Gordon interviews Adrian Blenkinsop of Access the Story in Adelaide, which runs the Junction cafe op shop and supports scripture engagement and youth mental health, and also houses Converge Oceania. Adrian describes the “Your Story” nationwide Australian research (439 respondents aged 16–20 connected to Christian contexts) exploring influences shaping young people’s experience of God, highlighting that faith is complex and non-linear. He reports churches help most when they welcome young people,...
Jun 02, 2026•42 min•Ep. 10
Michelle Sheba Tolentino explains her middle name’s origin from the biblical Queen of Sheba and discusses her work with vulnerable children through the Global Children’s Forum and as catalyst for the Lausanne Movement’s Children at Risk Issue Network, which since 2010 has emphasized children as co-laborers in God’s mission. She defines “children at risk” as those under 18 exposed to poverty, war, exploitation, child labor, trafficking, and online sexual exploitation, noting a 2015 study that eig...
May 26, 2026•41 min•Ep. 9
Gordon interviews Harun Ibrahim, founder of Al Hayat Ministries and Al Hayat TV, a 24/7 Christian channel and online ministry using satellite, social media, websites, chat tools, music, worship, apologetics, and Bible teaching to reach unreached people groups in 12 languages, especially within the Muslim world. Harun, born into a secular Muslim family in Jerusalem and fluent in Arabic and Hebrew, describes a period of atheism before encountering Jesus through reading John’s Gospel and praying to...
May 19, 2026•39 min•Ep. 8
Gordon reconnects with Ruslan Zagidulin, a longtime youth leader from Kyrgyzstan, to discuss the relational roots of Converge and its continuation in Next Move, and how cross-cultural relationships shape global youth ministry. Ruslan explains his background in predominantly Muslim Kyrgyzstan, his conversion from atheism after encountering the story of Saul in a children’s Bible, and his decades of work with teenagers amid Central Asian restrictions introduced around 2008–2009, requiring adaptive...
May 12, 2026•43 min•Ep. 7
Gordon interviews George Karkanis, an Athens-based forensic psychologist, psychotherapist, and behavioral analyst, who explains forensic psychology as the study and legal-application of psychology in criminal contexts (offenders, victims, investigations, trials, and reports). George describes transitioning from IT to forensic psychology through counter-trafficking ministry, choosing a role that supports trafficked women without being their therapist, helping them “redefine” men as trustworthy th...
May 05, 2026•42 min•Ep. 6
Ugandan Supreme Court Justice Mike Chibita discusses his roles as a Supreme Court justice since early 2020 and as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from 2013–2020, explaining Uganda’s criminal justice system, appeals process, and the Supreme Court’s caseload. He describes learning about victims’ rights during a visit to Adelaide through Advocates International, leading him to create a victims’ rights desk, encourage prosecutors to engage victims beyond evidence, and build partnerships with g...
Apr 28, 2026•43 min•Ep. 5
In an interview about her book, "A Woman of Many Names: My Journey From Sexual Exploitation to Freedom," Ilona Miler explains that returning to Jesus motivates her to share her past so God can make a triumph from it and give hope to exploited women. She recounts being trafficked by a “lover boy” who isolated and manipulated her into prostitution, her suicidal despair and a providential encounter that kept her alive, being forced to work through pregnancy and giving up her baby for adoption. Deca...
Apr 21, 2026•41 min•Ep. 4
Carla is a British–Caribbean follower of Jesus who has spent the last six years in Beirut helping churches in the Middle East and North Africa walk with young people under pressure. She shares about growing up as a mixed‑race pastor’s kid in a mostly white English town, the intense expectation to be “perfect,” and how a mission trip to Kenya and reading the entire Bible at 16 transformed her from a double‑life teenager into someone deeply shaped by Scripture and the stories of the persecuted chu...
Apr 14, 2026•47 min•Ep. 3
In this episode of Faith without Frontiers, we meet Palmira de Sá from Angola, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, and racism who now walks alongside other survivors with the hope of Christ. She shares how God protected her as a child, met her in a Muslim-majority country with no church, and led her through a costly journey of forgiveness that even astonished a psychiatrist. Palmira also exposes systemic failures in Angola’s police, courts, and churches—where half of reporte...
Apr 07, 2026•59 min•Ep. 2
What does it mean to lose your home — not just the walls and roof, but the place where you belong, where you are known, and where you meet with God? In this deeply moving conversation, Valentyn and Luba Syniy of the Tavriysky Christian Institute (TCI) in Ukraine share their firsthand experience of war, displacement, and faith. Valentyn, a theologian and seminary president, was born and raised in Kherson — a city that once had 350,000 residents and now has fewer than 60,000. When Russia occupied ...
Mar 18, 2026•40 min•Ep. 1
