Restore Podcast

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. On the Restore podcast's first episode of 2024, we have Pastors Andrea Jakobsons and Jonathon Cobb from Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church. They talk to us about their faith journey, call to ministry, leadership lessons, and so much more! You will be blessed and inspired by this conversation. Sh...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 96, the last for 2023, we have a great conversation with Brent Hardinge and Marshall McKenzie, director and assistant director of pastoral care, respectively, for Adventist Information Ministry. AIM is a function of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventist Church which focuses on digi...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 95, we welcome Dr. John Peckham back to the podcast to discuss his new book, God With Us: An Introduction to Adventist Theology. He also gives a brief update on the new role he accepted earlier this year, and then we spend some time unpacking his book. Make sure to take advantage of the 15% di...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. For episode 94, we have a great conversation with Dr. Alan Parker, professor in the School of Religion at Southern Adventist University. We talk about his faith journey, how Millennials and Generation Z view evangelism, and much more. This is a power-packed conversation that will bless and challenge you....

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 93 features a discussion with Pastor Steve Leddy, evangelism and church planting director for Potomac Conference. You will be blessed as you listen to his personal story and our conversation about discipleship, church planting, and more. Show Notes/Links/Resources Contact Pastor Steve Leddy Potom...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. On episode 92, we talk with Dr. David Trim, director of the General Conference Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research. In this conversation, he speaks of his faith journey, what his department actually does, why we need such a department, his recent book release, and much more. Show Notes/Links/Res...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 91 is an amazing conversation with award-winning Christian filmmaker Martin Doblmeier. Martin has made more than 30 films on faith, religion, and spirituality. His latest film is titled Sabbath. You will be blessed and challenged by this conversation. Show Notes/Links/Resources Journey Films Sabb...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 90, we talk with Chris Martin who, earlier this year, released his second book on social media entitled The Wolf in Their Pockets: 13 Ways the Social Internet Threatens the People You Lead. Part of the brief book description states, "Martin both exposes the ways the Internet is distorting...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 89 is an amazing conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Talbot, speaker/director for the Jesus 101 Biblical Institute, a media ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America. In this conversation, we discuss her faith journey, the meaning of righteousness by faith, practical ways to share...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. On episode 88, we have an incredible, inspiring conversation that is sure to challenge you as well. Debleaire Snell is Speaker/Director for Breath of Life Ministries and senior pastor for Oakwood University Church. Show Notes/Links/Resources Get Unrealistic by Debleaire Snell Breath of Life Amazon Breath...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. For episode 87, we talk with Brady Shearer, YouTuber and CEO of Pro Church Tools. Brady and his team seek to help churches navigate their ministries through the single biggest communication shift we've seen in the last 500 years! This episode is full of great digital content to help churches move th...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 86 celebrates our seventh anniversary of the Restore Podcast, and this edition celebrates Black History Month. Our guest is Oakwood University President Leslie Pollard, Ph. D., D.Min., MBA. We talk about his faith journey, how Oakwood was founded, the future of Oakwood, leadership, and more. Show...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 85—our first for 2023—we have a jam-packed conversation with Tim Madding, director of the North American Division Evangelism Institute (NADEI). In this conversation, we talk about his faith journey, being homeless at a young age, and his call to ministry. He defines and talks about plateaued, dyi...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 84 features a spirit-filled conversation with Pastor Dwight Nelson, senior pastor of Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University. We talk about his call to ministry, leadership lessons learned, preaching, prayer, and so much more. Show Notes/Links/Resources Article: NET 98 Anniver...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 83, we have a power-packed conversation with Chanda Nunes-Henry, Executive Secretary and Pastoral Ministries Director for Nevada-Utah Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Chanda speaks deeply about her faith journey, call to ministry, and so much more! You will definitely be blessed, inspired...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 82, Dr. Heather Thompson Day returns, and this time, her husband Seth Day joins as they co-authored their recently released book, I'll See You Tomorrow: Building Relational Resilience When You Want to Quit. You will be blessed with this conversation on relationships, communication, and mo...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 81, welcome back Michael Campbell and discuss his new book released at the beginning of 2022, 1922: The Rise of Adventist Fundamentalism. This book will unpack the rise of Adventist fundamentalism and the 1922 General Conference Session. Show Notes/Links/Resources Book— 1922: The Rise of Adven...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 80, we talk with Karl Haffner, Ph. D., vice president of student experience at Loma Linda University. We discuss his faith journey, leadership, and more! You will be blessed and challenged by this conversation. Show Notes/Links/Resources Book— The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey Amazon Book— N...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 79, we talk with Kendall Turcios who is pastor of Arise Miami Church. He details his faith journey leading to his current assignement at Arise Church. This conversation will both challenge and bless you! Show Notes/Links/Resources Arise Miami Church Restore Podcast Episode 3 The Compound Effec...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 78, we have a powerful conversation with Melissa and Michael Gibson discussing the documentary, Return to Palau, which chronicles the story of Melissa and her family. It tells the "incredible true story of survival, faith, and forgiveness" as mentioned on the web site, below, where y...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 77 features a discussion with Larry Witzel who is an entrepreneur, respected innovator, and an inspiring speaker at the intersection of technology and ministry. He is founder and president of SermonView Evangelism Marketing. In our conversation, we talk about his faith journey, event marketing, e...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. In episode 76, our guests are Andreas Beccai, senior pastor of Walla Walla University Church, and Albert Handal, campus chaplain at Walla Walla University. In this conversation, they discuss their faith journey, what the last 2+ years have been like for their ministry, and so much more. Show Notes/Links/...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 75's guest is Susan Mettes who released a book in the fall of 2021 titled, The Loneliness Epidemic. In this book, she unpacks research about why people are lonely, the myths of loneliness, how we can help lonely people, and much more. It's a great book and an amazing conversation of an...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. Episode 74 is special edition for Black History Month where I have a great conversation with Benjamin Baker, Ph. D. He talks with us about what perhaps may be lesser-known facts and history of the journey of some Black Adventists. Show Notes/Links/Resources Black Seventh-day Adventist History Web Site Yo...

Send us a Text Message - include e-mail or phone number in your message to receive a response. On this first episode of 2022, episode 73, we have a fun-filled conversation with Casio Jones and Felix Bangkuai who have been actively involved with health and fitness for many years. Last fall, Florida Conference had its inaugural "Fit Together" health and fitness retreat at Camp Kulaqua wher...