
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Upbeat and uplifting, ‘Inspired’ introduces us to a stunning variety of people from all walks of life. It celebrates perseverance, overcoming, and costly faith. In a world full of bad news, these powerful, hope-filled stories of adventure and risk-taking will stir you to imagine new possibilities.
Hosted by Simon Guillebaud, author, speaker and founder of Great Lakes Outreach. New episodes each Thursday.
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Latest episodes

Sep 5, 2024 • 60min
On the Margins | Bob Ekblad
Bob has always had a concern for the poor and oppressed, and his journey of faith has encompassed liberation theology shaped through years in Central America, coupled with social justice activism and then a radical experience through the charismatic movement - not something he’d wanted at the time! This propelled him into greater effectiveness, with healings and power encounters now accompanying his gospel work. It’s a fascinating, challenging and inspiring story.Do check out bobekblad.com, peoplesseminary.org and tierra-nueva.org---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org

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Aug 29, 2024 • 1h 2min
Generous Living in Preparing to Die | Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett, a remarkable communicator and a generous spirit, shares his profound insights while facing terminal cancer. He reflects on the importance of reckless generosity, emphasizing how it can transform lives amidst personal struggles. Richard discusses the emotional toll of his diagnosis and urges listeners to prioritize impactful charitable giving over material wealth. He champions investing in global church initiatives and fostering a culture of generosity, encouraging everyone to embrace stewardship as they confront life's ultimate questions.

Aug 22, 2024 • 1h
Adventurous Leading! | Lynn Green
Still young at heart after five decades of outreach in 110+ countries, YWAM UK’s founder and pioneer Lynn Green is as passionate as ever about impacting the nations, raising new leaders, and taking risks as part of his adventure of faith. Check out Simon's extended conversation with Lynn here: https://youtu.be/f5mwBGJaAzUDo check out all things to do with Lynn at lynngreen.blog---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org

Aug 15, 2024 • 59min
Faith, fame, and life’s sucker punches | Simon Thomas
TV presenter Simon Thomas has had a hugely successful and high-profile career over the last 25 years on the BBC with Blue Peter and then with Sky Sports. But he also shares with real candour about mental health challenges, battles with alcohol, and losing his first wife Gemma to cancer in 2017.Follow Simon on Instagram at @SimonThomasTVHis raw account of losing Gemma is called ‘Love Interrupted’---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org

Aug 8, 2024 • 57min
Farming Miracles | Donna Bloomfield
When your diminutive mother shouts at the drug-dealer attacking her son: “In the name of Jesus, get off him!” and the drug dealer flies across the garden before running away, that’s going to impact you! Donna’s story is full of God’s interventions and guidance, as she ended up working with the world’s poorest and hungriest people in Burundi, helping them out of poverty through revolutionary (Biblical) farming principles. Just wow!If you want to get involved in her work, go to hopefortomorrowglobal.orgTo listen to Chrissie Chapman’s story, click here.---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org

Aug 1, 2024 • 59min
From Cop to Crook to Christ | Simon Pinchbeck
After more than two decades in the police, Simon’s violent tendencies caught up with him, and he spiraled from being a law-enforcer into a law-breaker. Eventually he found what he’d always been looking for, in the most unlikely of places… It’s a great story!To invite Simon to speak, he can be contacted at Simon[@]cstalk.uk Do check out Simon’s Christian Straight Talk podcast at christianstraighttalk.uk/podcast/---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org

Jul 25, 2024 • 59min
Lake of Tears | Kelvin Burke
Aged 23, aspiring international hockey player Kelvin survived a near-fatal car crash, but was left permanently disabled. His life changed overnight, and his faith ultimately pulled him through many dark nights of the soul. God subsequently called him into hospital chaplaincy to minister as a wounded healer with beautiful results.Kelvin can be contacted at kelvin[@]kelvinburke.orgDo get hold of his new book ‘Lake of Tears’, available at kelvinburke.org/shop---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org

Jul 18, 2024 • 59min
On the Rock, on the Roll! | Nancy Goudie
Nancy and her husband Ray founded the band ‘Heartbeat’ which toured for over a decade with spectacular results. Following on from their success, they branched out through NGM to help nurture and launch dozens of other artists to be salt and light throughout the world in the entertainment industry. Praying in the money, trusting God all the way, it’s a stunning story. Go to nancygoudie.com to contact Nancy, book her for an event, attend one of our Spiritual Health Weekends, or buy any of her 19 books, and there’s her music, etc.Check out our episode with Trish Morgan---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org

Jul 11, 2024 • 58min
Songs of Hope! | Noel Kenny
In 1979, heroin invaded Kenny’s community in Dublin, and the singing stopped. He counted 440 funerals. But he and his wife Sharon were radically changed at the very same moment, and slowly but steadily fresh songs of hope are being sung again, be they by gangsters, drug-dealers, children and more. It’s a stunning account of decades of faithfulness on the same patch, with the ripple effect spreading throughout Dublin and to the nations.Noel can be contacted at noel[@]libertychurch.ie Do check out libertychurch.ie And also one-day.co for the project in Lesotho---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org

Jul 4, 2024 • 57min
A Message Worth Sharing! | Andy Bannister
From God dramatically calling him on a London street, Andy Bannister has shared the gospel and answered the tough questions of sceptics and Muslims all around the world. Now he heads up Solas, an organisation that takes the message of Jesus out of churches and into universities, schools, pubs, cafes, and workplaces. Andy has a passion for sharing the good news — and also for helping equip Christians to talk about their faith naturally and fear-free with their friends, neighbours, and colleagues.And if you’d like an easy way to start conversations with friends about Jesus, check out Andy’s new co-authored book: “Have You Ever Wondered? Finding the Everyday Clues to Meaning, Purpose and Spirituality” — buy one, get one free to give to a friend at http://bit.ly/hyew.You can find out more about Andy, Solas, and the many amazing resources they have for evangelism (and how to get them to come and speak in your town) at www.solas-cpc.org.---🙏 Join our Saturday Prayer for Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/zoom ❤️ Support our work in Burundi: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspired ---🔔 Remember to follow us wherever you listen.▶️ Subscribe to us on YouTube📸 Follow us on Instagram: @inspiredwith.sg📲 Weekly episode WhatsApp link: greatlakesoutreach.org/whatsapp📧 Weekly email notification: greatlakesoutreach.org/inspiredemailFor more from Simon, visit: simonguillebaud.com---🌍 Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi & Beyond: greatlakesoutreach.org