Reverend Corey Turnpenny invites us on an awe-inspiring exploration of spirituality harmonized with the beauty of the natural world. Learn about the innovative faith community, Church in the Wild, where worship occurs beneath open skies, embracing the rhythms of nature and fostering a sense of belonging for those who feel spiritually homeless.
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Corey Turnpenny is the founding pastor of Church in the Wild, a unique nature-focused congregation in Upstate New York. Her journey from the UMC Next conference in 2019 led her to create a spiritual haven where individuals reconnect with their spirituality amidst the splendor of creation. Through outdoor worship and a vibrant community, Corey is pioneering a movement that calls people back to nature.
In this episode, explore the fascinating intersection of faith and nature, understand why community gatherings in the wild hold profound significance, and learn how natural settings can enhance spiritual practices. If you're on a quest for a deeper spiritual connection and appreciate engaging conversations about faith, this episode is for you!
Episode Notes:
Explore the Church in the Wild site. If you're a church leader who might be interested in getting involved with or leading an expression of wild church, Corey can provide some resources for getting started.
In this episode:
(00:00) Church in the Wild: Nature's Worship
(08:06) Catching a vision for a new church
(11:45) Doing church in the wild
(13:57) First followers and outdoor community networking
(19:36) A weekly escape to a natural bubble
(21:30) Spiritual practices in nature
(29:15) Spirituality through environmental care
(30:31) Finding peace in nature's church
(38:10) Learn more
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This episode posted on February 19, 2025
Episode Transcript:
Ryan Dunn [00:00:01]:
Hi. This is Compass finding spirituality in the everyday. I'm host Reverend Ryan Dunn. And in this episode, I'm joined for a wild adventure by Reverend Corey Turnpenny. Corey discusses the unique blend of community and nature that defines church in the wild where worship is, like, harmoniously aligned with the rhythms of the natural world. So we're gonna discover how this innovative faith community, Church in the Wild, embraces outdoor worship, the beauty of a camp setting, and the profound spirituality found under open skies. Corrie Turnpenny is the founding pastor, of course, of Church in the Wild, a nature focused congregation in Upstate New York. Her journey began at the UMC Next conference in 2019, leading her to establish a faith space where individuals can reconnect with their spirituality amidst the splendor of creation.
Ryan Dunn [00:01:00]:
Through church in the wild, Corey's pioneering a movement that calls people back to nature, fostering a sense of belonging for those who feel spiritually homeless in traditional settings. If you appreciate conversations like this one that we're having with Corey, hit the like and subscribe button on your podcast listening platform. And if you're ready to take the next step, leave a rating and review. That would really help us out. Thank you. Let's get to the story of Church and in the Wild with Reverend Corey Turnpenny. There's so much to explore around Church of the Wild, but let's start with this. How are you? How goes it with your soul today?
Corey Turnpenny [00:01:39]:
Okay. Yeah. Okay. Happy season. You know, winter is hard.
Ryan Dunn [00:01:47]:
Yeah.
Corey Turnpenny [00:01:48]:
And I I'm I'm I remind myself of that that this is, you know, the season that, was hardest for humanity, especially here up here in the North that, took a lot of, you know, special care and lots of different traditions throughout human history to help us survive winter. And there's been, of course, a lot of just social and Yeah. National stuff loaded on top of us in the middle of winter. And so yeah. It's hard and heavy for a lot of folks right now.
Ryan Dunn [00:02:29]:
Well, in talking about some of the ways in which we connect with the natural world, what does the rhythm of life look like for Church of the Wild during the wintertime?
Corey Turnpenny [00:02:39]:
Yeah. We try really hard to match the rhythms of nature, and it does take, like, these regular reminders that it's okay okay to be going slow and to not be as active right now as a community. So we worship outdoors for as long as we can. We're in Upstate New York. So, usually, by the October, early November, we are moving indoors at our host site, Skylake Camp and Retreat Center. They're k. Phenomenal hosts to us and welcome us indoors to cozy rooms where we can have a fire in the fireplace and still look out, you know, at the lake and and feel a connection to nature. And then after Christmas, we go on Zoom for a month or so.
Ryan Dunn [00:03:37]:
Okay.
Corey Turnpenny [00:03:38]:
So we meet virtually, which is also really awesome. You know, I I I try to tell people a lot. Like, as a a nature focused congregation, we are not tech averse. Like, there's great tools in the Internet and Zoom, and we can use those to do great ministry. And so it's really fun in the winter to expand our circle. We we get people joining us from all over the country and all over the world. We have people from Sweden and Brussels. It's amazing, the folks that find us and wanna join in.
