Episode 17: Breaking the Ice

Ice breakers can be mortifying to the extroverts out there. Forced connection in a quasi public setting challenges even the most extreme introverts at times. But what if breaking the ice in the midst of this socially distanced pandemic time is far easier than we imagine? What if we are melted in the process of opening ourselves to others and risking connection? Join Host and Mission Founder Kat Silverglate as she shares The Ridiculous Hour Foundation's May 2021 Mobile Mission Challenge -- Breaking the Ice. Our mission story this month begins with a National Guard Colonel leading a group through a particularly touchy-feely ice breaker [one that would never happen in these six-feet-apart times!] and ends with a hotel check-in clerk giving her contact information away to a complete stranger after the ice was broken in the first seconds of interaction.  Curious? We sure hope so. The Ridiculous Hour Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring lives ridiculously responsive to the promptings of God.  The May 2021 Mission Challenge was released by snail mail to our regular participants. It was also released, for the first time in an audio format, to a group of individuals who volunteered to receive audio as we worked to figure out the whole recording/podcasting thing. We thank God for these ridiculous friends who received our early emails with absurdly large MP3 files or links to our YouTube audio attempt! It is being released here for the first time in June 2021 in a "clickable" format in anticipation of the Foundation's website launch -- www.theridiculoushour.com. If you would like to receive the equipping piece referenced in this podcast -- the You Matter sticker sheet -- or you'd just like a sample of one of our Mobile Monthly Mission Packs [free while supplies last], feel free to email us at [email protected]. We'll get it out to you right away. Our May 2021 Mission is lovingly dedicated to James Eldon Simmons, The Colonel.  We sure do miss you Jim!