What happens when your life changes overnight? When nothing looks the way you planned? In this special live episode of Anchor + Waves, recorded at our Paint + Podcast women’s event, Abby Howard shares her powerful story of faith, loss, and purpose after a rare spinal stroke left her paralyzed. But this conversation goes deeper than one story; listen to how God used Abby's story to encourage and create community within the disabilities community.

Together, we talk about:

▪️How to trust God when your future is stripped away

▪️The tension between visible healing and ongoing struggle

▪️Assumptions the church makes about disability

▪️Why “making space” matters more than we think

▪️How empathy can change the way we see everyone around us

This is a conversation about resilience, surrender, and the reminder that every person you pass is carrying a story. You’re not alone. And your story matters more than you think.

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👉 Listen now and be encouraged to trust God as we navigate the calm and the storms that life brings.

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As always, shoot us your questions at [email protected] and enjoy today's episode.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOSTS:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: Abby Howard

🎥 VIDEO + SEO DIRECTORS:: Zac Anderson, Colin McFarland

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

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Singleness isn’t a waiting room—it’s a real, meaningful season.

In this episode of Anchor + Waves, Jacque and Stacy have a conversation with author and speaker Elizabeth Woodson. Join us as they talk honestly about the assumptions the church often makes about singleness—and how those assumptions can quietly shape the way women see themselves.

Together we unpack:

• Why singleness is often misunderstood in church culture,

• The hidden assumptions that can leave women feeling unseen or “incomplete”,

• How to find purpose, joy, and contentment in your current season,

• What it looks like to build real, life-giving community—no matter your relationship status.

Whether you’re single, married, widowed, or divorced, this conversation will challenge the way you think about identity, belonging, and what it means to live a full life with Jesus.

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👉 Listen now and be encouraged to trust God as we navigate the calm and the storms that life brings.

🎧 Also available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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As always, shoot us your questions at [email protected] and enjoy today's episode.

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Resources

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The Woodson Institute

Newest Book: Habits of Resistance

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOSTS:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: Elizabeth Woodson

🎥 VIDEO + SEO DIRECTORS:: Zac Anderson, Colin McFarland

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

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What assumptions do we carry about women over 70? In this episode of Assumptions About the Church, Jacque and special guest host Erin Marken sit down with Sarah and Wendy, who are both deeply involved in church life, family, and serving. It is easy to assume that the older generation is slowing down, has nothing new to learn, and is resistant to change.

Instead, what we learn in this episode is that those who choose deep community, intergenerational connections, and laughter are anything but. Listen in as we discover how God has used these women to do new works and to pass on the traditions of their faith. We can learn all kinds of things if we ask good questions.

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👉 Listen now and be encouraged to trust God as we navigate the calm and the storms that life brings.

🎧 Also available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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As always, shoot us your questions at [email protected] and enjoy today's episode.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOSTS:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: Sarah, Wendy Clark

🎥 VIDEO + SEO DIRECTORS:: Zac Anderson, Colin McFarland

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

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What matters most for young adults today—empathy, loyalty, or something else? We all carry assumptions about young adults, often without realizing it. In the first episode of our Assumptions in the Church series, Jacque and Stacy sit down with JG Motice for a wide-ranging, meaningful conversation that touches on Gen Z's approach to truth-telling, technology, authority, and more. This episode invites us to listen across generations, ask better questions, and remember that God designed the Church to be intergenerational. Come learn, reflect, and be curious with us.

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👉 Listen now and be encouraged to trust God as we navigate the calm and the storms that life brings.

🎧 Also available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

📺 Check us out on YouTube 

As always, shoot us your questions at [email protected] and enjoy today's episode.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOSTS:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: JG Motice

🎥 VIDEO + SEO DIRECTORS:: Zac Anderson, Maddie Brouwer

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

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How can we delight in God's love? In this last Advent episode, Jacque and Stacy are joined by Micah Harrison as they discuss what it looks like to truly love God and love others. How do we differentiate between the things that we "enjoy" and the things that we "love?" Be encouraged as we wrap us this series that you can both know and experience the love of God and share it joyfully with the world around us.

👉 Looking to do more with your family this December? 

📖 Many of the women at Mission Hills Church are doing the Joy to the World Advent Bible Study produced by Lifeway Women. You can purchase your copy HERE. The book includes 4 weeks of personal study, along with a weekly family devotion and other family resources!

