Lessons from the Field is a podcast where we ask field-experienced leaders and teachers the tough questions about cross-cultural ministry. In this first of 3 introductory episodes we interview Paul, who along with his wife Linda, worked among the Ata people in Papua New Guinea (See the Ata Story at AccessTruth.com). We ask the question:

What is the neediest area that we can contribute resources to in seeing unreached people groups reached with the Gospel?

Transcript:

Simon:              Hello and welcome to Lessons from the Field. My name is Simon and I’m here with Brad. Say hello, Brad.

Brad:                Good day, Simon.

Simon:              Good to be here with you, mate. Now, Lessons From the Field is a brand new podcast and Brad’s going to tell us what it’s all about.

Brad:                Well, this is really just birthed out of what you and I do in the offices most days at AccessTruth, who you work for, right?

Simon:              Yes.

Brad:                I work for Crossview. We share the offices together. We talk about this stuff all the time. We’re always talking about missions, talking about the spirit of the gospel, sitting around the lunch room table talking about stuff. We thought, “Well, why not just do a podcast.” Right? So here we are.

Simon:              Yeah. We’ve got all these contacts through AccessTruth and Crossview with missionaries and church planning consultants, and language consultants, people all over the world working in cross-cultural ministry, and we want to ask them some questions from their real experiences, because there’s a lot of unknowns I find amongst just regular church goers in western churches

Brad:                Yeah.

Simon:              There’s a lot of unknowns about missions and there’s a guy at my church who asks me all the time if I’m going to go anywhere dangerous or whether I think about the children, it’s unnerving. It’s like his goal is to make …

Brad:                Kids always come up, right?

Simon:              It’s like his goal is to make us not move overseas or something like that. Yeah. What are some other things we can discuss about cross-cultural ministry?

Brad:                Yeah. There’ll be heaps of different things that’ll come up, and I think what will be unique with some of the things we’ll talk about, Simon is I think we have our own slant on things. We have a …

Simon:              An Australian slant?

Brad:                An Australian slant and …

Simon:              Slant. I’d say slant.

Brad:                Slant. Yeah. I’m from Adelaide, right? We talk with a bit of a plum in our mouth, right? So slant. All right. We’ll go with slant, but I think we have our own little perspective on things, which might be a little dif