030: How to Help Without Hurting – Encore Episode
Brian Fikkert, co-author of bestselling book, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor and Yourself, discusses with us how the church should define poverty and how it can address poverty in ways that bring dignity and help people understand that they are God's image bearers.
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029: How Can I Know God’s Will for Me? – Encore Episode
Dr. Rick Reed, President of Heritage College and Seminary, talks to us about God's will, how we can discern His directing for our lives, and how we can walk along others helping them to determine where God is calling them.
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028: Social Media and Missions – A Starter Conversation
Dr. Scott Moreau joins us to discuss the impact that social media is having on the church. How is social media shaping our society? How can it be used to promote missions? What are it's pitfalls within the church and within missions? Learn more about how to harness social media for engaging in missions.
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027: How to Care for Returning Missionaries
Neal Pirolo shares with us what a great impact a church can have on the effectiveness of missionaries when they play an active role in a missionary's transition from the field to their home assignment. We learn about practical things we can do to help our missionaries re-enter well and what things the church should be doing to prepare themselves for their missionary's return.
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026: Why Church Plant?
JD Payne helps us understand what church planting is and why it should be done. He offers practical steps for how church planting is done and helps us identify who might be well suited to the work of church planting.
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025: Reaching Our Muslim Friends and Neighbours
Randy Hoffman encourages us to reach out to the Muslims we are encountering in our neighbourhoods. His advice is not only practical, but he also shares from his personal experience in engaging Muslims in his community and how he has seen the Holy Spirit at work in the Muslim world today.
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024: Myths and Truths of Risk in Missions
Anna Hampton shares with us myths that the North American church believes about risk and helps us to better understand a Biblical view of risk and what God calls us to for the sake of the Gospel.
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023: The Globalization of Missions: From Everywhere to Everywhere
Don Parsons joins us to talk about how missions has shifted from 'the West to the rest' to 'from everywhere to everywhere.' He helps us understand the benefits and the challenges of globalization in missions and gives us ideas on how churches in the West can partner with churches in the Majority World to bring the Good News to every tribe, tongue and nation.
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022: How to Debrief a Short Term Mission Team
Don Johnson speaks to us about following through with a short term mission trip team - why it's important, how and when to do it, and what we stand to lose when we neglect to invest in the debrief and follow through process. Listen to this episode to learn how to make short term trips a solid investment!
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021: How to Build a Mission Committee
Join our conversation with Doug Christgau as we discuss the role of missions committees, how churches can engage with missions and support missionaries when they are on home assignment.
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