Imagine you’re stepping into your church for the very first time.

What do you see? What do you hear? What do you smell?

What do you feel?

Today we start to explore the environment of our worship and the many elements that we experience in our sacred space. I speak to Pamela T. Hardiman who owns her own business as a Liturgical Fiber Artist. Her creations are filled with color, life and the Spirit, and her artistic mind sees environment in our worship spaces in a totally unique way.

Today we’re replaying an episode from March 2020 entitled “Deaf Culture and Music Ministry”. As September is National Deaf Awareness Month, we honor those who experience the liturgy in a profoundly physical way- including music.

This week we begin by speaking to a priest who dedicated his priesthood to both a hearing and deaf community. We hear how he started in this ministry, and what we need to know about deaf culture, as a hearing people.

Today on the podcast I am honored to sit down with Kathleen Haley. Kathleen is NPM’s Director of Membership Services and has served our association in the National Office for twenty years. She is one of the very few NPM staff members that has worked for all 4 NPM presidents in their time here. I am so pleased to look back at Kathleen’s 20 years of service to the association with her. I get the chance to have a cup of coffee with her and let her share some stories from the many conventions, phone calls, emails, and all the other ways she has interacted with all of our membership for 20 years.