The Kingdom & Its Stories Podcast

Guest: Pastor Walt Rattray | Host Bob Moffitt interviews Pastor Walt Rattray of Church on the Street.  Pastor Walt says, "The Holy Spirit cleanses you, and you fight the good fight of faith." He shares how they bus 40-50 homeless people to a soup kitchen ten times a week, to feed them, and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. He also helps meet their needs for housing, clothing, and praying for them...

Guest: Bob Moffitt | Julian Gibb interviews Bob Moffitt. Bob describes what seed projects are and gives examples of seed projects in Liberia, and in Kenya. Begin with prayer, asking God to open your eyes to see a need you can meet, meet the need, demonstrating the love of God to your neighbor. https://www.harvestfoundation.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Bishnu Regmi | Julian Gibb interviews Bishnu Regmi Pastor of Grace International Church. Bishnu shares how he, and his wife Kamala, have prayed for God to open doors, and then taken the challenge to change 1 life at a time. From  ministry to prisoners in Nepal, hosting families from Nepal to get established in the U.S.A., to pastoring a church with both Nepalese and English speaking congreg...

Guest: Gary Plooster | Julian Gibb interviews Gary Plooster of the Neighborhood Christian Clinic. Are you bi-lingual, English/Spanish? They need volunteers. Learn how you may be able to help with a wholistic mission. The Neighborhood Christian Clinic provides faith based medical/dental care in the name of Jesus, for those who are uninsured an, or underserved. https://thechristianclinic.org/   See...

Guest: Tim Gendreau | Julian Gibb interviews Tim Gendreau, the founder of Titus House.  Tim was a successful businessman who retired; became more involved in the church family; more intimate with Jesus, and listened to men in recovery from addictive behaviors. Many relapse because there is no safe place to go after treatment. God put on his heart to create a safe place, Titus House. https://www.ti...

Guest: Cheryl Sacks | Host Bob Moffitt interviews Cheryl Sacks of Bridge Builders International.  As a new high school teacher, Cheryl prayed, In this school of 2,000, "Lord, come in and do something. Use me to change the school."  Cheryl shares several stories about inviting the Lord's transforming presence into high schools, including a group of four young men who said, "We have a vision to pray...

Guests: Gabriela and Jose Castaneda. Host Bob Moffitt interviews Gabriela and Jose Castaneda who moved to Phoenix from Guatemala 19 years ago. When they arrived, they were interested in a church that did more than just praying and reading the Bible; they started a church with 7 people who began loving and serving their neighbors in need: food for the homeless, beds for those in need, diapers, and...

Guest: Munkhuu Tuvshin | Host Bob Moffitt interviews Munkhuu Tuvshin of Mongolia who shares stories about assisting nomadic people and their animals, and giving assistance to locals during heavy storms.  "Locals have lost 67% - 70% of their animals because of cold and deep snow", Says Munkhuu.  "When we brought them supplies, they were tearing up.  The Lord has given them hope and courage in extre...

Guest: Amie Pierone | Host: Bob Moffitt interviews Amie Pierone of Eden Tea and Coffee House at ASU.  Why would a math and physics major, who just received a corporate promotion, leave her job and start a coffee house that creates space serving university students?  Amie says she asked the question, "Could there be something more meaningful that the Lord had for me?" And she tells about students e...

Guest: John Wood | Julian Gibb interviews John Wood, President of Glory Honor Africa.  John Wood explains the joy during a church potluck meal that includes communion, fellowship, but also externally focused serving with the vulnerable widows, orphans and prisoners.  In an area outside of Goma, in the eastern Congo in Africa, John tells a story about how the local church helped 300,000 people who...

Guest: Edi Demo | Pastor Julian Gibb interviews Edi Demo of the Ilyricum Movement in Albania.  Eddie says, "I was 13 years old when communism left; that was the first time I heard the gospel through the Jesus Film. That was exclusive news to me that someone had died and rose again, because I never heard that during the communism time."  Eddie talks about church planting in this Muslim nation, "The...

Guest: Paul Covert | Host Bob Moffitt interviews Paul Covert who relates God's powerful answers to prayer. Paul says, speaking about the next generation, "If you change the way they pray, you change the legacy of their life."  Paul relates several stories of prayer breakthroughs, for example, how he prayed for his Dad as a youth, and how he models for his family and church members, particularly me...

