063: Rodney Pennington on the Mountain Top

Rodney Pennington is Vice President for Mobilization with OMF International. He has served as a pastor in Kansas, church planter in Toronto and Thailand, and mobilizer in U.S. for the unreached peoples of East Asia. He is a husband and father of four kids. Today we talk about his journey from a kid who gave up on God to missionary who could not help but go overseas to share the Gospel. Stories Rodney shared:

• The difficulty of his family life and why he gave up on God
• His literal mountain top experience when he started praying to a God he didn’t even believe in
• The snake that helped heal his relationship with his father
• Sharing the Gospel with his father and his conversion
• His daughter’s diagnosis with Turner Syndrome
• God’s provision for his daughter
• The trip to Cambodia that changed his heart for unreached people groups

Great quotes from Rodney:

I knew my life was changed. If this was true why wouldn’t I pour everything into it?

I can honest say there are moments when I’ve been angry with God and I didn’t understand why or what was going on or the purpose behind it all but He’s come through everytime.

What we have before is such a blessing, if we just use it the right way, we can reach the ends of the earth.

Resources Rodney mentioned:

• Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret (Moody Classics)
• Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age – “What is it going to take for even the concept of an unreached people group to be intolerable to the church?”

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