Faith Stories with Naomi Reed

“I married Steve in 1994, 26 years ago, and we’ve raised five children. They all love Jesus, which feels like the greatest thing (3 John 1:4).” “As a child, I grew up in a loving Christian home, where believing in Jesus and wanting to follow him was normal. The challenge for me, though, throughout my […]

“My mum told us a fib. She said she let us go. But we were actually part of the Stolen Generation.” “There were four of us girls and six boys … and we were a lot to feed, so mum let the boys go to live with family members, and then they came for us […]

“In 1988, I’d gone through some years of having a real issue with anger. Any small thing could set me off. I was that touchy. It culminated in 1988, when I was 39. A lot of negative things happened and put a strain on our marriage.” “My grandmother died and my father died. Both our […]

“I was born in the 1970s, in mainland China. I was lucky. It was before the one-child policy, so I had siblings. My father was a businessman, driven by creating wealth. It was his security. He had a very poor background, so he was diligent in making money. But it was also the time of […]

“My mother took me to Sunday school from the age of two, so I grew up hearing about Jesus. When I was about ten years old, there was a speaker at church. He talked about Jesus on the cross and he mentioned the Centurion who stood beneath the cross. After Jesus died, the man saw […]

A new series of Faith Stories by author and speaker Naomi Reed will start on Eternity News next week. Reed spent much of 2020 collecting and sharing 100 extraordinary stories of faith from ordinary people around Australia. She loved it so much, she decided to continue, and says she’s excited to share the latest series. […]

“The first series of 100 Faith Stories has finished! I’ve loved collecting them! Thank you for reading along with me. It’s been such a privilege to spend time with each of these 100 people and ask them about their journeys. One of my favourite Bible verses is in Psalm 107. ‘Let the redeemed of the […]

“I went to church when I was younger. I was confirmed at age 16. But I didn’t remain in the church. I married my husband David and we were building our house. We had three children. David was an estimator for a building company so he worked on the weekends. I suppose you could say […]

“I normally went to the pub on Friday nights. But when I was 22, I met a girl, Cathy. She was visiting a mutual friend at the hospital, and so was I. Our mutual friend suggested I take Cathy home. Cathy had polio and she was using crutches and two calipers. She’d come to the […]

“I feel like God has been teaching me the same thing over and over again. God is good and he is in control. And I am not.” “In 2011, we moved to the Tiwi Islands. We were working at a school run by Indigenous elders. And during that time, we started trying to have kids. […]

“I grew up in a wealthy family in Chennai, India. We had four servants. My father was an engineer with the United Nations. I had 25 proposals and I said no to all of them, and then I said yes to the 26th. His name was RAC Paul and he was a veterinarian missionary. We […]

“I distinctly remember being in the ISCF [Inter-School Christian Fellowship] room at high school. The captain of the school was a Christian and he said to us, “If you were to walk out here, right now, onto Parramatta Road, and you got knocked down by a tram, what would happen to you?’” “I thought to […]

“It feels like the sufficiency of God is burnt into my soul.” “I married my husband, Pete, in 1978. We met at Sunday school and we grew up together. We were kindred spirits. We were different, of course, but the core things were the same. Pete trained for the ministry in his thirties and then […]

“My wife and I both grew up in the church in Canberra. We were very involved. My father was the youth director. But after we got married, we slipped away a bit. We moved to Melbourne, and then we bought a farm in Sutton, and then another farm in Cowra. Both farms were 1000 acres […]

“I grew up in Lithgow. My mother was a Christian and she sent me to Sunday school. In 1948, when I was nine years old, I was sitting in Sunday school and our teacher was praying for us. She was planning to go to Tanzania at the end of that year as a missionary nurse. […]

“I grew up in Malta up to the age of nine years old listening to Elvis on the radio. Elvis Presley is treated like a God in Malta. Then as an adult, I became a Christian, in New Zealand, and I started doing Elvis tributes and concerts – professionally and for ministry. I called it […]