God's Great Outdoors

Dean Hulce

God's Great Outdoors - Kenny Ratliff

February 22, 2016
Looking toward the coming months and getting outside more, this week’s guest will give all real safety thoughts to consider first. Kenny Ratliff begins this interview by describing great times in the outdoors with his dad and reflects on how he introduced him to spending time afield and stream. This later in his life became where he directed his vocation and passed up opportunities to wear a suit and tie to work. Kenny then goes into the story of how on Father’s Day some years back, and at the same time, the family was celebrating his dad’s and his youngest brother’s birthdays, something tragic happened. Kayaking on an area river, both of these two loved ones were taken home to be with the Lord because of a boating accident.

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On this week's Trail To Adventure! Gerry interviews one of the two founders of Knight and Hale game calls, David Hale. Knight and Hale is probably one of the best-known game calling businesses in the outdoor industry. David shares on how the business got started because of one article written about the tube turkey call the two of them built in the back of Harold Knight’s barber shop. He reflects on the journey they have had as a game call company, and how incredibly blessed they are because of their Creator God. Gerry and David discuss how we are without excuse in God’s creation not to see that there is a great Creator God. Also looked at, is “The Great Commission,” and the ways outdoorsmen can reach others with the love of Jesus Christ, to keep them from the flames of Hell when they die!
February 15, 2016
Gerry visits the Creation Museum that is located in Petersburg, Kentucky with Mark Looy, from Answers in Genesis. Mark shares about this apologetic ministry focusing on the importance of the first book of the Bible and the new exhibit to open in July 2016 called the Ark Experience. This life size Ark is expected to have 1.4 million visitors in the first year and is a way to evangelize those who come to explore this rescue craft straight out of the Bible! God’s Great Outdoors, Family Fun Fossil Hunt’s annual adventure on August 20th in Ohio, is just a little over an hour from the Museum, and the two would be a great summer combo trip. Along this year is Dr. John Whitmore, who teaches geology and paleontology at Cedarville University, as he’ll share with the hunters and the discussion will revolves around Noah’s flood.
February 8, 2016
The author of the book “The Ripple Effect”, Todd Freiwald, shares about his youth and learning how important survival skills were in his outdoor adventures. Fire, shelter, food and water are the four essential elements one needs to stay alive for an extended period in the outdoors. Coming to Christ and then becoming a father made him realize how important walking with the Lord was. So as his children grew, he developed a survival program that taught them, not only to survive in the outdoors, but also to survive everyday life by applying principles illustrated in God’s Word to the four survival skills. This is an excellent book to help with mentoring one’s children or in a group setting for churches, ministries, or Christian camps.
February 1, 2016
Gerry is in the city of Warner Robins, GA where God’s Great Outdoors put on one of their Trail To Adventure! Conferences. Designed to help equip pastors and lay men on the “How To” of doing evangelistic outdoor outreach, these events see a host of speakers who come and share with those attending on how to get started or expand an interest based ministry. Gerry is joined by Terry Manis of Wildlife Ministry wildlifeministry.com focusing on “His World, His Wildlife”. Terry and his wife Wanda bring an assortment of creatures to the speaking events and locations that have him. He does an incredible job of correlating the creatures he brings in and handles, to God's Word and how it applies to us.
January 25, 2016
On this week's Trail To Adventure! Gerry’s interview is with Dennis and Peggy Robinson who relate an experience that happened when they were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. Dennis placed himself before God and everything in his life was about him and what he wanted in life. His wife Peggy had turned him over to the Lord and said, "You need to deal with him, Lord, he is yours." Two days later Dennis was pulled half way through a hay wagon mechanical apparatus and was not expected to live from the massive injuries he received. Yet, God had a plan, and it included transforming a man to be what God wanted him to be.
January 18, 2016
