Download Joe Christian is Regional Director of Lower Midwest Region for Samaritan’s Purse, Operation Christmas Child. The Lower Midwest Region includes Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Joe shares opportunities to get involved in this wonderful ministry to share Christ with the hurting children of the world.  Joe … [Read more...]

As a young married couple, Dick and Sherley Bott moved from the West Coast to Kansas City and purchased a radio station.  They had a vision that a large city could receive and support their commercial Christian radio station. So, by faith, they “leaped” and did it. And now, as of this writing, that one Bott-owned Kansas City radio station has … [Read more...]

Download Download After my hosting radio with yesteryear  St. Louis Cardinal great Wally Moon and his “forever fan club President” Judy Boen, Wally asked me for a copy of it. I couldn’t find it! But in my bride’s looking for recorded radio we had done with Judy Boen when she, as a young wife, was secretary to the … [Read more...]

Download Tim Berends, to me, is a creative and itinerant missionary to our declining culture.  He leads one of the most unusual ministries anywhere:  ·  Daily distributing hundreds of “tracks” that contain the Good News message of Jesus, ·  Visiting high concentrations of Muslims in the United States with that Good News, … [Read more...]

Download One of several “prongs” of Family Shield Ministries, founded by Lutheran Broadcaster and longtime friend Kay Meyer, is for years being a Christian broadcaster.  Her ministry on behalf of Family Shield is heard on a number of radio stations around the country. Another component of her ministry is a significant focus on prayer, … [Read more...]

Download With her Seeing Eye dog at her side, Judy Redlich describes the great work of Joni & Friends Gateway  (http://www.joniandfriends.org/st-louis/).  She and Joni & Friends  (“Joni” being quadriplegic Joni Ericson Tada) ministry to the disabled “have a heart” for this important and special category of people -- disabled people … [Read more...]

Download On July 9, 2014, Lynn Messer mysteriously disappeared from their rural home south of St. Louis, MO..  Kerry Messer’s wife of 34 years had worked in her church’s Vacation Bible School the night before, returned home, and was making preparations for VBS the next day.    For 30 years Kerry has led an impacting ministry in the … [Read more...]

Home maintenance/repair contractor Paul Kruse describes himself as “... the dirty joke king who couldn’t say a sentence without cursing!”  While driving his truck around St. Louis he began listening to Bott Radio Network-owned AM 1320. Download At one point he heard bible teacher J. Vernon McGee tell listening truck drivers … [Read more...]

This is the second of a group of four 10-minute radio recordings with missionary “adventurer-for-the Kingdom of “ Russell Stendal. Download Russell Stendal at age 4 saw sad pictures of Indians in Columbia, South America, was “moved with compassion” and wanted to go there and help.  His father told Russell that, when he grew … [Read more...]

Download Early in serving his sentence in the St. Louis (MO) County jail, Phil Brownlee was given a small radio with earplugs.  It was set on Bott Radio Network in St. Louis.  He listened hours a day to its Bible teaching, preaching, storytelling and affirming of Biblical values.  (Visit www.bottradionetwork.com) It became his seminary. … [Read more...]