In this episode, I speak with Steve Richardson, president of Pioneers. Pioneers mobilizes and supports over 3000 missionaries and marketplace professionals working in nearly 100 countries around the world.

Our guest today is Ryan Robertson, president of Reaching & Teaching International Ministries. Ryan has been serving as president of Reaching & Teaching since 2020. Reaching & Teaching is doing work all over the world to make disciples, plant churches, and train local leaders.

In this episode, I speak with Paul Davis, president of ABWE. ABWE has 1,000 missionaries serving in 84 countries all over the world. Paul Davis has served as the president of the missions organization since 2017.

Radius International is an intense missionary training program whose graduates are serving in hard places all over the world. In this episode, I speak with Brooks Buser, president of Radius International. Brooks has been the president of Radius since 2016. Before that, he and his family served in Papua New Guinea among the Yembiyembi people.

Amazon to the Himalayas returns with a new season focusing on different missions sending and resource organizations. When considering long-term missionary service, there are many different options one can choose to partner with, and the hope for this season is to allow those organizations to speak for themselves and allow listeners to make informed decisions.

Our first interview is with the International Mission Board, an organization that I have a very close relationship with. I am talking today with Brother John, a member of the board's leadership.

In our final episode this season, we are talking to a missionary serving in a very challenging physical and spiritual environment in Central Asia.

James grew up in the Pacific Northwest and while he confessed Christ at an early age, it was not until college that he became a believer in Jesus Christ. He moved away for medical school a few years later, where he met his wife. After getting married, he moved to the Southern United States, where his first two kids were born. Since 2019, James and his family (now 4 kids) have been living in Central Asia, telling people about Jesus.

Today we will be talking to a missionary couple, Nate & Jenni, serving in the Bush of Central Africa.

Nate grew up in Michigan and Jenni grew up in Australia. They were both saved in their early twenties, and each felt the Lord’s call to missions and were living in Africa as singles by their mid-twenties, where they met. They were married in 2007 and attended Southern Seminary from 2008-2012. In 2012 they were appointed by the IMB to return to Africa, with two children. They have now been living in Africa as a family for more than a decade, working with a largely rural Muslim people group. They have had three more kids while on the field, for a total now of five children.

Today on the podcast we are going to be talking with a couple of missionaries who are serving in South Asia. One of these missionaries, Ray, is a recent graduate from Boyce College, the college here at Southern Seminary, and he is currently serving as a Project 3000 Explorer with the International Mission Board. Project 3000 is a new initiative that the IMB has recently launched, and I am excited for us all to learn more about it.

Joining Ray today is his supervisor, Will. Will and his family have been serving in South Asia for almost 12 years. They currently co-lead the Project 3000 team in South Asia and lead the initiatives for leadership development. Will is a graduate of Southern Seminary.

For more information on Project 3000, visit imb.org/missionary-explorer/

Today we are speaking with a missionary named Jackson. Jackson has been serving on the east coast of Africa for 11 years in a Muslim context with his wife and four children. They live in a community that is heavily influenced by Islam and have had to deal with jihadist threats in the past. However, despite the challenges, Jesus is still saving people.

Today, we are talking with a missionary who serves on a remote island in Southeast Asia. Allen is originally from the Pacific Northwest. He did his education in California. He has served with IMB for twenty-five years in Southeast Asia. He has served among a majority Muslim population where Christian religious workers are not allowed. For that reason and to safeguard his work, some of the details discussed in this episode will be more vague and general.