History Makers with Matt Prater

Suzie Overell is the managing director of the Christian religious instruction network in Ipswich Qld. In this interview she shares about her faith journey & her passion to reach the next generation. Listen in to her story! Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Stuart Robinson is an Author & Pastor who has a great story to tell! From a non-Christian background he became a committed follower of Jesus Christ at a young age. He sensed an immediate call to Christian ministry, which through secular University and Theological College studies, crystallised into cross-cultural mission into South Asia for many years. He also spent many years as Pastor of Cross...

Branwen Mearns is part of the team at Fishers of Men is an inter-denominational Christian charity ministering without distinction to those who are homeless, at threat of homelessness, or poor or needy. Listen in to the story of how she came to Christ, how she met her husband Bobby & how their ministry is making a difference in peoples lives! Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omn...

Pastor Toby Baxter has over twenty-five years’ experience in community ministry and social work, with a focus on the juvenile justice and drug and alcohol sectors. Toby has also founded what he refers to as Empowered Faith Communities (EFC’s) with Crossway Baptist Church. Utilising community development and discipleship concepts EFC’s aim to see transformation of people within co...

Brett Mcleod is the Director for New Hope Care, a charity working with the homeless in Brisbane. In this interview he shares his story of how he came to Christ, and the journey he’s been on. Brett has run many businesses, he’s worked with Focus on the Family, in Christian radio, and in Churches. Listen in to his story! Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio.com...

Andrew Corbett has pastored Legana Christian Church in Northern Tasmania since 1995. He is the National President of ICI Theological College Australia (a Theological distance education provider). He holds degrees in Biblical Studies, and a Doctor of Ministry Degree. He is a visiting scholar with the Los Angeles based Science-Faith Think Tank ? Reasons To Believe. His radio program, Finding Truth M...

Mark Matthews is the Empowered Faith Communities National Manager & Indigenous COACH Lead. Mark has worked in the social welfare sector of Melbourne for 30 years. He holds Diplomas in Social Science and Business and is trained in providing professional supervision and counselling. Mark’s work has involved providing direct casework to clients, leading teams of Social Work and Health professio...

Steve & Ainsley Apirana are Singer/Songwriters based in the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Steve’s music career began in the band Butler who shared the stage with bands like Black Sabbath back in the seventies. It was during his days in Butler that he found faith in Jesus and began his career as a soloist. Nowadays he shares the stage with his wife Ainsley, who writes her own songs, has recorded...

Namila Davui (aka Myshon Kyd) was born in Lautoka, Fiji. He’s played Rugby League for the Parramatta Eels, the Canterbury Bulldogs & Fiji, playing a handful of test matches and was chosen in the squad for the Fiji Bati in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. He’s also hip hop artist, & is training to be a minister in the Uniting Church. He is the Director of Davui Productions, who speciali...

Jason Perkins is the Network Director for the Australian Irresistible Churches Network. Through years of leadership, he’s experienced some of the highest highs and some of the lowest lows. In 2015, Jason accepted a lead pastor position at a North Point Strategic partner church in Colorado Springs where after years of growth in attendance, engagement, and giving, he came face to face with bur...

Keren Fuhrmeister is the Hospital director of the African Mercy, the mission hospital ship. The African Mercy is currently in Dock in Dakar Senegal giving life changing free surgical services to the west African nation. Listen in to hear how this amazing ministry brings hope, healing and the love of Jesus to the nations! Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener...

Faith Sosene is a Samoan-Australian singer who made it to the top 4 of The Voice Australia season 11. She has the voice of an angel, and has a stage presence that has wowed people all over the world! Listen in to her testimony & the inspiration behind her music. Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Luke Wilson has an amazing testimony! After many years of addiction, prison & crime, he had a powerful encounter with God that changed his life! He now serves with Fishers of Men rehab, and the Kings table soup Kitchen, and is helping others get their lives back on track with Jesus! Listen in to his story! Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

Darren Bennet is an Aussie author who loves to share a good yarn. In this conversation he shares about his faith journey & about some of his many zany adventures. Darren had to hang on for dear life in a cyclone that destroyed Darwin. He also lived to tell about his experience on a sinking cruise ship in Indonesia and survived an ordeal with wild buffalo in outback Australia. Listen in to his stor...

Ian Jones is well known as the cartoonist behind the comic strips, PEARLY GATES & BUSHY TALES. A former schoolteacher, Ian is also the pastor of an international church in Brisbane. He loves travelling and has spent time with the people and cultures of over 50 countries around the world. He is also an award-winning photographer. He has some great stories of how people have been impacted by his car...

Bobby Mearns is the founder of Fishers of Men, a rehab with a ministry to the homeless in Brisbane. Bobby was a heroin addict, dealer & Triad member for over 20 years in Hong Kong. After a dramatic encounter with God, he was set free from addiction and launched into ministry. Bobby says he has a degree in criminology, 'done every crime in the book!' He shares how encounter with Jackie Pullinger ta...

Patrick Gibney is well-known as the 'Dancing delivery driver.' A video of Patrick busting some moves went viral in 2020, and he was featured on Breakfast TV and numerous media outlets. He has endured two serious brain tumour operations but can still perform dance moves like a teenager. He’s also done some acting alongside his sister, Rebecca Gibney. His life changed forever at age 22 when he...

Pastor William Dumas is a well renowned speaker with a mandate to raise up Indigenous leaders. He has ministered extensively throughout Australia and in remote areas of the Australian outback. He is a respected Pastor, gifted and authoritive communicator and is well known for his fun and easy-going manner. Operating in multiple aspects of the five-fold ministry, it is Ps Will’s passion to se...

Laurette Chala is a Gospel music singer and songwriter from Congo. She went to primary school in Zimbabwe as a refugee and finished her studies in Australia, where she still resides today. She has a beautiful voice and an electric stage presence! Listen in to the story about her Faith journey & her love for music that moves people! Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio.co...

Daniel Sih is a Pastor, Author, coach and blogger from Tasmania. He is also the founder of the Together Network, an ecumenical network seeking to equip everyday Christians to share the gospel. Daniel is passionate about training disciples, equipping leaders, and launching missional communities across the suburbs of Hobart and beyond. Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio....

Michelle Hamilton has an amazing story to tell! For three terrifying days she clung helplessly to her small capsized canoe in the South China Sea. Menaced by sharks, enduring tropical storms and with no food or water, Michelle hovered near death. For Michelle the miracle is not so much that she survived, but how she survived! At critical moments, she heard an audible voice telling her exactly what...

Dave Adamson was a TV sports reporter in Australia before moving to the US to pursue ministry. In 2008 he became one of the first online pastors in the world. He has grown and led online communities of more than 80,000 people each week at two of Outreach Magazine’s largest churches in the US, including Andy Stanley’s North Point Ministries, where he was the social media pastor from 201...

Annette Spurr is a wife, a mum, a business woman, and an author with a great story to tell. In this interview she shares about her faith journey, her ministry in Christian media & about her new book, 'Seeing God.' Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Edward Kost is the creator of the Redeemed Podcast - a Christian podcast combining creative script writing with talented voice actors to connect listeners to the messages of Christ. This Podcast has Dramatizations inspired by biblical accounts that will give both Christians and skeptics an entertaining alternative with gospel roots. Support the show: http://historymakersradio.com/ See omnystudio.c...

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