Pod Strangely Warmed

Continuing our series of getting to know the leadership in the newly unified Horizon Texas Conference, today we're talking finances with the only members of the Stewardship department that had spare time to be on the podcast. Rev. Daniel Hawkins learns a little bit about Rev. Jeffrey Pehl's woodworking skills and gets golfing tips from Scot Yarbrough. The Stewardship department is still working ha...

This week we are back in the studio after the Horizon Texas Unifying Conference to introduce you to another important team from our HTC staff. The thread that keeps us all working together: The Operations Team. Now, the studio isn't big enough for all seven members of Operations, so Rev. Daniel Hawkins invited Dr. Kevin Walters and the newest member of the HTC staff, Kofi Williams, to learn about...

While at the Horizon Texas Unifying Conference in Abilene, Rev. Daniel Hawkins invited Rev. Todd Salzwedel, Rev. Danielle Kim and Rev. Ruben Saenz III to a friendly essentials draft pick of what they want to see in the new Horizon Texas Conference. Tune in as they pick where they want the next annual Conference to be, their favorite strategic priority, and which cabinet member they would like to h...

This week POD Strangely Warmed journeyed all the way to Abilene for the Horizon Texas Unifying Conference! It's finally here, and Rev. Daniel Hawkins tracks down Jordan Cramer and learns what he's looking forward to in the new unified conference, Lisa Peterson tells about her experiences from the Northwest Texas Conference and the work she will be doing as a Co-Lay Leader of the unified conference...

Just a few days away from the Horizon Texas Unifying Conference, Rev. Daniel Hawkins reminisces with Bishop Rubén Sáenz Jr. and Rev. Andy Lewis about the journey our legacy conferences have been on leading up to now. The Bishop gives us a peek into what's to come next as we're always moving toward the Horizon.

No, we're not in math class; however, on this episode, we meet three-sevenths (or .42857143) of the team whose main priority is to Multiply Jesus Followers. Rev. Dr. Owen Ross , Director of Multiplication, in addition to Rev. Stacey Piyakhun and Rev. Derek Jacobs tell Rev. Daniel Hawkins about their positive church plants and how God's been preparing them for this work of multiplying disciples in...

This is week four of meeting the leadership that is taking us on a journey to the Horizon Texas Conference. Rev. Daniel Hawkins sits down with Rev. Joy Dister-Dominguez and Rev. Andrew Fiser, part of our Care and Healing team, to learn how this team plans to Maximize Care and Healing in the new Horizon Texas Conference.

We're in our third week of meeting the leadership that is taking us on a journey to the Horizon Texas Conference. This week, Rev. Daniel Hawkins is joined by two of our District Superintendents, Rev. Tom Long and Rev. Cassie Wade, to talk about their experiences in their legacy conferences and what they're excited to see on the Horizon.

Over the next few weeks, you're invited to journey to the Horizon with Rev. Daniel Hawkins as he sits down with the leadership of the new Horizon Texas Conference. This week, we get to learn more about the Director of Communications, Pam Hughes, and the rest of the Horizon Texas Conference communications team Trey West and Dustin Kaps.

Over the next few weeks, you're invited to journey to the Horizon with Rev. Daniel Hawkins as he sits down with the leadership of the new Horizon Texas Conference. This week, we hear from the Director of Diversity and Cultural Engagement, Dr. Major Boglin, and the Associate Director, Rev. Andrew Fiser.

School is starting for our children and youth and our college students are getting ready to head back to campus. We are revisiting an episode from this time last year when Daniel visits with Two of our Wesley Executive Directors Rev. Marcus Jones from UTA and Rev. David McMinn from UT about their college ministries and how churches can best re-accept their college students back into their congrega...

As summer is wrapping up and everyone is getting back to school, our friends Lynne Rhodes, Elizabeth Sin , and London Shannon from Project Transformation tell us about all the exciting things that happened this summer at their various churches and how your church can get more involved next summer with Project Transformation. To learn more, you can visit   https://projecttransformation.org/central-...

As we continue to prepare for our Back-to-School ministries, we as POD Strangely Warmed thought it would be a good idea to hear from some of our very own students about what they are anticipating for the upcoming school year and how they would like churches to come alongside and help them throughout the school year. Rev. Daniel Hawkins is joined by Nicolas from Crowley FUMC, Bella from Western Hil...

