Salt – Conversations with Amy

127 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings

Amy Townsend is a Christian media presenter and actor, 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, sometimes challenging and always extraordinary gospel stories.

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Australian / Israeli / Christian - Megan

August 24, 2020 14:01 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MB

Megan lived in the midst of a whirlwind of relationships created by her mother's own need to find love. But despite the people flowing in and out of her life, Megan knew from an early age she was no-one's 'special someone'. Life in Australia, followed by a sojourn in Israel, a Jewish upbringing and a Christian education - all combined to increase her sense of a jumbled identity. However when Megan decided to strike out and become a person of consequence, the greatest consequence of all wa...

Flying High In Mongolia - David

August 17, 2020 14:01 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MB

As a country town lad, David Burge was enamoured with the freedom of the open sky. It was only exceeded by his first love for Jesus. When he contemplated a future in ministry, he thought that God would naturally combine his desire to be in the cockpit with an opportunity to transport the Gospel to unknown places. But the flight-path God had in mind would take him from soaring highs to crashing lows, and a ministry in Mongolia that would take him closer to God than he ever thought possible....

Married To Mission - Helen

August 10, 2020 14:01 - 37 minutes - 34 MB

Helen lived a privileged life in a privileged suburb of Sydney. She grew up in an expansive home, holidayed by the sea and attended an exclusive private school. Her early life looked very much like an episode of Downton Abbey. Her intensely academic parents planned a successful scientific career for their third child. However Helen shocked them to the core when she opted to train as a missionary. In the middle of her lonely upper-class life, God had reached out to reveal to Helen what real...

A Musical Life - Trevor

August 03, 2020 14:01 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB

Trevor Hodge has played in everything from school concerts to cover bands, even as God brought together a musical career that has supported the faith of thousands. Yet his biggest achievement is arguably breaking ground for a new sort of ministry position in Australian churches. Trevor tells Jenny the story that led to him to become one of Australia's first 'magnification pastors', a term that has become synonymous with ministering the word of God to the soul through music. See omnystudi...

Terror, Torment and Tragedy + Christ - Naomi

July 27, 2020 14:01 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MB

Naomi Deck grew up a promising girl in a happy family on New South Wales' south coast. However bullying by a group of Wicca devotees left her in fear for her life, and all but crushed her personality. The anxiety that followed would drastically alter her life until one day she discovered that God was equal to all her fears. But Naomi found her faith would have to rise to a whole new level the day she prayed, "Dear God make me humble," followed by, "Help me to never deny you." See omnystud...

My Two Japanese Fathers - Shion

July 20, 2020 14:07 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MB

Shion spent her earliest years split between Japan and Australia, absorbing the traditions of the first and the laid-back lifestyle of the second. However, wherever she lived, she found her footsteps dogged by continuing interactions with the Christian faith - beginning with her very unlikely name, the Japanese word for 'Zion'. But as she struggled to come to terms with her distant Japanese father, and her faithful Japanese father-in-law, Shion learned the qualities of still one more Fath...

The Hardest Place Is Where You Are - Lakgva

July 13, 2020 14:01 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

Lakgva grew up in post-Communist Mongolia, a place of desperate poverty and spiritual malaise. A once-proud nomadic people were coping with the collapse of a rigid state system and a flood of western ideas. Personally, Lakgva's family was devastated, with his university trained parents no longer able to find work. At 12 he was sent out to earn a living and came to view life through bitter eyes. When his mother began going to church, Lakgva perceived it as a further reason to be ashamed in...

