OK Solberg: 00:00

Look at Robin. Here it is. Time for you, my friend. And I I could tell you so much, and I'm gonna keep my mouth shut because Robin is gonna share the story, but it's hard for me. Come on up, my friend.

OK Solberg: 00:15

It's hard for me to not tell the great story that that, this man holds. But Robin, let me give you a hug, and then it's all up to you. You got till the top of the hour.

Robin Stewart: 00:33

Good morning, church.

OK Solberg: 00:34

Good morning.

Robin Stewart: 00:38

You all for having us and trusting that the Holy Spirit is moving here. I believe that pastor Soberg knew the risk we were taking to come, but we came in faith. Pastor Soberg did what he could to ensure that this was real, that he really wanted us to come and share a testimony. So we knew that we wanted to be obedient to God. And with that, there wasn't a doubt that we had to be here.

Robin Stewart: 01:21

So it's it's a hallelujah moment for us to be here with you guys. So I was nine years old, couple weeks out from my tenth birthday. It was 06/12/1993. I was attending an arrow tournament in Wildland, Montana. The arrow tournament is a traditional and cultural game that is played by, specifically and exclusively by men of the Crow nation.

Robin Stewart: 02:08

And while I was out playing at nine years old, the main tournament was being played off to the off to the side there, and you had teenagers playing pickup games off off on the other side of a field, cars parked everywhere, and we're playing tag. I was interweaving between cars, trying not to be caught. And while I was out playing, I noticed my shoes were untied, so I went to tie them. So I propped my foot up against the back of a truck and began to tie, and the guy that was it, he comes running around the car. So I bolted off, and as I did, the guy that was chasing must chased after another kid, so I proceeded to tie my shoes again.

Robin Stewart: 03:12

And the location of where I was at was between the main tournament that was going on and a pickup game that was being played by teenagers. And I recall seeing where the arrows were landing. I couldn't say distinctively and definitively exactly where I was at in relation to those arrows, but where I was at, I felt safe. I was I was perfectly fine where I was at. I was facing where they were throwing them to, I can see where the arrows were landing, so I knelt down, started tying my shoe, and just like that, lights were out.

Robin Stewart: 03:51

I was hit. So if you can imagine at nine years old, I had a five foot spear sticking out of my head. Nine inches nine inches of it was lodged into my brain. I find out from the surgeon, Cynthia Norgran, that the spear was wedged in two places. Obviously, here in my skull, right in this location, and somewhere behind my left optic nerve.

Robin Stewart: 04:35

It pierced the left optic nerve and wedged into a bone somewhere back there. And I remember getting up, and I still remember it today. I remember getting up. I can hear the commotion, the screaming, the frantic panics of people running around me, and I got up with this thing still sticking out, and I went looking for my parents. And as I walked through the crowd and weaving around the vehicles, I found my mom.

Robin Stewart: 05:21

And I looked at my mom, and she couldn't stand in front of me. She just broke down in tears. She couldn't stand seeing her kid the way I mean, she couldn't hold herself up. She literally claps in fright, in panic, screaming for her child. And I remember my dad choking back tears.

Robin Stewart: 05:48

He came and he held me. And I remember the commotion that was going on around me. I couldn't make out exactly everyone that was there. But eventually, was led to our little car. It was a four door Suzuki.

Robin Stewart: 06:06

How was I gonna fit in that thing? To me, of course, I didn't wasn't able to different differentiate these situations at nine years old, but now looking back in hindsight, I was like, how was I gonna fit in that thing? So prior to being put into the car, I believe there was commotion that was going on about cutting it off, and someone had a saw. And I remember they were trying to saw that thing off, and I can feel the vibrations, and it hurts so bad. So I was telling my dad, tell him to stop.

Robin Stewart: 06:47

It's it hurts. So they stopped. And eventually, they rolled down the windows, and I had to probably do some awkward movement of trying to get this thing through the window, closed the door, my dad sat with me in the back seat, and I don't recall who was driving. And we proceeded to make our way to Sheridan, Wyoming. Every bump, every rumble strip, still hate those things.