Corey Turnpenny [00:04:17]:
And then that allows us to bring in guest speakers. So, you know, people that aren't near us geographically can still come talk to us, and we can learn about the great stuff they're doing. And then for, February and March, we meet at another church in their chapel. And that still allows us to be able to have people join us on Zoom. So our our Zoom friends are with us, you know, for three or four months. We're actually hoping that on the at the end of this year when we come indoors again, that we can start Zoom earlier than January to keep, you know, keep our connection with them. They're they're really regular, awesome attenders and and give a lot to our community. So, yeah, we we come indoors for this time.
Corey Turnpenny [00:05:17]:
And for, you know, for January, we are hearing from guest speakers. For February, like this month, we're just sharing our soul songs. So every week we have three or four people just share a song. We listen to it and they tell us about it. So it's not even a full worship service. You know, we don't have our full liturgy or program. We just we're taking it easy. And and there's always a part of me that feels anxious about that, and I have to remind myself that, no.
Corey Turnpenny [00:05:46]:
This this is what the world should be doing right now, and we have to we almost have to work at slowing down. It takes it takes some effort to not get caught up in our cultural pace and to really keep with the pace of nature.
Ryan Dunn [00:06:04]:
What have been some of the songs that people have shared? Oh my god. That has really stuck out to you
Corey Turnpenny [00:06:11]:
like, Yeah. There have been some great ones. Last week, we got Soul Shine, from Government Mule.
Ryan Dunn [00:06:19]:
Mule. Okay.
Corey Turnpenny [00:06:20]:
Great one. We got some Mumford and Sons coming up this week. We had some John Denver. What else have we had? Some really some really eclectic tastes in our congregation, which is awesome. And it's like this little, window into somebody's soul when they they say like, yeah, this song speaks to my soul and they tell us about why and how it connected for them. And it's really cool. We're we're putting it all into a great playlist for for ourselves.
Ryan Dunn [00:06:55]:
Preference community preference, though, would probably be to to meet outside. Is that correct?
Corey Turnpenny [00:07:01]:
Yes. Absolutely. We are full of nature lovers. Our group loves to be outdoors, and we just get to savor it and soak it in when when the weather allows.
Ryan Dunn [00:07:18]:
Yeah. Well, how did all this come about? How did a community of nature lovers come together to form this church?
Corey Turnpenny [00:07:26]:
Oh, well.
Ryan Dunn [00:07:29]:
Let's start at the v maybe we can start with what inspired you, Cori, to Yeah. To make this kind of movement? What was stirring in your soul?
Corey Turnpenny [00:07:38]:
Well, it was back in, gosh, 2019. I attended, the UMC Next conference that happened that year as we were getting ready for a general conference and what's you know? And, of course, all none of that happened as anyone thought it would, but we had this great gathering.
Ryan Dunn [00:08:01]:
It did. Just five years later. Yeah.
Corey Turnpenny [00:08:04]:
It happened. Just yeah.
Ryan Dunn [00:08:05]:
Yep.
Corey Turnpenny [00:08:06]:
So we got you know, a bunch of people from across the country gathered, at Church of the Resurrection, and it was all about, you know, dreaming. What about the future of the church? And so I was sort of in that space as I was traveling back home and, you know, a late night drive, you're talking to God feeling I was kinda complaining to God, feeling like, you know, there's just thinking about the future for myself personally. I was at at a great church, but I knew I couldn't stay there forever. You know, I was there it was, like, my sixth, seventh year and thinking locally in my area, what other churches, you know, might be options for me as a leader. And I would this was the complaint is in that I didn't feel like there was any church that I could really be my full authentic self as a pastor. And that was frustrating to me. And I was complaining to God kind of, and it really felt like this very sassy reply of, well, you know, you could start your own congregation. And I just said, no.
Corey Turnpenny [00:09:27]:
No. What? No. I never first of all, I never thought I would experience another call. Like, I I had my call to ministry,
Ryan Dunn [00:09:37]:
and I
Corey Turnpenny [00:09:37]:
said yes. Great. And I, you know, did the whole thing, god. But now this, no. I was not interested in planting a church. It seemed like a lot of work. And most of the church planters I knew, you know, were over workers working a ton of hours and trying to start, like, another megachurch or Yeah. Or just another type of church that that, again, I don't know that I would feel comfortable or able to be my full authentic self.
