In this season’s final episode we talk to Lay Preacher Wendy Coxhill. She talks about creative, multi-sensory prayer stations and the importance of intentionally slowing down.
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This week we sit down to a conversation with Torch’s newest trustee Philip Rice. He talks about his love of the Torch Holidays and his passion to bring children and young people to torch-making the client base more age diverse.
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In this episode we meet Lydia Ajayi who works for the National Commission for Persons With Disabilities In Nigeria. Due to medical neglect, she lost her sight and hearing, as well as having affected speech and partial paralysis in her left hand. She talks about how she believes the return of her hearing, full speech and feeling was a faith miracle and how reading is continuing to support her in every life situation.
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In this episode we talk to Sarah Brookman, the visionary behind the new Torch Chaplaincy telephone service, which aims to support people going through life changes relating to sight loss. We also hear from Heinrich Barth, one of the chaplaincy volunteers who lost his sight following an brain aneurism in 2019. The conversation with Heinrich is taken from season one of Torch’s podcast Walking By faith.
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In this episode we meet former Torch audiobook narrator and editor Dave ling. Dave talks about how he sees his sight loss as a gift God had always planned for him, and the importance of sharing that gift with the people around him.
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This week, Christian Vision For Men’s Carl Beech chats to us about living with Early Onset Parkinson’s, and shares how his struggle to live with the disease turned into a remarkable innovation to help battle his Parkinson’s symptoms. Carl demonstrates the device he’s developed during the programme, which when he turns it on demonstrates just how effective it is as his symptoms disappear – he hopes that with its release this year it will change the lives of millions of people worldwide.
In this weeks episode we hear from Gareth davies who’s married to Torch Together coordinator Becky Davies. He talks about what makes a good Torch holiday volunteer and shares part of one of the talks he gave on one of the most recent holidays.
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In this episode we meet Remi, an accomplished musician and PHD student who, on losing his sight at the age of seven, was told that more than anything, he needed spiritual intervention for his sight to be restored. He also talks about how, as an adult, he came to understand the value of serving God rather than focusing solely on what God could do for him.
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