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In our first “Our Marriage, Our Mission” conversation, Stephanie TeSlaa sits down with Mike & Jamie Bartlett to talk about their journey with foster care and adoption. After planting Redemption City Church in Grand Rapids, the Bartletts—parents of four boys—felt called to open their home to teenage girls through foster care. In this episode, they share their story, the lessons they’ve learned, and how God has used their marriage as both a source of strength and provision for one another. DQ1: If you’re in a season of discouragement, what might God be calling you to release? (For Mike it was control; for Jamie it was her timeline.) DQ2: How does remembering that God is in control of every story—and that no one is beyond His redemption—challenge your current way of thinking? DQ3: What “rough edges” has God smoothed in your marriage through different seasons? DQ4: In what ways is your marriage already on mission together? How else might God be calling you to live missionally in your marriage? If you are a foster and adoption family, here are some additional discussion questions. DQ5: Where have you seen God’s faithfulness in your own journey with foster care or adoption? DQ6: How does Mike & Jamie’s story encourage you? What questions does it raise for you? DQ7: How might trying respite care help you discern God’s calling in foster care and discover what works best for your family?

In our first “Our Marriage, Our Mission” conversation, Stephanie TeSlaa sits down with Mike & Jamie Bartlett to talk about their journey with foster care and adoption. After planting Redemption City Church in Grand Rapids, the Bartletts—parents of four boys—felt called to open their home to teenage girls through foster care. In this episode, they share their story, the lessons they’ve learned, and how God has used their marriage as both a source of strength and provision for one another. DQ1: If you’re in a season of discouragement, what might God be calling you to release? (For Mike it was control; for Jamie it was her timeline.) DQ2: How does remembering that God is in control of every story—and that no one is beyond His redemption—challenge your current way of thinking? DQ3: What “rough edges” has God smoothed in your marriage through different seasons? DQ4: In what ways is your marriage already on mission together? How else might God be calling you to live missionally in your marriage? If you are a foster and adoption family, here are some additional discussion questions. DQ5: Where have you seen God’s faithfulness in your own journey with foster care or adoption? DQ6: How does Mike & Jamie’s story encourage you? What questions does it raise for you? DQ7: How might trying respite care help you discern God’s calling in foster care and discover what works best for your family?

We sit down with Mike and Jamie Bartlett. Mike and Jamie planted "Redemption City Church" in partnership with Crossroads in 2012. Jamie is on staff as director of Foster Care and Adoption at Crossroads. For more info on Crossroad's Foster Care and Apotion ministry reach out below: Jamie Bartlett: jbartlett@crossroads-bible.org Lindsay Gustafon - CarePortal Initiative: gusfam@gmail.com Esther Vugteveen - Wrap around Care Initiative: fosteradopt@crossroads-bible.org

Tamarac - North Lauderdale Chamber Interviews Mike Bartlett From Allstate Insurance

“The most important thing behind it is to think about developers in the way that product people think about consumers, and that the first time experience of your API needs to be ridiculously simple.” Software developers have been socializing on chat rooms for decades. In the nineties, we began using IRC and AOL instant messenger. In the early 2000s, we turned to Google Hangouts and Yammer. Today, we are using modern apps like Slack and Hipchat. On today’s show, we take a deep dive into Gitter, the chat client specifically designed for developers. Our guests are Mike Bartlett and Andrew Newdigate, the creators of Gitter. Gitter is a highly scalable, real time social application for developers to talk about writing their software. This is a great episode that spans topics like front end development, back end distributed systems, how to compete with Slack, and how to

Award-winning writer and director Mike Bartlett didn’t always write: he dabbled in acting at university and afterwards wanted to go into directing theatre but would always “flunk the interviews”. Bad times. He began to write for a few reasons - one of which was boredom - and suddenly found his job interviews started to go well. Good times. The reason? “Because I didn’t have to sell myself - I just put the script on the table. It was all about the work, not me.” His latest show on BBC One was the massively popular Doctor Foster starring Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel. The series was the most watched new BBC TV drama so far this year with nearly 8 million people tuning into the finale. Writing for TV didn’t come until quite a few years into his career, but that wasn’t a conscious decision, he says. Mike has written for quite a few mediums. He’s adapted theatre for radio (Not Talking), turned radio plays into stage plays (Contractions) and written for TV (ITV’s The Town and BBC One’s Doctor Foster). Is his approach the same for all those mediums? What are the main differences he’s found? In this podcast Mike talks to Henry Swindell of BBC Writersroom about the importance of planning before writing absolutely anything. He discusses the differences when writing for different mediums, talks about how he came to write for TV, and shares his techniques for getting into the psyche for writing.

Playwright Mike Bartlett speaks about his cheekily titled play, Cock.