Our first guest on the show today is Robert Dickie, president of Crown Financial Ministries. He tells us about his book, The Leap: Launching Your Full Time Career in Our Part Time Economy. Long term careers are becoming a thing of the past. Gigs, “part-time, contract, or freelance work” are becoming more common. He advises on how to best prepare for the transition. Next Andy McQuitty, Senior Pastor of Irving Bible Church, will join Kerby in-studio. Pastor McQuitty will be talking about his book, Notes from the Valley: A Spiritual Travelogue through Cancer. And finally, Bill and Danielle Ford from C2Family join us in-studio to chat about their book, The Power of Family Vision.
Dickie is also an author, speaker, consultant, columnist, and sought after interview. He has been featured by USA Today, FOX News, The Washington Times, The Boston Business Journal, The Wall Street Journal Market Watch, The Federalist, and a variety of radio and television outlets.
Dickie and his wife Brandi have been married 20 years, and are parents to five children.
Work is different for this new generation than it has been in the past. Long-term careers are on the way out, and "gigs"-part-time, contract, or freelance work-are becoming more common. Whether you're in the midst of a career or just getting started, now is the time to prepare for changes headed your way.
What does it look like to avoid anchors? To create multiple income streams? To brand yourself? These tasks are critical to new generations entering the workforce.
This book is exactly what's needed to help a new generation of adults make the leap to work that lasts in this new economy.
Andy served as a youth pastor in Washington State and as an associate pastor of a Bible church in Garland, TX. Andy spent his high school years in Paris, TX where his father served as Sr. Minister of a Presbyterian church before earning a ThM from Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) and a DMin from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1997.
While at Dallas, he received the C. Sumner Wemp Award in personal evangelism as well as the John G. Mitchell Award for outstanding scholarship and effectiveness in Andy is an avid reader, golfer, tennis court rat, Harley rider, and writer, but what he enjoys most is spending time with his grandchildren. Andy, and his wife, Alice, have three daughters, two sons, and two grandchildren, Drew and Maddie Mae.
More than a warning of mortal danger, for Andy and the roughly 1,665,540 new cancer patients diagnosed in America this year, that pronouncement was an emotional and spiritual change of address to the land that David calls the "valley of the shadow of death" in the twenty-third psalm.
In 2009, God impressed upon Bill and Danielle that they needed to become intentional about changing the outcome for their family. They were in a pit of despair from their own life choices, and their children, all five of them, were quickly becoming casualties of their battle. They were not bad parents, but they realized that their lack of intentionality had left too much to chance. Through an intense process, they found freedom for themselves and redemption for their family. After leaving the corporate world, they committed their lives to helping other families live abundantly and supernaturally through applying God’s truth and real practical tools that families need so desperately. Their utmost desire is for every family to become supernatural, better than natural, as God redeems them as well.
As a result of the redemption and supernatural transformation of their family, C2 Family ministry was created to help other families, pastors and kingdom business owners change culture through the family and the marketplace. Bill and Danielle have become advocates for every form of the family to live in God’s intended purpose. They truly believe that God has a vision for every family and that they have the Godly truths, tools, and process to help them not only discover it but to implement it for the benefit of their family.
Bill and Danielle live in Weatherford, Texas with three teenage children. Two married children have blessed them with five grandchildren and they all believe in the supernatural power of the family.
In 2009, Bill and Danielle Ford found themselves in this very situation. It was then that they discovered the one element their family was lacking all along: an awareness of God’s vision and the greater purpose they were meant to achieve—the inner joy and peace that could be found only through the fruits of His abundance.