Mid-South Viewpoint // Bott Radio Network

John Summerville with TWR discusses their worldwide and diverse outreach that started in 1954, using media to take God's Word to all nations, tongues, and tribes. Today’s episode was produced at the 2024 International Christian Media Convention in Nashville, TN.

We stand at a crossroads, a pivot point in our nation’s story. The future of America depends on our response today. Pastor Allen Jackson of World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro, TN shares his heart behind the “Lead with Faith” Culture & Christianity Conference April 26th -27th 2024 at World Outreach Church. Speakers include Kaleigh McEnany, Brandon Tatum, Allie B. Stuckey, Kirk Cameron, and Eric...

Radio and Media veterans, Tom Mann and Danni Synot share their personal brave conversation. Tom, originally from Memphis, was one of the voices on-air when Bott Radio Network first came to Memphis. Tom has decades of experience in Television, radio media production and now podcasting. Currently, Tom is the afternoon radio show host on WBVN 104.5 FM in Southern Illinois. He also hosts and produces...

Carl Carmody from Challenge Literature Fellowship in Australia shares the vision of Challenge, the Good News Paper, to clearly communicate Jesus Christ and His plan of salvation for mankind to all people. Challenge is a bi-monthly paper that includes testimonies of lives changed by the Lord Jesus Christ. It is written in an easy-to-read manner purposely for the non-Christian. What makes Challenge...

From the 2024 Christian Media Convention in Nashville TN., we talk with Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, Chairman and Pastoral Director of its Rachel's Vineyard project, and the President of the National Pro-Life Religious Council. In November of 2022, he was defrocked by the Vatican for prioritizing his Pro-Life efforts. Father Frank posted on X, “Hi friends… So, in eve...

At 12 years old her family home was bombed by civil rights opponents, while her family was inside their home. Her Uncle Martin was assassination here in Memphis on this day on April 4, 1968. In 1969, her father, A. D. King, was found dead. On today’s Mid-South View Point we talk with Dr. Alveda King, at this year’s 2024 Christian Media Convention in Nashville. Dr. Alveda King is a former state rep...

We travel to Camp Conquest, close to 80-acre property that’s designed specifically for individuals with special needs and disabilities, located in Millington, TN. It’s a summer camp where a person confined to a wheelchair their whole life can go down a 600' zipline. It’s a place where God can do and does extraordinary things through people, regardless of their disability, age, health, or diagnosis...

Pastor Sawyer Meyers of Beautiful Lutheran Church in Olive Branch, MS, discusses the significance of the Gospel, Christ death on the cross to pay for the sins of the world. For Christians, Good Friday is an important day of the year because it celebrates the most momentous weekend in the history of the world. In light of the third day that followed Christ death by crucifixion, it’s clearer to see...

On this edition of Sponsor Spotlight, our guests includes Dale Wells, Director of Admissions and Head Football Coach at Fayette Academy and Attorney David Peel along with Crash the Law Dog from Peel Law Firm.

Bishop Jerry Taylor of Holy City Church Of God In Christ and Bishop Clint Bryant of Gethsemane Garden Church Of God In Christ will discuss Unity for Souls Crusade, Thursday April 4th at The Historic Mason Temple. This date, on the 4th of April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. The Unity for Souls C...

Marriage and Family Advocate, Jerry Angelo, co-founder, and director with wife Kate of the Marriage Awakening. We’ll discuss their efforts to honor, inspire, and empower marriages. Together, Jerry and Kate offer a grass roots strategy for strengthening marriages and families. Their goal is to empower faith-leaders and churches to be self-sufficient and balanced in Marriage Ministry by meeting the...

Nicole Stark, founder of Backyard Revival is joined by Pastor David Dirmann, lead pastor of Memphis Tabernacle Church to discuss, The King is Coming, a gathering of 10,000 young people from across the Mid-South for an encounter with Jesus Christ. This gathering assembles on Saturday March 23, 2024, at Autozone Park- Redbirds Stadium in downtown Memphis. It’s Backyard Revival’s goal to help the nex...

