The Kevin White Show

My Testimony and Call into Ministry | Excerpts of Interview with Eric Nevins

Pastor Kevin had a very turbulent childhood. His parents had a rocky marriage and relationship his entire childhood. It had been so bad that he remembered being relieved when his parents finally divorced, he was simply so glad to know the fighting and all the drama that erupted during every holiday and family vacation will finally be over. But the divorced ripped his family in two and he stayed with his father who was gone all the time. In reality, he had been living alone from the age of 12 to 14. His father would drop him to school, he would ride the bus home and he had to figure out how to cook, clean and put himself to bed all by himself. Two years after the divorce, his mother remarried and her household stabilized. Pastor Kevin would later ask if he could move in with them and it was a positive thing to happen to him, to have a stepfather and a more peaceful home after all those years.Even after having a peaceful home, he still felt very lonely in high school and he truly struggled, not with any detectable depression or anxiety, but just with the sense of feeling lost without any purpose in life, no vision for the future. He ended up going to a gospel meeting when he was 17 years old because a friend of his wanted him to be there. That was the start of the beginning for Pastor Kevin. That single meeting started the change in his life and started going on a weekly basis to that church. He started to ask questions about what he had read in the Bible and the pastor answered his questions, becoming the first form of discipleship in his life. The pastor would help him understand the chapters and, by November of that year, he had began to testify to him. Pastor Kevin kept sensing God saying He’s got a plan for his life and Pastor Kevin continued to where God was guiding him, towards a youth conference after Christmas where talking to the pastor of a small church made him realize that God had been using all of these to prepare him.God had brought him to a palace of conviction and confidence. He was calling him to vocational ministry. After years of not knowing what to do, of not being sure where his life was going to take, he finally understood. He went back to the same school he had been begging his mom to let him drop out of and went into the guidance counselor’s office first thing to say “God has grabbed my life and I’ve committed my life to him.”His life started to change back then. He got the support he needed from this little old guidance counselor lady and became an A student but he never expected anything during the annual award ceremony so it came as a surprise when his name was called out with a $1500 scholarship. His name was called once more for a $3000 scholarship. That little old lady had put Pastor Kevin in for these non-academic scholarships and paid for his first year in college without telling him.Pastor Kevin’s testimony shows how God guides the way and gives to us what we need as long as we open our hands to Him. We might not know what we can receive or what we can give for we are leaving it up to God to provide us with what we will have and share to everyone.__________________________The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail Kevin

My Backstory and Global Hope India | Excerpts of Interview with Neil Matthews

Pastor Kevin was raised in a Christian family in rural North Carolina and was called into ministry when he was 17 years old. He answered God’s call and went to Bible college, took his degree and began to minister but, due to a misunderstanding in his own theology about the priorities of a personal relationship with God and traumas in his childhood, he was fired from the church he bled sweat and tears over for three years for being a workaholic. He made the leaders of the church crazy because he was a maniac out of control trying to do good things for God but at the cost of not resting and that was why he was let go. Two months later, he was on a plane to go to India.  God used that trip to teach him the priority of His presence and he had seen enough of His presence in India. After thinking about all he had experienced with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, he realized that he would just pursue the presence of God above and beyond everything else. That was the fruit he had been trying to nurture. When he realized all he had to do was pursue the presence of God, he found a level of freedom in Christ through that and he felt that he didn’t have to preach again.Global Hope India began as a by-product of Pastor Kevin/s pursuing the presence of God. He never wrote a business plan or anything like that, everything just came into place while Pastor Kevin had been pursuing the presence of God. Now, he had traveled to India 51 times, taking a thousand people with him and they had raised $6 million for their various projects. This is what Audacious Generosity is. This is the strategy of God, His mission is Jesus and His plan to accomplish that s through Audacious Generosity as seen in John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”As more and more believers live with audacious generosity, we will see the great commission fulfilled. Being generous is a struggle, we all know that, especially during these hard times. That’s where Audacious Generosity comes into our life. This is an opportunity God has given each and every one of us and it is not about giving from us. It is about God giving through us and flipping it. Once we realize that giving is what God puts in our hands and all He is asking from us to do is make our hands available for the great commission, there is no limit to what He can do through us.All we have to do is open our hands and let God guide us into fulfilling the great commission.  __________________________The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail Kevin

