Pull up a chair, friend.
Welcome to STORIES I’D TELL YOU AT DINNER, a website and podcast for Christian women in Western Australia to share honest stories with other women.
These are the stories we would tell you at dinner. These are the stories we pass to you, along with the bread and the wine, not to make us look good, but to remind ourselves of His goodness. We are sharing our stories first to encourage you to be brave with your friends, your church, and your God.
STORIES I’D TELL YOU AT DINNER is not a sermon, advice, think pieces, or self-help, but sharing stories that are:
Honest—we value vulnerability, not trauma porn. Healthy boundaries are important. We share honestly, not to shame or cancel others, but with grace for other people in our stories.
Beautiful—God made everything, he is beautiful, and the source of all beauty (Psalm 96:6). Scripture tells us to think about things that are true, honourable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8)
Hospitable—like a dinner with friends, sometimes the conversation is about faith and sometimes it is about other things, but our friends who don’t believe yet are welcome to join us at the table.
Encouraging—We want to encourage you to establish and persevere in hope, faith, and deep connections with the people in your real life. We love the messy, imperfect local church. We love messy, imperfect people. We are messy, imperfect women, and we need each other.
Give us your email to get a weekly dose of encouragement in your inbox on Wednesdays 👇🏻
What you can expect
Once a week, from March - November, STORIES I’D TELL YOU AT DINNER will land in your inbox on a Wednesday. One Wednesday you’ll get essays, photography, and poetry from our team of local Christian women. The other Wednesday, you’ll get a podcast episode (more on that below).
The essays and poetry explore:
Singleness and marriage
Motherhood and fertility
Grief and loss
Caring responsibilities (i.e., for older adults, foster kids, people with disabilities, or a sick spouse)
Female friendship, mentor relationships, and deep connection
Establishing and maintaining community
Everyday hospitality and food
Disability
Vocation and career
Rest, service, ministry, and sustainable sacrifice.
Living well with technology
How’d you know I’d been thinking about this? I’m in! 👇🏻
Think of our podcast, THE AFTER DINNER MINT, as the conversation you have with your friends after you’ve had a drink, dessert, and paid for your dinner. Holding your after dinner mint, you spill out from the restaurant, which has finally closed for the night, but you stand on the sidewalk laughing with your friends, and sharing more honest stories than you did at the table.
One fortnight we have an interview with a local Christian woman about what she has learned about God through suffering that she would not have learned otherwise. The alternate fortnight, we have chatty, fun episodes with hosts Britt, Rach, Maddy and Bec about what we are learning.
Okay, I do love podcasts. Encourage me while I fold laundry! 👇🏻
WA Christian circles are two degrees of separation. I already know at least one of these women! Love to support you! 🎉
How can I support the fun?
First—everything is free. But there is no media—print magazines or online—for Christian women in Western Australia. This is for us. We (the writers) and you (the readers) get to grow local, independent media for women together. We need your help to make it happen. You can:
Become a free subscriber 🫶🏻 Give us your email address and we’ll send you an email once a fortnight with links to honest, beautiful essays and poetry from local women, and the alternate fortnight a podcast episode. The podcasts are either an interview with a local woman or conversations about what we are learning. Reply to our emails, chat to us in the comments, and let’s create together 💛
Hit up the group chat 💬 if an essay, a poem, a podcast episode resonates with you, if you’re encouraged or challenged, please chuck it in your group chat. Text it to a friend. Tell your local Facebook group. Share it on socials. Forward it to your church admin and ask for it to go in the church newsletter. If you refer ONE friend, your name goes in the newsletter!
Pray for us 🙏🏻 We are new, we need all the help we can get!
Buy us a coffee ☕️ Maybe a subscription isn’t on the cards for you, but if you read something you love, you can tip us here:
Become a monthly paid subscriber. For the price of a coffee a month ($5), you can support media made with love for Christian women in Western Australia.
This would help us with start-up costs like podcast recording, editing, and transcribing and website hosting. My dream is that we are able to pay all our contributors (writers, photographers, podcast hosts).
If you email me your address (rebecca@storiesidtellyouatdinner.com.au) I’ll send you a handwritten thank you letter and a free Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner vinyl sticker for your water bottle, laptop, or phone.
Become a Founding Member. Support our mission. Get a phone call, a sticker, and your name on the website and in the newsletter as a Founder.
I want to join the team getting honest encouragement to women, not just highlight reels 👇🏻
