One statistic can stop you cold: one in four Mississippi children lives in poverty, and one in five faces food insecurity. That’s the reality Cathy Clark chose not to look away from. Teacher. Advocate. Pastor’s wife. Law student. She planted bo...

A quiet Navy office. A Gideon Bible. A young man searching for more.In this episode of Hope Mississippi, Pastor Carlos Wilson shares how a private spiritual awakening became four decades of public service, and a ministry rooted ...

Mississippi doesn’t need more silos; it needs a shared table. We sit down with community leader and author Tina Lakey to discuss practical hope and how coordinated mentoring, cross‑denominational partnerships, and consistent prayer can move the...

What if the detour is the assignment? In this episode of Hope Mississippi, Dawn visits with Van Jones to trace a winding path—from the Mississippi Delta to Southern Miss basketball, through a career-ending injury, and into a...

Big goals don’t require every skill—just the courage to start and the wisdom to ask for help. That’s the heartbeat of our year: we moved from an idea to two living, breathing podcasts by teaming up with people who knew what we didn’t, and the r...