Global Missions Podcast

Molly Wall of Operation World suggests some practical ways that Christ-followers can pray for the nations. She offers creative ideas for individuals, families, and churches to integrate prayer for the world into established routines. [et_social_share]

Paul Seger shares some practical ideas about how local churches can identify and prepare new mission workers. Paul talks about how churches can build "farm teams", and help potential mission workers develop the knowledge, character, and ministry skills needed in cross-cultural missions. [et_social_share]

Eldon Porter describes how globalization and the growth of the Majority World church has brought about a new paradigm in global missions. Eldon helps us understand how God is raising up global networks, and shares a great online resource to help churches connect with these networks. [et_social_share]

Rick Hiemstra highlights the results of a recent study about how evangelicals engage with "mission" or "missions". Analyzing what pastors and church-goers had to say, Rick summarizes some of the trends revealed in the study, and suggests some ways that Christ-followers can respond. [et_social_share]

Jayson Georges shares with us from his experience of working in shame honor cultures and gives us insights and practical advice for how we can engage with our friends and neighbors from shame honor cultures and effectively share our faith and disciple them. [et_social_share]

Paul Watson joins us to talk about his book Contagious Disciple Making and helps us understand how our approaches to evangelism can be raising barriers and how we can adapt to become more effective in making disciples as we seek to engage in the Great Commission. [et_social_share]

Steve Beirn shares with us how and why churches should be active participants in identifying and preparing potential missionaries in our congregations and gives us tips on how we can better support both our missionaries and their work overseas. [et_social_share]

Shayna Winn talks to us about how she used social media to keep her church up-to-date on their summer short term missions teams and engage the congregation in prayer for the short term teams. [et_social_share]

Paul Borthwick helps us understand how the world is changing, and outlines some principles for how the North American church can partner with the Majority World church and continue to effectively participate in global mission. [et_social_share]

Mario Villanueva encourages pastors to consider participating in short term missions, discusses some of the benefits of short term missions, and suggests some practical ways to get started. [et_social_share]

Tiffany Godbey discusses the barrier of family members who are struggling with international worker's decisions to pursue the call of missions and gives advice for both missionaries and their families for how to move forward as well as ideas for how the church and mission agencies can help families through this dynamic. [et_social_share]

David Joannes, founder of Within Reach Global, helps put flesh and faces on the many statistics we hear about unreached people groups - he helps us to see them not just as a statistic but as individuals made in the image of God. [et_social_share]

Duane Frasier from the Joshua Project helps us understand who we mean when we talk about unreached people groups, where they're located and how we can use the 'Unreached of the Day' to lift them up in prayer each day. [et_social_share]

Warren Janzen of SEND International talks to us about the many facets of mission work using his 15 years in Japan as a case study. Learn about the need for language study, barriers to the Gospel, the need in Japan and how God can use tragedies, such as the 2011 earthquake to open doors. [et_social_share]

Mark Buchanan discusses Sabbath as a day and an attitude and why it is more important than we often make it. He delves into how Sabbath is key in missions and how we can give our missionaries permission to rest. [et_social_share]

Emma Brewster gives us advice as to how Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials can learn to appreciate what each group brings to the table and recommends resources for learning more about millennials in missions. This is Part 2 of a two-part episode. [et_social_share]

Emma Brewster describes the key characteristics of millennials and how these characteristics impact their engagement in missions and with the church and missions organizations. This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. [et_social_share]

Heather Ricks helps us understand how to move from a money-centered approach to support-raising to a worship-centered approach and explains why it's important that we make this shift in our thinking. [et_social_share]

Becky Matchullis walks us through the changes and transitions that missionary families face and gives us practical examples of how a church can support the family through these transitions. [et_social_share]

David Garrison shares with us the exciting work that God is doing in the Muslim world, drawing many to Himself in unprecedented numbers, and he gives us some practical first steps in how we can participate in this wonderful movement. [et_social_share]

Gena Thomas shares with us what it looks like to do short term missions from a standpoint of charity or a standpoint of justice. She shares the pitfalls of charity and the benefits of justice while giving us practical examples of how we can improve how we do short term missions. [et_social_share]

Jayson Georges shares with us from his experience of working in shame honor cultures and gives us insights and practical advice for how we can engage with our friends and neighbors from shame honor cultures and effectively share our faith and disciple them. [et_social_share]

Matthew Soerens describes for us the great opportunity the church has to participate in being a solution to the global refugee crisis and gives us practical steps how we, the church, can reach out to the refugees arriving in our neighborhoods, welcoming them into a new culture, and potentially, a new faith. [et_social_share]

Steve Beirn shares with us how and why churches should be active participants in identifying and preparing potential missionaries in our congregations and gives us tips on how we can better support both our missionaries and their work overseas. [et_social_share]

Shayna Winn talks to us about how she used social media to keep her church up-to-date on their summer short term missions teams and engage the congregation in prayer for the short term teams. [et_social_share]