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Christian life stories told with patience.
The Story with Jimmy Colefax is a measured Christian interview program built around life stories told slowly and personally. Recent episodes move from Bill and Glad Forward’s missionary years and Alzheimer’s caregiving to accounts of prison, conversion, and religious persecution.
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The Story with Jimmy Colefax is a long-running Christian interview program shaped around testimony rather than debate. Its strength is patience. Episodes tend to begin with a name, a place, and a memory, then follow the guest through the events that made faith feel costly, sustaining, or newly real. The recent Bill Forward series shows that pattern clearly. Across several parts, Bill tells the story of growing up with Glad in Queensland, becoming a couple as teenagers, marrying, training for mission, and serving in India. The conversation does not skip the hard parts. It lingers with the death of their second child as a baby, the strain of mission work in a foreign land, and the later heartbreak of Glad’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2004. It also notices ordinary tenderness, including bike rides, caregiving decisions, and a marriage that has carried ministry and illness together. Other recent episodes broaden the map. Daniel Shoyesta speaks about Iran, Islamic philosophy, political danger, Turkey, and his journey toward faith in Christ. Petr Yarshek’s account moves from life under communism in the former Czechoslovakia to imprisonment in Sudan. Bob Fu’s story passes through mainland China, the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, flight to the United States, and Christian witness. The show’s interviews are usually gentle and chronological. Questions invite guests to slow down, return to family origins, and explain what they thought at the time. The production includes radio recaps and Vision Christian Media framing, but the emotional center is the guest’s remembered detail. It is not slick or argumentative. It is earnest Christian storytelling for people drawn to mission, conversion, endurance, and faith under pressure.
Made for: For Christian listeners who value testimony, missionary stories, and accounts of faith through suffering. It also suits anyone drawn to careful, chronological interviews about marriage, caregiving, exile, and conviction.
What sets it apart: The show gives guests unusually long emotional runway, often tracing a whole life rather than a single headline event. Its warmth comes from plain questions, remembered scenes, and a steady focus on faith under pressure.
Jimmy Colefax fronts a series of conversations filled with stories of everyday Australians who reveal the impact their faith has through a variety of challenges, many we all go through. For more great Christian radio from Australia, visit Vision Christian Radio online for more great content at www.vision.org.au.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal interviews show how Christian faith is tested and practiced through family rupture, illness, missionary service and sustained care.
Jimmy Colfax builds each conversation around a life story, letting faith emerge through choices, upheaval and long stretches of responsibility.
This is where you go when polished inspiration feels thinner than faith tested by Alzheimer's or family rupture.
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A faith story about marriage, endurance, and the daily work of care.
The episode follows Bill Forward into its most searching ground, moving from missionary work and medical crisis to the long daily cost of caring for Glad after her Alzheimer's diagnosis in 2004.
A hand-drawn Bible chart opens a quiet reflection on memory, mission, and shared life.
Bill Forward's 1978 return to Australia becomes a quiet study in teaching that starts where people already are. He remembers drawing a simple chart of God's story and then asking listeners what it meant to them.
A quiet faith story that lets memory, place, and music do the work.
This episode stays close to childhood faith, long days in the Australian bush, and a home where church and music sit side by side. It does not rush for a big argument. Instead, it lets the memories settle on their own, with the questions staying plain and patient.
A grounded Christian conversation about mortality, community, and faith under pressure.
Stephen McAlpine's Part 2 stays close to suffering, conviction, and the strain of living Christian faith in a more secular setting. The strongest material comes when he speaks plainly about being given six months to live and lets mortality sit there without dressing it up.
A personal faith story shaped by conflict, family fracture, and the pressure of university ideas.
The episode begins with a fairly extended Visionathon appeal, then settles into Stephen McAlpine's account of a childhood marked by Northern Ireland during the Troubles, his father's departure, and the pressure that placed on a home with four boys and a single parent.
A plain-spoken Christian testimony about alcoholism, relapse, family, and Cameron Harvey's decision that he had had enough.
Cameron Harvey's story sits in the hard space between a clear moment of faith and the years it took to live as if that moment were true. At 24, after six weeks in the trauma ward at the Alfred, he believed God had his hand on him, yet he returned to alcoholism and the life he…
A plainspoken account of shame, loss, and faith that lets the hardest details speak for themselves.
