The Cru MPD Podcast

Dave Dickens, National Director of MPD for Cru, joins Katie and Jason for further End of the Year Ask inspiration and practical tips. Cru Staff can find End of the Year Ask resources and a sample letter here . 

With our End of the Year ask right around the corner, we wanted to highlight some past episodes to encourage you in this season! _____________________________________________________________ Join Katie and Jason as they talk with Dan and Holly Allan about their End of the Year ask. Join them as they talk about their strategy and how God continues to move to provide for them each year. 

Join Michele and Katie as they chat with Bethany Broughton about Intern MPD this past summer. Bethany also shares more about the scope of advocacy and how you can play a part in helping all staff be fully funded. 

Are you planning for your End of the Year Ask? If not, now is the time! Join us as we talk with Ellen Nielsen about how she approaches her End of the Year ask. You will be encouraged and excited to start your EOYA after listening in! 

Continuing our series, Highs and Lows with an MPD Coach: Dan Lee from the Campus Ministry shares how he joined staff, his struggles with MPD, and his joys of coaching and doing MPD.

Continuing our series, Highs and Lows with an MPD Coach: Kristin Stewart from the Campus Ministry gets real about her MPD struggles and motivation.

Summers for MPD…we know this could go a lot of different ways! For several years now, Cru has had concentrated coaching/resourcing cohorts for our staff raising support in the summer–MPD Reconnect. Today two Reconnect leaders, Tammy Doci and Merideth Davis, give us the whole lowdown on this program!

In case you are wondering, let’s make it clear: MPD coaches do not have perfect MPD. To prove it we are featuring some of our favorite coaches this season to tell us more about what MPD is really like, the good and the bad. This week: Daniel Sasaki, MPD Coordinator for the Epic Movement.

Between COVID-19 and economic concerns, missionary staff might be wondering if this is a good time to raise support. So we invited Dave and Nancy Dickens to join us today for some perspective, encouragement, and practical ideas for engaging in MPD in this time of uncertainty. For more information related to this episode, check out: https://sites.cru.org/mpdresources/2020/12/22/ramping-up-for-mpd/

Fifty years ago, Mike and Kathy Uno felt like the $900 a month support goal was impossible. Now, they have had an entire career on staff literally banking on God's faithfulness. Hear their story from the perspective of Mike and their daughter Abbie, who is also on staff with Cru.

Join Michele as she talks through what it looks like to raise support for New Staff orientation.

Today's episode features the most fun interview with a most insightful and compassionate guest, Megan Berkey. Megan shares more of her heart for advocacy and some ways you can play a part and become an advocate for other staff. Link to Megan's bog post "5 Ways to Advocate": https://sites.cru.org/mpdresources/2022/04/12/5-ways-to-advocate/ Links to other advocacy episodes: - &qu...

We know we've been talking a lot about advocacy this season! So, we thought it would be helpful to have an episode dedicated to introducing this topic well. Today we will hear from Corey Park, and this content is what she shares with every NSO class to help introduce advocacy as an MPD concept. Now you can be in the know, too!

Join Jason Ruch as he goes through a passage in the Bible and shares what God is teaching us about our own character and how God's word can be applied to MPD.

We love Tammy SO much that we begged her to record TWO episodes with us this month! Catch Part 2 of our Summer MPD episodes today! Cru Staff: Here is the Cru22 MPD Resource we reference in this episode. ny7uN1tt1vvI2UQzM50O

Tammy Doci joins Katie and Michele for a Coaches Roundtable about raising support during the summer months. How can we keep the MPD ball rolling while also having time to rest and enjoy the season? It's possible! The Six Week MPD Focus  

Join Michele and Katie as they talk with Dawn Little about the all new Faith and Finance course. Dawn shares the vision of Faith and Finance course, a little look into what it is, and all things stewardship. 

Join us as we listen in on Dave talk about the 3 P's of MPD.  

MPD can be lonely, but it does not have to be. Listen in as Bethany Broughton talks about how a group of interns did MPD together for encouragement and accountability. Bethany also shares helpful tips on how you can also do MPD in community. Mentioned in this episode is our December 21 story about intern advocacy that you can listen to here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1069450/9759029-mpd-stories-i...

Let's be real, most of us don't LOVE MPD...Join Michele as she chats with Becca, a full time staff member with Cru, who has had a difficult journey to finding her love for MPD. You will be encouraged to hear from Becca, the fun and hard times of her journey, and how God grew her love not for MPD, but for the process he brought her through in MPD. 

Continuing the "I Love MPD" series is this conversation with Thang Pham. You will be blown away by the amazing ways God has provided for Thang and his wife, Jennifer, these past 19 years of staff!

In honor of the month of February, and focusing on all the things we love, Katie and Michele are walking us through a one month series called “I Love MPD” First to join them is a Production Tech Specialist  on the Conference Operations Team, Logan Fry. She exudes positivity and woo in her love for all things MPD. Mentioned in this episode: The God Ask by Steve Shadrach.  Please like and share and...

Join us as we chat everything MPDX with the people behind MPDX, Scott Parros and Keely Sleight.  MPDX Tutorials can be found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y1tiOm84KYE

The lovely and brilliant Melody Copenny is joining Katie and Michele on the podcast today to talk about her work with Cru Storylines! She also gives some G R E A T tips for telling stories in newsletters and MPD convos. Mentions and Notes: Subscribe to Cru Storylines , impactmovement.org, Lake Hart, Cru World Headquarters , CeCe Winans, Poynter Institute for Journalism and Media Studies, MailChimp...

Need a bit of a pep talk for MPD in the new year? Cue AIA MPD Coaches Brent Batiste and Mark Hammitt! They join Michele and Katie for an encouraging and visionary convo about setting goals that are full of faith and grace. Can we make progress in a busy season? Yes! Can we try some new things and not be bogged down by guilt if it doesn’t go “perfectly”? Yes, yes we can!   Resources referenced: The...