In this episode of Sacred Sitdowns, Danny and Kyle wrap up season four's core value series with Michelle Latty, associate pastor at the Promise Road campus, to talk about our core value of engagement. They explore what it looks like when faith moves beyond words into action, from mission trips that turned into service learning trips, to the mentors who first showed them what a lived-out faith looks like. Michelle shares stories from Hurricane Helene relief work, the barriers that keep people from getting involved, and why the church is at its best when it is willing to fail.

In this episode of Sacred Sitdowns, Danny and Kyle close out season four's core value series with Reverend Sarah Renfro to talk about our core value of community. They explore what it means to be a church of compassion and care, walking with one another through every season of life, and share stories of the elders and mentors who first shaped their own sense of belonging at Geist. Sarah and Danny talk about the tension between wanting community's benefits without its demands, why prayer letters and handwritten notes still carry so much power, and what it looks like to hold onto authentic community in a world of screens and isolation. Tune in for a heartfelt conversation on presence, prayer, and what it means to give the ball away.

In this episode of Sacred Sitdowns, Danny and Kyle welcome Ryan Hazen, lead pastor of the Mud Creek campus, to talk about our core value of faithful curiosity. They explore what it means to trade certainty for curiosity, from Mother Teresa's invitation to come and see, to the childhood questions about baptism and communion that never really stopped mattering as they grew older. Ryan and Kyle talk honestly about the questions they are still wrestling with themselves, why pastors who claim to have all the answers should raise a red flag, and how giving people permission to sit in mystery might be one of the church's best gifts. Tune in for a conversation on why not knowing is not a weakness of faith, but often the beginning of it.