fatherless. He was dedicated to ministry as a baby, ran with rebellion but God. This conversation is about Spiritual warfare, the pride and arrogance of denominational differences and how it grieves the Holy Spirit. Plus, the beauty and tension of deep...

In this episode of the Stained Glass Kids Podcast, Yancy talks with Kyle Jorris about his life as a PK finding his own identity and place. He shares about the safety he found in the longevity of growing up in the same church. His Dad empowered him to be a leader. This conversation is about how we are treating Pastor’s Kids and prioritizing them, the he mentors earlier in life, plus, watching your...