A Prodigal Son Story - James

July 06, 2020 14:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB

A self-confessed alcoholic, James struggled to find his way through addiction and in the process discovered the God who was able to set him free. Not just from his dependency on the bottle, but the sin that so weighed him down. Join Jenny Salt as she delves into James's life and his road to recovery, discovering truths that are enough to make any of us more sober-minded. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Living as a Christian in the messy world of politics - Meagan

May 05, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

Meagan Skinner had to grow up very fast in a family situation that was laced with uncertainty and trauma. But God used those experiences to drive a Biblical desire to see the world 'just that little better' for those around her. When she was given the chance to staff for a Sydney politician, it seemed like a good way to see through great changes. Yet she soon found that being a Christian in the halls of power could be as crushing as it could be useful. See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

Not belonging… and belonging to God - Anna

April 28, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB

Anna tells Jenny Salt a wonderful tale of how God uses great disappointment to grow our appreciation of His power and His goodness. She tells how she worked for decades to declare the Gospel overseas, only to have her dream fall apart at every point. But in those deepest and darkest points she discovered the truly beautiful presence of God. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fathers and the Fatherhood of God - Simon

April 21, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

Simon Flinders is the pastor of a Sydney suburban Anglican church, which seems simple enough. Yet his life has been profoundly shaped by the family he grew up in, and ultimately by the fatherhood of God. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Preaching to the heights about the God who came down - Neeraj

April 14, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MB

Jenny Salt speaks to Neeraj, the grandchild of Nepal's first Christian converts. During their time together she uncovers the 16-year prayer vigil that resulted in the Gospel crossing the borders of that mountain-locked country. And Neeraj reveals his heart to 'preach to the heights' as he plans to return to his spiritually dark homeland. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A modern medical missionary - Andrew

April 07, 2020 14:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

Andrew Browning's medical career has taken him from the searing deserts of Tanzania to the struggling townships of Ethiopia, where he has put his special talents at Christ's service. Widely regarded as the finest fistula surgeon in the world, Andrew has laboured alongside Dr. Catherine Hamlin and others to relieve the suffering of women made outcasts in their societies through no fault of their own. And in doing so, he seen God at work both in his life and the lives of his patients. See o...

Wired to reach a sceptical world - John

March 31, 2020 13:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MB

Jenny Salt interviews John Dickson, the world-famous apologist, speaker and writer who has used every conceivable medium to challenge people to think about the claims of Jesus. Jenny digs back into John's past, uncovering the pains that led him to think about the brevity of life, and the people who made Jesus personal to him. The career that followed makes for incredible listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From New Age to new life, and New York - Maia

March 24, 2020 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

Maia tell Jenny she desperately wanted to be the 'good girl', but couldn't find a path that satisfied her conscience. For years she delved into the New Age movement, looking for the spiritual guide she was hoping for. She found what she was looking for, though, on a highway to western Sydney. Since then Maia has been helping collect stories of faith from all over the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christianity, science and other stuff - Andre

March 17, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB

Andre was a youth leader, a ministry apprentice and a committed Christian - but before all of that, he was a scientist. Could his love for the world around him actually be the path God was calling him down? He tells Jenny Salt it was the hardest, best decision he's ever made. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is big, but God is bigger - Kirsty

March 10, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB

Kirsty is a country girl from Bega with a deep love for her family, beginning with her identical twin sister. Together they've shared everything from schoolyard pranks to careers in physiotherapy, and a path that led to Bible college. There they also met the very different men God had set aside for them. And when Kirsty's husband suffered a tragic accident, she tells Jenny Salt it was their mutual faith that would deliver fresh hope in the midst of painful struggles. See omnystudio.com/list...

"Can we trust God with this?" - Helen

March 05, 2020 13:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB

Helen Thomas is a wife and mother of four with a wonderful Greek heritage and a faith that has been with her since her teenage years. But when God placed his hand first on her husband, then on her children, her life entered a valley that few have to enter. What she found at its bottom though, was a way to hold on to her joy even in the midst of her sadness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nothing is wasted in God’s economy - Stephen

December 01, 2019 23:16 - 30 minutes - 28 MB

In this episode, Jenny chats with Stephen Liggins: author, pastor, lecturer and even a medal winner in the world masters athletics! Hear how God has used all of this in His purposes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A childhood silence that gave way to words of life - Darlene

November 03, 2019 22:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB

In this episode, Jenny chats with Darlene Evans about growing up in a Christian home, but it wasn’t a typical Christian home nor a typical childhood. Married by the age of 17 and a mother of 4 by the age of 26, Darlene’s life has taken many turns, including later in her life, communicating the gospel to those who would otherwise never hear it. (Or read the transcript here (500KB PDF)) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.