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Stirling Free Church elder Kenneth Ferguson joins us today on the podcast. Kenneth is experienced in leading not for profit organisations, especially in Grant Making. He also has experience of Social Enterprise, Management Finance, Strategic Planning, and Accounting. A former Director of Robertson Trust, a tribunal found he was unfairly dismissed him because of his Christian beliefs. The Trust has...

Rev. Dr Liam Jerrold Fraser is Minister of St Michael’s Parish Church, Linlithgow. He was the first person to be ordained to a Pioneer Ministry role in the Church of Scotland, and he previously served as Campus Minister at the University of Edinburgh. He discusses his new book "Mission in Contemporary Scotland" with David in today's episode. His other works include Atheism, Fundamentalism and the...

Dan is currently college director and tutor in culture, religion, and public theology at  Oak Hill College , London. From autumn 2021 he will become the Director of a new centre for cultural engagement and mission called Crosslands Forum. Dan is co-chair of The Southgate Fellowship and serves as a Trustee of Tyndale House, Cambridge. He is a Contributing Editor for  Themelios  and serves as an eld...

Our guest today is Dr Alistair Wilson, Mission and New Testament lecturer at Edinburgh Theological Seminary. Alistair has a PhD in New Testament studies from the University of Aberdeen. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh and the Free Church College (now Edinburgh Theological Seminary), Alistair was an Associate Pastor in Inverness before moving to Highland Theological College where...

Paul Caminiti has been a cultural innovator for the Bible for over two decades. As the Bible Publisher at Zondervan and Vice President of Bible Engagement at Biblica, he helped launch The Bible in 90 Days, The Story, and Community Bible Experience. His interviews have appeared in: Newsweek, The New Yorker, USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NBC News. Paul and several colleague...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. A one-time Marxist and fervent political activist Rev. Tom Penman shares his fascinating journey to faith and how it eventually led to him entering Christian ministry and serving the people of South Uist and Benbecula. Presented by David Meredith -- #christian​​​ #church​​​ #mission​​​ #evangelism​​​ #podc...

Karl and his wife Sun both are missionaries to Thailand.  Sent by their home churches, they work under the auspices of OMF International (originally China Inland Mission founded by Hudson Taylor), an international, interdenominational evangelical Protestant mission organisation. Karl and Sun live in downtown Bangkok where Karl teaches missions and church history at Bangkok Bible Seminary , assists...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. Mez McConnell, is one of the pastors of Niddrie Community Church, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the founder of 20schemes and has been involved in full-time pastoral ministry, both church planting and revitalisation since 1999. Mez also works closely with several Free Church of Scotland church planters as they...

Our guest this week is ‘Rob’, who works in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a language consultant with the overall goal of helping plant Kurdish churches and get the Bible completed in Northern Kurdish.  Rob has found the Kurds, though they are mainly Muslim and some Yezidi, love the Psalms, and often out of instinct pull out their mobiles to start videoing him when he reads them a Psalm in their h...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. Our guests this week are Steve and Anna Griffiths. Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, Steve trained as a doctor. He met his English wife Anna in Harare (who came on holiday to Zim and never went home!) After learning Portuguese in Coimbra, Portugal, Steve & Anna served in northern Mozambique in medical and church w...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. Our guest this week is Kenny MacKenzie an elder in Back Free Church on the Isle of Lewis. Kenny tells of his journey to faith and his work in Uganda.  God Is Good Africa: https://www.facebook.com/godisgoodafrica/ Check out our site for more info: https://generation-mission.org​​​ Facebook: https://www.face...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. Our guest this week is Dr Riaz Mohammed a senior consultant surgeon who trained and worked in Scotland after emigrating from his native Pakistan. While he was born Muslim, he became a Christian after seeing Jesus in a vision at age sixteen. His Christian faith has helped him overcome numerous obstacles. Yo...