Corey Turnpenny [00:10:13]:
And so I I said no, of course, initially, but these things tend to not really leave you alone. And so it kept you know, the thought kept circling around in my brain for a month or so. And then I was with my, clergy covenant group at annual conference, And I I heard myself say the words, I just wanna be the pastor at Skylake. Like, why can't I do that? And it was then it felt like God was like, there you go. You know? It just took you a little while, but that's that's the ticket.
Ryan Dunn [00:10:51]:
And Was there a church already at Skylake, or are you saying, like, I just wanna be a pastor in this area? Yeah.
Corey Turnpenny [00:10:57]:
At Okay. At at camp. You know? So this is the camp I
Ryan Dunn [00:11:01]:
Skylake is the camp.
Corey Turnpenny [00:11:02]:
Yeah. It's where I grew up attending as a kid. I worked there on summer staff for five summers. You know, it was it is my soul's home. It's where I feel the most connected to God, the most self confident and at ease and peaceful and grateful. You know? It it's just the place where I feel best and it's beautiful. And and it's this underutilized resource that's just sort of sitting there most of the week. You know? There's retreats on the weekends, but I just thought, gosh.
Corey Turnpenny [00:11:45]:
I wanna be a pastor, and I wanna be a pastor at Skylake. And then it was like a flood of ideas when I thought, wait. We could actually do that. You know? Like, people are doing church in bars and restaurants and and movie theaters. Like, why couldn't we do church Yeah. At camp? It almost it made so much sense. I was like, I I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, but here we are, you know, all in all in the spirits time. So that was the initial idea and it was a little nerve wracking at first.
Ryan Dunn [00:12:22]:
So I just, how did you pitch it to the powers that be? Yeah. So openness at the time? I
Corey Turnpenny [00:12:31]:
I started by just sharing with, you know, my close family, a couple close friends who were also a part of, like, the camp community there. Just just to say, let me just gut check this for me. Is this totally out of the, you know, realm of possibility? You know, what do you think about this idea? And they were supportive. So I went to our conference at the time, the person overseeing new church starts and told him the idea, and he thought it was great. And, you know, every point here,
Ryan Dunn [00:13:14]:
I was just, like, waiting for somebody to tell me no or don't do
Corey Turnpenny [00:13:18]:
this, and that never happened. So here we are.
Ryan Dunn [00:13:22]:
It's like you just wanted somebody to confirm your own reservations or misgivings.
Corey Turnpenny [00:13:27]:
Yeah. I just knew somehow to get out of having to do this because I knew it wasn't gonna be easy. So, you know, he gave me some people to talk to. And, obviously, the first step was talking to the director at Skylake to say, hey. Would you support this? Would you be willing to host a new faith community here? And when he was supportive, then I was like, okay. I guess we're doing this.
Ryan Dunn [00:13:55]:
Fine. Alright.
Corey Turnpenny [00:13:57]:
So then I just, you know, started talking to people I knew who liked the outdoors, who were part of camp, were interested, and they kept giving me other people to talk to. And then we had a group of, like, 10 people who thought this was a good idea. And so we just met monthly for, like, six months to talk about, okay. So who who do we want this community to be for, and what what values do we want this community to have? And, you know, we we resisted jumping right to worship. Like, what's it gonna look like? What are we gonna do? We wanted to first lay the foundation of who's this for? What's it really about? Like, what our mission and vision and all of that and our name and, you know, so we sort of workshopped all this stuff together. And our last meeting was March of twenty twenty
Ryan Dunn [00:14:59]:
Yeah. Alright.
Corey Turnpenny [00:15:00]:
Before everything shut down. Yeah. So we we took a pause with the rest of the world and regrouped and said, what do we think? Do we wanna keep going on this? And and everyone said, yes. We think we need this now more than ever. A few few folks said, yes. You should still do it, but I have to step back, which was totally understandable. So we've sort of forged ahead. You know, the plan was to build community first, which was a little bit different on Zoom.
Corey Turnpenny [00:15:36]:
You know, we had lots of Zoom gatherings and then we started doing, service work. So we were outdoors and we were able to, you know, be social distanced and all of that and doing doing community work together.
Ryan Dunn [00:15:52]:
And what kind of work was that?
Corey Turnpenny [00:15:54]:
We did, like, a cleanup day at Skylake. We did, we built a new community garden for our local, community garden group. We did some street cleanups in different neighborhoods where they were hosting it. So there there was a lot happening outdoors that we could, like, show up and support, which was nice during that time. And and we really wanted to start with service work because that is way less scary to people than starting with a worship service, especially a new kind of worship service. So we we wanted to get people together, in in that setting first before launching worship. So we we were building community. We had a great group of folks help get started.
