EQUIP
EQUIP is a weekly podcast which highlights topics such as godly parenting and Christian education today. Our host, Brandon Artiles, interviews voices who are an integral part of the ECS community and dives deep into each topic with the aim to help process life and parent through the lens of Scripture.
The Equip Podcast will help you…
- apply biblical wisdom to your current season of life.
- introduce you to fellow parents and educators in the ECS community.
- start your day off right or make your commute more enjoyable by conveniently accessing through your podcast app.
We encourage you to search ECS Equip in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts to peruse the more than 160 past episodes available on a variety of relevant topics. New episodes will be posted on this webpage as well as in your podcast app.
Browse weekly episodes in the Equip library below.
A weekly podcast for K-12 Christian educators and parents
Local Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) director Jeremy Wilbur visited ECS to share with our High School and Middle School students about living by faith instead of living by fear, which we discussed on the podcast. He also spoke about how God is using FCA to provide young people direction to where true identity can be found.
- Equip2025
Seniors Lily Higginbotham, Drew Shelton, Meredith Rowland and Whit Dean join the show to talk about their upcoming production, “Hadestown,” which opens January 16. Director of Performing Arts Lynden Jones and Middle School Drama Director Abby Rooks also sit in to share what makes this performance unique, challenging and rewarding for student-performers.
- Equip2025
Suggested episodes as examples of the topics covered on ECS Equip:
Lower Elementary Principal Ashley Colley and Lower School Athletic Director Jason Redd join Equip to talk about how they see God moving at our Forest Hill campus with our Little Eagles through fifth graders. Hear how discipleship is being cultivated through the “New City Catechism,” which students are walking through, and how athletics enhances the Lower School student experience.
ECS Early Childhood Principal Cathy Boyd and Pre-Kindergarten teacher Molly Carter discuss how Early Childhood (Little Eagles - Junior Kindergarten) education at ECS helps students set a foundation for flourishing spiritually, academically, socially, and emotionally.
As a part of our Mentoring Moms Partnering with Parents Speaker Series therapist and author Sissy Goff joins ECS Annual Fund director Brandon Artiles on Equip to help parents navigate an issue becoming more prevalent among youth. She guides us in how we can help our children cope with stress and anxiety, while reminding us as parents not to project our own worry on our children.
Annual Fund Director Brandon Artiles interviews three of the top scholars in ECS’ class of 2023. Evie Wages, Luke Ricketts, and Jane Kresnadi share about the great experiences they had, the memories they made, and the teachers that made the greatest impact on their journeys.
Annual Fund Director Brandon Artiles sits down with ECS’ Director of Curriculum Alignment and Worldview John Grant. Dr. Grant wrestles with the question, does Satan have a Christian Worldview”, and does having a Christian worldview result in obedience?