Finding Love

Original Airdate: January 7, 2008

Host: Scott Dente

Guests: Michelle McKinney Hammond and Andrew Peterson

Are you lucky in love? If not, you don't want to miss this episode! Author Michelle McKinney Hammond discusses the challenges of finding love, including getting it, keeping it, and fixing it. She also explains the importance of finding love outside of romance while offering advice to her fellow singles. Then singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson lives up to his reputation as a master storyteller by speaking to Faith Cafe audiences through his music.

Guest Bios

Michelle McKinney Hammond / www.michellehammond.com

Author, speaker, singer, and television host – Michelle McKinney Hammond does it all. With her dynamic, girlfriend-in-your-living-room writing style, Michelle has released her own special art of conversation onto men and women across the world, with books on living life single, as a woman, in interpersonal relationships and in relationship with God. Michelle is a frequently requested speaker for churches, universities, women's groups, general audiences, and seminars for couples, and is known for blending a refreshing femininity with hard-hitting reality checks. She also frequently sings where she speaks, and believes in singing messages from the heart. She doesn't believe in singing just to sing; Michelle sings because she has something to say. Shying away from performing, Michelle uses song as a communication vehicle to connect to the heart of her audience. In addition, Michelle's ability to share her convictions and insights in a non-confrontational manner landed her a co-hosting job on the cable television women's talk show, Aspiring Women, appearing in more than 100 markets across the country.

Andrew Peterson / www.andrew-peterson.com

In the early-80s, Andrew Peterson was a little kid who loved adventure. When he wasn't staging make-believe wars with GI Joe and building forts in the backyard, he was getting lost inside Hardy Boys mysteries, Lewis's enchanted Narnia, and Tolkein's hobbit-lurking Shire. Throughout his adolescence in rural Florida , these stories sparked Peterson's imagination and soon he began conjuring his own fantastic tales, inventing far-away lands and unusual creatures to inhabit them. Twenty-five years later, Peterson's love of storytelling has remained a vital part of his life. He's either huddled down flipping pages for his young sons Aedan and Jesse and their little sister Skye, or he's out on the edge of a stage, spinning tales as one of today's most prolific songwriters. With his sixth album released in 2005, Peterson invites listeners on yet another journey to someplace unexpected, "The Far Country."