Robin Stewart: 07:31

Don't you guys? I mean, I know the uses for them. Just with that thing sticking out of your brain, like, the pain was so excruciating. We eventually make it to the Montana Wyoming line, where we are met with an ambulance, sheriffs, highway patrol, Crow tribal fish and game, Crow tribal law enforcement, both Bureau of Indian Affairs, Crow tribal law enforcement, just all the vehicles you can imagine, but not it not really able to fit in any one of them. They get me off the vehicle, and I wouldn't fit into the ambulance.

Robin Stewart: 08:21

And our four door Suzuki, as good of a mileage it probably had, had no gas. So you had law enforcement, had the crow crow nation there, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, you had all these authorities there, and I believe they ended up siphoning gas out of some of the trucks that were there. And they're able to transfer that gasoline into that little car. And when they did that, then my parents continued to continue on or whoever was driving continued on. And we ended up getting to Sheridan, Wyoming.

Robin Stewart: 09:06

We get there and I believe they were preparing for a flight to Billings as they had a neurosurgeon there. And in that process, they were able to find someone with a bolt cutter, and they lobbed about four feet of it off. So now you had a stem that was sticking out, which I have here in a bag. And they got me prepared for a flight. Got everything all bandaged up, secure.

Robin Stewart: 09:47

I get on a flight. I'm headed to Billings. I get to Billings, and I guess the people involved find out that it required two surgeons. There was only one. So amidst the figuring out where I was gonna go next, they decided to send me to Denver, Colorado.

Robin Stewart: 10:15

And this is where it gets special, especially for us. So I didn't get flown I didn't get flown into the children's hospital, being a child at nine years old, that anyone would expect. But I got flown to the Swedish Medical Hospital, where I was given to the care of Cynthia Norgran. The procedure, like I said, required two surgeons, And the arrow had weaved, essentially missing a lot of major stuff that's in there that she can explain. I can't major arteries.

Robin Stewart: 11:01

And one of them was the point of the arrow did pierce the left left optic nerve, but the tip of the arrow had pinned itself against an artery. So the question they had was, was it a finger in the dike? And if they pull this thing out, blood was going come gushing out. And medically being explained to me, If that was the case, I'd be dead probably in a minute. So with a team of medical staff, I mean that's how I see it, right, From the shows.

Robin Stewart: 11:46

Team of team of medical staff, I hear blood transfusion kits were ready to go. There are packets of blood, bags of blood ready to go. Yeah. Surgeons on both sides, and they proceeded to do surgery. And as they went in, they find out that these arteries were bruised, but they weren't cut, they weren't punctured.

Robin Stewart: 12:20

And I can see Cynthia Norgran, who we know as Doc, pulling on his arrow to get it out, and it was wedged in two places. So they end up cutting around the diameter of the arrow right here at my skull. So they're cutting my skull out. Right? Or the arrow out of my skull.

Robin Stewart: 12:49

Skull's still attached. Now that they have it free from the skull, it's still wedged at the tip. And Doc is pulling on this arrow. And she said I had to pull it in the same angle that it went in. I mean, would have found a way to wedge that thing, know, like when you're working on your truck or something, you can't get you know?

Robin Stewart: 13:17

So she's trying to pull that thing out and she says she has to prop her leg up on the bed or whatever I was laying on. She props her leg up on that, and she yanks that thing, and she takes it out. And I couldn't help but to hear that story and think of sword in a stone. Everyone tried getting this thing out, and the only one that could was Doc. The reason that's so special to me is culturally, if I reference that this game is played exclusively by the men of the Crow Nation.

Robin Stewart: 13:57

That also means that women are not allowed to touch these arrows, and it was a woman that took it out. I that's special to me. So she ends up taking this arrow out, and I'm now in recovery. And when I am, we come to find out that I come down with a high fever, and no one knows why. So I'm not out of the woods yet.

Robin Stewart: 14:44

Everyone's praying near and far. And the story goes that just as fast the fever came, it left. A miracle. Part of that process, I find out that a spinal tap was done. Fluid was taken.

