Revival Outside the Walls (ROTW), a California-based ministry resource, now reaches 1.5 million people weekly on Christian radio. Its radio program, 60 Second Re-Charge with Barry Meguiar, reminds and motivates listeners to share their faith at every opportunity. The broadcast is heard on 16 percent of Christian radio stations nationwide and currently airs on over 300 outlets.
What does hope look like?
Describing it is not always the easiest thing. And Jeremy Puckett, a 33-year-old Pittsburgh police officer, can’t always spot it, but he sure knows when it’s missing.
All it takes is one look at a person’s face. Hopelessness, in Puckett’s experience, is nearly impossible to mask.
“You can see it in their eyes,” he said.
Puckett was one of hundreds of counselors at this weekend’s Three Rivers Festival of Hope in Pittsburgh, the city he grew up in. He entered the festival eagerly wondering how God might work in his hometown.
In his latest book “Your Story Counts: Sharing the Most Important Story of Your Life,” Dr. John B. Sorensen, president of Evangelism Explosion International (www.evangelismexplosion.org), demonstrates how the power of story is a simple, yet effective approach to telling others about Jesus.
This past week I traveled with 18 Americans to a part of rural Guatemala that I’ve visited seven times in 11 years. Our multi-generational team from Florida included a college professor, a lawyer, a salesman, a private school teacher, several teens and a 31-year-old veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Only one of our team members could speak Spanish fluently and a few had never been out of the United States before.
As millions gather around the globe — in person or via television — to watch the FIFA World Cup in Brazil this summer, Reach Beyond (www.reachbeyond.org) is using pint-size, solar-powered technology to spread the gospel to some of the most remote places along the country’s Amazon River.
Few of us know what we want to be at the age of 9, but evangelist Reinhard Bonnke is one of the exceptions. The German evangelist, who has preached in front of crowds exceeding 1.6 million in Africa, says it was at that tender age that he got his calling to be a missionary.
