Fish Food

My Street - episode 3

My Street is an attempt to get to know my neighbors. Who knows what to expect with each episode. So far the surprises keep coming.

 

Spam chowder, sugar mills, aquarium fish, and a swamp snapping turtle hunter can all be found in this interview with the Jeansonnes.

My Street - episode 2b

Jim and Mary are back and have some great stories about their 50 years on their street.  There might be accordion involved.

My Street - episode 2a

The first of a two-part interview with Jim and Mary.  What a delight!  This couple has been on their street for over 50 years and have seen a ton of changes.  Inspiring story.

My Street - episode 1

My Street is an attempt for me to get to know my neighbors.  I hope you'll join and be encouraged to do the same in your own neighborhood no matter if you live in an urban, suburban, or rural setting.  Because we often do not know our neighbors we live with suspicion or even fear.  Come along as I try to engage, learn, and seek to know those on My Street.  

Church Planting in the Mid-South: Monroe, LA

Ever heard of a "scratch plant"?  It's when a church planter moves into a community with no existing core group with whom to start.  In the first year, Harris encountered a tornado, COVID-19, and a heart attack.  

Multiple Sclerosis, Jesus, and Community

Anna Hitt is a young mother and wife.  Physically, she could take me down in a second flat.  A former LSU javelin competitor, she continues her fitness through Cross Fit, wrangling her daughter, and being married to a former LSU lineman.  

Just a few years ago she was diagnosed with MS.  How has that changed her?  How has she responded?  

Grace When our Financial Debt is Great

Will Gray seems like a very successful consultant who helps others (individuals and businesses) to navigate how to become a better version of themselves.  And he issuccessful.  But there was a time when he lost everything.  In this episode we explore God's design in using hardship to help us become who He intends for us to be.  

Will is the marketing and communications director for Fortis Riders . . . a high end chauffeur company that serves people's needs around the world.  For businesses, Will has worked alongside 100+ organizations (nonprofits, startups & mid-sized companies), helping each one become a better version of itself. Through Vocationality, he works with individuals, to help them discover what they're made to do.

Autism: There IS hope

Shelby Segrest shares her story with the frustration, anger, sadness, hope, and beauty of having a child who registers on the autism spectrum.

 

This is the third part of a three part series with Shelby. We get to listen in as Shelby tells her story of dismay, wrestling, and coming to grips with the beauty of the image of God in her own daughter. May you be encouraged and hopeful because of what God has done and is doing in Shelby's life.

Losing Everything: Hurricane Katrina and God's Mercy

This is part 2 of a three part interview with Shelby Segrest. Soon after her mother died in 2003 (part 1), Shelby and her husband, Hudson, moved to New Orleans. Her first child was born August 9, 2005. August 29 Katrina made landfall. In a hurry to leave and an optimistic view of the weather, they left all they owned but for three days worth of clothes and supplies.

Cancer and the Death of a Parent

Our guest on this episode of Fish Food is Shelby Segrest.  Shelby is a wife and a mother living on a small farm in Alabama.  On this first of a two-part interview, Shelby tells us about the heartbreak and hope of her parent's divorce and losing her mom to cancer.  

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