Joyful Journey Home

Christian afternoon drive radio with Carlett Badenhorst

Joyful Journey Home is JustGospel's afternoon drive, and the show Carlett Badenhorst built to ride home with you. Every weekday from 3pm to 6pm there is gospel music, honest conversation and a theme for each day of the week, from health on Monday to prayer on Thursday. It is Christian radio from Vereeniging in the Vaal Triangle, made for the school pickup, the taxi ride and the traffic.

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Five days, five flavours

Each day of the week has its own heart, so you always know what you are getting and why you want to be there.

Day	Theme	What it is about
Monday	Medical Monday	Health and faith together: body, mind and spirit. Recent shows have covered ministry burnout, trauma in first responders, psychology and Christianity, the research on joy, and spiritual abuse in church leadership.
Tuesday	Testimony Tuesday	Real stories of what God has done, told by the people it happened to. Family Conversations with Lynette Steyn-Laurens comes on at 3:30pm.
Wednesday	Kingdom Business Wednesday	Faith in business, work and leadership, including the Joseph Principle series: thirteen principles drawn from the life of Joseph.
Thursday	Pray On It Thursday	A day set apart for prayer in the middle of the week's rush. Woman Voices joins the show at 3:30pm.
Friday	Community Connections Friday	The churches, events and people of the Vaal Triangle, and a gospel lift to send you into the weekend.

The guests

Carlett interviews her guests herself, and it shows. Over the weeks the studio has welcomed life coaches, entertainers, pastors, business owners and ministry leaders, and what she asks them is the question you would ask over a cup of tea: how did you get here, and where was God in it? You can catch up on past interviews and episodes on Spotify.

From the Joyful Journey Home blog

Most afternoons end up written down. Here are the posts that came straight off the show, by day, so you can read what you missed. New posts are on the JustGospel blog.

Medical Monday

• The Dentist Who Traded Her Practice for the RailsDr. Mbambi Mzizi works from the Phelophepa Healthcare Train, bringing dental care to communities for R10, and talks teeth, fear and faith.
• Wolves in Sheep's ClothingA hard Medical Monday on narcissism, set beside Jesus' own warning about people who look like sheep.
• The In-Between: Why Too Much and Nothing Are the Same ProblemBurnout and numbness feel like opposites but come from the same place, and Scripture has a name for the range in between.
• Medical Monday: Your 2026 Biblical Health Transformation Starts TodayThree hours on God's design for the body and the sugar crisis, with a practical plan to start the year.
• How to Get Rid of Parasites NaturallyA guide from the Medical Monday show, built on the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Testimony Tuesday

• Chantel van Rensburg's TestimonyFrom addiction and two years at a riverside lapa to the JustGospel studio. This one speaks openly about hard things, and help details are at the end.
• Timothy Still Says God Is GoodA surprise phone call to a man with a hard medical story, and why he still says God is good.
• From the Streets to the Studio: Lebo Moremogolo's Song of MercyA songwriter and producer from the Vaal Triangle on loss, survival and the God he came to know.
• Teach Them to Speak: Pastor Eddie KoekemoerThe founder of the Blue Church in Vereeniging on a near-death experience in hospital and a Bible school for the nations.
• Not Enough Arms: The Vaal Triangle Chaplain Who Stands Where Nobody Else WillLance Oosthuizen of Frontline of Hope Ministries on standing with first responders at the worst scenes.

Kingdom Business Wednesday

• A Rhinestone Life: What Dolly Parton BuiltA tribute to Dolly Parton, the legacy she built out of poverty and the faith she never hid.
• Never Bury Your Talent: Panda of Pandarasie EventsA Vaal caterer and events founder on the leap into business, with the parable of the talents behind it.
• Create Capacity and God Will Fill ItPastor Carel Joubert of IMPAK Kerk in Alberton on the widow's oil in 2 Kings 4.

Pray On It Thursday

• Kim Ballantine Lost Her Voice at 40The author of Hot Tea and Apricots on losing her speech, getting it back, and speaking at Arise Women's Conference.
• Stop Chasing Things. Start Chasing God.Reverend Thobile on living by Matthew 6:33, on Women Voices.
• One Day in the Lord's Presence Changes EverythingMelinda Roodt on Joyful Journey Home about Arise Women's Conference 2026.
• Women Voices Episode 1: When Insecurity Meets IdentityThe first Women Voices, about real women having real conversations.
• One Night with the KingWomen Voices Episode 4: a prophetic word anchored in the story of Queen Esther.
• There Is a Place for YouWomen Voices Episode 5: Charlene of Delta Christian Campus on God's sovereignty in the Purim story.
• Just Take the Next Step: Nina Roets-WideWomen Voices Episode 7: widowed at 38, and the broad place God promises.
• She Wore Every Hat and God Was There for All of ItWomen Voices Episode 8: Megan Orr tells her life honestly, 43 years of marriage included.
• You Are Here on Assignment: Lynette BadenhorstLynette Badenhorst of Hadassah Ministries on purpose, surrender and what is in your hands.

Community Connections Friday

• You Excel Beyond Limits 2026The show on the road at Emerald Resort in Vanderbijlpark, with women from several countries on faith, menopause and friendship.

When it is on, and what is around it

Joyful Journey Home airs Monday to Friday from 3pm to 6pm, South African time. Midday Blessings leads into it from 12pm, with Preach It Pastor at 1pm. After 6pm the evenings belong to other shows.

Evening	On air
Monday	Anchored in Faith with Mpiliso, 6pm to 9pm.
Tuesday	Just Business with Lindi Tshabangu at 6pm, then The Living Temple with Kobus and Dawn at 7pm.
Thursday	Just Earth with Lindi Tshabangu at 6pm.

See the full weekly programme