Download Joy Elder is the St. Louis Bott Radio Network-owned KSIV’s Sales and Marketing Director.  She has a surprise side of her life. She is a professional-quality skater on ice. So Joy brought to the radio studio Charity Hendrickson, Director of “Nutcracker on Ice” (www.nutcrackeronice.org) performance in St. Louis.  Joy Elder is one … [Read more...]

Segment 1 Download Segment 2 Download Lynne Jackson – great-great granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott tells of an amazing situation of which I personally had never heard before!  The descendants of  famous slave owners and slaves come together at the Dred Scott Reconciliation Conference  in St. … [Read more...]

Download For two decades Bob Pickett has led the St. Louis Concert Choir (Concert Ministries, Inc.). This year’s production is An All American Christmas.  They perform a delightful variety Christmas concert each year as a major musical event ... with no plans to stop.  In 2016 multiple performances are on Dec 1, 2 (7:30 pm), & 3rd (noon … [Read more...]

Download I was absolutely staggered ...amazed ... when Cru’s Ryan Wagner told me the “Jesus Film” can be placed on most cell phones ... with the option of seeing and hearing it in any of over 1,500 languages!!  Many are thrilled when they can see the reenactment and hear the words of Jesus in their native tongue!   When I told this … [Read more...]

Segment 1 Download   Segment 2 Download   In November of 2016, after being missing for 28 months, the remains of Lynn Messer --  the wife of Kerry Messer -- have been discovered.  In searching for an area to hunt deer during deer season, she was found by her own 15-year-old granddaughter, … [Read more...]

Download Martha Jane (Mrs. Mark) Grossmann told me of her dear friend, Susan Bick, who was relating the painful story of her only child Rachael Bick's death, age 7.  The purpose was to deal with her grief, to honor Rachael ... and Jesus!  In early 2016 young Rachel was going to a school activity with her father.  An auto accident took her … [Read more...]

Download When I left my last church as pastor to enter another form of ministry, whoever thought there was a little boy somewhere ... probably in the first grade ... who would graduate from a high school (McClure North in North St. Louis County) within a mile of the location of the church I last served!   Who would then graduate from a high … [Read more...]

Download Vicki Stamps has been “packing” shoeboxes of love gifts to poor children worldwide since her daughter was in preschool. Now that daughter is in her 20’s. Vick is now the Operation Christmas Child coordinator for St. Louis City and County.  Begun by Samaritans Purse in the 1990s by Franklin Graham of the Billy Graham Association, … [Read more...]

This is brief update of recent conversations with Josh Hawley, offering himself for statewide public service in Missouri. Listen to him share his story: Download Regular listeners know the story: ·  Began life in the historic town of Lexington, Mo – where a Civil War cannonball is still in the County Courthouse wall; … [Read more...]

Blake Snyder, St. Louis, Mo, County police officer, was shot and killed in the line of duty!  The tragedy of October 6, 2016, is absolutely horrible, but Kathy Sparks – the name I know her by before her husband’s death – has some personal inspirational stories about her terrific son-in-law. Blake Snyder, in these 2 Segments of radio. Segment 1 … [Read more...]