Corey Turnpenny [00:16:52]:
You know, we we did some trial runs of worship and then had our first, you know, public official launch day worship the June in 2021. And we've been going strong every week since then.
Ryan Dunn [00:17:10]:
Ma'am, how did you first come in contact with some of the people who are joining in besides that initial leadership group? Have there been other people who have heard about what you're doing and joined in? I I I asked this because in my mind, I imagine, part of the allure of the natural world is a sense of isolation. And so how do you connect with people who feel like, or value a sense of isolation?
Corey Turnpenny [00:17:41]:
Yes. It has been fascinating to me how people find us. And the most incredible people have been brought together under this, you know, concept of church in the wild. It's just I'm just blown away. Every time a new person comes and I learn their story, it's just incredible. And and they're so excited to have found something that resonates with them, their life experience, and their, you know, their spirituality because I I can't tell you how many times people have said, I didn't know there were other people like me in this area or that, you know, that that there was this kind of thing around here. It mostly people find us online. They they see our website or social media and and different events that we're doing and connect with us there.
Corey Turnpenny [00:18:41]:
There's one person who's super involved right now, and she just saw our, like, yard sign that we had out front of the camp. She was driving past, saw the sign. She never grew up going to church. She didn't really know anything about church, but she looked up our website after seeing the sign and thought, I think this seems cool, and just showed up by herself. You know? I'm just like, the the courage it takes for somebody to do that, I was astounded. So, yeah, it's amazing how people find us word-of-mouth, you know, people bringing friends a lot. But there is sort of, yeah, there is a sort of sense of some seclusion. You know, we're we're about a half hour drive from our closest city.
Corey Turnpenny [00:19:36]:
And so it is sort of like this mini retreat every every week when you come out of that busyness. And, you know, we call it the camp bubble when when you're at camp for, you know, the whole summer, you feel like you're in this bubble. Like, you don't even know what's happening in the rest of the world. It's it's great. And and we want to we want people to have that little mini experience of that to come get away, be in this incredibly beautiful space, you know, and and then just have have a moment of sort of exiting your your everyday life and coming into the glory and grandeur of nature is is really special and important. And and I think people get, I don't wanna say addicted to it, but, you know, they they long for it. You know, you come once and you're like, oh. So you wanna keep coming back.
Ryan Dunn [00:20:40]:
Yeah. So besides the the setting, when you do gather, what do those gatherings look like?
Corey Turnpenny [00:20:48]:
Right. We're we're in this great beautiful setting on the shores of of the lake with these huge trees all around us. We we gather in the round. We sit in a circle. We have some benches. Sometimes people bring their lawn chairs or, pull up a blanket. We have, like, a bag of of blankets for folks to sit on or wrap up in if it's chilly. We we start, you know, by reminding each other what we're about, which is our mission following the wild spirit through creation, adventure, and restoration.
Corey Turnpenny [00:21:30]:
And we share, it's sort of like passing the piece, but we share something new and good with people next to us. So every every week, it's it's a real spiritual practice to say, okay. What is new and good in my life? And sometimes it's a challenge to come up with something, but that's why we do it and to remind each other there is good in the world. And then we, I'll go get something from nature around us and bring it up to our altar, which is just these five wooden crates that we stack on top of each other. And we have a candle and a pitcher of water, and then everybody brings stuff to the altar. So sticks and rocks and pine cones and acorns and feathers and leaves and flowers, anything that's around. And so every week, our altar looks like the season that we're in. You know? We we see the changing colors and textures of of each season reflected in our altar, and it's this beautiful work of art, and then we take it down.
Corey Turnpenny [00:22:42]:
You know? It's this practice of impermanence that we come together. We have this beautiful experience, and we return those things back to the earth, and it's good. You know? It doesn't have we don't have to try to preserve everything. So we build our altar while we sing a song and, that we have a nature connection moment where someone from our congregation shares something cool about nature, some cool nature information that usually connects to, like, whatever the theme for the day is. And then our kids, we have a wildlings club, and they go with the kids' leaders and do their thing, which can be scavenger hunts or games or books or, you know, anything that you can do at camp. And then we have a poem. Every week, we read a different poem and a wisdom reading. And then we have a message time, but it's very conversational.
