She Jumped Into a Ditch in Her Sunday Dress to Pray With a Stranger | Ep. 104

What do you do when God tells you to put the sole of your foot down from one end of America to the other? If you are Rick and Jane McKinney — you train for a year, lace up your shoes, and start walking. 2,770 miles. Twenty miles a day. Six days a week. Six months. From Santa Monica Pier to the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. — arriving on the Fourth of July. And the biggest transformation on that entire journey? Not in the thousands of people they met along the way. In them. In Episode 104 of Hear Where You Belong Podcast, host Dea Irby sits down with Rick and Jane McKinney — church planters, world travelers, authors, professors, and lifelong misfits who have spent their entire lives taking the road less traveled and watching God show up every single time. Together they have served in India, built a house in Mexico, ministered in village communities around the world, reached college students and high school kids, and walked across an entire country on a word from God. Their book And So We Walked tells hundreds of stories from that journey. And this episode tells some of the best ones. In this episode we talk about: 👟 How God called Rick through Joshua 1:3 — and why two middle-aged non-athletes said yes 💑 How thirty years of faithful marriage built the kind of trust that lets you say yes to something wild 🏙️ The neighborhood in Memphis everyone warned them to avoid — where they found the warmest reception of the entire journey 🌡️ The prayer that changed the way they see every human being they meet 🍗 Evelyn from Oklahoma — the stranger who pulled over on a scorching day and became a lifelong friend 🪣 Joe in the ditch — a tattooed motorcycle accident victim, a Sunday dress, a bucket of chicken, and a baptism eighteen years in the making ⛪ What it means to BE Jesus to someone — not just talk about Him 🏠 Building a house in Mexico, serving in India, and reaching the students nobody else was reaching 📖 And So We Walked — the book that holds hundreds of stories from across America 💛 Robert Frost, Romans 8:28, and the most tested advice they have ever given And the parting word that is the simplest and most lived-in truth Rick and Jane carry: You can't go wrong saying yes to God. Not sometimes. Not usually. Never. This episode is for every misfit who has never quite fit the mold. For every person who has been warned away from someone they were supposed to love. And for every one of us who has driven past a person in a ditch and kept going — when maybe we were supposed to stop. 💛 📖 Find And So We Walked and hundreds more stories at rickandjanemckinney.com 📺 Subscribe to Hear Where You Belong Podcast on YouTube 🔔 Hit the bell so you never miss an episode 🎙️ Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts