Christian Devotions SPEAK UP!

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! as Pastor John Wiley visits with Scott to share his vision of community living, including helping the homeless.

John Wiley is an unconventional pastor who teaches love and compassion through his passion to mentor and creatively show others how to see their cities differently. He demonstrates to young families a fresh and transparent approach to a traditional gospel message, with relevance to embrace it at a heart level. He also equips Christians to recognize and engage the opportunities before them that they may have been missing on a daily basis.

In 1981 he accepted Christ while in a military prison at the age of nineteen. In 2001, he and his family started River Church Family with fifteen teenagers, where he serves as the senior pastor. Today, the River has over 350 people. John is also the founder of River of Refuge, a non-profit, Kansas City-based organization committed to help transition homeless families who have jobs, from high-rent motels and shelters into permanent housing.

John and Mary Jo have been married since 1982. They have three children and four grandchildren. For twenty years, Mary Jo focused on raising their three children. In 2009 she completed her doctoral studies and today practices chiropractic care at Revma Health Center in Raytown, MO.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! where the Bible takes center stage when Scott talks with author of Question Everything, Tyler Ellis.

Tyler Ellis was born in 1980 and grew up in Portland, OR.  At eighteen, he enrolled in a 2.5 year apprentice missionary program called AIM (Adventures in Missions) that allowed him to serve in Western Samoa and Sydney, Australia. While overseas, he discovered a passion for missions and helping others sort through life’s biggest questions. After his apprenticeship, he worked on staff with AIM for three years while acquiring a degree in Biblical Studies.

Tyler has been a Campus Minister since 2004. He began by planting a campus ministry at Northern Arizona University that remains today. While living in Flagstaff, AZ, he met Jennifer on eHarmony. After getting married in 2009, Tyler and his wife moved to Newark, DE, where they now live with their daughter and serve at the University of Delaware.

Tyler is on the board of Campus Crosswalk. He has also been a speaker at several church camps, youth rallies, and conferences hosted at colleges including Pepperdine University, Cascade College, Southern Methodist University, Lipscomb University, Harding University, and Texas Tech University.

In his free time, he enjoys doing art and photography, playing disc golf and racquetball, and exploring new places with family and friends.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! where the Bible takes center stage when Scott talks with author of Question Everything, Tyler Ellis.

Tyler Ellis was born in 1980 and grew up in Portland, OR.  At eighteen, he enrolled in a 2.5 year apprentice missionary program called AIM (Adventures in Missions) that allowed him to serve in Western Samoa and Sydney, Australia. While overseas, he discovered a passion for missions and helping others sort through life’s biggest questions. After his apprenticeship, he worked on staff with AIM for three years while acquiring a degree in Biblical Studies.

Tyler has been a Campus Minister since 2004. He began by planting a campus ministry at Northern Arizona University that remains today. While living in Flagstaff, AZ, he met Jennifer on eHarmony. After getting married in 2009, Tyler and his wife moved to Newark, DE, where they now live with their daughter and serve at the University of Delaware.

Tyler is on the board of Campus Crosswalk. He has also been a speaker at several church camps, youth rallies, and conferences hosted at colleges including Pepperdine University, Cascade College, Southern Methodist University, Lipscomb University, Harding University, and Texas Tech University.

In his free time, he enjoys doing art and photography, playing disc golf and racquetball, and exploring new places with family and friends.

A native of Central New York, Linda Rondeau graduated from North Syracuse High School and later Houghton College. She moved to Northern New York where she met and married Steve Rondeau, her best friend in life, and managed a career in human services before tackling professional writing.

Rondeau's romantic suspense, The Other Side of Darkness, is the winner of the 2012 Selah Award for best first novel. Her romance, It Really IS a Wonderful Life is already a best seller. Joining her contemporary works is her first non-fiction, I Prayed for Patience/God Gave Me Children. Her paranormal suspense, Days of Vines and Roses is now available in both book and ebook format. The author is a breast cancer survivor and is available to speak to your groups about health and/or her books and ministry to senior writers.

A native of Central New York, Linda Rondeau graduated from North Syracuse High School and later Houghton College. She moved to Northern New York where she met and married Steve Rondeau, her best friend in life, and managed a career in human services before tackling professional writing.

Rondeau's romantic suspense, The Other Side of Darkness, is the winner of the 2012 Selah Award for best first novel. Her romance, It Really IS a Wonderful Life is already a best seller. Joining her contemporary works is her first non-fiction, I Prayed for Patience/God Gave Me Children. Her paranormal suspense, Days of Vines and Roses is now available in both book and ebook format. The author is a breast cancer survivor and is available to speak to your groups about health and/or her books and ministry to senior writers.

Aaron D. Gansky is a novelist, teacher, and editor. In 2009, he earned his M.F.A in Fiction at the prestigious Antioch University of Los Angeles, one of the top five low-residency writing schools in the nation. Prior to that, he attained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing where he studied, in part, under Bret Anthony Johnston, now the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University.

He is the author of the novel The Bargain (2013, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas) as well as The Hand of Adonai, a YA Fantasy series. Additionally, he’s written two short books on the craft of fiction; Firsts in Fiction: First Lines and Write to Be Heard (with Diane Sherlock).

