In this deeply personal season finale, host Hanna Eyobed sits down with the most important guest she could imagine — her mother, Asmeret Yosef Adhanom. An immigrant from Eritrea and a woman of extraordinary faith, Asmeret shares her journey from growing up in a Protestant family in a country divided between Orthodox Christianity and Islam, to surrendering her life to Jesus as a young woman, building underground churches in Bahrain, and faithfully raising three daughters who now walk with God themselves.

This is a conversation about generational faith, answered prayer, radical hospitality, and what it looks like to live an unfiltered, real life with Jesus — through the triumphs and the darkest valleys.

GUEST

Asmeret Yosef Adhanom — Hanna's mother is a lifelong woman of faith. Originally from Eritrea, Asmeret has lived and served God across multiple countries, building Christian communities in Muslim-majority nations, modeling radical hospitality, and praying for her family with relentless faithfulness for decades.

WHAT WE COVER

• The inheritance of faith — How Hanna's grandmother (Hadit) planted seeds of faith that carried through generations, and the Hebrews 11:13 picture of those who live and die as "foreigners and strangers on earth."
• Asmer's conversion story — A young woman in her late teens, taken to a Full Gospel church in Ethiopia by her uncle, feels the Holy Spirit move for the first time and walks to the front — twice
• Faith in Bahrain — Moving to a Muslim-majority country at 19, praying specifically for God to send a Christian woman to guide her, and receiving an answered prayer after three months in the form of Lanil Wing Phil, a woman who rented a house she didn't even like — just to be near Asmer
• Building underground churches — How a small group of believers gathered quietly in Bahrain at a time when Christianity was barely visible, and how that church grew
• What keeps you in faith? — Asmer's powerful answer: "Once you test Him, there's no way out."
• The lesson of persistent prayer — Asmer's mother prayed for Asmer's father for 30 years before he came to Jesus, and what that taught Asmer about never giving up
• Surviving painful seasons — Deportation, jail, prison, and hardship after coming to faith, and how God was present through every valley
• Passing faith to the next generation — Praying over Hannah before she was born, asking God to name her, and dedicating her to God's glory from the womb
• Radical hospitality as worship — How loving people regardless of race, religion, or background is a direct expression of loving Jesus
• Advice for young believers — Stay in community, stay in the Word, ask God hard questions, and don't mistake dry seasons for abandonment
• Philippians 1:6 — "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion."
• Psalm 116:15–16 — Closing reflection on faithful servants and the legacy of a mother's faith
• A closing prayer — Asmeret prays over listeners, the campus, and the young generation

SCRIPTURES REFERENCED

• Hebrews 11:13 — "All these were still living by faith when they died…"
• John 1:4 — "In him was life and the life was the light of men."
• Philippians 1:6 — "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion."
• Psalm 116:15–16 — "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful

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Produced by Daniel Johnson, Dave Conour, and Brian Beatty

Edited by Dave Conour

Welcome back to another episode of Walking with God with Hanna Eyobed. In this conversation, Hanna sits down with Cameron Anderson — writer, visual artist, and Distinguished Fellow for the Arts at the Lumen Center in Madison, Wisconsin — for a rich and unhurried conversation about creativity, identity, and what it means to do the work God has prepared for us.

Cam has spent over 30 years investing in campus ministry through InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and now serves as Senior Advisor to the SL Brown Foundation. He is the author of Faithful Artists (IVP Academic, 2016) and maintains a blog called https://liminalmaker.com, where he writes at the intersection of art, faith, and everyday life.

In This Episode
Hanna and Cam explore what it looks like to slowly and faithfully grow into the creative person God made you to be. Together they discuss:

• Liminality — what it means to be “in between,” and why that space is not the same as being lost. Cam draws on the story of the Israelites in the wilderness as a picture of how we move through unknown seasons with our story and God’s promises intact.
• Becoming an artist and a writer — Cam shares how his love of making things began on a farm in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, led to a BFA and MFA in painting and drawing, and eventually — decades later — to published books and a blog. He reflects on the moment on an airplane in his early fifties when he said “I’m an artist” out loud for the first time and surprised himself.
• The “builder” metaphor — Why Cam describes himself most essentially as a builder — of art, of essays, of ministries, of relationships — and what that posture of craftsmanship has to say to a culture addicted to speed and instant results.
• Discipleship as a long journey — Reflecting on how even Jesus’ own disciples, after three years with him daily, were still learning and still asking questions. What does it mean to commit to that kind of patient, faithful formation?
• Presence, the senses, and haptic knowledge — A beautiful conversation about what we lose when we fill every moment with screens and sound, and what we gain when we stay alive to the physical world — the smell of sawdust, the feel of a legal pad, the sound of birds returning in spring.
• The creative process — How Cam moves from observation and imagination to the act of making, and the parallels between creating a physical object and writing a text. Both involve stepping into the unknown with only a rough map and discovering meaning in the process.
• Ephesians 2 and vocation — “We’re not saved by works, but we’re saved to do work.” Cam shares how this passage became a foundation for understanding that the art and writing he was made for isn’t a hobby on the side — it’s the work God set aside for him to do.

Scripture Referenced

• Ephesians 2:8–10 — Saved by grace, through faith, for the good works God prepared in advance for us to do.

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Edited by Dave Conour

Host Hanna Eyobed sits down with her friends Nana and Camille to reflect on a life-changing mission trip to Thailand with New Culture Church. The three women share candid stories from the field, honest wrestling with faith, and the unexpected ways God met them — and changed them — through the journey.

Guests

• Naana Dampare — Current UW-Madison senior majoring in Neurobiology
• Camille Miles — UW-Madison 2024 graduate

The New Culture Church team served alongside Full Heart Church in Korat and International Christian Assembly (ICA) in Bangkok, visiting:

• Three local schools
• A youth prison
• Homeless shelters
• The Red Light District in Bangkok (prayer walk and Sealed Kids Club)
• A rural village to pray with the only known believer in the area

Hanna, Nana, and Camille reflect on a transformative mission trip to Thailand, where God's provision carried them from a leap of faith through seven months of preparation and into the field — serving incarcerated youth, children in the Red-Light District, and a lone believer in a rural village. They wrestle honestly with what faithful missions looks like: approaching communities with a servant's heart, contextualizing the Gospel with cultural humility, and navigating spiritual discernment in a Buddhist country with wisdom over boldness. Each woman left with a deeper revelation of God — Camille anchored in His sovereignty, Nana moved by His intentionality in the smallest moments, and Hanna resting in His trustworthiness to work through imperfect people — convictions deepened by the fervent, joy-rooted prayer of the Thai church they now carry home.

Key Scriptures Referenced

• Philippians 1:6 — "He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion."
• Colossians 1:17 — He holds all things together.
• The Lord's Prayer — "Your kingdom come, your will be done."

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"Many Christians think that they are sent on mission to change the world through the gospel — but oftentimes, we find ourselves changed by the same gospel." — Hanna Eyobed

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