Kim McPhillip's story will blow you away! Imagine becoming pregnant during your senior year of high school and telling NO ONE, not one person, until the day of giving birth! This actually happened to Kim and it is a miraculous story. God never promised an easy road, but He promised He'd be with us through it all. Kim has been married for 25 years and has three children: Spencer, Shelbi, and Johnathan. Theirs is a beautiful story filled with miracle births, adoptions, and listening to Jesus along...
Oct 20, 2024•52 min
Can you imagine being 20 years old and already having been burned in a fire, as well as having a rare neurological issue? That is what happened to our friend, Addison Hudler. She has overcome so many difficult situations, and is still standing strong in her faith. Addison is currently a junior at Ouachita Baptist University. You may remember her mother, Amber Hudler, was on our first episode, and also our guest for Episode #126. In that first episode, Amber also discussed some of the topics we t...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Jessica Callahan has such a fascinating story! When she was five years old, her father was arrested and imprisoned. During his incarceration, he learned about Jesus and gave his life to the Lord. This changed the whole trajectory of his life! Jessica and I (Jill) met while serving at God Behind Bars, a ministry that goes into prisons to share the gospel with those behind bars. When I heard her story of why she serves, I knew we needed to have her tell her story. She also helps lead worship once ...
May 20, 2024•37 min
This is such an amazing story!! Jessica Thompson lives in Colorado Springs. She is married to Thomas and they have four kids. Jessica is a Regional Vice President with Arbonne. Her husband is an Executive Coach and an advisor to the mayor. Jessica tells us an incredible story about a woman she met in Rwanda. They created a bond that has travelled countries and sustained years. Gaudence made such an impact on her that she got a message from God to go back to Rwanda and find her! You will not beli...
May 06, 2024•43 min
Kelley La Marr is the sweetest! She is the Ministry Assistant for the Preschool Ministry at First Baptist Church of Owasso. She loves serving the staff and the little ones. She is a great addition to the ministry! Kelley was adopted as a child and raised with a wonderful family. She grew up, married the love of her life, Rocky, and had two children. Then in 2016 she had the joy of meeting eight out of her twelve blood-related brothers and sisters! However, 2016 ended up being a rough year for he...
Apr 22, 2024•37 min
Hunter Wadlington is the Director of Programs at the Mission Community Resource Center in Owasso. She is so vital to helping those in need with resources and has added so much to the program. Her road to getting there is part of what we talk about. Sometimes our roads are not linear and we don't know where they will end up. Hunter and her husband, Christien, have been married for a little over two years. They met in their freshman year of high school and stayed best friends for ten years before ...
Apr 08, 2024•42 min
Where do we start with this guest? She has been a pillar of strength and an example of love and grace. We are so in awe of her and excited for you to hear her story of redemption. Jennifer Beardslee is a dear friend to both of us! She and her husband, Bobby, have been married for 10 months. She has three amazing kids and one daughter-in-law: Camden and his wife, Maddie, Ryleigh and Valerie. In 2016 her life was hit with several bombs. In March, her very young nephew passed away. In June, she fou...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Rhonda McAlister and her husband, Jon, have been married for 35 years and have three sons, three daughters-in-law, three grandsons, and one granddaughter! She is a Pediatric Physical Therapist and works within schools to help students with special needs. She has a lot of style and can decorate a room like no other. Rhonda was adopted as a baby and tells us her story about what it was like to find out that she was adopted at five years of age. She grew up with amazing parents whom she loves dearl...
Mar 04, 2024•39 min
Katelyn McCormick is a joy to be around! She's bubbly and kind with a beautiful singing voice. She loves Jesus and you can see it all over her! Katelyn and her husband, Noah, have been married for eleven years. They have two children and were high school sweethearts. Noah is the Student Minister at Central Baptist Church in Owasso, and Katelyn has her own cookie shop, Cookie Joy Co. (By the way, we highly recommend her delicious and beautifully-decorated sugar cookies!) Today, Katelyn shares abo...
Feb 19, 2024•39 min
Meredith Wade and her husband, Andrew, have been married for thirteen years and have three children. Andrew is the Student Minister at FBC Owasso and Meredith is busy homeschooling. Their road to this part of their journey has not always been easy, however. Meredith shares a painful time when they had tried to have a second child for several years and then miscarried. We talk about things to say and not to say to people who are going through things, or when we don't understand their timeline. So...
