Cole Richards: Inspired by Joy

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🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Episode Summary: Join us this week as we get to know Cole Richards, who has served more than a decade at VOM and in January stepped into the role as President and CEO of the organization. Cole will share about how God called him to missions work and share about some of the persecuted Christians he’s met who have inspired his own faith walk, and how VOM plays a unique role within the wider missions community. Cole will also give listeners an early look at some of the exciting opportunities VOM will pursue in the coming year, including a new book and movie telling the story of Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, VOM’s founders, and an important effort to bless and minister to more than 1,000 widows in Nigeria. Cole opens up about the impact he hopes the stories of our persecuted brothers and sisters will have on American Christians—including VOM Radio listeners—to inspire them to live more boldly for Christ right where they are. Finally, he’ll share advice on how to pray for persecuted Christians, including how he makes his prayers for our persecuted family personal. If you live in the United States and do not receive VOM’s free monthly newsletter, sign up here.

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0:00.0	Cole Richards estimates that there are 10 to 20,000 orphans and widows of martyred Christians
0:07.4	in Nigeria, and this presents an opportunity for us to show how the body of Christ is supposed to work.
0:16.0	These precious widows and orphans in northern Nigeria, they're in our hands.
0:20.0	No one else is helping them. There isn't a UN effort to help them.
0:25.0	Their national government is completely powerless and may not even have intentions to help.
0:30.0	So as their brothers and sisters in Christ, we seek to help them in
0:35.8	conjunction with strong Christians and churches in northern Nigeria.
0:40.3	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world
0:49.1	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
0:53.0	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles,
0:56.0	and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world.
1:00.0	Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the Voice of the Martyrs radio network
1:07.8	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton and we are in the studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with Cole Richards.
1:16.8	We talked a few weeks ago with Jim Dow, who was the retiring president of Voice of the Martyrs.
1:22.4	Today we're talking with Cole Richards who is the new
1:25.2	President and CEO stepping into that role this year. Cole, welcome to Voice of the Martyrs radio.
1:31.5	Thank you Todd. Let's talk a little bit about your
1:34.6	mission's background and kind of how God called you into this work. Sure I grew up in a wonderful Christian family, but God really changed my life in 1997.
1:48.5	On a short-term outreach I took with Youth With Emission, Waiwam.
1:53.3	And on this trip, we were spreading the gospel
1:56.6	into villages where people had never
1:58.1	heard Christ's name before.
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