Salt – Conversations

In this episode Jenny Salt speaks to Kay Yasugi, a talented performer letting her light shine in the international world of puppetry.  Kay was born in Japan to a Japanese dad and a Korean mum. Along with her older brother they came and settled in Sydney when Kay was little.  Kay was brought up in a very multicultural home – girl’s school during the week, Japanese school on Saturdays, and a home li...

Ben Hunter tells Jenny Salt he didn't set out to be a plumber - that was God's plan.  Because of difficulties on the home front and at school, straight out of High School he decided to take up the offer of an apprenticeship. Consequently, he worked as a plumber for many years - a blue-collar industry in which he laboured to show friends another way of life.   But for Ben, it wasn’t really what mad...

Jenny Salt speaks to Tamara Flinders, a minister’s wife, a mum to 3 daughters, and an Emergency Physician – working on the frontline of Covid in a busy Sydney hospital emergency department.  Every shift brings very sick patients into her orbit – many with Covid.  But through it all, what keeps her grounded is her relationship with God, her daily walk with the Lord, and the desire to be an ambassad...

Roy grew up in a poor town in a Southeast Asian country. On one level, his family identified as Christians.  But Jenny Salt discovers his childhood was far more impacted by a father with a criminal history and an addiction to gambling.  And it wasn’t until Roy left to live and study in another part of the country, that he came to really understand what it meant to follow Jesus.

Join Jenny Salt as she interviews Pete Stacey, a Christian since a young boy, who has known the joy of telling others about Jesus for most of his life.   Pete has done that through music, and through teaching and preaching in the local church.   He has also known the sorrow of losing his beloved wife to cancer and preaching Jesus through his grief and loss.

Join Jenny Salt as she speaks with Kathy Rossiter, a medical professional and a member of the Mercy Ships ministry. Kathy tested blood samples for a living, but rather than retire she and her husband decided to put their years of leisure to a Kingdom use. Instead of heading for some sunny island, she took up a position in the labs onboard a floating hospital, showing Gospel love in action to some...

Mike Baird is one of those high-profile Christians, having been a politician for some years. His relationship with power culminated in him taking on the top job as premier in New South Wales from 2014 to 2017.  Jenny Salt asks Mike what it means to be a public Christian. How do you live out your life as a follower of Christ in front of a watching, often critical, world?

Trigger alert: This episode contains some distressing details of assault. Jenny Salt introduces us to Helen, a woman who has suffered much in her journey towards God. Like most of us, Helen has a busy work life, a loving family, a close church community, and a lot of people who know and love her as a friend and sister in Christ. Helen’s story also includes heartache and pain in the context of dome...

Sarah Raiter is a wife, mum, grandmother, author, artist… and grew up in a country considered extremely dangerous from a western perspective - especially for Christians.  But for Sarah, life in Pakistan meant a childhood filled with stories of adventure, beautiful sunsets, villages, compounds, and high walls. As an adult, though, it was also the place where she both lost and found her faith. In th...

Colin Buchanan is one of Australia's most beloved country music and kid's worship composers - a perfect choice for the final pre-season episode in the lead-up to next week's season 5.  Colin's family journey spans the globe, his musical journey the breadth of this country, and his spiritual journey from darkness to light. Join Jenny Salt as she presents a bonus-length, musical special that peers i...

When huge challenge is followed by huge challenge, how do you manage to hold on to God? As the trials mounted, Helen Thomas had to ask herself again and again, "Can we trust God with this?" Helen Thomas is a wife and mother of four with a wonderful Greek heritage and a faith that has been with her since her teenage years.  But when God placed his hand first on her husband, then on her children, he...

In the run-up to season 5, Jenny Salt shares her favourite four episodes.  In this episode, Jenny chats with Richard Hibbert about life and ministry in Turkey and Bulgaria (among other places). Richard impressed Jenny as someone with an ever-present taste for adventure, with wisdom to share as he contemplated life in the shadow of his own death.

