316. Doctor Alberto Denis, Medical Missionary Following in the Footsteps of Dr. Albert Schweizer
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Release Date: 02/24/2025
332. The Best of RSP: Interview with Gordon Ferguson (Originally Released as Episode 172, August 2022)
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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 today as I talk to Gordon Ferguson. Gordon has served as an Evangelist, Elder, Teacher and Author. He talks about: His journey to Christ The secret to his happy marriage with his wife, Theresa How he got connected with the discipling movement What went through his mind as he lay close to death from cancer What he’d do differently if he had his life to do over again What he sees as essential for future growth in our...
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331. The Best of RSP: Interview with Lynne Green, Seattle, Washington, USA (Episode 28)
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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: The Best of The Rob Skinner Podcast. This episode was originally released in August of 2020 as episode 28. Lynne Greene and her husband, Scott, planted a church in Hong Kong in 1987 that grew to 2,000 disciples in only ten years. They returned to the US to lead the church in Seattle, Washington. The Greens then decided to return to the mission field by moving to Berlin, Germany. That's where she found out...
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330. The Best of RSP, Mike Fontenot: A Life Dedicated to The Ministry. Originally Released as Episode 7.
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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: While on sabbatical I am releasing some of my most listened to episodes from my podcast. Mike Fontenot's is one of my most popular interviews. It was originally released as episode #7. Please enjoy! Who is Mike Fontenot? Mike Fontenot became a Christian in 1969. After graduating from Louisiana State University, he went to Fuller Seminary for his Master's Degree. He and his wife, Tess,...
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329. The Best of RSP: Pat Gempel, Pioneer of Women's Ministry
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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 this episode, my wife Pam and I talk to Pat Gempel, a pioneer of women’s ministry and one of the "30 would-be disciples" who gathered in a living room in Boston and propelled the church to 60% annual growth for 10 straight years. She shares: How she came to Boston What it was like at the beginning of the Boston Movement How she found her daughter that she had put up for adoption 23 years earlier How she lost her husband, Bob Her...
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328. Jose Luis and Rosario Palacios: He Planted a Church as an Ex-Pat and Converted his Future Wife.
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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: Jose Luis Palacios was born in Spain, studied at the University of Idaho and played tennis there. He graduated and started working in corporate America. He was posted to Saltillo, Mexico, the "Detroit" of Mexico. There he met and reached out to his future wife, Rosario Padilla. He brought her to the nearest church 90 minutes away in Monterrey, Mexico. He began meeting with his small group on Wednesdays...
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327. Natalie Do. Immigrant from Hong Kong, Missionary to Asia and Vice President of a Bank.
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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: I met Natalie Do when she visited our campus devotional in the fall of 1991 at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. She was a powerful young woman from Hong Kong and became a Christian in only ten days. She went on to do missionary work in Japan and then Vietnam. She returned to the US and she rose up in the banking world to become the Executive Vice President of a large regional bank. Listen to her story on...
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326. Tom Nuelle, Madison Wisconsin. Using Social Media in a Small Church.
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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: Tom Nuelle leads a church in Madison Wisconsin. When he took over the church in 2016, the church was in disarray and was bleeding members. After starting over with 60 members, he has since grown the church to nearly 100 and one of the tools he is using is social media. In the last six months he has baptized 10 people and most of them found the church through the church's social media outreach. Tom was also a cofounder of...
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325. Dima and Marina Dudnik, Sofia, Bulgaria. Doing Something Beautiful For Jesus in Eastern Europe.
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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: Dima and Marina Dudnik lead a church in Sofia, Bulgaria. Originally from Ukraine, they trained for ministry under Shawn and Lena Wooten and started leading the church in Sofia in 2020. Both studied music growing up and Marina gave up her professional career as a violinist to serve Jesus on the mission field. Listen as they share about their romance that started at the age of 12 and led to marriage at the age of...
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324. Felix and Rita Raju, Chennai, India. Missionaries and HOPE Workers to Kolkata, India
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ow to Support the Rob Skinner Podcast. If you would like to help support my mission to multiply disciples, leaders and churches, click here: Felix and Rita Raju live in Chennai, India. They have two adult children. Converted in 1990 into a church of 40 disciples, they grew in faith and passion. They were married in 1994 and went on the mission team to Kolkata, India. They spent 9 years in Kolkata doing charity work for HOPE worldwide, building the church and serving in the administration of the church. They returned to Chennai in 2003 and Felix...
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323. Joel Peed Talks About His Book: "A Sabbatical Map."
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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: Joel Peed is a church leader and heads up Eremos Ministry, which helps ministers with spiritual wellness. He wrote a book on how to make the most of a sabbatical, how to view sabbaticals and how to make them a part of a healthy ministry career. Listen as I interview him about his book.
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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. With little knowledge of English, he applied for the ReviveEE program and learned conversational English in three months. He served in Romania and now lives in Moldova where he is learning Romanian. He has plans to return to medical school in Madrid, Spain and then lead a life as a medical missionary wherever Jesus calls him.
More About Dr. Alberto Denis:
Alberto Denis is part of the Guna Yala indigenous community in Panama and raised in a small town in Panama City. He studied medicine for 7 years, and became a disciple when he was in his 4th year in college. After finishing med school, Alberto worked as a doctor for his people for about 1 year, traveling from different islands to deliver medicine, and sometimes babies. After this work, he decided to be part of RevivEE and become a full time missionary in Eastern Europe. He likes to learn new languages and serve in any possible way. Now He is living in Moldova helping the local church in the campus ministry.
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