HeyJaredBeyond Damascus
Beyond Damascus: The show where encounter meets mission. On this podcast, Dan, Brad, and Aaron will give you practical tips on how to live out your faith every day.
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5 Ways to Turn Your Ministry Into a Movement (opens the original)
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Most ministries never become movements. They run programs, hope people show up and burn out their leaders along the way. Dan DeMatte, co-founder and executive director of Damascus, has spent 25 years building one that didn't. Today it has three campuses, thousands of young people and hundreds of missionaries every year. In this Behind the Mission teaching, Dan walks through the five things every spiritual entrepreneur has to do to launch a movement: start with Jesus, create and cast a vision, bu
The Vice You're Hiding Behind A Virtue (opens the original)
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He was seventeen, sitting in a confessional at a Steubenville conference, listing his sins — and the priest stopped him. "Son, I'm going to stop you right there. You love your sin." Conall Hughes smiled. It was the first time anyone had cared enough to tell him the truth. Eight years into full-time mission at Damascus, Conall sits down with Brad Pierron to trace the whole road: the Eucharistic procession in 2011 that he can still date to the hour, the high school of 1,600 students with six kids
The Operations Crew: Is A Spreadsheet Ministry? (opens the original)
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Most people picture ministry as a stage, a microphone, and a room full of teenagers crying. So what do you do if your Monday is a bank reconciliation, a vendor invoice, and four hours of email? Four members of the Damascus operations and finance team sat down to answer that — and the answer is not the polite one. AJ, Conor, Anthony and Adam left engineering jobs, corporate accounting and a comfortable career track to build the back end of a missionary movement. In this conversation they take apa
4 Friars On What God Does With Your Failures (opens the original)
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Four Capuchin Franciscan friars came off a week of summer camp and sat down to answer thequestion most people are actually carrying around: what do you do when you have no idea whatGod wants from your life. One of them wanted to be a math teacher, then a therapist, then a social worker. God said yes to all three at once — and then waited two years to tell him.They get into wearing the habit of a brother who has died, why "get to" is a better phrase than "have to," how a Christian symbol left on
Cultivating a Spirit-Filled Ministry (Ep. 22) (opens the original)
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Behind the Mission provides a behind the scenes look at the ministry concepts and methodology of Damascus. In this episode, Dan shares how we get young people, who are known to be disaffiliating in large numbers, to reengage with the faith. The Damascus Podcast is the official podcast of Damascus, a Catholic missionary movement that invites as many young people and their families as possible into a life-changing encounter with Jesus and His Church. With a combination of long-form conversations,
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