Guest: Fr Nathan Hale  | Julian Gibb interviews Fr Nathan Hale, Rector, Desert Mission Anglican Church Fr Nathan shares his desire to be the Lord's servant in the Sunnyslope Neighborhood of Phoenix. The members of the parish serve with their Time, Treasure, and Talent as we are all called to do with our Lord in the lead. https://desertmissionanglican.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Guest: Pastor Mono Roy | Julian Gibb interviews Pastor Mono Roy of Bangladesh. Pastor Mono shares how loving; as Jesus loves, brings people to Jesus and builds the church. https://www.harvestfoundation.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Chris Ngai |  Bob Moffitt interviews Chris Ngai of Pray Campus [America]. Chris shares about how prayer has transformed students on ASU's campus in recent years, in a place that Chris says was once considered "a Pastor and missionary graveyard".  Chris states, "A group of students began to come together across different ministries and ask the question, "What could God do if we united togeth...

Guest: Steve Kawamura Host: Julian Gibb interviews Harvest Associate Steve Kawamura from Brazil. Learn how Steve applied the three mentioned exhortations from Psalm 34 to minister to people in an area known as the "swamp". A place where even the police were afraid to go. All of this in spite of health issues. https://www.harvestfoundation.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Marlon Roldan. Host: Julian Gibb interviews Marlon Roldan - Missionary in the Philippines. Marlon answers where do I begin to serve? He also explains how he can serve each day in his world as Christ served in his. He describes how 1 man started ministry to the urban poor. He rented a hovel in a slum and started a school.  https://www.harvestfoundation.org See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

Guest: Phoebe Johnson | Bob Moffitt interviews Phoebe Johnson, who tells her own Foster Care journey and who now helps families and children with foster care. Adoption and Foster Care See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Jack Oppenhuizen | Bob Moffitt interviews Jack Oppenhuizen of Voyages Unbound, who shares about his own journey as a man who experienced a disability as a teenager, and is a friend to others who also have disabilities. Jack shares his own journey, and about how to best be Christ to those who have disabilities, "Be a friend. Don't be somebody who goes to serve them, do nice things for them a...

Guest: Graham Cathers | Bob Moffitt interviews Graham Cathers of the Phoenix Underground, who shares how a holy discontent led him to work in church plants and disciple making movements.  Graham says, "We love the church and love being part of what the church represents, but there's coming a day when we need to have some other strategies to reach people who may never walk through that brick and mo...

Guest: Pastor Singh | Host: Julian Gibb Julian Gibb interviews Pastor Singh of India Part 2. Pastor Singh tells how God provided a wife; her grandmother prayed for 40 years for her to have a man who was a radical follower of Jesus. Training 30 students now 30,000 missionaries to reach Asia. Like Jesus, providing clean water, and living water.  https://www.atriskradio.com See omnystudio.com/listene...

Guest: Pastor Singh of India | Host: Julian Gibb interviews Pastor Singh Part 1 Listen to the amazing story of how God saved, healed, and led a 16 year old boy to walk the length and breadth of India. Today there are 70,000 house churches in India, with 15 - 20 people each, as God has used Pastor Singh' obedience. https://www.atriskradio.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Carlos Mejia. Host: Bob Moffitt interviews Carlos Mejia, bi-vocational Pastor, and also working in demolition. Carlos says, "Being the hands and feet of Jesus is responding to the promptings God has given us." Carlos explains that when working with the homeless, sometimes you don't see the results, but he tells several stories of what he does do on a consistent basis with those in the homel...

Guest: Russell Stendal, Jr. Host: Julian Gibb interviews Russell Stendal, Jr. of Columbia Para Christo Society. Russell tells the story of ministry to indigenous people in Columbia, Bibles for Venezuela, and the making of a movie called The Parish in the Pines, the story of Frank Higgins who at the turn of the century, 18th to 19th, ministered to lumberjacks in northern Minnesota. They were consid...

 Guest: Bob Moffitt, President of Harvest. Host: Julian Gibb, Executive Director of Harvest. Define the Church as a Window in this podcast. They describe that the Church is the people of God, not an institution. How are we perceived by the world? Does our walk match our talk? People are watching. Serving others is part of being the Church. "If you see a need and can meet it, stop what you are doin...