The Cast

Join The Cast crew as Pastor Chris quizzes them with great questions about the upcoming year, their dreams, visions, and general hopes for 2026...with a lot of fun and laughs along the way. Bonus content: See Emily be forced into riding the church elevator in order to expand her own personal growth!

As our church rolls into 21 days of prayer and fasting, Pastor Chris and The Cast take some time to discuss prayer and fasting, as well as individual past experiences with fasting. Of course, we have some fun along the way as always!

Pastor Chris and The Cast crew highlights of happenings and events across 2025 in the church, as well as in life in general.

The Cast crew, while blindfolded, play a hilarious game guessing what the top 5 worst Christmas candies by taste, then discuss more about their Christmas experiences. Plus, we learn the legend of the Christmas Shroom!

In this episode, the whole Cast crew discuss their favorite Christmas characters, not only their favorite Biblical characters, but their favorite fictional ones as well!

The Cast Crew are joined by Sean Degraag to discuss Christmas memories and the differences and similarities of Christmas in the US vs in England.

Pastor John Dodd, who led Bedford First Assembly from 1993-2007, joins us to discuss his life and times, as well as his experience walking with Jesus through a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Gary and Pastor Chris are joined by Tim Wray, Shanon Hiles, and Tia Hiles to go through stories from "The Cast" of Bedford First Assembly. Get ready to laugh and smile! Happy Thanksgiving!

In the final episode on Bedford First Assembly's new mission statement, Emily, Gary, Pastor Chris and Amy Stubbs discuss the last 4 of our values: Gracefully Engaging Others, Faithfully Nurturing Growth, Enthusiastically Giving of Ourselves, and Intentionally Reaching Out.

In this episode, Emily and Gary continue the discussion of Bedford First Assembly's new Mission, Vision and Values statement with Pastor Chris and Amy Stubbs. Our first four values of eight are discussed: Passionately Pursing God, Authentically Worshipping God, Fully Embracing the Spirit's Power, and Boldly Employing Prayer.

Pastor Chris and Amy Stubbs join your hosts Emily Taylor and Gary West to continue discussing Bedford First Assembly's new mission statement.

In this episode of The Cast, Pastor Chris and Amy Stubbs join your hosts Emily Taylor and Gary West to begin unpacking Bedford First Assembly's new mission statement.

In this episode moderated by Pastor Chris Stubbs, Emily and Gary dig in deep and tell about their own backgrounds, their stories and how God has worked in their lives.

Emily and Gary welcome their first guest to The Cast, Cindy Dorsett! You'll hear a bit about her, the history of Bedford First Assembly, and lots of thoughts on how to build community in the church.

What effect has social media had on your life, but particularly your spiritual life? Gary, Emily and PC explore the topic on this week's episode of The Cast!

Join Emily, Gary and Pastor Chris as they introduce the very first episode of The Cast!

Much like the more effort you put into the gym gives you greater physical results, applying that same principal to your spiritual health works in a very similar way. Join Emily, Gary and Pastor Chris for a great discussion on "getting in the gym!"

Check out The Cast, a podcast of Bedford First Assembly of God, in this short sneak preview episode! Full episodes begin to drop on 9/29/2025!