Lisa Jernigan’s calling as a peacemaker has led her into borderlands, conflict zones, refugee camps, and sacred spaces of reconciliation. She is the founder and president of Amplify Peace, a global movement that promotes the principles of peacemaking through the teachings of Jesus to create change in our world. What does that look like? It’s a movement that educates, immerses, trains, and launches peacemakers to build united communities. She believes that peace and transformation begin within ea...
Jun 26, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Rabbi Robert Kravitz says he never actually planned to be a rabbi. One day, he was a Connecticut-born college student studying radio, TV, and film at Syracuse University; the next he was driving to Cincinnati where he conducted Shabbat services, studied voice, and accepted a three-year cantorial position at a nearby Conservative synagogue. It became clear it was a calling. Over the next 50 years, his rabbinical journey took him through several careers, from civil rights leader, to hospital and p...
Jun 19, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Jake White never really got into drinking. But that didn’t mean he didn’t want to be want to be social and have a good time. So he started hosting parties without any drugs or alcohol. They grew in popularity, and within a semester hundreds of students attended his signature “sober parties.” He helped other learn how to throw the parties and get sponsors, and dubbed the movement Party.0 (party-point-oh). All people wanted was food, fun, and friends. The cause became his mission, and seven years ...
Jun 12, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 7
The Bible is full of stories about God working astounding miracles in people’s lives. We need to remember, however, that He is still in the business of touching lives. Mark Ellis is a storyteller who shares those modern-day miracles. From an astronaut’s transformative encounter with Jesus on the moon, to Vincent van Gogh’s unappreciated journey with Christ, Mark has devoted himself to sharing accounts of God revealing himself in the lives of ordinary people in divine interventions that span, cul...
Jun 05, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Meaghan Rodeck has a gift for making things happen. She uses that gift to help restore peace to families pulling themselves out of homelessness, providing everything from emergency shelter to affordable housing. She is the Vice President of Strategy and People Operations at UMOM New Day Centers, an organization started 60 years ago and once known as the United Methodist Outreach Ministries. Their goal is to end family homelessness in our community by restoring hope and rebuilding lives. As the l...
May 29, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Ron Friesen is a spiritual director. He’s also an educator, community activist, pastor, shepherd, counselor, and author. Most of all, he’s a servant, going where God calls him. That journey has taken him many places, from Canada to Phoenix, to founding two churches, serving the unhoused, and hospice chaplaincy. Ron has a heart for people of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds, and counsels clients with abuse issues, those who struggle with addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder....
May 22, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Stefanie Calens is on the front lines of helping victims of sex trafficking in a ground-breaking program, the nation’s first family two-year transitional housing model for adult female victims of sex trafficking and their minor children. She is the community engagement liaison for the Arizona State University Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR), bringing both spiritual depth and a relentless commitment to justice, to connect and advocate for those who need to know that their v...
May 15, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Dr. Bob Fauer tended patients for 40 years as a family physician, much of that time in upscale Scottsdale, AZ. In 2011, he also began serving a different clientele – the homeless in Phoenix – during the Occupy Movement, protesting the gaping economic inequality in our country. He began by driving the streets and alleyways of Phoenix, handing out money and supplies to those in need. Realizing his medical skills could be put to better use, he began searching for organizations that would help him m...
May 08, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Open the door and the warm aroma of coffee welcomes you. There are couples in animated conversation; friends playing games; and small groups in deep discussion. There may be musicians tucked in the corner. It feels like home. That was the goal for Amie Pierone, founding director of the Eden Tea and Coffee House on the edge of the Arizona State University campus. With a degree in mathematics and an MBA, she entered the corporate world where she excelled. Then she was compelled to create a coffeeh...
May 01, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Mark Upton shares a vision with the organization he leads: a future in which every child is loved and nurtured in a Christ-centered family. Christian Family Care helps both kids and families live their best lives through a rich collection of impactful programs, including not just adoption and foster care assistance, but also counseling for adults, children and families; Hand in Hand Pregnancy Counseling; and the STRONG Families for Children prevention program. There is also the Family Care Learn...
Apr 24, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 52
Aaron Higginbotham is an athlete’s athlete. In high school, he excelled in football, wrestling, and track, and had a stellar career on the gridiron for the University of Arizona. His love for sports is eclipsed only by his love for Christ. Today, as state director for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) in Arizona, he helps engage, equip and empower coaches and athletes to know and grow in Christ and lead others to do the same. Started 70 years ago, the organization sponsors gatherings in...
