Laura Stewart - Life Inside 'The Crowded House' (N18)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2010
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Join us as we chat to Laura Stewart, a member of one of 'The Crowded House' Gospel Communities. Following our chat with one of the network's leaders, Steve Timis, it's a chance to hear what being part of this network is really like.
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church. |
| 0:16.2 | On the last Nomad podcast, we spoke to Steve Timis from the Crowded House Network of Churches. |
| 0:22.4 | And we thought we'd follow that up with an interview with someone who's involved in Crowded House and just get more of a personal account of what that's like. |
| 0:30.4 | So we're delighted to welcome Laura Stewart to the podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi, Laura. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello. |
| 0:35.3 | Great to have you with us. |
| 0:36.2 | Could you start by telling us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved |
| 0:39.5 | in Crowded House? |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, I've been part of the Crowded House for about four years. |
| 0:46.6 | When I moved to Sheffield, for the University, I started coming to Crowded House. |
| 0:51.9 | And, yeah, I've been part of it ever since in kind of various forms. |
| 0:57.5 | So I've been part of various gospel communities over the years. |
| 1:01.7 | And at the moment, I'm in a gospel community called Southview. |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.9 | Brilliant. |
| 1:08.4 | And what led you to get involved in the first place? |
| 1:11.8 | Well, I'd never heard of the crowded house and just intended to find a good church when I moved to Sheffield. |
| 1:20.8 | And I left my halls of residence on my first Sunday morning and bumped into a guy who was leaving his halls of residence. |
| 1:27.4 | And he said he was going to church |
| 1:29.0 | and he'd met a girl called bex at a church search barbecue so um yeah i went along with him and kind of |
| 1:37.9 | from the moment i got there just felt like it was um a real family and um yeah they were really |
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