A Little Faith

Helen talks to Dawne Andrews-Semple from Guyana about the life and tragic death of her mother, Karolyn Andrews. Dawne shares how this event completely changed her world and deeply affected her faith. The Karolyn Andrews Memorial Fund is an international emergency fund to help and support Christadelphians and their families anywhere in the world, who are the victims of violence or persecution becau...

Levi and Helen interview Brother David Andrews in Guyana, Brother Ian Neblett in Panama and Brother Dale Andrews in Canada. They discuss the online study day, Responding to Racism, a Biblical Perspective that was held on June 27th 2020. The group also share their personal reflections and faith learnings in bringing our children up to have confidence in their own identity in Christ, and what we all...

Matt talks to Jessica Gelineau about her love of pie baking and how she shares her passion. They discuss the spiritual moments of creating, offering and gathering. Jessica reflects that whatever you have chosen to do is an act of offering and giving to others. Jesus gave his whole being for us. So any little pieces of ourselves that we can give can bring us a little closer to becoming more like Je...

Laura talks to Levi about her Instagram account ‘Faithfully Laura’ where she shares her faith, life experiences and the beauty of personal Bible study. Laura reflects on the importance of honesty and vulnerability with her audience, and how to make Bible study personal and

Joanie chats to Helen about the children’s podcast, Little Seeds of Faith where she reads favorite Bible stories with children from all over the world. The stories each child chooses conveys how as listeners and readers we all engage with the Bible in different ways. We all bring color to learning together around the Word of God.

Back in December 2019, Steve visited the UK. In this episode he talks with Alison Routledge, Suzette Thompson and Viv Brown. They discuss together what a Proverbs 31 woman can teach us today and how we can manifest those learnings and experiences in our own communities. They also reflect on women mentoring women and spiritual advice they would give to their younger selves.

Tom and Naomi Peel chat with Levi about their podcast From the Platform. They discuss the importance of cultural awareness and healthy communication in the way we listen and relate to one another. The podcast is about raising our own self-awareness of our own biases and what we bring to a conversation, and enabling different ways to nurture good conversation within the Christadelphian community.

Levi chats with Jochem Hale, host of For Real Life about what inspired his podcast. Jochem shares how he initially wanted to make videos to teach people about God. The podcast is aimed at people who want to learn about God and the Lord Jesus, who maybe aren’t super familiar with the message of the Bible. Jochem aims to give a very simple introduction to the Bible and some of these issues that we s...

Helen interviews Kevin Fadely about his life changing faith journey that has transformed his family life and their health. Through getting distracted by travel sports with his children, a life threatening experience with his son and challenges with his own health and faith, Kevin talks about how his relationship with Jesus has changed everything.

In this episode of A Little Faith, Steve resumes his conversation with Carmel Page from Sheffield, UK who is a professional storyteller. Carmel continues to share some of her storytelling skills using the examples of Abigail and David. They explore together how one can engage an audience and incorporate storytelling into many aspects of our church and community experience.

In this episode of A Little Faith, Steve talks to Trevor Routledge who is based in the UK. Trevor supports the non-profit organization, Christadelphian Meal A Day. It assists sustainable projects that focus on supporting vulnerable children, the provision of clean water, agricultural skills, basic health care, and education, and a meal a day. Trevor shares some transformational stories from projec...

In this episode of A Little Faith, Steve interviews Carmel Page from Sheffield, UK who is a professional storyteller. They discuss the art of storytelling, and why Jesus was such a fantastic storyteller. Carmel shares some examples of how she has brought Bible stories and concepts alive to her audiences and how we too can learn to be good storytellers in the way we share the Bible message.

In this episode, Helen interviews Audrey Small about her son, Josiah who died in 2018. Josiah was born with a rare congenital brain disorder, Microlissencephaly (MLIS), yet lived far longer than anyone expected. Audrey reflects on Josiah’s life and how he touched so many people with his warm, loving spirit. She urges us all to go to God in prayer however we may feel, even when we cannot stand the...

In this episode of A Little Faith, Matt continues to chat with his grandmother, Vivian Drabenstott. This second episode covers how life continued to change in her rural community. Through marriage, motherhood and her experience as a teacher, she shares stories of personal tragedy and times of joy. She concludes that through all of these experiences she has every reason to be thankful to God for he...

In this episode of A Little Faith, Matt chats with his grandmother, Vivian Drabenstott. Vivian was born in 1925 and grew up through the Great Depression in a rural community in Southern Minnesota, about 80 miles West of Minneapolis. This podcast is in two parts. This first episode covers her childhood, her time at Bible college and the beginning of her marriage to Herman. They explore together how...

In this episode of A Little Faith, Karam Ram talks to Steve about how our faith should be something that is beyond religion. Karam shares how faith is a very powerful thing, but it comes with great personal and social responsibilities. They explore how our challenge as believers is to be up close and personal with God; beyond religion.

In this episode of A Little Faith, Levi interviews Richard Lee who was a professional jazz musician through the 50’s and 60’s and 70’s. A musician friend of his was lynched in Mississippi in the 50’s. In 1978 he was baptized and his devotion and love for God has never waned. Richard urges all believers to seek justice through faith in God. He contrasts the kingdoms of mankind with the Kingdom of G...

In this episode of A Little Faith Helen interviews Rachel Adams, host of the podcast Discerning Daughters. Rachel shares her experiences in education and early intervention. They discuss how supporting every individual as part of a spiritual family is vital for growing our faith. Even in times of doubt and struggle, we have the Lord Jesus as our mediator. If you enjoyed this episode of A Little Fa...

In this episode of A Little Faith, Helen interviews Larry Goodridge to gain his perspective on being a black brother of faith in a predominantly white community. Larry provides timely insight into the challenges he and many others feel and experience as a minority - in daily life and in our Community of believers. Larry urges everyone to be more aware of these challenges and offers some concrete w...

In this episode of A Little Faith, Steve talks to Joanna Kitchen from the U.K. about motherhood and doubt. They explore the transition into being a parent and how that can affect one’s sense of responsibility and one’s faith. And when we doubt, Jo advocates that we really need to create a support network for each other.

In this episode of A Little Faith, Levi interviews Jason Hensley about his new book, Giving Grace: Removing a Judgmental Attitude from Our Lives. “It is part of our natural tendency as humans to judge one another. We see someone act, and we immediately attempt to ascribe a motive––often the motive that we would have if we were to do the same thing. And yet, this form of judging is completely count...

In this episode, Janine Finlay talks to Helen about her insights as a vision therapist and reflects on how important spiritual and physical health is especially during isolation. She explains how syntonics help open your periphery and vision therapy helps you organize it and process it. In our spiritual walk, a healthy perspective is essential for our wellbeing.

In December 2019, one of our hosts Steve Johnson travelled to the UK and spent a week meeting people reflecting upon their life and faith. In this episode Ben Pearce talks to Steve about coping with stress, and how the Bible has many examples of wellness that has helped transform his perspective.

This is another of our special podcasts covering faith during COVID-19. In this episode of A Little Faith, Levi interviews Dalton and Lauren who had to postpone their May wedding. They vocalize their journey and how they have felt leading up to their special day. Dalton and Lauren contemplate how grateful they are despite how their plans changed; and that ultimately God has a plan for us all.

In this episode, Steve talks to Rachel & John Launchbury, and Lucas & Leona Scheepers for another discussion of approaching current events through the lens of faith. The video of this discussion can also be viewed here. If there are issues or questions you’d like to see our global faith panel discuss, please email: thoughts@wcfoundation.org