God's Great Outdoors - Robert Smith
January 23, 2017
On this Trail To Adventure! Gerry’s in Petersburg, KY and connected with this week’s guest Robert Smith. Robert’s story is about being blessed by God on an all-day whitetail deer hunt where only a half hour before dark he shot a monster buck. No ordinary deer, this typical ten pointer harvested on November 11th of 2000 with his rifle in northern Kentucky became a new state record buck. Robert, realizing that the Creator is truly the “Lord of the harvest” was thankful for this animal. Being what he calls “a meat hunter” when it came to the antlers value, it wasn’t a big deal. When an antler collector offered to buy the set, Robert knew the money could be used for an upcoming mission’s trip his church youth group was taking to Jamaica. Selling them was giving back to God, resulting in salvations abroad!
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On this Trail To Adventure! this week’s interview takes place during a Fisher’s of Men Retreat at Rushing Wind Retreat Center in Ontario, Canada. The guest Jeff Swan reveals how skeptical he was the first year attending, as his church group had labeled the event a “mission’s trip”. He thought “Yeah, it’s really all about fishing, I’m sure!” But, did he discover how wrong he was and how God spoke to both he and his wife, the first year they attended. This is an outreach that is changing lives for eternity and listeners may consider this as something for those in their lives too! Jeff also reflects the importance of being the kind of man or women that God wants us to be.
January 16, 2017
The program on this week’s The Trail To Adventure! is at an archery event located in Ohio with a chapter of Christian Bowhunters of America, The Lord of the Harvest Archery Club, and its chapter chairman, Mike Peters. Christian Bowhunters of America has been ministering now for well over 25 years bringing Christ Jesus to the archery world. Mike shares about the many different activities that he and the others in this local chapter do to build relationships with the people in the archery arena around them, as others are across the USA. Mike also talks about how he and his family got started in this ministry, and their annual whitetail deer hunt in southeast Ohio called The Trophies of Grace Whitetail Deer Hunt.
January 9, 2017
On this Trail To Adventure! Gerry visits with and interviews Ron Vining from Polestar Outdoors as the two connected in Nebraska. This is a ministry that takes young people on hunting and fishing trips in lieu of their parents, who have no idea how to do outdoor activities or are not in their lives, yet the kids, want to get started. This outreach was started in Powell, Wyoming where Ron lives, but has expanded to other areas in the USA and is making a difference in the lives of these young people, as the program is set up to present the Gospel. Also, the ministry will include the parents if they want to take part and learn how to do these activities, so one day they can join their children on the adventures.
January 2, 2017
On this Trail To Adventure! Jim Mustoe, the founder of The World Wide Christian Scuba Divers Organization, and Gerry visit together discussing outdoor ministries that have come about over the years. The idea is to provide Christians looking to reach people who enjoy time in God's creation with the way and the tools to provide the ability to help win others to receive Jesus Christ as their Creator God and Savior. Jim Mustoe shares with Gerry about his early years in life, love of the outdoors, and walk with the Lord. Jim also tells how the Lord impressed on him the idea to write a pamphlet called "Jesus is the Regulator of Our Life." Also, God led him to start this worldwide ministry to scuba divers.
December 26, 2016
It has become a Christmas tradition in the upper part of Michigan before you get to the Mackinaw Bridge, to hear commercials from Jay’s Sporting Goods that are bringing people to tears and having them contact this outdoor-related business. This week’s interview is with co-owner Jeff Poet and store manager Mark Copeland as they share about these radio spots that have absolutely nothing to do with selling products. What they are all about is, combating the political correctness of wishing folks a “Happy Holiday” and sharing how Christmas is about the baby Jesus who was born in a manger 2000 years ago and has changed countless millions of lives.
December 19, 2016
On this Trail To Adventure! 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”, released back in 1996, yet is still going off of bookstore shelves as it has been reprinted many times. Meeting a need of 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 12, 2016
Gerry is visiting with Dr. Richard Swenson in Wisconsin and the two are talking about Intelligent Design on this week’s Trail To Adventure! The truth is there is more chance mathematically that your car happened by accident over hundreds of millions of years, then just your eyeballs having evolved and how they works with your entire body? This is just one of the things that Dr. Richard Swenson shares in the interview with Gerry as they discuss this topic and Dr. Swenson’s book, “More Than Meets the Eye”. Having taught surgery at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, and having minored in physics, this interview is jam-packed with information that declares that we have a Creator God.
December 5, 2016
Todd Freiwald, who is the author of the book “The Ripple Effect”, shares with Gerry about growing up and learning how important survival skills were in the outdoors on this week’s The Trail To Adventure! 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.
November 28, 2016
Gerry visits with Steve Scott, founder of the ministry "On Target Outfitters" on this week’s episode of The Trail To Adventure! This trip has him in Ohio as Steve tells the listeners how as a youngster he wanted to learn to hunt and fish, but his dad had left the family. Thankfully a couple of men in his church made him part of their adventures and life and this allowed him to see what a dad really should be like according to God's Word. The experience was why he as a young man went into the ministry of being youth pastor and was moved to start "On Target Outfitters." Steve also tells about the book he wrote which is a devotional titled "Faith Afield" which correlates with a variety of outdoor topics and scriptures tied to each topic, which Gerry found to be an excellent read to be sure.
November 21, 2016
On this Trail To Adventure! Dr. Tom Rakow, the founder of The Christian Deer Hunters Association and Gerry visit together discussing the numerous outdoor ministries that have come about over the years. The idea is to provide Christians looking to reach others who enjoy time in God's creation with the tools to provide the ability to help win them to receive Jesus Christ as their Creator God. Tom shares about how The Christian Deer Hunters Association got started and how he never expected it to be what it is today. Tom also tells how he got started writing books, and today despite the fact that he flunked English several times in school, with his family’s aid he has written a number of books that are helping Christians reach out to their unsaved friends and relatives with books on fishing and hunting.
November 14, 2016
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God's Great Outdoors Friends, Wonder if this is something you can send to a person the Holy Spirit places on your heart - after you watch this segment from our website and that we've placed on YouTube. Jesus Christ's blood was shed to cover our sins and allow us to be with Him for eternity! Won't you pray who you might email this link to!