What's the Point?
What's the Point?
Special Bonus Episode: Kids and a Calling
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What happens when a bus-aisle brainstorm turns into a microphone, a studio, and a growing community of listeners?
This week we reflect on the wild ride of the Kids and a Calling podcast crew. We discuss trip devotionals, lost recordings, nonstop laughter, honest questions, and the unexpected moments when we realized people far beyond our church were tuning in. What started as a simple idea became a space where voices were found, faith was tested, and real conversations matter.
We talk about learning to step into serious topics with simple language, serving that shapes our character, and the daily challenge of practicing what we preach. You’ll hear how feedback from college students, parents, and even grandparents sharpened our approach, why authenticity beats clichés, and how small faithful actions are real ministry when done unto God.
We also pull back the curtain on growth behind the mic: nerves, sound-check chaos, hearing your own voice for the first time, and learning that consistency can matter just as much as content.
And then… the big reveal — we’re launching our new show under the Point Church brand: Kids and a Calling. We’ll continue unpacking Sunday messages, so they stick on Monday, plus dive into upcoming topics like temptation, neutral living, wisdom from Proverbs and much more.
Our hope is simple: help you see you're not alone, failure isn’t final, and you're never too young or old to walk in purpose. If God’s nudging you toward something a little scary - just say yes. The room always changes when you do.
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Surprise Bonus: Meet The Crew
SPEAKER_00Welcome to What's the Point Podcast, where we discuss the word in a relatable way that leads to life and culture change. My name is Jonathan Walton. I'm teaching pastor at Point Church, and I will be your host for this episode, Surprise, Surprise. But do not worry, the giggling that you hear in the background is this season's crew, and they are all here. I'm joined to my left by Audrey Angel.
SPEAKER_03Hey everyone.
SPEAKER_00Lincoln Soche.
SPEAKER_03Hey guys.
SPEAKER_00To my right is Hudson Walton. Hey guys. Andrea Crater.
SPEAKER_04Hey guys.
SPEAKER_00And sitting across this very long table directly in front of me is Ramsay Pavlu.
SPEAKER_04Hey. Oh, sorry.
SPEAKER_00So welcome, welcome. Let me start by saying that this episode is going to be a little bit different. I've got a camera on me right now, matter of fact, with a Pepsi logo on it. And uh in this episode, we're not discussing a particular topic or getting into anything deep like you're used to. We're hopefully gonna have a little bit of fun, give our audience a chance to get to know each of this season's crew just a little bit better. This is a bonus episode of season nine, where we're gonna take a look at some things behind the scenes and just see some things that have happened in this season. So are y'all ready for that?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm excited.
SPEAKER_00Yes. So, Audrey, what's your icebreaker question for this episode?
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00She don't have one. I knew she wouldn't.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I have one cat.
SPEAKER_00Hold on, I have an icebreaker question for this episode. Silence on the set. Yes. Yo. So, first of all, thank you guys for letting me be a part of your podcast. Uh, like I was one of the founding members of What's the Point? And I've been a host every season. That's like eight seasons up until this one. But I just want to say, man, you guys have owned it this season. I don't even feel like this is my podcast anymore. I feel like I'm truly a guest on your set. And uh, so you guys have really rocked it. In my opinion, y'all really were that good. I feel like I'm interviewing celebrities. Like for real.
SPEAKER_03So our heads are getting bigger as we see.
SPEAKER_00Here's my question. Oh boy. You know how celebrities have things in their contracts that they won't sign or they won't do unless they have this. Like Beyoncé has$900 titanium drinking straws that she makes them put on her set in order to be part of things. That's crazy. They have to hand carve her ice cubes. What? Madonna made people change all the toilet seats at the venues that she went to because she didn't want to use a toilet seat that someone else had already used.
SPEAKER_02Pop a squat.
Celebrity Contract Demands Icebreaker
SPEAKER_00Ed Sheeran. What? Thank you for that. Ed Sheeran has ketchup with every single meal, no matter what the food is. That's reasonable. Drake wants sour patch kids, gummy bears, and Swedish fish. Valin. That's valid. Justin Bieber wants Reese's PCs.
SPEAKER_02Ooh, extra valid. That's very good.
SPEAKER_00Ariana Grande wants gummy worms.
SPEAKER_02Oh, I like those.
SPEAKER_00And on and on the list could go about things that can't and can't be on the set. So here's your question. If you really were like one of these big time celebrities, what would your contract thing be?
SPEAKER_02This is easy.
SPEAKER_00$100 per episode.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah. That's weak. That's it? Of course. That is weak. That's easy.
SPEAKER_03I would do a lot more.
SPEAKER_05And the rest to charity, guys. Come on. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03How about lemon water? Mine's easy. Mine's just wait, what kind of water? Lemon water.
SPEAKER_04I love lemon water.
SPEAKER_03That is so simple of you, and I love it.
SPEAKER_04I drink all the time. I love lemon water. I'd definitely say a coffee. Like, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I was about to say chapstick at all times. I have always have it right now. That's my own. I had to go get it. Yeah, but like I wish I had some right now.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Dr. Pepper and a water.
SPEAKER_00By the way, producer Brian has the Dr. Pepper. That is part of his contract. I have agreed to give him a Dr. Pepper for recording every episode.
SPEAKER_04He has gotten one almost every episode.
SPEAKER_00And I think I've only missed one, maybe two.
SPEAKER_04Does he have one right now?
SPEAKER_00Just one. Yep, just one.
SPEAKER_02And right now. And right now.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, that was part of his contract to do this. Great things writing. For every episode.
SPEAKER_02Dude, if we're talking about contracts, I strive to be like Ris Reese Witherspoon. She had in her contract for what was it? Legally blonde, to have all her wardrobe in it. So she got so many things. Oh, like you mean like keep her wardrobe. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's nice.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's nice. So and she had like 77 pairs of Jimmy shoes. Those are expensive, by the way.
SPEAKER_03That's crazy.
SPEAKER_00I never heard of them. That sounds cool.
SPEAKER_03Jimmy Chew.
Origin Story: From Bus To Studio
SPEAKER_00They're like, let's get started officially with the podcast. So to give the listeners a little backstory, some of the adults on What's the Point have discussed the idea of having a youth young student podcast for a couple of years, but we couldn't get past who should be on it, what should it be about. And then one day on the North American Youth Congress trip, which uh you guys have referenced several times throughout this year, uh Audrey started doing these little devotionals in the morning. Anybody remember that?
SPEAKER_02I actually filmed them if any weather because hold on talk for the weather.
SPEAKER_00So that was pretty cool. And then one day, I don't remember what day, but one day, y'all formed a big group right in the middle of the the aisle of the bus, and everybody started having these deep conversations, and I got sucked into it a little bit. And uh that day I really thought, man, this would be really cool because y'all were talking about some deep stuff, and uh it was it was a pretty cool thing, and and everything kind of started making sense. And uh, I think Ramsey even made the comment, like, we should do a podcast. And uh I asked Audrey about it, she was all about it. Y'all probably don't even know this, she was all about it, but then we got back here and I talked to her about it again a few weeks later, and she was like, uh nope, I can't do that.
SPEAKER_03And then well, when that's when we talked about it on the bus, the idea was like perfect in my head, like, okay, I'd have a pretty pink podcast room, and I'd call it the Audgecast.
SPEAKER_05Because like, it's always a joke and a nice idea. You're never like, yeah, I'm actually gonna make a podcast a month later. You want to do it? And I was like, that's that's a crazy way to think.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So I came to her again like a couple weeks later, and it just so happened Pastor Jared had preached a message about being available and being willing to do new things and being courageous and stuff, and so she was like, uh, I guess I'll do it. And so from there, we all kind of contacted, and I will say this this is funny because I remember the first meeting in my office where we officially discussed giving this podcast a shot. I saw how everything went down, it was hilarious, and so I think it would be a cool place to start. Somebody tell people about it from your perspective what happened in that first meeting. Okay.
