A Quiet Life

In the first part of this conversation, Matt and I talk about the healing that he experienced as he sought God for answers to the questions he had about his identity. It was a long journey and sometimes very painful, but in the end, God came through.

We go on to talk about Matt’s missions experience and how God has used his administration skills to bless YWAM, both nationally and internationally. Matt talks about the critical part of being a missionary being the heart behind the work, and not necessarily the type of work you perform.

YWAM www.ywam.org

DTS is a discipleship training school – the introductory school to working in YWAM.

Romans 10:13 ‘for, “Everyone who calls n the name of the Lord will be saved.”’ NIV

Matthew 7:8 ‘For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.’ NIV (and similarly Luke 11:10)

Luke 5:31 ‘Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.’ NIV (and similarly Matthew 9:12, Mark 2:17)

Matt Colwell Transcript

Marlene is a new friend to me and as I say in the interview I fell in love with her voice when I heard her read the prayers at church. She has worked as a Speech and Drama teacher and we talk about that work, and about her love for the performing arts. We talk about how the poetry and plays that she works with relate to our everyday lives, and how we can learn from them.

Marlene is now retired, but she finds community wherever she can, and reaches out to people in many different ways – in her own community, in the church, in the local nursing home, and through teaching in U3A.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sansom

https://www.amazon.com/Witnesses-Clive-Sansom/dp/0416083609

The writing group Marlene mentions is the Creative Space group that I lead on Tuesday afternoons. Feel free to send me an email at [email protected] for more details if you live in southern Tasmania.

Alpha is a great training tool for Christians and searchers alike.

Marlene Transcript

Ruth tells us about her journey from falling in love with volcanoes to working in conflict management. It may not seem like the most obvious pathway but when you see how God puts it all together you will be impressed. As Ruth said, it’s about paying attention to who you are, and who God is.

Ruth talks about the joy of teaching others, of seeing the lightbulb come on above their heads, and especially when they are learning about the Lord, or praying for the first time. Her love for people and her love for adventure really come through in this interview.

Scripture Union http://scriptureunion.org.au/

The Gideons https://www.gideons.org.au/

Luis Palau https://www.palau.org/

The Abernethy Trust https://www.abernethy.org.uk/about-us/

Amity CMR https://www.amitycmr.com.au/

Ruth Pinkerton Transcription

Margie has spent a lot of her life in missions in some quite scary places. We talk about a few of the stories where she’s seen God come through, in her own life, and in the lives of her friends in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We also talk about the importance of prayer, of knowing that God is right there and speaking with you.

Margie is amazingly pragmatic and straightforward. Her faith is strong because it has been tested. Not just overseas but also in her own battle with cancer. She has so many stories to share, and after hearing these few that we had time for, I hope that she writes a book to share more with us.

www.redcross.org.au

www.leprosymission.org.au

Margie Transcription

Roslyn is my mum, so I really enjoyed this chance to talk with her about things that don’t necessarily come up in everyday conversation. If you’ve listened over the past thirty episodes you will have heard my mum and dad come up several times as they’ve been influential in other people’s lives. Megan (Ep 29) talks about Mum’s role in her conversion, and Matt Garvin back in episode 12 talks about their international reach, and there have been others. So I thought it was time for us to have a chat with Mum and Dad so you could meet them for yourselves. Dad’s interview will be coming soon.

Billy Graham visited Hobart on March 16th, 1959

Dad’s uncle and aunt are Tom and Anne Jewett, a couple that have had a healing ministry here in Tasmania, and beyond.

Youth With A Mission is a global movement of Christians from many cultures, age groups, and Christian traditions, dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world.

The Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship (CPAF) is a non-profit, trans-denominational Christian ministry, dedicated to the classical performing arts world, based in Indiana, USA.

Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers by Patrick Kavanaugh was first published in 1992 and is available for purchase online.

ABC article on the Tasmanian red light clinical trials for Parkinson’s: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-24/clinical-trials-for-wearing-led-helmets-treatment-parkinsons/10836906

The blog I mentioned is:https://redlightsonthebrain.blog/

Mark 14:6-9

http://ruthamos.com.au/roslyn-transcription/ ‎

Catherine moved to Australia from the Gambia in West Africa to study building and construction. She was the only female in a class of sixty and suffered from the racist and sexist comments and behaviour of the others in her class. But she hung in there and God has rewarded her.

Now she works as a project controller, and she also writes, dances, and is an actor. Catherine is full of life, and full of the good things God has done for her and it was a joy to interview her. I’m sure you’ll enjoy the interview too.

Catherine’s blog is: A Lady for my King (website and magazine)https://aladyformyking.com/

She is writing a book called Beyond the Shadows that will be launched in October.

The award she won was the African Australian Women in Leadership Award. A national award organised by Africa Media Australia.

Psalm 84:11 ‘For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.’ NIV

Psalm 139:16 ‘Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.’ NIV

John 15:16 ‘You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.’ NIV

Luke 22:42 ‘“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”’ NIV

Catherine transcription

Kath is all about community. It comes out in everything she shares in this interview. She talks about sharing in Indigenous communities in the red centre, about creating community in the school where she works as chaplain, and in the community where she lives and is planting a church. She tells us how important community was to her when her beautiful son Tom was spending his last days here on earth.

Kath shares with us also a lesson that I felt I really needed to learn about grief. Tom passed away almost ten years ago, but Kath still feels that grief daily. Not in a tragic way that has stopped her from living, but somehow Kath manages to bring Tom and his smile and his amazing faith into her daily life. Her grief is not something to ‘get over’ but something to weave into the day-to-day aspects of life.

www.fusion.org

https://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/ginosko.html

Kath Transcription

Megan and I have been friends for a long time. I knew her story and I wanted to share it with you. It was also great to hear about what she’s doing now in communications, how she writes for a living, and how she uses her gifts to be part of a larger mechanism of giving Jesus’ love to the community and to the world.

Matthew 28:20 b ‘And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’ NIV

Colossians 3:23–24 ‘Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.’ NIV

Psalm 23:4 ‘Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and you’re staff, they comfort me.’ NIV

Megan transcription

Julie shares with us about her life that went from a place of rebellion and hardship, through a really tough time of studying as a single mum, to the place she is now where she can say, ‘God is so good to me.’ She talks of God’s provision and mercy and how she now uses that witness in her job as a psychologist.

More information on Fusion can be found at www.fusion.org

More information on City Mission can be found at www.citymission.org.au

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 ‘Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.’ NIV

Julie Transcription

Romola is not someone who puts herself forward. In fact, I think she’s happiest serving quietly in the background. I think I must have been very pathetic when I asked because she relented and agreed to come on my podcast. And I’m so glad she did. Her stories of what God is doing through her quiet witness working as a midwife are powerful.

We talk about the joy when things go well, and the sorry when things go badly in childbirth, and how God has given her several divine appointments where she was truly able to speak into peoples’ lives.

And we talk about a special time in her life when she knew that God was very close to her.

I’m sure you’ll be blessed by listening.

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Romola Transcription