Listener Stories Encourage others by sharing your story here. My soul will sing Your praise unending Vince I was in a lull in my spiritual walk and had started attending a new church. The worship leader caught wind that I played, and he and the pastor asked me to play. Chris, the leader, told me the worship team plays a lot of songs I really wasn't familiar with and he told me a lot of them are on WBCL. I started listening to WBCL and started playing at church. Chris and I became very good friends. Through his prompting me to use my gift for God and listening to Christian radio, my whole Christian walk improved 100-fold! On a Sunday in late January three years ago, Chris met with the team as we always did before church to discuss songs, etc. He wasn't feeling well but wanted to sing anyways. We closed out the service with Matt Redman’s "10,000 Reasons" and the final verse seemed so strong from Chris. "And on that day when my strength is failing, The end draws near and my time has come, Still, my soul will sing Your praise unending, Ten thousand years and then forevermore. Forevermore." On Tuesday at around 2:30 am, his wife calls me and said Chris is really sick and she has taken him to ER. I thought "well ok he'll be fine." I went out to be with them. He was looking bad and in a lot of pain. We were having a bad snowstorm and they couldn't life-flight him to Fort Wayne so they drove him and I followed with his wife. A couple days later, Chris was gone at 52 years old! Without his prompting I would have never started my constant listening to WBCL. Driving and Alexa, WBCL is on.Even a Little Bit Dea We are a busy family with three boys under 10 years old from rural Ohio. My older boys get on the bus to school each morning and I drive my youngest, Carey, into town to either his grandparents or the sitter. Most mornings he asks to listen to a CD of his choice (Mickey Mouse, Bubble Guppies, etc) and most of the time I indulge him, then switch it to WBCL after he's dropped off. So, the other evening all three boys were out riding bikes after school. The training wheels have just come off Carey's bike. As I'm watching them ride around, I see Carey fall over. Not hurt, he gets back up and starts riding again. His next pass by me I hear him singing the chorus of Dan Bremnes's song "Up Again" over and over as he's going along. It just goes to show that even a little bit of exposure, when you don't think it even matters, gets soaked up by them and we occasionally see their faith peeking out.Oh my Soul Dallas Every day I drive 30 minutes to work from Wabash to Kokomo, Indiana. I always listen to WBCL during my drive. January of 2018 I was headed to work and was suffering from intense feelings of hopelessness. WBCL played Casting Crowns’, “Oh my Soul.” The song spoke to me and reminded me that God has not forsaken me. I was praising God and crying. I am so thankful for WBCL. Thank you God for the many ways you use the ministry of WBCL. I can count on WBCL Shawna Thank you WBCL for being there for us. You have been in our home and our vehicles consistently for the past 16 years when we brought our first child home from the hospital. Our 4 children have grown up listening to WBCL. Thank you for helping us growing spiritually through Christian music. We can always count on you being there :) God Bless you all!!!
My soul will sing Your praise unending Vince I was in a lull in my spiritual walk and had started attending a new church. The worship leader caught wind that I played, and he and the pastor asked me to play. Chris, the leader, told me the worship team plays a lot of songs I really wasn't familiar with and he told me a lot of them are on WBCL. I started listening to WBCL and started playing at church. Chris and I became very good friends. Through his prompting me to use my gift for God and listening to Christian radio, my whole Christian walk improved 100-fold! On a Sunday in late January three years ago, Chris met with the team as we always did before church to discuss songs, etc. He wasn't feeling well but wanted to sing anyways. We closed out the service with Matt Redman’s "10,000 Reasons" and the final verse seemed so strong from Chris. "And on that day when my strength is failing, The end draws near and my time has come, Still, my soul will sing Your praise unending, Ten thousand years and then forevermore. Forevermore." On Tuesday at around 2:30 am, his wife calls me and said Chris is really sick and she has taken him to ER. I thought "well ok he'll be fine." I went out to be with them. He was looking bad and in a lot of pain. We were having a bad snowstorm and they couldn't life-flight him to Fort Wayne so they drove him and I followed with his wife. A couple days later, Chris was gone at 52 years old! Without his prompting I would have never started my constant listening to WBCL. Driving and Alexa, WBCL is on.
Even a Little Bit Dea We are a busy family with three boys under 10 years old from rural Ohio. My older boys get on the bus to school each morning and I drive my youngest, Carey, into town to either his grandparents or the sitter. Most mornings he asks to listen to a CD of his choice (Mickey Mouse, Bubble Guppies, etc) and most of the time I indulge him, then switch it to WBCL after he's dropped off. So, the other evening all three boys were out riding bikes after school. The training wheels have just come off Carey's bike. As I'm watching them ride around, I see Carey fall over. Not hurt, he gets back up and starts riding again. His next pass by me I hear him singing the chorus of Dan Bremnes's song "Up Again" over and over as he's going along. It just goes to show that even a little bit of exposure, when you don't think it even matters, gets soaked up by them and we occasionally see their faith peeking out.
Oh my Soul Dallas Every day I drive 30 minutes to work from Wabash to Kokomo, Indiana. I always listen to WBCL during my drive. January of 2018 I was headed to work and was suffering from intense feelings of hopelessness. WBCL played Casting Crowns’, “Oh my Soul.” The song spoke to me and reminded me that God has not forsaken me. I was praising God and crying. I am so thankful for WBCL. Thank you God for the many ways you use the ministry of WBCL.
I can count on WBCL Shawna Thank you WBCL for being there for us. You have been in our home and our vehicles consistently for the past 16 years when we brought our first child home from the hospital. Our 4 children have grown up listening to WBCL. Thank you for helping us growing spiritually through Christian music. We can always count on you being there :) God Bless you all!!!