Florence Chadwick
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Sep 20, 2026
Max LucadoHOST
Keep swinging the sling.
Max LucadoHOST
Don't make the mistake of Florence Chadwick.
Max LucadoHOST
In nineteen fifty-two, she attempted to swim the chilly ocean waters between Catalina Island and the California shore.
Max LucadoHOST
She swam through foggy weather and choppy seas for fifteen hours.
David PetersGUEST
And I think the other thing that we should do because of the new world that's coming, we should persevere until we cross the finish line.
David PetersGUEST
Florence Chadwick was a American swimmer and she was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel from England to France.
David PetersGUEST
And then some time later, she wanted to follow it up with another swim from Catalina Island off the coast of California, a distance of about 32 kilometers.
David PetersGUEST
And her and her team chose a particular day to do it.
Mark ChalifouxGUEST
How about that?
Tom GriswoldHOST
Who's Florence Chadwick?
Christy LeeHOST
Florence Chadwick.
Tom GriswoldHOST
Uh, Florence and Machine.
Christy LeeHOST
Florence Nightingale.
Sheila WalshGUEST
And I read something the other day that really challenged me.
Sheila WalshGUEST
There was a woman called Florence Chadwick, and in the 1950s, she was kinda like the first female swimmer that was just, you know, in- incredible.
Sheila WalshGUEST
She swum the English Channel both ways.
Christine CaineGUEST
Oh, wow.
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Hosanna WongGUEST
So I try to get out of my head and remember that God is doing something beyond me, greater than me, and I get to be a part of it.
Hosanna WongGUEST
It helps me take myself and my fears out of it, and step more boldly in faith.
Bianca JuárezGUEST
Can I, just because it feels just so full circle moment, can we finish the Florence Chadwick story? She was half a mile away.
Bianca JuárezGUEST
They pulled her in, and she was so disappointed.
Jeff McGuirePANELIST
history? 1951 is where we will get started.
Jeff McGuirePANELIST
Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France.
Jeff McGuirePANELIST
She took 16 hours and 19 minutes.
Jeff McGuirePANELIST
1966.
Harold SalaHOST
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Harold SalaHOST
As a child, more than anything else, Florence Chadwick wanted to be a great swimmer.
Harold SalaHOST
At the age of six, she persuaded her parents to enter her in a 50-yard race.
Harold SalaHOST
They did, and she came in last.
Harold SalaHOST
He was sure it was there, though in the flesh he couldn't see it.
Harold SalaHOST
Then there are the comforting thoughts written by a one-time cynic, Malcolm Muggeridge, who came to faith in Christ late in life.
Harold SalaHOST
In his book, Christ and the Media, he reflected on heaven, saying, "As the old do, I often wake up in the night, half out of my body, so that I can see between the sheets the battered carcass I shall soon be leaving for good, and in the distance, a glow in the sky, the lights of Augustine's City of God." When you're tempted to give up, to quit, to lose heart, think of Florence Chadwick's words.
Harold SalaHOST
"If I could have seen land, I might have made it." There are some things that are very, very real, though you have not seen them, too far away, obscured by distance, fog, veiled by poor eyesight.
Rob HaynesHOST
His eye was fixed on the other side of this.
Rob HaynesHOST
was a woman named Florence Chadwick, the first woman to swim the English Channel.
Rob HaynesHOST
She might have sung it.
Rob HaynesHOST
I don't know.