Hoping Forward Podcast

12/10/2024

The newest episode of the Hoping Forward Podcast just went live. It is an episode about love, loss, adoption, disability, and hope. Thank you Teisha Briana for sharing your God stories! I hope you all enjoy listening and if you would like to tell your God story, please reach out. I'd love to interview you! As always, keep looking for God in your story!
Hope Heals

This is the second of two episodes I recorded at Hope Heals Camp 2024 in Nauvoo, Alabama. Hope Heals is an amazing place full of hope, acceptance, inclusion, and God's love. It is where the lines blur between serving and being served, ability and disability. It is like a week of heaven-practice! If....

11/08/2024

The latest episode dropped this weekend. I hope you’ll check it out!

Episode · Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday · In this episode I share another way that God has taken care of me recently. I call these "God hugs" and they are so precious to me as they are constant reminders of how much God cares for me (and all of His children) and takes care of even the s...

28/06/2024

Just published the latest episode. I hope you enjoy my interview with my pastor, Dr. Tim Riordan.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4lTg4JkfY2CqSE3ba6SPBn?si=WDAycNyRSyGIhp4shxITOg

Listen to this episode from Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday on Spotify. In this episode, I get to chat with my pastor, Dr. Tim Riordan. Dr. Tim is the lead pastor at Sonrise Baptist Church in Newnan, GA. He is also a father, grandfather and an author. Pastor Tim has written several books, b...

27/04/2024

I just published a new episode of the podcast. It is me reading a letter I wrote to Sarah in 2005, detailing the amazing things God did to make us a family. Enjoy!

Listen to this episode from Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday on Spotify. I recorded this episode while my daughter, Sarah, was away at a respite house and it reminded me of respites/breaks I used to get when my roommate, Natasha would watch Sarah while I went and stayed in a hotel for a week...

09/03/2024

Check out the new episode. I hope it helps you see God in your story! If it does, reach out and tell me about it! https://open.spotify.com/episode/4JpeCHNuuRHOSdc4D3Vxvl?si=2004dc2e976d4284

Listen to this episode from Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday on Spotify. Have you ever found yourself in a deep darkness? A time when you felt defeated, lost, hopeless? This episode discusses the value of the darkness in the way it helps us notice and appreciate the goodness of God when we s...

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas from us to you! May you experience the love and light of Christ that casts out all darkness and brings true and lasting hope and peace! Sarah Whitney

14/10/2023

Thanks Cara Lewis for sharing your God stories with me! Here’s my second conversation from Hope Heals Camp. I hope Cara’s stories inspire you to notice what God is doing in your life!

Listen to this episode from Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday on Spotify. Cara Lewis is from Mobile, Alabama and is married to Jarvis, a firefighter. Cara and Jarvis have one son, Asher, who is 4 and such a little charmer! In 2020, after some devastating medical crises with Asher, Cara went f...

16/09/2023

Check out the new episode! This is the first of 2 coming from Hope Heals Camp.

Listen to this episode from Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday on Spotify. Hope Heals Camp is part of the ministry of Jay and Katherine Wolf. It is a sacred space of "belonging and belovedness" where our good, hard stories come together to blur the lines between heaven and earth and hardship a...

21/07/2023

I just finished a new episode before I take a couple of months off. I hope you enjoy Trust God to Provide! Check it out on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CP6AxtPzrWd9TokjhxSVQ?si=WkCr6XjtTcKFmWnoElUn2w

Listen to this episode from Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday on Spotify. Why do I always immediately go to worry and "figure things out on my own" instead of giving the situation to God? You would think with all the podcasts I have done, talking about the big and small things I have seen God...

23/05/2023

I just published the latest episode, Messes to Blessings. Check it out at https://open.spotify.com/episode/157dX9kPMdBtBqntDuRLjQ?si=K-zo87TGQXm9Z8Y_j1eE8g

Listen to this episode from Hoping Forward - God Stories in Everyday on Spotify. In this episode, I revisit my divorce and the ways that God works through our "messes" to draw us through to His plan. For the full episode about my divorce, see episode 3 God Shows up in Divorce. About 18 or 19 years a...