Salt – Conversations with Amy
Salt – Conversations with Amy
Amy Townsend is a Christian journalist, media presenter and mum, as well as a graduate of Sydney Missionary and Bible College (SMBC). Join her on a forty-minute journey into someone’s amazing and often unexpected spiritual travels. Missionaries and media makers, scientists and sportspeople, new agers and new migrants – Salt is a chance to enter into the lives of people and discover heartwarming, s…Social links:
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Behind the mic - Jenny
For the final episode of season 9, Amy Townsend interviews Salt's most familiar talent. Over the past six years she has gathered and shared over one hundred stories of how God has been at work in and through His people. She's brought salt and light to our everyday lives as listeners, and we are d…
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Single minded singleness - Karl
This episode Jenny Salt welcomes on board Karl Deenick. At the tender age of 16, Karl made a decision not to marry but to dedicate his life to serving the Lord Jesus, whatever that looked like. Closing that door opened another that led to a PhD on the strangest subject you'll ever encounter. LIN…
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The storyteller and the saviour - Kristen
In this episode, Amy Townsend welcomes a woman whose fantasies highlight the facts about Jesus. Kristen Young is a successful fiction author. Kristen's tale is one of childhood dreams coming true for a little girl who loved stories. But along the way, Kristen had to learn that what we read, wat…
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Deepest, darkest France - Kelly
This episode Jenny Salt talks to a woman who took the good news to a country where the gospel has grown old and stale. Kelly Landrigan grew up in a fibro house in working-class Sydney. Her family went to church regularly, learning about rules to please God that she could never keep. But hearing …
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Loving the red dirt - Alick
This episode Amy Townsend speaks to a man whose heart for the gospel sent him west. Alick Arkapaw has a deep love of sport and a 'tell it like it is' attitude. He grew up in an Australia that is fast fading away. But his love for this great brown land and the people who populate it led him to t…
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Journey to murder, road to forgiveness - Tamar
Jenny's guest this episode is Tamar Pollard. You won't have necessarily heard her name before, but if you were living in the UK in 1997 you would have seen photos of her family on the front page of every newspaper. And the headlines would have included words like 'murder' and 'tragedy'. Tamar's…
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His call over your comfort - Jenny
This episode Amy Townsend talks to Jenny, someone who has left her Australian life behind to be a stranger in a foreign land. We can't tell you her last name because Jenny is currently doing gospel work in an unreached part of the world where being a Christian is not a safe thing to be. But there…
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Still a mother - Jackie
This episode Jenny Salt speaks to Jackie Gibson, a woman with a heart for mothers going through the hardest times. Jackie has lived in the US and the UK both as a child and as an adult, and currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband and kids. Jackie's journey as a mum has been a great joy, …
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Planting churches, growing faith - Amy and Mikey
Today Amy Townsend brings us a first for the Salt podcast, interviewing not one but two guests - Amy and Mikey Nhieu. Amy and Mikey grew up with very different backgrounds, but ten years ago they met and became a wonderful ministry couple. They have a great story of what it looks like to serve G…
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Jesus' media man - Leigh
This episode Jenny Salt talks to one of Australia's most experienced media workers, Leigh Hatcher. His name and voice may sound very familiar to many because he's had a career in television and radio that spans 50 years. Leigh has interviewed a myriad of famous people and stood on the edge of nat…
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