Robin Stewart: 15:07

Fluid was checked in a desperate attempt to find out why I had a fever in the first place. And they still don't know why, but the fever left. I guess the next thing in everyone's mind was my cognitive skills, my mental capacity, what was the end result? What was going to happen? And I believe that it was mentioned that possibly I would have to learn to walk again, I would have to learn to move around again.

Robin Stewart: 15:52

That my cognitive ability, everything was going to be like a child again. I would have to work my way back up again. It wasn't going be the same. And as I woke up in the hospital in recovery, tests began. Move your toes.

Robin Stewart: 16:14

Move your hands. Move your leg. Move your arm. Do you understand what we're saying to you? And I was responding to everything.

Robin Stewart: 16:29

So all the tests that I had to do, which were terribly boring. What color is this? What color is that? Like, come on. Get out of here.

Robin Stewart: 16:41

Is that a circle? Is that a square? Is that a, you know, whatever? And it was again and again. Right?

Robin Stewart: 16:49

Pretty sure it was blue yesterday. It's still blue today. Like, come on. But it was pretty boring. I had to go through all the tests and everything and it was another miracle.

Robin Stewart: 17:06

I was still who I was. And while in recovery, I had an uncle and a brother that was there. I remember telling them, they said, do you want to get out of this place? I'm like, yeah. They said, well, you're going have to do exactly what we tell you to do.

Robin Stewart: 17:31

You're to have to sit, you're going to have to stand, and you're going to have to walk. So as excruciating as it was, I sat, laid back down, sat up again, laid back down, doing reps. Eventually standing, back to sitting, standing, back to sitting. Then I was taking my first steps. Now walk around the floor I was at, then I go down to lower floors, do the same.

Robin Stewart: 18:10

Talking to doc, I was out in five days. And I believe it's a miracle to me. The recovery was so fast. Right? So I'm 42 years old.

Robin Stewart: 18:35

I needed pastor Sober to do the math for me. It's been thirty years plus. Right? I'm back before my tenth birthday, which was June 27 at that time, 1993. I'm walking.

Robin Stewart: 18:54

I'm talking. Big celebration. Praise God. Thirty years later, however, not in my teens, not my twenties, nor my thirties have I ever asked this question. Now that I'm 42, I wondered some things.

Robin Stewart: 19:23

I wondered if Doc was a believer in Christ. Did her life change? Did any of the hospital staff life change? What else did God do besides the miracles that he was able to show in my life, my parents, my community, those I read through Readers Digest Family Circle. Doc says, 1,600 newspapers shared my story.

Robin Stewart: 19:58

I just learned from my mother on a phone, I think the night before, that I have a resident in Croatian Sea in the Indian Health Service, and she's from Africa. Her mom asked about me. So when I had when I got a chance to meet Doc, I asked her, I said, are you a believer in believe are you a believer in Christ? And she said, I am. I've turned to Christ when I was 20.

Robin Stewart: 20:35

And I was floored. I was like, man, of all the places I could have gone, God made sure that the very surgeon who operated on me was a believer in Christ. And as I got to sit next to her in dinner, having dinner with her, She tells stories of how she regularly worked on sisters from the Lady of Loretto. Typically, I guess, they'd have back problems, carpal tunnel. These sisters would pray for her hands on a yearly, weekly, monthly basis.

Robin Stewart: 21:25

And she's looking at me and she goes, you know what Robin? You should have went to the children's hospital. That's where you should have been. I was like, yeah, probably, but God had other plans. God placed me in your hands.

Robin Stewart: 21:40

And I'm looking at those hands, said, hands are blessed. So to me, I think it's one of the reasons why I was brought here, was to have that revealed to me that God took care of the entire situation right from the beginning. And you probably all are wondering what happened after. I didn't grow up in a church. I didn't grow up reading the word of God or having the word of God being read around me.

Robin Stewart: 22:22

Did I believe I did? I believe there was a creator and obviously had a plan for me in my life. I just wasn't walking the path that I should be on. So my life had always been up and down, up and down, a roller coaster. Like a lot of teens and maybe a lot of us, you know, I turned to alcohol, trying to fill a void.

