Embracing Life Ministries

Podcasts

A series of interviews led by Jonathan Hunter, Director of Embracing Life Ministries. Causal conversation with invited guests, covering a variety of topics from a Christian perspective.

Jonathan sits down with longtime friend, Glenys Brookbanks, a renowned artist and exhibiting painter in New Zealand. She has also been a pioneer leader in relational healing groups in New Zealand. 

 Glenys and her husband Warren live in close community with their adult family in Auckland, New Zealand. She has led many Embracing Life groups as well as those of Desert Stream Ministries over several decades. Her passion for Jesus, the Cross and the Church is abundant in her teaching.

She is a co-author, along with Jonathan and Andrea Hunter, on the upcoming book, More Power! Understanding and Experiencing the Cross.  

Jonathan Hunter and Daryl Lefever

Jonathan has a conversation with friend, Daryl Lefever, who has worked in the film industry for 28 years. Fifteen of those years were as a feature film controller [i.e. financial] for X-Men, Polar Express, Nancy Drew and Where the Wild Things Are, to name a few. In 2008, Daryl decided to focus on producing Christian-themed films. Some of his credits since then include: Faith of Our Fathers, Amazing Love, Mom’s Night Out, Woodlawn, I Can Only Imagine and Unplanned. Daryl shares about how he came to work in Hollywood, some of the breaks he got, the conflicts he learned to avoid and most importantly the faithfulness of God in seeing his dream to produce Christian films fulfilled.

Jonathan Hunter