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Hope: Making Connections in Maastricht
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - June 27, 2024 13:18 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLoneliness is one of the top mental health issues in cities—one touching people of all ages and backgrounds. Serve the City Maastricht, responding to their city's crisis of loneliness with hope, has introduced the Noah Friendship Platform. The team matches individuals with potential friends base...
An interview with Dr. John Maxwell
John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church - June 11, 2024 01:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn this podcast episode, Pastor John Nuzzo is privileged to interview Dr. John Maxwell, who is known as the # 1 leadership authority. A number one New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker, John Maxwell has sold more than 24 million books in several languages. More than that, he is...
D-Day 2024 80th Anniversary: Ronald Reagan Excerpts from 1984
Mike's Minute (or two...) ! - June 07, 2024 05:45 - 10 minutesAVC President Michael Douglass on the Mike Douglass Show on AM 1360 KFIV (06/06/24), with reflections on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, featuring excerpts from President Ronald Reagan's tribute on June 6, 1984, to the soldiers who took the beach 40 years earlier.
Hope: Everyone's Got Talent!
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - June 06, 2024 06:08 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWho doesn't hope to be seen for their talents rather than their limitations? When four teenage girls from Amsterdam embark on a voyage of volunteering, they overcome the perceptions of themselves as "learning-disabled" and demonstrate abilities that inspire hope in all of us. And when a group of...
Nourish Your Mind with Shaun Plummer
Bar Stars Happy Hour - May 28, 2024 13:00 - 1 hourShaun is a bartender that has worked at some of the most popular places in Las Vegas. Most notably, the world-famous Carnival Court and Circa Hotel and Casino. Shaun has decided to walk out from behind the bar and pursue his desire to serve and help people in a different way as a life coach. In ...
Love: Crossing the Line in Kosovo
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - May 16, 2024 06:12 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThere's a line in every city that separates... and in Mitrovica, Kosovo, that line is a bridge. Serbs stay on one side and ethnic Albanians on the other—unless they just happen to be volunteering together with Serve the City, crossing the line with love. Volunteers at a Big Volunteer Weekend in...
Love: Kindness Wherever You Look!
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - May 02, 2024 13:23 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsA Big Volunteer Day gives the chance to spread love around a city! Every month, Serve the City Peninsula volunteers further multiple projects in a disadvantaged community in Newport News, VA, in the USA. As we accompany them on projects ranging from Bingo with the elderly, to Valentines for fa...
Multiplication
John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church - April 30, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn this month’s podcast, Pastor John Nuzzo articulates the structure and importance of biblical leadership in the church. Multiplication is one of the primary things God is endeavoring to do church-wide, not only in the church, but in individual believers’ lives to multiply them so they can mul...
Courage: Dreaming New Dreams in the Big City
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - April 18, 2024 07:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe two most multicultural cities in the world are Brussels and Dubai (Belgium, UAE). People move there dreaming of opportunity... but what happens if opportunities fail to materialize, or when it is time to go back? Meet Marie and Karen, two ladies who help other women find the courage to dream...
Courage: A Fight for Haiti's Future
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - April 06, 2024 04:31 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsViolence in Haiti has again become world news. And in the midst of chaos, the Serve the City Haiti team continues to serve with courage, addressing the roots of the crisis. In this Serving Stories episode, we explore how Serve the City Haiti volunteers have been trying to address the root cause...
The Punctuation of a Life
John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church - April 01, 2024 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn this month’s podcast, Pastor John Nuzzo enlightens us regarding the importance of the punctuation mark we place on our lives. Through personal experiences, he reveals the domino effect of our using the correct punctuation in life. The domino effect is not only up to God; it depends upon our...
Meet the Serving Stories Team!
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - March 21, 2024 05:14 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsBonus episode! Ever wondered about the people behind the list of names as the end of our podcast? Our Serving Stories production team introduce themselves, and discuss their own experience of serving the city, as well as their favorite episodes!
Compassion: A Hundred Thousand Welcomes
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - March 07, 2024 07:02 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsCead mile failte: an Irish phrase that means "a hundred thousand welcomes." That is what Lucy Alexia Dube wants to offer new migrant parents coming to Ireland. Having been a refugee herself, she compassionately supports them in the midst of cultural transition—and sometimes prejudice—through STC...
In Search of Apollos
John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church - March 06, 2024 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWho is your Apollos? Who are your Aquila and Priscilla? In this podcast, Pastor John Nuzzo delves into a new season he believes is coming into the Body of Christ. He believes we are in a season to help the next generation to be prepared to build the Church and to hear God’s voice. In Acts...
Compassion: Kindness to Ukraine, Continued
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - February 22, 2024 08:21 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsLet's combat compassion fatigue! On the 2nd anniversary of the Ukraine war, Nikita and Artur, two refugees in Krakow, recount their stories—and how kindness became contagious for them.