Aaron is also a professional editor. Currently, he serves as an editor for The Citron Review, an online literary journal for short fiction, poetry, and art. He edits novels and books as well. To find out more about how he can help get your manuscript ready for publication, click here: http://aarongansky.com/mentoring/

Aaron D. Gansky is a novelist, teacher, and editor. In 2009, he earned his M.F.A in Fiction at the prestigious Antioch University of Los Angeles, one of the top five low-residency writing schools in the nation. Prior to that, he attained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing where he studied, in part, under Bret Anthony Johnston, now the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University.

He is the author of the novel The Bargain (2013, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas) as well as The Hand of Adonai, a YA Fantasy series. Additionally, he’s written two short books on the craft of fiction; Firsts in Fiction: First Lines and Write to Be Heard (with Diane Sherlock).

Aaron is also a professional editor. Currently, he serves as an editor for The Citron Review, an online literary journal for short fiction, poetry, and art. He edits novels and books as well. To find out more about how he can help get your manuscript ready for publication, click here: http://aarongansky.com/mentoring/

Aaron D. Gansky is a novelist, teacher, and editor. In 2009, he earned his M.F.A in Fiction at the prestigious Antioch University of Los Angeles, one of the top five low-residency writing schools in the nation.

He is the author of the novel The Bargain (2013, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas) as well as The Hand of Adonai, a YA Fantasy series. Additionally, he’s written two short books on the craft of fiction; Firsts in Fiction: First Lines and Write to Be Heard (with Diane Sherlock).

Aaron is also a professional editor. Currently, he serves as an editor for The Citron Review, an online literary journal for short fiction, poetry, and art. He edits novels and books as well. To find out more about how he can help get your manuscript ready for publication, click here: http://aarongansky.com/mentoring/

A native of Central New York, Linda Rondeau graduated from North Syracuse High School and later Houghton College. She moved to Northern New York where she met and married Steve Rondeau, her best friend in life, and managed a career in human services before tackling professional writing.

Rondeau's romantic suspense, The Other Side of Darkness, is the winner of the 2012 Selah Award for best first novel. Her romance, It Really IS a Wonderful Life is already a best seller. Joining her contemporary works is her first non-fiction, I Prayed for Patience/God Gave Me Children. Her paranormal suspense, Days of Vines and Roses is now available in both book and ebook format. The author is a breast cancer survivor and is available to speak to your groups about health and/or her books and ministry to senior writers.

Aaron D. Gansky is a novelist, teacher, and editor. In 2009, he earned his M.F.A in Fiction at the prestigious Antioch University of Los Angeles, one of the top five low-residency writing schools in the nation.

He is the author of the novel The Bargain (2013, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas) as well as The Hand of Adonai, a YA Fantasy series. Additionally, he’s written two short books on the craft of fiction; Firsts in Fiction: First Lines and Write to Be Heard (with Diane Sherlock).

Aaron is also a professional editor. Currently, he serves as an editor for The Citron Review, an online literary journal for short fiction, poetry, and art. He edits novels and books as well. To find out more about how he can help get your manuscript ready for publication, click here: http://aarongansky.com/mentoring/

A native of Central New York, Linda Rondeau graduated from North Syracuse High School and later Houghton College. She moved to Northern New York where she met and married Steve Rondeau, her best friend in life, and managed a career in human services before tackling professional writing.

Rondeau's romantic suspense, The Other Side of Darkness, is the winner of the 2012 Selah Award for best first novel. Her romance, It Really IS a Wonderful Life is already a best seller. Joining her contemporary works is her first non-fiction, I Prayed for Patience/God Gave Me Children. Her paranormal suspense, Days of Vines and Roses is now available in both book and ebook format. The author is a breast cancer survivor and is available to speak to your groups about health and/or her books and ministry to senior writers.

Join us this week on Christian Devotions SPEAK UP! and discover missionary stories from around the world with author Rebecca Davis.

Even though Rebecca’s prime reading as a child consisted of Nancy Drew and books by Grace Livingston Hill, her mother continued to thrust biographies into her hands. For this she has been immensely grateful, because biographies of great Christians have helped shape her life.

Rebecca always loved to write, even though she left many stories—(almost all?)—unfinished. This terrible fate nearly befell her first book, With Daring Faith: A Biography of Amy Carmichael. If it hadn’t been for a persistent friend and co-worker, With Daring Faith, which eventually won the C.S. Lewis gold medal for Outstanding Christian Juvenile Literature, might have sat unfinished in a drawer. Instead, it was the first of what Rebecca hopes will be many books that will bring glory to God through the lives of ordinary Christians who serve an extraordinary God.

Her first three biographies (With Daring Faith, George Mueller, and Fanny Crosby) were published by JourneyForth books, an imprint of BJU Press. Now Rebecca is working with Christian Focus Publications in the development of Hidden Heroes, a series of books designed for family read-alouds, telling true stories about God’s work in different countries around the world. You can view all her books by clicking on the “Missionary Stories and Biographies” tab of this website, http://www.heresthejoy.com.

Along with her love of writing, Rebecca loves to teach, and knew from a young age that she wanted to be a teacher. This desire, however, conflicted with the desire to stay home with her children—that is, until she heard about homeschooling.