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#85. Complete Transformation in Addiction Recovery

Alex Willis is the Intake Coordinator for Brooklyn Teen Challenge. His main objective is to introduce broken people to Jesus, get them enrolled into the Brooklyn Teen Challenge program, and help them cultivate a life free from addiction. Brooklyn Teen…

#84. Establishing Legitimacy for Missionaries

Establishing Legitimacy for Missionaries Legality vs Legitimacy of Missionaries in Foreign Countries Steve Schirmer is the President of Silk Road Catalyst, a ministry family committed to ending gospel deprivation, ensuring all peoples in all places have gospel access. Legitimacy in…

#83. Supporting Our Missionaries Well is Not Just Financial

David Thomae, the Director of Mission to the World’s Member Care Department shares about caring for our missionaries well. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Proactive ways to support missionaries Varying missionary needs in urban or rural contexts How to build relationships of…

#82. Rediscovering the Early Church’s Vision for Global Missions

Pastor Matt Burden on rediscovering the early church’s vision for global missions and what today’s church can learn from that. His new book is Missionary Motivations: Challenges from the Early Church IN THIS PODCAST, How did the New Testament churches…

#81. Innovative Funding Options to Support Global Missions

Tim Welch — a veteran missionary — has researched some of the inventive ways missions is funded in the Majority World. For decades, he served with SIM in Cote d’Ivoire. But, he makes a case for missionaries relying on more…

#80. Unreached People Groups in North American Cities

Bud Houston, a Hub Leader for Global Gates, shares his passion to reach unreached people who are living in cities in Canada and the USA. He offers four action steps, a starting point for urban churches and organizations to get…

#79. Churches Can Keep NYC Kids Out of Foster Care

Mark Atkinson serves as the Area Director for Care Portal in NYC which helps churches serve vulnerable children and families in their own communities. Young people who’ve been in foster care are at high risk of being trafficked, incarcerated, homeless…

#76. Social Media as a Way to Communicate the Gospel

Josh Collins serves with Global Gates. Having completed social media training just before pandemic-related lockdowns, he was prepared to communicate the gospel online. He shares some of the big differences between social media outreach and being in person. Plus, he…