Robin Stewart: 23:04

I turned to drugs. I've been on methamphetamine. Been on everything else. I've been previously married, I've been through a divorce. I've seen the spiritual realm in my life, in my thirties, probably by open doors that I created through the use of alcohol, methamphetamine, and other drugs.

Robin Stewart: 23:44

But I've also seen God move in dust in those times of desperation. I prayed. I believed. I've seen him move. Yet again, my walk was never rarely straight on.

Robin Stewart: 24:03

I wasn't attending a church. I wasn't reading the Bible. I'm now in my late thirties. I meet I meet my current wife now. And we've been through a roller coaster through our marriage for eight years.

Robin Stewart: 24:26

We've considered divorce a thousand times. All the baggage I've been carrying all this time was being brought right into this relationship. Children were growing up in the same chaos that I'd seen before. And probably some of the things, same things that were going on in her life carried over. We made the choice to attend church now that we were living in Sheridan, Wyoming.

Robin Stewart: 25:05

The church we attend is Cornerstone Church in Sheridan. We've been there for eight years. And while we were there, I oftentimes didn't want to go. My heart wasn't there. And when the pastors and elders of the church reached out to us as a couple and had invited us to these smaller groups to have bible study.

Robin Stewart: 25:51

Those were in the evenings. I rarely wanted to go to those. And I could see where now in hindsight, my spirit man and my flesh were fighting. Prior to coming here, December 25, we had one of those flights that we normally have. Can almost put it on a schedule.

Robin Stewart: 26:32

Right? And write it on calendar. We're definitely in a fight. We're gonna we're gonna hit that date, swear on ahead. I believe my wife was telling me that sometimes it seemed like weekly we would fight constantly, walking on eggshells.

Robin Stewart: 26:51

Some of you guys can imagine what that's like, And hopefully you don't. Except this time, it felt like it was gonna be the last. I prayed so many prayers in the last eight years holding on to this marriage. And I remember June '25, I got to hear a testimony of a brother from Lodge Grass, Montana. And you had to share his testimony with me.

Robin Stewart: 27:36

Of all places while we're on a 100 mile race in the Bighorn Mountains, right outside of Dayton, Wyoming. I'm following this guy, listening to his testimony, crying, running. And while we're running, I share my testimony with him. But he asked me, he said, do you really wanna know Christ? Do you really wanna have that relationship?

Robin Stewart: 28:09

And I'm crying, and I'm like, I do. While he's running, while I'm running, he says, you have to fast. You have to fast. So, I knew at that moment, 30 miles or something into this 100 mile race, I knew why I was there. It didn't matter if I finished this race or not.

Robin Stewart: 28:43

I had received the message that was intended for me right there. I could have stopped. I would have been at peace. I continued on, ran through a night section. I ended up stopping at 64 miles of this 100 mile race, still ecstatic about the message I received.

Robin Stewart: 29:07

Anxious to get to town, anxious to tell my wife. It's as if I finished it. Didn't matter. I get to town, I tell my wife. I said, I'm done.

Robin Stewart: 29:22

I don't need to run anymore. Mind you guys, I started running because I put drinking away. I put drugs away. I used running to occupy that area. And at this moment, I really didn't need running anymore.

Robin Stewart: 29:44

I knew the I knew the direction I needed to be going. So jumping back to June, December '25, just about a month ago, we get into this fight. It was in desperation that I came to God, and I said, I've you know what's been on my heart. There's strongholds in bondages that have been captivated by, lies that I've entertained all these years. And I need them to be removed because I can't.

Robin Stewart: 30:20

I've prayed. I've prayed. I've been asking whatever ceasing without praying means. I've tried my best to do that. So I called my wife up.

Robin Stewart: 30:37

It's a Thursday. And I said, just so you know, I'm not going be eating when I get home. Of course, says, may I ask why? And I said, I'm fighting for our marriage. I'm gonna be on a fast.

Robin Stewart: 30:56

I'm gonna go for three days. You're the only one that knows. I'll break my fast Saturday. And she goes, okay. And I can tell she's ecstatic about it.

