Show Notes
Season 10 launching on Feb. 10th! // Celebrate what God did in 2025! // Hear Compelled's vision for 2026!
What God allowed us to do in 2025:
Record 20 new testimonies!
Release 11 original Compelled stories!
Remaster 32 testimonies from our archives!
Compelled was downloaded 909,419 times in 2025!
Launch Compelled on national radio! (170 stations, 34 states, 500,000 weekly listeners)
Launch the Compelled book! (over 20,000 copies sold!)
Launch our 501(c)3 nonprofit, Compelled Ministries!
Continue nurturing the Proclaim Podcast Network and launch a new member, the Surround Bible!
Our vision for 2026:
Relaunch Season 10 on Feb. 10th (10 new episodes)
Release Season 11 during mid-August (10 new episodes)
Cultivate and nurture the Proclaim Podcast Network
Build a podcast studio for Compelled (a 200 sq. ft. converted Home Depot shed)
We've raised 97% of our 2026 Fundraising Goal, with $2,170 remaining. If you'd like to donate towards our episodes for 2026 then visit compelledpodcast.com/donate
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More from Compelled - Christian Stories & Testimonies
From childhood, Tyrone Summerall was a habitual thief. If he wanted something and didn't have it, he would just take it. As an adult, Tyrone was eventually sentenced to prison for multiple armed robberies. But as Tyrone was groping through the darkest moments of his life, there appeared a Spark of Hope.
Mike Felch’s search for identity, approval, and a place to belong drove him to a life of burglary, violence, and computer hacking. However, through all of those experiences, God was placing people in Mike’s life that would ultimately draw him to the only true Source of identity and belonging.
Ben Browning had recently become the pastor of a small church in rural Mississippi. Things were going well... until he began dating a black woman and his quiet church rebelled.
As a little girl, Susie lost everything that mattered to her. Her home, her family, and her friends. But in her loneliness, she found One Friend who would never leave her behind.
Many people may recognize Marvin Olasky's name as a Christian author, journalist, and Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today, and former longtime editor of WORLD Magazine.