She Speaks Stories

Jennifer Codner is a committed servant leader with a passion for rehabilitating young people for Christ.  She firmly believes that the Spirit of the Lord has appointed her to “heal the brokenhearted and to preach deliverance to those who are captive” (Isaiah 61:1). While working in the United States, she had the opportunity to hear and respond to the cries of hurting mothers, parents, and guardians, who were desperately seeking help and a healing option for their children. These cries moved her to wrestle with God to expand the ministry by creating more opportunities to help more young people. In 2010, Jennifer founded a group home/residential program (Ebenezer Home) in the Caribbean for troubled girls. In 2018 she partnered with Noel Reid in opening a branch for boys. In 2020, Youth of Vision Academy was started to serve both boys and girls. She is committed to empowering lives not just for service in this world but for the kingdom. Jennifer Codner is bringing help to so many lives and families. 

https://youthofvisionacademy.org/profile/jennifer-alexis-codner/

 

#cleaneating

#empower

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#brainbasedbehavior

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Parenting...it can be the most amazing and awful experience interchangeably. God wants to help you in all of the parenting things. Whether your children are adopted, foster, or biological, parenting requires help. This one is for the mothers and fathers out there.  Join us as we discuss the very present help of God that is available to YOU to parent well. 

 

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#foster

#adoption

#godshelp

#community

#help

#kristianstanfill

#weneedpeople

#findinghopehelpandhealinginahardworld

#shespeaksstories 

 

Link to Kristian Stanfill's song "We Need People"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxCtKW3zpRM

You heard her miraculous story here in Season 1, episode 130; she has also been highlighted on the Today Show, Discovery Channel's Shark Week and numerous other news outlets. Tiffany Johnson is a shark attack survivor, speaker, author, wife, mother to three and a Kingdom builder. Listen in as she tells you how she has experienced help from God through it all and learned how to shift her perspective.

Adria is a pastor’s kid who grew up in Kentucky, she found her voice as a cheerleader and as she tells people “That’s when I started talking and haven’t stopped since!” She met her husband in college, they married, and started their family. While living in Texas, her son, Blake, was born with health issues. For three years they spent a lot of their time in hospitals, being stretched and grown but were delighted to provide him with a normal toddler life, until he passed away. 

God surrounded her steps as they moved one more time to Virginia, where He had a plan for Adria to share her story. Through Adria’s Gideon-like story of an accountant turned speaker, she agreed to step out of her comfort zone to follow God’s calling. He has blessed her as she continues to share her challenge: to find joy!

 

Connect with Adria:

Website: Adriawilkins.com

Facebook: Adria Wilkins

TikTok: Adria Wilkins

Email: [email protected]

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#fostercare

#fostertoadopt

#socialworkers

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#findinghelp

We all have times when we have needed help. Sometimes we don't know what to do or where to start. Psalm 46:1 tells us God is our refuge and strength, and ever present help in trouble. Join us in this episode, as we talk about times when God has demonstrated that he knows us, he loves us and he truly is the help we need in exactly the big and small ways we need.

Lisa was born and raised in Texas. Even though her physical location didn’t change much, she experienced change in almost every other aspect of her life. She endured hardships in her childhood that were carried into her married life. She found herself asking God for a way out. He answered her, over and over and over again, and showed her just how well He loves. Lisa has been refined and with great hope anchors her day with sharing the unconditional love Jesus has brought to her.

Nate and Abby Hoff met at Dallas Theological Seminary and sparks flew. They’ve been married for 15 years and have four boys. They stayed put in the Dallas area to raise their family where Nate has been a professor at his alma mater for the last four years. In the summer of 2015, their family was slammed with hard challenges, and through them it brought to light a hard truth. As they walked forward in the discomfort, unknown and recalibrating, God never let go of these two. Even though it was hard, hope grew and this enabled them to minister to otherpeople going through similar hardships. God daily brings them closer to Him and hope continues to grow as He reveals how much He loves and cares.

Tom Flaherty, besides being Katie's younger brother, number 5 in a family of 6 siblings, is the beloved lead pastor of City Church, in Madison, WI. He is one of Katie's favorite storytellers of all time and the author of nine books: some fiction, some on serious subjects like Calvinism and the end times, and a devotional that is 365 readings for daily doses of wisdom. He and his wife Alice lived in Minnesota for years and pastored several churches there before moving to Wisconsin in 2010.They have four adult children, all married, and four grandchildren. Tom knows first-hand what it means to rely on the Lord for hope in desperate situations. He's handled all kinds of grief both big and small. Tom exemplifies the kind of person that takes heart in the face of tribulations because he knows that Jesus is real and sends hope, help and healing to his people. Lean in as Tom shares just a few of these first hand stories.

Carole is a mom, grandma, pastor’s wife, author, speaker and former Hollywood commercial actress. She works to tell others about depression and how it has affected her and her husband’s life together. Depression can be lonely and is still often considered taboo. Carole knows it is her calling to break the silence and give others hope and joy in the mess of mental illness. This podcast believes “stories change lives”. Carole’s story will not only change your life but can also save you or someone you know. Do you live with depression or care about someone who does? Listen in as Carole gives practical hope for those caring for someone with mental illness.

 

“Meeting Jesus transformed my life.”

“Okay, this is happening, now what?”

“When I'm not focusing on God, I'm back to asking the wrong questions.”

 

1) We can live WITH fear but not IN fear.

2) Live in care but not control.

Athena is a gal with a heart for the Lord, even though her story didn’t start that way. She wanted to be successful in business, just like her dad, and so she did just that. She was quickly promoted and established, but God brought her to Him when her life started to crumble. Christianity brought her the hope she needed to strengthen her marriage, until she was hit with a Job-like season and stripped of everything she held dear. But God wasn’t done writing her story. Her restoration through some difficult times has brought her a new understanding, passion and energy to bring help, support, and healing to the world around her. 

“Disobedience opens us up to all matter of attack.”

 

”Our wounds were controlling us because when you have something that hasn't healed yet, it impacts you.”