Restore Ministries Podcast

Kurt Peters is a pastor, church planter, counsellor and ministry supervisor. He has walked alongside Pete and the Restore Ministries team since it’s inception and from 2019 has served on the board. He is passionate about providing honest and loving spaces for people to encounter Jesus and be transformed. In this episode, Kurt does just that as he shares with Peter his experience of Parkinson’s Disease from diagnosis to now. This is a powerful episode of the raw reality of significant health diagnoses and how they impact both our identity and the questions and ways we relate to and understand God.

Trauma. Some of us have experienced it, some of us have watched people we love experience it, some of us have just watched it effect our community and people we know from a distance. No matter what our engagement with trauma has been, we have all seen the effects that this type of “death” has had on people and the world we live in.

Listen to Peter’s interview with Ed Welch as he shares about trauma and how the experience of trauma can intersect with our identity and what we can do about it.

Have you ever wondered about the intersection between our identity and our personality? In Peter’s conversation with Tim Lane (author, speaker & counselor) they break down both the helpfulness and unhelpfulness of personality tests, how our identity and our personalities differ and how the two intersect.

In the latest episode Peter Sondergeld sits down and talks with counsellor, author and CCEF Faculty member, Mike Emlet to talk about the interplay between our emotions and our identity.

This is a not to be missed episode!

In the latest episode of the Restore Ministries Australia podcast Peter Sondergeld sits down with Pastor Steve Nation to talk about his experience of living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how it intersects with identity.

Steve has been a pastor for 17 years in Sydney, Brisbane and now Canberra, Australia. He is currently serving at the Canberra Austral-Asian Christian Church. He is married to Keiyeng and they have three delightful kids.

Pour yourself a coffee and sit down on the lounge with Jess, Peter and Kurt as they chat about what has been keeping Restore Ministries quiet over the past few months, what is coming up and how you can engage with us.

The Restore Ministries Australia Podcast team are back for season two!

This season we are excited to be exploring the self and identity as we hear from people who fight the battle against the things that threaten and assault our becoming who God has created us to be.

In the latest episode of the Restore Ministries Australia Podcast Peter Sondergeld speaks with Elenne Ford, who breaks down some practical approaches to various conflict situations and offers a gospel-centred perspective on navigating resolution in relationships.

Elenne is an independent dispute resolution consultant who resides in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with a Master in Counselling from Westminster Theological Seminary and over 27 years experience in private practise as a barrister-at-law.

Elenne is passionate about helping people to resolve conflict in God-honouring ways and to experience the power of the gospel in their day-to-day lives. She views conflict and the struggles of life as opportunities to functionally embrace the gospel and press into a closer relationship with Jesus Christ.

In the latest episode of the Restore Ministries Australia Podcast Peter Sondergeld provides an update on the progress of his first book, as well as some insight into the content we could be expecting and the intent for the book.

Join us as we get a glimpse into what it is like to wrestle with the concept of our identity in the light of scripture as Peter shares some of his experiences in the writing process so far.

In the final episode of our three-part sustainable ministry series, Jess Fernance speaks with Craig Lyons, who shares with us the ups, downs, challenges and miracles he gets to experience as a case worker for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.

Craig has committed the last 14 years to Teen Challenge Queensland, after previously serving as a Youth Pastor, and through this episode shares openly about how he has learnt to serve sustainably, long-term, in ministry which is both rewarding, but also emotional, hard and disappointing at times.