Salt – Conversations

Colin Buchanan is one of Australia's most beloved country music and kid's worship composers. His family journey spans the globe, his musical journey the breadth of this country, and his spiritual journey from darkness to light.Join Jenny Salt as she presents a bonus-length, musical special that peers into the corners of Colin's life and comes out with a smile on its face!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1960 Ruth Myors left Australia to work as a midwife with the Somali people. For over two decades she served in a hospital in Somalia, a village in Ethiopia and a radio ministry in Kenya. Bureaucratic decisions, coups, communist takeovers, natural disasters, sudden deaths - all disrupted plans and brought about unexpected changes in her life. Ruth wrote about these experiences in her memoir When The Lights Go Out, and she shares them with Jenny Salt.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael Jensen is the son of former Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, and nephew to evangelical heavyweight Philip Jensen - two lives that have often cast long shadows over his own.Jenny Salt asks him to share what it was like to grow up with a family name that was both loved and vilified by the people around him.What Michael reveals is how he quietly fashioned a name for himself that still challenges people to come to terms with the Gospel, but in a way that is uniquely his own.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grief and loss are inevitable parts of life in this world. As Job puts it, "Man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward." The experience of both can be a lonely, painful and confusing time, especially for children.Jill McGilvray has not only faced her own loss and grief, but has been involved in bereavement counselling with children for many years. Join Jenny Salt as she shares the lessons she has learned from decades of helping others grieve.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 was her meeting with God.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 life looked like. And though Helen's path has taken her through many dark valleys, she has never had to confront them alone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Father who longed for her to enter the Kingdom of God.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.