SPEAKER_05So this is one of my rare moments of weakness where I felt pure in this scenario, this type of weakness, it was rage. That's what I felt. He was mad. He didn't know because he was almost like hold on, let me tell. I have this is like my therapy. So I show up, I just get a text from my dad that says, We're having a meeting at 6 30, our service is at 7. I have no idea what it's about. I'm like, okay. I show up to church early, I start walking, and then as I walk into the room, the first thing I met with was Audrey, Lincoln, uh, Andrea, and my dad sitting there, and he goes, So did Audrey talk to you about the podcast? And I was like, What? Like this had I was there on that bus, a lot of emphasis on the movie. What? And the only time I'd ever heard about anything with a podcast was on the N A Y C bus when Audrey made one comment where it was like, dude, if I was on a podcast called the Oddcast, would you be in it? And of course, she's like my little sister, and we were joking. So I was like, Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Wait, no, no, no, no. So I don't joke about serious things. That was not a serious thing, but yes, it was.
SPEAKER_05You said the odd cast, bro. No, no, it's not a serious thing.
SPEAKER_03It was to me a lot.
SPEAKER_05And you were all giggling, like, if I was on a podcast, would we do it?
SPEAKER_03No, I wasn't giggling. Because I was like, your dad doesn't think you'll do it, would you do it? Like, I was so serious, and you were like, Yeah, I do it. And I was like, he's in, like for life.
SPEAKER_05If you were there, if you were there as a third-party viewer, you would not be like, Yeah, these guys are making a podcast in a month. That was not the conversation we have. But no. So they're like, Did Audrey talk to you about the podcast? And I was like, Again, what? And they were like, sit down, bro.
SPEAKER_03Do we have something to tell you?
SPEAKER_05I sat down and they were like, You are on a podcast now and you are the oldest member.
SPEAKER_03Tell us when you're available. That's how it went down.
SPEAKER_05First episode next Wednesday.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, no, no, next, it was next Monday. Next Monday Monday. It was next Monday. Yeah, it was like five days to process. Yeah, he was upset. It was so mad.
SPEAKER_05And so they tried to give some silver lining, like, oh, you can say no, you don't have to do this, but I have five people in a room looking at me, like staring at me. So no, I can't say no.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Like, and so I asked him, I said, Will you at least just try it once? And he agreed to do that, and the rest is history. I think you kind of liked it once you got got started with it. So uh, yeah, that was kind of a funny story. And in just full disclosure, I did tell Audrey to get with each of these members and talk to them about this, which obviously she did not do before we got to that podcast.
SPEAKER_04Okay, that was your fault for trusting me. I think I had to text Audrey and be like, hey, what about the podcast? She was like, Oh yeah.
Early Hurdles And Lost Audio
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so so it's happening. Let's move on. Lincoln, let's let's go to you. What were your expectations going into this podcast, and how did the expectations meet reality?
SPEAKER_06Uh honestly, I expected it to go kind of rough at the start. I was like, uh, I had no we have no experience doing this. I think Andrea did the adult one like twice. That was the most experience we had. So I was I was a little I was expecting it to be rough at the start, but honestly, it I feel like we it turned out pretty good. We we had a lot of chemistry off the start, and our first episode actually got deleted. Like it didn't, it didn't even the recording. I forgot about that. We sounded like it sounded like like zombies or monsters. It was terrible, but it was really funny, but it worked out.
SPEAKER_05You see, I took that as a sign that we weren't supposed to be doing this.
SPEAKER_06Obviously, we get upstairs, it's just the Lord guys. We get upstairs, and they're and they say, Guys, uh, we don't know if the computer's gonna record, but let's try it. And so we tried it, and then I get a call from Hudson the next day. He's like, Well, it didn't work. I'm just are you serious?
SPEAKER_00And I and I worked on that thing for hours trying to figure out a way to convert it, just would not work.
SPEAKER_04And I missed the call from Hudson, and he he texts me and says, Call me back. And I'm like, Oh no, what is wrong? And I immediately call him and I'm like, Hey, what's wrong? And he goes, We have to re-record the podcast because we sound like zombies.
Stepping Into Serious Topics
SPEAKER_00That's what I'm saying. And it it did, it sounded terrible. So so Audrey, how did it feel stepping into a podcast that adults usually host and then being asked to discuss deeper things like sermons and then serious questions that people have? How did that make you feel at first?
SPEAKER_03Um, really nervous because whenever so whenever I heard about the podcast, like in my mind, my initial thought was like, we're gonna get together and just have some laughs. It's not gonna be that serious, like you know. And then like I got told we're doing like like we're reflecting on the sermon, and I was like, oh, this is real. And so then I was like, okay, this is deep stuff, and like I the adults that everyone's used to listening to, they probably like get in deep with it and like they know what they're talking about. And I was like, Are we gonna sound professional or are we gonna sound like we're some like 12-year-olds who don't know what exactly we're talking about? And so it was kind of worryful, but then once we got into it, I was like, it's actually really it's not hard, like it's just chill. Yeah, you just do your research and yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I think you have had a lot of laughs along the way as well. I thought we had a good time with it.
SPEAKER_04But it was kind of weird, like at first it was weird because you know, we're all like almost kids, and we were taking the place of the adults, and like our podcast not that because the adult podcast was like the podcast of the church, yeah. And so like now we're the podcast of the church, and I was like, that's so odd. But then the more we recorded and the more that we you know did it, it was fine.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, see, I never really thought about it like that. It was more like an ignor ignorance is bliss thing. Like, if I just didn't think about that, it didn't bother me. For the first episode, it was like, I don't want to do this, but then after that, it was just like I'm doing this, it's cool.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I think by episode three is when it finally settled in, like, okay, we actually are doing this.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, I agree. It was almost like never certain. Like, I felt like we could have stopped at any time, the first couple episodes. They're like, for real, the first three, then we call it quits.
SPEAKER_05We're gonna show up and be like, you guys are fired.
SPEAKER_00We're shutting this thing down.
SPEAKER_04We need more five.
SPEAKER_00So, Hudson, talking about uh different episodes, is there an episode or moment that stands out as your favorite? And if so, why?
SPEAKER_05Um, to me, our very first actual produced episode, uh, not the failing one. That one was really cool just because we were able to get together and like actually talk it out and see that we could, you know, do this. Practice. But the first actual produced episode where it actually went out there, and then you were telling us uh how many people were listening and stuff, like that's when it was really like we just produced a podcast for anyone in the world to listen to, and like we did good for people who've never done this. Yeah, so that was my favorite moment.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that was fun.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I like I like that episode too, and the one about forgiveness. That was a good one. I think that might have been our second to last episode. I don't know. That would that one really stuck out to me as well.
SPEAKER_04I liked the one we did on serving because I like serving all the time. Oh, yeah, me too. That was one of my favorites. And so I liked it so much I was like, let's talk about it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I just liked like as far as moments, I liked whenever we like we all just reached flow state. We were just having a good conversation, and then all of a sudden, like someone would say a joke, and for five minutes straight, we're just giggling. We trying to laugh in Jonathan's face right now. Like, I know I had it out.
SPEAKER_04In the corner, and he's like making a motion with his fingers to like wrap it up. Or at some point, producer Brian would be like spinning his fingers, like, keep it moving.
Favorite Episodes And Flow State
SPEAKER_05Actually, my second favorite moment, this is very close second, is when we were mid-podcast and we were locked in, like Audrey was uh saying, and then producer Brian gets a phone call. I love you. And without missing a beat, Audrey goes, John Pork just called him. And then after the episode the next day, uh my dad was like, Who is John Bork?
SPEAKER_03We were like, John Pork. And he said he looked up John Bork and like some random old man pulled up.
SPEAKER_05We had to explain John. I was trying to figure it out. I really had no clue.
SPEAKER_04And then he just goes, sorry.
SPEAKER_05Imagine explaining John Pork to a minister in a church. That's all we had to do.
SPEAKER_00I'm still not quite sure. I know exactly what that is. But so I can tell you one of the things that I've enjoyed about uh being a producer on this podcast is the generational differences that have occasionally come up, uh, especially in talking to you guys about planning and some of our meetings. Um, for example, this question that I'm about to ask, I originally sent an email and I said, You guys gelled fast. And like none of you knew what that meant.
SPEAKER_02I want to I have a serious question. Who really does know what that means?
SPEAKER_00Okay, like Hudson, Hudson asked, What does that even mean? Audrey thought I was talking about some kind of horse. Ramsey asked what geled means. And Lincoln said, I've never heard this term in my entire life. So I got raked over the coals by a term that to me is a pretty common term. Andrea didn't know what it meant either. And I even texted them older sports clips. Raked over the coals?
