The Cast

Join The Cast crew as Pastor Chris quizzes them with great questions about the upcoming year, their dreams, visions, and general hopes for 2026...with a lot of fun and laughs along the way. Bonus content: See Emily be forced into riding the church elevator in order to expand her own personal growth!

As our church rolls into 21 days of prayer and fasting, Pastor Chris and The Cast take some time to discuss prayer and fasting, as well as individual past experiences with fasting. Of course, we have some fun along the way as always!

Pastor Chris and The Cast crew highlights of happenings and events across 2025 in the church, as well as in life in general.

The Cast crew, while blindfolded, play a hilarious game guessing what the top 5 worst Christmas candies by taste, then discuss more about their Christmas experiences. Plus, we learn the legend of the Christmas Shroom!

In this episode, the whole Cast crew discuss their favorite Christmas characters, not only their favorite Biblical characters, but their favorite fictional ones as well!

The Cast Crew are joined by Sean Degraag to discuss Christmas memories and the differences and similarities of Christmas in the US vs in England.

Pastor John Dodd, who led Bedford First Assembly from 1993-2007, joins us to discuss his life and times, as well as his experience walking with Jesus through a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Gary and Pastor Chris are joined by Tim Wray, Shanon Hiles, and Tia Hiles to go through stories from "The Cast" of Bedford First Assembly. Get ready to laugh and smile! Happy Thanksgiving!

In the final episode on Bedford First Assembly's new mission statement, Emily, Gary, Pastor Chris and Amy Stubbs discuss the last 4 of our values: Gracefully Engaging Others, Faithfully Nurturing Growth, Enthusiastically Giving of Ourselves, and Intentionally Reaching Out.

In this episode, Emily and Gary continue the discussion of Bedford First Assembly's new Mission, Vision and Values statement with Pastor Chris and Amy Stubbs. Our first four values of eight are discussed: Passionately Pursing God, Authentically Worshipping God, Fully Embracing the Spirit's Power, and Boldly Employing Prayer.