Richard Roberts

RR: You’ve got one, you’re taking him to the doctor and you’ve got another one you’re carrying.

KN: One checking into the hospital. But I’ll tell you, I was so thankful, even though with all the bad and the doctor, the sure that it was. We went to the hospital to do all the testing, but we were so thankful for our background, that we knew that God is a God of miracles and nothing is impossible for God. (Applause)

RR: So what happened?

KN: So what happened, this story ends good. But we got up in that bed with our two-year-old and prayed and held hands, and when two or more agree upon touching one thing–it wasn’t just the two of us. We had a lot of people praying too, a lot of friends and family and our grandma and grandpa who is pastor of the church in Broken Arrow, Assembly of God Church in Broken Arrow for 40 years, James and Francine Dodd. (Yes) They got on their knees. They’re prayer warriors. They know how–

RR: Broken Arrow is just a few miles from where we are right now. It’s about 10 or 12 miles.

KN: And they flew in and were with us. And we just knew, even though we were going through all the tests and that was very scarey. You know, when it comes to your child it’s very scarey to see a little two-year-old go through that. But we just knew that God had touched him and we had faith in Him. And ten days after that–we got out of the hospital in four days, and ten days after that we went back for a checkup. Bone marrow perfect, blood count is perfect. Has been ever since. It’s been over a year and a half. And we just had a checkup last Thursday, and he would have been here today but our plane was so late last night, the little thing was just sacked out this morning. So I didn’t get him up. But he’s a pill. He’s full of energy and healthy as a horse, and we give all the glory to God. (Applause)

BN: I want to tell you something else too. When you all were going through your time, we were praying for you. And I’ve come so close, when we thought leukemia used to mean death for a child, and they say that most marriages after that dissipate too because the parents watch their child just slowly die. But thank God that He took and had mercy on us and thank God that you all got this beautiful little Jordan now.

LR: Our little miracle.

BN: And I’m so thankful and I’m so glad to see you be able to talk about it, Richard. I don’t know that I could handle that. I guess I could, grace would be sufficient.

RR: Praise the Lord. Lindsay, whenever I am in Houston, Texas I have the privilege and honor of going to Lakewood International Outreach Church, pastored by John Osteen, who is a regent of Oral Roberts University, our dear close personal friend, John and Dotie, their whole family. All their kids have been to ORU. And I’m so grateful for John and Dotie. In fact, Lindsay and I are out of town members–(Yes we are)–of Lakewood International Church. (Yes we are.) We don’t get to go very often down in Houston, but when we do we go to Lakewood International Outreach Church with John and Dotie Osteen. And there are two very special people who are members of that church and they are our guests today, Bill and Kim Nash. Bill is a gospel nightclub singer, a minister of the gospel. He and his wife are here to share their testimony and to share something that happened with their child and also to sing and to minister the gospel. And I wanted to present them to you today and ask them to come up from Houston and be a part of this television ministry. So would you join me in welcoming them. Here they are, Bill and Kim Nash. BILL AND KIM NASH SINGING “Baptism of Jesse Taylor” (Applause)

RR: Bill and Kim Nash, give them a good handclap. (Applause) Praise the Lord. Come right over. Kim, God bless you. Get those microphones. (Thank you.) How did you get started singing gospel music in nightclubs?

BN: Oh, that’s a good one, Richard.

RR: Just stick that right on the edge of your shirt there, your coat collar.

BN: My daddy is a preacher. I should have put it on the outside. This is my very first time on television, you know. That’s…my dad’s a preacher and we’ve been missionaries and preachers and everything else just like you’ve been as a kid. I knew your daddy when he first started out in the tent ministry. I was supposed to bring you a picture of your mother and your grandmother and your mother’s sister that was taken in San Benito, Texas where my daddy pastored for years.

RR: In the Rio Grande Valley.

BN: Rio Grande Valley, that’s right. (Sure) And I was raised in the church. When I was 20 I wanted to get an education. We were broke. I don’t know if any of you all ever know what it’s like to be broke. We all do. And so I had to work my way through college. And I tried a service station and that didn’t do so good. I’m not too hot with my hands. And God gave me a talent.

RR: I understand that. It’s all I could do to explain that clystron business. I don’t understand it.

And do you know, Chris, you’re talking better every day? How does that make you feel? Connie, what is the, what is the dream that God’s placed in your heart about speech therapy at the City of Faith.

Well, I think the most important aspect of ministering at the City of Faith for me as a professional has been to be in a holistic setting where I can tell people the truth and I can introduce the spiritual aspect of any kind of communication problem. And I work with people who stutter and people who have had a stroke and people who are under a lot of stress because of a communication problem, particularly in adults.

Are you seeing results, Connie? Oh, yes, yes. We’re obviously seeing results with Chris. Mostly spirit changes, but mind changes. And then we see the body change as we deal with the whole person. We see a whole change. And Chris was just, he is just an example of what God is doing at the City of Faith when we bring a spiritual dimension into what was usually a secular intellectual endeavor and we’ve been able to overlay that with the things of the Spirit. And his Scripture, he felt that that Scripture really turned him around, to be faithful. Scripture turned you around?

Yeah. You did? It just helped me, it encouraged me when she, when my speech teacher told me that Scripture, I didn’t know that was in the Bible. And it just encouraged me. It gave me encouragement to say my sound at school. But when I first came to the City of Faith, she taught me how to say my sound but I wasn’t saying it at school because I was afraid that people would laugh at me and everything. And then she told me that Scripture that she had found in the Bible and it just gave me encouragement to say my speech at school, at home, and everywhere else out of the City of Faith.

Chris, let me ask you a question. Somebody might be watching this program today who has trouble talking. Maybe it’s a little boy, maybe it’s a little girl, maybe it’s an adult, maybe it’s someone who is a mom or a dad or maybe a teenager or somebody who’s watching the program who has had some trouble speaking. Maybe they stutter or maybe they have some difficulty with R’s and they need help and they need to come to the City of Faith.