As we enter a new year, we’re continuing our visit with the effervescent Lillie Knauls! She shares how a girl working at the phone company & singing in church became a member of the Gaither Homecoming friends, and a singer on the number 1 “Oh Happy Day!”, singing in the most prestigious venues throughout the world!

This Christmas week, to lift our spirits & help us celebrate, sharing how to experience the joy of Christmas no matter what our circumstances, is Dove Award recipient Lillie Knauls! Miss Lillie, with her radiant smile & trademark hats, has been a regular singer featured on the Bill & Gloria Gaither Homecoming TV series, & shares her faith & joy here in words and songs!

“Oh Happy Day!” is a gospel song that exploded to #1 worldwide as sung by the Edwin Hawkins Singers in the 60s! Meet Lillie Knauls, one of those singers! She tells her amazing story of how she came to share her joy worldwide, and as a regular singer on the Bill & Gloria Gaither Homecoming TV program and tours!

We’re visiting with Teddy Feldmann, Community Outreach Coordinator at CityTeam in Oakland, CA. Teddy tells us stories, including his own, of people freed from addiction and homelessness, even as more than a half-million Americans experience homelessness on a typical night, and 1.4 million will spend time in a shelter every year!

We’re here at City Team’s downtown Oakland, CA location meeting with Teddy Feldmann, now their Community Outreach Coordinator, to hear his honest and heartfelt story! Join us on our podcast and hear how God has used CityTeam to reach Teddy and many others who need a hot meal and so much more!

For the less fortunate, places like City Team become places of refuge where all are welcomed to come in and receive a bountiful meal! We’re at their location in downtown Oakland, CA, meeting with Teddy Feldmann. He shares about when he knew little to be thankful for, and struggled to accept his addiction and City Team’s help to beat it!

We’re out on the streets of Oakland, CA, where homelessness has surged to nearly 47% per capita! Meet Teddy Feldmann, Community Outreach Coordinator for one oasis in the heart of that city, who was a recipient himself of the real help that City Team offers every day!

Operation Christmas Child is an exciting project that happens each year at this time! It’s an outreach of the ministry, Samaritan’s Purse, and brings joy to millions! And with us on the phone to share about the eternal importance of “Operations Christmas Child” is Dana Williams, the Media Relations Assistant Manager for Samaritan's Purse.

In our concluding podcast with Roy Goble, author of the book “Salvaged: Leadership Lessons Pulled from the Junkyard,”he talks about what  we should be sure to do-and not do-for success; as well as about a thrilling journey that the Lord has taken him and his wife, D’Aun, on to the country of Belize!

We’re continuing our podcast with Roy Goble, a successful Silicon Valley real estate developer. He’s sharing how he learned simple but profound lessons in a very unusual place - his father’s junkyard - which he’s matched up with wisdom from the Bible! He’s written a book about this: “Salvaged: leadership lessons pulled from the junkyard.”