Hill Stories Podcast Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

Kingsley Powell, Chapel Hill’s Student Ministries Director, is fairly confident in what he is doing and for whom he is doing it. We’ll talk about why he feels that way, how to combat the unique issues confronting today’s young people, and maybe a little bit about Hallmark Christmas movies.

Jason Schultz is the Executive Director of Agua Viva Ministries in Ensenada, Mexico. A second-generation missionary, Jason does not consider himself a missionary, unless maybe when he’s visiting churches in the U.S. He tells us about the many aspects of Agua Viva open to short-term mission trips from the U.S., as well as the necessary lifelines AVM provides to so many in Mexico. God stories aren’t confined by international boundaries.

Being smart, successful, in a good relationship and following your own path after growing up in the mid-west is not as great as you think it would be...if you suffer from depression. Andy Davidson talks about his personal stumbling block that is more common than we think, and is reaching higher levels during our continuing pandemic. There is one solid rock we can cling to.

For 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the yearly Chapel Hill High School mission trip participants stayed at home and their guest speaker was Joseph Bataille, former World Relief Country Director for Haiti. We sit down with him and his wife, Joycelyn, to learn about some of their personal trials, a mother’s special connection, and the love of Christ.

Paige Beiler is a recent transplant to the Pacific Northwest, but a little over a year ago she was learning to speak Darija in Morocco. Find out how she went from youth development in the Peace Corp to helping with church development in Port Orchard, Washington, in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.

Olivia Lott grew up in the church, began to focus on “getting ahead,” realized she had wandered away from her faith, then undertook to find it again and refocus her life. And that was all before she became a senior in high school. Now a senior in college, Olivia seems to have a good idea of where God is taking her, so load up some Maverick City Music tunes, and join us on her journey!