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On the April 2024 episode, Austin & Jacob do a little deep dive and discussion into the new movie Dune Part 2. WARNING! There ARE spoilers to the movie in this episode! Austin posits that this movie has a lot of parallels to the story of Jesus (and many differences) and that it might be a good way to open conversations about Christ with people since it is such a huge cultural movie right now. There is also some brief post-Easter chat at the beginning. We hope everyone had a happy Easter yesterday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ!

This is the March 2024 episode and it is the first one this year where co-hosts Austin & Jacob are both on the same episode! This is a big episode with TWO special guests. Courtney Sechrist and Leo Wilson both attend and work for Battle Creek Friends Church in Michigan and they are also 2/3rds of the team that hosts the After Church Apologetics podcast. On their podcast, they aim to take hard questions that people have about faith and Christianity and give a succinct answer to them so that you are better prepared next time you have those conversations with loved ones. What is the weirdest questions Pastor Leo has gotten about the Bible? Is it possible to give a "right" answer in the wrong way? Find out the answers to all these things and more on this episode of the NWYM Podcast!



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On the Feb. 2024 episode of the Northwest Yearly Meeting podcast host Austin Way (South Salem Friends) has an interview with David and Tricia Howell who are Evangelical Friends Missionaries in Ireland. According to Operation World, Ireland has an evangelical population of around 1.6%, which is the lowest percentage of any country in the English-speaking world. Since their arrival in Ireland in 2008, the Howells have shared the message of grace, hope, and peace with a people they now consider friends. It is their desire to create a place to worship where anyone can come and seek after the heart of a loving Father. 

David & Tricia are currently on deputation and are back in the states until May 2024 raising support. You can click here to learn more about the Howell's and their work in Ireland: https://catalog.friendsmission.com/campaign/efm-ireland-or-the-howell-family/c203067

Happy New Year! This isn't the typical format for the podcast, but December is such a busy month. Between Christmas Eve services, Christmas, traveling to visit family, Austin taking a vacation, and Jacob heading to Houston for Friends Summit 2023 there just wasn't time to record our typical episode. While at the Friends Summit conference we got to hear from 7 different main session speakers from Friends Churches across the continent. The opening message was given by Denae Warren of Star, ID. Denae has been active in Northwest Yearly Meeting in many different capacities. So while this message wasn't specifically given for the listeners of this podcast, we are sure you will get something from it if you take the time to listen. Enjoy and Happy New Year!



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On the December 2023 episode of the NWYM Podcast, hosts Austin and Jacob talk about the ideas of balancing consumerism around Christmas with the ideas of simplicity and balance. Not exactly the typical conversation people are trying to have around the holiday season, but it is something that we think a lot of people wrestle with as they want to celebrate the birth of our Savior all while we try to buy gifts and go to Christmas parties.

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For the November 2023 episode, as Evangelical Friends Mission (EFM) is celebrating their 60th Anniversary with a banquet being hosted in Portland, OR, we decided to interview a couple who recently went on one of the Luke 10 Trips with EFM. For those who don't know, EFM has been trying to identify and select 5 new mission fields with the goal to have 10 new missionary families established in those fields by the end of 2025. Greece was one of the locations that has been considered by EFM. Josiah Muhr and Leisa Boles (engaged to be married soon) went on the trips and are here on this episode to share about what it was like and what a potential future mission field in Greece would consist of.



Please be praying for EFM as they prayerfully consider which of their 10 fields will become future mission fields. Consider donating to EFM and becoming a financial support for this important organization!