Grace at Ground Zero

Episode DescriptorWhen does a moment of ministry become a moment you must leave behind? Tim Dobbins recounts the eerie walk out of Ground Zero, the moment he knew his work there was done, and why the transition was just as profound as the rescue itself.Philip guides Tim through one of the most emotionally charged chapters of his life, uncovering what it felt like to serve at Ground Zero through the night, witness the shift from rescue to recovery, and then step into a Lower Manhattan that felt

Episode DescriptorA haunting, deeply human account of 9/11 that goes beyond the headlines and into the sacred, the traumatic, and the unfinished work of healing.In this episode, Philip Patrick and Tim Dobbins revisit Ground Zero through Tim’s firsthand memories, revealing the untold hours, the enduring bonds formed amid the devastation, and the precise moment he knew it was time to walk away.Tim describes the surreal reality of standing in the aftermath as rescue turned to recovery, surrounded by

Episode DescriptorThe night Ground Zero went silent, one chaplain heard something bigger than the destruction: the world praying. Tim Dobbins reveals how the chaos of 9/11 became a moment of stillness, spiritual clarity, and unexpected hope, and why that silence helped save lives. Philip Patrick and Tim discuss what it felt like to move through Ground Zero after the towers fell, where the dark, ash-filled landscape, the rescue-to-recovery shift, and the sheer weight of trauma changed everything. Tim

A Prayer for 9/11On this special mid season episode, released on the 25th anniversary of September 11th 2001, Philip and Tim discuss what remembrance is really for - not just to look back, but to learn how to carry grief, trauma, and loss without passing them on.Philip and Tim revisit the sensory reality of September 11th 2001 - the smoke, ash, silence, fear, and the surreal walk home through a changed city - and ask the question so many people still wrestle with: what would I have done? You'll

Episode DescriptorThe untold 9/11 story is not about the towers - it's about what happened in the dark, after the collapse, when a pastor was called to stand with the first responders. Philip Patrick and Tim Dobbins return to Ground Zero for a deeply personal conversation about trauma, faith, and the moment Tim dropped to his knees and felt his life shift.Twenty-five years later, Tim revisits the night he arrived at Ground Zero after dark, when there were no tourists, no bystanders, and no easy

Episode DescriptorWhat really happened at Ground Zero after the towers fell - and why the first hours of 9/11 still matter more than most people realise. Philip Patrick sits down with Tim Dobbins for a deeply human account of grief, rescue, faith, and the burden carried by first responders, families, and communities in the days after the attacks.Tim recounts the moment he met "Tommy," a fireman standing in the ash and silence of Ground Zero, and the short but pivotal conversation that

Episode DescriptorThe most haunting 9/11 stories are not the ones everyone already knows. They are the small, human moments that reveal what courage, grief, and duty actually look like in real time.Philip and Tim revisit one of those moments from the first 15 minutes at Ground Zero, where a young firefighter named Tommy becomes the lens for understanding the burden carried by so many that night.Tim shares how the smell of smoke at St. Paul’s Chapel reopened a childhood memory of a house fire in

Episode DescriptorBefore the towers fell, Tim Dobbins was already moving toward the centre of the storm. What happened next is not just an untold 9/11 story - it's a firsthand account of how trauma, service, and grace collided at Ground Zero, and why that history still matters now. Philip Patrick and Tim Dobbins open Grace at Ground Zero with a deeply personal conversation that begins with friendship and ends at the steps of St. Paul’s Chapel, where Tim arrives as a first responder to the first