This is the official Team World Vision Podcast, where you can find inspiration and encouragement while you move your feet for vulnerable children across the world.
We're back! And we're remembering and reflecting on our "why" as the one and only LDR takes us through a time of reflection.
In our 70th episode, Lyndsey is joined by Juampa Martinez, a long-time family member of Team World Vision. Juampa is beginning a new chapter in our ministry, as he steps into a new role leading out our invitationals team.
This week, we're joined by Jordan Smoke, the World Vision Senior Director of WASH, as he shines a light on the details and strategy of just how people are receiving clean water around the world.
Every step you take is one they won't have to. This episode features some of our Global 6K for Water leaders, both past and present, as they reflect on the meaning of this special day and why we run, walk, and roll for clean water.
World Water Day is quickly approaching on Tuesday, March 22. To help create excitement and hype around the largest day of impact for our ministry, RickEy Lumpkin II and Don Lee, two Team World Vision Southern California legends, talk with Lyndsey about continuing to say “yes" to moving in the name of clean water.
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This episode kicks off our fourth season with a conversation between Lyndsey and the founder of Team World Vision, Michael Chitwood. They cover some of their favorite race day experiences while also looking back and smiling at all that Michael has done to make our ministry what it is today.
This week, we're looking back and revisiting what it is that keeps us moving beyond the walls in our ministry, as Lyndsey roots us in a grounding word of truth this week.
Brett Power, our new Area Director in Kansas City, was welcomed to the at the team dinner, as he shared some words of wisdom and inspiration with the team.
As race weekends come back, this week's episode features our very own Rusty Funk with a word of encouragement and a story from the field that you won't forget.
It's our 60th episode! We're kicking off this fall race season with two Team World Vision veterans and legends, Steve Spear and Tim Hoekstra, as they share some stories from their years running multiple Chicago Marathons.
As fall race season approaches, Lyndsey brings us all of the updates and reminders to have a successful race weekend. We're also joined by Desireé Montgomery, a fellow World Vision colleague, as she shares a powerful word of both peace and encouragement with the team.
This week's episode is all about celebration and reflection, as we share some of the best moments from the Hood to Coast relay this year.
This week as our teams prepare for the Hood to Coast Relay, Lyndsey chats with Hood to Coast teammate, veteran, and OLYMPIAN Brianne Theisen-Eaton.
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This week, we're joined by a special guest, Alyssa Condotti-Kriz, as she shares with us the time that she's spent in Honduras. Her first-hand accounts of seeing World Vision's work and meeting her sponsored child will motivate you to keep moving your feet this week!
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Get ready for some nuggets of love this week from Lyndsey as she gives us a little word of encouragement as we move our feet this weekend!
This is the first “quilt” episode of Beyond the Walls, highlighting some of our favorite moments that featured memorable stories around fundraising over the last year.
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It’s race weekend for the World Vision Global 6K for Water! This episode has some very special guests, including Crystal O’Rourke, our Host Site Coach, as well as two rock star host site leaders: Lydia, Shawn, and their kids.
In this episode, Lyndsey is joined by a long-time veteran of World Vision, Carol Danner. She has been all over the map within our ministry and can speak to all of the complex and interesting aspects of how World Vision works.
This week’s episode features long-time runner and team captain Chrissie Velazquez. She brings the fire with encouragement, stories, and heart after another year of transformation and inspiration.
This episode flashes back to our annual National Leaders Gathering in March of 2021, where Kailey Vanderbaan brought the fire in this timely and relevant word of the “here but not yet.”
Eight Questions Who am I?Who are we? What is being done? What more can be done? What will we do together? Who will contribute what? How do we manage together? How do we transition?
It’s not uncommon to hear about life-long friendships coming out of Team World Vision. This week, we are featuring Brian Frazier and Shiela Johnson, as they reflect on their friendship as well as sharing stories from visiting World Vision’s work in Rwanda.
This week we’re asking the expert, as we share some of last weekend’s National Leaders Gathering, as we were joined by Dr. Allgood, Vice President of Water at World Vision U.S, as he is joined by Nick Muroki and Javy Diaz, asking some great questions about how World Vision’s water projects work.
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In this episode, Lyndsey is joined by special guest Don Lee as they do a deep dive into how World Vision works. In the words of former World Vision U.S. President, Rich Stearns, “Solving poverty is rocket science,” and this conversation really captures the beautiful intricacies and complexities of what it is that we’re moving our feet for.
