Episode 78: Jo Gibbs

Host Tori interviews Jo Gibbs on what the crosscultural life is like and how chronic fatigue affected that. Jo talks about the ministry roles that she has been in as well as how she came to understand who Christ is and what He had done for her.

 

EPISODE NOTES:

 

Host Tori interviews Jo Gibbs on what the crosscultural life is like and how chronic fatigue affected that. Jo talks about the ministry roles that she has been in as well as how she came to understand who Christ is and what He had done for her.

 

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Jo grew up in a non-Christian family but came to Christ while at university. Later on she felt challenged to go serve the Lord overseas and ended up living in a crowded city for 11 years before returning to Australia due to her husband’s health. She took up ministry roles that used her plethora of skills from working in different situations such as, community development, cross-cultural ministry, working with families, kids and youth, then care and discipleship ministry.

 

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

 

Anglican Deaconess Ministries

    

SHOW SNIPPETS:

 

"I felt like someone had given me some of the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle but without all of them and without the box with the lid that actually helps to put it together. That’s what it felt like."

 

"I was generally the one arguing with the Christian studies teacher, trying to pull out, what I thought were, apparent contradictions in the Bible or tough questions."

 

"I’d heard about the needs of the Muslim world but honestly at the time I felt really uncomfortable around Muslim women."

 

"I developed a love for Muslim women that went alongside that challenge that I’d heard."

 

"Great, huge needs."

 

"At one point I was a part of a women’s Bible study where the only person in the group who could read was the national leader."

 

"It (the Pentecostal church) often felt like it was, intentionally or unintentionally, focused on what I was doing to generate my Christian life rather than what Christ had done."

 

"I could see God taking me on this gentle process of different denominations."

 

"Rest in all that Christ has done and not what I generate in my Christian life."

 

"I think that remembering what God’s done in the past but also remembering who God is is such an important part of our lives." 

 

"So just trying to pull back, reset my priorities."

 

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. . The Lydia Project: Conversations with Christian Women is a podcast co-hosted by Tori Walker and Taryn Hayes. It features informal chats with Christian women around faith, life, ministry and the ways in which God is shaping their thinking and their lives. The views of TLP guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the hosts.