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Accessible Christian literature remains at the heart of Torch's mission. And this week we meet the new resources curator, Janette Sturgis, whose working on expanding our library and bookshop offerings. She talks about her love of working in retail, her evolving understanding of disabilities, and shares details about some new discipleship books which she's particularly excited about.

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This week we sit down to a conversation with Torch's newest trustee Philip Rice. He talks about his love of the Torch Holidays and his passion to bring children and young people to torch-making the client base more age diverse.

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In this episode we talk to Sarah Brookman, the visionary behind the new Torch Chaplaincy telephone service, which aims to support people going through life changes relating to sight loss. We also hear from Heinrich Barth, one of the chaplaincy volunteers who lost his sight following an brain aneurism in 2019. The conversation with Heinrich is taken from season one of Torch's podcast Walking By faith.

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This week, Christian Vision For Men's Carl Beech chats to us about living with Early Onset Parkinson's, and shares how his struggle to live with the disease turned into a remarkable innovation to help battle his Parkinson's symptoms. Carl demonstrates the device he's developed during the programme, which when he turns it on demonstrates just how effective it is as his symptoms disappear - he hopes that with its release this year it will change the lives of millions of people worldwide.

In this weeks episode we hear from Gareth davies who's married to Torch Together coordinator Becky Davies. He talks about what makes a good Torch holiday volunteer and shares part of one of the talks he gave on one of the most recent holidays.

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In this episode we speak to Phil Bryson who is a vicar at St Dionysius Church in Market Harborough. He shares how, after becoming partially sighted, he lost his self-confidence and how he now sees it as a strength in his job. He also talks about his long and prayerful way towards fulfilling his calling in church leadership.

To contact Torch Trust with any comments or feedback, call 01858 438260 email [email protected] or visit torchtrust.org.