SPEAKER_03Are you letting that slide?
SPEAKER_00Uh I can pull up the I got the receipts, the text that y'all sent me making fun of me.
SPEAKER_01Uh so raked over coals?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So, yeah, I guess y'all don't know what that means to me.
SPEAKER_01No, that's not gonna say what does that even mean?
SPEAKER_00Okay, so yeah, so obviously I talk in a little bit older speak than what they're uh they're used to. So now that you have an understanding of what I meant, I'm gonna rephrase it for all the younger minds. You seem to gain chemistry very quickly. Y'all meshed together from the beginning. You found a quick rhythm. So did you see yourself and the team coming together and being so comfortable with each other so quickly?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I immediately thought like 100. This would be great because first of all, we've all grown up together. Literally, we're all super close, we're like a family, and then I know like the individual things that we all bring to the table are so great. Like, like just Andrea's passionate about teaching or like learning and teaching new things, and then like Ramsey's just overall like awesome goofiness, like it's just it's so entertaining, and I love it.
SPEAKER_05That's exactly what I say when I look at Ramsey.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, awesome goofiness, yep. Okay, Hudson's ability to like lock in helps because we get to save yes, and he always wraps it up in like do you need to do that or are you just good at it? I'm not sure. We're gonna find out.
SPEAKER_05Anyway, what does that mean?
SPEAKER_03Um, Lincoln's somewhat dry humor that's just like hilarious, but it's also sometimes like we don't get it and it's kind of confusing. Um and then my amazing looks, you know. Oh yeah, oh yeah. That's just not all of you can see. You're just the beauty hire. So yeah, I kind of knew we'd worked well together.
Generational Lingo And Team Chemistry
SPEAKER_05Yeah, same reason. I I never thought we weren't gonna uh be able to vibe together. Um vibe together. We all grew up, we're all yeah, basically all family.
SPEAKER_04Literally, like we we literally all grew up together. Me and Audrey went to the same school together from pre-K to graduation. Me and Lincoln are cousins, and then we all we all spend time together outside of this anyway. Yeah, yeah. Big happy family.
SPEAKER_00Awesome. So what was the hardest part of the podcast process? Think about it from start to finish, Andrea. Let's let's go with you. What what do you think was the hardest part of this process?
SPEAKER_04First, trying to research these topics and come up with good things. I would spend two to three hours on my notes every Monday. So note to myself, don't procrastinate your notes. But then also remembering to share it. Because one time I didn't remember to share it, and then no one shared it, and then Pastor Jonathan wasn't very happy. But also learning to be conversational because oh yeah, we weren't conversational in the beginning.
SPEAKER_00So, what what she means by sharing it is that from the beginning we said that we would all share it on our social media pages and tell our friends about it and stuff like that. And then I was tracking the numbers for them consistently, and one time I um I looked at the numbers and they were like way lower than normal. So I started asking, like, who didn't share this week? And all of a sudden, on the same week, like everybody went on strike. Nobody, nobody shared the episode, not one of them, and they didn't plan it. It just so happened that no one shared it that week, and it did reflect the numbers.
SPEAKER_05I don't know about everyone else, but for me, excuse me I'm not blaming Andrea because it's obviously not her fault, but that is exactly why I didn't post. She was like the domino effect, yeah, she was patient zero because every single time she posts on her story, she tags us everyone. That she tags us and then she allows you to copy her story and like just put it on yours with the link and everything. So I just do that. I didn't see her story. So I just didn't do it.
SPEAKER_01I forgot it was even a Thursday. I didn't I know me too.
SPEAKER_00So we can all blame Andrea for that, is what you're saying.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, poor things.
SPEAKER_00Great power comes great responsibility.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, guys.
SPEAKER_00Anyone else have anything uh that was hard part of the process?
SPEAKER_06Uh probably the Lafayette five o'clock traffic. That was a struggle to get through to get here on Mondays because whenever you're coming from Lafayette, it's like you gotta leave at 4 30 to get here for 5 15-ish. And yeah, if Vangelin threw away, it stopped.
SPEAKER_03I didn't think about that for you.
SPEAKER_05I feel like uh I'm at UL and my class on Mondays gets out at 3 45. So I was on the same boat. Yeah, if I I would get home for like 20 minutes before I had to leave for the podcast.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Maybe we're chilling. We chill. Like I'd text her some days like, come over.
SPEAKER_04We'd hang out for 30 minutes, just drive to church.
SPEAKER_05Like, must be nice, bro.
SPEAKER_04No, I was the same thing at Tutchon. Like, I would um my class ended at 3 45. I would probably leave school around four o'clock.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And then I'd have to drive through the traffic, and I couldn't go on the interstate because like the bridge to get onto the interstate was always Stopped and I don't feel like waiting in that traffic. So I had to go the back way, which I had like five more minutes, and I was home for maybe five to ten minutes then to get back in my car and drive to church. And y'all went through it to get here. And for me to thank you for your sacrifice.
SPEAKER_05It was a little bit worse because I take the bus at UL. So there was always that factor. Sometimes I wouldn't get back to Cajun Field until like 4 10. And then that drive all the way home.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I'd be getting home at 4 10.
SPEAKER_05That's be nice, bro.
Hardest Parts: Prep And Promotion
SPEAKER_00So next question. Did anything ever go wrong during recording that the listeners never knew about? So I want you to share a funny story, a blooper that I edited out to say face, say to save you guys. What uh tell me something that that was funny that got edited out. Okay.
SPEAKER_05I will say this isn't like one specific moment, but every single podcast without fail, the first five minutes had to be cut. Because none of us were locked in. We'd start, Audrey would get her opener out, and then we'd just start laughing.
SPEAKER_02I take partial blame for that. No, no, no. You should take partial blame. At one point, we had to restart three different places.
SPEAKER_05Like the problem was already bad, and then when Ramsey joined the podcast, it's worse. It multiplied.
SPEAKER_03Dude, everyone assumes that when Ramsey's involved with something I'm involved in, it goes so south so quick. Every time for the play that Ramsey would be at practice or something, it was just like assumed that me and Ramsey would not get anything done. We'd just giggle the whole time.
SPEAKER_02I can't say they were no, but but then again, it was only for the first five minutes, and then we would lock in.
SPEAKER_05So just have to get our giggles out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. But I will say Andrea did mess up one. She messed, she messed up one because she could not stop burping. It was so bad. And we were all laughing so hard we had to restart.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I remember that I was just listening, trying to take notes on what y'all were saying, and then everybody busted out laughing. All of a sudden I didn't have headphones on, and they all just busted out laughing at the same time. I could not figure out where y'all were laughing about it.
SPEAKER_04But you can barely hear it. We all heard it. Like you can't hear it in the party. It wasn't that bad.
SPEAKER_00But for the record, I did I did edit it out of the podcast, so I saved the listeners.
SPEAKER_06I don't know if Audrey's belly left. I was about to say that was the first that was the first podcast that got deleted. That had me crying in this year.
SPEAKER_03I remember like I looked up, I did so I didn't even think of it as like crazy, but I think it was like a like a like from the soul. Yeah, it was. And I look over, like I see Lincoln's head like quickly turn towards me. He had pure shock and fear on his face at the sound that I had just produced.
SPEAKER_06In the way you have to talk right into the mic, and she'd turn her head into the mic, so it got louder in the headphones. It's so funny. It was perfect.
SPEAKER_04For at least the first three episodes, we always ended the podcast by saying yeehaw. Yeah. For some reason, he never didn't. He edited it out every single time.
SPEAKER_00Alright, so so let's just for the record now. Can we just can I just get a yee-haw? Yeehaw. Yeehaw. Yeehaw. Okay, now if y'all wanted to keep it in there, it's gotta be way better than that.
SPEAKER_03Okay, or once we're I'm gonna do it how we would have done it. Can I get a yeehaw? Yeehaw! See how I call it.
SPEAKER_00So do you see why I uh edited it at the end?
SPEAKER_02Hey listeners, if y'all liked it, y'all let us know because we would definitely.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, let them know. I'm I'm man enough to admit I'm wrong. If y'all like it, we may put it in at another time. We'll see. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04I think leave it in the comment section. That's not there. Wait, there's no comments. Yes, there is a comment. On Spotify there. Is there comments? Oh, on Apple Podcasts.
