Mid-South Viewpoint // Bott Radio Network

Today's special episode of Mid South Viewpoint we pull from our archives and highlight a few topics such as local leadership empowerment with Cameron Cobb & Marquino Douglas, the encouraging story of Michael Studdard distributing Bibles in Africa, and the importance of restoring joy in times of trials and difficulty with Melanie Redd. Listen in to get information on local meeting locations for thi...

Steve Coplon from MissionfieldUSA.COM provides an update on their recent gospel excursion to the Pacific-Northwest.

Pastor John Bomar takes us down the trail of his life and ministry recalling God’s steadfast faithfulness throughout the years.

Abundant Hope International is an organization with a passion to help Holocaust Survivors, especially in Israel. The Holocaust was unprecedented genocide, total and systematic, perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, with the aim of annihilating the Jewish people. The primary motivation was the Nazis' anti-Semitic racist ideology. Susan Heagy, President of AHI shares their work of visit...

Carl Carmody, CEO of Challenge Literature Fellowship and Editor of Challenge Newspaper travels to Memphis from Australia to tell their story. When Challenge newspaper started in 1978, they printed 5000 papers per month predominantly for Western Australia. The evangelistic newspaper gives readers the opportunity to learn about Jesus Christ. Today, they produce the Challenge newspaper for 20 plus co...

Charles Billingsley has headlined more than 3,200 concerts, released 24 recordings as a solo artist, and seven #1 Inspirational radio hits. He’s performed thousands of shows from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center. He’ll be coming to Mid-America Chapel on April 27th for a concert benefiting Mid-America Seminary & College. Dr. Michael Spradlin, President of MABTS joins us in the studio as we talk...

Dr. Bartholomew Orr, pastor of Brown Missionary Baptist Church, Southaven, MS. gives details on the upcoming 2023 Contending for the Faith Conference at Brown Church April 18-20, 2023.

Dr. Terry Tieman, pastor of Grace Celebration Lutheran Church in Cordova, TN provides details on the 2023 Transforming Churches Network Discipleship Conference. This conference is designed for to come and learn how to start a disciple making movement in your church and community. Dr. Terry Tieman also discusses the roots of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, how the work to help churches become m...

Betty Jo Cline RN, BS, Pastor’s wife, and nurse discusses a unique conference on April 21 – 22, for health care workers and pastors to discover how to develop relationships and a cohesiveness when treating people with mental illnesses. Betty also describes how mental illness has impacted her family personally through the struggle of her sister’s battle of bipolar disorder.

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Ray Jarrett, Executive Director of Unite KC, a grassroots movement with a faith-based strategy committed to racial healing and reconciliation. Ray came to Memphis to attend an event featuring Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis, called, “One Race, One Blood”.

Katrin Valencia of A Way-Out Ministries is joined by Hannah Fletcher of Eight Days of Hope. A Way-Out Ministries’ serves women looking to escape entrapment from human trafficking. Recently, they broke ground on a safe house building project. Eight Days of Hope, known for their disaster relief work is helping to build this new home with the help of volunteers from across the country.

The Mid-America Passion Play is March 30 – April 2, 2023, under the direction of Dr. James Whitmire. Dr. Whitmire shares details on this year’s production as well as reflects on 0ver forty years of bringing this dramatic presentation to stage.

Gayle Rogers Foster, daughter of the late Dr. Adrian Rogers talks about her love for sports, especially Atlanta Braves base, growing up in the home of Dr. Adrian and Joyce Rogers, , times she wished she wasn’t a pastor’s daughter, how her mom dealt with struggles and difficult times, her marriage to Mike Foster, mom of three boys, her father’s passing, remembering the life of Andy Horner, and her...

Roger Lowther, founder, and director of Community Arts Tokyo, assisting church planting through the arts. Roger and his family have served in Japan with Mission to the World since 2005. He shares amazing stories of rebuilding lives and hope for Japanese families devastated by the tsunami and earthquake of 2011, the strongest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history. This month, March 2023 marks the...

Steve Coplon of MissionfieldUSA.com shares how the gospel revolutionized his life. We’ll discuss too, current gospel city excursions taking place in the Northeast and deep South, along with George Verwer’s life-long drive to engage the world with the Gospel. It all began when college student George Verwer and his two friends journeyed to Mexico to share Christ’s love in 1957, the response was over...

Today we’re going to open the audio vault archives and hear an interview that first aired in 2016 with Dr. Kevin Jackson of Grace Baptist Church in Grenada, MS. Dr. Jackson is still pastoring, preaching from God’s word, and equipping his people to do the work of the ministry in and around the greater Grenada community. The content for today’s show was aired on our weekly Pastors Forum program, tha...

Hassan Saleem from Kids Across America shares about creating an environment for urban youth who come to camp like they may have never experienced, the importance and need for counselors, and the priority of presenting the gospel to each camper. Since the first camp in 1991, KAA builds Christian leaders by encouraging, equipping, and empowering urban youth and their mentors through camping and educ...

Pastor Jim Fleming discusses his book, “Shepherdology 101: From Shepherdless Sheep to Flourishing Flocks”. Jim talks about 10. Jim talks about key points Jesus Christ, our model Shepherd, emphasized about shepherding people before He departed earth, understanding accountability and its function among leadership, and he looks at the staggering statics from Barna, reporting 42% of pastors considered...

Crickett Keeth and Christy Bicknell from First Evangelical Church Women’s Ministry discuss the make-up of a biblically based women’s outreach and reflect on Crickett’s tenure, as she passes the torch to Kristy to lead the way after 17 ½ years serving as the director. They talk about pitfalls to avoid, their primary goal, helping women stay scripturally intact through the seasons of life, and to li...

Retired Methodist Pastor Bill Hart and Director of MissionfieldUSA.com Steve Coplon will help us look at the events unfolding on the Asbury Campus. Bill and Steve recently returned from Wilmore, Kentucky and share their experience. Pastor Bill Hart is an alumnus of Asbury Seminary and was a student in 1970, the last time a revival broke out on the campus at Asbury and sweep across America.

Pastor Hal Hall and his wife, Renee give eye-witness accounts of their time in Wilmore, Kentucky on the campus of Asbury Seminary where students and others across the country have gathered to pray and worship God around the clock since FEB 8, 2023. Pastor Hall is lead Pastor at Sandtown United Methodist Church, Philadelphia, MS, and alumni of Asbury Seminary.

A cafeteria style program!!! We’ve got info on local events, Diana Abbott joins us with listener responses and information on out Pastor’s Wives Appreciation Luncheon, Pastor Shun Abram of Binghampton Community Church and Director of Send Relief Memphis Ministry Center provides ministry updates, and Kathy Hunt, friend of the MId-America Passion Play shares details on this year’s event.

Troy Simmons, retired K-9 Officer with Shelby County Sherriff’s Dept shares his story of serving our community for 33 years. Troy talks about the special relationship between his K-9 officer partner on the job and at home with the family.

More than 17,000 people were killed and tens of thousands injured when earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, Hurricane Ian is reported as the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and who can forget Hurricane Katrina in 2005? Dr. Joe Carson, Central Outreach Director at The Life Church is our guest offering details for the free 2-day disaster response...