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Today I'm talking to Cody and Brittany Dowdy from Lynchburg, Virginia. They were working secular jobs when they got the call to plant a new church in Lynchburg. What's amazing about their story is the obstacles they faced and overcame to plant the church:

• They planted the church at the beginning of the COVID pandemic in the summer of 2020.
• Lynchburg is one of the most religious areas in the US. It's called the "Belt Buckle of the Bible Belt."
• Lynchburg is a racially segregated city and the church was planted in the wake of the George Floyd racial unrest.
• Cody and Brittany have three kids five years or younger.
• Cody had gotten fired previously from the full-time ministry and Brittany had never been in the professional ministry before.

In spite of all these challenges, they have grown the church from a team of eighteen disciples to thirty-one. They've found ways to save students on private colleges, study the Bible with people through the phone and Zoom and developed a "blank-slate" approach to reaching the lost that is proving effective. Find out more on the Rob Skinner Podcast!

Interview Questions:

1. How'd you become Christians?
2. How'd you meet?
3. Where have you been prior to Lynchburg?
4. Why'd you choose Lynchburg?
5. What was it like during COVID?
6. How do you reach out in such a religious setting?
7. What has inspired you?
8. What has been challenging?
9. Any advice for those who want to multiply churches?

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Today, I'm talking to Doug and Jennifer Lambert from Williamsburg, Virginia. Doug and Jennifer were missionaries in Argentina, and Mexico and then returned to the US to lead churches in Tallahassee, Florida, Nashville Tennessee, Baltimore, Maryland, and Cincinnati, Ohio. They talk about:

• The secrets to making a career out of ministry
• How to raise solid kids who love God
• How to tackle pride and lead with humility
• How Doug fasted for forty days and saw four men become Christians as a result
• How they faced Jennifer's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

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In this episode, I talk to Chris and Kim Reed from Salt Lake City, Utah. Chris and Kim spent years planting and leading churches in Sweden and Denmark. They talk about:

• Why you should find your purpose first before finding your partner
• How to keep your faith in a world going away from God
• The value of saving a single soul
• How to avoid wasting matches on "wet wood," and instead finding the "Inflammable Few."
• How prayer saved their daughter's life from liver cancer
• How they've managed to have 13 people baptized during COVID in the first year of their time in Salt Lake City

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Today, I'm talking with Tom and Kelly Brown. They lead a church in Marietta, Georgia which is in the Atlanta area. Tom and Kelly were converted in the Crossroads Campus Ministry in Gainesville, Florida, and have led churches and campus ministries in Boulder, Colorado, Berkeley, California, Boston, Massachusetts, Los Angeles and more recently, Atlanta, Georgia. They share their ministry journey and how they've grown their church in Atlanta from 177 to over 1,100 disciples and their campus ministry from less than 20 to 220 disciples.

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In this episode, I talk to Rayola Osanya from New Jersey. Rayola went on the mission team to Nairobi, Kenya in the late eighties and from there he went on to plant churches in Eldoret, Kenya, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Kigali, Rwanda. He just finished a memoir of his missionary and charity work in Africa entitled: "Go in the Strength You Have: Looking Beyond Your Weaknesses To See the Difference Your Life Can Make." I read the book and talk with Rayola about his experiences in Africa. Interview

1. How'd you become a Christian?
2. What prompted you to write a book?
3. What was it like for you to leave New York to return to Kenya?
4. You mention being afraid a lot, having weaknesses, but it seems every time you were called to do something bold, you did it. Where did that come from? Talk a little about "Bible Algebra"
5. You planted a church in Eldoret at 22, living in a tin-roofed shed. Please talk about that
6. What was it like going into Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide there?
7. What are you excited about as you look forward now?
8. What advice would you give to those who want to make this life count?

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In this episode, I interview Kendall and McKenzie Albert, campus ministers from Saint Louis, Missouri. They spoke the first night of the Campus Training Program in Atlanta, Georgia. This program is sponsored by the North River Church of Christ, led by Tom Brown, and is held yearly to train and equip campus students and leaders for effective discipleship on college campuses. Kendall and McKenzie spoke on John 14:6, Jesus the Way. Join me and my wife, Pam, as we talk about the first day of the program, the Albert's story, and the lesson they preached.

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At a recent church leadership conference, I sat down with Kai Foster to find out what he's doing to grow his church in Reno, Nevada. The church there has doubled in the last three years and that has happened through a surprising spiritual practice. Find out Kai's secret to growing his church on the Rob Skinner Podcast!

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I recently sat down with John and Jan Oakes to talk about their planting a new church in Merced, California. Merced is the home of a new University of California that is predicted to become the largest of the UC campuses. Find out more about this new planting on the Rob Skinner Podcast!

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Today, I'm talking with Mike and Anne-Brigitte Taliaferro. They serve as the lead evangelist and Senior Women's Minister at Mission Point Church in San Antonio Texas. They have planted and led churches in the US, Brazil, and several African churches. They planted churches in over 40 nations in Africa over the course of fourteen years. They have appointed 25 evangelists and women's ministry leaders and raised up many other leaders. They have been married for over 40 years and have three sons and three daughters-in-law. We talk about how they planted so many churches, what drove them and some of the many miracles they've seen over the course of their ministry career. All this and more on the Rob Skinner Podcast!

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It takes guts to step out on faith. It takes guts to make a risky, late-career move for Christ. Rusty and Kim Snell left a successful and comfortable career path in product design in their late fifties and stepped in as the leaders of the Toledo, Ohio church. In this episode you'll find out:

• What inspired them to do it
• How Christ can multiply whatever talents or gifts you offer Him
• Why they find themselves happiest experiencing Christ's victories and suffering
• Their plans to build a "healthy spiritual garden"

All this and more on the Rob Skinner Podcast