Fish Food

My Street is an attempt to get to know my neighbors. Who knows what to expect with each episode. So far the surprises keep coming.   Spam chowder, sugar mills, aquarium fish, and a swamp snapping turtle hunter can all be found in this interview with the Jeansonnes.

Jim and Mary are back and have some great stories about their 50 years on their street.  There might be accordion involved.

The first of a two-part interview with Jim and Mary.  What a delight!  This couple has been on their street for over 50 years and have seen a ton of changes.  Inspiring story.

My Street is an attempt for me to get to know my neighbors.  I hope you'll join and be encouraged to do the same in your own neighborhood no matter if you live in an urban, suburban, or rural setting.  Because we often do not know our neighbors we live with suspicion or even fear.  Come along as I try to engage, learn, and seek to know those on My Street.  

Ever heard of a "scratch plant"?  It's when a church planter moves into a community with no existing core group with whom to start.  In the first year, Harris encountered a tornado, COVID-19, and a heart attack.  

Anna Hitt is a young mother and wife.  Physically, she could take me down in a second flat.  A former LSU javelin competitor, she continues her fitness through Cross Fit, wrangling her daughter, and being married to a former LSU lineman.   Just a few years ago she was diagnosed with MS.  How has that changed her?  How has she responded?  

Will Gray seems like a very successful consultant who helps others (individuals and businesses) to navigate how to become a better version of themselves.  And he issuccessful.  But there was a time when he lost everything.  In this episode we explore God's design in using hardship to help us become who He intends for us to be.   Will is the marketing and communications director for Fortis Riders . . . a high end chauffeur company that serves people's needs around the world.  For businesses, Will has worked alongside 100+ organizations (nonprofits, startups & mid-sized companies), helping each one become a better version of itself. Through Vocationality, he works with individuals, to help them discover what they're made to do.

Shelby Segrest shares her story with the frustration, anger, sadness, hope, and beauty of having a child who registers on the autism spectrum.   This is the third part of a three part series with Shelby. We get to listen in as Shelby tells her story of dismay, wrestling, and coming to grips with the beauty of the image of God in her own daughter. May you be encouraged and hopeful because of what God has done and is doing in Shelby's life.

This is part 2 of a three part interview with Shelby Segrest. Soon after her mother died in 2003 (part 1), Shelby and her husband, Hudson, moved to New Orleans. Her first child was born August 9, 2005. August 29 Katrina made landfall. In a hurry to leave and an optimistic view of the weather, they left all they owned but for three days worth of clothes and supplies.

Our guest on this episode of Fish Food is Shelby Segrest.  Shelby is a wife and a mother living on a small farm in Alabama.  On this first of a two-part interview, Shelby tells us about the heartbreak and hope of her parent's divorce and losing her mom to cancer.   For more information about Fish Food, or to support, please visit www.fishfood.me.  

Mark Casson spent 15 years in prison for attempted murder.  But incarceration wasn't nearly as difficult as the lack of freedom he faces in communicating his greatest love with his brother.   Mark is the executive director of Metanoia Prison Ministries.  In this episode we talk about his years in Corcoran Prison, how he met his wife while there, and the difficulty of talking about Christ with family members.  

Dr. Timothy Lane is a counselor, pastor, conference speaker, trainer, and author. He is the Founder and President of the Institute for Pastoral Care, a non-profit that equips local churches to care for their people, and Tim Lane & Associates, a counseling practice in Peachtree City, GA.   Tim has authored Living Without Worry: How to Replace Anxiety with Peace, and co-authored How People Change and Relationships: A Mess Worth Making.   In this episode, Tim talks us through what it looks like to find mercy and grace through loss and transition as he has experienced career transition as well as loss within his family.

This week we visit with Ed Eubanks. Weakness, PTSD, rheumatological disease, community, counsel, and prayer . . . Ed walks us through how two areas of his life revealed his weaknesses in ways he would have never chosen, but how those weaknesses have become something life-giving and beautiful for himself and others.

This week's episode deal's with the heart struggle of when we don't get what we want. The host of Fish Food gets interviewed by Holly, his wife, regarding a desired dream job gone south and the resulting effects both good and bad.   For a print version, visit www.fishfood.me.

In this week's episode of Fish Food I am invited into the home and lives of Randall and Diane Yelverton of Florence, Alabama.  We talk about 34 years of ministry in a small town in the south, coming to grips with depression, and the importance of community for longterm health.  Randall has been a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and in the Associate Reformed Church (ARP).  Diane was a school teacher in the public school system in Alabama.   For written exerpts of our podcasts, please visit www.fishfood.me

We all liked to be liked.  What happens in our hearts when someone doesn't like us?  In this episode, Chas Morris walks us through his struggle with depending too much of what others think of him.  How can our future hope speak into our present struggle with being liked?  Chas is the pastor of Grace Blue Ridge in Hendersonville, NC.  He is a pastor, really good beer brewer, a runner, and has a love for enteraining others.  

Calvin Armerding is a counselor, writer, and a musician.  In this episode we hear of his struggle with belieivng that if he didn't stay circumstancially beneficial to others, they would either abandon him or die.  We invite you to listen in and hear of the transformation Calvin underwent and is undergoing.  

In this episode Andy Lewis walks us through his struggles as a pastor with depression and how it was related to people-pleasing and a martyr complex. Andy is the pastor of Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. You can also see an edited print version at www.fishfood.me.

Humble vulnerability is powerful.  The greatest leaders are those who are willing to tell the stories of their struggle in order to be a help to others.  Fish Food is a media company that desires to help tell those stories so that you can be encouraged, strengthened, and directed to a true and lasting hope despite the circumstances you face.   In this episode, Lacey Keigley leads us through the story of unfaithfulness, betrayal, becoming a single parent, and God's mercy through it all.