🎧 Also available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

📺 Check us out on YouTube 

📧 As always, shoot us your questions at [email protected] and enjoy today's episode.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOSTS:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: Micah Harrison

🎥 VIDEO + SEO DIRECTORS:: Zac Anderson, Maddie Brouwer

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

What is it about joy that is often so childlike? Listen in with Jacque, Stacy, and Cat Cichon as they chat about what we can learn from children as they experience the joy of Christmas. How could we, as adults, experience joy anew this Christmas by being present and open? What would it look like to allow ourselves to be awed by the simple? In this third episode of our Advent podcast, we will focus on having joy that is uninhibited!

👉 Looking to do more with your family this December? 

📖 Many of the women at Mission Hills Church are doing the Joy to the World Advent Bible Study produced by Lifeway Women. You can purchase your copy HERE. The book includes 4 weeks of personal study, along with a weekly family devotion and other family resources!

🎧 Also available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

📺 Check us out on YouTube 

📧 As always, shoot us your questions at [email protected] and enjoy today's episode.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOSTS:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: Cat Cichon

🎥 VIDEO + SEO DIRECTORS:: Zac Anderson, Maddie Brouwer

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

We all want to experience true joy and true peace, but for many of us, that sounds too “churchy” and unattainable. In this second Advent podcast episode, Stacy and Jacque are joined by JG Motice to discuss how we can actually live in peace. Looking at the way Jesus related to His Father, and exploring tangible practices for our own relationships, this episode offers a calming reminder that God truly loves us and wants to meet with us. We can experience peace this holiday season and beyond.

👉 Looking to do more with your family this December? 

📖 Many of the women at Mission Hills Church are doing the Joy to the World Advent Bible Study produced by Lifeway Women. You can purchase your copy HERE. The book includes 4 weeks of personal study, along with a weekly family devotion and other family resources!

🎧 Also available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

📺 Check us out on YouTube 

📧 As always, shoot us your questions at [email protected] and enjoy today's episode.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOSTS:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: JG Mottice

🎥 VIDEO + SEO DIRECTORS:: Zac Anderson, Maddie Brouwer

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

In the final episode of this season, join us as Kim Fearing interviews New Testament expert Dr. Craig Blomberg about the book of James and the spiritual practices he has learned from it.

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The Study of James:

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Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Kim Fearing

🎉 SPECIAL GUEST:: Craig Blomberg

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Lepard Productions

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions and the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

Is there a connection between trust and joy? In this first week of our Advent podcast, Stacy, Jacque and guest host Coletta Smith, explore that very question through the story of Elizabeth. By trusting in God’s character, Elizabeth found both solace and deep joy, rejoicing in what God was doing not only in her own life but in Mary’s as well.

Coletta invites us to follow Elizabeth’s lead: to reject jealousy and comparison, to celebrate God’s work in others, and to trust that He will faithfully complete the work He has begun in each of us. Join us for a conversation that sets the tone for a season of expectancy and joy.

👉 Looking to do more with your family this December? 

📖 Many of the women at Mission Hills Church are doing the Joy to the World Advent Bible Study produced by Lifeway Women. You can purchase your copy HERE. The book includes 4 weeks of personal study, along with a weekly family devotion and other family resources!

🎧 Also available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

📺 Check us out on YouTube 

📧 As always, shoot us your questions at [email protected] and enjoy today's episode.

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Anchor + Waves: Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOSTS:: Jacque Carlson, Stacy Ludwig

🎉 SPECIAL GUESTS:: Coletta Smith

🎥 VIDEO + SEO DIRECTORS:: Zac Anderson, Maddie Brouwer

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions + The Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved

Ever feel like your calendar is your comfort? A method of controlling your days? In this week’s episode of our James Bible Study series, we unpack James 4:13–5:12 and dive into what it means to plan with humility, live with eternal perspective, and steward both time and wealth wisely. Kim challenges us to consider where our trust truly lies and the roles that surrender, justice, and patient endurance play.

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Reflection Questions:

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✅ What do your calendar and spending habits reveal about who—or what—you trust most?

✅ Are there any areas of your life where you’re planning without inviting God in? Where do you struggle to trust God?

✅ How do you respond to inconvenience or disrupted plans, and what does that reveal about your level of surrender?

✅ What does “patient endurance” look like in your current season—and how can you lean into it more fully this week?

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The Study of James:

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Channel Credits

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🎙️ HOST:: Kim Fearing

🎛️ PRODUCER:: Lepard Productions

🎨 CREATIVE DIRECTOR:: Colin McFarland

A Product of Lepard Productions and the Mission Hills Podcast Network in Littleton, CO.

© Mission Hills Church - All Rights Reserved