SPEAKER_00And on Facebook, when the people share it and stuff, you can comment and stuff like that. Yeah, a lot of your listeners.
SPEAKER_02I know, I know. I Facebook, I shouldn't have said it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she's about to say who's on Facebook. A lot of your listeners.
SPEAKER_03So um why the call out?
Bloopers, Burps, And The Missing Yeehaw
SPEAKER_00So, Ramsey, let's let's go to you. And I will say this, I'm man enough to admit when I was wrong. I didn't have Ramsey in the initial lineup of the podcast. And I think it was week three, if I remember right.
SPEAKER_02I just got thrown in the mix.
SPEAKER_00Week three, week four. Andrea had to miss. We we put uh I asked Ramsey if she could do it. She agreed to do it, and uh it was a missing piece to the the kids in the calling, and we went from four to five, and I think it was a it was a great move on our part. So uh, Ramsey, if you could do over one topic that you guys discussed, what would that topic be?
SPEAKER_02I don't know if it's necessarily like a topic because I don't remember which one it was, but probably the first episode, just because since I wasn't here at the beginning, I wasn't able to get all my jitters out. And so, like that episode, I was like, you could hear in my voice, I was like quavering in my boots, like shaking.
SPEAKER_00I thought you meant the first episode that you weren't part of. You wish they would do that over. Yeah, that's what I got. That was actually horrible guy. I can redo that.
SPEAKER_02But probably I don't know what topic it was. I liked what I said.
SPEAKER_05I just wish I could have like redone it just did like how like nervous you are.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. It's it I shouldn't have been that nervous. We're chill now.
SPEAKER_00So, Hudson, how has being part of this podcast changed the way that you think about faith and leadership and your influence on others as a Christian?
SPEAKER_05Um, I don't want to say that it's made me take it more serious because this is like what I live for. This is uh this is what I believe in, but it has made me be more mindful, especially about the topics that we go across. Uh like we talk about we talk about pride for one week, and then I'll find myself uh after that being more mindful of moments in my life where I can see pride start to creep in, or moments where I felt pride. So that's kind of how it's affected me. It's made me be more mindful of um my walk with God and how I view others and how I communicate with others and act towards others. It's made me be more mindful.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, awesome. That is the same for me. Like it makes me especially like it makes me pay attention more to what I'm doing in a day-to-day life. Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_04It made me more aware of like the influence that we actually have. Because I was I was riding home from school one one day and I was listening to the podcast, and it just hit me. It was like, man, we actually like influence people and what they think and what they do. And I was like, that's actually wild.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah, it changed it changed my perspective on like real responsibility. Yeah, yeah. Like practicing what you preach. I've I've been taking that very seriously since starting this podcast because I don't want to be a hypocrite and say people should do something and I don't reflect what I'm selling, what I'm telling you to do. Yeah, that's been a big part for me.
SPEAKER_00I'm glad you mentioned that because that's something that I wanted to talk about too. Is we we spent some time at the beginning. Yeah, uh, I went over with you guys talking about things about like practicing what you preach, and if you're going to have influence, it there is an added layer of responsibility. If you're gonna talk about something publicly, you can't do it behind the scenes. So we did have those conversations. And Audrey, how how did that make you feel, knowing that there's an added layer of responsibility to putting stuff out that everybody can hear?
Adding Ramsey And Finding Her Voice
SPEAKER_03Um, at first I was like, it's not gonna be like that. He doesn't I guess like I just assumed it didn't really mean anything, like it wouldn't be different. But I mean, like you guys were saying, there is like you definitely feel it. Like the extra you have to be super careful with what you like, not that what I used to say was bad. It's just like I'm really conscious of conscious of what I am saying, and like like just make sure you don't say the wrong thing or like you were saying, don't be a hypocrite, can't get killed.
SPEAKER_01Killed.
SPEAKER_05You were not doing that. I was gonna say not doing that.
SPEAKER_03Can't get cancelled. No.
SPEAKER_00Anybody else?
SPEAKER_02I'm in agreement with both of those things.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, just I had to like I I would either not say something, but like think something that wasn't um a not a line, but like what we had just talked about, and I was like, oh, I gotta change that because it makes you catch yourself before you just made me be more intentional of how I carry myself, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's awesome. I really like that. Uh did any of you, let's let's go to Andrea with this one first. Did did you ever get any feedback from listeners that really stuck with you that that made you feel good or bad? Uh just really stuck with you?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, this one was really cool. So I have a friend at college, uh, we met through campus ministry, and she had a she goes to a church in Lafayette, and at their Wednesday night service, this speaker like had said something that cement that cemented what God was trying to teach her. And then the next day I sent her the podcast and she listened to it, and she was so excited to come tell me at campus ministry that night. She was like, You won't believe it? They talked about it at Wednesday night, and then you said it here, and it was so cool. That's what God's trying to teach me. And I was like, That's so cool.
SPEAKER_00No, that's awesome. That's awesome. That's really cool.
SPEAKER_04That's cool. It was about your anger faith.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's really cool.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I heard a lot of how good the group was as a whole. They said that they could tell we had a lot of chemistry together. I was like, Oh, really? This is our first time ever doing it.
SPEAKER_04So I got that too.
SPEAKER_06I had a lot of good feedback about yeah.
SPEAKER_04I was told we could be professional podcasters.
SPEAKER_02You are we not?
How The Show Shaped Faith And Integrity
SPEAKER_05Professional podcasters, and I said, We are. Yeah, that's good. I like it.
SPEAKER_02By my same grandma, she said that she looks forward to this like every week. So yeah, and I've got that from several people that they really look forward to.
SPEAKER_05We love you, Ramsey's grandma.
SPEAKER_00Number one supporters.
SPEAKER_04I've been told they know it's Thursday because the podcast comes out.
SPEAKER_00Yes. So, Ramsey, has this experience made you think differently about ministry or calling?
SPEAKER_02Okay, this one's kind of a complicated one because if y'all didn't know, I'm the pastor's kid, so I've always felt pressure to be like to not mess up, and that I've always been in like the view of people. But this one has made me realize that people like are actually looking at me, not just like my family unit as a whole. So kind of like now I have like actual things that I'm saying, not just things I'm that my parents were doing, you know? So kind of, yes.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I get I I get what you're saying. You're saying that like this is something that you do, like you're not uh individual.
SPEAKER_02It wasn't like a like a shift to me, because like I've always been like not like everybody's gonna judge you or anything, but just like make sure that you don't mess up because like this can mess up or what I'm trying to say, but damage the church's like view, people's view of the church. And so kind of always been under that pressure, but this was a different pressure, a pr a different layer added onto it.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I get that. You feel like you're like branching out, and it's not just your family's ministry, it's Ramsey's ministry.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, like I said earlier, it it added the responsibility of what ministry really is gonna look like. Yeah, and I I didn't like I knew it that it was a higher layer or higher level of taking responsibility and that you will have attention looking at looking at you. Um, but now that it's there, it's like, oh, okay, so how do I manage this going forward? So that's what I've got.
SPEAKER_02It's definitely a layer that a lot of people don't recognize is there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. I was hoping that that one thing you that that all of y'all would take from this is a lot of times when you're at the age that you guys are, sometimes you think that ministry is some huge big thing that's unattainable. And I was hoping that through this that you'd realize that you know what, you took a step of faith and you did things that made you uncomfortable at first, and then you realized that this is doable. This is, you know, if if we step out for God, sometimes He really will step into the picture and good things will happen from it.
SPEAKER_04So it's even better that no one's here and we're just talking to us.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it has been an eye-opener like that, because like if you want to dumb it down a lot, uh we studied each of us for at the least two hours, I'd say. Yeah, and then we come in here and talk at a table, and like that may not seem like a lot, but that's ministry.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and that that from like growing up, I would think of like the prophets like Isaiah and all the big people like you would think, oh yeah, they can fly and stuff like that. Like they were these mighty men of God who can do anything, but yeah. In reality, they were just men, like us, real dudes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I get that.
SPEAKER_06Yep.
