Counseling and Disability Ministry, a conversation with Johnny Erickson Tata on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide

biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

I am excited that our guest on the podcast this week is Johnny, Erickson, Tata, and her husband,

Ken. Johnny is the founder and CEO of Johnny and Friends International and is a popular

Christian author and Christian speaker. One of the things that you'll notice about our podcast

this week is that the format is different in a couple of respects. First of all, our podcast is normally

about 10 minutes. We try to have

that be short enough to give you some content that's helpful, but not so long that you have to

make a great big commitment in order to be able to listen to it. That's a little different this

week because our conversation with Johnny and Ken was so fruitful. We just wanted to give you

the whole thing. So it's about a 45-minute conversation

that I hope you'll take the time to listen to and be encouraged by. Another reality that makes the

format a little bit different is that the conversation this week is hosted not by me, but by

Sean Perron, who is the chief of staff of ACBC. Sean caught up with Johnny and Ken and had a wide-ranging conversation

with them about Johnny's story, their story together, about disability ministry, about the

sufficiency of scripture, and about how to help people affected by disabilities. I think this

conversation is really encouraging, really helpful, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Johnny, I'd love to hear about your story. I know many people probably know it, but there's a lot of

people that listen to the podcast that don't, so tell us a little bit about your story.

Well, I can't believe that it's been 50 years. Oh, my goodness.

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