095: How Local Churches Can Encourage Young People in Missions

Experienced leader and college professor Frank Vander Meulen works on a daily basis with young people who are preparing for cross-cultural missions. In this episode Frank and Mags talk about some strategic steps that local churches can take to encourage their young people in missions.

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094: How Churches Can Build Healthy Relationships With Mission Workers – Part 2 of 2

In part 2 of this 2-part conversation, Matthew Philip shares more lessons about how churches can build healthy relationships with mission workers. He talks about developing written plans, creating room for innovation, and raising up advocacy teams.

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093: How Churches Can Build Healthy Relationships With Mission Workers – Part 1 of 2

Matthew Philip, Director of Global Outreach at Trinity Church in Lansing, Michigan, shares 3 lessons on how churches can build healthy relationships with mission workers.

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092: 3 Strategies for Engaging the Next Generation in Missions

Jolene Erlacher, founder of Leading Tomorrow, outlines 3 strategies for engaging Millennials and Generation Z for participation in global missions.

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091: Balancing Local and Global Mission Priorities

Experienced mission leader Doug Christgau offers wise advice for churches about how to create a healthy balance between local and global mission priorities.

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090: How Urbana 18 Can Help Your Local Church

Urbana 18 will be here soon! Lynda MacGibbon of InterVarsity describes how the Urbana 18 global missions conference can help inform, inspire, and equip local churches.

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089: 3 Trends in Global Missions

Marvin Newell of Missio Nexus unpacks 3 mega-trends that are impacting missions today. He suggests practical ways that churches and mission agencies can respond to these realities.

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088: How to Choose a Mission Agency

Season 4 is here! Paul Seger suggests 5 factors that churches and mission workers can consider as they choose a mission agency.

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087: What is Success in Missions? – Encore Episode

Ken Guenther helps mission workers and churches develop a God-honoring understanding of what it means for a mission worker to be successful. Ken describes his own struggle to evaluate his success as a missionary and how it led him to study scripture. Drawing from 2 Corinthians, Ken outlines three markers of success.

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086: The Strategic Value of Networks in Global Missions – Encore Episode

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.

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