3 Minute Ministry Mentor

Have you ever  simply run out of words? 

3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed tells us about how she did. And how she "learned to pray in God’s language" of silence. Perhaps you would like to give it a try?

How to Start Meditating - a simple, step-by-step guide to a practice of silence and prayer.  More: 3MMM Episode 199: Pray, Read, Write

How will you notice the quality of silence in your life? What is your calling in this season?

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#howtomeditate #meditationpractices #pastoralimagination #clergylife

In this episode, we offer a Mother’s Day prayer. Yet, it is not like the ones Eileen Campbell-Reed grew up hearing.

This prayer is more of a psalm and a lament. It lifts up to God the painful and unspeakable facets of mothering and #mothersday. It also honors the gifts and graces of mothering. God in her wisdom sees and hears it all. There is no truth we cannot pray.  

+ For the full text of this prayer, go to eileencampbellreed.org 

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+ Faith communities have been challenged. Changed. Grieved. And it is time to talk about it. Check out the new Study Guide, here. 

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.”  

#Mothersdaygrief   #HannahService   

#MothersDayPrayer #MothersDay2023 #pastoralimagination 

Episode 83: Finding Our Way

Has anything changed over the past three years in your ministry? If your answer is yes - check out this new resource. 

Our goal in studying and seeking to understand the lives and practices of Christian ministers over the last 20+ years is to make this work more understandable. To support the people called to it. And, after the last three incredibly stressful and unprecedented years, to help renew the practice of ministry.

To that end, Eileen Campbell-Reed wrote a 30-page #PandemicPastoring Report (PPR). It summarizes the research with over a hundred clergy and volunteer leaders in 20+ denominations. This episode invites Erin Robinson Hall talk about the new companion piece to that report: the PPR Study Guide.   

Faith communities have been challenged. Changed. Grieved. And it is time to talk about it. Check out the new Study Guide, here. 

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org 

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.”  

#pandemicpastoringreport

#pastoralimagination

#neweraofministry 

Episode 82: Talking Through Tragedy

How do we talk children through tragedy? What about parents and teachers, especially when the tragedy has impacted children and the places where children go, like schools or churches? And what about caring for congregations as a whole? 

Last week in Nashville, we experienced what is reaching epidemic proportions in the form of another school shooting. This episode invites us to think about how we care for our children when they are exposed to or become aware of the tragedies of our world. 

Download this handout to help you prepare to talk to our children and teenagers when crisis erupts. We need plans to help us respond with care and work for justice for our congregations and our wider communities.  

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#griefandchildren #griefcare #pastoralimagination 

Episode 81: Beauty of Motherhood

There is beauty in parenting. Not because the work is all glamorous or easy, but because God’s presence and grace is woven through it, even when it is messy and fraught and full of pain and tears and uncertainty.

In this FULL CONVERSATION with Erin Strybis, Kimberly Knowle-Zeller, Erin Robinson Hall and Eileen Campbell-Reed, find out what these mothers claim about rising in the dark, fears about the violence that threatens our children, inequity among families with children, and how we can work towards justice for all children. How can we respond to the ways we measure and doubt ourselves as parents?

Have a listen as they lift up the values of beauty and community, grace and blessing, play and justice, in the shared work and practices of parenting.

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#beautyofmotherhood #parentingforward #pastoralimagination 

This week we are talking once again with Kim Knowle-Zeller and Erin Strybis about their new book, The Beauty of Motherhood.

3MMM Host Eileen Campbell-Reed tells us: There is beauty in parenting experiences. Not because the work is all glamorous or easy, but because God’s presence and grace is woven through it, even when it is messy and fraught and full of pain and tears and uncertainty. 

Download a copy of the #PandemicPastoring Report: 
https://pandemicpastoring.org

Thank you! You are invited to subscribe to weekly episodes of Three Minute Ministry Mentor https://3mmm.us/welcome 

Thank you Stockaudios for the podcast theme music, “Happy Day.” 

#pastoralimagination #beautyofmotherhood