Hope Helps: Navigating Everyday Life

Hope Helps is a podcast designed to encourage, inspire and help people navigate their lives through the stories of others. As host Charly Burridge-Jones and her guests reflect about the joys and challenges of everyday living, they will uncover ways to strengthen relationships, manage disappointment, serve others, talk about life and even have some fun along the way. Everyone has a story to share and there is so much we can learn from each other. We hope you will tune in to Hope Helps where you can find something to relate to and be uplifted. Hope Helps is produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe. Views expressed don’t necessarily reflect the Church’s official position

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June 09, 2021 • Arteh Odjidja and Tom Christofferson • Season 2 • Episode 10

In this episode of Hope Helps, Tom Christofferson and Arteh Odjidja reflect on how we can affirm ourselves in Christ. As members of the LGBTQ+ community, they share their common life experiences on being members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and how we can reach out and love those around us.

Tom is the author of inspirational books, That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon’s Perspective on Faith & Family and A Better Heart: The Impact of Christ’s Pure Love. Arteh is an award-winning professional photographer, best known for ‘The Stranger Series,’ a project that has been displayed in prominent galleries worldwide, as well as before the Queen. Join Charly Burridge-Jones as she talks with Tom and Arteh about how they seek to come closer to Christ and lift others on the way.