In this episode of the River Foundation Podcast, Dan is joined by his good friend and River Foundation partner, Coach Keith Madison, Director of Baseball for Score International. Listen as Coach Madison shares how God turned his childhood love for baseball into a 25-year baseball career and later, into a full-time ministry.

Episode Highlights

0:30 Introducing National Director of Baseball for Score International, Coach Keith Madison

1:12 How Coach Madison came to know baseball as both a livelihood and ministry through his directorship at Score

2:18 How two gloves and a baseball started Coach Madison's life-long love of the game

3:45 How God led Coach Madison out of coaching (and why his family was grateful!)

6:00 Too young to retire at 51, this was Coach Madison's next chapter

6:26 The baseball-loving kids Coach Madison met on his first mission trip in the Dominican Republic

8:14 Why God didn't need Coach's contacts or connections when He called him into ministry

10:34 How, for 11 years, God has been using Score to spread the Gospel in the Dominican Republic

11:54 What spending time with Jesus means for ordinary men

12:39 Coach's message to the River Foundation family

Resources

Website: Score International

Website: Coach Madison

In this episode of the River Foundation podcast, Dan sits down with Gary Montgomery, Executive Director of Compass-Kentucky, a non-profit organization dedicated to equipping Christ-followers to manage their money through Biblical principles.

Today, Gary shares with us how God revealed His faithfulness to his family through their financial struggles. Join us in this conversation as we learn how managing our money can be glorifying to God.

Episode Highlights

0:25 The $30,000 consumer-credit debt (and the Howard Dayton study-book) that led Gary, a business-management major, to admit: Lord, I can't handle this

2:34 The key question Gary and his wife Theresa began praying about a life-changing decision

3:17 What happened when Gary and Theresa applied the practical truth of God's Word to their financial struggle

5:00 What caused Gary to ask, Why would someone quit a perfectly good job to go out and raise support?

6:11 How Gary got connected with First Southern and the River Foundation

9:06 Gary's relationship with all the River Foundation-family communities

10:17 Gary's challenge to you, the River Foundation

11:27 What the church sometimes gets wrong when talking about money

13:15 Is our generation doing their part in living as "great givers"?

Resources

Book: Your Money Counts by Howard DaytonWebsite: Compass Financial

On this episode of the River Foundation Podcast, Father Frank Pavone joins Dan in Washington D.C. to share how his organization, Priests for Life, is uniting church leaders with people everywhere to carry out the vision of the pro-life movement in America.

We hope you will be informed, inspired, and activated through hearing how the River Foundation is partnering with organizations like Priests for Life to advocate for lives in the womb who cannot speak for themselves.

0:32 Welcome to Washington D.C.! Join Dan and River Foundation partner, Father Frank Pavone

0:59 What Father Pavone remembers from attending his first March for Life as a senior in high school

2:06 How one rally in 1974 grew to become the largest pro-life event in the world today

3:23 How Father Pavone's organization Priests for Life equips priests to mobilize thousands of people for the pro-life cause, both inside and outside of the Catholic Church

5:47 How Head of the Sanctity of Life Foundation Joe Brink connected Father Pavone to the River Foundation

7:50 Why Father Pavone believes it's an advantage that so many pro-life organizations exist

8:59 How the River Foundation is participating and investing in these pro-life organizations

9:49 Father Pavone's direct message to you, our River Foundation team member, on how to get better informed and more involved in the pro-life movement

11:58 Father Pavone's new book of practical steps our government and the church should take to end abortion

13:21 Resources for further information

Resources

Website: PregnancyCenters.org

Website: ProLifeCentral.com

Book: Ending Abortion: Not Just Fighting It!

Welcome back to the River Foundation Podcast, where we strive to inspire our River Foundation family through sharing one another's stories. In this episode, our Executive Administrator Jami Cervantes tells us how she discovered the River Foundation and how God has used her gifts to serve our team-members, local communities, and international ministries.

Episode Highlights

0:24 Introducing Jami Cervantes, Executive Administrator of the River Foundation

1:37 The friendships God used to lead Jami and her husband to First Southern in Wilmore

3:49 What advice Jami gives college students looking for jobs

4:34 How Jami gets to do what she loves at the River Foundation

5:15 Where team-members can find more information about mission assistance grants, matching grants, and the scholar program

6:00 Jami's role in serving our local communities

7:12 What's new in our partnership with Colson Center for Christian Worldview

8:51 Jami's work supporting our four overseas ministries

10:50 What Jami is looking forward to this year for the River Foundation

12:06 How the newsletter, podcast, and website will serve to share our partners' stories and inspire team-members

13:46 How to contact Jami and access more of the River Foundation's stories

Resources

Podcast: The Glorious and the Mundane

Website: www.RiverFoundation.net

Contact: Jami Cervantes, Executive Administrator

Welcome to the River Foundation podcast, where we share the stories of how God is using the River Foundation family to impact lives this side of heaven. In this first episode, Executive Director Dan Lewis sits down with our podcast producer Philip Devine, and together they share their vision for how this podcast will seek to inform, encourage, and inspire River Foundation team-members all over the world.

Episode Highlights

1:15 Welcome to our podcast, made for you, the River Foundation family

2:56 Meet the man behind the podcast, our podcast-engineer, Philip Devine

4:48 The series of events that led to producing podcasts in Bagdad, Kentucky

6:13 How Dan and Philip got connected

7:19 3 ways podcasts empower people

10:20 How Philip hopes this podcast will encourage the First Southern family

13:06 The 3 things you can do to make this podcast better

Resources

Contact: Jami Cervantes, Executive Administrator