The Good Life With Dr Danny
The Good Life with Dr. Danny serves the New England Christian community and beyond by producing talk-shows that edify believers to love and good deeds, while offering outreach resources that feature people’s stories. The Good Life with Dr. Danny is a program of Danny Yamashiro Ministries and Formation Institute, divisions of Jesus Christ is Calling You, Inc. Foundational Scripture: Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. James 3:13
Episodes
Thursday May 04, 2023
Thursday May 04, 2023
Sweet Tea Social Marketing
Heather Heuman
www.sweetteasocialmarketing.com
What is a digital missionary? Heather Heuman became a Christian when she was a freshman in high school. Today, she finds the online space a wonderful place for her to be a digital missionary. Heather is a social media speaker, strategist and trainer specializing in helping Christian business owners and entrepreneurs discover how to grow in today’s noisy social marketplace.
Heather Heuman is the CEO/Founder of Sweet Tea Social Marketing and the founder of Sweet Tea Social Marketing Academy where she helps Christian business owners grow using social media. Heather is the author of The Golden Rules for Social Marketing: Strive in Business with Strategy and Kindness. She is married and has three children and lives in South Carolina.
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
New Hampshire Fisher Cats
Rick Brenner
www.milb.com/new-hampshire
What does it feel like to go from being an intern to an owner of a professional team? How powerful are the words, “You gonna to walk today”? How does a professional baseball team in New Hampshire help save lives of America’s service men and women? This is the story of Rick Brenner, whose life is an inspirational message. God created him with gifts of vision, action, and a keen sense of people’s needs. Coming back from a devastating recent set back, Rick reminds us of resurrection hope.
Rick Brenner is the Managing Member/CEO of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. He came to New England from New Jersey for his bachelor of science degree at Plymouth State University. His master’s in sports administration is from Ohio University.
Tuesday May 02, 2023
Tuesday May 02, 2023
The Voice of St. Anthony Parish Allston
Father Robert Carr
www.stanthonyallston.org
How does a U.S. Navy veteran use his international experience as a Catholic priest? In what ways did his work at a public radio station in Boston prepare him for his media ministry that touches New England and beyond – all from his local parish? This is the story of Father Robert Carr.
Father Robert J. Carr is the pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Allston, Massachusetts where there is “A welcome to all those who seek to know, love and serve our Lord Jesus Christ in this world and the next.” Ordained in 1993 at Holy Cross Cathedral, Father Carr served mostly in inner city parishes for much of his priesthood working in up to three languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
If God Performed a Miracle
Linda Oliver
If God performed a miracle and saved your child’s lifehow would that change the way you live? Linda Oliver has sung for the First Lady, Laura Bush and at the inaugurations of Governors. She’s organized presidential, gubernatorial, U.S. congressional campaigns, and served four Alabama Governors. Her leadership in resource development has ensured major medical research facilities the ability to offer world-class medical care. Today, she also shares the story of the “miracle” recovery of her daughter, Ashley, from a car accident.
Highly sought as a conference speaker, Linda Oliver is the founder of “Hope For The Nation,” a progressive network of compassionate volunteers who are giving hope through loving acts of kindness to the hopeless and brokenhearted in America.
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
The Blanket Lady
Susie Jennings
www.operationcareinternational.org
What would you do after a heartbreaking calamity? Susie Yanson Jennings desired to serve God and her community after her husband's tragic death. She heard God's call to give blankets to the homeless in downtown Dallas in November 1993. Hailed "The Blanket Lady" her modest beginnings became Operation Care International (OCI)
Susie Jennings is Founder and President of Operation Care International. A Registered Nurse by profession since 1978, Susie stepped out in faith and obedience to God’s calling leading to her resignation from a supervisory position at Baylor University Medical Center Dallas in January 2011 and became a full-time missionary.
