The thing is about the homeless and the vulnerable street community is that they're crying out for help.

Just like I was, they are, they want help.

They want you to come and listen and talk.

They want to tell you their story.

They want you to listen.

So if you can go up and you can offer a drink, biscuits or food, chat, respect, care, love. That is a massive thing, a massive,

massive thing. Welcome, everybody, this is Simon Gilbeau with Inspired. Great to be back for

another fantastic week of encouragement and stirring of our faith. Another week of bad news and just grim stuff that we're

bombarded by. So if you're new to us inspired, it's all about just meeting mates of mine from

different walks of life who are doing beautiful stuff in this country overseas that are overcoming

adversity. We've all got our story. But some people's stories will resonate with us at profound

levels, will stir us in our faith to still believe, come on, yeah, the Lord's on his throne.

And I've got no doubt this week you're going to be inspired and encouraged in your faith

because we've got with us Linda Bridges. Welcome Linda. Hi, Simon. Thanks for having me.

Brilliant to have you, Linda. So Linda

went to King's Church in Salampton, which is where my wife Lizzie went before we got married,

and they supported us for a number of years. You're now at Lighthouse, which is, I'm also connected

to you because of the fantastic guys there, Clive, Cool Deep, Sanjay, who now leads it, is we did a

music project together in terms of him doing the music for our 13 video radical discipleship

series. So loads of connections. And listen, just at the start of this podcast, Linda's

being very, I think brave is the right word in addressing she's never shared this story and suddenly

this is on a very sort of public platform but you know in terms of people knowing up front we

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