Dr. Al Baird and his wife, Gloria, served as an eldership couple in the Boston Church of Christ. They saw the church grow from 30 to 3,000. In this episode, Al shares about what he witnessed in those explosive early days of what became the International Churches of Christ. He also shares about his marriage, parenting and the loss of his wife of 56 years in 2018.

Don't listen to the voice of cowardice and fear. During the battle of Bull Run at the beginning of the Civil war, Southern General Thomas Jackson rode his horse up and down the front lines of the fight encouraging his men. When the Union soldiers attacked, he waited, fully exposed, as the soldiers drew near. His men looked up and shouted to one another, "There he is! Standing like a stone wall!" His courage in the face of withering fire and a bayonet charge gave his men the courage to stand and win that early battle. From that moment to the present, he has been known as "Stonewall Jackson."

Braxton Kieft gave up his safe, secure and lucrative position in finance to go on mission to the tiny island of Guam. They took their kids and faced an uncertain situation in the far east. Find out how they chose pursue the mission over security.

Each one of us has dreams that we would love to make reality. However, only courage has the power to transform wishes into dreams fulfilled. Find out how to make your long-cherished and perhaps long-buried intentions see the light of day.

Joel and Christy Peed planted a church in Wisconsin in 2006 with five people and now the church is 115 and has planted another church. They have three kids who are disciples and are attempting to adopt a four-year-old girl. Their church has grown steadily and Joel and Christy have founded the Small Church Leaders Conference, "Look Up", in 2019. Not only that, they are working on a new ministry called "Waters of Rest" that provides resources for ministry leaders who are looking to develop long-term habits of rest, recuperation and spiritual renewal.

One of the primary regrets the aged have is that they didn't express their feelings. Don't let that happen to you. Those who have made a difference in this life spoke up and spoke out. Find out how in this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast. You can find Rob's book on Amazon. Go to Amazon and type Rob Skinner in the search bar an you'll find Rob's two books. Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Make-This-Life-Count/dp/B08DC5VTR6/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1604460855&sr=8-1

Alcides Morais was the sixteenth person to be baptized in the 1987 church planting to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Leslie moved to Brazil on the mission team from New York City. They have served in the paid and unpaid ministry in Brazil, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. They now are bi-vocational ministers in Goiania, Brazil, near Brasilia. After ten years of living in Seattle, Washington, they felt called back to the mission field they met on. Find out how they are choosing to live a no-regrets life.

Frank and Erica Kim gathered a team of disciples and flew to Tokyo, Japan in the late eighties. In a country where less than one percent of the population is Christian of any denomination, they built a church of 1,000 disciples in ten years. This podcast discusses how they did it.