Towards Eden | Sam Ward

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Accountant Sam chose the path of downward mobility in moving onto Openshaw, one of the toughest estates in the land. With a heroin addict living on one side, and a brothel on the other, an extraordinary adventure began, which continues 23 years later. What a story and what a challenge! Check out https://joineden.org/ (www.joineden.org) if you want to consider joining an Eden team or supporting the work. The Message do superb work, check out https://www.message.org.uk/ (www.message.org.uk) Sam mentionedhttps://youtu.be/EQjfhWyNRSY ( ‘the forgotten people of Openshaw’ on Youtube) – what a picture it paints, and how wonderful things have changed now! Check out our episode with Message founder, Andy Hawthorne - it's one of the first we released. --- Support us financially: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/get-involved/inspired-give/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) If you're interested in booking a speaker from GLO for 2024, contact ⁠⁠info@greatlakesoutreach.org⁠⁠ https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/people/simon-guillebaud/choose-life-2023/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)--- Weekly episode WhatsApp link: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#whatsapp (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) | Weekly email notification: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/inspired-podcast/#email (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemail⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) For more from Simon, visit: https://www.simonguillebaud.com/ (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠simonguillebaud.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/?utm_source=inspired_description&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=inspired&utm_id=inspired (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	We moved next to an Irish alcoholic on one side and then a family of sex workers on the other.
0:08.4	A mum and her mother and a daughter.
0:11.4	It was just an eye-opener.
0:14.0	Day one, I've moved in.
0:16.0	As I'm settling down to sleep, there's this police helicopter that begins to circle and then you hear the sound of
0:23.5	like a car being joyridden up and down the kind of narrow terrace streets and then it gets wedged
0:30.3	between in the alleyway between the wheelie bins and I'm just thinking this is bonkers like
0:37.1	what am I doing here welcome everybody this is
0:42.5	Simon Gilbo with inspired great to you back for another fantastic week I have no doubt if you're
0:46.7	new to inspired it's all about listening to great stories from mates of mine from across all sorts
0:51.5	of different walks of life who have journey with Jesus for some time who've
0:54.9	experienced the highs and the lows who are doing beautiful kingdom gospel work and yeah we are
1:01.7	bombarded relentlessly by negative news by grimness and stuff that causes anxiety and makes us
1:09.0	generally depressed so this is to counteract that i have no doubt then in 50 odd minutes you're going to leave with a smile on your face and feeling inspired because we've got a fantastic guest with us. His name is Sam Ward. Welcome Sam. Hello, mate. Great to be with you. Yeah, so good with you. I think Sam and I go back back about 10 years. I've been across when I was still living in Burundi. They flew me back a few times to
1:29.3	speak at the message trust to this annual conference. What's it called again?
1:33.9	The proximity conference. Proximity. Yeah. And Sam's headed up for years. Eden. He is now the
1:38.8	chief executive of the message trust. We've had Andy Hawthorne on. We've had Lynn's West on. We've had different people
1:45.2	that have been through the message. The message has churned out a stunning number of people.
1:50.5	And Sam is one of those who's the fruit of that work and has had a fantastic impact. So, Sam,
1:56.7	listen, let's just crack on in there. I don't know much about your background. Tell us a little
2:00.9	about your upbringing. Well, I was born in Shropshire, a rural upbringing, quite idyllic in some
2:07.6	ways. Lovely Christian parents, although we weren't particularly affluent, we had just a lovely
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