Equipped: A Podcast Platform for the Equip Ministry of Cuyahoga Valley Church
"Equipped" is a podcast platform for the Equip Ministry of Cuyahoga Valley Church. In this podcast you'll find recordings from various events and classes that include Sunday Sessions (CVC's weekly theology class), Women's Conferences, Men's Retreats, and more.
Episodes
In this final session of our How to Share the Jesus series in Sunday Sessions, Tony Scialabba talks about "Multiplying the Message." He shares his own testimony of inviting Jesus to be his forgiver and leader, and he teaches us how to not only share the gospel, but also train others to do the same thing.
To view the slides for this series, visit: https://cvconline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Sunday-Sessions-How-to-Share...
In this session, Tony Scialabba walks us through how to invite a gospel response when we share the good news about Jesus, and how to handle these responses with grace, truth, and reliance on the Holy Spirit.
To view the slides for this series, visit: https://cvconline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Sunday-Sessions-How-to-Share-Jesus-Slides.pdf
This week in Sunday Sessions, Send Director Tony Scialabba continues to help us grow in sharing Jesus. He talks about making sure that we speak clearly about the truths of the gospel, and he helps us think through transitioning everyday conversations into conversations about Jesus.
To view the slides for this series, visit: https://cvconline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Sunday-Sessions-How-to-Share-Jesus-Slides.pdf
In this episode, Send Director Tony Scialabba invites us to consider what it looks like to share Jesus with those around us, guiding us through utilizing the three circles method in particular as we seek to share the gospel with those we know.
To view the slides for this series, visit: https://cvconline.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Sunday-Sessions-How-to-Share-Jesus-Slides.pdf
In this panel discussion, Becca Ferguson is joined by Lauren Meyer, Val O'Brien, and Jackie Piscura. Together, they discuss what it has looked like in their lives to surrender everything to Jesus - in seasons where that's been easy, and in seasons where it's been not so easy.
Val is the Founder and Executive Director of Aspen Ministry, a ministry to students that desires to biblically, historically, and winsomely show an emerging generation who Jesus is—and inspire and equip the church to cross generations and culture to receive them. Val has a Bible degree from Moody Bible Institute, and a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Regent University. Val’s workshop at our 2025 Women's Confe...
Lauren is the Director of CVCYouth, and she holds both a B.S. and an M.A. in Counseling from Clarks Summit University. She has served for almost ten years in youth ministry here at CVC, and has extensive experience helping students and families navigate the highs and lows of family and friend relationships in a manner that honors Christ and the Kingdom. At our 2025 Women’s Conference, Lauren led a WorkShop focused on having healthy...
Dean serves as the Director of Care and Culture here at Cuyahoga Valley Church and has been on staff at CVC for over 20 years. Dean holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Counseling from Ashland Theological Seminary. At our 2025 Women's Conference, Dean led a WorkShop focused on Emotional and Spiritual Health, and helped attendees consider what it looks like to submit our feelings, our thoughts, and our whole selves to Jesus.
In our first main session at the 2025 CVC Women's Conference, Director of Community Life and Women's Ministry, Becca Ferguson, taught on Romans 12:1-2, and invited attendees to think about what it looks like and what it means to submit our whole selves to Jesus, to surrender all to Him.
This week in Sunday Sessions, join us for our final week of our Equipped Parenting series as we host a panel discussion with three CVC staff members: Dean Siley (Pastor of Care and Counseling), Lauren Meyer (Director of CVCYouth), and Denise Petek (CVCKids Minister). As ministry leaders on staff and parents themselves, Dean, Lauren and Denise share from professional and personal experience, answering questions on parenting submitte...
In Week 3 of Equipped Parenting, Raquel Schors teaches us how we can parent with a plan! She walks us through why it's a good thing for an intentional parent to have a plan, and how we can craft and implement a parenting plan that will help us parent our children with care, foresight, and prayerful consideration.
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In Week 2 of Equipped Parenting, Pastor Dean Siley helps us to consider what it means to be an emotionally healthy parent - and spouse! In our parenting and in our marriages, our emotional health and our spiritual health are intricately intertwined. When we are able to process our emotions in particular in healthy ways, we are able to equip and train our children to do the same.
In Week 1 of our Equipped Parenting miniseries, Pastor Joe Valenti teaches us what it can look like to be an intentional parent, parenting in a way that helps us intentionally disciple our children and point them to Jesus, both now and in their future.
In this special episode of Sunday Sessions, CVC pastors Joe Valenti and Josh Hamm, and ministry directors Lauren Meyer and Becca Ferguson, engage in a vibrant conversation about women in ministry, examining the complementarian model for understanding the role of men and women in the church and home that is followed by CVC. They look at the Scriptural basis for this position and talk about the ways in which a complementarian perspec...
This week in Sunday Sessions, Pastor Joe Valenti helps us wrestle with the question, "How Could a Loving God Send People to Hell?" He shows us how when we ask this question, to find our answer we must first rightly understand humanity's sin and the justice and judgment of God. When we correctly understand God's justice, we are even better equipped to understand His love and grace to us in the gospel. Understandi...
Join us for Sunday Sessions as we tackle the question, "How Could a Loving God Allow So Much Suffering?" Jennifer Gratz does a great job of teaching on a question that has been asked for as long as Christianity has existed - and even before! We will look at how the world looks at suffering apart from God, how the Bible teaches us about suffering, and how God can use suffering to point us to Jesus Christ. This isn't a...
This week on Sunday Sessions, Kyle Gustafson is answering the question, 'Doesn't the Bible Condone Slavery?" Kyle does a great job of walking us through what slavery in Scripture looked like and how it differed from slavery in the U.S. in the 19th century and before, and what slavery looks like around the world today. He shows us how EVERY kind of slavery goes against God's design and brings grief to God's ...
Join us this week in Sunday Sessions as Becca Ferguson walks us through answering the question, "Isn't Christianity Homophobic?" Our culture has a lot to say about the LGBTQ movement, but as Christians we find our answers to questions about human sexuality in the Bible. God's Word doesn't change and it's always true, and we need to understand both God's truth and His heart for the lost when we thi...
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