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310. Valdur Koha: Hi-Tech Millionaire Makes Mid-Life Transormation into Missionary Mover and Mobilizer

The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count

Release Date: 12/23/2024

322.  Dennis and Patricia Keating.  Facing Death with Faith and a Smile. show art 322. Dennis and Patricia Keating. Facing Death with Faith and a Smile.

The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:     Dennis Keating has terminal cancer.  Yet you would never know it by talking to him.  He is in love with Jesus and has made peace with his future.  His wife Patty stands by his side and shares his deep faith in God.  Listen as they share the secrets to facing and navigating death as a disciple of Christ.

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The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count

How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:   You can reach Rob at [email protected] Matt Flores, long time disciple and civil engineer is a great friend and great role model of devotion to God, family and the kingdom.  He spent 11 years in Tucson and demonstrated amazing generosity and discipline in his personal and financial life.  I interviewed him in the wake of recent turbulence in the financial markets.  Matt is an advocate of bitcoin as a wise asset during times...

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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:     Can an older church resume growing?  Chris Schwartzenberger and the church in Spokane, Washington shows it's possible.  After hovering around 100 disciples for years, the church has gone from 100 to 140 members in the last two years.  Find out what God is doing and what Chris is doing in leading the church to greater things.

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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:     In March of 2025, Pam and I spent two weeks with the RevivEE Team in Bulgaria and Greece.  We got to tour many biblical sites in Greece and worked with the team in Sofia, Bulgaria.  We met a young woman by the name of Inna Koieva.  She is a Ukrainian converted in Odessa, Ukraine.  She has spent five years in Central Europe spreading the Gospel along with the ReviveEE team.  Listen as she shares her story....

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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:   Join me as I interview Shawn Wooten, Ed Anton and Mark McCune about the Revive Mission Team's visit to the ancient ruins of Philippi in Greece.  We saw the prison where Paul met the Philippian Jailer.  We also visited the site Paul met and baptized the first convert in the continent of Asia, Lydia.   How to reach Rob:  [email protected]

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317.  Revive Team 317. Revive Team "Greek Week" Day One and Two Update

The Rob Skinner Podcast: Helping You Make This Life Count

If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:   Pam and I joined the Revive EE (Eastern Europe) team for a week long trip to Greece in March of 2025.  Listen and I interview Shawn Wooten, Ed Anton and Derrick Vette about the trip, it's purpose and impact.  

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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:     Today, I’m talking to a medical missionary by the name of Dr. Alberto Denis.  Born in Panama to an indigenous family, Alberto moved to Panama City and studied medicine.  A friend helped him become a Christian in his fourth year of med school. After serving his country for two years, he moved back to his indigenous homeland and served the poor by going from island to island healing, helping and delivering babies. ...

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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:     Today, I’m talking with Mari Sawamura.  Mari was born in 1998 in Japan to Japanese nationals and ministers.  She grew up there until the age of ten and then went to live in China.  She became a Christian, graduated high school and then went to college at Boston University.  She graduated and now works in the Boston Church as the face of that church’s social media program.  She is a driver in the church’s...

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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:      Doing God’s Will   1.        Jesus came to do God’s will:  Hebrews 10:5-10   5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:   “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,     but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings     you were not pleased. 7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written...

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How to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast.  If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here:     Today I’m talking to Mark and Annie McCune.  Mark and Annie have planted churches in Boise, Idaho and Spokane Washington and have led ministries in Colorado, LA, Seattle, Salt Lake City.  They recently retired from secular jobs in education and have gone to Eastern Europe to do missionary work with ReviveEE.  Listen as they share about their career, retirement and work in Eastern Europe.   More about Mark and...

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Valdur Koha moved to the US in the eighties with his wife Irene.  Listen as he shares about how he became a Christian, his success as a business founder during the 90's Dot.Com boom and how he navigated the Dot.Com bust and challenges in the church.  In the early 2000's he reinvented himself as a spiritual teacher and applied his business skills to guiding and directing the Beam Foundation to provide support for mission plantings and leadership development.  

More about Valdur:

Valdur serves as Elder and Teacher in the Boston Church of Christ. He also serves as the president of the European Missions Society and the executive director of the CHORD Leadership Center which promotes holistic, biblical leadership around the world. Valdur currently chairs the ICOC Teacher’s Service Team.
Born in Germany in 1955, Valdur lives with his family in Boston since 1985. Valdur and Irene have been married since 1980; they have five sons and one daughter (all disciples) and ten grandchildren.

 

Contact Valdur here:

[email protected]