THE FEAR FACTOR
Keys for New Leaders - February 20, 2024 00:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings#037 - THE FEAR FACTOR. This episode is about the fears we face as leaders, fears that can stop you in your tracks and be a limiting or sometimes debilitating factor in your effectiveness as a new leader who serves others. Join Dr. Charles Boyer as he discusses five of the most common fears tha...
Compassion: Nourishing Kindness in Paris
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - February 09, 2024 13:49 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSafi Ebrahim and Peter DeWitt, of Serve the City Paris, lay out for us how compassion can change the trajectory of the life of an immigrant. And Safi should know, as he himself came to Paris as a refugee from Afghanistan! He shares his journey of finding first the means of communication, and the...
Three Elements Necessary for Multiplication
John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church - February 01, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn this month’s podcast, Pastor John speaks to leaders about multiplication in your sphere of influence. He shares a personal experience that brought him to the realization that there are three elements necessary for multiplication. Multiplication is available for all of us—no one is disqualif...
Bartender vs. Mixologist with Tom Alley
Bar Stars Happy Hour - January 16, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutesIt's the age old debate, are you a bartender or do you consider yourself a mixologist? In this episode, Tom discusses what sets one apart from the other, the mentality of both, and he gives you his position on what he will forever call himself. There's also another segment of Booze and Vinyl whi...
The Power of a God-Sized Vision
John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church - January 03, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsDo you see what God sees? Are you blinded because you can’t see beyond your past, your pain, even your successes? In this month’s podcast, Pastor John Nuzzo shares some things that are deeply meaningful and intimate to him that will bless you immeasurably. Learn from his experience of having ...
Change The Mindset, Change The Culture with Tom Alley
Bar Stars Happy Hour - December 26, 2023 14:00 - 35 minutesWork culture is one of the most important aspects of success in the Food and Beverage Industry. In this Happy Hour, Tom talks about the importance of a healthy work environment and how to assess if it's in need of a change. You'll learn what really matters when it comes to running a successful b...
Respect: In the Stockings of St. Nicholas
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - December 21, 2023 06:08 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat if giving gifts to those in need could boost self-respect instead of creating dependency? Saint Nicholas understood this when he gave money anonymously to an impoverished family to supply dowries that would allow their three daughters to marry and have a future. And Serve the City volunteer...
Respect: No Longer Frozen in Shame
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - December 07, 2023 12:22 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn Krakow, Poland, as in many other big cities around the world, respectable people pretend the homeless person they pass on the street is invisible. There are, the respectable feel, so many reasons not to respect the man sleeping on the bench: alcoholism, lack of a job, grubbiness, asking for h...
God Who Intervenes
John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church - December 03, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsPastor John Nuzzo interviews Pastor Keith Tucci in this month’s podcast. Pastor Keith is the author of God Who Intervenes, which is the amazing story of his life. He also founded the Network of Related Pastors—a gathering of pastors from all over the country. They have planted 14 churches in ...
Humility: Mopping Mayors and Stumbling Stones
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - November 16, 2023 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt’s pretty easy to volunteer when you feel like the task you are doing is big and important. But when the job seems mundane and messy—maybe even smelly—some volunteers might hesitate. In Serve the City, however, volunteering with humility means we are not too proud to do the little things, and ...
Ep2.3 Humility: Mopping Mayors and Stumbling Stones
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - November 16, 2023 06:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt’s pretty easy to volunteer when you feel like the task you are doing is big and important. But when the job seems mundane and messy—maybe even smelly—some volunteers might hesitate. In Serve the City, however, volunteering with humility means we are not too proud to do the little things, and ...
Humility: Short People Got Good Reason to Serve
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - November 02, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTurns out: Randy Newman had it wrong. Short people have lots of good reasons to live! In this episode, focused on volunteering with Humility, we ask: Do you have to be big to do great things? We met with the shortest members of the Short family (the kids) to find out, and to ask them about their...
Ep. 2.2 Humility: Short People Got Good Reason to Serve
Serving Stories – Serve the City International - November 02, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTurns out: Randy Newman had it wrong. Short people have lots of good reasons to live! In this episode, focused on volunteering with Humility, we ask: Do you have to be big to do great things? We met with the shortest members of the Short family (the kids) to find out, and to ask them about their...
Interview with Peter Piñón Part 2
John Nuzzo Leadership Podcast | A pastor's insights on leadership for the whole church - November 01, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn part two of this interview with licensed counselor and coach, Peter Piῇon, Pastor John Nuzzo delves into the process of transformation Peter experienced after he met Jesus. It is the goodness of God—through God and people—which leads us into repentance and totally changes the trajectory of ...
ARE YOU LISTENING?
Keys for New Leaders - October 31, 2023 21:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings#036 - ARE YOU LISTENING? Listening, really good, intensive, focused listening is powerful. One of the reasons why developing good listening skills is so difficult is that we don't listen to understand one another. We tune out others when we should be listening to them. How well do YOU liste...
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