S5 EP.18 - After years of working in the financial industry, Eric Nevins launched his podcast, Halfway There, to tell the whole story about the spiritual journey. He quickly found the community podcasting is known for and started a group to bring Christian podcasters together. Since then, he’s worked with podcasters to launch and improve their podcast, most recently with Christian Podcasters Association. You will enjoy the podcasting banter between Andy, Chuck, and Eric.
S5 EP.17 - Scott Robbins was clinically dead for 40 minutes before God used doctors to miraculously bring him back to life. In this heartwarming episode, Scott shares his remarkable story of how he received a second chance at life and how he ended up on the nationally syndicated "Markley, van Camp & Robbins" radio show — one of the hottest talk shows in the country.
S5 EP.16 – Dave Jane is the founding/lead pastor of Connect Church, a thriving church community who is impacting Washington, Illinois. Dave joins us today to share his compelling story of hiking more than 40 miles over ten days to Everest Base Camp in efforts to raise more than $50k for planting churches and supporting kids and families in rural Nepal. Not only will you be inspired by Dave's journey, you just might laugh more during this episode than any previous one.
S5 EP.15 – Matt Brown is an evangelist, author of Truth Plus Love, host of Think Eternity with Matt Brown, and founder of Think Eternity — a ministry sharing powerful faith content through podcasts, blogs, videos, outreaches and more. Matt's ministry has featured such top leaders as Christine Caine, Lee Strobel, Darryl Strawberry, Rebekah Lyons, Max Lucado, Michael W. Smith, Jon Bevere, and more. In this uplifting episode, Matt confirms the importance of communicating the truth of God's Word while displaying the fruit of the Spirit.
S5 EP.14 – Amanda Patterson is a speaker, singer, and cancer survivor. She has graced the stage with noteworthy artists such as Natalie Grant, Kari Jobe, Mandisa, and Carlos Whittaker. In this week's heartwarming episode Amanda graciously shares her inspirational story of how God healed her of late stage cancer and miraculously gave her a daughter through an unexpected means.
S5 EP.13 – Amy Nordhues thought she was in good hands to heal from childhood trauma and abuse. Not only was her therapist recommended to her by a friend, but he was a deacon at her church. Instead of walking into healing, she walked into a nightmare of more trauma and abuse. Amy courageously shares her story in a memoir called Prayed Upon: Breaking Free from Therapist Abuse. You will be inspired and encouraged by our conversation with Amy as she shares her passion for Christ and the healing He provides.
S5 EP.12 – Joe Cameneti serves as the Executive Pastor at Believers Church – a multi-site church in NorthEastern Ohio planted by his parents in 1983. As a pastor's kid who has spent his entire life in the local Church, he has a passion to build God's house by building God's people. Joe has become known for his authentic style of communication – preaching Jesus in a creative and compelling way.
S5 EP.11 – Bryan "El Vow" Martinez (formerly DJ Vow) is a highly sought after deejay and music artist who travels for a living performing and mixing music at some of the largest Christian events in the country. To date, El Vow has been featured in several national tours along renowned artist such as Sadie Robertson, Social Club Misfits, Derek Minor, Tedashii, KB and Grammy award winning artist Lecrae.
S5 EP.10 – Lori Wilhite serves alongside her husband, Jud, who is the Senior Pastor at Central Church in Las Vegas, which currently has more than 23 locations nationally and internationally including 12 locations inside prisons around the country. Lori is the founder of Leading and Loving It—a ministry that exists to equip and encourage women in leadership to love life in ministry and impacts more than 20,000 pastors’ wives and women in ministry. She is the author of several books and Bible studies including Ephesians: Head Held High. In this week's encouraging episode Lori hands out hope and shares her story of overcoming depression.
S5 EP.9 – Veronicah Richards is the Founder & Executive Director of Imani Rescue Center in Keyna, East Africa. In this captivating conversation, Veronicah shares how she met her husband when he traveled to Kenya on a mission's trip and how God birthed the dream in both of them to build a rescue center for abused women and orphaned children in Kenya.
