* Conversations with Christian Women * Hosts: Tori Walker and Taryn Hayes chat to women from Australia and around the world about faith, life and ministry. Ordinary women trusting an extraordinary God makes for inspirational stories and great wisdom shared about all aspects of life as a Christian woman.
Episodes
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Episode 79 : Sarah Balogh
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
Saturday Oct 30, 2021
What does it actually mean to disciple someone? What is ministry supervision? And why should every ministry have it? These are some of the questions that Sarah Balogh answers in her chat with Taryn today on The Lydia Project. Sarah has a psychology practice in the Blue Mountains in Sydney, which she loves, but she also loves discipling women, caring for people in ministry in her role as a ministry supervisor, enjoying her family and supporting her husband in his role as the CEO of the Gospel Coalition, Australia.
EPISODE NOTES:
What does it actually mean to disciple someone? What is ministry supervision? And why should every ministry have it? These are some of the questions that Sarah Balogh answers in her chat with Taryn today on The Lydia Project. Sarah has a psychology practice in the Blue Mountains in Sydney, which she loves, but she also loves discipling women, caring for people in ministry in her role as a ministry supervisor, enjoying her family and supporting her husband in his role as the CEO of the Gospel Coalition, Australia.
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Sarah Balogh is a Christian, wife, mother, friend, psychologist, ministry supervisor and flower appreciator. She’s also a women’s chaplain at Moore College and loves being involved in her local church, Springwood Anglican. Sarah lives in the Blue Mountains, NSW with her husband, Akos and their three children. In the rare moments when she has time, Sarah likes to write. Many of her articles can be found at The Gospel Coalition, Australia.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Ministry Supervision - What It Is and Why Your Ministry Needs It
Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (AFES)
Dane Ortlund - Gentle and Lowly
Sarah Balogh.com - Ministry Supervision
SHOW SNIPPETS:
“Our house was always full of church, the bible and people.”
“Life was faith and faith was life.”
“As a young Christian, this was life, true life, if the gospel was true, which I believe it is, then He demanded my whole life.”
“I have a real heart for discipling women.”
“In practical terms, we should always be looking out for someone to disciple.”
“Sometimes God is more interested in our holiness than our happiness.”
“Often there are gaps between what we say we believe and what we do. A ministry supervisor can help fill the gaps.”
“Some of our children by be like dandelions - they can grow anywhere, while others are like orchids - they need a little more care.”
One of my favourite sayings is “I can only do what I can only do. The rest goes to the keeper and that’s God!”
“We do life with and for others.”
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Friday Oct 15, 2021
Episode 78: Jo Gibbs
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Host Tori interviews Jo Gibbs on what the crosscultural life is like and how chronic fatigue affected that. Jo talks about the ministry roles that she has been in as well as how she came to understand who Christ is and what He had done for her.
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Host Tori interviews Jo Gibbs on what the crosscultural life is like and how chronic fatigue affected that. Jo talks about the ministry roles that she has been in as well as how she came to understand who Christ is and what He had done for her.
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Jo grew up in a non-Christian family but came to Christ while at university. Later on she felt challenged to go serve the Lord overseas and ended up living in a crowded city for 11 years before returning to Australia due to her husband’s health. She took up ministry roles that used her plethora of skills from working in different situations such as, community development, cross-cultural ministry, working with families, kids and youth, then care and discipleship ministry.
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
SHOW SNIPPETS:
"I felt like someone had given me some of the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle but without all of them and without the box with the lid that actually helps to put it together. That’s what it felt like."
"I was generally the one arguing with the Christian studies teacher, trying to pull out, what I thought were, apparent contradictions in the Bible or tough questions."
"I’d heard about the needs of the Muslim world but honestly at the time I felt really uncomfortable around Muslim women."
"I developed a love for Muslim women that went alongside that challenge that I’d heard."
"Great, huge needs."
"At one point I was a part of a women’s Bible study where the only person in the group who could read was the national leader."
"It (the Pentecostal church) often felt like it was, intentionally or unintentionally, focused on what I was doing to generate my Christian life rather than what Christ had done."
"I could see God taking me on this gentle process of different denominations."
"Rest in all that Christ has done and not what I generate in my Christian life."
"I think that remembering what God’s done in the past but also remembering who God is is such an important part of our lives."
"So just trying to pull back, reset my priorities."
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