To round out our Black History Month spotlights, we’re learning about Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner, and farmer. Now, a lot of our veteran runners will tell you about some of the things that they wish they’d known about the process of running a half or full marathon when they said yes. Today, we have a few voices of our area directors and team captains from around the country doing just that: sharing what they wish they would have known.
In honor of Black History Month, we’re highlighting Ann Cole Lowe, the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. We’re also feeling all the love this week, as Ashley Colquitt-Finley and Chantal Hayes Randall talk with Lyndsey about what’s it’s been like to be a mom during the pandemic and the love of motherhood in all its forms.
During Black History Month, we will be featuring short biographies of important figures in Black history at the beginning of each episode. This week, we’re learning about Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the Civil Rights Movement. We’ll also be hearing from Lyndsey as she talks with long-time Chicago Team World Vision runner, Emily Johanson on stepping through fear and finding the magic year after year while moving her feet.
We’re constantly hearing about “self-care” these days. This week, Lyndsey is joined by her good friend, Reverend Liz McQuitty, as they discuss what that really means in the midst of a new year but the not-so-new reality of living through a pandemic.
In our second mailbag episode, Lyndsey is joined by Rusty Funk, answering your questions about fundraising, training, and especially World Vision’s field work.
Each year on the third Monday of January, the United States of America recognizes and honors the life and legacy of Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. In this episode, we have pastor Kendra Ketter Chavis sharing his sermonized words, delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama on November 4, 1956.
We’re officially back with season two, bringing you fresh and inspiring content to get you through another unprecedented training season. Kicking it off, Lyndsey talks with Renee Bolton, World Vision staff member, and first-time marathoner as of October, about the ups and downs of training during a pandemic and what keeps her moving her feet.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, team! We hope you’re celebrating our Savior while staying cozy and healthy this holiday season. As we promised, today we’re bringing you a special gift: a brand new podcast. Listen in as Area Directors from our spring races share messages of HOPE with you, our incredible teammates.
This week, we have a short but powerful word of encouragement from Lyndsey this holiday season.
In this week’s episode, we’re talking all about masks, both literally and figuratively. Lyndsey is joined by Julie Bierschenk, our podcast producer extraordinaire. Listen in as they discuss everything from their day-to-day mask habits to the idea of masking ourselves from the world and from God.
We’ve all been dreaming about “getting back to normal,” but we know that when that comes, it will be a new normal. This week, we’re talking about that very thing with Danielle and Brandon Adair, long-time runners with Team World Vision and superstar teammates on the New York City Marathon team this year.
You've got questions and we've got answers. This is our first mailbag episode, where LDR and Gregory Schlough are answering some of your questions about training tips, sponsorship, and World Vision's work.
This week, we’re bringing you to one of our favorite parts of team dinner: the top ten race day tips. We have the voices of ten of our area directors around the country, each bringing you a unique pro-tip that will ensure your race day is smooth and successful. Our tenth tip will be brought to you by Amy Claire Patterson, our Indy area director, who is going to give you a special and relevant race day word of encouragement.
“A long obedience in the same direction.” That’s a phrase that the folks at Team World Vision have been saying for years, and this episode embodies all of that as Lyndsey catches up with Jeannie Wang about why she comes back, year after year. For 12 years, Jeannie has continued to run and serve, never missing a beat and always listening to that whisper to say "yes" each year.
There’s power in freedom and this week, Richard “RichRel” Reliford is back to give an impactful, heartfelt, and joyful word on just that. As our original Berlin and London Marathon teams put in their pamoja miles, listen in on why we named our Berlin run the “Freedom Run” from this Berlin Marathon veteran.
This week, we’re picking up where we left off as Lyndsey chats with Tye Eckert, or better known as “Coach” Tye. For the past 5 years, he’s led and shepherded our triathlon team at Team World Vision. He takes the time to share with us what makes this part of our ministry so special, just days after our 23 triathletes crossed the finish line.
This past weekend, our very first Team World Vision produced triathlon took place with 23 athletes tackling 140.6 miles in the name of clean water. Over the next two weeks, we’re spending some quality time in this swimming, biking, and running world as we reflect on the transformation that’s occurred this year.
In this episode, we’re remembering what it was like to say “yes” to moving our feet for the first time. This week, listen back as Nick Muroki, Area Director of our Kansas City team, brought a powerful message and invitation at Ashland United Methodist Church.
Seven years ago, Steve Spear completed his 150-day journey running across the United States, all in the name of clean water. This episode captures a beautiful conversation between Steve and LDR, as they talk about the call to run, reflection, and obedience.
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