Listening for Clues is pleased to present our new series, "Good News!" featuring weekly conversations with people who are making a difference, large or small. We want everyone to know what they are doing, why they are doing it, and how. So, our listeners and viewers can experience the good news and go out and make a difference themselves.

Welcome to Good News! We are honored to have Lynn Shematek here today to talk with us about our new series "Good News!"

We are excited to introduce our newest series "Good News!" included our Listening for Clues programs. Our website listeningforclues.com includes all of our previously published videos and audio podcasts. These have focused on scriptural reflections and Visio Divina exercises. In our new series, we are in conversation with people who are making a difference, large or small, in the lives of others. You may be inspired to participate with one of them, or to start something of your own. A new audio and video podcast will be available on our website each week.

Highlights:

[00:00:00] Introduction 

[00:00:42] What is this about? Why are you doing it? 

[00:01:52] Changing from our traditional format 

[00:03:46] How will Good News multiply? 

[00:04:58] Thanks to all

Resources mentioned:

ListeningforClues YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@listeningforclues1661/podcasts

ListeningforClues Captivate Audio Podcast Channel: https://listening-for-clues.captivate.fm/listen

Listening for Clues | On the Journey with Jon and Lauren

Listening for Clues invites you into conversations that discover clues, rather than solutions to life’s problems. Join the journey with Jon Shematek and Lauren Welch, Episcopal deacons, as we explore whatever lies ahead. Check our website listeningforclues.com

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This is Good News brought to you by Listening for Clues.

We are Lauren Welch and Jon Shematek Deacons in the

Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.

We sure are.

And today we're bringing you some good news about our new series, good News!.

With us today is our special guest, usually behind the

scenes director, Lynn Shematek.

Welcome, Lynn.

Thank you.

It's now very nice to be here.

Finally in front of the camera.

All right guys.

I have questions for you.

This is going to be a little reverse of what you normally do.

You usually ask the questions, but I'm going ask the questions

cuz I don't know the answers.

One thing, what is this Good News?

Well, it is news that you don't hear on the TV or radio every day.

What we are doing are interviewing people who are doing some amazing things in the

community both here and across the globe.

Yeah.

We thought there's just so much bad news out there in the media every day

that it was time for us to give a platform for some good news sharing.

So that's what, this is all about.

Talking about people and organizations that are making a difference in

making people's lives better.

And when does the Good News start?

Our first video and audio podcast is launching on June.

12th, which is pretty close to now.

So we'll put a new episode, audio and video podcast every

Monday morning at eight o'clock.

So June 12th is our kickoff episode.

And every Monday as long as we have guests willing to talk to us, we

will we'll be up with a new podcast.

Now, this is certainly different than what you've been

doing for the past couple of years.

So what made you do it?

What's changed?

We got this idea when we were at St.

John's Church in Ellicott City at the election convention of our new

Bishop-elect, Carrie Schofield-Broadbent.

We were waiting for the ballots to be counted when Bishop Sutton said

he would like to hear some good news.

We've heard a lot of bad news , and he asked what good

news was going on in the parishes.

And immediately people began to stand up and share some amazing stories.

Jon and I looked at each other and said, we can do this.

And we began planning.

Actually at that moment, Jon took notes on his phone and we began.

Yeah.

And so this was a real departure for us.

Listening for Clues has been around for several years.

We have a whole lot of videos and some audio podcasts on our

website listeningforclues.com.

And they've really been focused on having conversations around scripture

around sacred art and we wanted to kind of broaden our approach.

Although we both are Episcopal deacons, we wanted to expand a bit so that

folks that are not necessarily in that niche of being part of an organized

religion or Christianity the Episcopal Church would find something to relate

to because we think that the good news in its broadest sense is universal.

This is for everyone.

So that's why we decided to make the change from our format, as wonderful

as that format is, and doesn't mean we're never gonna go back to doing

those things or doing those things in addition to Good News, but we

thought it's time for a change and.

And this is a way we're hoping to really multiply the effect that these

folks are having in all their various work that they're doing in, as Lauren

said, locally and throughout the world.

And the way we hope that it multiplies is the folks watching or listening to

the podcast some of them may think, Hey, I could participate in that.

I really like that.

I do wanna go to Africa, or I do want to give some money to this cause.

And that could be one way.

The other way is that people may think of, you know, I can

do something myself like that.

I've always had a passion about a certain group or a certain

geography or a certain issue.

Local, national, international, whatever it may be.

So to me, being successful would have even having one person support one

of these endeavors that are being discussed in the episodes or even

starting something on their own.

I think that would be a really effective way of spreading the good news.

It certainly sounds like as you both are so enthusiastic over this

project, and it's been a pleasure to be in the background helping you with it

and I hope it continues for a long time.

Yes.

So do we.

And you've been great clicking the buttons and critiquing and giving

us advice on how to be a bit more creative and how to express things

well and how to publish them.

So thank you Lynn . We're really excited about it.

We wanna thank folks that have already been interviewed and

thank those who have signed up.

We have a whole bunch of people signed up to be interviewed.

I want to thank all who are watching us today to

help us spread this good news.

We can't do it without you, so please take a moment, comment, like, or share

on all of your social media platforms.

This will help us spread the good news to even more people.

Again, thank you for the gift of your time.

Until next time, peace and blessings.

Good news is being brought to you by listening for clues.

You can find us on our website, listening for clues.com, our YouTube channel,

our ameo channel, and just about every podcast platform that there is.