The Trail To Adventure! travels through Minnesota and a visit with Ron Lindner. Ron shares about his history, the alcoholism, telling a number of experiences that happened. This is the story of the tract on Ron's life and how he came to Christ, called "The End of the Line!" Ron’s salvation was a miracle and the end of the many difficult years of struggling with alcoholism and all that relates to that addiction. This story is also part of the new devotional book by Al and Ron Lindner, “Reflections At First Light.” Also, Gerry and Ron look at the topic of Game Dinners and how doing them correctly can see the un-churched come to Christ Jesus!
January 11, 2016
Part of this interview is a revisit with the Women’s Bassmaster Fishing Tournament Pro, Pam Martin Wells at a fishing retreat at Rushing Wind Retreat Center in Canada. Pam has accumulated 24 National Titles, 7 Angler of the Year Awards, won 3 Bassmaster Events and 1 Woman’s Bassmaster Tour since she started fishing in 1986. She is joined in Ontario, Canada by her husband Steven, as both were speakers at the fishing outreach they were attending in the far north. Pam tells how she came to Christ and is very shy in the public speaking arena, yet has answered the call as God has opened doors for her to do so. “Never Say No” is the title of the tract that she wrote to tell the story of how she came to Jesus, and Pam has seen firsthand how sharing what the Creator God did in her life has seen others come to Christ. One woman was killed in a car crash a month later, so Pam looks forward to seeing her there in Heaven!
January 4, 2016
On this week’s program Gerry is joined by Dr. Bill Brown at a Trail to Adventure! Pastor and Laymen Conference on how to do outdoor ministry. Bill formerly taught at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary where he instructed on Evangelism and Church Planting, but now teaches through the online program at Liberty University. During Bill’s earlier years of being a pastor in Alaska, he learned how to reach men; so he relates these strategies to Gerry and the listeners. Growing up in an outdoor family, and experiencing the numerous outdoor interests that men from his congregation desired to do, allowed him to formulate a program to reach the unchurched in the community where sportsman are. Dr. Bill Brown reflects how on some Sundays, he had more men in his church as a pastor in Alaska then women, which is unheard of in most churches, because he planned to gear up for reaching men!
December 28, 2015
A calling to help meet others’ basic needs began a ministry to the hungry, simply by being asked to help a woman load a road kill deer into the trunk of her car to feed her hungry family. This event had a real incredible impact on Rick Wilson that he couldn’t release. Moved by this, Rick felt God was calling him to in some way help people who were struggling with issues when it comes to food and was led to start the ministry of Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry. From this little incident and the beginning of this ministry in the Hagerstown, MD area, FHFH has expanded across the nation, seeing numerous people fed by deer harvested by hunters each year and many are coming to receive Christ as Savior as well.
December 21, 2015
Gerry visits with Steve Chapman in Nashville, TN as the two reflect on Steve’s first book “A Look at Life From a Deer Stand”, which was released in 1996 and is still going off of bookstore shelves as it has been reprinted numerous times. This book met a need seen by many women who wanted something for their male loved ones actively involved in the outdoors, (specifically hunting) but which also had a spiritual impact and would change lives. Steve also discusses how important outdoor ministry can be in reaching the man and the impact that it can have on the family. Steve hopes his new book “A Look at Life From a River Bank” will also help more men become trophies of grace for the Creator God Jesus Christ.
December 14, 2015
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About God's Great Outdoors

Join us on The Trail to Adventure a weekly 25-minute radio program that takes you on the journey to meet with well-known Christians who enjoy the outdoors.

About Dean Hulce

Dean Hulce was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where he spent every weekend in the woods or on the water with family and friends.  After graduation he married his highschool sweetheart Linda.  They have two boys and 5 grandchildren. 

Dean has written for several hunting and fishing magazines over the last 25 years. He has guided  hunters and fisherman as well as run hunting fishing camps from South Texas to Alaska and many states and provinces in between.  In the last 10 years Dean has written a daily devotional that goes out to thousands each day. He had published 5 devotional books, using hunting stories to bring a message to people.  He has traveled across the USA speaking to groups, spreading the gospel through outdoor experiences.

Dean has no doubt that God has prepared him his entire life for his position with God's Great Outdoors Ministry 

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