Theology, Things & Stuff

Bobbie Scudder is a missionary serving in Kampala, Uganda, alongside her husband, Brett Scudder. Raised in Carthage, Tennessee, Bobbie later attended Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, where she met Brett. The two became active members of Engrafted Word Church in 1995 and were married there in 1999.
 
Over the next seventeen years, Brett and Bobbie faithfully served in nearly every area of ministry at ...

Fondly known by some as Pastora, Rev. Sherree Tercyak began her 30-year missionary journey in Honduras in 1983, serving in a wide range of ministry roles. From cities to remote villages, across rural regions and into the mountains, she has served both as a servant in helps ministry and as a senior pastor. For several years, she co-pastored one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in San Pedro Sula, while also overse...

Pastor Ingolf and Angela Schmidt (the founders of Ingolf Schmidt Ministries) live in Leipzig, Germany. They have been married since 1980 and have three children and two grandchildren. Both were born in former East Germany. In 1985, they founded Living Word Church Leipzig. During that time it was impossible to have a Christian church registered by the Communist government of East Germany. They started the church as a little...

Lisa Mackie grew up in Southern California and worked in corporate America there most of her career. She held various management positions at Nissan North America and was part of the corporate relocation from Los Angeles to Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. Lisa met the true love of her life Tim in 2009, they married in 2011, and Lisa moved to Tim’s farm in Sparta, Tennessee where they call home. Surprising many, Lisa left cor...

Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1966, David Larson is a Scandinavian missionary to the country of Bolivia in South America. He married his high school sweetheart, Violetta, who immigrated from Bolivia to Sweden as a child soon after her father passed away. The couple became born again as young adults and married soon after. As Christians now living on fire for Christ, they felt led by the Lord to attend Rhema Bible College ...

Born in 1971 in Santa Barbara County, California, during the height of the hippie movement, Crystal Krachunis endured a chaotic and traumatic childhood marked by abandonment, abuse, and addiction. Her young adult life eventually led her into the bodybuilding and rock-and-roll scene of the 1980s, where she embraced the promiscuous lifestyle that often accompanied it. During this season she encountered Jesus Christ in an une...

Reverend Jean-Marie Malengela is a missionary pastor based in Pretoria, South Africa. Born in central Congo in 1967, Rev. Jean-Marie encountered Jesus Christ in the early 1980s in the city of Likasi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He has served as an evangelist since 1983 within the Protestant chaplaincy under the supervision of Reverend Pastor Kasongo Kiabuta K. Since 1989, he has continued this ministry in Kin...

Jim Fox was born in Cookeville, Tennessee, in 1969, before his family relocated to inner-city Memphis. Raised in a strong Christian family, Jim developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in his early twenties. During that season, he met his wife and began following the Lord on a path toward ministry. Today, Jim serves as the student pastor at The River, a Baptist church in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is passionate a...

Rev. Danny Johnston experienced a radical conversion to Christianity in March 1972. Prior to that, he lived a life marked by anger, bitterness, rebellion, and addiction. He was arrested numerous times and incarcerated in city and county jails, as well as the state penitentiary. After narrowly—and supernaturally—surviving a lethal drug deal, God set Rev. Danny on an unlikely path of repentance, sanctification, and ultimatel...

Doron Keidar is an international speaker known for sharing powerful, firsthand insights drawn from decades of defending the State of Israel. Fluent in both English and Hebrew, he connects with audiences of all ages through a bold, direct, and engaging style.

Since 2003, Doron has served in a combat unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and has remained active in the reserves since 2006. He currently serves in one of the I...

With nearly 30 years of ministry experience and a Doctorate of Ministry in Theology, Dr. Rick Barker is a gifted and anointed Bible teacher. Throughout his ministry, he has served as an associate pastor, church planter, leadership trainer, and lead pastor. He has developed small-group ministries, trained ministry leaders, and overseen the ministry of helps within the local church.

By the grace of God, Dr. Barker has overcom...

Rev. Ken and Trudi Blount’s lives were transformed in 1971 when Trudi experienced a miraculous healing that restored her eyesight after years of severe impairment from a childhood accident. Witnessing this miracle led Rev. Blount to receive Christ, setting the course for their lifelong ministry. Rev. Blount’s ministry began in the 1980s when he worked with Willie George on The Gospel Bill Show. As the beloved character “Ni...

Katy Gordon is the Director of Children’s Ministry at Cornerstone World Outreach Church in Sioux City, Iowa. She was born and raised in the small town of Jefferson and later set out for the mission field. Prior to joining Cornerstone in 2002, Ms. Katy attended Bible School and Missions School, and lived overseas in Italy and Thailand, where she ministered in a church, elementary schools, and orphanages for three years.

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Titus Murefu was born on March 29, 1954, during the Apartheid and the Rhodesian Bush War in Chivu, Zimbabwe. After losing his father, who was an evangelist in the Apostolic Faith Mission, to a violent death at the hands of Afrikaner mercenaries, Titus honored his father’s last commission by answering God’s call to preach the Gospel.

Titus left his positon as a schoolteacher to begin ministry training in Harare in 1975 at an...

Judd Saul is the founder of Equipping The Persecuted, an organization dedicated to ministering to the lost and persecuted Christians in Nigeria. The mission of Equipping The Persecuted is to take action to save lives and prevent terrorist attacks. Their goal is to protect, rebuild, and strengthen families enduring persecution by responding quickly to attacks with medical aid, food, and a prayer team to comfort victims.
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Dr. Richard Hanner is a longtime teacher and leader in the Body of Christ. As a vocational church planter, Dr. Hanner pioneered Courts of Praise Christian Center in LaGrange, Georgia, and served there through its 10th year. In 1989, he accepted a faculty position at Christ For The Nations Institute (CFNI) in Dallas, Texas. This role allowed him to serve as Dean of Students and Professor of New Testament during his 17 years...

On this episode of Theology, Things, and Stuff, Pastor Sonny Flock of Covenant Life Church in Ferdinand, IN, shares the miraculous story of how he survived a horrific ski accident that required an emergency helicopter rescue in the snowy peaks of Colorado. Against all odds, Pastor Sonny made a full recovery and is now thriving alongside his wife, Cassie, and their four children: Joel, Jude, Jentzen, and Josie. He credits h...

Born in Sunderland, England, in 1960, Sapper Alan James (#871) joined the British Army in 1978 and served for 12 years in the Corps of Royal Engineers before joining the police force in 1990. He recounts his time serving as a patrol officer during The Troubles (also known as the Northern Ireland Conflict), openly sharing about his battle with PTSD and how he became a born-again follower of Christ in his mid-fifties. Still ...

Ray Bensch is a teacher of the Bible to this generation. A graduate of Central Michigan University and Supernatural Ministries Teaching Institue Bible college. He has been an ordained minister since 1992. Rev Bensch lives in the USA and teaches in approximately 80-100 churches annually, he has also ministered to 15 nations preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and teaching Christians everywhere how to serve God in victory a...