The Gospel According to Mum

The Gospel According to Mum Episode 6 Part 2 - Now my god, now my path with Rachel Byard

Rachel is a married mum with three children under 7 years old and very much in the thick of motherhood. She is mothering full time and home-schooling her eldest children. Over the last 6 years she has also taken on various voluntary leadership and decision-making roles within her church.
In Part 2, Rachel shares more about the choices she has been convicted to make in her approach to motherhood and the challenge of negotiating her way through expected norms to follow God's direction for her children and her family. We talk more about the value of motherhood for women, the individual's walk of faith and finding perseverance and strength in it all.
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 6 Part 1 - Meeting the god of my mother with Rachel Byard

Rachel is a married mum with three children under 7 years old and very much in the thick of motherhood. She is mothering full time and home-schooling her eldest children. Over the last 6 years she has also taken on various voluntary leadership and decision-making roles within her church.
In Part 1 of this episode, Rachel shares her rapidly forming story of motherhood and how it has been the catalyst for a personal relationship with God which has emerged from the foundational faith she received from her own parents. Already she has faced a season of infertility, high risk pregnancy and chronic illness. Through it all is learning to lean into a relationship with God that is person and utterly individual.
As listed in the Best 60 Christian Mom Podcasts in 2022 on Feedspot
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 5 Part 3 - Loving the ties that bind with Sharon Ward

Sharon Ward is a midwife, a mother of five and a grandmother of three and counting. Her husband has been a pastor and ministry leader for decades. Originally from the U.K., they and their family now reside in Australia.
In part 3, Sharon reflects on how seeking God's Kingdom for herself and developing her relationships with her family have become deeply connected. Sharon finds herself now in a place where the busyness has come to mean peace through living a full life with her family, community and God which is still surprising and challenging her.
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 5 Part 2 - Loaves and oranges with Sharon Ward

Sharon Ward is a midwife, a mother of five and a grandmother of three and counting. Her husband has been a pastor and ministry leader for decades. Originally from the U.K., they and their family now reside in Australia.
In part 2, Sharon talks more about how her perspective on living an abundant life was shaped by her rapidly multiplying family and the challenges that this created. The growing strain on her time, finances and physical strength built on Sharon's ability to innovate. She found herself trusting God for His provision in unexpected ways, looking at what was already in her own hand, which led to the gathering of true riches in her life.
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 5 Part 1 - The famine and the feast with Sharon Ward

Sharon Ward is a midwife, a mother of five and a grandmother of three and counting. Her husband has been a pastor and ministry leader for decades. Originally from the U.K., they and their family now reside in Australia.
In part 1 of this episode, Sharon shares how the start of her motherhood journey with the Lord tested her own faith and perspectives through infertility and a long wait for the child she so desperately wanted. What followed were 5 children in 6 years and another test, this time of her own will to live. Through complications caused by a routine surgery, Sharon fought to hold onto the abundant life given to her and meet the challenges her recovery then presented to her young family.
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 4 Part 2 - Knowing Him, knowing them, knowing me with Helen Bartlett

Helen Bartlett has been a mother and is now a grandmother for over 35 years. She is a Secondary School teacher, Religious Instruction and Kids Church Instructor, dedicated volunteer in multiple capacities, a wife and mother of 6 children.
In Part 2, Helen and I discuss how as the years progressed and her children grew and experienced long-term illness, her perspective on what a successful life looks like was reshaped by God. She has come to understand more of God's purposes in her own and her children's lives, what success really looks like and who she is both as a mother and a child of God in her own right.
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 4 Part 1 - Lord, let my garden grow with Helen Bartlett

Helen Bartlett has been a mother and is now a grandmother for over 35 years. She is a Secondary School teacher, Religious Instruction and Kids Church Instructor, dedicated volunteer in multiple capacities, a wife and mother of 6 children.
In Part 1 of this episode Helen describes her early years as a mother and how learning to cope with her first child on the autism spectrum and with undiagnosed gastric reflux and anxiety conditions affected the way she lived out her faith. Emerging from an era when talking about feelings was not an option, Helen struggled to find her way without revealing her weaknesses, even to God. In spite of this, God came to Helen, where she was, battling in her own strength and spoke a word of faith that she carries to this day.
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 3 Part 2 - The posture of a worshipful mum with Jenni Greaves

Jenni Greaves is a Brisbane mum with over 25 years experience. She's Associate Director of a successful tourism business, a worship leader and universal mum to countless youth service and smash camp attendees over many years.
In Part 2 Jenni describes how children have continued to speak into her faith. She speaks about nursing her own mother through the last 8 weeks of her life and seeing the faithfulness of God as all the children, biological and otherwise, that she has gathered over the years spoke hope into her mother's final days.
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 3 Part 1 - The beginning of understanding with Jenni Greaves

Jenni Greaves is a Brisbane mum with over 25 years experience. She's Associate Director of a successful tourism business, a worship leader and universal mum to countless youth service and smash camp attendees over many years.
In Part 1 of this episode Jenni explains how God came and found her after her first child was born. Unexpectedly, it was through her husband's return to faith that Jenni was brought into a church setting. Then, continually drawn back not only through her own children but the neighbours kids as well, Jenni found her faith and understanding growing through songs and children's Bible stories.
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The Gospel According to Mum Episode 2 - God is the great accountant with Cheryl Brooks

Cheryl Brooks is a mother, grandmother and foster mum. She works as an anaesthetic nurse and has been long involved with medical training and support in the Democratic Republic of Congo through AusHEAL. She has also been involved with church ministry including eldership and council leadership.As a natural leader and self-confessed control freak, Cheryl has struggled at times to hand control over to God. In this Episode, we talk about how she has been able to move closer to completely trusting in His provision of all things through motherhood, even to the extent of releasing her own prayers to others.
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