Mission Education Podcast

Rob Carr explains changes in the new RA Advancement plan.

Meet Steve Fowler, associational missionary for the North American Mission Board. Steve serves in Montana where he plants churches and races cars for Jesus.

Mark Boghich has been an RA leader for more than 25 years. He can recall every RA leader he had as a boy and the positive influence each one had on his life. Mark strongly advocates that boys and girls need mission education.

Director of Missions (DOM) in Michigan, Mike McCoy, talks with Jim Burton, Mission Education team leader at NAMB about his journey to becoming a missionary. As a boy, Mike was a Royal Ambassador and those years of mission education were foundational to where he is today as a DOM.

National RA director, Rob Carr, interviews Lebron Pinkerton, fitness coach, about the new fitness elective for 2010 Royal Ambassadors.

Jay Chance has been a Royal Ambassador since the age of nine. Listen as he talks about the positive influence that RAs has had on his life. (This is an interview from the 2008 National RA Race in Indianapolis, Indiana.)

Chaplain (MG) Doug Carver, Chief of Chaplains for the Army, talks with Jim Burton, Mission Education Team leader, about his faith and the firm foundation that Royal Ambassadors laid in his life. Carver is the first Southern Baptist chaplain promoted to the chief of chaplains office in more than 50 years.

Jim Burton from NAMB interviews Bob Drake, RA director at First Southern Baptist, Lawrence, Kansas. Drake has be involved with RAs since childhood. Drake says boys enjoy learning about the various jobs of missionaries all over the world.

Jim Burton from NAMB interviews RA leader, Gary Ledbetter. Ledbetter was an RA as a young boy and continued being an RA into adulthood. Ledbetter is currently serving as director of communications & public relations for the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. Ledbetter considers RAs to still be relevant in today's culture.

Ed McFlurry has been involved with the Church Renewal Journey since 1969. Over the years, he and his wife, Elisa, have never experienced a bad Renewal. During this interview with Jim Burton, the McFlurry's talk about their home ministries and their ministry in Church Renewal. They have seen countless lives changed for the better through the Church Renewal Journey.

In part two of this interview with pastor Jerry Kirby of West Union Baptist Church in Calhoun, Georgia, pastor Kirby shares what his church experienced as a result of a Lay Renewal Weekend. Church members met in small groups and shared deep personal feelings with each other--many for the first time. Lives were changed and renewed.

In part one of this two part interview, Jerry Brooks, pastor of West Union Baptist Church in Calhoun, Georgia talks about how he anticipates his church will change for the better as a result of experiencing a Church Renewal Weekend.

Don Hanle talks about his personal journey with Church Renewal. Don has been involved with the Church Renewal Journey since 1964. He is just as excited today at a Renewal weekend as he was 45 years ago when he felt God's call to the Renewal Journey. Over the years, he has witnessed God at work through Renewal and seen hundreds of lives changed, including a pastor that became a Christian during a Renewal Weekend.

Maryanne Crouch and her husband, George, are Church Renewal team members. They've been involved with Church Renewal for about 20 years. There's a saying in Church Renewal, "If you make yourself available to the Lord, you'll find yourself in strange and unusual places." In Maryanne's case, she said yes to the Lord and found herself in a unique situation in Africa.

Jim Burton interviews Dr. Ed Yount, pastor of Woodlawn Baptist Church, Conover, North Carolina, about their recent experience with the Church Renewal Prayer Weekend. Dr. Yount says his church will never be the same.

Jim Burton interviews Greg Markiton, RA leader at Cresthill Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia about their recent event--an RA Rain gutter Regatta.

Interview with Richard Sale of First Baptist Church, Florence, SC. He is coordinating chaplaincy as a consultant with SC Baptist Convention and also works as law enforcement chaplain. Richard talks with Jim Burton of the Mission Education Team of NAMB about his experiences with Royal Ambassadors

Royal Ambassadors accepted a problem child and today he attributes his success to the RA program. Here's Jack Noble's story.

Interview with Frank Green, RA, consultant with Tennessee Baptist Convention, writer for Lad and Crusader magazines, and owner of Royal Racers talks about his experience with RAs.