Bringing the Gospel to Inner City Kids
Every Knee Shall Bow (Your Catholic Evangelization Podcast)
Ascension
4.9 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Most people drive past these inner city neighborhoods—but missionaries from Vagabond Missions walk straight into them. Dave sits down with founder Bob Lenosky and president Andy of Vagabond Missions to talk about evangelizing inner-city teens, the messy reality of conversion, and why simply showing up can change a life.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:03.0 | To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.0 | 75% of the people that you share the gospel with, it is not going to produce any fruit. |
| 0:18.0 | And then the 25%, God says that they're going to produce fruit, doesn't promise |
| 0:22.3 | you're going to see it. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every knee shall bow your weekly Catholic podcast on evangelization and discipleship. |
| 0:41.3 | Just me again today. |
| 0:42.5 | Again, please keep Gomer in your prayers. |
| 0:45.5 | Noah continues to recover and he's doing great, but, you know, Gomer needs to focus on his family right now. |
| 0:52.5 | So, yeah, if you have been listening, you know, |
| 0:55.0 | Gomer's son fell off of a slide or something like that at a park and hurt himself pretty |
| 1:00.1 | badly. He's going to be fine, like no permanent damage, but it was a serious injury for sure. |
| 1:06.2 | So he's not with us today. But we're going to continue on with our series on missionary disciples, |
| 1:11.0 | missionary evangelists. And today we have with us two people from actually close friends of ours, |
| 1:17.0 | two people from Vagabond Missions and the founder of Bob Lesniewski and the current director. |
| 1:23.1 | Are you the current president or what was your title, Andy? |
| 1:26.0 | Yes, sir. President. Okay, President. Andyerre. President extraordinaire. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. For sure, there's no question. Yeah, if you don't know about, well, actually, I'm not going to introduce you as you. Why don't you introduce Andy the what Vagamon does and the unique mission? Yeah. Yeah, thanks, Dave. Yeah, so Vagabon missions really, I think, started as kind of a wild dream of Bob's to not |
| 1:52.1 | just keep Catholic youth ministry in the suburbs, you know, in places that could afford it, |
| 1:56.7 | but to really bring the love of Jesus and the beauty of the Catholic faith to kids in the |
| 2:03.0 | inner city, kids in struggling neighborhoods, kids who maybe come from parts of town that people |
| 2:09.2 | drive around or avoid. So we simply always say, you know, essentially we're Catholic inner city |
| 2:14.5 | youth ministry. We serve in eight different cities across the country. |
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