Connections with Rich and Bobbi

08/11/2025

Diana Vuolo is the founder and executive director of an extraordinary outreach to children called SWAN 4 Kids. They work with some of our most vulnerable youngsters - bringing music into the lives of children of incarcerated parents! Diana shares her own background and how SWAN 4 Kids started.

https://www.connectionswithrichandbobbi.com/e/from-a-troubled-childhood-with-a-lot-of-anger-some-violence-to-concert-violinist-diana-vuolo-1/

08/04/2025

Pastor Orlicky shares on our podcast how he was an ironworker in construction, and at first had no desire to be a pastor, or even come close by marrying a pastor’s daughter; and how God changed his heart on both counts!

https://www.connectionswithrichandbobbi.com/e/how-the-lord-led-pastor-mike-orlicky-from-construction-of-buildings-to-construction-of-souls/

07/28/2025

Dr. Paul Nelson is our guest. He’s the associate pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Silicon Valley in Morgan Hill, CA; and also serves as the president of Grace Bible University; and a board member, and involved in numerous missionary efforts, with FirstLove Ministries. He shares about his fascinating journey through life as he switched his emphasis from the field of Biotechnology with a doctorate in chemistry, to what he felt was an undeniable call to the ministry!

https://www.connectionswithrichandbobbi.com/e/one-mans-journey-from-biotechnology-as-a-doctor-of-chemistry-to-ministry-%e2%80%93-dr-paul-nelson/

07/21/2025

Our guest on this feature is Pastor Arthur Mellon. He serves at Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Hayward, CA. Pastor Mellon talks about how his church started and the interesting paths the Lord took him on before calling him to become a pastor; but most importantly, how (when) he became saved!

https://www.connectionswithrichandbobbi.com/e/an-unusual-journey-i-was-a-minister-for-five-years-before-i-was-saved-%e2%80%93-pastor-arthur-mellon/

07/14/2025

We’re continuing our phone conversation with Evangeline Rodriguez, who lives in the New York City area. She’s been telling us about working on Wall Street, living what she thought was the good life, until the Word of God completely changed her!

https://www.connectionswithrichandbobbi.com/e/trusting-god-i-m-not-also-going-to-stop-my-relationship-with-you-lord-evangeline-rodriguez-2/

07/07/2025

We’re traveling by telephone to the New York City metropolitan area to visit with a dear sister in the Lord. She’s Evangeline Rodriguez, and she shares how she was changed into a completely different person overnight!

We’re traveling by telephone to the New York City metropolitan area to visit with a dear sister in the Lord. She’s Evangeline Rodriguez, and she shares how she was changed into a completely different person overnight!

07/04/2025

To all of you listeners and followers of First Love Ministries (and you who may have just stumbled upon us!) - a most blessed Independence Day to you!!

On this birthday of the United States of America, let's take a pause in our busy lives to be so grateful to God for all of the freedoms we have, whether it's freedom to strive to be all you want to be... or freedom to learn about, talk about, and worship the Lord openly without penalty from the law... or, the most important freedom of all: the complete and total freedom from your sins that we get through believing in, and following, Jesus Christ, who paid the price for all of our sins by dying for them on the cross!

It's this that we celebrate EVERY day on FirstLoveRadio.org-and we pray that the Lord will help us to continue to do that, to give you encouragement, strength, and the peace that passes all understanding, every day! (Philippians 4:7)

Happy Independence Day!!

06/23/2025

We’re talking with Pastor Joe Jacowitz, the president of First Love Ministries, and the pastor of Christ Bible Church in Pleasanton, CA. We’re continuing our look at what the Bible has to say about God’s love and His most precious gift to His children – “all who are called by His Name.”

https://www.connectionswithrichandbobbi.com/e/for-salvation-we-will-never-cease-to-praise-the-father-the-son-the-holy-spirit-joe-jacowitz-2/

06/09/2025

We’ve been hearing from Jonah who has been sharing his incredible story of how he came to the United States, escaping the Communist takeover of South Vietnam on a small boat that he and his brother built, with 17 others on board. Jonah tells how it was for them when they spotted land after drifting in the sea for so many nights and days. Had they finally made it to a place of refuge and freedom?

https://www.connectionswithrichandbobbi.com/e/at-the-mercy-of-the-seas-men-in-power-my-life-right-now-doesn-t-belong-to-me-anymore-jonah-3/

06/02/2025

We’ve been sharing the dramatic story of how 17 people, led by Jonah and his brother, escaped South Vietnam on a tiny homemade boat after the Communist takeover.

Last time, we left off with these weary escapees landing on an island, thinking they were free—only to discover they’d reached Cambodia instead of Thailand! Gunmen quickly seized them and threatened to shoot. Listen to Jonah explain what happened next…

We’ve been sharing the dramatic story of how 17 people, led by Jonah and his brother, escaped South Vietnam on a tiny homemade boat after the Communist takeover. Last time, we left off with these weary escapees landing on an island, thinking they were free—only to discover they’d reached Cambo...

05/26/2025

A most blessed Memorial Day weekend to you all who take this day, and weekend, in America to honor and remember all of those who showed up for our armed forces to help protect our country and way of life, and gave their own lives doing it!!

The Bible tells us in the Bible Book of John, Chapter 15, verse 13, that no one has greater love than this: that someone would lay down his life for his friends - just like Jesus laid down HIS life for us, that we may have ETERNAL life!

There's no greater sacrifice, and we're SO grateful for these wondrous acts of love! We pray that FirstLoveRadio.org provides some comfort, as we learn more and more about God's great care, and mercy, and Love!

04/20/2025

Dearest Listeners and Followers,

We want to wish you a most blessed Easter!! While the world is celebrating Spring and new life in nature, it's so GLORIOUS to be celebrating new life in Jesus Christ! Let's praise the Lord together that God sent His Son Jesus to pay the price for ALL of our sins; and that Jesus actually went to the Cross and died for us, so that WE could have NEW LIFE!

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new"!! (2 Corinthians Chapter 5, verse 17)

And we thank Him so much for the privilege of spreading that Good News of the Gospel around the world through FirstLove Radio! Thank you, also, for joining us! May you have a most BLESSED Easter in the Light of His Love! For HE IS RISEN and opened the way for new life - eternal life!! - as we follow Him!