February 2009

Best of Rise & Shine Summer series

Keith Garner takes a look back at some of his favourite music artists from 2007 and 2008.

1 February 2009

Craig Gower performing ‘River of Love’.

Deborah Ezzy

Our house band leader, Craig Gower performs ‘River of Love’.

Leigh Cunningham performing on Rise & Shine

Leigh Cunningham

Leigh Cunningham performs one of his original songs ‘Only You’.

Steve McPherson performing on Rise & Shine

Steve McPherson

Steve McPherson performs ‘Shout to the Lord’.

Sancha Prowse performing on
Rise & Shine

Sancha Prowse

It’s a pleasure to have Sancha Prowse sing for us again as she performs ‘Testify to Love’.

Dee Uluirewa performing on Rise & Shine

Dee Uluirewa

Dee Uluirewa performs In Return for us with Barry Southgate and Deborah Ezzy.

8 February 2009

Keith Garner speaks with some of the musicians who have performed on Rise & Shine throughout 2008

Daniel Kay on Rise & Shine

Keith Garner speaks with Daniel Kay

Daniel Kay talks about his musical career from being a founding member of the Ten Tenors to performing as a solo artist.

Niki Vasilakis on Rise & Shine

Keith Garner speaks with Niki Vasilakis

Niki Vasilakis speaks about her career performing with symphony orchestras in Australia and on some of the world’s largest stages.

Erana Clarke on Rise & Shine

Keith Garner speaks with Erana Clarke

Erana Clarke shares her career and her experiences as vocal coach of Australian Idol.

Evie and Rebecca on Rise & Shine

Rebecca performing at a concert

We caught up with Evie Turnquist and Rebecca St James when they were in Australia on their ‘She’ event tour.

15 February 2009

Relive some of the interviews with authors featured on Rise & Shine.

Martin Levine on Rise & Shine

Keith on the set of Rise & Shine.

Keith catches up with Martin Levine from the Kentigern Bookshop at Wesley, and discusses the importance of reading to children.

Brett Murray on Rise & Shine

Cover of Brett Murray's book ‘Give Yourself Permission To Fly’

Motivational youth speaker, Brett Murray, shares some of the principles in his book ‘Give Yourself Permission To Fly’

Bernadette on Rise & Shine

Bernadette Black speaking with Keith

Keith speaks with Bernadette Black, the author of ‘Brave Little Bear’. Bernadette was a teenage mother who has graduated from University and working as a Nurse … as well as being a mother of three.

Mary Drum on Rise & Shine

Mary’s latest series of books, ‘Grace’

Mary Drum published a series of books called ‘The Grace Series’. Mary talks about how images can be used to communicate gospel truths.

Phillip Yancey

Phillip Yancey's books

Keith speaks with Phillip Yancey, one of the most successful Christian authors or our time. Phillips speaks about all of his books and in particular his most recent book ‘Prayer’.

22 February 2009

In this episode we look at some of the evangelical works that have been profiled on Rise & Shine.

Martin Johnson, the National Director of Jesus: All About Life

Keith chatting with Martin about his national evangelical work

Keith speaks with Martin Johnson about a prime time multi-media evangelical campaign called ‘Jesus, All About Life’.

Andrew ‘Fishtail’ Fisher on Rise & Shine

Car Racing

Andrew ‘Fishtail’ Fisher talks about his involvement with the ‘Jesus, All About Life’ campaign, and how he shares his faith car racing industry.

Keith welcomes Joan to the program

Joan shares her passion for ‘Park Patrol’

Joan Thaux talks about ‘Park Patrol’, an evangelical work to Sydney’s homeless people in various parks around the city.

Robin Davies on Rise & Shine

Keith asks Robin about her church

Robin Davis shares her experiences of being a Community Minister for the ‘Mustard Seed Faith Community’, a group that is larger than a Church home group but smaller than a Church.