Robin Stewart: 31:12

I can just see her. Right? Praising God. And I go through the fast, and while in a fast, I can tell you the things I experienced. I can cannot explain it.

Robin Stewart: 31:28

I can tell you definitively that I've probably read the Bible more times than I ever had in eight years. I broke my fast on Saturday, and I received pastor Soberg's email on Sunday. So I asked my wife, I said, why now? Why thirty years? I mean, could have been asked when I was in my teens, when I was in my twenties, my thirties.

Robin Stewart: 32:00

And my wife said, because your heart is right. Can you guys imagine the disaster of how rebellious I was back in my teens and twenties and thirties? The posture of my heart was awfully wrong. I mean, prior to coming here, I fasted two more times, each in three days in duration. One of those fasts were dedicated for you guys.

Robin Stewart: 32:46

The communities here. Not just this town, but for God to move. Not just for our family, but for him to move here. And since being here, I've heard stories. I've heard you believers talking about your struggles, talking about God moving in your life, the miracles that are taking place here.

Robin Stewart: 33:17

And I appreciate pastor Soberg bringing up a miracle that took place 300 miles from here. And for me to be able to share that with you guys. What's interesting to him and those that I was talking to at dinner when we first arrived is they had no prior knowledge of the posture of my heart. They had no prior knowledge of where I was at in my faith or if I even had any. And as I began to share with them who I was, I believe we all began to understand more fully of how God was orchestrating this entire meeting.

Robin Stewart: 34:13

From me being here, just from a simple act of faith of reaching out to God in desperation, Going into a fast, struggling to hold on to a marriage. It's not that God just repaired my marriage. He allowed me to share that with a community, community of believers out here in Malta, utilizing the radio program to reach out to hundreds and thousands of others that are listening. You know, God's will to whose hearts he's touching right now. In Revelations chapter three verse 20, This is what's been revealed to me at this moment in my walk with Christ.

Robin Stewart: 35:18

He says, here I am, and this is God. Here I am. I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. Here's what I did.

Robin Stewart: 35:46

In Matthew chapter seven verse seven, is ask, seek, and knock. Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives, and the one who seek finds, and the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Robin Stewart: 36:24

A pastor explained to me that this rollercoaster ride in my life, The stories that I share is the stories of God knocking as he promised in Revelation. Chapter three verse 20. All I did was respond. It's not that we knocked first. He knocked first.

Robin Stewart: 37:07

And I heard him. Praise God I heard him.

OK Solberg: 37:18

Keep going, Ronald. I just want you to know that Doc is down at the radio station right now. Isn't that neat? Here's the patient. Doc is behind the controls.

OK Solberg: 37:29

She's gonna shut you off. You're in her hands again, so Jess.

Robin Stewart: 37:41

Well, I timed it just right because I put it right back into her hands. That's my story.

OK Solberg: 38:00

Stay right by me. Thank you. Thank you, Robin. Now you have to realize what all went on here, and God does things like this all the time when we're obedient to his word. I just know that the doctor, the brain surgeon, is in Malta, Montana.

OK Solberg: 38:21

Really? Yes. Right? And then I hear this story. Well, I just want them to meet together and look at all the things that God does.

OK Solberg: 38:31

And Robin, just just thank you for coming up. Thank you for being my friend, and we too are praying for our revival. We are. Yes. And, guys, make sure that you come for the gospel jamboree because Robin's gonna share his testimony there too.

OK Solberg: 38:50

So just praise to God, Robin. Yes. Oh, what do you got there? Doc made a case and gave him the spear that had been lodged in his head. Can you believe that?

OK Solberg: 39:04

Now on that subject, when I told the story after I learned it less than a month ago, I keep telling the story and somebody says, oh, doc should give that to Robin. Oh, I I said, woah, woah, woah, that's hers. I'm not getting involved next time I talk to Doc. She already had a carpenter building a case to present it to Robin. Yes.

OK Solberg: 39:29

Thank you very much. And doc, we love you. I'm not gonna embarrass you, but we do love you. Alright. We are gonna sing a chorus, more precious than silver.