SPEAKER_00Did at any point did y'all have like this moment where you realized, you know what, there's a I know one of you kind of mentioned this earlier, but was there a moment where you realized, like, wow, people are really listening to what I have to say? And and if you had one of those moments, how did that really make you feel?
Listener Feedback That Landed
SPEAKER_05Um, I think for me it was when people yeah, in a church, but when people because obviously I know that people in our church are more likely to listen to our uh church podcast, yeah. But when people uh online when or that I I'd see them in person, someone I hadn't seen in a while, um, and they'd reach out to me, especially after the first episode, that's when it really hit. I had people reach out to me, and I didn't specifically reach out to them and tell them to listen to it or anything. They just saw it and listened to it, and they reached out on their own and they were like, I really like this. Like you were awesome, I'm gonna keep listening. Or not you are awesome, that's just something I was lazy. You were rock customers, but yeah, you did good in it, it's not a good or like I'm gonna keep listening. And I was like, there are people outside of our circle like actually listening to this. Yeah, we're influencing, and that's just yeah.
SPEAKER_06I had a similar experience like that. Uh I think Andrea sent me a screenshot of some she had saw on Facebook.
SPEAKER_04Somebody had an old substitute at our high school.
SPEAKER_06Oh wow, she had like um she had heard she heard it, heard something I had said, and she typed it out and was like took away from it. That's really cool. Like, oh, people are actually listening to that.
SPEAKER_00That's awesome, and a teacher, that's really cool.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it was cool. My cousin's aunt. Um, I went to his birthday party, and her no, his aunt was like, Hold up, I'm gonna restart. So I went to my cousin's birthday party, and his aunt was like, Hey, are you on that? You you're on that podcast, huh? And I was like, Oh yeah, and she goes, It's so good. Y'all do such a great job. I was like, Oh, thanks. And she was like, Yeah, and Lincoln's on it too. I know his mom. And I was like, Oh, all right. I changed his diapers.
SPEAKER_06Oh god.
SPEAKER_04So that was just cool. And it's just different because like God threw me in the speaking thing, because I I stutter, and so I didn't like to talk in front of people because people wouldn't make fun of me for stuttering, and so which it's gotten a lot better, but um God threw me in this tea in like the speaking in front of people thing, and so I had done that at my high school, and like I had I've preached a few youth services here and there, and it didn't compare to this. This is just so different, it's just it's not weird, but at first it was weird, yeah, but now it's not weird anymore.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, that's cool. So along the way, uh as I've listened to you guys in a lot of the episodes, some of the answers to your questions has been about developing spiritual habits that are deeper, developing better spiritual stewardship, things like that. And so I'm assuming, like we've been talking about, that you haven't just been talking about those things, you've been actually applying them to your life. And so I want to ask each of you, and I want to I want each of you to kind of answer this question is what is a spiritual habit that has become more real to you through this process of talking about it and then kind of applying it in your own life?
SPEAKER_05I was actually supposed to be applying this.
SPEAKER_00That was the hope. Oh, that's great.
Microphone Nerves And Studio Reality
SPEAKER_05No, it's kind of rehashing what I said earlier in one of our uh previous questions. For me, the biggest thing that I've been uh doing intentionally since we started this is self-examination. Yeah, yeah. Partly just because I've been look we've talked about it and I've done research on my own to look more into this, but also like we just finished talking about the pressure of living what I preach. Yeah, so for those two reasons, I I'm constantly self-examining now and just making sure that um that yeah, I am living what I'm preaching, that I am really living this, what I speak. And so that's what I've been doing. Cool.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I'm a lot like that as well. Uh practice what you preach. Yes, am I human? Yes. Am I gonna mess up? Yes. But through this whole process of of studying, learning, and then talking about it, like a lot of people don't understand. We look up the stuff in our own time and then come upstairs in this room. Let me talk about it. And you hear four other perspectives of people who look up the same topic as you. Yeah, so you're not only getting what God's given to you, but you're given you're getting what God's given to everybody else. So that for me, that's that's changed the game a lot.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I will say that I love the way that that y'all's sharing of notes with each other ahead of the podcast is very minimal, uh, from my understanding. Like I haven't seen y'all do it a lot. Y'all talk about y'all don't do it a lot. And so I I think that's really cool that y'all all can come together without really planning a big thing. And I have let me let me just clarify this too. I have had people ask me specifically, so how much of the answers are you giving them? Because they said they talk really about some deep stuff, and how much and I want to be very clear that I am not telling them what to say, I'm not telling them with very small exceptions. Have I told them this is something I want you to kind of hit on. Um 99.9% of what you've heard them talk about over this season has been between them and God, and however they've come to it. I have not fed them anything, and uh, that's incredible. You guys have come together with your own stuff and you've had conversations about it, and it's been powerful. So I applaud you for that. It's really cool.
SPEAKER_05I do want to give a disclaimer the 0.1% that's missing over there. Pastor Jonathan has personally given us every single 6-7 reference in the podcast. Those have been given from him.
SPEAKER_04Literally. On the forgiveness episode, he told us to talk a little deeper about it, and then we gave a trigger warning. So there was that.
SPEAKER_03There was that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. That's the other point of the 0.01%. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh, the point one that was my least favorite was whenever he'd like to text us mid-thing, like mid-point. Add this in there. I can't do it. Like, I didn't really look at my phones, I look at him and I shake my head, and then he sends it to like someone else.
SPEAKER_05Well, it's more of like an additional topic. It wasn't like a say this bar for bar, but like we'd be we'd be talking about a topic and he'd have another like perspective of the topic, something we can add. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So if I if I felt like there needed to be some kind of balance added to it, yeah, then then I would say, hey, hit it from this perspective. And I will say that not once did I text something to Audrey that she actually even took. So don't worry.
SPEAKER_01Don't see Audrey's in a candidate. Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER_00She usually pointed across the table to Hudson, like say it to him.
SPEAKER_03I can't do it. Like things like that stress me out. Like, I'm not spurring the moment with those things.
SPEAKER_05You should have just you should have just Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Your Hudson take it.
Throat Singing And Producer Moments
SPEAKER_00Show your phone to the me. So talking about the the trigger warning and all of that, y'all have talked about some really hard topic is topics and some sensitive issues this season. So has talking about hard topics like that that y'all have behind a microphone, has that changed the way that you've been able to talk about hard things to other people in your life?
SPEAKER_05Um for me, not personally, and it's gonna sound weird, but off the podcast, uh, if I'm talking one-on-one with someone about a sensitive topic, I'm a lot more sensitive than I may sound on the podcast because I'm sitting in a room with a bunch of friends. So when we're talking about stuff, sometimes I'll have to remind myself like this is a serious topic. Like I can't just be laughing and joking.
SPEAKER_02Literally about to say the complete opposite of you. I was gonna say being in the podcast behind a mic makes me feel like way more sensitive. Like, don't joke about it. And then being in per like in person, I may like make a few jokes.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but then that's just that's just me because uh can you say that? But no, I get it. You'll you'll make it.
SPEAKER_02Like I wouldn't be as serious about it, and then behind the mic, I'm gonna like our scoping mechanism. Yeah, yes, for some people.
SPEAKER_03But like, oh if you don't Ramsay, she she cannot not laugh in a situation. Like a thing. She can't either I laugh under stress. It's so bad. She'll tell me stories like her family will be or her parents are fussing at Imory and she starts laughing and they're like, Ramsay, just leave, okay?
SPEAKER_05Hey, some people need that.
SPEAKER_02Rams used to get offended at me at laughing at them while they were fussing me that I had like I gotten in trouble for laughing.
SPEAKER_05Some of us need a laugher.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I know one time a couple of Christmas plays ago, Ramsay was helping me with a lot of stuff, and it got really stressful, and she started laughing. And I tried to make her stop laughing by trying to be more firm and telling her to stop laughing, and she just laughed more. And it was so frustrating because the more I started fussing, the more she started laughing. The more goofy you looked. Well, there's that. I'll give you that. That was a good one. I would dap you if I were closer. I apologize after. Yeah, so that's that's good.
SPEAKER_03So you apologize.
SPEAKER_00What did y'all think? Lincoln, let's go to you for this one. What did y'all think when I said, okay, this is for real this time? And you came in here and there was microphones. You knew there was going to be music on the podcast and there's schedules to keep. So give the listeners a little bit about how you felt the first time you put the headphones on in the studio, heard yourself through the mic, and and what what did that make you feel?
