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Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Hospitality of Need with Kevan Chandler

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Kevan Chandler is a best-selling author and the founder of a nonprofit organization called We Carry Kevan. He speaks worldwide about his life with a disability and how community and creativity are the keys to true accessibility. Through storytelling, and discussion, Kevan and Eric Wood, Pastor of Justice and Mercy, explore how our own needs can actually create space for kinship—with one another and with our neighbors—in the rhythms of our ordinary lives.

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0:00.0

Good evening, everybody. How are you doing? Good. Thank you for making time and space.

0:18.6

We'll talk a little bit about our relationship and our friendship, but in a lot of

0:24.4

ways, this is just a beautiful gift to share what the life has been like between us for the last

0:30.7

12 or so years. And oftentimes, what starts out as a stranger or a neighbor has a potential to turn into family

0:39.0

and even more than friends.

0:41.5

And so I believe that our dynamic is simply sharing with the bride what kinship can really

0:47.8

look like and may it be a prophetic gift to the body to invite each other into the same spaces.

0:55.8

So with that, I just want to ask some questions to my brother and one of my dearest friends

1:00.0

in the world, Kevin Chandler.

1:03.1

So Kevin, can you give us a little backdrop or a little story of how you came and met Jesus?

1:09.0

Yeah.

1:09.7

Hi, guys.

1:10.6

By the way. Great to see all of you here. So when I was

1:16.6

six years old, I had spent at that point six years in the church and been around knowing who Jesus was.

1:29.3

My dad was a deacon.

1:31.3

My mom basically ran the Sunday school program,

1:34.3

and I was around it, but when I was six years old,

1:39.3

I thought, I'm gonna go over this way,

1:42.3

so the podium is not in there. There we go. But I thought, I'm going to go over this way, so the podium is not there.

1:44.8

There we go.

1:51.2

But I thought that I should be able to wrap my head around eternity,

1:54.7

and, you know, because that's a normal thing.

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