Today's guest is Matthew Skirton, Chief Executive of Operation Mobilisation UK. Matthew is from the UK but has spent more than half of his life serving in Eastern Europe. Together with his wife, Helen, he pioneered OM’s work in Moldova in the mid-1990s, handing over field leadership in March 2015. He also served as Regional Leader for OM in Eastern Europe for seven years. Matthew took on the role...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. Our guest this week is author John James. James has recently released a book entitled "Renewal: Church Revitalisation Along the Way of the Cross" Purchase Here: https://cutt.ly/hxPNTFS Check out our site for more info: https://generation-mission.org​​​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GenerationMission18...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. Our guest this week is Word One-to-One Training Director John MacKinnon. John is based in East Kilbride, Scotland, where he served as the Lead Pastor of Calderwood Baptist Church for more than 17 years. He previously served as an Evangelist and Bible Teacher in an itinerant capacity, with an emphasis on en...

Dr Krish Kandiah is toady's guest on the Generation Podcast. David chats with Krish about the new " Hong Kong Ready " initiative he is leading that aims to support migrants from Hong Kong to settle in the UK. The UK Government has opened a new route from 31st January for people in Hong Kong with a British National Overseas (BNO) passport to come and settle in the UK. A large proportion of those ap...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. Our guest this week is author Fiona Christie. Fiona has recently released a book called "A Strange Unmaking: Ten Years In Colombia." A Strange Unmaking is a collection of blogs, poems, reflections, journal entries and short stories written by an ordinary Scottish woman during the ten years she lived in the...

Our guest this week is Operation San Andres  Executive Director David MacPherson. David was born in Peru, where his parents served as missionaries with the Free Church of Scotland. He was a pupil at Colegio San Andrés in Lima before the family returned to Scotland, where David completed a masters’ degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of Aberdeen and a Diploma in Theo...

Sarah Hoskins has been involved in ministry in South East Asia for a number of years and has recently completed a masters looking at theology and mission at All Nations Christian College.   Presented by Martin Paterson  

Joseph is the CEO of International Mission to the Jewish People, formerly Christian Witness to Isreal. Raised in a Jewish home in the United States, at the age of 14 Joseph came to faith in Jesus as Messiah. At 18, Joseph began his work in Jewish mission as a member of the Jews for Jesus music group ‘The Liberated Wailing Wall’, which gave him the opportunity to share Jesus in 49 out of the 50 US...

Each week we sit down with a guest to discuss Mission and Evangelism in Scotland and beyond. This week we welcome our good friend Levi Booth from OMF International. Levi serves in Japan with OMF International and is the author of "Ultimate Grace". https://www.10ofthose.com/uk/products/24893/ultimate-grace -- Presented by Martin Paterson  

Our podcast today is presented by Martin Paterson, the OMF Rep for Scotland.  His guest is Andrew Goodman. Andrew has been involved in cross cultural ministry for many years in South East Asia and has a passion to see people come to know the love of Jesus.  He has recently taken the lead of a new team and developing ministry in South East Asia but is currently back in the UK with his family to lea...

Robert MacNaughton is our first guest of 2021. Robert shares his fascinating story of serving God from Lewis to Casablanca.  Robert studied French at St Andrews and worked with the mission organisation OM during this time before heading to Aberdeen University for teacher training. Robert later headed out to Morocco to teach English at a private school while sharing the Gospel to the local communit...

Dr. Andrew (Andy) M. Davis has been senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina since 1998, and he is the founder of Two Journeys Ministry. From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he obtained a bachelor's degree. He continued his education at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, earning a Master's of Divinity Deciding to continue his education, he obtained a Ph. D...

Andrew Lytle works for the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Nantes, France.  A son of the manse, Andrew was born in Belfast but spent most of his youth in Larne where his father was the local minister. The work of mission was never far away from the household. Many missionaries would visit and prayer meetings were often held for those serving around the world.  Andrew went on to study French and Ge...