Connections with Rich and Bobbi

We’re visiting with the infectious Brother Stephen, who draws from his experiences, sharing from his heart the wonder and kinship he felt when traveling overseas for the first time, with a missions group! He is preparing to go into full-time ministry as a pastor.

Leigh Prater, our guest on our podcast, shares about serving the Lord as a dad with a houseful of kids, a pastor ministering to a congregation, and a missionary visiting various countries throughout the world! He serves as an associate pastor at Beth-El Baptist Church in Morgan Hill, CA. 

In our concluding talk with Hans Shapp, he shares more about his adventures as he goes across the highways and byways of life in different lands to share the Gospel wherever he can- even back to those discos he once frequented!

We’ve been visiting with Hans Shapp, who’s been sharing with us how he came out of East Germany during a time when barriers of barbed wire and concrete walls blocked off the West, to what he thought was freedom. But it wasn’t until he was introduced to Jesus that his life really changed-including becoming a smuggler! 

On our last podcast, Hans Shapp told of his life growing up behind the wall in East Germany during the 60's & 70's under communist rule, and then of suddenly being deported to the West! It was like a child having free run in a candy shop - neon lights glowing in the night skies, music blaring from the discotheques, drugs and alcohol. Did these bring Hans happiness, peace, and true freedom?

During the night of August 13, 1961, the East German government closed off the border from the West. Hans Shapp grew up in East Germany during this time and tells his story of suddenly being cut off from the West and living behind the wall. But did he find real truth and freedom when he reached the other side?

Pastor Orlicky shares on our podcast how he was an ironworker in construction, and at first, had no desire to be a pastor or to marry a pastor’s daughter. Tune in and hear how God changed his heart on both accounts – and how God only has a Plan A!

God took him from the field of biotechnology as a doctor in chemistry to the ministry, and has stretched his journey to the Philippines and to Nepal, changing him forever! He’s Dr. Paul Nelson, associate pastor at Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Silicon Valley, in Morgan Hill, CA.

Our guest on this podcast is Pastor Arthur Mellon. He serves at Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Hayward, CA. Pastor Mellon talks about the interesting paths the Lord took him on before calling him to become a pastor and start this church. But most importantly, he looks at how he discovered he wasn’t saved – and the importance of examining who you’re learning from!

On our last few podcasts Linda Eve has been our guest, sharing her story, from her 5-year captivity in a labor camp by the Communist regime in the late 1970's, to freedom in America! Now, on our concluding visit, Linda talks about why, after escaping death, she is willing to give up her life to go back!