Backstage with JamieKBates

In this week's episode, Jamie brings you the co-founder of Ministry Safe, Greg Love. Ministry Safe is an organization dedicated to helping ministries implement abuse prevention systems. Greg shares with Jamie his story of how he became a lawyer, why he became passionate about abuse prevention training and shares so many insights that are helpful to ministry leaders and parents. He talks about the difference between abduction offenders vs preferential offenders, how to work from knowledge not fear and gives much wisdom and additional resources for anyone wanting to be better equipped in protecting our children. https://ministrysafe.com/

In this weeks episode, Jamie talks to three sisters and the co-hosts of the Girl, I Slept in My Makeup Podcast about their experience with grief after losing their beloved mother in a unexpected car accident. They share the different ways they walked through and are still walking through the loss, what helps and hurts the process and how their bond as sisters carried them through. You will love these girls and their story will give comfort to anyone walking through unexpected grief.

This week Rhiannon Beauchamp joins Jamie Backstage to share her story of growing up Christian with a heart for ministry, falling in love, marrying a pastor and then the heart-wrenching process of rejection inside of the marriage that eventually led to divorce. Rhi vulnerably unpacks her journey and talks about the importance of confronting things in a marriage, what the weapon of rejection can do to ones heart and how to handle the lie, “I married the wrong person.” She talks about forgiveness over bitterness, how she continued pastoring in the midst of life-altering circumstances and how she learned to be “cheerfully expectant”. You will fall in love with her as you listen to her story and our prayer is that every listener can say along with Rhiannon, “I’m not perfect but God has certainly gotten me somewhere”.

This week Jamie talks with the co-founder of Samaritan Aviation, Pilot Mark Palm. At 16 he felt called to use his love of aviation to one day reach the remotest parts of the world. At 19 Mark took his first trip to Papua New Guinea and upon returning to the states enrolled in flight school and the rest is history. Today, Mark and his family reside in Papua New Guinea and offer life saving flights as well as medicine delivery to remote villages along the Sepik River - accessible only by boat or sea plane. Mark has now flown thousands of life-flights, has served hundreds of villages, has stories for days and we know you will be encouraged listening to a few of them on this weeks episode about Planes, Faith and life on the Sepik River!

https://samaritanaviation.org/

Pastor Wendy Perez is coming Backstage this week to talk to Jamie about why she is such an advocate for women in leadership, and women in general! She recounts moments as a young girl being taught things in school about women that didn’t compute for her and how she broke out of the intended psychology that women are just meant for “marriage and mothering”. She talks about things you normally won’t get to hear from her on the a pulpit; college stories, her volunteer work, meeting her husband, how he champions her and the things her parents did to foster the call of God in her. This isn’t a angsty discussion (we actually cut out 6:57 of them laughing because they were out of control lol!) but we do believe it will encourage women that they are meant for a whole lot more than the world might have told them.

Disclaimer: This episode was recorded earlier this summer before recent events unfolded in Afghanistan. If you’re interested in ways to help the Afghan people, we would love to suggest Preemptive Love. Other resources can be found in the highlights of Jamie's personal instagram page, @JamieKlineBates. Dan Baumann is an author and international speaker. He comes Backstage this week to talk to Jamie about heading to Afghanistan as a young missionary full of passion when he eventually found himself imprisoned in Iran under false charges. Their talk transcends the story itself as Dan takes us with him on this deeply personal journey of fear, doubt, hopelessness and suicide attempts. He talks about how God won his heart in a prison cell, how he learned that his mind playing tricks on him was not God being faulty and how eventually God not only saved him from prison but also from himself. You won’t be able to listen to this without being inspired and challenged to deeper levels of trust and friendship with God.

Welcome to this SZN of Backstage! This is a special episode for Jamie as she brings in her husband Dustin along with their pastor of 13 years, Pastor Steve Collins. The three of them talk about how their relationship started, how it’s been tested at times and what they attribute to its growth and strength. They recall some hilarious old school memories along the way as well as talk in new detail about when Pastor Steve gave Dustin the church and the trust each one of them had fostered in the other for that transition to work so well. This is definitely a backstage glimpse into one of the most humble, real, hilarious and strongest friendships out there. Enjoy (but not with your children at the 5 minute mark IYK Pastor Steve YK LOL)

In this SZN’s finale, Jamie brings you one of her good friends and a fellow YWAMer, Lindy Conant Cofer! Lindy is well known for leading worship across the world but today she is here to share her Backstage story of fostering and adopting inside America's foster care system. She recounts being newly married and traveling as a worship leader when she caught God‘s heart for foster children and orphans and life never looked the same. She tells their story of fostering her (now adopted) son and answers questions about how to start the process of fostering, she addresses the fear many feel in considering it and she gives a charge to the church that can’t go unheard! She shares ways to help you engage with the orphan crisis and we agree with her: NO ORPHANS IN HEAVEN, may it be so on earth! Enjoy this challenging conversation and when in doubt...Get God's Heart and Get On Google! 😉 #iykyk

This week Alan Orcutt comes Backstage to share with Jamie his experience with alcoholism and the journey of recovery. He talks about growing up in a loving home, becoming a pastor, marrying the girl of his dreams and then how alcoholism slowly took control of his life. He opens up about the devastating places alcoholism led him which included being separated from his wife and newborn baby, a DUI and losing his job due to showing up drunk which resulted in complete hopelessness. Jamie asks him about his recovery, the reality of relapsing and how to best love someone who is addicted. So, whether you struggle with addiction or love someone who does, this episode will breathe hope into what might feel like an utterly hopeless situation. Enjoy this super real talk and join us in celebrating with Alan and his family 3+ years of sobriety!

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https://www.celebraterecovery.com/

This week Jamie brings you her mentor and the founding Pastor of Church Eleven32, Lisa Collins! Lisa shares with Jamie about being adopted as a 2 day old baby, her childhood struggle with perfectionism and stories growing up full of self hatred, depression and brokenness. Lisa talks about her journey to freedom and the steps she took to break damaging cycles. Jamie asks her about marriage, parenting, planting a church and then the joy and sorrow that accompanied giving that church to Dustin & Jamie. Lisa is a woman who never gives up and lives everything she preaches. Wherever you find yourself in life you will be encouraged listening to her journey of faith in a God that always comes through.