Corey Turnpenny [00:23:54]:
I love that most weeks, I am not the one to say the most profound thing. It takes a lot of pressure off. You know, I just sort of have to ask some questions, and then we have this incredible conversation. We sing a couple songs. We have a great, guitarist, who leads us in all kinds of music, you know, secular, sacred, you know, oldies, folk, up to current stuff. We'll sing whatever fits. And we have a time of prayer and meditation that one again, another member of the congregation leads that time. And that takes many different forms too.
Corey Turnpenny [00:24:40]:
Sometimes we'll all just go wander and sit for ten minutes and just be in nature. Sometimes it'll be kind of a guided meditation or we'll invite people to take their shoes off and ground on the earth or or we'll walk while we meditate or, you know, a a traditional sort of, pastoral prayer. It it varies week to week. And then we set intentions for the week ahead so everybody gets a chance to share, you know, a word or a phrase that they're claiming as as their intention this week. And we share the Celtic deep peace blessing as our benediction and and send people off with that. Yeah. Full bodied. Like, by the end of the hour, I feel like I just did yoga or got a massage.
Corey Turnpenny [00:25:38]:
Like, I just feel so relaxed and good, but alert and present, you know, just spending that time with that fresh oxygen and, you know, hearing the birds songs and it just is so peaceful. So we send each other off with that.
Ryan Dunn [00:25:59]:
Have congregants told you why this is appealing to them or meaningful for them?
Corey Turnpenny [00:26:05]:
Yes. Absolutely. I hear a lot. Well, I'll tell you. Early on in our first year, someone came for the first time, and they they they said when they showed up, I'm kinda nervous. You know, I just heard about this. I came by myself. And and so it was great to have a moment of, like, reassuring them that I was gonna be okay.
Corey Turnpenny [00:26:31]:
And they then they met someone they knew already there, which was great. And afterwards, they said, you know, my whole life, I have felt like I was spiritually homeless. Like, I just didn't fit in anywhere until now. Like, this is my spiritual home. This is what feels like home to me. And that was huge to hear that reflected back to us early on because that helped us with our own identity of what this community is. You know, it's not just about creation care. It's not just about we're a place full of nature lovers, worshiping God together outside, that this was an alternative to other religious or spiritual places that could be a home for people that didn't feel like they fit in anywhere.
Corey Turnpenny [00:27:29]:
And so we've we've heard that similar story time and time again as people find us. They say, wow. This this is what I've been looking for, you know, for so long. This feels right. I've tried so many different things, and this is what I've been longing to find.
Ryan Dunn [00:27:48]:
So it sounds like the the natural world is a central piece of your your community gatherings. Are there ways that you encourage congregants to kinda take an awareness of the natural world into their own spiritual practices, like, away from the Sunday gathering?
Corey Turnpenny [00:28:08]:
Yes. Absolutely. We we have, like, a monthly action that we set for our group that we do together. And it can be, you know, let's all sign this petition or send a letter about this usually environmental issue. You know, this month, we're encouraging folks to support black owned businesses in our community. It can be a variety of different things, but it's it's usually about how are we helping to care for creation? How are we answering that charge we've been given? One one of my favorites was, we made up these little signs that said, like, bananas don't need a plastic bag. Plastic takes three years to break down in in you know, then it's microplastics. And so we we encourage people to take them and, like, clip them to the banana stand at their local grocery store just to sort of spread this message, like grassroots.
Corey Turnpenny [00:29:15]:
You know, we didn't get permission or anything. We just stuck these signs in different grocery stores saying like, hey. You don't need plastic for your bananas. So little things like that were, incorporating into our spiritual lives as not just, you know, sitting in nature and meditating, but caring for creation is part of our spiritual practice. We also do encourage people to notice what's going on to make sure you get, you know, even if you just step outside for five minutes one day, you know, especially now when it's cold, you know, just having that little bit of, rubbing shoulders with your your nature around you are our wild neighbors. You know? We're called to love our neighbors, and that's not just humans. That's the trees and the animals and the plants and the air and the water and the land itself. And we can we can gain so much from all of them just as much as we can give.
Corey Turnpenny [00:30:31]:
And so, yes, really encouraging to notice, to slow down, practicing Sabbath, you know, practicing rest as a spiritual practice is a big part of creation care, and learning from nature. And we've heard I I just love we have a woman who goes to morning church because we we meet at 4PM. So she goes to her local United Methodist Church in the morning, and then she comes to church in the wild. And she has said, my siblings told me since I started coming to this wild church, I am so much more relaxed and calm. And it really does. It makes a big difference for me. She said, you know, I just feel more in tune and more connected and present. And that, you know, brings a tear to my eye because that's exactly what we're hoping for is to help people find that calm, that peace that we find in nature.