Corinne Peregrini's story moves through childhood shame, family pressure, being sent away to Ireland alone, and the harder stretch that follows: pregnancy, abortion, and years of silence. The strongest passages stay close to those memories.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Bill Forward describes how a breast lump found in Romania led to a call from Bucharest, a referral to Windsor Breast Care Clinic in England, and a last-minute flight arranged after Adrian appeared with exactly $800 in his briefcase.
Bill Forward describes returning to Australia after 15 years in India, then struggling in Perth with decimal currency, self-service stations, and churches that wanted 25-30 minute sermons instead of the hour-and-a-half preaching he knew in India.
This episode features part three of a conversation with Bill Forward, sharing his and his wife's experiences as missionaries in India, including unexpected challenges and God's work in their ministry.
This episode continues Bill Forward's personal story about his marriage, his wife Glad's Alzheimer's diagnosis, and their journey as missionaries in India, exploring faith challenges and life transitions.
This episode features Bill Forward sharing his lifelong love story with his wife Glad, including their 50+ year marriage, her Alzheimer's diagnosis, his caregiving, their missionary work in India, and their adventures together.
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Czech missionary Peter Yarshek shares his story of being imprisoned and tortured by ISIS in Sudan, and how his faith sustained him.
Bob Fu shares his story as a student leader during the Tiananmen Square protests and his journey to Christian faith.
An interview with Dr.
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Graeme Roulon shares his life of Christian ministry and how God helped him overcome challenges.
This episode features part two of an interview about the rise and fall of Easterfest, the Australian Gospel Music Festival.
The Story begins with a brief Visionathon appeal.
Michelle Hamilton shares her miraculous survival story after being lost at sea, highlighting her faith in God.
Michelle Hamilton recounts her miraculous survival at sea after her canoe capsized, crediting her mother's advice to call on God.
Brett and Kate Ryan share their journey of leaving their home and ministry in Australia to follow God's calling to Europe.
Brett and Kate Ryan share their story of leaving Focus on the Family Australia for a new ministry adventure in Europe.
Stephen McAlpine returns to The Story to talk through how a severe health crisis pushed him to think differently about life, death, and faith.
Stephen McAlpine расскаuses how a return to Northern Ireland during the Troubles shaped his family.
Cameron Harvey, a Melbourne man who spent roughly 30 years cycling through drug addiction, motorcycle accidents, a broken marriage, and drunk driving, shares how hearing a 2018 series of podcast interviews about Elijah Care Drug Rehabilitation Ministry drove him to seek help.
Retired teacher Colin Yule discusses his legacy of taking students to an Aboriginal settlement and the impact of Christian faith on cultural understanding.
An interview with retired teacher Colin Newell about his unorthodox appearance and his legacy of taking students to an Aboriginal settlement, framed within a Christian perspective.
Corinne tells the story of growing up under criticism and carrying the feeling that she was a burden.
Jimmy Colefax interviews author Barbara Miller about the inspiring story of William Cooper, an Aboriginal activist who fought for Indigenous rights and protested the treatment of Jews.
An interview with Dawn Devlin and Doug MacDonald about the history of Benwerin, a Christian ministry for women in need, and the impact of faith on their lives.
Jimmy Colefax interviews Dawn Devlin and Doug MacDonald about the history of Ben Weren, a ministry for women in challenging situations, and its impact on hundreds of women and children.
Christine Sakokibara shares her story of living as a Christian in Jerusalem and her ministry work.
Christine Sakokibara shares her life story of faith, from growing up in Queensland to living in Jerusalem for 45 years.
Carolyn Koston shares her life journey and how her Christian faith helped her persevere through numerous challenges.
Carolyn Costin shares her story of overcoming hardships through faith, discussing themes of suicide and abuse.
David Odd shares his experiences as a missionary in Papua New Guinea, including a story where God provided through a former student who was a doctor when he had food poisoning.
This episode features an interview with David Odd, a missionary who served in Papua New Guinea for 23 years and shares his unique story of becoming a Christian after five years of missionary work.
This episode continues the story of Alan Jones, who followed a divine vision to establish a ministry training school in Thailand near the Myanmar border, focusing on its development and impact amid regional challenges.
This episode continues the story of Alan Jones, who shares how a 20-year-old vision from God led him to establish a ministry training school in Thailand, focusing on Christian mission and persecution.
This episode explores Alan Jones's vision from the Lord to start a training centre for church planters in Maasai, Thailand, and the journey that led to its realization.