God's Great Outdoors Jeff Poet & Mark Copeland
December 16, 2013
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.
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There is more chance mathematically that your car happened by accident over hundreds of millions of years, then just your eyeball having evolved and how it 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 intelligent design 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 9, 2013
This week’s program is an interview with Ken and Judy Gingrich about Ken’s new book “The Ultimate Choice”. Gerry met Ken and Judy at the annual 9-day outdoor show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where Gerry was given a tract about Ken, his life and coming to Christ, called “The Ultimate Choice”. The story talks about a young man who rebelled against his conservative Christian upbringing and eventually became involved with motorcycle groups, like Hell’s Angels and The Sons of Satan. At a point when things were going terribly bad in their marriage, in young life, Judy told Ken he had to decide between their family and his friends.
December 2, 2013
This week program is a time to visit with Craig and Louise Johnson and look back on how this couple made a pact when they got married to never talk about Jesus Christ. Because of outdoor ministry, however, Craig was exposed to a number of Christians and eventually had Gerry’s book Hunting Blunders and The One That Got Away! dropped into his lap, so to speak. Coming to receive Christ created quite a tense situation in their home, but with time not only did Louise come to Christ, but a number of others as well and Craig today is in full-time ministry sharing the Gospel in many formats.
November 25, 2013
This program is a visit to Dale Karch at Three Rivers Archery who is the co-owner along with his wife. Gerry visits Dale on location in Indiana and the two talk about how this business became this couple’s ownership and how it’s become a family business. Dale reflects on the family’s time involved with traditional archery from the beginning and how many of the projects such as bow building and flint arrowhead making was done there at home, helping to build a bond that will last for eternity. The two give an assortment of ideas that the listeners can do with their family to see the same results that The Karches have experienced in their lifetime to date.
November 18, 2013
This program is a visit with the founder of The Christian Deer Hunters Association, Dr. Tom Rakow. Tom shares how he got started writing books because of the deer hunting devotionals, his first project for a college literature class writing requirement, and today despite the fact that he flunked English several times in school, with his family’s help 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 11, 2013
Keith Jennings is the guest on this week’s program as he and Gerry hooked up in Alabama to do a The Trail to Adventure! conference. Keith shares how he got started in archery long before there were compound bows and how he hand-crafted arrows in high school starting a mail order business that led him to into a career in archery. Today he works with Mathews Bows and helps this business as they sponsor over 750 ministries/mission fields around the world. Keith also tells about his book Bows and Arrows of the Bible and looks at archery terms in God’s Word.
November 4, 2013
Nashville, Tennessee is the stop on this week’s program as Gerry rendezvous with Steve Chapman of Steve & Annie Chapman Family Ministries and Music Producers. The two talk about the couple’s early life, marriage, and movement to the ministry that they do today. Steve also discusses a number of the books they have written and he has done focusing on hunters and fishermen to draw them closer to the Creator God as they spend time in the outdoors.
October 28, 2013
The Maranatha Bible Camp in Maxwell, Nebraska and their sporting clays shooting range is the subject of this week’s program. Gerry visits with Dean Ostrander and discusses his early years living in the area and driving to school each day with rifle and shot gun hanging in the pick-up’s rack so that they could shoot after class was over. Dean talks about how he was only given so much ammo and had to make it last the entire season which made him into quite a shot. He then he relates how over the years the sporting clay range at Maranatha was developed and added to each year. This facility is used to build relationships with outdoorsmen who love to shoot but don’t know the Creator God.
October 21, 2013
This is an interview that was done at the annual Mathews Dealership Show in The Dells, Wisconsin. Gerry visits with Axion Archery Product Manufacturers, Dave Potts and looks at how Dave became involved in the out-of-doors. Though his family was very poor, he was very rich in that he had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. They augmented their income with trapping and enjoyed an array of small game hunting which went to help to feed the family. Dave shares about his years of owning an archery shop and then selling this business and becoming involved with the manufacturer of bow sights, stabilizers, and now, arrow rests.
October 14, 2013
Gerry drops in at Jay’s Sporting Goods in Gaylord, Michigan for an interview with store manager Mark Copeland. Mark shares how he made the decision years back to begin working at Jay’s Sporting Goods leaving a 6 figure position with a photo/portrait photography firm. It is a choice that he made for his family as they had already moved four times in just that year alone and the company wanted him to move again. Mark also talks about the Centershot Archery in the Church program and how it is being used to see lives changed for eternity.
October 7, 2013
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