Feb 05, 2024•41 min
Imagine living in a place you love, in a community you adore, when you are told suddenly one day you can’t live there anymore. You are ushered out in a matter of days. That is what happened to Melissa Robinson and her family when they were working as field workers for a sending organization on a small island. The new government decided they were no longer welcome. Chris and Melissa Robinson and their three boys now live and work in Latvia. It is an interesting, exciting place that we don’t often...
Jan 22, 2024•52 min
Happy 2024! We are so excited to start this new year with you all. We are ready to see what stories God will bring to us! We are beginning this year with Niki White. Niki’s story has many turns in it and God has carried her through a lot. She has been through divorce, domestic violence, and the loss of a child. Even still, she tells us that fear is a tool of the enemy. Niki is in a blended family and has four children. She works for Tulsa Tech teaching Medical Assisting and Phlebotomy. She is al...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min
This story today is so precious! We are excited to welcome Lori Beth Fowble! Lori Beth is married to Arin and, between them, they have four children. Lori Beth teaches us what it means to have the audacity to hope again! After going through a devastating divorce that rocked her world, she eventually reconnected with an old friend who helped spark that hope. She shares her heart openly and is vulnerable about not wanting to walk through this pain, but understanding that Jesus also had to walk thr...
Dec 11, 2023•57 min
April Brown and her family have spent many years reaching people overseas for the gospel! They spent a lot of time in the Czech Republic before moving to Italy. April and her husband, Steve, have been married for 25 years and have four kids, and they are missionaries with the International Mission Board. A few of their children are attending college in the United States. Imagine being in another country and getting a call that one of them was in a horrible car accident in California. That is wha...
Nov 27, 2023•46 min
We have been up and running on this show for five years now, and this is our official 5th anniversary episode! To commemorate this, we invited two very special guests (for the third time), Chris Wall and Shaun McCormick! [We have a lively debate over how many times they have appeared on our show, and guess who was right?! :) ]. Friends, I don't even know what to say about this episode! We are all over the place, but it was a good time. We have a lot of discussion about raising adult children and...
Nov 13, 2023•48 min
It’s been five years, y’all, so who better to talk to than our very first guest, Amber Hudler! She’s such a joy to talk to, and she shares so much wisdom. We laughed and cried together in this conversation! Amber has been married to her husband, Matt, for 21 years, and they have three kids. She is the Children’s Minister for First Baptist Church of Owasso and does a phenomenal job! She has a heart for meeting people where they are and sharing the love of Christ with them. This episode is so full...
Oct 30, 2023•56 min
Addiction is a difficult road for those in it and those around it. This reality is something with which Misti Marley is very familiar. Addiction greatly affects everyone involved. Misti has been married to her husband for 23 years. They have three boys, and both of them work for Rejoice Schools. They are dedicated to their family and their students. When Misti was growing up, her mother began struggling with addiction issues that she hid from Misti until her teen years. Her mother's addiction to...
Oct 16, 2023•42 min
Amber Sander has a beautiful family with three children. She and her husband, Joe, have been married for twelve years. They are raising Evelyn, Dahl, and Sylvia. Sylvia was born with a rare complication of having no arms and short femurs of different lengths. This was discovered during ultrasounds and created some anxiety of what life would look like for her. However, Sylvia is a beautiful and creative almost-five-year-old now! She is thriving with help from The Little Lighthouse School and much...
Oct 02, 2023•58 min
To know Jenny Tooley is to love her! Jenny is one of the funniest, most genuine people you will ever meet. She is full of laughter and always up for a good dress-up theme day. She is the ultimate youth worker! Jenny and John have three children: Cody, Kyle, and Lindsey. When Lindsey was in high school, she had a strange thing happen physically. She started limping and having pains that did not have an explanation. After several doctor and specialist visits, they finally realized she had CIDP, an...
Sep 18, 2023•48 min
Tammy Jensen and her husband, John, have been married for 29 years and were high school sweethearts. They have been through lots of ups and downs together. They have three children, Mac, Malcom, and Hannah. Their daughter, Hannah, has a special story. She was diagnosed with both Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome and Dandy Walker Syndrome. These syndromes caused her to have needs that will require care throughout her lifetime. Hannah is an absolute joy to be around! She is involved in special needs cheer,...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr
Welcome back to our show! We are so excited to be back after taking a summer break! We have some amazing stories to share with all of you. Our first show this season is very special. Amy Davis, a longtime friend of both of us, joins us on our show today. Her story is full of both heartbreak and patient love; it is so inspiring and full of twists and turns. Amy's story sometimes seems like a novel. Amy grew up in OKC with her mom and step-dad. She was told many things about her birth father which...