Jenny Salt shares her four favourite episodes of all time as we count down the weeks to the beginning of Salt's fifth season. First off the rank... In 1960 Ruth Myors left Australia to work as a midwife with the Somali people. For over two decades she served in a hospital in Somalia, a village in Ethiopia and a radio ministry in Kenya. Bureaucratic decisions, coups, communist takeovers, natural di...

The new lockdown in New South Wales has hampered our ability to get all of the great stories we have lined up recorded. But Jenny still has some great stories to share.  Join her over the coming weeks as she delves into the Salt archives to re-share her favourite four stories from the past four seasons.

Jenny Salt is hard at work preparing season 5 of Salt, and she's wondering if you have stories to share? Is there someone in your life whose Gospel-centred life is inspiring to you? You should let us know! Just email your story ideas to Jenny at salt@smbc.edu.au and we'll see if we can include them in the show.

Jenny Salt is offering ten free books to the first ten listeners to send a picture of a Salt review to salt@smbc.edu.au. It's that simple!

Jenny Salt introduces us to Tim Costello, the former CEO of World Vision and one of Australian Christianity's most prominent advocates for the suffering, the poor, and the disadvantaged. You might think there's nothing more to know than that, but Jenny takes us on a journey into Tim's back story - the town in which he grew up, the parents who so powerfully influenced his faith, and the legal caree...

Jenny Salt introduces us to Barrie Hadley, a man who has spent more than 80 years in the same town, and more than 40 years in the same job. 'Bloomin' Barrie' is the definition of the blue-collar worker, growing up in the smallest of towns, becoming the local butcher, and then working for half a lifetime unloading ships. His Christian journey is an understated one but undergirded by a simple truth:...

Red Fulton grew up in the heart of Sydney but God gave her a heart to see the Gospel proclaimed wherever it would take her - even to the ends of the earth. And that is exactly what it felt like when Red and her husband answered the call to work in Arnhem Land.  But in Australia's far north she discovered a people with hearts as big as this great brown land. Not only did Red meet sisters thoroughly...

Jenny Salt introduces us to Tim Dyer, a much sought-after man in the context of mentoring Christian leaders and getting alongside churches in conflict. From an early age, Tim was gripped by the Gospel and this spurred him on to a ministry that aims to encourage and equip others to lead and teach Christian workers all over the world.

Tim Sims talks to Jenny Salt about a life that has spanned the globe, taking in elite educations and millions of dollars under management along the way. Tim's early life included more countries that most will visit in a lifetime matched against long months in a lonely boarding school. However, an education from both Oxford and Harvard Universities put him on the fast track to business success. But...

Cat Tuckwell is a Canberra girl who dreamed of becoming a country vet ever since she opened her first puppy book - a dream that was fulfilled in time.  However, Cat's dream was first rocked by cancer, then complicated further by chronic fatigue. But she tells Jenny Salt how her conditions have actually worked to remind her she is immortal, and God still has much more for her to do.

Jenny Salt talks to Pip Russell, a woman whom God has used to be a spiritual 'mum' to many people, in many different stages in life. From her early school years, through teaching and on into the former Soviet country of Kyrgyzstan, Pip learned that God had a special ministry for her that centred around caring for those He put close to her. What she liked best was sharing the Gospel, and both her g...

From suburban Sydney to South America, and now a mission field that encompasses the world. Karine Woldhuis chats with Jenny Salt about how her life began with a normal childhood in a fairly 'standard' family in Sydney's suburbs. She thought she would always keep in touch with her Dutch heritage, but she never dreamed of what was ahead. Karine and her husband John followed their convictions as Chri...

Harry Brice is a third-generation farmer who counts himself blessed to be living on the land in the Bega region, in southern New South Wales. What he didn't count as a blessing, though, was a worrying ignorance of what life was for. He tells Jenny Salt the unique story of how he and his wife took years to come to Christ, and how that faith was tested during the wildfires that swept over Cobargo an...