Experience Hope

Wayne Pederson interviews Christy Becher a Children's pastor at Calvary Church in Roseville, Minnesota. Becher shares her how families have had to adapt to the new normal. While there has been sadness about missed birthdays parties and graduation ceremonies there has also been newly discovered family time and creativity to make celebrations special in new ways.

Mark Kordik is a wonderful man of God with a heart for missions.  However, his godly character has not exempted him from hardships.  Through 20+ years of huge health challenges and painful medical procedures, he remains one of the most positive person in the world.  What’s the difference?  His dependence on God’s word and his incredible trust in the grace and love of God.  Hear Mark’s amazing story of hope on this month’s Experience Hope.

“Coping with Covid 19 is a challenge for all of us. It’s a huge inconvenience. More than that it causes anxiety, stress, even fear. So how do people who already have problems coping with life cope with the added stress of COVID-19. Wayne Pederson talks with Chanelle Muro, a Christian counselor, how faith can Encourage Hope during these challenging times.“

Wayne Pederson shares how believers throughout history have blessed their community during crisis. He reminds us how they experienced hope in Jesus during global illness and how we can too facing COVID-19

Our world is increasingly divided, critical and unkind. We see it in business, media and politics.  God is kind.  And if you can’t find a kind person, you need to be that one.  The early church reflected God’s kindness in how they loved each other…even their enemies.  Jesus desires for his followers to demonstrate love and kindness to others. Wayne Pederson helps us Experience Hope in our hopeless world by talking about Kindness…and how we can demonstrate God’s love in practical ways.

Wayne Pederson shares about experiencing hope in the present and experiencing "the present in this new decade and new year.

Her childhood was a horrible tragedy: dysfunctional family, sexual and physical abuse from her father, unloving mother. After graduation she ran away to the big city.  There she lived the street life: promiscuity, hopelessness and thoughts of suicide.  Through all that, in the middle of the night, she would hear a voice saying: I love you. Later she would discover it was God’s voice Then, through the witness of Christian friends, she received God’s love and Christ’s forgiveness.  Out of deep despair and sinfulness, God allowed Julie Woodley to Experience Hope.

Today she pours out her life ministering to women who have experienced sexual abuse, abortion and human trafficking.  Hear the amazing, touching story of Julie Woodley on Experience Hope.

No question about it. The Middle East is the Epicenter.  It’s the beginning of civilization as we know it. And we know from the Bible that the great climax of history is in the Middle East, especially Israel, especially Jerusalem.

Wayne Pederson just returned from a week in Israel, visiting churches, ministries, both from Messianic and Palestinian backgrounds. The political tensions, the threats from outside, and the collision of the Christian, Jewish and Arab cultures all play into an interesting dynamic. Yet, it the midst of all this, the church in Israel is Experiencing Hope. Wayne explores these dynamics in this week’s Experiencing Hope podcast.

Wayne Pederson has “walked through the valley of the shadow of death”. From that experience he has tasted and tested God’s promises about the great things we can expect after we die.  There’s the sure promise of the amazing presence of God as we pass from this life to the next. We will receive new bodies at the resurrection; and our amazing eternal life with Jesus forever. 

Willi was brought up in a fine Christian home. But when she left home as a young adult, she wandered in the wilderness far from God. God interrupted her life with divorce, broken relationships and cancer. Now she knows Jesus personally. Her story is one of forgiveness, redemption and restoration.