Arianna Walker is an international speaker, an author, and the CEO of Mercy UK – a charity

committed to restoring hope and transforming lives by empowering Christians to develop

their relationship with God, self, and others.  Mercy UK runs free of charge residential homes

for young women with life-controlling issues, delivers leadership training days for church

leaders and ‘people helpers,’ and produces Keys to Freedom- a discipleship resource for

individuals, church groups, and prisons. Using real-life stories and biblical principles,

Arianna’s restorative messages inspire Christians from all walks of life to live free and stay

free.

Helen

Helen, a non-churchgoer, was a very reluctant participant of the Restored Lives Course in January 2011 after her marriage to her childhood sweetheart ended abruptly in 2009. Still struggling with the emotional and practical fallout of her breakup she was persuaded by a Christian friend to try Restored Lives. Expecting to be judged and feeling like a failure Helen went along to the first night of the course. To her surprise, she was met with a type of Christian grace she had never encountered before. The course leaders and helpers just gently came alongside her as she soaked up the course content and made new friends, many of whom are still some of her greatest cheerleaders. It was a turning point lifting her out of a dark time and setting her back on her feet. It was also a turning point in her Christian journey because it ignited her curiosity about a faith she had put aside since childhood. She went on to do the Alpha course and revived her relationship with God.

She has been volunteering ever since and almost 2 years ago started working part-time managing marketing and comms for the charity. She continues to volunteer too either in Bournemouth or for Restored Lives at Home - the online version of the course. She is passionate about Churches using the course to come alongside people of all faiths and none.

Erik

Erik and Karen met and were active together in church activities for 4 years before getting married but, after 5 years of marriage, it sadly ended in a painful divorce. This caused a period of isolation, depression and many questions at which time Erik is eternally grateful to four people who came alongside him to help him navigate through this “category 5 hurricane”. These people were literally “lifesavers” and helped him slowly recover from this major life crisis.

Whilst initially slightly reluctant to start helping others in this area, a job loss gave him some time to help develop an existing course together with a group of professionals including Family Law Solicitors, Mediators, a Judge, Counsellors, and Parenting Specialists. Seeing the transformation that can happen in people’s lives, from being in a valley of darkness into a journey of restoration, has been infectious and addictive and has meant that he is now passionate to help others recover successfully.

He runs the charity, Restored Lives, and leads the online course and the face to face course at HTB London three times a year. Through this ministry, he offers support to over 40 leaders who are running the course in the UK as well as overseas where the course has been run in many locations such as France, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Tajikistan, and the Czech Republic whilst the Restored Lives book, which he wrote, has also now been translated into Japanese.

He is currently a full-time finance director in the UK and was previously the communications director of a listed public company.

Husband and wife team Nicky and MaxCita Gilchrist are ordained ministers and have been worship leaders for over 20 years, serving in the local body, as well as overseas on the mission field. They are both passionate about spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ across the globe and fulfilling the commission of Matthew 28 v 19 “go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations”. As well as singing, Nicky is also a broadcaster/presenter at Premier Christian Radio, currently presenting ‘The Big Breakfast’. They both studied performing arts and developed a passion for singing at an early age, honing their talents and gifts under Power Praise and deliverance ministries international. It was here where they met, and through their love of singing and ministry, became firm friends and then fell in love! Over the last 12 years, Nicky and Maxcita have served as worship leaders at KICC Enfield and KICC Vine Church London. They also served as Youth Pastors and have a passion to see young people reach their full potential. The time has come for them to launch into the deep and answer the prophetic, apostolic, and evangelic call upon their lives, ministering to those who are lost and to the body of Christ at large. Nicky and MaxCita released their debut single “I will call upon the Lord” in December 2014. The song encourages the listener to cry out to God and his mighty right hand that can pull you out of any difficult situation that you may find yourself in.

Erin Menke-Assam oversees donor development, communications and international partnerships. She has vast experience in missions, training, research and development. She is a literacy master trainer and played a key role in the planning and implementation of international literacy programs. Her research experience includes program evaluation, donor surveys and market research.

Erin also enjoys connecting and engaging partners in ministry. She says, "It's a blessing to help people become part of fulfilling the Great Commission. We are all working together to see that the Gospel goes forth and people come into relationship with Christ." Erin completed a master's degree in International Public Service from DePaul University in 2011 to prepare her to fulfill the call to serve in international Christian non-profit organizations.

Of her role as Director of Partner Development at Reach A Village, she says, "I am thrilled to be part of a ministry that is working not only to share the Gospel, but disciple people and establish a thriving church in unreached villages."

