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22 Field Focus - A Year in review – 2011 – 21 Diverse and Exceptional Interviews

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Quote to ponder:

“God is so thoughtful.  He remembers our dreams and our visions long after we've forgot them.”   Yvonne Herring 

Rob and Yvonne look back on an abundant first year with the new Field Focus missionary minded radio program.

Are you sitting in Church and thinking to yourself that God isn't doing anything?  Just open your windows and open your eyes.  God is doing awesome and amazing things!  God is so alive.  He is moving in a way that maybe he has never moved before.


In October 2010 Yvonne and Rob worked together on a missionary DVD presentation and in the process merged our dreams and strengths with a vision to connect Christians to the mission field by way of on-line radio interviews that high light the people and ministries in a way that would both inspire and challenge the listener.  The heart beat of Field Focus is best captured by

Field Focus Episode #21 Fearfully and Wonderfully Made – God's cut paper sculpture

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Quote to ponder:  “Way back at the start before there was time, the God of the universe had you in mind”. - Susan Moody “When we know whose we are, we can live out who we are.”  - Rob Coburn

 

Our Guests:  Susan Moody - Author, Minister, Speaker, Self Esteem Seminar Leader; Bobby Johnson - Artist, Illustrator

 

Focus Notes:

  • Fearfully and Wonderfully Made – A children's book about the why of self-esteem
  • Grades 1-4 reading level
  • Psalm 139's message of  worth
  • Grown up lessons in a child's story
  • Two sisters, two sets of gifts, converging passions, and a single dream and vision
  • The expressive art form of cut paper sculpture illustrations
  • Special 10% off discount offer to listeners - Code "FUSION"

20 Field Focus - Gifted for God's purpose – Squiggly's Race to the Ark – A Children’s Book

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Quote to ponder -  It was Mark Twain who said, If you spend all day telling a fishthat he can climb a tree, you're going to drive yourself crazy and the fish is going to think you're stupid.

Our Guest:  Tim Davis, Author, Speaker, Trainer and Business Coach

19 Field Focus - The Event Planner

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"An Event Planner 2,600 years ago – It was an Ethiopian who cared enough about a Jewish prophet to plead for his life and plan the event that rescued Jeremiah out of the dungeon where the man of God sank in the mire."  - Jeremiah Chapter 38

 

 

Our Guest: Janene Buckley-Ala, Native Australian, Missionary to Thailand, Eagle's Rest Ministries

 

Focus Notes:

  • The Asian National Christian Care and Evangelism workers facing poverty and persecution
  • Referrals to Eagles Rest from varied  Christian organizations
  • A sponsorship based respite care for the servants of God
  • Missions outside of the box – ministering to those who minister
  • The team – Janene, husband Rommel (native Philippine Pastor), 3 daughters, and one son
  • The dreams and the heartbreaks that birthed this ministry
  • The counter cultural concept of rest and renewal
  • Out of the dungeon of despair into the light and wholeness
  • The humble mind set of the average Asian Christian care worker
  • The frailties of flesh and blood that cannot be ignored
  • The value of individual time and attention, matching needs and resources
  • Witnessing the God of the impossible move at Eagle's Rest
  • An open door and invitation to serve the servants of God in Thailand – Plan your event!
  • Plan a sponsorship from where you are

18 Field Focus – A Prayer Room, A Hearts – A Museum of Missions

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Our Guest - Melissa Munnell, Minister of Congregational Care, First Baptist Church of Massillon, Ohio, Stephen Ministrey Director, Singer/Songwriter

Quote to Ponder - “Oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me!”  The Prayer of Jabez    …. And God granted him that which he requested.  (1 Chronicles 4:10)

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17 Field Focus - Run your race, Find your voice

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 Our Guest: Alison Wilms, Missionary, Social Worker

Quote to Ponder - "...since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and persevere in running the race that lies before us..." - Paul the Apostle

Summary:

Join us for this challenging interview with Race Missionary, Alison Wilms from Elyria, OH who joins us in studio.  Listen as she shares the choice she is making as a young christian who lives out her faith beyond the status quo.  She is investing her Social Work degree in God's Kingdom work.  Giving both breathe of experience and exposure she joined the World Race team from July 2010 - June 2011.  On this amazing trip she shares how she experienced her own powerlessness replaced by God's strength and love moving through her.

 

16 Field Focus - Beaming down truth and love in the middle east

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Our Guest  - Dennis Wiens, SAT7 Director of Church Connection

Quote to Ponder - "Governments can shut borders but governments can't shut off living rooms, because of technology, and governments can't shut the hearts of their people." - Dennis Wiens

Summary:

Sat7 may be one of the best kept secrets regarding Christian outreach in the Middle East.  Join us for this facinating and informative interview with Dennis Wiens as we discuss how

15 Field Focus - Uganda - a good neighbor to have

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Our Guest : Sister Cecelia Fuathum - Educator, Counselor, Missionary to the Sudanese Refugees

 

13 Field Focus – Opening Closed Doors and hearts in Siberia

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Our Guest: Katrina Yoder – Missionary to Orphans in Chita Siberia in Russia; with Reflections of Hope out of Dalton, OH.

Quote to Ponder – 
“God had shifted my direction.  But actually he brought me back…back to the same place I couldn’t get into.” – Katrina Yoder
 

Summary:

How far would you go to share the love of Christ?  Siberia is a forgotten mission field and its orphans are the forgotten of Siberia.  Only the providence of God can explain how a young social worker from Ohio has found her place among the generations of orphans in need of a heavenly father in the little known city of Chita.  Katrina will be returning for her 3rd year with greater clarity and vision.  Join us as we hear what God is doing in a land best known for its exile and labor camps that housed so many Christians during the reign of persecution in the former USSR.