The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today, I'm going to talk to Ron and Lavonia Drabot.  In this episode, Ron and Lavonia talk about: How they baptized hundreds of students at Ohio State University How they took a demoralized campus ministry that had only baptized three in the past 6 months and baptized 80 in the next 10 mo...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today I talk to Dr. Gregg Martutzky.  Gregg has served in the ministry for forty years, he's earned many, many degrees and is now working on a Ph. D.  He's one of the most connected disciples I know of.  He's also a person whom I've seen transform and grow over the past 30 years.  Just as...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today, I'm going to talk to Tarik and Jackie Burton from Santa Barbara, California. They've been serving as campus ministers at UC Santa Barbara for the past four years. They were recently hired to lead the entire church. They are a young couple and have a nearly two-year-old daughter, Ky...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today I'm going to talk to Kyle Spears.  Kyle Spears is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner and Certified Marriage and Family Therapist in Omaha, Nebraska. He specializes in helping men with trauma, masculinity, and depression. Last year he started a YouTube channel and a po...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner I have met few people that have experienced as much childhood trauma as Doug and Angella Wens.  In spite of that, they have found a way to turn that troubled background into a triumphant life.  They are impacting people all over the world and have done so for over thirty years.  Find out...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today I'm going to talk to Justin Renton, who leads the church in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Justin talks about: What it was like becoming a Christian under the system of Apartheid His early life racing go-karts and dreaming of Formula One The book he and his wife wrote: "The Healing of...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Nathan Triepke moved from Boston to Flagstaff, Arizona to join the mission team that began September 12th.  He works remotely and in his off-hours preaches the Word.  Find out how this mobile missionary is making the most of remote work capability.

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner In this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast, Ed Anton talks about his conversion, his first marriage and divorce and how he left his job at Coca-Cola for the ministry.  He also talks about his book, Repentance, and how the concepts in it can help during the Covid pandemic. Who is Ed Anton?...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner James Skinner is a 26-year-old employee at Raytheon Missile Corporation by day.  By night, he serves the Hilo, Hawaii, mission planting.  Find out how he does it in this episode of the Rob Skinner Podcast. More about James Skinner: James Skinner was born on the mission field in Tokyo, Jap...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today, I'm going to talk to David Jung from Winnepeg, Canada.  David is a church leader and conflict resolution specialist.  He has two master's degrees and travels around the world to help businesses and churches work through high-tension conflict.  Today David is going to offer ideas on...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Ever wonder if you are ready for a challenge God has placed in your path?  Paul and Amy Jacobs never intended to lead a church, and yet through circumstance and God's guiding hand, they are leading a small church in Okinaway, Japan.  They are fluent in both English and Japanese.  They bot...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today on episode 118,  I'm going to talk to Bruce and Rachel Erickson from Flagstaff, Arizona.  With retirement looming and severe health challenges to deal with, Bruce and Rachel let go of the American Dream and chose to follow God's dream to build a church in Flagstaff.  In this episode...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner In this episode, Brian and Abbie Mackie share about the inaugural service of their new church, the Flagstaff Church of Christ.  Find out how: They had 325 people at their first service They baptized an engaged couple on the first day of the church Their vision for the church

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Dr. Glenn Geeting and his wife, Heather, started a church in 2009 in Hershey Pennsylvania with no outside support.  Using his salary as an emergency room doctor, he planted a church with a first service of twenty people.  From there the church has grown to 100 members.  At the same time,...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today on episode 115,  I'm going to talk to JD and Claudette Lusan from Huntsville, Alabama.  After working secular jobs for 15 years, they went back into the professional ministry in their forties and replanted the church in Huntsville.  The church had plateaued at 11 disciples for 10 ye...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Kit Cummings became a Christian in 1989.  He quickly became a minister in the church.  He then went through a crisis in midlife that led him to bankruptcy, divorce, and rehab.  He made a promise to God during those dark days that shaped the future of his life.  Find out what he told God a...

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Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Today on episode 112 I talk To Dave Mitchell ( https://www.davemitchellcoaching.com/ ) Dave is a devoted Husband, Father of three, Christian, and a Certified High-Performance Professional Coach. He has spent the last 20 plus years studying personal growth and leadership development.  His...

In this episode, I talk about my July 2021 cross-country motorcycle ride from San Diego, California to Boston, Massachusetts.  I share about what I saw, who I met and what I learned.

Shannon Van Zee and his wife, Janella, lead the Great Plains Church of Christ in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  They moved there in 2017 and planted the church.  The church has grown from two members to 20+ people in four years.  In this episode, Shannon shares: How he overcame Leukemia in his twenties What motivated him to plant a church without a team or financial support What it takes to start a c...

Mike and Jody May lead a church in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.  They have led ministries across the USA and in this episode they talk about: How to preach the unchanging gospel in a constantly changing world How to raise believing kids How to come back from setbacks in life This the third in my series recorded while on the road in July of 2021.  I'm on a coast-to-coast motorcycle tour to promote...

Josh and Stacy Peterson lead a church in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  They have done an amazing job raising up leaders while raising their own physical family.  In this episode we talk about what they have done to: Build a "guy friendly" ministry Raise believing kids Raise up young leaders Please register for the Climb Small Church Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas, December 2-5, 2021 at RobSkin...

Marc and Hannah Persing are disciples in the New York City Church of Christ.  They will be leading a new campus sector in Manhattan in the fall of 2021.  Hannah is in the National Guard and is stationed near Tucson, Arizona during the summer of 2021.  They reconditioned an old tire delivery van into a comfortable RV and crossed the country with it.  Find out how they did it in this episode.  Pleas...

Today on episode 106, I'm going to talk to Douglas Arthur.  Doug planted the London Church of Christ, started HOPE Worldwide Charity Organization and has until recently led the Boston Church of Christ.  Listen today as he shares about the early days of Boston, how he started the London Church and HOPE Worldwide and what makes him one of the funniest preachers to listen to.

Today on episode 105,  I'm going to talk to Shohei and Minori Miyoshi.  They lead a church in Osaka, Japan.  In this episode they talk about: How Shohei found God in a hospital bed while recovering from a skin disease How He became a Christian and then grew up in a church that didn't see a baptism for over ten years. How he moved to Tokyo to learn how to lead a ministry and then returned to the sa...