Beth Guckenberger, Author/Speaker
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Episode 301
Beth Guckenberger is Executive Director of Back2Back Ministries, an international orphan care ministry serving abandoned, orphaned and impoverished children in Mexico, Nigeria, India and Haiti. Since Beth and her husband Todd co-founded the international ministry in 1997, Back2Back has been providing care for today and hope for tomorrow through its proven five-point Child Development Model. They strive to provide holistic care, meeting each child’s spiritual, physical, educational, emotional and social needs that they might overcome their life circumstances and break free from the cycle of generational poverty. This care is accomplished through a talented staff and national partners in each country as well as numerous individuals, churches and corporate partners, over 450 child sponsors and around 2500 mission trip guests each year.
A gifted story-teller, Beth is the author of Reckless Faith (Zondervan, 2008), Relentless Hope (Standard Publishing, 2010), 5 books in the Storyweaver Series (Standard Publishing) and Start With Amen (Thomas Nelson, 2017.) She serves on the board of David C Cook Publishing and also Christian Leadership Alliance.
She travels and speaks regularly at national conferences, youth gatherings, retreats, and churches. She draws from her field experience as a missionary, ministry director and parent for illustrations of biblical concepts. Her topics include, but are not limited to, orphan care, missions, ministry, parenting, marriage/intimacy, and general faith.
Beth and Todd lived in Monterrey, Mexico for over 15 years and together have raised 10 children (biological, foster, and adopted). She is a graduate of Indiana University with a BA in Education.
On this episode of the podcast, Beth shares with us her heart for missions, what led her to Monterrey, Mexico, why she believes starting prayers with "Amen" is vital to our communication with God, her work with the Cincinnati Reds and how her adopted son born with Cerebral Palsy is now a wide receiver playing college football.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Jason Romano. |
| 0:24.4 | I want to thank our sponsors, Compassion International, for sponsoring this podcast. |
| 0:28.8 | For $38 a month, you can release a child from poverty. |
| 0:33.4 | That's it. |
| 0:34.1 | $38. |
| 0:35.3 | Think about where $38 goes every single month. |
| 0:39.1 | Food, education, medical care, and vocational training. |
| 0:42.4 | Things we take for granted. |
| 0:44.8 | There's so many children across the world who are in need of those basic essentials. |
| 0:49.9 | And that's where your $38 goes through Compassion International, |
| 0:54.9 | the most trusted child development ministry in the world. |
| 0:59.0 | Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 1:02.1 | Compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 1:05.4 | Release a child from poverty and consider sponsoring them today. |
| 1:10.2 | Today in the podcast, we welcome author and speaker Beth Goekinberger to the podcast. |
| 1:16.4 | Beth and her husband Todd live with their family in Cincinnati, Ohio, where they serve as |
| 1:21.1 | co-executive directors of back-to-back ministries. |
| 1:25.7 | After graduating from Indiana University, |
| 1:28.2 | the Guggenburgers moved to Monterey, Mexico, |
| 1:31.4 | where they lived for 15 years. |
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