Henry: Freedom Brings Audacious Generosity

Henry from Raleigh, North Carolina and married without children. He is a self-employed home improvement contractor and a master builder of luxurious million-dollar homes. For this episode,  Henry shares how God captured his heart in a time of brokenness and immediately began to give him a spirit of generosity that led him to really begin to use what God has placed in his hands for the kingdom and for the mission of God.There was a time when he was having serious marital problems with his wife. During this time, a client who became a close friend of his invited him to church. He agreed only to quiet her as it’s been her fourth invitation. In his first service, their pastor preached about his issues and it hit him like a brick. He didn’t know then that he needed it badly and it was just such a welcoming feeling, a loving feeling that everyone who approached him was just so kind and open. Ever since then, he has never missed a service and he can’t get enough of God’s word.The Holy Spirit saw that he was primed for an intervention of our Heavenly Father into his life. The service opened his eyes, lifted the fog of anger surrounding him and finally gave him the clarity to let go. He went to his attorney and said to let his wife have everything. And that is what truly broke the whole spirit of division. What has happened to Henry is evidence, not only that there is God but that God’s strategy is audacious generosity because he went from “give me what is mine” to “let her have it all, I don’t want any of it, give it all to her”.He came here in North Carolina in 1999 with nothing but an air mattress, a dresser and his tools. They scrapped enough money for a down payment on a house and continued to strive financially. They had everything they could and now they didn’t know what they would do with it. He built their home without any intention of it being their forever dream home and there was a part of him that wondered if it was a waste, a home with no purpose, but everything changed after his first mission trip in India. They decided on a mission trip to India after many other suggested mission trips had to be declined due to scheduling conflict and it changed his life. While he got a culture shock when he came home, he asked God why He blessed them with so much when other people have so little and that was when it hit him that it’s the people that have so much art to reach out and help those with so little. That was when they opened their home to all those in need.They opened their home to people that were in financial difficulties, letting them stay with them for over a year so they can get back on their feet. Now, they were able to afford their own home. Henry and his wife also opened their home to church gatherings, wedding receptions, birthdays and other different occasions. He believes these people enjoy their home more than they do and they thank God because their home is not a waste. He blessed them with the stewardship of taking care of this home and, in turn, he and his wife blessed other people with the blessing they received from God.__________________________The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail Kevin

Ask God for More Part 2

We continue where we left off from last episode in the excerpt from the book about asking God for more. Asking for God’s more is always more of Himself or more for Himself and this truth may seem disappointing at first but this truth will bring you freedom. We need material things to survive like money to pay the bills and food to prevent hunger. When we are alone or scared, we crave a physical hug from a live person, not just a Bible verse. To ask God is to ask for more of God. God’s greatest gift will always be his presence. Asking God for more is asking for more of God or more for God.We are taught not to be greedy. Pastor Kevin had even been taught that we can’t be Christians and ask God for more but God wants to redeem the word ‘more’. Nobody wants us to have more than God Himself. God’s more is always more of Himself or more for Himself. Wanting and having more is not selfish or sinful for what matters is where we find our more and what we do with it. That can be selfish and sinful but God wants you to remember above all else, God wants you to have more and the best way to do this is to understand all we can about God’s more.God’s more is conditional to our intent. God’s more starts and ends with God’s intention. God’s more is always to fulfill His purpose for His glory and it will always be conditional on our willingness to ask with a purity of intent. The whole idea is to set aparat God’s more for His glory. His blessings like his presence, peace and power to us are guaranteed. He trusted us with what we have so we may be willing to give it away for His purposes and for his glory. God wishes you to share what He has given you to others. It will be reckless when you consider what you and your loved ones need but please just do it. Setting God free and living recklessly for God is where you will begin to experience more from God than you ever thought possible. The more of Him we experience, the more of Him we receive. The more we have, the more we can give to others. The bible contains multiple stories of people who gave to others, thinking it will jeopardize their survival only for God to use it to bring their revival. Live recklessly for God and you will not only survive but you will thrive on the authority of God’s word.__________________________The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail Kevin

