John Avery Whittaker Award: An Odyssey listener tells how she was welcomed into a new family (Plus! A preview of this month’s Club adventure)

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The John Avery Whittaker Award honors people who have impact on the faith of those around them. Samantha nominated her “mama” Robin Berns. Robin brought Samantha into her family during a difficult time and made a lasting impact on her life. Hear both of them tell their story and hear their advice on how to act like Whit.

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0:00.0	Hi Odyssey fans, I'm Jesse, editor of Focus on the Family Club House Magazine.
0:09.5	And I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club.
0:12.4	Welcome to the official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast.
0:15.2	And here we are in 2019, just 12 months away from the year 2020.
0:20.1	Remember when 2020 seemed like very far away?
0:23.1	Oh yeah, years ago, 2020, I was supposed to be the year we'd all be eating our breakfast
0:27.5	in pill form while driving our flying cars and listening to the 900th Adventures in Odyssey
0:32.4	episode.
0:33.4	Well, one out of three isn't bad.
0:34.6	You know, I did drive my old-fashioned earthbound car to work and my breakfast was on a plate.
0:40.7	But...
0:41.7	Yes, Jesse, Lord willing, we'll record the 900th episode of Odyssey by the end of this
0:45.8	year for release in 2020.
0:47.6	Oh, that's amazing.
0:49.0	And we'll be hitting a thousand before you know it.
0:51.5	But of course, even better than the number of episodes is the impact that we see every
0:56.1	day from the show.
0:57.2	So we love reading listener mail about how the show has made a difference.
1:00.2	And we'd love to hear about the impact listeners are having on each other.
1:03.5	You know, one of the ways that we get to hear about that kind of impact is through the
1:06.9	John Avery Whitaker Award.
1:09.1	This award was created to honor people who have impacted the faith of those around them,
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