A Christmas Carol-Ola 2025

 

Our dear, dear sister and really co-founder of Christian Car Guy Theater went to her graduation to be with the Lord November 14, 2025. So happy for her as she is experiencing the title of her book, “Hi From The Sky On The Road To – Happily Ever After“. We at the Christian Car Guy Show and especially Christian Car Guy Theater have a giant hole in our hearts as it was Ann’s Joy and enthusiasm that started us rolling into full-on Theater episodes and kept it going even after her health had taken her memory. I actually recorded with her October 10th, 2025 days before she had the stroke that took her to heaven on November 14th.

Her heart for the Lord was truly her life, she did countless prayer meetings, phone prayer you name it, volunteered and worked for her church, wrote her amazing book, recorded and helped produce amazing projects from TV film and radio.

I met her shortly after she moved to North Carolina from Hollywood, where she had been the Founder of Christian Actors Co-op with an amazing career in Show business including a regular on Adventures in Odyssey. She had just written her book in 2013 and I was at the Christian Chamber Luncheon in Charlotte where she lived and she introduced herself and her book so I had her on my show Kingdom Pursuits, shortly there after, clearly a divine appointment. Joy came out of every word every thought of Ann, it was a connection I’m sure neither of us would have guessed where it would lead God was doing a miracle in both our lives.

Somewhere about a year later I worked on a radio show idea for the folks with Hobby Lobby, a radio show drama about their traveling Bible museum at the time, Passages was the name. I loved doing radio theater and I especially loved that it could reach the next generation for Jesus. Hobby Lobby didn’t like the show and I was devastated.

So devastated I cried out to God. He responded with, “Robby, you have a radio show, (Christian Car Guy), and you program it, do a theater episode if you want that for children or child like hearts.” I took the idea and ran with it doing the first episode of Christian Car Guy Theater – Lazy Sammy Starter. Ann was listening the day it aired and she called me. She told me she loved it and would I write her into another episode. I was thrilled and within a few weeks she and I recorded Silly Sally Serpentine.

Ann (Now French Fender, and many more) was so excited she began to share what she was doing with her friends, Ellen Kennedy (Gracie Gas Tank), Burt Rosenburg, (So many different parts) and Chris Van Cleave (Cramer Crankshaft and our Sheriff), all actors, and Ellen an amazing writer, as was Ann. Ann, Ellen and I began to meet on the phone and together we wrote the many, many more episodes. The Theater began to have a life of its own adding cast members weekly, with Ann promoting the show to all her Actor Co-op friends as well in Hollywood. Soon we had Brian Habicht, (Randy Radiator and Deputy Eustace) and even Jesse Corti, (of Beauty and the Beast Fame).

That Christmas we decided to take on a full Christian Car Guy hour with the 12th Episode – “A Christmas Carol-la“. This year marks the tenth Christmas it has played being the second most downloaded episode ever of The Christian Car Guy Radio Show.

Many, many episodes eventually with Jesse’s talent in 2020 we began the series on The Pilgrim’s Progress we called Plymouth’s Progress. However we never completed it as Ann began to lose her abilities to use the computer, get the scripts out etc..

God to the rescue again as Ellen got the idea to do short easy episodes just featuring Ann, Ellen called – “Famous Fairy Tales” in February 2024. She didn’t need a script and I would record her over the phone simply giving her a line and she would say it back to me… She loved it and it brought her Joy back very time. God was there for Ann even when she couldn’t remember, why I was calling or what we were doing, she would brighten up like the gifted actress she is whenever she had a line. Those are very cherished memories for me and I have some sound bytes of that I’ll share in today’s show…. PLUS

Ellen and Burt will be live with us, Bob Young and some recorded tributes from other member of the cast… Don’t miss it…. WE LOVE YOU- ANN!!!