Ask God for More Part 1

One of the verses that has always guided Pastor Kevin throughout his life is Ephesians 3:20 - 21: “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”This verse presents an enormous problem in the world today for the vast majority of people following Jesus Christ are not waking up every single day, asking God for more. This is tackled in one chapter in the book, Audacious Generosity and Pastor Kevin shares an excerpt from that chapter in this episode about how he had been fired as the pastor by the leaders of the church and how that had broken him. He later realized that it was because he was a Christian who didn’t value or pursue the presence of God. He had misunderstood his identity in Christ and the ultimate reason for his existence. He wasn’t pursuing the presence of God in his life and it was when he was a Christian for over 20 years before he understood the value of God’s presence. During all that time, he had been begging God for more but wasn’t willing to accept that God’s greatest gift will always be more of his presence. The peace and power he wanted so badly was found in His presence.A few months after he was fired, God took him to India and changed his life. In India, he saw the value of God’s presence like never before. He committed before God that he would spend the rest of his life pursuing his presence and it brought him courage and freedom that has resulted in generosity. By asking God for more daily is to request God to do or give more. Asking God is not pressuring ourselves or others, asking God for more is accepting and taking action for God is a fountain that never runs dry. God has always wanted more for you and he is ready to give you more. So don’t be afraid to ask God for more adn to open your heart in accepting what He will give you. Ask for more everyday and let God guide you.Next episode we will be continuing this chapter from Audacious Generosity so we hope that you listen to that as well. __________________________The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail Kevin

Glory’s Generosity Story

Glory's generosity story was submitted for a Generosity Award at https://generosityaward.com. You can see the submission at https://generosityaward.com/generosity_award/glory-covid-story/. It is a great example as it demonstrates generosity, miraculous proportion from God, and impact of fulfilling the great commission. One today's show we speak directly to Glory. She shares several stories of generosity with us.Glory is from Hyderabad India. She was raised from a Hindu family and was the first person in her family who took Jesus only for salvation. From the very beginning of her faith in God she experienced God as a faithful giver. Generosity has been in her DNA ever since.Glory shares how in college God led her to give away 1,000/- while she was praying for funds to go home for Christmas. God used her step of obedience to show her one of her first miracles of generosity. God required her to give away 1,000/- but then miraculous gave Glory 10,000/-.Glory also shares how God has used generosity during the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020. She started giving away what she had and God miraculously provided. This has allowed Glory to share Christ with people.These are great stories of Audacious Generosity! Where God is the Giver and giving depends on what God puts into our hands. I honor Glory for her witness for Christ.__________________________The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail KevinAG Keywords: Christian, Church, New Book, Giving, Charity, Satisfaction, Meaning, Freedom, reckless, power of God, peace of God, Change, God, Jesus, Bible, Set God free, Set yourself free, Set others freeKW Keywords: Speaker, Writer, Christian, New Book, Pastor, Leader, Business Development, Church leadership