SPEAKER_06So he told us we were doing the or asked us if we were doing the podcast in his office, which is downstairs. So we didn't actually come up here until the Monday, which was the next Monday, to record. So the first time I'd ever been in here with the setup was recording day. And I put the headphones on my ears and I talked in the mic, and I said no. No, like I didn't like his voice. I hate hearing myself. I can't stand that. Like it's been a struggle for me to re-listen to the podcast and stuff because I just I can't stand hearing myself. Um, it kind of brought a little bit of nerves. Like I was like, Oh, this is real. But about episode two or three, it finally settled in and it's normal now.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was definitely odd at first, because like I had done a little bit before, but like I hadn't yapped this much into this microphone for that long until now. Well, not now, these past ten weeks, you know what I mean. But um it was just weird to me, this big mic.
SPEAKER_03This mic is literally like half the size of my face. Honestly, I kind of I kind of found it like whenever we first got the mics, I mean the headphones on and stuff, it can be like overwhelming at times. Yeah, like everyone starts saying random things at like different times, and it's like you hear everyone in these headphones, by the way. It's not just like yourself. And so it's it's like I hear Lincoln talking about football, um Hudson talking about um like school, Andrea talking about like education or something, and I'm just like, what is happening? And then um Brother Jonathan's trying to give us like instructions, producer Brian is trying to do like mic checks. Ten minutes he hits us with like quiet on the 10 seconds.
SPEAKER_04No, there have been times where like pre-podcast they were having conversations and I had my headphones on, and I would like literally so mad off. I would literally angrily force them off her hand. No, because we would all look at each other. I had been at school like all day at this point, and then we come here and I'm like, okay, I just want to record this record this podcast and go home. And then like there's 30 minutes we're just laughing, and I'll be like, Okay, guys, I can't do it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, we're set to start at 5 30. I don't think we started. We never started before six at all. Like six o'clock was when we were starting. Like, even today.
SPEAKER_04Even today. Even today, we started at least 10 or 15 minutes late.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Especially tonight. We're like 30 minutes behind schedule.
SPEAKER_04No, like for real.
SPEAKER_00So y'all made me think of something. Hudson actually said it under his breath. I don't know if y'all caught it, but that was one of the episodes y'all talked about, one of Audrey's uh questions at the beginning, the icebreakers. And Hudson said what he could, if he could have any skill in the world, he wanted to be a Mongolian throat singer. And I actually had to look up what in the world was a Mongolian throat singer.
SPEAKER_05I found out that it's not actually that hard to learn, apparently. Oh, you learned. Can we hear it? How about demonstration? But next next podcast. If we do this again, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Becoming prepared. Come prepared.
SPEAKER_05No, I was You may hear it from me personally. That would be cool.
SPEAKER_04Bro, that would make my own. Me and Joshua were in the car going, I think, to campus ministry. And he goes, Did you know that Brother Jonathan put a put a clip of Mongolian throat singing in the podcast? Y'all didn't catch that. I did. I hadn't listened to it yet. And he and I was like, No, no, there's no way. And he played it in the car, and like he just kept pushing it back and listening to it. And then rewind.
SPEAKER_06We cut out our ye hauls, but included.
SPEAKER_04But it included the Mongolian throat singing.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's because I knew that half of the people, or probably 90% of the people listening, is gonna be like, what is that?
SPEAKER_04None of us knew.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so I figured I'd let them know a little bit about what it was. In another life, I truly feel like I am a nomadic horse herder in Mongolia.
SPEAKER_04What I don't know what Mongolia, dude.
SPEAKER_06Hey, their food's good. That's all I can do. Mongolia.
SPEAKER_04When'd you move to Mongolia?
SPEAKER_05He likes the Mongolian gruel. Now? Oh, whoa. You're right. I am too good. I'm too pampered by our modern society. I wouldn't move there now. And live that lifestyle, but live there to like just live in a city? Yeah, sure.
Surprise Letters From Adult Listeners
SPEAKER_00Alright, now I'm gonna transition for just a second, and for this part, I'm gonna do more talking. Y'all are gonna do more listening. And Audrey's giving me a face, like a sad face, like she wants to say something here. But I'm gonna take a few minutes. I want to read a few comments that that I've been given. And uh this is a surprise for you guys. So I'm just gonna talk. Um I know that you've probably received feedback. We've talked about some that you've got from your peers, but I wanted to give you the other side of it. I don't know if you know this or not. We've talked about it a little bit, but there are a lot of adult listeners out there that that are following you guys, and I wanted you to hear some of the things that they're saying uh that that they sent in. They wanted to specifically say this to you guys. First of all, Justin Sartan says, I appreciate your awareness and openness in acknowledging and examining your weaknesses. I also value that you are not overly reliant on the familiar, overused expressions often associated with Christian culture. Those cliches are not always enough to sustain people in difficult seasons. Whether you realize it or not, the posture you're taking on these subjects is developing spiritual muscle that carries people through hard times. It's encouraging to see you modeling the kind of depth and sincerity for others to see, my own kids included. I love it. Keep up the good work.
SPEAKER_06Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Thank you, Brother Justice.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so that's cool.
SPEAKER_02Appreciate it.
SPEAKER_00Corey says there's nothing more encouraging than letting the next generation next generation minister to your soul. I feel the presence of God with every podcast, and I always gain something from listening. Thank you, guys. Appreciate it.
SPEAKER_04Thanks, Corey.
SPEAKER_00Thank you, Mom. Chance on Joe, Audrey's Pops. Said if I could share one thing, it's that even though you're young, you are relevant. When I listen to the podcast, I quickly forget that the speakers are in their teens and early 20s. You have great things to say and give mature insights. You might be young, but you have knowledge and wisdom.
SPEAKER_02Sorry. Thanks, Dad. I heard irrelevant, and that just really caught me off guard. Thanks, Mr. No, you're relevant. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.
SPEAKER_00Uh Ashley Stelley says, as a parent in my 30s, it's hard to help my girls grow up in church when I'm also learning myself. Some of the podcast breaks down church and their mindset, so I can help them in a way that they understand, and it gives me another strong point of view.
SPEAKER_01That's actually a great podcast.
SPEAKER_02I wouldn't ever have thought about that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's awesome.
SPEAKER_04That's really good. Thanks, Miss Ashley.
SPEAKER_00And uh Sister Beverly Pavlou, our bishop's wife, is an avid listener. I don't know if y'all know that or not. She says, as a person over 70 years old, I love this podcast. You have impressed me with your walk with God and how you're not afraid to voice what you believe. It's so encouraging to know that the younger generation is reading their Bible and praying. Keep up the good work. Thank you, Sister Pavel.
SPEAKER_04We love you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Lauren Sartan says, A level of vulnerability is so uncommon these days, especially in the church. But I see that coming from our ministry and through this podcast. And it's such a blessing because it lets others feel like it's okay to just be real. This podcast is meaningful, but it doesn't feel too heavy. Please know that your voice matters. So that's interesting. Lisa Francois says, I just want to take a moment to tell each of you how proud we are of the incredible work that you're doing on the podcast. Every episode you create, every idea you contribute, every hour you put in, seen or unseen matters. Your hard work is not only building a podcast, it's building a ministry that reaches hearts, sparks conversations, and shines God's light in places you may never know about. What you're doing takes courage, dedication, and creativity, and you've shown all of that and much more. Thank you for giving your gifts to God and to your church family. Your voices are powerful, your faith is inspiring, and your willingness to step up is making a real difference. We are point church proud of you.
SPEAKER_04I love Sister Tisa. We're birthday.