Dr. Jim Whitmire and son Luke Whitmire share details of this year’s Mid-America Passion Play, presented by Crossroads Baptist Church and Love Worth Finding Ministries. A Passion Play is a dramatic retelling of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Mid-America Passion Play uses music and drama to share the truth of Jesus, His earthly ministry, and His redemptive work on the cross...

Adele Raemer of Kibutz Nirim tells her story on the horrific and terrifying morning of October 7th, 2023, when Hamas terrorist invaded Israel. Byron Tyler conducts this interview with Adele at the 2024 NRB Convention in Nashville, TN in the exhibition hall with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

Guest host, Amy Speropoulos, welcomes Alpha Omega Veterans Services, Inc. Executive Director, Cordell Walker. Alpha Omega Veterans Services helps to empower displaced and homeless veterans in the Mid-South with the tools, skills, and services they need for successful reintegration into society. They seek to reduce or eliminate the number of displaced and homeless veterans by empowering them to reg...

Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana continues conversation about the madness of genocide his homeland of Rwanda underwent in 1994. Bishop John is one of Rwanda’s most effective leaders - promoting spiritual, economic, educational, healthcare, and environmental development. Trusting in the love and power of Jesus Christ to transform lives, he has faced overwhelming challenges with a spirit of love, humi...

In 1994, as his country descended into the madness of genocide, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana underwent the mind-numbing pain of having members of his church and family butchered. John refused to become a part of the systemic hatred. He founded the Sonrise Orphanage and School for children orphaned in the genocide, and he now leads reconciliation efforts between his own Tutsi people, the victims...

Kathy Armstrong from The Memphis-area Home Education Association provides insight for families considering home education. MHEA) is a membership based, Christian organization dedicated to serving home educators and students by advocating for home education freedoms, providing information and resources to active and prospective home education families, and connecting and encouraging the home educat...

Joe Urcavich, Senior Executive with Align Advisor, a retired pastor, and former chaplain for the Green Bay Packers, offers insight from his depth of experience with high profile and high-pressure situations, among leadership in the church and corporate world. Joe illustrates why authenticity is key to becoming a truly effective leader. Unresolved negative issues from the past may be driving many i...

Ronnie Collier Stevens, Associate Pastor of Harvest Church in Germantown, TN talks about his latest book, “From Jerusalem to Rome- A Year in the Book of Acts”. Ronnie provides meaningful insight in this new devotional walking readers through the book of Acts. This is the fourth book that he’s authored. Ronnie is a native of Atlanta Georgia, graduated from the University of Georgia, and Dallas Theo...

Guest Hosts Shelley Sumner and Rachel Davis are back with part two with their guests Alexis Brown and Karen McNeil, sharing practical ways to engage your State Representatives in a positive and polite way concerning issues and legislation that may be contrary to a Biblical worldview.

Guest Host Shelley Sumner is filling in for Byron Tyler and welcomes her Mom, Becky Deaux. Becky has greatly influenced Shelley’s life, including leading her to Christ as a little girl. Becky shares how her journey with Christ began as well as God’s faithfulness through a frightful road of breast cancer. As a grandma of 12 grandchildren, Becky as developed a weeklong time to study the Bible with t...

Guest Hosts Shelley Sumner and Rachel Davis welcome Alexis Brown and Karen McNeil who share practical ways to engage your State Representatives in a positive and polite way concerning issues and legislation that may be contrary to a Biblical worldview.

Seventy-Five percent of pastors report being “extremely stressed” or “highly stressed.” Bishop Fredrick Gillam, Executive Pastor of Journey Church Memphis and Director of Clinical Services at Church Developers Network provides details on The Shepherds Care Symposium, a day of self-care for Pastors, Ministry Leaders, and Therapists/Counselors coming March 4th. The goal is for each attendee to leave...

Stacy Dodd, Certified Addiction Interventionist was once a homeless man addicted to drugs living in the woods. We'll discuss Stacy’s journey to being clean now for 23 years and the struggle of addiction for so many.