First in a new series. Gary Lamont runs a successful architectural services business in Ballymena - but he's also a local man and a church leader, still living in the community where he grew up - and committed to the redevelopment of his community, even if that starts with just "pulling a weed". Gary also wants the restoration of community relations with everyone who now lives there. And as he explains to Diane and Will, that hope was badly dented with the racially motivated riots in Ballymena in the summer of 2025. This episode is also available in video on Thrive Ireland's YouTube channel.

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Get ready! Diane Holt and Will Leitch are back with a new series of Inspired to Act from Thrive Ireland for 2026-7! You can listen on all the same platforms as before, but now you can also see us in HD Video with our guests in the studio, over on our Youtube channel.

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Nathaniel Jennings isn't easy to place - and it's brilliant! With an American dad, an English mum, and a Jamaican grandfather, he grew up in Bangladesh, was educated in the UK, and later married a woman from east Belfast - where they now live with their son and daughter. Working as Intercultural Ministries Director for OMF (UK), he's just the person to help Diane and Will understand good relations among different cultures, and see the arrival of Christians from many other nations as gifts to us... Last episode in series 3.

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