Theology, Things & Stuff

Fred Mukisa Kayemba is a passionate teacher of the Word, pastor, and church planter devoted to helping believers build strong foundations in Christ. He holds a diploma in Christian Ministry and has also studied Project Planning, Management, and Entrepreneurship. Fred leads Truth Embassy Church in Mukono, Uganda and oversees several churches across the nation. Pastor Fred has a strong focus and bur...

Josh Gentry is a licensed land surveyor and professional geologist from Cookeville, Tennessee. Raised in the Church of God, he developed a love for the outdoors at an early age and was born again at twelve years old. Inspired by both his faith and his fascination with creation, Josh attended Tennessee Technological University, where he studied geology. He began his career in economic geology withi...

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...

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 Ped...

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. Surp...

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 a...

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 encounte...

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 cont...

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, Ten...

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, san...

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 curre...

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...

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...

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 orpha...

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 train...

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 te...

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 Tes...

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, Jentze...

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...

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...

Evangelist • Psalmist • Worship Leader For over 30 years Rev. Martin has been serving the Lord around the world, preaching and singing the word of GOD. Helping others to seek an intimate relationship and lifestyle of worship with the Lord. Mark is know for his seminar teachings, mentoring worship teams and leaders, as well as helping pastors wherever needed. His testimony of his own miraculous enc...

Pastor Luke worked in Christian TV for 15 years in the UK, at a time that religious broadcasting was just starting to emerge in Europe. He worked as a producer and director in that time and left in 2014. Since then he has Pastored New Life Church, Teesside in the north east of England, where he lives with his wife.

Chief Scott Winfree, who hails from Cookeville, Tennessee, was recently appointed Chief of Police of his hometown. After graduating from Upperman High School in nearby Baxter in 1983, Chief Winfree continued his education at Tennessee Technological University (TTU), earning his BS in Sociology and AS in Criminal Justice in 1987. Joining the police force shortly after graduating TTU in 1989, Chief...

Pastor Ronnie Pittman is the founding pastor of Glory Tabernacle Church in Asheville, North Carolina, a vibrant non- denominational ministry established in 1990. Born and raised in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Ronnie’s early life was shaped by hardship, military service in Vietnam, and a powerful spiritual awakening that led him from addiction to redemption. Alongside his wife Kathy, R...

My name is Silvana Spahiu! Married with the love of my life, mother of five. I received Jesus when I was 9. Being born with an incurable sickness life was very hard. But Jesus touched my heart, my body and transformed me into a new person. Today I'm living my dream, serving and loving God, seeing His people changed and free it's beyond my wildest dreams. Together with my husband we've been pastori...