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In today's episode, Abigale Otchere encourages us to think about how we are living during this season.

What kind of a legacy will we have after the Lockdown?

Rachel Oei is a worship leader in China. She grew up in a pastor's family and learned to worship God early. As a young adult, she came to understand in a deeper way what it means to worship God.

Rachel has a special gift, and in this episode shares it with us.

You can follow Rachel on Instagram @rcloei

In 2002, she lost her husband Gene when he passed away from a chronic illness. After spending several years not wanting to be a widow, Laura discovered God’s dream for the next chapter of her life when she met Jon Acuff and heard him speak in 2013. As a result, she joined a group of Dreamers & Builders who have encouraged her to find her more.

Today, Laura's passion is to help one, two, three, fifty, hundreds, thousands of widows to be more than widows. Her goal is to form an army of churches and resources to provide the help widows need to survive and thrive. Along the way, she encourages everyone God sends her way to be more and do more with his/her life.

http://laurawarfel.com

Derek Stone is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stone’s Repair and Remodel, LLC. He’s been married to his high school sweetheart, Crystal for the past 17 years and together they have two boys: Ashton, 14 years old and Noah, 7 years old. Derek came from humble beginnings and grew up in Section-8 housing located in Mobile, AL. Derek has a fraternal twin brother and was the youngest of 4 children growing up. His parents divorced when he was 5 years old and had to raise himself when his mom started working 3 jobs to keep the lights on. He moved to North East Mississippi at age 16 when his mother re-married for the 3rd time and started his life over.

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Through his teenage years he did hard labor working on a hay farm and a landscaping company. Later he tried retail and restaurant management throughout out college and became a Certified Grand Opening Trainer for Chick-fil-A. This is where he learned the value of creating duplicatable systems. Derek went to a community college in Booneville, MS for 3 years and got a degree in Business Marketing and Management.

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For 12 years Derek had dreams of becoming a musician. This road didn’t lead him to success, it led him to Nashville, TN. Struggling to live as a starving artist with a family to feed Derek did lots of odd jobs to make money while living in Nashville, one in particular almost cost him his life. It was then he thought “there’s got to be a better way.” He went through an early life crisis and changed careers through watching YouTube and the help of a few mentors. He was able to take his God given talent of Creativity and transferred it from being something that you hear, to something that you can now see. He exposed a niche in the construction world that was hated by builders, but very much necessary in order to close houses. The construction industry was his road to success, the “better way” he had longed for in the past. He grew this small one man show to over 28 and was able to go from $68,000 to $1.2 million in gross revenue in three short years.

Dr. Rachel-Rose Burrell is the founder of Sozo Therapeuo, a resource designed to promote, improve, and maintain good mental health within faith-based communities through education, training, and therapy. Sozo means to restore spirit, soul, body, make whole, preserve, and protect; Therapeuo means to cure, heal, relieve, and worship.

With a passion for empowering people to live life to the fullest with a sound mind, body, soul, and spirit, she excels in enabling people to see life and its pressures from a positively different perspective.

visit her website here sozotherapeuo.com

Robert Craft has a ministry background of more than 40 years as a pastor, missionary and evangelical missions leader. He is the founder and is serving as the Servant-at-Large (AKA-President) of Reach A Village. He has been working alongside international Christian leaders since 1989.

Bob has been involved in evangelism and discipleship ministry, helping local churches reach out to their own communities and beyond. He has served in ministry throughout Southeast Asia for the past 30 years, helping train local pastors and Christian workers in their efforts to grow and establish new churches. He has also been involved in multiple projects to develop training curriculum as well as discipleship/Bible study curriculum. Bob has a degree in Christian Education from Trevecca Nazarene University and is a graduate of Prairie Bible Institute in Alberta, Canada, with a focus in Bible/Missions. While living in the Philippines, he also continued some graduate courses at Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary (APNTS) in Manila, Philippines, related specifically to theology in the Asian context.

Bob founded Reach A Village in 2012 after seeing that hundreds of thousands of villages in Southeast Asia have remained untouched by mission efforts, even though there are Bibles and other resources available in their many local languages. These villages represent more than 2 billion people!

Bob says this about the role of Reach A Village in modern missions: "The most effective and efficient way of reaching the remaining unreached villages of the world is through equipping local, indigenous Christians to reach their own people. Reach A Village helps them have the mobility, materials, and training they need to carry out the Great Commission in unreached villages. As a result, new villages are reached every single day with the Gospel, and new churches are established where there were none before."

For more info,

https://www.reachavillage.org/

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