Missionary Talks

Rick Powers is not a missionary, but he has been on several missions trips. As the leader of a youth group which has organized and taken many trips, I found it interesting to hear his insight on what it takes to go on a trip to help a missionary on the foreign field. He also shared with me some of the ways that young people are changed after a trip such as this.

When I spoke with him, he was with a group of 14 young people and leaders who were painting a church in Mérida, México.

If you would like to contact Bro. Powers with questions about organizing your own mission trip you can do so by visiting his church’s website.

 

 Missionary Talks 28: Rick Powers [16:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Listener Feedback episode 2 has a great story at the end. So be sure to listen to this episode.

I cover just a few reviews and emails that I have gotten in the last couple of months. Let me encourage you to write a review at a podcast directory of your choice. You can write a review at iTunes or leave a comment at Podcast Alley when you vote.

Missionary Talks has hit 10,000 downloads! Late last night (Sunday June 10) the 10,000th download of Missionary Talks was served out. Thank you for listening to the show and telling your friends about Missionary Talks.

I will be traveling pretty heavily for the next 2 months. The down side is that I won’t be able to post interviews regularly during this time. The great thing though is that I will be traveling with other missionaries. I expect to get many interviews recorded while I am on the move. I will try and get them uploaded weekly if possible, but be patient as I expect to be very busy during this time.

 

 Missionary Talks: Listener Feedback 02 [12:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Bro. Don Carney is a missionary in México. He and his wife have been in México for 15 years ministering in Guadalajara and now in Mérida. Don shares with us his observations on how the mission field affected their 9 children, who are all now grown and out of the house.

He tells us a great story about a man’s salvation and how he was brought to the Lord through reading a Bible he pulled out of a garbage truck!

His closing comments about trusting the Lord and making a difference wherever you serve Him is worth listening to the very end.

Bro. Carney has been a great personal friend and counselor to my family and me since we have been in México. He is also the father of John Carney whom I interviewed for Missionary Talks 09.

 

 Missionary Talks 27: Don Carney [19:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The audio file of the full biography of David Livingstone is now available! This special file contains just the biographical sketch of Dr. Livingstone. There are none of the additional comments at the beginning. Just the Missionary Talks intro and outro.

This is not in the podcast feed. You will need to download it directly from the website. I hope it is a blessing to you. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.

There are several ways to download the file. The most common way that should work on most computers is to right click this link and choose from your options “Save Link As…” or something similar from your choices. Then tell the computer where to save the file. If you have any problems, let me know.

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This is the second part of a two part biography of the life of missionary David Livingstone. If you have not heard part one, you will want to go back and listen to it as this one picks up right where the other one left off.

Again, I would like to thank Gordon Scott for providing the voice of Dr. Livingstone for this episode. The music was again provided by Magnatune artist, Cheryl Ann Fulton.

Please write me or leave comments here if you have questions or clarifications concerning the life of Dr. Livingstone.

Soon I will be making the full audio available in one sound file. I will leave a post here at the site when it is ready. I do not plan to put it into the podcast feed. Therefore you will need to get it from here. It should not take me too long to have it available.

Following is the transcript for this portion of the biography.

After putting the family on a ship back to Scotland, David was in Kuruman (Read on …)

 

 Missionary Talks 26: David Livingstone (part 2) [14:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This episode and the next of Missionary Talks will be a biography of the life of David Livingstone, the great missionary explorer of Africa. After these two episodes have been released, I will make a single file download from which you will be able to hear the whole story in one audio file.

I would like to thank Gordon Scott for providing the voices of Dr. David Livingstone and Robert Moffat for this episode.

There are many places where you can get information about Dr. Livingstone from the web. There are also the full text of his books available for reading on line.

The music is from the CD The Airs of Wales by Cheryl Ann Fulton from the Magnatune label.

Please leave any comments you have about this episode or about the life of Dr. Livingstone in the comments section. Or you can write me an email telling me what you thought of the show.

Following is the transcript from this episode.

David Livingstone was born (Read on …)

 

 Missionary Talks 25: David Livingstone (part 1) [21:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download