Women’s testimonies shaped by grief and grace.
StoryTellers Live is a warm testimony series built around women telling personal stories at live community gatherings. Its episodes linger over loss, pride, parenting, caregiving, and prayer, then turn those experiences toward Scripture, surrender, and Christian hope.
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StoryTellers Live is built around testimony rather than commentary. Women speak from the middle of ordinary life, and the stories often begin where control has failed. A child dies. A husband is lost. A parent has been incarcerated. A son wrestles with faith while a medical event reshapes the family’s prayers. A woman steps into unexpected motherhood and finds that attachment, trauma, and disappointment do not resolve on a neat schedule. Another caregiver faces Alzheimer’s and the daily cost of showing up. The show gives these stories time. Its rhythm is usually host framing, live-gathering context, extended personal narration, a spiritual takeaway, and prayer. The result feels closer to sitting in a church living room than listening to an edited interview package. Storytellers move chronologically through childhood, marriage, parenting, ministry work, grief, and surrender, often circling back to the same question from a new angle. Where was God in this? What did faith look like when feelings did not agree? What had to be laid down? The answers are devotional, not abstract. Scripture, prayer, church community, mentors, neighbors, friends, and family support appear as part of the stories rather than as separate teaching points. The hosts bring warmth and structure, but the guests carry the emotional weight. Episodes often end with a challenge that asks for examination, surrender, encouragement of someone in hardship, or renewed trust in God’s character. The show is candid about sorrow and spiritual struggle. It is also determined to find evidence of mercy in small, concrete details. That balance gives StoryTellers Live its shape: grief is named plainly, but it is not allowed to have the last word. Its best moments come when a storyteller recognizes that help was already arriving through people, practices, and promises she could not fully see at the time. The appeal is especially strong for Christian women’s groups, testimony listeners, and anyone who wants stories of faith formed through real family pressure, loss, ministry, caregiving, and hope.
Made for: Best suited to Christian listeners who value personal testimony, women’s ministry, prayer, Scripture, and stories of faith under pressure. It also fits small groups or individuals looking for reflective encouragement around grief, family hardship, caregiving, and surrender.
What sets it apart: StoryTellers Live keeps the microphone close to the storyteller, preserving the feel of a live women’s gathering rather than turning testimony into a heavily produced interview. Its power comes from ordinary details treated as places where God’s presence can be noticed.
On the StoryTellers Live podcast, everyday women share personal stories of the hope found in Jesus Christ. From stories about sorrow and suffering to redemption and joy, these real life encounters with the Lord reveal what God can do when we trust Him with the details of our lives. Listen in each Wednesday and the first Mondays of the month, and get ready for your faith to increase, for freedom in Christ to be found, and for your perspective to be shifted towards eternity!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
StoryTellers Live turns women's first-person accounts of grief, caregiving, family change, and inner struggle into grounded reflections on practiced Christian faith.
StoryTellers Live gives one woman at a time room to trace a personal crisis through faith, with podcast hosts Katie Dine, Robin Cowan, and Lindy Walker providing a brief frame before returning afterward with reflection and prayer.
A running group brings chocolate to grief; you can bring your harder questions about God.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A woman grieving family loss traces God's presence through the ordinary care that carried her.
May's story sits with the slow, uneven labor of trusting God after a death in her family. Faith is treated less as a bright certainty than as a daily choice, sometimes held simply because there is nothing better to hold.
A ministry leader reflects on how praise and influence exposed pride that faith helped turn toward freedom.
Pride can grow quietly in the middle of good work, and this single-episode review follows that tension with care. The story centers on a ministry leader whose weekly Bible study, encouraging reports of growth, and requests for wisdom began to reveal a deeper hunger for…
Lauren Kelly's story follows unexpected motherhood through grief, uncertainty, and trust in God's kindness.
Lauren Kelly's story opens in a painful spiritual tension, as a new family role takes shape while God's kindness feels difficult to sense. She names loneliness, disappointment, sadness, and the fear that the children may never attach to her, or may only long for their first mom.
A caregiver's faith is tested in the daily work of Alzheimer's, where love becomes presence, sacrifice, and a changed home.
Jennifer Roberts's story of Alzheimer's in the family finds its force in the unglamorous decisions care requires. Faith is not treated as an idea so much as a daily discipline: showing up every afternoon, listening to the repeated plea to go home, realizing that home meant Ohio,…
Emily's testimony turns Scripture study into a quiet practice of surrender, strength, and hope.
Emily's story traces a faith changed by suffering, moving from the busy posture of Martha toward the quieter posture of Mary, sitting at Jesus' feet and learning to read Scripture with more care.
A clear testimony about the strain of earning acceptance, and the faith that asks for the whole life.
This single-episode testimony finds its shape in a familiar but still tender tension: wanting happiness, wanting acceptance, and trying to move toward God without turning faith into one more checklist.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
StoryTellers Live centers this episode on Katherine Adkins of Oxford, Mississippi, whose story moves from checking every Christian box to wanting Jesus as the Lord of her whole life.
Linda Friedman shares her journey from Mormonism to Christianity, finding freedom in God's grace.
Amy Bates shares 10 lessons learned from turning 50, framed as the gift of aging, on the Storytellers Live podcast.
Dawson Cooper shares her story of an unplanned pregnancy and marriage, revealing how she recognized her need for Jesus as her Savior.
Alesha Hollinger shares a near-death experience of glimpsing heaven's peace, intertwined with podcast hosts promoting their speaking ministry.
Emily Holman shares her personal story of faith through multiple hardships, including her husband Kevin's cancer diagnosis and the sudden death of her daughter Catherine.
Alvie McNair frames her divorce and 12-year custody struggle as a wilderness journey grounded in Deuteronomy 8.
Beverly May says faith after Will's death became a choice, not a feeling, after a 2013 hunting accident took her son in Sumter County.
Emma Flohr says her 11 years leading Side by Side Charleston exposed how praise, responsibility, and people-pleasing had become tangled in her ministry work.
Anna Meade Harris shares her story of losing her husband and becoming a single parent, finding hope and redemption through faith.
Miranda Andrews shares her journey of finding peace, purpose, and freedom through faith after growing up with an incarcerated parent.
Sarah Waller shares her story of surrendering to God during the hardest season of her life, divided into three parts: God as King, hope, and personal presence.
Leslie Hedge shares her story of trusting God through a son's faith struggle and a medical crisis, encouraging listeners to keep praying even when God feels silent.
Lauren Kelly, from Vestavia and originally West Virginia, tells how a high-school conversion in South Florida led her through Samford, Memphis, Tanzania, and eventually Sam Kelly's family.
StoryTellers Live episode 365 features Jennifer Roberts of West Cobb, near Atlanta, describing how her family moved in with her in-laws to care for Juanita through Alzheimer's.