Audacious Generosity Release Day

As of the release of this podcast, 17th of November 2020, Pastor Kevin’s new book, Audacious Generosity, has been released worldwide via Amazon. The ebook is available for 99 cents USD and is also available in Apple books, Kendall, Google Play, Barnes and Nobles, and all popular ebook stores around the world. Pastor Kevin has also recorded an audiobook version and it will be available soon in over 40 audiobook stores including Audible, Apple and Google.For today’s Audacious Generosity podcast, Pastor Kevin reads the introduction chapter of Audacious Generosity. We all have the innate desire to be more generous but we do not know how and, worse,we sometimes feel like we have nothing more to give. This is the fear of failure that we encounter and keeps us from being generous. Unfortunately, most of us have no margin in our life for generosity. We have maxed out financially and are already overbooked. It takes all that we have to hold our own lives together which, in turn, makes the great commission that Jesus gives us at Matthew 28:18-20 our last priority.You are not alone in this struggle as Pastor Kevin has been there where you are right now. We know the frustration that comes from the endless sense that we ought to give more without having a clear path of how to become more generous. We know the fear that giving now could result in the humiliation of complete financial ruin later but it doesn’t have to be that way. The way that you are looking for is through God’s strategy of all day shameless generosity.As stated in John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. God’s strategy has always been audacious generosity. Audacious generosity is a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks by being kind and plentiful and this is an attribute of God that we see throughout scripture. We sincerely want to help others to survive and thrive too but the problem is that we have learned to avoid the subject of giving. In the book, Audacious Generosity, we will uncover the blessings of God that resulted only from giving through his strategy of audacious generosity. This book will help you change any sense of pressure and regret you have for genuine confidence and satisfaction, giving you the real encouragement you need to live. By the end of this book, you will be encouraged and courageous. You will not only see that audacious generosity is the way to go but you will also know exactly how to get there. Audacious generosity is about allowing God room in your life to do something seemingly more than you could ask. It is about allowing God to use you to bring heaven on earth. It is about taking aas many people as possible to heaven with you, about how God is the giver and giving depends on what God puts into your hands. God uses audacious generosity to totally transform how you see Him, yourself and others. After reading this book and understanding audacious generosity you can have a life empowered for limitless giving. When you finish reading this book, you will start to enjoy a living relationship with God fueled by courage, characterized by freedom and overflowing with audacious generosity.Live with audacious generosity. Take the time to read the book Audacious Generosity and see how to set God yourseslf adn others free. Change won’t happen overnight but, by starting with reading this book and doing the small practices that are in this boo, you can start opening your hands up to God. __________________________The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail KevinAG Keywords: Christian, Church, New Book, Giving, Charity, Satisfaction, Meaning, Freedom, reckless, power of God, peace of God, Change, God, Jesus, Bible, Set God free, Set yourself free, Set others freeKW Keywords: Speaker, Writer, Christian, New Book, Pastor, Leader, Business Development, Church leadership

Pastor Aland’s Story - God’s Guiding Hand

Pastor Aland was born in Malaysia and came from a Christian family. He is the only one in full-time ministry but, by the grace of God, his family are all followers of Jesus and Christian. He went to Thailand to stay with his wife, closing his business in Malaysia and staying in a foreign country for love. He was called into ministry by God when the previous pastor, an American pastor named Joe Nelson, of the church he had been attending had wanted to leave the church and he asked Pastor Aland to take over for him. A mentor was supposed to help the transition along and guide Pastor Aland but the mentor never showed up. Instead of being disheartened and seeing this as a sign to give up, Pastor Aland took over the role as a pastor and had lots of challenges to overcome as this had been his first time ever preaching.Pastor Aland has been a pastor in Phuket, Thailand, a tourist island filled to the brim with diverse international tourists and one of the most popular tropical island destinations in the world. Now, Phuket is faced with a dire situation as Thailand’s borders have closed due to COVID19. What was once a busy tourist area filled with shops and great businesses is now a ghost town with hundreds of hungry families.For more information of what has happened to Phuket, Thailand, here is a news report that describes what is happening in 2020.Seeing the hungry people in Phuket, Pastor Aland asked his wife for help. They got the church to sponsor a meal and prepared 50-60 packets for two weeks. Then the church in Bangkok doubled that, turning what should have been two weeks into five weeks and 60 packets to over 200 packets a day. They simply spoke and did their part, giving what they could and God provided the miracle. From 60 packets, God’s hand can been seen on how it had multiplied to 200 packets.Pastor Arland’s plan had been small, had been about what he could give but God’s plan for him was bigger and He had given the resources and brought the miracle to make it happen. Pastor Aland took the first steps and opened himself to God’s plan, to God’s guiding hand._____The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail KevinAG Keywords: Christian, Church, New Book, Giving, Charity, Satisfaction, Meaning, Freedom, reckless, power of God, peace of God, Change, God, Jesus, Bible, Set God free, Set yourself free, Set others freeKW Keywords: Speaker, Writer, Christian, New Book, Pastor, Leader, Business Development, Church leadership

