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Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Boots on the Ground | Ash Barker

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9663 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

For 35 years, Ash and Anji Barker have made bold, countercultural choices—embedding themselves in some of the world’s most overlooked and underestimated neighbourhoods. From the rough edges of Springvale in Australia, to the vibrant resilience of Bangkok’s Klong Toey slum, to the heart of inner-city Birmingham, their journey is one of hope, grit, and deep-rooted faith.

Through it all, they’ve championed the belief that every local community holds untapped potential—and with the right love, leadership, and lived presence, transformation is possible. Their story is not just inspiring—it’s a living testament to what happens when you show up, stay the course, and believe that no place is too far gone. Don’t miss this powerful conversation.

Check out www.seedbeds.org Connect with Ash at ash.barker[@]seedbeds.org

Do grab hold of his book 'No Wastelands: How to grow seedbeds of Shalom in your neighbourhood' 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

One of our local neighbours was furious with us because he's just been beaten up by a mafia guy

0:08.6

he'd owned money to. And he said to us, Ash, I think I've got my broken arm, I can't go to the

0:13.1

hospital, can't work. Where is this God you say is near us? We prayed for Joe, please ask God

0:19.3

to make himself real to you and he will. And he kind of stormed off.

0:21.6

He was in agony.

0:22.6

He was in pain.

0:23.6

But the next day he came back and he was glowing.

0:25.6

He said, well, in a dream, I met Jesus.

0:28.6

And in the dream, Jesus grabbed my right arm and healed my right arm in the dream.

0:33.6

And when I woke up, my right arm was healed.

0:35.6

And I can now work. Amen.

0:41.5

Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbert with Inspired. Great to you back for another fantastic.

0:45.7

We've been really looking forward to this one. Basically, if you're new to inspired, it's all

0:49.3

about meeting different mates and contacts of mine from across the globe, doing all sorts of different,

0:53.1

beautiful stuff, challenging stuff, stirring stuff and hearing, yeah, just good news amidst all the crud that we're

1:01.0

relentlessly bombarded with on the 24-7 news cycle, you're letting someone else curate all the bad stuff

1:05.9

going on in the world to make you feel more depressed or cynical or fearful and there's so much

1:10.1

anxiety out there. So we are

1:11.7

counteracting that right now and I've got no doubt you're going to be super super inspired this

1:15.9

week because we got with us the wonderful Ash Barker. How are you Ash? I'm great Simon. Thanks

1:20.9

for having me here mate. Really, really pleased to be here. Yeah, it's great to have you.

1:24.5

So Ash and I we've we've overla at New Wine on doing sort of different main stage and

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