Apr 17, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 51
The world is full of caring people who want to help, and there are certainly many people who need that help. Sometimes the challenge is getting those two groups together. The CarePortal is designed to connect compassionate people to help meet the needs of kids and families in crisis. It works with the local church and others to let them know about the vetted, urgent needs of individual families in their community. Adam Kemper is pastor of Northwest Community Friends Church, but he also serves as...
Apr 10, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 50
People suffering severe burns deal with the pain of healing and the resulting PTSD, sometimes for years. The Arizona Burn Foundation is there to support them and their families through the entire time, through recovery until they no longer identify as a victim, but as a human being of intrinsic value and worth. Rex Albright has been a nonprofit leader for 19 years for chambers of commerce, Dignity Health East Valley Foundation, and the Phoenix Symphony. But it’s in his current role as CEO of the...
Apr 03, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 49
The local church cares for the community. But who helps the pastors and staff of the local church be the best they can be? Jeff Gokee is the executive director of PHOENIX/ONE, an organization he helped form to unify the local church through care and connection. The goal is to help church staff and their spouses be healthier through a wide range of innovative services. There’s the LOVEWELL app that tracks personal and organization health metrics. In just 90 seconds once a week, team members answe...
Mar 27, 2025•24 min•Season 5Ep. 48
A clay tablet dating back to 2300 B.C. written in cuneiform. A fire-damaged page from a 1611 King James Bible. A 300-year-old Hebrew Torah fragment. A leaf from a 1529 Martin Luther translation of the New Testament. A leaf from the Guttenberg Bible. Rare versions and pages from Bibles dating back hundreds of years were the passion of Craig Lampe when he started The Bible Museum in Goodyear, AZ. Today, his son Joel Lampe carries on the dream as the international director and senior curator of the...
Mar 20, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 47
The children know her as Miss Debbie, and for two hours every day after school, she has a live call-in radio show that reaches kids across the nation. Her listeners eagerly call in their answers to the Bible quiz question of the day to win a prize, and quote the Bible verse of the day they’ve memorized. Adults know her as Deborah Eckelbarger. Her pastor father started a Christian station in Lake Havasu, AZ in 1983 when she was just 7, and after her personal “walk in the wilderness,” Miss Debbie ...
Mar 13, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 46
He remembers delivering newspapers from the back of a truck as a kid in the ‘70s, and 50 years later, he’s still with The Arizona Informant. Cloves Campbell, Jr. continues the family legacy as the paper’s publisher, serving as a voice for the Black community in the state. The credo of the Black Press across the country is that America can best lead the world away from racial and national antagonisms when it accords to every person, regardless of race, color or creed, full human and legal rights....
Mar 06, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 45
He’s written more than 70 books. He led one of the most historic churches in Chicago for 36 years. And he is respected as a speaker – on the air, in the pulpit, and around the world. Dr. Erwin Lutzer has touched perhaps the most lives through his writing, addressing issues and questions with books such as “One Minute After You Die,” How to Say No to a Stubborn Habit,” “Hitler’s Cross,” “Failure: The Back Door to Success,” “Who Are You to Judge?” and his most recent, “ The Eclipse of God.” To hea...
Feb 27, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 44
The world’s first food bank. Those are startling words, and the story behind them is both encouraging and inspiring. Jerry Brown – who served as a sportswriter in Arizona for 25 years before joining St. Mary’s Food Bank as the organization's first director of public relations – shares that story and his own journey. St. Mary’s feeds 250,000 people EACH DAY, across 76,000 square miles in the state through partnering with more than 700 agencies. Through efficiencies and purchasing power developed ...
Feb 20, 2025•25 min•Season 5Ep. 43
Cindy DeMaio noticed one night her daughter Rachel's bedroom light was on much later than it should have been for a school night. When she opened the door, she rushed to hold Rachel just before the 17-year-old took her final breath. Her parents knew Rachel had been drawn into the world of drugs, and were struggling to find her the help she needed. But the cocaine she took that night was laced with carfentanil, said to be 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 times more powerful than mor...