Ryan Dunn [00:31:41]:
Your use of the word wild, I feel like we need to talk about that a little bit. You talked about the wild spirit, and you couldn't name the church like church in the woods or church in Skylake. But why why center in on this term wild? Why is that important for your identity?
Corey Turnpenny [00:31:58]:
It's a little bit of a reclaiming of the word. Right? I think it connects to the idea of, like, negative connotations for nature when I think of of our history, you know, calling people savage because they lived in huts or tents or teepees. And though that sort of connotation of, like, oh, the wild is scary or dangerous or not civilized. Right? And and we want that's that's where we wanna be. We wanna be outside of, you know, the manicured, perfect, like, controlled nature experiences that exist in a lot of places. We want to to follow the wild spirit into the wilds of creation, and we recognize that life is wild. You know? Like, we're in the wilderness of our lives sometimes. We're in the wilderness of society.
Corey Turnpenny [00:33:14]:
Like, you know, things can be, complicated and and tangled and messy. And that that is okay, you know, that that the wild spirit exists in all those places, whether it's, you know, a swamp or a city street, there there is nature in all of those places. And and we know that the spirit, the source of life is there in all of those places. And so it's sort of a reclaiming of the word and acknowledging that there's nowhere we can go that is separate or removed from our creator.
Ryan Dunn [00:33:59]:
You spend a little time searching for that, and and in that, you had a a sense of, it sounds like, I don't know, if disassociation, a sense of unease with kind of the, traditional trappings of the institution. I I there are a whole number of people who who feel that kind of uneasiness as well. Do you have any advice for those who are, you know, longing for that spiritual community, but feel like, I don't know, if I just fit in at the traditional church setting?
Corey Turnpenny [00:34:34]:
Yeah. There's a lot of options for folks in that in that realm. Even though it feels like there aren't, I think there are a lot of options. So you can bring you can bring some of this some of these concepts into your traditional church. You know, start a creation care committee, or or encourage you know, I know churches that will worship on their lawn in the summer or do, you know, a monthly outdoor worship service in a park or put up install a labyrinth somewhere outside or or a prayer trail if your church has lots of property. There's so many ways of engaging with creation, and there's so there's so much precedent for it in scripture, in our traditions, you know, the various, Christian traditions and other traditions have so much, encouragement and guidance and wisdom about connecting, connecting with creation. One of our favorite, Bible verses comes from Job who says, ask the animals what they think. Let the birds teach you.
Corey Turnpenny [00:35:56]:
You know, put your ear to the earth and learn the basics about who God is. And that's exactly, you know, the the indigenous wisdom that we can learn from that we were the last ones here. The animals and the trees and the plants, they were all here before us. They all know how to be earthlings better than we do. So we have a lot to learn from them. And, and so there's tons of ways of incorporating these ideas and practices into traditional church. There's also lots of places like Church in the Wild cropping up all over the world. And there's a couple there's a couple resources you could check.
Corey Turnpenny [00:36:44]:
The wild church network has a map of different wild churches, and the center for spirituality in nature has a database of different, groups that meet outdoors. They're not all gonna look the same. They all have various differences about them, but there are people doing this. And if you can't find someone near you, I would love to help people start
Ryan Dunn [00:37:15]:
a
Corey Turnpenny [00:37:15]:
wild church gathering. I have, I have helped people, done some coaching and training and it's, it's such a needed and, important way of connecting with God that I am happy to help others do that. If, if, if you're not finding anything, if you're not getting anywhere, let me know.
Ryan Dunn [00:37:40]:
Cool. Well and, Corey, let's go out with this then. Where are they gonna get ahold of you?
Corey Turnpenny [00:37:45]:
Well, we're easy to find churchinthewild.org. And there's all of all of the ways you can connect to us are there on our website, our, email, Facebook, Instagram, all those things, you can find fairly easily. Send us a message and yes, we would love to connect.
Ryan Dunn [00:38:10]:
Corey, thank you for sharing your story with us. Absolutely. Thank you. We hope this episode has given you some food and thought on how to find spirituality in the everyday, whether possible. Dedications and hard work keep us on air and connected to our listeners. And speaking and listening, if you haven't already, we would love for you to see, to subscribe to help this podcast, rate us, and also feedback helps us reach more listeners and continue. I'll chat at you again in two weeks time. Again, my name is Ryan Dunne.
Ryan Dunn [00:39:16]:
Peace to you until then.