S5 EP.8 – Blaine Bartel is a modern day Lazarus. Jesus resurrected him out of 23 years of sexual addiction and the death of everything he held dear. Today he coaches men out of sexual brokenness and into the Jesus life. Blaine is the author of Death By One Thousand Lies and graciously returns to RTP to unpack his latest project—Katharos, an eight-week small group curriculum for men who want to put pornography in the past — for good.
S5 EP.7 – Chuck Pryor is the Executive Director of Joel Osteen Radio and former VP of Programming for K-LOVE Radio and AIR-1. Besides radio, Chuck does motorcycles, photography, and eats tacos. Ahh, he's our kind of people. You're going to love this entertaining conversation with Chuck Pryor and Tate and His Mate.
S5 EP.6 – Jada Hoerr serves as the Chief Resource Officer at Midwest Food Bank, an international nonprofit that operates to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in the U.S. and abroad. Jada loves to travel internationally and recently summited Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the highest point in Africa. In this fun and engaging conversation, Jada takes us on her journey up Mt. Kilimanjaro and shares what she learned along the way.
S5 EP.5 – Chris Brown is a highly sought-after pastor, speaker, radio personality, and church leadership expert with more than twenty years of ministry and financial experience. He worked alongside Dave Ramsey for years and was the nationally syndicated radio host for Life, Money, and Hope, which received over 10 million downloads. Chris graciously returns to talk about his just released book, Restored: Transform the Sting of Your Past into Purpose for Today.
S5 E.4 – Diane Studer is the Executive Director and Founder of Soles For Jesus, an organization that has provided hundreds of thousands of new and gently used shoes to the people of Africa who desperately need them. Your faith will expand during this inspirational conversation as Diane shares how God gave her the vision for Soles For Jesus while standing inside a hut in Ethiopia while on a mission's trip in 2010.
S5 EP.3 – Jon Rychener spent 10 years serving in Youth Ministry at Northwoods Community Church—one of the largest churches in Illinois—and is now currently stepping into the Lead Pastor role. In this engaging conversation Jon tells us what it was like growing up in the church and shares his passion for the local church and equipping the next generation to see the world through a Biblical lens.
S5 EP.2 – Josiah Woods is a programming director/video director on the Elevation YTH creative team at Elevation Church in North Carolina. He works alongside the programming team to help put on events like Rhythm Nights. Josiah loves being able to use his and the team's gifts to put on an experience that reaches youth who are far from Christ. In this fun episode, Josiah takes us on his faith journey, gives practical steps for church creatives, and shares what it's like working for Steven Furtick.
S5 EP.1 – After nearly two decades as a professional musician and traveling the world as the drummer with the band Delirious?, Stewart "Stew" Smith downed his sticks and returned to the creative world. Stew now heads up a Christian charity CPO and is Creative Director of a new vibrant agency, Common Good Studio based on the South coast of the United Kingdom. You will be inspired by Stew's story and his passion for the local church and reaching culture with the Gospel.
S4 EP.16 – Bill Vanderbush is the author of Reckless Grace and the host of the Reckless Grace Podcast. He co-wrote the Forgotten Way with bestselling author Ted Dekker. Bill and his wife, Traci, travel around the world speaking in conferences and churches while residing in Celebration, Florida. Bill graciously returns to Revival Town Podcast to dive deep and shed insight on all things prophecy and unpacks his catchphrase "God is better than you can imagine." If we had to give this episode a title, we'd simply call it Boom-Sauce-For-The-Soul! *Make sure you listen until the end for this week's hilarious 'Tate and his Mate' bit and find out why Andy almost stopped breathing after Chuck's blunder.
S4 EP.15 – Joe McGee is a minister, author, national conference speaker, and host of Faith for Families Podcast. Joe presents some of the most entertaining yet practical teaching on the family available today. We are so excited that Joe's wife Angel joined him for this special episode to discuss marriage, ministry, and everything in between. You will be inspired and encouraged by Joe and Angel's story and we're pretty confident you will laugh out loud more than once.