On-Camera Growth: Individual Shout-Outs
SPEAKER_00I wanted to say that I I knew you guys would be good. Like I knew I knew it sitting in the bus back there. Like y'all were good. And I thought that if we could just capture a little bit of that, it was gonna be good. I had no idea that it could be this good. Like I'm just I'm just being honest. Y'all, y'all have done a phenomenal job. Uh, what each of you has brought to this podcast has been really powerful. Uh, Ramsey, as the youngest member, you don't always say as much as everybody else, but I've learned that when you do say stuff, people better pay attention because you've always got something relevant and and good to say and very thought-provoking. So thank you, Lincoln. Your vulnerability and your honesty has been very refreshing. And uh, as people have commented, that's not something that you see a lot with with Christians, and it does give people the the willingness to just be real too and to admit I've got problems, I've got issues, and all of y'all have done that, but but thank you for being vulnerable. Andrea, uh, your preach mode is stirring. Um, there's I've I've actually had to edit some of her stuff out, not because it was too preachy, but because once she gets in a vein, she can just kind of sit there for a minute and another minute, and another yeah, and so I've kind of had to pick and choose the hot spots because once she gets started, it's just so passionate. And that passion is is refreshing. It's it I love seeing it keep that fire and that passion up. It really contributes to this podcast. Audrey, your Audreiness is uh inspiring.
SPEAKER_06Um wonderful.
SPEAKER_00I'll be honest, I wanted you to be on this podcast because I wanted you to kind of be the funny glue that held everything together, and what you've brought to the table more than just the funny glue, the the stuff that you've added to the conversations, uh, your insight into things has been really cool. And uh I appreciate you being who you are. So thank you for that. And Hudson, watching you work hard every week. I see it behind the scenes, how many times you've been studying, sitting on your bed, listening to messages, looking stuff up, and listening on the flip side to your takeaway from those messages and hearing you discuss your ideas and all of that. It's been a joy to watch uh your wit and wisdom. I've learned so much, not just about the Bible, but also just about your youth culture through some of the things that you've said that I've had to look up. Like, what in the world did that even mean? Yes, so all of that has has been really cool, and I've just loved this journey, and I've loved just sitting back and watching y'all cook. Y'all have done a great job.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh, wow very much cook, you said being what you are.
Big Reveal: Kids In A Calling
SPEAKER_00So, to sum it all up, you didn't really know it, but this season was kind of a prove it season. Uh, we kept you under the what's the point banner, under that umbrella, just in case things didn't go as well as I thought they were. In case they went south. Or in case you guys decided, you know what, we hate this, we're never doing this again. And um, I've talked to you, I'm never doing this again. Yeah, well, I know I've talked to y'all, I know that y'all love it and and want to keep doing it. Matter of fact, they didn't even want to take a break for the holidays, they just wanted to keep on rocking right through it. I made them stop, but they they want to get started, and we feel like the next step for you guys is launching your own podcast under the Point Church brand, but no longer under the What's the Point umbrella. So next semester, you're gonna have your own label called Kids in a Calling!
SPEAKER_04Man, y'all really missed the nice I forgot what our name was.
SPEAKER_00So, if you want to listen to them moving forward, you're gonna need to subscribe to Kids and a Calling. It'll be coming soon. We'll be make sure to get you those dates and uh important information for that podcast.
SPEAKER_04So don't worry, I'll put it on my story. And we'll all do it right after us.
SPEAKER_00Bro, you're better. So, Audrey, what excites you most about the new podcast?
SPEAKER_03Um just that we get to keep doing more of what we are doing. It's just exciting, it's just an exciting experience. And I we've talked about it in our group chat. Like, it's just we all know how blessed we are with this opportunity. It's just so we're really lucky to have this opportunity.
SPEAKER_02It'll be like two in the morning. They're like, guys, I'm so glad we can do this together. Yeah, like that's it.
SPEAKER_01That's cool. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_05After every single podcast, we have prayer and reflection as a family, and we're all like, guys, I love you so much. I'm so glad we get to do this together.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but it's just it's just exciting to get to like not only get closer with Jesus and get to like know more about you know the truth, just to like get closer with each other and build that bond with people who are like like-minded.
SPEAKER_05For me, it's become like the the experience that my Monday is built around now. Oh, yeah, yeah, I agree. It is my Mondays now, basically.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what are you doing on Monday? The podcast, yeah, literally.
SPEAKER_05Like Monday is podcasting. What are you doing on Thursday?
SPEAKER_02Posting about the podcast.
SPEAKER_05It's gonna be different now that we're not doing it. That's that's my so weird until for the break.
SPEAKER_06In fact, I liked I liked podcasts so much I started missing basketball, yeah, our basketball group on Mondays.
SPEAKER_04It was so sad because like the we did our supposedly last episode, and then the next week Pastor Jared preached a fire message, and in my head, I was like, I'm gonna say that on the podcast, and I was like, Podcasts. So sad.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, first Monday with no podcast. I was just like, I know, I was ready to take notes.
SPEAKER_02Like I was like, had my phone out on the title, and I was like, I guess I can still take them, but we won't be using these for the podcast. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_04Like I got home and Joshua was like, Well, why are you here? And that was like, uh we don't have podcasts right now.
SPEAKER_02And he goes, Oh. Dude, Amor normally comes with me to the church on the podcast. She goes, Ramsey, you ready to go? And I'm like, No, we ain't going today, sweetheart. Sit down, sweetie.
SPEAKER_00Oh, y'all make me feel so sad. But coming in January, they will be back.
Why The New Show Matters
SPEAKER_03Insert confetti emoji here.
SPEAKER_04Yes, literally. And I I like love the podcast because like the gym, if y'all don't know, the gym fell in January. Yeah, and so we hadn't we didn't have kids' church for like over half the year. And if you know anything about me, I love kids' church. I was like, I was there every single Sunday. That was like my ministry. And then the gym fell. And I didn't have that. There was no more ministry. I was like, what do I do now? No, like literally, Ramsey. And then the podcast came about, and I was like, Oh, I can do something. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, we got to we got just a few more minutes. We got to wrap this up pretty quick. Hudson, what kind of conversations do you want to have next semester with the kids in a calling podcast? Now I will say this backed by popular demand, you have been requested by multiple people to continue talking about the the sermon on Sunday. So that'll still be part of the podcast. But what other kind of things can we look forward to?
SPEAKER_05Um, so I have a couple that I have written down just because I think they'd be really good things to touch on. Um my number one, uh, I've sat down and thought about it, and I don't think we ever talked about this, maybe even indirectly on any of the episodes. Talking about temptation. We never definitely didn't hit an episode on that. I like that. And I don't even think looking back on it, I don't even know if we ever even had a side conversation on that. I don't think we did. That's not something we talked about.
SPEAKER_06I think the closest we got to was like killing the flesh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05But not specifically like or like maybe the gossip one when we were like you know, this we maybe we did talk about, but we never like dedicated a section to it. The danger of like neutral living. Because especially in today's like Christian culture, that that can happen, especially in like American Christianity. Yeah, that it's easy to do that. Um, so those are those are those are good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, those are good. Anybody else have any? What you got?
SPEAKER_04I got one. I would like to do I think it'd be so cool if we did like deep dives into some biblical concepts, so like the fruit of the spirit or the armor of God, or like you know, stuff like that.
SPEAKER_03Y'all want me to pull up my notes from the N A Y C Fruits of the Spirit sermon in the morning? Do y'all remember that? Nope. This year's NYC? Yes, y'all do. This N A Y Cm. I don't know. No, the last N A Y C that I preached at every morning on the bus.
SPEAKER_06Like, how was that one?
SPEAKER_04I did it like on the actual series. I don't know, I don't know how to do it.
SPEAKER_00She's talking about her bus ride. Oh my gosh, I actually love that one.
SPEAKER_04I love videoed that one. I videoed it. The first leaked footage. The first time I went to Montana for the mission's trip, we did the Native American camp meeting and I did like two lessons on the fruit of the spirit. Well, one of it was like peace, it was peace and joy, I think.
SPEAKER_00Any other com any other topics?
SPEAKER_06This is going way out there, but like if we all like read like one through five chapters of Proverbs or something, and then every week we just talk about what we learn from Proverbs due to it being the book of wisdom. Proverbs is such a good book.
Topics Wishlist For Next Season
SPEAKER_05Like you did we we every week we dissect a little bit of half a uh half a semester uh chapter or I mean a book of the Bible. Yeah, there was not a point in Proverbs where I didn't take notes. Yeah, that's awesome. Never I really like that idea. Yeah, that's a good one. So Ramsey.
SPEAKER_02Everyone can do it together.
SPEAKER_00Ramsey, with young listeners, we we've talked about the adult listeners, but with young listeners, what is what is one takeaway or what do you want people to walk away with from the new show?
