When You Don’t Know if You Can Keep Going: An Interview with Margaret Greaves (Season 2, Episode 17)
Today I’m chatting with Margaret Greaves—a widow, mother and grandmother. Margaret moved to Western Australia at 12 years old when her parents became missionaries at Cundeelee, 160km east of Kalgoorlie, with the Australian Aboriginal Evangelical Mission. Margaret spent most of her life in remote areas in and around Esperance, as a midwife, child health nurse, farmer’s wife, and running a fishing business.
Margaret shares about her ongoing fear throughout her life—borne of physical isolation in remote locations, a non-Christian husband, and mental health struggles of her son—that she could not keep enduring as a Christian. She also describes how God continued to care for her and provide the women to walk with her. Margaret has a quiet ministry of prayer and phone calls to parents whose children struggle with mental health.
When You Are Lonely at Church (Episode 8, Season 2)
This episode was borne out of Maddy’s experience working on staff at a church and the sheer amount of people who confessed feeling disconnected and lonely in the post-service crowd. These people knew people at church, but described feeling awkward and uncomfortable, like they were not sure if they belonged or fit in with the crowd. So today, Maddy, Rach, Britt and Bec dig into our own experiences of loneliness, specifically at church, and what helped shift us out of these seasons.
Season 1, Episode 14. What I Learned When I Wanted Friendship to be Unchanging: An Interview with Bethany Smith
Bethany is one of the regular contributors to Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner and she shares about her desire to hold on tightly to friendships after the isolation of interstate and overseas moves. She explains how God’s unchanging nature has been a comfort to her and has changed her approach to friendship as one of gratitude and openness.