Connections with Mike Thom and Colleen Houde

2020-6-23 08:08:09 original air date 2020-06-23

2020-6-22 07:10:34 original air date 2020-06-22

Parenting is no joke! SELFIE DAD is a light-hearted family film about one dad shaking off a mid-life crisis and reconnecting with his family . . . with his Bible in one hand and his phone in the other. The film stars nationally known Christian comedian Michael Jr., who for two decades has performed over a hundred dates a year for tens of thousands of people. The film features top-selling female Ch...

“Honey, you’ve been very ill and they’ve had to amputate …” His voice cracked. I searched his face, looking for some kind of clue to tell me why I sensed so much pain from him and in me. “… Your hands and feet.” Cyndi was a successful business manager, working in product and sales and marketing management, and a new mom when necrotizing fasciitis (otherwise known as flesh eating disease) entered h...

2020-6-19 10:24:11 original air date 2020-06-19

Seeing the challenges that many adoptive and foster families experience, foster care therapist and ministry leader Jenn Hook, along with husband and psychologist Joshua Hook and foster and adoptive parent Mike Berry, wrote “Replanted: Faith-Based Support for Adoptive and Foster Families” to help foster parents and their potential support communities move from surviving to thriving. The book, which...

Seeing the challenges that many adoptive and foster families experience, foster care therapist and ministry leader Jenn Hook, along with husband and psychologist Joshua Hook and foster and adoptive parent Mike Berry, wrote “Replanted: Faith-Based Support for Adoptive and Foster Families” to help foster parents and their potential support communities move from surviving to thriving. The book, which...

2020-6-18 10:06:29 original air date 2020-06-18

A severe famine has overtaken the village, putting most of the residents at risk of painful starvation. Matt Loman is a young man looking for a way to help his parents and the village survive. What he doesn’t know is that his selfless demeanour will lead him into a supernatural world where he will ultimately discover his true destiny. Along the way, Matt receives guidance from a sage named Jedidia...

This Father’s Day is going to be different than years past. Perhaps now more than ever, fathers are taking on more. The stress and anxiety of taking on multiple roles in the lives of their children from teacher and mentor to coach and TikTok partner while still focusing on a professional career within this pandemic is a lot for anyone to manage. Dr. Stephen David Leonard, a veteran pastor, husband...

This Father’s Day is going to be different than years past. Perhaps now more than ever, fathers are taking on more. The stress and anxiety of taking on multiple roles in the lives of their children from teacher and mentor to coach and TikTok partner while still focusing on a professional career within this pandemic is a lot for anyone to manage. Dr. Stephen David Leonard, a veteran pastor, husband...

2020-6-16 10:37:44 original air date 2020-06-16

A group of ministers from across the country gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota last week to preach at the street corner where George Floyd was taken into police custody and died after a police officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Up until two weeks ago, 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis was an intersection that most people had never heard of. Now that street cor...

Up until two weeks ago, 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis was an intersection that most people had never heard of. Now that street corner is being used as a place to share a message of hope. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was taken into police custody at that intersection and died after a police officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Last week, Christophe Ulysse who...

Sheriff Chris Swanson says the greatest moment of his life was when "the spirit came down" and inspired him to preach love during a protest. With tensions high and emotions on edge following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a sheriff in Flint, Michigan on the front lines of a Black Lives Matter demonstration put down his gear and began preaching. The protest, which took place in late May,...

Children dressed as fairies are spreading cheer in Moncton, New Brunswick and have hopes the joy will reach across the country. Just over a month ago, a group of mothers started up a Facebook group called the Doorstep Fairy program to boost the morale of children in their community amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Lindsay O'Blenis is one of the creators of the group, she says it's important to think ab...

2020-6-12 09:37:01 original air date 2020-06-12

2020-6-11 10:39:21 original air date 2020-06-11

2020-6-10 10:37:43 original air date 2020-06-10

Connections with Mike Thom and Colleen Houde episode for 2020-06-09.

At 101 years old, Joy Saunders of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia has seen and experienced more than most people know. Saunders, a mother of 8, two daughters and six sons, has been through World War II, The Great Depression in the 1930s, and now the COVID 19 pandemic. After watching Captain Tom Moore, a 100-year-old WWII veteran from the UK walk to raise funds for the National Health Services, she decided...

Solidarity protests against racism and police violence have sprung up around the world, as U.S. cities continue their demonstrations in memory of George Floyd. Jimmy Thunder is a public speaker, an adjunct professor at Horizon College and Seminary, and co-founder of Reconciliation Thunder, a non-profit that uses social media to educate people on themes related to Truth and Reconciliation. He says...

HELLO…Hello…hello out there! How’s your social distancing going? Are you feeling the effects of self-isolation? I’m hearing mixed reviews from those I’ve connected with (from a safe distance of course). Some have absolutely no idea what to do with themselves while others are thrilled to finally have time to catch up on things they’ve been putting off for years. Some are frantically finding project...

HELLO…Hello…hello out there! How’s your social distancing going? Are you feeling the effects of self-isolation? I’m hearing mixed reviews from those I’ve connected with (from a safe distance of course). Some have absolutely no idea what to do with themselves while others are thrilled to finally have time to catch up on things they’ve been putting off for years. Some are frantically finding project...

As a young boy struggling to find his way through the immense poverty, secrecy and war-time suffering that gripped his life in Northern Ireland, Ray Barnett dreamed of a life of adventure and travel like that of his hero: famed missionary-explorer David Livingstone. As an adult, he has lived that life—leading a human-rights based ministry that has brought hope, healing and humanitarian aid to hund...