185: Missions Foundations: Spiritual Equipping for Fruitful Ministry – Encore Episode
Ryan Shaw of Global Mission Mobilization Initiative (GMMI) helps us understand the importance of being spiritually equipped for mission! Ryan identifies principles that workers can apply to help them walk in close step with Christ and have a vibrant spiritual life as they minister cross-culturally.
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184: Business as Mission: A Powerful Strategy to Engage the Unreached – Encore Episode
Mats Tunehag shares a glimpse into how God is using businesspeople to make a tremendous kingdom impact! Mats encourages the body of Christ to equip, invigorate, and strengthen businesspeople so they can serve God and others through business.
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183: Creative Missions Events to Mobilize Your Church – Encore Episode
Are missions conferences a thing of the past? Doug Christgau certainly doesn’t think so! Doug describes how mission events - when done well - can be a powerful tool in mobilizing your church for missions. He suggests creative ideas to help you plan ins.
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182: Healthy Partnerships with Local Churches on the Mission Field
In this episode, Jaime Saint of ITEC shares how Western churches can be a part of training and equipping indigenous churches in the non-western world. Jaime shares five principles for doing this well and why it matters for the Great Commission.
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181: Reaching the Deaf with the Gospel
In this episode, Ryan shares about his experience as a Deaf person growing up in a hearing family, and now attending and leading a church. He describes some of the challenges facing the Deaf community and how the church can help to reach Deaf people with the gospel.
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180: Advice for Cross-Cultural Workers to Navigate Transition
In this episode, Amy discusses four ways that an individual’s personality can affect how they experience and respond to times of transition. She speaks from her experience of transition on the mission field to offer wisdom and suggestions that will help you grow through seasons of change.
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179: Sending Churches and Partner Agencies: Finding a Great Match
In this episode, Ellen Livingood shares from her experience about what factors should contribute to a church's decision of which mission agency to partner with. Ellen suggests several helpful questions to ask in the decision-making process.
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178: Caring for Parents of Missionaries
In this conversation, Peggy Spiers discusses how churches can care for parents of missionaries. Peggy shares three principles, plenty of experience, and a list of practical steps for caring for the parents of mission workers.
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177: Apostolic Imagination: Rethinking Missionary Engagement in Today’s World
In today’s episode, J.D Payne explains what he means by the phrase “Apostolic Imagination” and encourages listeners to return to the Scriptures for clarity on how the church should consider the Great Commission task.
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176: Rethinking Missions Mobilization
In today’s episode, we hear from Ryan Shaw of Global Mission Mobilization Initiative. He explains what missions mobilization is, why he believes mobilization needs rethinking, and why he proposes the idea of more “mobilization from the inside.” Tune in to learn how mobilization is crucial to seeing the fulfillment of the Great Commission.
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