This Program originally aired on Front Porch Talks on July 5, 2020. Stephanie was born and raised in Elkton, Virginia, where she has lived her entire life except for two years when she lived in Charlottesville, Virginia. Stephanie is the Director of Children’s Ministries for our East Rock campus for Church of the Nazarene. Steph joins us today on Hope Talks to share her Testimony and how God has brought joy in her life after a season of  mourning the sudden and unexpected death of her husband Nick.

Today’s session is part 2 of Teaching Church that took place at Church of the Nazarene in Harrisonburg, Va. for a group of pastors and leaders from the Virginia District Church of the Nazarene. In part 2 of Teaching Church Pastor Adrian Mills invited Pastor Sam Montanez to come and share on understanding our powers and overcoming our deficits.

Today’s session is part 1 of Teaching Church that took place at Church of the Nazarene in Harrisonburg, Va. on Thursday morning March 18th for a group of pastors and leaders from the Virginia district church of the Nazarene. In part 1 of the Teaching Church Pastor Adrian Mills invited Sarah Kinzer to come and share a devotion from her book “Abide”.

Lewis was born and raised in Kansas. He and his son moved to Virginia in 2020 and his not wife joined them about two weeks later. Lewis joins us today to share how God has delivered him from a life of drug addition, how he is apart of Celebrate Recovery at Church of the Nazarene and hopes to be a leader in CR. Below is a link to a five minute video that we played on Easter Sunday of Lewis’s testimony.

Experience a real life story of God exchanging beauty for ashes, trading death for new life!

https://youtu.be/hGSJ6e_NUgs

Also here is a link if you want more info. on Celebrate Recovery

Celebrate Recovery

On Today’s broadcast of Hope Talks Pastor Margaret Michael & Grayson Willis reflect on  Palm Sunday, its significance of it and also give context in relation to culture and the time period that it took place. The main scripture that we focus on today is Luke 19:28-40 as well as a few others.

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