Feb 13, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 42
Life has it challenges. Sometimes, a person can have more than what seems like their fair share. Some might say that about Rhonda Cagle. She’s lived through the loss of her husband, just 18 days following his cancer diagnosis. She nearly lost her daughter. She fell in love and married again, only to come close to losing her husband to COVID. And she herself is a survivor of Stage III breast cancer. Yet despite the challenges, Rhonda has done remarkable things for the community and for education ...
Feb 06, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 41
Arthur Mobley has been a part of the broadcasting industry for the past 50 years, and during that time he’s touched thousands of lives. From his time on the air in front of a mic, to starting the first black-owned radio station in Phoenix, having an inventor’s mind, being a civil rights advocate and creating innovative programs in advertising and management, he has left an indelible mark on local history. He’s always had a passion for sharing his experience in the industry with others, be they s...
Jan 30, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 40
Mark Householder was a member of the University of Cincinnati football team when he attended his first Athletes in Action meeting on campus. It changed his life. Today, he’s president of the organization, changing other lives not just in the U.S., but around the world. Athletes in Action (AIA) is a global sports ministry, building spiritual movements through the platform of sport. Athletes experience brokenness both personally and as part of the sport culture. They also have unmatched influence ...
Jan 23, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 39
Picture a terrified lost dog, darting in and out of traffic, sleeping under brush in the desert, driven by fear to the point where it won’t allow anyone near. Its flight drive is so powerful it doesn’t even recognize its owner. Enter H.A.R.T.T. – the Humane Animal Rescue and Trapping Team, a volunteer-based Arizona nonprofit that finds and captures lost family pets, homeless dogs, and stray cats who are severely injured. H.A.R.T.T.'s team of more than 100 trained volunteers specialize in humanel...
Jan 16, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 38
For nearly 50 years, Child Crisis Arizona has not only been there to support the community’s most vulnerable children experiencing abuse or neglect, but also to help strengthen families, build resiliency and prevent crisis situations. Torrie Taj leads the organization with a passion to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect, both by providing children and youth a safe environment, and creating strong and successful families. Child Crisis Arizona programs are designed to provide a continuum o...
Jan 10, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 37
Jesus + nothing. Gary Kinnaman's core message is that we don't need to "add" anything to Jesus to change the world. From early believers in the New Testament who first thought Jesus followers should be circumcised, to the myriad "additions" individuals and organizations want to make today, Jesus is ultimately all we need. Gary is an internationally respected pastor, author, and speaker. In more than 50 years of ministry, he has touched tens of thousands of lives, through starting thriving church...
Jan 02, 2025•26 min•Season 5Ep. 36
LaKisha Deon and her husband were living at an air force base in the United Kingdom 13 years ago when she felt a calling to join God in transforming cities around the world. Three years later when the couple moved to Arizona, she learned about 4Tucson, a nonprofit designed to unite and mobilize Christians as they addressed systemic problems in the city. Today, as the organization’s CEO, she oversees initiatives like the Adopta Program, a framework that makes it easy for individuals and organizat...
Dec 26, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 35
Inseong Kim is a woman with many talents and many passions, but they all focus on changing lives for Christ. Born in Seoul, she came to the U.S. at 23, and earned a B.S. in actuarial science from The Ohio State University, and recently completed the Harvard Executive Business Analytics program. Her heart though, is rooted in her faith. She is working toward a degree in Biblical and Theological Studies from Phoenix Seminary. She offers hope and encouragement to those who are hurting, whether it i...
Dec 19, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 34
Marc Lucas has made a career as a pastor and a speaker. Over the past 20 years he has listened to men share about their needs and challenges, and helped them to find solutions and peace. Ultimately he realized his true calling was as a faith-based mentor and coach for families. In a culture that demands we conform, perform, be cut-throat competitive, strive to “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps,” and be dependent solely on our own strength, Marc is committed to breaking men free from anything ...
Dec 12, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 33
Sarah Levin has always felt called both to serve others, and to work in the medical field. It’s been her dream to combine both, and she’s been able to do that in her 18-year career at the Muscular Dystrophy Association. In her role as National Vice President of Community Events, Levin serves with the #1 voluntary health organization in the United States for people living with neuromuscular diseases. This covers not only more than 10 types of muscular dystrophies, but motor neuron diseases includ...
Dec 05, 2024•26 min•Season 5Ep. 32
