Salt – Conversations

Jenny Salt meets Linda Chan, whose parents grew up under the turbulent and cruel regime of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.

They came to Australia hoping for a better life, but for Linda, turbulent and cruel is how she describes the childhood that followed.

A troubled home life, school bullying, and third-degree burns to 90% of her body combined to make her life a complete misery.

But when Linda discovered the love of Jesus as a teenager, she found an answer for her brokenness. 

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Jenny meets Michael Duckett, an indigenous man who has given his word to follow God and sees no reason to take it back.

Michael’s life could be summed up in a word: reconciliation. 

Moving in and out of a foster home as a baby and toddler he was adopted by his white foster family who raised him and cared for him as their own.  

But it took hearing a “boring” sermon at the age of 17 for Michael to truly understand his identity and what it means to be reconciled to God.

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Jenny Salt talks to Dr. Justine Toh, a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity, where she speaks and writes about deciphering contemporary culture.

Justine shares how she grew up in an immigrant culture that made an idol out of education and measured success in terms of career benchmarks.

Her book, Achievement Addiction, examines our need to succeed, and her own struggles in setting this mindset aside. As a Christian, she now draws her identity from what God has done, rather than anything she can add to the ledger.

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Ed Grudier tells Jenny Salt he did not expect God to lead him to more than a decade of ministry in Turkey, testing the tempers of the police as he sought to plant a church. 

Ed started his life in the middle-class suburbs of Cleveland, the so-called Bible-belt of the US.  But despite growing up in a culturally catholic household, he still managed to hold on to a secular outlook. 

Yet, a single sermon at the age of 18 set him on a path that has taken him all around the world, powered by the conviction that all people need to hear the gospel. 

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Tune in to hear Jenny Salt interview Janet Riley - a city girl with a country heart.  

As a vet, Janet loved the big animals, and as a Christian, she knew the love of an even bigger God. 

And it was this love that took her from regional NSW to Africa and on as she journeyed through cancer.

Andrew Miller is the international operations coordinator for Deaf Ministries International.

He tells Jenny Salt how an interest in Japanese culture led to 25 years of lay leadership in an international church in Osaka.

Since then he has transitioned into ministry to the silent world of the deaf community. Traveling all over the world to support DMI's ministries, he has discovered that the Gospel can still be heard powerfully by those who can hear nothing at all.

Click here to learn about Deaf Ministries International's work. 

Click here to read Andrew's blog and the many more fascinating stories his work has brought him in touch with.

Jenny Salt welcomes Ruth France on to the show and talks to her about what brought a suburban girl to choose a life of ministry in the country. 

As a young adult Ruth experienced a number of life-changing moments, including a literal bolt from the blue. But the biggest lightning strike to connect with her life was the call to mission.

What began as an interest in overseas work, though, transformed into a call to the country where she has ministered alongside her husband through fire, drought, and the scourge of COVID.

Join Jenny Salt as she ascends the heights and plumbs the depths of church planting with veteran Adam Ramsey.

Adam has been involved in church planting for 15 years, including working in Seattle in the Mars Hill church alongside Mark Driscoll. 

He is also a pastor of a church that was planted on the Gold Coast in QLD, and he is the Network Director of Acts 29 for Asia Pacific - and he hasn’t hit 40 yet!

In his 'spare time', he's also written a book titled Truth on Fire: Gazing At God Until Your Heart Sings.

Jenny discovers, though, that some of Adam's deepest lessons have come from processing failure rather than celebrating success.

Jenny Salt is keen to share Season 6 of Salt with her listeners, and hints at what's in store.

In the meantime, there are TWO competitions to take part in:

NUMBER ONE
Just write a review of Salt and send us a snapshot and mail it to [email protected]  – it’s that simple.

And the best three reviews will receive a free copy of Anthony Brammall’s new book, Never Going Home, the life story of missionary woman Mabel Green.

NUMBER TWO

We’ve put a little poll together of our most-listened-to shows and you could win a book just by telling us why you like the one you chose.

Follow the link I want a free book and get voting.

And thanks to our generous sponsors, Sydney Missionary Bible College, we’ll give a copy of a free book from their fabulous list of authors to the person who tells us what they liked the most about their favourite episode.

The Salt team is getting ready to bring you a fresh season of Salt, which will drop into your podcast app in just over a month.

While you’re waiting, tell us about your favourite Salt episode. 

We’ve put a little poll together of our most-listened-to shows and you could win a book just by telling us why you like the one you chose.

Follow the link I want a free book and get voting.

And thanks to our generous sponsors, Sydney Missionary Bible College, we’ll give a copy of a free book from their fabulous list of authors to the person who tells us what they liked the most about their favourite episode.