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, respect their agency, and allow doubts and questions, and harm when they misuse power or act coercively; he shares examples including a same-sex attracted young person welcomed by a small church. Reports are free at convergeoceania.com, with schools and churches applying findings (e.g., longer home groups, mapping relational ecosystems, and eight faith trajectories). Adrian also recounts his daughter Imogen’s death from brain cancer at 13, his anger and lament toward God, grief as waves where joy and sorrow coexist, and his critique of Christians offering simplistic “God’s plan” answers instead of presence and practical support.

00:40 Reconnecting in Goa
01:42 What Access the Story Does
02:33 Junction Cafe Op Shop
03:10 Converge Oceania Overview
03:52 Your Story Research Origins
05:38 Church at Its Best
09:08 Beyond In or Out Faith
10:14 Young People Stepping Away
13:47 Who Was Surveyed
15:20 Negative Influences Power
19:21 Reports Without Prescriptions
20:29 Early Responses in Schools
21:00 Home Groups After Lunch
22:29 Faith Grows Relationally
23:04 Eight Faith Trajectories
24:00 Discipling With Small Teams
25:08 Imogen’s Cancer Story
27:54 Anger Lament and Faith
30:44 Grief and Joy Together
33:43 When Christians Get It Wrong
37:36 Jesus the Alongsider
40:50 Staggering Forward

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 eight in ten Filipino children experienced violence and an IJM estimate of 500,000 children impacted by online sexual exploitation. Tolentino shares growing up in Metro Manila slums amid poverty, abuse, and community drug addiction, and founding Made in Hope in 2011 to support women survivors of sex trafficking and their children through livelihood, leadership, spiritual formation, child support, prevention training, prayer practices, and government partnerships, while advocating for churches to welcome survivors with patience.

00:51 Origin of Sheba
01:55 Global Children’s Forum
02:17 Lausanne Children at Risk
03:45 Defining Vulnerable Children
05:35 Calling and Early Ministry
07:13 Growing Up at Risk
10:34 Violence and Exploitation Stats
12:43 Made in Hope Programs
15:24 Breaking the Cycle for Kids
17:55 Radio Show by Children
20:12 Kids On Corruption
20:52 Called To The Work
22:54 Restoring Voice And Power
24:37 Why Churches Feel Unsafe
26:43 Becoming A Welcoming Church
28:32 Culture Pets And Affluence
29:24 Signs Of Hope And Prevention
31:41 Prayer Practices For Resilience
34:11 Mobilizing Government And Policy
36:32 Lament Perseverance And Emmanuel
39:28 Let The Children Come

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 accept Christ on March 31, 1985. He contrasts Islamic ritual prayer with conversational Christian prayer and centers his mission on John 14:6. Discussing his book “Sharing Jesus, Shaking Islam,” he explains his aim to expose what he calls Islam’s deception, contrasting Quranic claims about Jesus with New Testament witnesses, recounting opposition, and urging Muslims to read the New Testament and Christians to pray for Muslims.

00:51 Meet Harun Ibrahim
01:08 Al Hayat Mission
01:41 Unreached Languages
04:02 Jerusalem Roots
04:36 Why Shaking Islam
06:00 Secular Muslim Years
08:20 Meeting Jesus
11:17 New Life in Christ
14:15 Prayer Reimagined
17:27 Jesus the Only Way
20:48 I Am Claim Explained
21:48 Islam as Deception
21:55 Quran Versus Gospel
22:57 Witnesses To Crucifixion
24:13 Quran Jesus Debate
25:15 Backlash And Forgiveness
26:30 Shaking Islam Explained
28:50 Hadith On Aisha
29:22 Call To Missions
31:33 Radio To Al Hayat
33:29 Pioneering Media Apologetics
34:26 God Is Love Contrast
36:24 Book And Resources
36:53 Final Message And Prayer