Bill Elliff is the founder and National Engage Pastor of The Summit Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. His passion is to see both genuine revival and methodological renewal in the church—both new wine and new wineskins. He is a frequent conference speaker, writer, and consultant to churches drawing from his 50+ years of pastoring and revival ministry. Bill is also the Pastor/Church Director for OneCry, A Nationwide Call for Spiritual Awakening and the author of fifteen books and booklets and numerous articles. He lives to faithfully and effectively communicate the whole counsel of God to as many people as possible through preaching, writing, church development, and personal equipping that they may become intimate, reproducing disciples of Jesus Christ. Bill and his wife Holly are parents to eight children and grandparents to 22. Five of their sons are in fulltime ministry.

In this podcast, Bill describes the amazing things God has been doing at Asbury University these past 16 days and how that spark is now spreading far and wide in what Bill believes will soon become a world-wide spiritual awakening.

Geoff Eckart lives in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife Arianna. Together they have 3 daughters. He is the lead pastor of Daybreak Church and the founder and CEO of Never The Same, a national youth ministry. He also serves as Chairman of the Executive Board of the National Day of Prayer and leads America’s National Prayer Committee.

In this podcast, Geoff shares about his call to ministry, particularly to calling high school students to pray for their schools with specificity. And how God is answering those prayers! He describes how his ministry, which started in one school in West Michigan, is now spreading across the nation.

And as a leader of two national prayer movements, Geoff also inspires hope in us as he describes how he is aware that more people in America are praying and obeying with greater passion. He has also recently traveled to Asbury University and personally witnessed the amazing move of God going on there. All this leads Geoff to firmly believe that God will truly bring revival and spiritual awakening in our day. Join us in praying daily for that to happen!

Kevin Palau is President and CEO of the Luis Palau Association. Under his leadership, LPA has united tens of thousands of churches in hundreds of cities to love and serve their communities and clearly share the Good News of Jesus. During Kevin’s time at LPA he has also helped develop a global network of thousands of partner evangelists.

Kevin helps lead TogetherPDX, a sustainable, united movement of churches in Portland, Oregon. His book, Unlikely: Setting Aside Our Differences to Live Out the Gospel describes the ongoing impact of the movement.

Kevin lives in Beaverton, Oregon with his wife, Michelle, and enjoys serving on the boards of Alpha USA, Cedar Mill Bible Church, Christians Against Poverty, and Transforming the Bay with Christ.

In this podcast, Kevin Palau talks about how the Luis Palau Association continues to flourish as God blesses their ministry’s impact worldwide. He also shares how, in the last few years, he personally has grown to more greatly experience the love and joyful freedom of God’s wonderful presence. Kevin concludes by encouraging us Christians here in America to be more open to lovingly share the Gospel with the people in our lives who don’t yet know Him. Satan will try to discourage us, but God’s power and love are so much stronger!

Jonathan Bergsma is the Pastor/Director of City Impact Outreach Center in Cedar Springs MI, 288 N Main St. Cedar Springs MI, 49319

Jonathan lives in Rockford MI, He has been married 25 years to his lovely wife Kelley. Together they have four children, 3 boys 1 girl, from ages 25 to 9.

Jonathan was raised in Hudsonville MI, and was actively involved in church throughout his early life. However, little-by-little, in his late teens Jonathan fell off God’s path. But God marvelously worked through many circumstances--some rather unpleasant--to get his attention and bring him back to Jesus.

Jonathan is now totally passionate for evangelism and outreach. He wholeheartedly works daily to activate the body of Christ into meeting practical needs of the lost and underprivileged in our communities all fueled by the transforming power and love of Jesus.

In this podcast, Jonathan Bergsma tells how, while raised as a preacher’s kid, he as a teenager chose to go astray from the Lord. In fact, it was in a jail cell that God began to get his full attention. And now, after a number of years of growing in the Lord, Jonathan and his wife Kelley lead a growing ministry that consistently impacts hundreds of lives with the grace and truth of the Gospel for the glory of God!

Joshua and his wife Emily VanderKlok serve as the Lead Pastors of Resurrection Life Holland and Iglesia Vida. Pastor Joshua graduated from Rhema Bible Training school in Tulsa, Oklahoma and received a BA in International Business from Oral Roberts University. He has lived as a missionary in Mexico and served in Pastoral and ministerial roles for more than 20 years. The VanderKloks are an active family with six children that enjoy exploring the beauty of God’s creation. Josh and Emily feel passionately called to equip Christians and expand the Kingdom of God in the name of Jesus.

In this podcast, Josh shares about the challenges that currently exist for those in ministry and what it might take to stoke more passion in the hearts of Christ-followers in our nation. He also shares his belief that we need to see a much greater sense of unity among Christians if ever we can expect to see genuine revival and spiritual awakening.

