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 Challenge WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: A typical day in the program 3 phase approach to recovery Transition back to society ABOUT THE GUEST:  Alex Willis was born and raised in a small town called Shell Lake, WI and served in the United States Marine Corps from 2009 to 2011. He is a full-time student at Regent University, attaining his bachelor’s degree…

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 Missions Matters Book Link WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Equipping local population and foreign missionaries Balancing Truth vs Safety 8 Steps to establishing legitimacy ABOUT THE GUEST:  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. Steve has served as a missionary in various capacities…

David Thomae, the director of Mission to the World’s Member Care Department shares on supporting our missionaries well. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Proactive ways to support missionaries Missionary needs in different contexts Building relationships of care ABOUT THE GUEST:  David and Jan Thomae work with Mission to the World’s Member Care Department, supporting and encouraging MTW’s efforts to care well for every missionary. David and Jan joined Mission to the World in 1988 and have experience ranging from rural Africa to urban Europe, including more than 10 years of leading member care for MTW’s Muslim-focused ministries. David’s appointment as director fulfills…

Pastor Matt Burden on rediscovering the early church’s vision for global missions and what 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 do missions? New Testament Missiology and Impact on the 21st Century Church Practical Evangelism Matthew Burden is an author, pastor, and scholar, currently serving a church in eastern Maine. His research focuses on the intersection of church history and missiology, with a focus on understanding the missional ideas that motivated previous generations of Christians. He is the author of…

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 than once source of funding. He outlines several ways churches around the world fund missions from his recently released book, New Funding Models for Global Mission. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: 5 reasons the Western models of funding missions don’t work in the Majority World 5 innovative models that make missionary support accessible in the Majority World How raising missions support impacts…

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 involved. He is also the Director of Research for UPG North America and host of the Let’s Talk Diaspora Podcast. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: About the two basic types of people who migrate to the USA and Canada About the resources available at UPG North America for churches and organizations Four tips for urban churches to start engaging unreached people groups…

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 and having their own children go into foster care. Plus, only 8% are likely to graduate from high school in four years. Hear how you can use CarePortal to disrupt the broken foster care cycle and support healthy loving families. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: How the foster care system feeds cycles of incarceration, homelessness and generational foster care How keeping children…

Tiffany Owens Reed unpacks how suburbs, towns and cities can impact their inhabitants. She talks about how understanding the way a city works can impact ministry, allowing churches to better serve their congregants and steward their neighborhoods. She also reveals how churches can better reflect the incarnational gospel where life happens in the daily interactions among residents. Check out her free resource City Discoveries Toolkit. Part 2 of 2 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: The historical backdrop of redlining in American cities The importance of knowing the local story and what can be changed now How pastors are uniquely positioned to advocate…

Tiffany Owens Reed unpacks how suburbs, towns and cities can impact their inhabitants. She talks about how understanding the way a city works can impact ministry, allowing churches to better serve their congregants and steward their neighborhoods. She also reveals how churches can better reflect the incarnational gospel where life happens in the daily interactions among residents. Check out her City Discoveries Toolkit. Part 1 of 2 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Four dynamics that are unique to metro areas How understanding the design of a community can empower ministry How a ministry of proximity can be impactful in the city and…

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 offers ways you or your church can meaningfully communicate the gospel on line. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: Three things Christ-followers can do and one thing not to do when sharing the gospel online Two of the biggest challenges of ministry in cities like NYC About the difference in disciplining a new believer from an online connection ABOUT THE GUEST:  Josh and…