Shades of Understanding: Recent Episodes
Chi Alpha Podcast Network
The Shades of Understanding podcasts invites you to join us on a journey of unity and diversity to grow our knowledge of each other and the depth of our relationships.
We conclude Season 1 by inviting back some of our guests to answer your questions. Tune in to learn from these amazing people: Jenny Groff, Lance McLeod, Raydon Haskins, with host and diversity director, Belkis Lehman. Thank you for supporting XA Diversity’s podcast. We look forward to seeing you at CMC 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Journey to Unity & Diversity: http://www.drivingdiversity.org/training.html
Our host and Diversity Director, Belkis Lehman, welcomes our Latin American staffers: Rigoberto Herrera, Andy Estrella, and Jasmine Yanez.
We’ll hear about their upbringing, how their culture has helped them on the mission field, and their hopes and dreams within our movement.
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Our host and Diversity Director, Belkis Lehman, welcomes our Native American staffers: Bethany Carter, Lance McLeod, and Leah Gray. We’ll hear about their culture, how it has helped them on the mission field, and their hopes and dreams as we reach more students and see more missionaries of Native American descent in our movement.
Recommended Resource: First Nations Bible
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Our host and Diversity Director, Belkis Lehman, welcomes our African staffers: Medi Kikoni, Linda Jena , and Brian Udechukwu. We’ll hear about upbringing in their African culture, observations and challenges on the mission field, and their hopes and dreams as we further pursue Kingdom diversity in our movement.
Recommended Resource: How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
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Our host and Diversity Director, Belkis Lehman, welcomes three of our missionaries: Jenny Groff, Grace Weng, and Jeff Chalko-Mique. We’ll hear their upbringing in church, the challenges from cultural differences, and how their culture has helped each of them do ministry.
Recommended Resource: Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections Across Cultures by Michelle Ami Reyes
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Our host and Diversity Director, Belkis Lehman, welcomes three of our international missionaries: Severin Lwali, Marlou Peters, and Ryota Yogo. We’ll hear their stories of how they went from “Friendship to Leadership”.
Recommended resource: Crossing Cultures with Jesus by Katie Rawson
In our first episode of Shades of Understanding, our host, Belkis Lehman, Chi Alpha's Diversity Director, welcomes three of our Black Missionaries. Moriah Offord, Jamil Stell, and Shawndra Lucas join us in discussing their upbringing in church, challenges with diversity, and cultural integration in ministry environments. They explain what each hopes to see changed for a better representation of Kingdom Diversity within Chi Alpha.
Recommended Resource: Reading While Black https://esaumccaulley.com/reading-while-black/
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A brief introduction to Chi Alpha Diversity’s new podcast series, Shades of Understanding.