As we get closer to the school year starting our churches are planning ways to encourage and champion our children and youth. Rev. Daniel Hawkins sits down with Rev. Melissa McDuffee, from FUMC Cleburne, who has partnered with Matt Ford, the Principal at an elementary school in Cleburne, to learn how they have come together to better serve the students and teachers throughout the school year. 

This week were back on the road at the 2024 South Central Jurisdictional Conference . Rev. Daniel Hawkins gets Rev. Edlen Cowley and Rev. Philip Rhodes reactions about the ratification of the Horizon Texas Conference and how were building something great for the future. Rev. Ramon Smith gives us a recap of his LED Talk he gave Thursday, and Rev. Todd Salzwedel tells us about his experiences from t...

We're back in the POD Strangely Warmed studio this week and since Annual Conference many pastors have been on the move to their next appointments. Rev. Daniel Hawkins interrupts Rev. Ramiro Rodriguez while working on his first sermon for his new church and steals Rev. Johnny Brower from unpacking boxes to sit down and visit about what it means to be itinerant, and how to transition successfully to...

Welcome back for Part 2! Last week Rev. Michael Gienger , our Conference teacher from  AC24 , joined Rev. Daniel Hawkins to dive deeper into what all is happening at Galveston Central Church . This week Daniel finds out he could be an occupational therapist while Michael tells us about the work his wife is doing and how it could relate to the way we communicate with the people in and around our ch...

Another episode from our Central Texas Annual Conference, Rev. Daniel Hawkins caught up with Rev. Michael Gienger, our Conference Teacher, after his presentation to learn more about the good work happening at Galveston Central Church. To see both presentations from Rev. Gienger you can visit ctcumc.org/ac24-meeting-videos Join us next week where Daniel and Michael dive deeper into what all is goin...

We're Back in our Central Texas Conference! All the way down in Round Rock for our 2024 Annual Conference! Rev. Daniel Hawkins visits with some pastors that are originally from our soon to be unified conferences about what they're looking forward to in the new Horizon Texas Conference. Rev. David Johnson tells us how he started his ministry in the Northwest Texas Conference, Rev. DeDe Jones, who l...

With the 2024 Central Texas Annual Conference just around the corner, we at POD Strangely Warmed thought we would drop our next episode early. Rev. Daniel Hawkins visits the North Texas 2024 Annual Conference and Catches up with some old friends of the POD and makes some NEW friends from North Texas. Since the Horizon Texas Conference is just on the horizon... we hear from Rev. Jarrod Johnston, Re...

Coming up on July 1st is the Freedom Meal! Nestled between Juneteenth and July 4th, the Inaugural Freedom Meal sets in motion a powerful annual observance that both honors and contemplates the full expanse of American history. Two of the Freedom Meal Committee members Rev. Dr. Alfie Wines and Rev. Kristin Warthen join Rev. Daniel Hawkins to talk about the event and why it's important to Reaffirm o...

Back in 2014 Rev. Daniel Hawkins and Rev. Lance Marshall were working hard to try and have successful satellite campuses for the churches they were working at. In this episode of POD Strangely Warmed they talk about their shared experiences in failure with those church start-ups and how they grew in their ministry since then to be the church leaders they are today. 

Summer is coming and with that comes our favorite place to spend the summer, Glen Lake Camp! This week Rev. Daniel Hawkins sits down with Glen Lake's Program Assistant, Cassidy Barrett and camp intern Bradley Luna to hear all about why camp is their favorite place to be and how its helped shaped their faith. If you're looking for a way to champion our children and youth this summer, then check out...

While at General Conference 2020 (in 2024) Rev. Daniel Hawkins got to sit down with Rev. Charlie Baber, creator, author, and artist of Wesley Bros Comics. Charlie shares with us how he started drawing the Wesley Bros, some of his favorite comic strips and inside jokes, as well as the inspiration behind his new book "Incompatible: How the Church Cast Out LGBTQ Christians and Where We Go Next" You c...

General Conference 2020 (in 2024) is finally over, after 2 weeks of committee meetings and delegation Rev. Daniel Hawkins meets up with Rev. Edlen Cowley and Rev. Philip Rhodes, members of delegation for the North and Central Texas Conferences of the UMC. Back in episode 49 they spoke about their hopes and aspirations for the upcoming General Conference, and now they reflect on all the decisions o...