The Peanut Gallery

This week we sit down with our friend Leah Perez to talk about her families work in Belize. Leah and her husband Alex operate Belize Camping Experience in Belize City and work to engage kids and youth to become tomorrows leaders through positive, fun life changing experiences that develop confidence, competence and Christian character.

For our first road trip we headed to St. Thomas to talk to Jim Collins at Harvest Hands Canada about the amazing work they do in helping end hunger here in our region. What an unbelievable group of volunteers that are doing so much good! We surely left inspired. Hoping you are too as you watch this weeks episode.

We had the opportunity to sit down with Ryan VandenBussche to talk everything from his dislike of Darcy Tucker, his NHL career and the challenges of dealing with the physical and mental toll that his career had on him. After more than 300 fights, at least 20 concussions and 14 surgeries – Ryan left the NHL and has dedicated his life to advocating for healthier living solutions and natural substitu...

For the last of our set of interviews with local leadership we had the opportunity to sit down with the deputy Mayor of Malahide for a conversation about her role and vision for our community.

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This year, as more unmarked graves were located at former residential school locations, our nation again was forced to face the reality that we did that – not a foreign nation…but us. One of the recommendations the truth and reconciliation commission made was for churches to educate themselves on what happened. While there is much work to be...

September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This year, as more unmarked graves were located at former residential school locations, our nation again was forced to face the reality that we did that – not a foreign nation…but us. One of the recommendations the truth and reconciliation commission made was for churches to educate themselves on what happened. While there is much work...

With vaccine passports going live tomorrow here in Ontario, we thought it was important to share our perspective on what the best way is to move forward with these regulations going in to place. We talk about what we belive to be a healthy way to respond regardless of where you stand on vaccinations.

Recently we were able to sit down with Malahide Mayor Dave Mennill. Dave has a long history for serving this community and we are so grateful for all that he and his wife have done and continue to do.

This coming Federal election may be one of the most important in recent history and knowing we can trust the person we send to Ottawa matters. We here at the Peanut Gallery Podcast are working to get one on one interviews with all the local candidates to get to know them, their hopes and why they believe we should give them our vote.  In today’s podcast we talk to the Liberal Party of Canada nomin...

This coming Federal election may be one of the most important in recent history and knowing we can trust the person we send to Ottawa matters. We here at the Peanut Gallery Podcast are working to get one on one interviews with all the local candidates to get to know them, their hopes and why they believe we should give them our vote. In today’s podcast we talk to the People’s Party of Canada nomin...

This coming Federal election may be one of the most important in recent history and knowing we can trust the person we send to Ottawa matters. We here at the Peanut Gallery Podcast are working to get one on one interviews with all the local candidates to get to know them, their hopes and why they believe we should give them our vote.  In today’s podcast we talk to the Green Party nominee Amanda St...

This coming Federal Election may be one of the most important in recent history and knowing we can trust the person we send to Ottawa matters. We here at the Peanut Gallery Podcast are working to get one on one interviews with all the local candidates to get to know them, their hopes and why they believe we should give them our vote.  In today’s podcast we talk to the New Democratic Party nominee...

This coming Federal Election may be one of the most important in recent history and knowing we can trust the person we send to Ottawa matters. We here at the Peanut Gallery Podcast are working to get one on one interviews with all the local candidates to get to know them, their hopes and why they believe we should give them our vote.  In today’s podcast we begin by talking to the Conservative Part...

This week we sit down with Yesi Centeno to talk about the many challenges that immigrants face. For those of us born here in Canada, we take our citizenship for granted and forget how privileged we are to be able to have the opportunities that we have.

This week we sat down with Joe Pratt for a wide ranging discussion about his family's journey with diabetes and eventually his own. From initial diagnosis, endless finger pricks, transplants, and massive technological improvements, Joe takes us through what life was like, and what it can be like, living with Diabetes.

This week Pat and Albert sit down to talk about some of the highlights of the podcast since its beginning. They also took some time to share some thoughts as to why we started this podcast.

This week we sat down with Bill Friesen for an incredible conversation about grief and learning to live with loss. Bill has incredible insight because he works in the funeral home business but has also suffered an immense loss through the death of his son Kurtis. We talk about his grief journey, things he wished he had done better and what he does now to continue to live well within his loss.

In this interview we sit down to talk about the work of fighting to ensure people in our community are able to meet their basic needs and feel valued and appreciated. We talk about it through the lens of Franz’ role as a pastor and Karolyn in heading up the Family Central Apartments Community Food Program.

In this episode Albert sits down with James Coolidge, the director of London Youth for Christ. They talk about what it looks like to serve and care for the community of London through a pandemic.

Today Albert sits down with Dave Miller. Dave was greatly impacted by Josh's testimony in our last episode so we decided to have him on so he could share his story. They discuss the importance of fatherly figures and what It was like being an only child with a single mom in a conservative community.

Today Albert sits down with Josh Wiebe. They discuss the impact of child abuse and the importance of fatherly figures to those that don't have a father.

In this episode we talk with our friend and Elgin County Paramedic about the world of a paramedicine and understanding the Opioid crisis and how Narcan works.

In this episode we sit down with Brent and Suzanna to talk about what makes a great marriage, learning to love again after divorce and how they are together facing Suzanna’s battle with cancer.  Please also join us in praying for them as Suzanna fights cancer. Pray for the doctors and that she will be able to beat it fully!

In this episode we talk with Jim and Carroll Wiebe about the challenges of having a spouse work in the ER Department during a pandemic, adjusting to doing schooling with 4 young kids at home and their experiences with fostering and adoption.

Why aren’t all churches open and fighting for ‘freedom’?  During this podcast Albert and Patrick respond to some of the harsh criticism that has been levelled against ‘noodleback’ pastors like themselves who have chosen to submit to the orders of our government during this pandemic. They give some thoughts about why they believe this is still the best approach for the Church in Ontario.