The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . In this episode, I talk to Rayola Osanya from New Jersey.  Rayola went on the mission team to Nairobi, Kenya in the late eighties and from there he went on to plant churches in Eldoret, Kenya, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Kigali, Rwanda.  He just finished a memoir of his missionary and cha...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . In this episode, I interview Kendall and McKenzie Albert, campus ministers from Saint Louis, Missouri.  They spoke the first night of the Campus Training Program in Atlanta, Georgia.  This program is sponsored by the North River Church of Christ, led by Tom Brown, and is held yearly to...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . At a recent church leadership conference, I sat down with Kai Foster to find out what he's doing to grow his church in Reno, Nevada.  The church there has doubled in the last three years and that has happened through a surprising spiritual practice.  Find out Kai's secret to growing his...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . I recently sat down with John and Jan Oakes to talk about their planting a new church in Merced, California.  Merced is the home of a new University of California that is predicted to become the largest of the UC campuses.  Find out more about this new planting on the Rob Skinner Podcas...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Today, I'm talking with Mike and Anne-Brigitte Taliaferro.  They serve as the lead evangelist and Senior Women's Minister at Mission Point Church in San Antonio Texas.  They have planted and led churches in the US, Brazil, and several African churches.  They planted churches in over 40...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . It takes guts to step out on faith.  It takes guts to make a risky, late-career move for Christ.  Rusty and Kim Snell left a successful and comfortable career path in product design in their late fifties and stepped in as the leaders of the Toledo, Ohio church.  In this episode you'll f...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Today I go to Flagstaff, Arizona and talk to Brian and Abby Mackie.  Brian and Abby planted a church there in September of 2021.  They give us an update on: The growth of the church The ways they've seen God work The challenges that have forced them to their kness And their dreams for t...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Today, I talk to Javier and Kelly Amaya.  They became disciples in 1983 while in college. Javier graduated from Brown University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and Kelly from Boston College with a degree in Psychology and a concentration in Spanish. (Javier later obtained his m...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Statistics reveal that 68% of church-going men and over 50% of pastors view porn on a regular basis. Of young Christian adults 18-24 years old, 76% actively search for porn.  In this episode I interview Jeff Hernandez, a disciple I've known for over 30 years.  He shares about his: Desce...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Today I'm talking to Jamison and Lauren Malcolm.  They led a large and thriving campus ministry in the Philadelphia church.  Now they lead a church and campus ministry in State College, Pennsylvania, the home of Penn State University. Jamison and Lauren talk about: The development of th...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . On this episode, I talk to Matt and Adriana Brown.  They lead a church in Nashville, Tennessee.  Prior to that, they led a church in Texas that grew 8 from 50 disciples to 150.  During their time there, the church grew every year, one of only four other churches in the ICOC to experienc...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Today, I'm talking to Steve Saindon, from Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  Steve and his wife, Kelli, have planted and led churches all over the Midwest.  What makes Steve so remarkable is that in spite of following Christ and leading in six different decades, he is continuing to grow and bear f...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . In this episode, I interview Kevin and Melissa Miller, who lead the Boston Church of Christ.  They have been leading this fabled church for a little over a year and they talk about: How they became Christians How they have built a culture of spiritual ambition How they maintain high sta...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . This episode is the third of a three-part series called "Go Get It."  I'm going to be talking about how to make 2022 your best year so far spiritually.  I know that if you are listening to this podcast that you are ambitious for Christ.  You are hungry to make this life count and to do...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Today, I'm talking to Kurt and Christina Flinchbaugh from the Lehigh Valley Church.  They share: How Kurt shared his faith on the way to the hospital after getting involved in a nearly fatal bicycling accident How Christina dealt with a secret eating disorder How they have doubled their...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . This episode is the second of a three-part series called "Go Get It."  I'm going to be talking about how to make 2022 your best year so far spiritually.  I know that if you are listening to this podcast that you are a grower.  You are hungry to make this life count and to do whatever it...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . This episode is the first of a three-part series called "Go Get It."  I'm going to be talking about how to make 2022 your best year so far spiritually.  I hope you are having a great start to 2022.  I'm seeing some very encouraging signs in my life and ministry that point to a great yea...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Jacob Galligan leads his campus ministry while he studies full-time as a 23-year-old graduate student at Kent State University in Akron, Ohio.  He joined the mission team to Akron in 2016 as a freshman and stepped into the campus minister's role his senior year.  In this episode he shar...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Ben and Susan Borland led their nearly 30-year-old church to grow again after decades of decline and stagnation.  They started as the campus ministers at the University of Oklahoma and then took over leading the entire church.  In this episode they talk about how they did it.  They talk...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . In this episode, I interview Gary Mayer, author of the book, "Imitate Paul:  Five Keys From the Apostle for Every Church Planter, Leader and Believer."  I stumbled onto this book earlier this year and it impacted me deeply.  Gary grew up in the same area of Southern Oregon that I did. ...

In September of 2021, I asked Dr. Al Baird to move to Tucson for a two-month evaluation and consultation of the church.  He stayed until Thanksgiving, met with 60 or more members of the church, helped mediate difficult situations, critiqued my leadership and offered ideas for refining the leadership structure of my church.  Having Al help us was one of the best decisions I've made recently.  In th...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Today, I'm going to talk to Marshall Mead, who along with his wife, Shawn, leads the church in Orlando Florida. Marshall talks about how he got to Orlando, his ministry career and missionary work in Lebanon and the World Discipleship Summit he's organizing in the summer of 2022.  He sha...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner . Today, My wife Pam and I talk to Pat Gempel, a pioneer of women's ministry and one of the "30 would-be disciples" who gathered in a living room in Boston and propelled the church to 60% annual growth for 10 straight years.  She shares: How she came to Boston What it was like at the begi...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner Sam and Michelle Cameron lead a church in Perth, Australia.  In this episode they talk about: What it's like leading in a city as remotely located as Perth How the church got started What they did to help a long-established church grow again after years of little growth All this and more...

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner This episode recaps the lessons and activities of day three of the Climb Small Church Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas, in December of 2021.