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Thursday Apr 27, 2023
Workplace Ministry
Dr. Frank Tully
www.navigators.org
Why would a married couple, the husband a trial lawyer and the wife an engineer, both join a ministry that “seeks to Know Jesus, to make Him Known, and to help others do the same”? This is the story of Dr. Frank and Dr. Debbie Tully. Frank joins us to tell of their journey, for him, from the courtrooms of Chicago and church leadership in Wheaton to discipleship ministries in Australia, and now Boston.
Dr. Frank Tully have served with The Navigators for the past 30 years. He graduated from UMass Amherst, went to law School at DePaul University in Chicago, and later earned Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. After a decade of serving with The Navigators in Australia, Frank and Debbie returned to Boston. Frank is Co-Director of the Boston City Team of The Navigators. He and Debbie are members of Newton Covenant Church.
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Broker Hotel
Jay Snyder
www.brokerhotel.com
How does faith in Jesus make a difference to a man in the hotel brokerage business? What role does mentorship play? How vital are relationships and the importance of investing in relationships? Jay Snyder shares insights from his life, a story that involves complex transactions, the wisdom of God, and steady growth.
Jay G. Snyder is the Chairman/Partner of Snyder Nationwide Real Estate, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 1985, Jay joined with industry veteran hotel broker, Orville W. Krieger, to form Krieger & Snyder Nationwide Real Estate, Inc. Upon Mr. Krieger’s retirement in 2002, Jay formed Snyder Nationwide Real Estate, Inc.
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Being Changed by Jesus
Rev. Dr. Garrett Smith
www.newtoncovenant.org
How does a man who was raised Jewish become a believer in Jesus while living in Israel? How are children raised in both Jewish and Christian worlds as both parents are Jewish believers in Jesus? This is the story of Rev. Dr. Garrett Smith, whose life tells about what it means to being “changed by Jesus, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and following God into the world.”
Rev. Dr. Garrett Smith is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a Doctor of Ministry and Masters of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of Arts in Business/Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Garrett is married to Nici. They served as missionaries with Jews for Jesus for twelve years. They have three children: Daliya, Zachary, and Ilana.
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Changed in Life's Trajectory
Casey Lin
Sometimes God's calling is mysterious and hard to discern. Other times, it's as apparent as the difference between night and day, despair and hope, death and life. After a tumultuous childhood, Casey Lin experienced a radical transformation that changed her life's trajectory.
At age 18, Casey Lin left her family and friends in Texas to attend a Japanese university. After nearly a decade abroad in Yokohama, Japan and Bristol, England, Casey returned to Houston, where she taught middle schoolers and met her husband-to-be, Dr. Jonathan Lin.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Building a Difference
Dianne Rigby
www.buildingadifference.com
How does God take a professor of nursing with 15 years of experience in pediatric emergency, neonatal intensive care, and adult hospice to become a designer of events for missions, TV and radio broadcasting around the world? This is the story of Dianne Rigby.
Dianne Rigby is the Partnership Development Coordinator for Building A Difference with Deeplight Entertainment. She has co-produced “The Page-Bailie Bunch” and “The Goodall Family Story” for Building a Difference. Dianne earned her bachelors degree in psychology from University of Central Florida and her second bachelors degree to become a registered nurse from Jacksonville University—graduating magna cum laude.
The Good Life With Dr Danny
Danny Yamashiro is the radio and podcast host of The Good Life with Dr. Danny, a daily Christian talk show in New England on WEZE and WROL of Salem Media Group Boston. He is a chaplain at MIT and co-chairperson of the Cambridge Roundtable on Science and Religion. He has ministered in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, in the Pacific and Atlantic islands. He earned his Ph.D. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with research on the formation of American presidents at the intersection of childhood trauma and religious education. His master’s with a concentration in government is from Harvard Extension School. Earlier degrees are from Talbot School of Theology and Biola University. Danny miraculously survived falling 400 feet from a cliff in Hawaii while free climbing, at age 18. He is the founder at president of JCCY, Inc., with Formation Institute, a division based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Danny is married to Jamie. They have three adult children.