Aug 21, 2023•52 min
Adopting a child from another country is a daunting journey in itself; add to that the child has significant special needs, and he is from a war-torn country. Anita Wyatt and her husband did just that. Already parents to five biological children of their own, they realized they were being called by God to bring home a little boy from Ukraine. Anita and her husband, Wayne, have been married for almost 25 years and have 6 kids between the ages of 13 and 22. In July of 2012, they went to Ukraine to...
Jun 05, 2023•57 min
Kelly King has spent her life working in ministry. We have both benefited from her ministry and have been on the front row to experience her leadership! Growing up at Council Road Baptist Church in Oklahoma City with her as a youth leader was awesome. Kelly now lives in the Nashville area with her husband, Vic. They have been married for 35 years and have two grown kids. She works for Lifeway Ministries, training women in leadership and ministry, and working with the ministry magazines along wit...
May 22, 2023•48 min
Tracie Webster has two amazing kids. One of those is her daughter, Ciara, who shared her story with us on Episode #110 of A Frayed Knot. You can hear her story there. Her younger child, her son Tanner, we will talk about today. Tracie shares with us that Tanner was born with Transposition of the Great Arteries, VSD, ASD, and Pulmonary Stenosis; he basically had four major heart defects which were unknown until he was born. He had to have a series of surgeries, the first being when he was about 6...
May 08, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Vanessa Kehl tells us a very brave story about a difficult time in her youth that affected her for a very long time. Vanessa has been married to her husband, Andy, for 39 years. They have a daughter, Rachel. She is an accountant for a wheelchair company. At 17 years of age, Vanessa found out she was pregnant. Her circumstances caused her a great deal of fear, and she secretly chose toend that pregnancy. This decision would haunt her for the next 20 years. After high school, she joined a communit...
Apr 24, 2023•43 min
Y'all, I don't even know where to begin on the notes for this episode! So much good information; you will want to take notes! We both took about 4-5 pages of notes in this fascinating conversation. Dr. Barbara Sorrels is a childhood trauma expert that we both heard in our teaching seminars; we were so excited that she agreed to chat with us on the podcast. She grew up in Washington, D.C. and began working in hospitals with children who had experienced trauma, and she knew this would be her missi...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 9 min
If you've been to Church on the Move, you've probably seen Priscilla Shields. She has been on staff there since 2006 in a variety of roles! She's been on the ministry side of it since 2019. Priscilla has been married to her husband, Mike, for 25 years and has two children, Brooklyn and Brayden. She is Korean/Italian and grew up with a single mother. Her father left when she was very young, and this became the beginning of trauma that would not come to a head until the age of 41, when she experie...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min
To know Shay Gibbons is to love Shay Gibbons. Shay is a 21-year-old, spunky, talented girl with a beautiful voice and a heart for worship! Her story is woven with showings of God's presence, even in the midst of trauma. Shay was born to parents who were both addicted to meth. She lived in Arizona with her dad for most of her childhood, until her grandparents intervened and brought her to Oklahoma. They saw the at-risk situation in which she was living, and they pulled her out of it, providing st...
Mar 13, 2023•51 min
Gloria and Wayne Yeckley are about the most precious couple you could imagine! They have been married for 58 years and have a lot of wisdom to share. Their faithfulness to God and to each other is inspiring. Wayne and Gloria experienced a year of turmoil when a numerous amount of tragedies struck them all within three months' time. It was a season of great sadness and stress, but they trusted their Heavenly Father to sustain them, and He did! They tell us that when you don't have Jesus, you won'...
Feb 27, 2023•41 min
Happy Valentine's Day week! We are so thankful for all of you and for your listening to our show! On today’s episode, we are talking to Paul and Margaret Purifoy! Paul and Margaret are the parents of our very own Robin Wall. They have been married for almost 52 years, so we thought they would be good to talk to about making a marriage work. Paul and Margaret had a “frayed knot” when they were faced with the difficult decision of a next step for Margaret’s mother, after she was widowed with Alzhe...
Feb 13, 2023•46 min