Introduction to Audacious Generosity with Drew Appelbaum

Pastor Kevin was born in Western North Carolina and grew up in a Christian family with his parents divorcing when he was 12 years old. He came to know Christ at the age of 10 and that knowledge became his saving refuge over a lot of turbulent times in his childhood. He got the call of God when he was 17, during which he has never traveled outside of North and South Carolina, not even having a passport back then but now, here he is, committing his life to full-time ministry. He has been married for 33 years and they have a son and two daughters. This year, they have been blessed with their first granddaughter. He has been to India 51 times and has traveled to around 27 different countries. For him, God has used India as a pivotal moment in his life and He has used India to change Pastor Kevin’s life. In India, he saw the value of God’s presence in a way that he had not seen in the US and it was on the flight back to the US when he had determined that he was going to spend the rest of his life pursuing God’s presence. He came back with their 11 year old son and some friends from their church and, now, he has taken a thousand people with him on short-term mission trips to India.The Audacious Generosity Podcast was created as a result of Pastor Kevin writing his new book, Audacious Generosity, out on November 17, 2020 worldwide via Amazon in both book (paperback and hardback) and audio book format. Pastor Kevin considered the writing of the book as an assignment from God. He came back from India on January 8, 2020 and went into a workshop with a communication coach from January 27 to 28, right after their granddaughter was born. With an outline of the book, he began to write and, as all international travel has been suspended due to pandemic, he was able to focus on this book with an intensity he had not had for the last 8 years, finishing it by May when he would have normally been in India during this time.He felt that God had been preparing him for 2 decades for the things he had written in the book. Audacious Generosity is about the value of generosity and how it really does open doors for ministry and the purposes of God and our lives. The context of this book may be Christian but this book is for everyone, not just for a particular religion for there is a lot of kindness that can be seen no matter what religion one may have. Anyone looking for meaning and satisfaction in life will resonate with the message of Audacious Generosity.Audacious is a willingness to take risk and generosity is an action of being kind and plentiful. When combined, it means being generous on a level of willingness to take risk. He considered writing and publishing this book as a gift from God and a high honor. The best show of this is with God’s mission. God’s mission has always been Jesus and his strategy has always been Audacious Generosity as could clearly be seen in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son”. He gave and gifted His Son to everyone, whether they accept or reject the gift. That is what audacious generosity is and who Pastor Kevin follows as a Christian.The problem with giving is that we start to feel like we’re being asked to give up our resources and we feel the pressure to give. It starts to scare us and we start to avoid giving all together. That is why, one of the primary things Pastor Kevin clarifies in the book, is that God is the giver. That takes the pressure away from us when we understand giving doesn’t depend upon what’s in our hands or what’s in our bank account but it depends upon Him. We give what He puts in our hands, not what we can produce.Audacious Generosity can be summed up in three words: “Open Your Hands” and we hope that Pastor Kevin’s book and this podcast empower all of you._____The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail KevinAG Keywords: Christian, Church, New Book, Giving, Charity, Satisfaction, Meaning, Freedom, reckless, power of God, peace of God, Change, God, Jesus, Bible, Set God free, Set yourself free, Set others freeKW Keywords: Speaker, Writer, Christian, New Book, Pastor, Leader, Business Development, Church leadership

Trailer - Audacious Generosity

The Audacious Generosity Podcast with Kevin White empowers listeners world-wide for limitless giving. Kevin showcases heart-warming stories of people from around the world as God works through them with audacious generosity to fulfill His mission. Subscribe now for your weekly dose of encouragement and discover how to experience, receive, and give more than you ever thought possible. More about Audacious Generosity.______Meet Pastor Kevin: Twenty years ago, Kevin White needed food for his family. God said, “Feed others and your family will eat too.” Today the organization Kevin founded, With Love From Jesus Ministries continues to distribute millions of dollars a year in needed resources to high need populations. Kevin’s family never missed a meal, and Kevin went from barely surviving to thriving through Audacious Generosity. For ten years, Kevin has been the Founder/Executive Director of Global Hope India a mission organization to Indian Nationals. He’s traveled to India fifty times hosting a thousand people on mission trips. Kevin and his wife, Shelly, have three adult children and one grandchild. They live in Cary, North Carolina. More about Pastor Kevin.Website: kevinwhite.usInstagram: @kevinwhiteusFacebook: @kevinwhite.usaTwitter: @kevinwhiteus LinkedIn: @kevinwhiteusEmail KevinAG Keywords: Christian, Church, New Book, Giving, Charity, Satisfaction, Meaning, Freedom, reckless, power of God, peace of God, Change, God, Jesus, Bible, Set God free, Set yourself free, Set others freeKW Keywords: Speaker, Writer, Christian, New Book, Pastor, Leader, Business Development, Church leadership