Tom Olsson currently serves as the Lead Pastor of Calvary Church here in Grand Rapids, a role he has filled for the past 16 ½ years. Previous to that, Tom worked in the investment services industry and was in a law practice as a licensed attorney. He and his wife Jennifer have been married for 32 years, together they have three adult children, Jeffrey, Jonathan, and Kate who currently all live and work in Chicago. (Tom and Jennifer are hoping and praying their kids eventually will move back to the West Michigan area.)

In this podcast, Tom shares how God used him to help bring Sara Blue (who shared her amazing story on a previous podcast) to faith in Christ. Tom also shares how God led him to transfer from his successful career in investment services and law to fulltime ministry, and how he has absolutely no regrets in making this major move in life.

Sara Blue, is currently the Director of Benevolence at Calvary Church here in Grand Rapids. She has an amazing background. In her distant past, Sara was herself addicted to hard drugs. But, through the grace of God, she now has been in long term recovery which means being off all opiates for over 15 years.

Following her own freedom from drugs, Sara has done much to help many others find help. Sara has done a number of trainings and speaking engagements all over the United States on topics of Trauma Informed Care, Medicated Assisted Treatment and Recovery Oriented Systems of Care.

For the last 12 years, Sara has been doing outreach with people who are experiencing homelessness and discovering how to support those individuals in bettering their lives. Part of this work was in her Directorship with Unlimited Alternatives, a nonprofit who served 140 people a day who were experiencing homelessness, substance abuse issues and severe mental health issues.

But most significantly, Sara was born again as a true follower of Jesus Christ almost 4 years ago. As a result, she is now more passionate than ever to serve all people who might be in a time of need, by sharing the Gospel with them, and clearly showing them Christ’s love, mercy and grace.

In this podcast, Sara tells the story of how her life deteriorated to the point that she became addicted to heroin, and then how she was delivered from that addiction. She ultimately became a leader in a treatment center, but was still feeling emptiness in her heart. Then, through amazing circumstances that only God could orchestrate, she came to faith in Jesus Christ and found the ultimate joy that has no regrets and continues forever.

Randy Hekman currently directs The Grand Awakening, an organization seeking revival and spiritual awakening in West Michigan. Previously, he was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and then served 15 years as a Kent County Probate-Juvenile Court Judge. Following that Randy directed a succession of Christian non-profits. Randy’s writing includes these books: Justice for the Unborn, Truth that Sets America Free, and Sweeter by the Dozen: Making Jesus the Lord of Our Family Size. He and his wife Marcia are the proud (and grateful) parents of 12 children and grandparents to 35.

In this podcast, Randy discusses how people’s subjective feelings are increasingly determining what they believe right and wrong to be. And how this reality has greatly impacted our culture’s view of gender and marriage.

Randy Hekman currently directs The Grand Awakening, an organization seeking revival and spiritual awakening in West Michigan. Previously, he was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and then served 15 years as a Kent County Probate-Juvenile Court Judge. Following that Randy directed a succession of Christian non-profits. Randy’s writing includes these books: Justice for the Unborn, Truth that Sets America Free, and Sweeter by the Dozen: Making Jesus the Lord of Our Family Size. He and his wife Marcia are the proud (and grateful) parents of 12 children and grandparents to 35.

In this podcast, Randy draws on his law enforcement, judicial and governmental background to explain what steps our nation must do to reduce crime.

Dr. Joel R. Beeke was converted at the age of 14, and has pastored for more than forty years in three churches.

Currently, he is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (since 1994), a pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan (since 1986), editor of Puritan Reformed Journal and Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society.

He has written and co-authored one hundred books (most recently, Reformed Systematic Theology, Reformed Preaching: Preaching God’s Word from the Heart of the Preacher to the Heart of His People, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life; Knowing and Growing in Assurance; and Debated Issues in Sovereign Predestination), edited another one hundred books, and contributed 2,500 articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. He is presently working on writing a systematic theology and a book on preaching from the preacher’s heart to the listener’s heart.

His PhD is in Reformation and Post-Reformation theology from Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) on assurance of faith. He is frequently called upon to lecture at seminaries and to speak at Reformed conferences around the world in dozens of countries. He and his wife Mary have been blessed with three children and four grandchildren.

In this podcast, Joel Beeke shares his joy as he senses the godly remnant of Christ-followers in America is growing and becoming even more godly. But, at the same time, he grieves that the majority of nominal American Christians are being increasingly influenced by our secular godless culture.

Joel also had a great segment on the wonderful partnership we have with God as we pray consistent with His will. That brief teaching alone will likely spark a resurgence of prayer in those who listen. He also shares about the wonderful unity of we have with all true Christ followers even if we disagree on non-essentials of the faith. And, finally, when asked what he would say to all true Christians in America to spur them on to love and good works, Joel has some very strong and challenging words of encouragement.