The After Dinner Mint is a podcast of Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories. Bethany Smith is a regular contributor to Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner and she shares her desire to hold on tightly to friendships after the isolation of interstate and overseas moves. She explains how God’s unchanging nature has been a comfort to her and has changed her approach to friendship as one of gratitude and openness.

In today’s episode, we explore:

• Bethany’s role caring for her children and partnering with her husband in their ministry to students at UWA.
• Growing up as a pastor's kid and not remembering a day when she did not believe in Jesus.
• Her experiences in friendship and isolation with multiple moves overseas and interstate, the desire to hold on tightly to friendships and wanting them to be unchanging. We discuss how she has come to rest in the fact that God is the only one who is unchanging.
• How the change in her theology of friendships has changed how she approaches friendship.

You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or anywhere you get podcasts.

Check out the show notes for everything mentioned in the show.

Bethany grew up on the South Coast of NSW, moved to Sydney for university, and met her husband, Matt, while studying at Moore Theological College. They moved to Perth in 2020 to share the gospel with university students at UWA. They’ve since had three children who she spends her days with, caring for and discipling in the Lord Jesus. Bethany enjoys reading, exercising, baking and attempting to keep her plants alive.

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Music: Come Back by Ketsa. Licensed under a Creative Commons License Non-Commercial, No-Derivatives 4.0 International License.