SPEAKER_02Maybe they're that they're not alone. Yeah, that's um that they're that other people have struggles just like them, and that they can talk about it if they want to. That's true. That's awesome. I love it. That's really true.
SPEAKER_04That is true.
SPEAKER_02That's a big technical thing, like young people know. Yeah, yeah, especially when you're younger, you don't know who you can go to, you don't know who to talk to, you don't know if you can talk about it or what to do. Yeah, at that stage of your life. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05And I'd like to say um it's something that we've all learned. We we talked about it earlier today. Um ministry isn't a it doesn't have to be as monumental of a task as you think it is. Like I said earlier, to us, we we come in here and we study for a couple hours and then we come and we talk at a table. Like we're not out there raising people from the dead or um are actively literally praying people through to the Holy Ghost, but this is still ministry. Yeah, yeah, and so it doesn't have to seem as daunting as you as it made to you.
SPEAKER_02Actually, that's good. I've actually I've always been taught to add on to Hudson's thing is that ministry doesn't have to be, like he said, so big is it could be as simple as if you see trash at the church on the ground, you can pick it up. Yeah, if you see someone looking for a seat, you could say, Hey, I go here. Do you need to find like I can lead you to this and like help them out? It doesn't have to be, again, like Hudson said, raising people from the dead. Yeah or going out and healing the sick.
SPEAKER_05Like I don't want to sound like a shameless plug. I'm just using this as an example. But literally, you going up to someone and telling them, hey, my church has a podcast, uh, it's actually really cool. I think you like it. That could connect them to our church through a church, and that itself would be ministry. And replace our podcast with anything. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04I like this song or blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_05Or even just a kind word, just a smile. Like yeah. Ministry isn't doesn't have to be huge.
SPEAKER_03I actually want to add something to the list of things that we could say about like um for the next thing. I think it's we should talk about like even if you fail and you mess up, it doesn't deem you like done. Like you're not done for. That's a good thing. You can always run back for redemption. Yes, redemption.
SPEAKER_06Like that's a big one because I feel like the difference between condemnation and conviction.
SPEAKER_03Well, that that's that's a little deep for like what I was talking about.
SPEAKER_06When no, what I mean is like you said you said one and done, right?
SPEAKER_03I don't understand. Oh, yes, okay.
SPEAKER_06Condemnation is feeling like, oh, I messed up, I can't go back.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, see, this would be a great topic because we also need to learn about it.
SPEAKER_06Well, I need to run back.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay. I thought you were saying like um conviction. I think that's what I was thinking of whenever I heard that. Kind of confused. I was like, how does that link to Audrey?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but I can't now.
SPEAKER_02And now I get it. Yeah. But I think that's nice because a lot of people think that they could just fail and then if they're done. Yeah. And so that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_00That's really good stuff. So, as you can hear, uh listeners, you have a lot to look forward to next episode of Andrea had something to say. I mean, next season.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Anyway.
SPEAKER_00Go ahead.
What Young Listeners Should Take Away
SPEAKER_04Um, one thing that I would want like the younger listeners to take away with is get serious about God right now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um, don't be all in for him one day and then act like he doesn't exist the next. Like you are at an age where it is very critical for you to decide right now what what you're gonna do. Are you gonna follow God with all your heart? Are you gonna follow the world with all your heart? Because you can only do one thing. That's great. I 100% agree.
SPEAKER_02And to piggyback off of that is for those of you who don't know, it's Wednesday, and Brother Myan just preached a message of like one of the points I made is you're not too young either. So, like, don't think you're too young to get into doing the ministry God has called you to do because you're not.
SPEAKER_03And it's like you hear that all the time. Like, I know we've we've gone to like HYC, NAYC since we were like 12, and you always hear like You're not too young. You're not too young. Like, start your journey now, and I'm like, okay, but I am technically. And you really think it, but it's like it's like no one's even a little years old. And I I feel like that's way too young to be like on a podcast for my church. Like, I don't know. In my mind, it's like even that could be quote unquote young, but I'm doing it, and it's and you know what I mean? Yeah. Like we got out of our comfort zone and we did it, and you can too, even if you're 12. It doesn't matter how old you are. Yeah, there's a spot that you could feel.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and our team huddled this mor this uh past Sunday, we went over the verse. I'd have to look it back up exactly where it is, but it was the verse that says, uh, no matter what you're doing, even when it seems extremely small, if you're doing it unto God, God is the one who gives it value. Yeah, and so uh I love that message is no matter how young you are, no matter how much how small it seems, whatever you're being called into, or you feel like God's trying to get you to do, just do it. And uh God's the one who gives it the value. And God's the one who works. Don't do it for others. Yeah, just do it, do it. Point people to Jesus, and everything's gonna work out good. In ten words or less, if you could describe the experience that you've had this season, what would you say?
SPEAKER_06Very faith-building and eye-opening for those. Very good.
SPEAKER_04Um, I would say truly humbling, because like like I said, we were I was on my way over ten words. Home. Okay, well, truly humbling. I'm explaining why. Can I can I explain? Yeah, yeah. Okay, sure. Car, home, podcast, humble. There we go. That's four.
SPEAKER_00Not sure exactly what that means, but okay.
SPEAKER_04We can decide for that. Let me explain.
SPEAKER_06It was very, very humbling.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say understanding. It gave me a lot of understanding from messages instead of just kind of throwing them out the window.
SPEAKER_05That was like 20 words. I gave up on that.
SPEAKER_06So 10 words is like we should start counting on our fingers like I did.
SPEAKER_02Gave me understanding. All right, understanding's one word syllables.
SPEAKER_05Resentment, then love, then eye opening.
SPEAKER_00He gave his whole story arc. That's pretty cool. And 10 words, he gave his entire story arc.
SPEAKER_02Then love. What is it? I know I don't know what that is. I didn't think about that part. Oh, he said then. No, then love.
SPEAKER_05I felt resentment, then after that love.
SPEAKER_02Then love.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I see now. All right, Audrey, you're up. Chase County. No, I don't know what to say at all. Um, scary, more scary, super scary, and then pretty cool.
SPEAKER_00That's pretty cool. That was the best one. Yeah, that's pretty cool. All right, so last, but I think kind of last. Is there anyone that you want to thank for supporting you through the process of this whole podcasting experience?
SPEAKER_02My papa.
SPEAKER_00Awesome.
SPEAKER_06I'd like to thank producer Brian and Pastor Jonathan for their hard work. We wouldn't we wouldn't have a podcast producer for them to. So all that tired figured out tireless hours of editing on vacation.
SPEAKER_04At least one day it took him like eight hours to edit our podcast. I mean, this whole thing I could do it in two.
SPEAKER_05This whole thing wouldn't exist to just like force it on us. No, like for us. Especially on me.
You’re Not Too Young For Ministry
SPEAKER_04Yeah, just want to thank Pastor Jonathan. He always encouraged us and gave us construction constructive criticism in areas that we could always grow in. And so we would we couldn't have done what we did without his leadership and vision. Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
SPEAKER_00So, guys, it has been my honor and privilege, and I know uh producer Brian back here feels the same way to see you guys do everything that y'all have done and accomplish everything y'all have accomplished. And so many people have said so many really cool things uh about what you guys have done. So thank you for that. Is there any last message that you want to leave the listeners as we're ending this podcast?
SPEAKER_06Keep digging in that Bible, twin. I love it. No more words, bro.
SPEAKER_00That's all. I love it. Sums it up pretty well. Well, that's it for me. I hope every one of our listeners and church family has a great holiday season and a Merry Christmas with their families. And I look forward to seeing you all back early 2026. And that's great. More information is gonna come about this as we go through the process. But Audrey, I'm gonna give you the honor of signing us off officially from season nine.
SPEAKER_03Okay, well, um, we've already said our thank yous and our tributes. Um, well, wait, before I get into it, let me just real quick throw in Can I get a Yeehaul?
SPEAKER_02Yee Haul!
SPEAKER_03You gotta keep that one. Um, so just thank you to listeners, like just for listening, because we couldn't have a podcast if you weren't listening. So thank you guys for making this possible for us. Um, don't forget to subscribe to Kids in the Calling whenever it gets released. And we cannot wait to see what Jesus has in store for the next season for us and for you. Um so we'll see you guys then. Bye everyone, bye everybody, bye guys.