Jungle Discipleship School Podcast

What colour are you? Yellow? Blue? White or Red? Join us for part 2 of this conversation with James as he unpacks the colour code, Isreal, and working in Burma. James is currently serving as the Chief of Staff for the Free Burma Rangers and is a dear friend of mine. Join us as we sit down in Starbucks and drink a coffee together and chat about life.  Get some JDS Swag and if you feel led to suppor...

James went from growing up witha  single-mom in a trailer park to attend the prestigeous United States Military Academy at West Point. From there he entered corporate America where he climbed the ranks as a leader in the business world. But then God called him and his family to leave it all behind and go be missionaries overseas. Join us on the podcast this week as I share an interview with James....

Sittin' in a creek in Tennessee... Chatting with Zadok and Claire who have joined JDS as the Discipleship School leaders... Guys, you can listen to Zadok's smooth moves when it comes to talking to ladies. Ladies, listen to Claire talk about being a courageous woman. This episode is full of joy and God's fingerprints. I'm so excited to have Z&C joining JDS this fall, so get to know them and wel...

The first rule of trauma club is you can't talk about trauma club... Join us for part 2 of this interview with Bailey as we dive a bit deeper into the waters of trauma, knowing God and following him. In this episode we talk about loss and how we can heal from loss and love those who we are called to be with in the middle of loss. If you haven't listened to Part 1 of the interview with Bailey, I su...

Join me for this special conversation with my friend Bailey! Not your typical JDS podcast, but a special two part series where I sit down over a glass or three of wine with my dear friend Bailey. She left behind the "American Dream" when she was twenty years old and moved (as a single woman) to the other side of the world. And not only that, but she moved to a war zone. Bailey has faced bombings,...

A doozy of an episode here... The boys share some of the news updates from the past week and then you can take part in a story of God's goodness helping us get of our jail. Listen to how God sets up meetings with old friends at just the perfect time to lend a helping hand. Thanks so much for listening and sharing and being part of what we're doing here at JDS. We love you all!  www.davidsmall.org...

We're back with Episode 12 of the JDS podcast... We've got a revamped version of the news... still a work in progress, but have a listen and let us know what you think. Also, an update on the meeting last week with the leaders for approval of JDS - and KuhNuh's story unpacked as we are here with him in Burma building him a house. It's a bit long, but theres lots here. Come along. We're thankful yo...

We're back after a short holiday! Thanks for sticking with us. This week we get a short update from Italy, including learning what Italian pizza teaches us about loving people well... Jala sends us some of the news updates, and we look forward to future JDS plans. We finally got the meeting we've been waiting for so we pray into that as well! Join us, we're thankful you're here.  www.davidsmall.or...

Thanks for being with us... this week Jala does share the news, and then we dive into a deep dive of the Lord's Prayer - a prayer that is one of my favourites to pray. So in this week's episode I share with you how I unpack and pray this famous prayer. Come have a listen.  www.davidsmall.org

We're home!... well wait... What is home? Where do we belong? Let's dive into Episode 9 of the podcast... Who has time to listen to hour long podcasts? If you do, thanks for being with us, we appreicate you... In this episode Jala doesn't share the news - but I ramble for a bit longer... we also have two special guests, KPS and SuMay who we welcome to the podcast to reflect on their past month goi...

In this episode the Burma Army drops a bomb (literally) while recording (I don't think you can hear it in the distance) and we talk about fear. Jala shares the news and we send you this episode from our mission here in Burma... recorded with my feet in a stream in Burma...  www.davidsmall.org www.buymeacoffee.com/davidsmall

In this bonus episode, you can listen to the Soldier's Song, sung by the JDS team. This is the song mentioned in Episode 7 of the podcast that was sung for Day Chit's family. I hope you enjoy this bonus content.  www.davidsmall.org

Ok brace yourselves, it's a bit of a long episode (53 mins) but it was fun to record. Now that we're slowly finding our rhythm in this podcast world, I hope you are enjoying the podcasts, but more importantly I hope there are small nuggets of wisdom in each episode. We need to dig through the noise of this podcast and the world to unearth the nuggets that the Father has for each of us individually...

Join us this week from the jungle of Burma where we are on mission... Jala shares the news and we share a bit about our first ever team retreat last week and some of the guys with us now on mission.  www.davidsmall.org

Wow, lots going on on this episode... We welcome our first ever guests onto the podcast (and please forgive us as we had some audio recording issues - my fault - during the interview... we'll get better, I promise). Jala shares the news, and we talk about how it's not ok to be successful and a jerk. Come tag along.

This is the first ever episode recorded from Burma, from our Jungle Discipleship School grounds... or at least we hope it will become our grounds... listen to the story as we share how we came to find this ground and struggling with the feelings of being behind in everything... Also JaLa will share some of the latest news from Burma. Thanks for being with us. www.davidsmall.org

This week we dive into Burma's new conscription law that has been activated, as well some thoughts on mandatory service... Jala also shares some news from the past week in Burma from an ethnic perspective, and we discuss the concept of providing for ourselves.

In this episode we share some of the latest news in Burma, including big news this past week about the Burma government junta forcing all young people to serve 2 years in the Burma army and some of the implications that might cause. We also dive into what we give our attention over to. Thanks for tunign in! www.davidsmall.org

Welcome to the first ever episode of the Jungle Discipleship School podcast. Think of this as the "origin story". Get an update on Burma news for the week of Feb 9 2024 and learn about our mission into Burma last week and some of the things we're grappling with spiritually.