Revival has never been the finish line.

Throughout history, moments of spiritual awakening have always pushed the Church outward - toward evangelism, justice, and the nations.

Yet today many believers feel uncertain about mission. Some are reacting to broken models from the past. Others simply feel unsure how evangelism fits in a skeptical culture.

In this episode, Ron Halp sits down with Zach Meerkreebs to reflect on what they are seeing around the world right now.

From growing prayer movements in Europe to a renewed hunger among younger believers to share their faith, this conversation explores a simple but critical truth: encounter with God must eventually lead to mission.

Revival is not meant to stop in the prayer room.

• Revival and mission have always moved together throughout church history.
• Many younger believers are rediscovering a passion for evangelism and global mission.
• Encounter with God is meant to propel the Church outward toward the lost.
• Every Christian lives with a dual identity: both the object of God’s mission and an agent of God’s mission.
• The global Church is increasingly leading global mission - from Brazil to Mongolia to South Korea.
• Unity among churches and mission organizations multiplies the reach of the Gospel.
• Short-term mission experiences often shape lifelong discipleship and calling.

00:00 - The Current Moment in Global Missions
Why enthusiasm for missions declined in recent years and why that may be changing.

04:30 - Signs of Spiritual Hunger Around the World
Encouraging stories from Europe, Australia, and beyond.

10:30 - Revival and Mission: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Why historic awakenings always produced evangelism and social transformation.

18:30 - The Missed Opportunity of Revival Without Commissioning
Lessons from recent spiritual movements and the need to mobilize believers.

24:30 - Object and Agent of God’s Mission
Understanding the dual identity of every follower of Jesus.

30:00 - The Nations Going to the Nations
How the global Church is increasingly leading global mission.

34:30 - Encouragement for Young People Sensing a Call
Why action often clarifies calling.

40:00 - Why Mission Experiences Matter
How stepping into unfamiliar places shapes lifelong discipleship.

46:00 - A Word to Parents and Grandparents

The role of releasing the next generation into God’s mission.

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Revival has never been the finish line.

Throughout history, moments of spiritual awakening have always pushed the Church outward - toward evangelism, justice, and the nations.

Yet today many believers feel uncertain about mission. Some are reacting to broken models from the past. Others simply feel unsure how evangelism fits in a skeptical culture.

In this episode, Ron Halp sits down with Zach Meerkreebs to reflect on what they are seeing around the world right now.

From growing prayer movements in Europe to a renewed hunger among younger believers to share their faith, this conversation explores a simple but critical truth: encounter with God must eventually lead to mission.

Revival is not meant to stop in the prayer room.

• Revival and mission have always moved together throughout church history.
• Many younger believers are rediscovering a passion for evangelism and global mission.
• Encounter with God is meant to propel the Church outward toward the lost.
• Every Christian lives with a dual identity: both the object of God’s mission and an agent of God’s mission.
• The global Church is increasingly leading global mission - from Brazil to Mongolia to South Korea.
• Unity among churches and mission organizations multiplies the reach of the Gospel.
• Short-term mission experiences often shape lifelong discipleship and calling.

00:00 - The Current Moment in Global Missions
Why enthusiasm for missions declined in recent years and why that may be changing.

04:30 - Signs of Spiritual Hunger Around the World
Encouraging stories from Europe, Australia, and beyond.

10:30 - Revival and Mission: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Why historic awakenings always produced evangelism and social transformation.

18:30 - The Missed Opportunity of Revival Without Commissioning
Lessons from recent spiritual movements and the need to mobilize believers.

24:30 - Object and Agent of God’s Mission
Understanding the dual identity of every follower of Jesus.

30:00 - The Nations Going to the Nations
How the global Church is increasingly leading global mission.

34:30 - Encouragement for Young People Sensing a Call
Why action often clarifies calling.

40:00 - Why Mission Experiences Matter
How stepping into unfamiliar places shapes lifelong discipleship.

46:00 - A Word to Parents and Grandparents
The role of releasing the next generation into God’s mission.

Want to learn how GO International is planting the Church where it isn’t - and what that could look like for you?

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For generations, the funding of missions has followed familiar patterns: churches send missionaries, donors give financially, and organizations coordinate the work.

But what if the future of missions requires something more diverse?

In this episode, Curtis Elliott sits down with Lexington business leader Philip Petrie to explore how the marketplace can become a meaningful part of global mission. 

Drawing from years of entrepreneurship and international engagement, Philip shares how business leaders can think about stewardship, generosity, and the responsibility that comes with resources.

Their conversation challenges assumptions about return on investment, control, and the role of business in the Great Commission.

The result is a thoughtful exploration of what it means to fund and participate in the mission of God with open hands.

• Marketplace leadership can be a genuine calling - not separate from mission but integrated with it.
• Kingdom generosity grows when leaders see resources as something entrusted to them, not owned by them.
• Relationships often reveal where God is inviting believers to give or participate.
• Sustainable mission models increasingly prioritize empowering local leaders.
• Marketplace-based mission approaches can create deeper cultural engagement.
• Early generosity forms habits that shape long-term stewardship.
• The future of missions may include smaller, more contextualized expressions of impact.

00:00 — The Question of Funding the Future of Missions
Curtis introduces the episode and the importance of kingdom investment.

01:16 — Business Calling and Christian Identity
Philip reflects on how entrepreneurship and faith have become integrated in his life.

03:22 — Marketplace Community in Lexington
The influence of relationships among Christian business leaders.

04:58 — A Hard Business Decision That Changed Everything
Closing company markets to rebuild culture and align the business with kingdom values.

06:54 — How Kingdom Culture Connects to Global Missions
Why relationships often reveal where God is calling believers to participate.

10:30 — The Problem with Measuring Kingdom ROI
Why obedience matters more than calculating spiritual returns.

13:27 — Stewardship vs Ownership
The danger of controlling resources instead of holding them open-handedly.

16:21 — Prayer, Discernment, and Giving Decisions
How Philip and his wife approach generosity together.

18:08 — Advice for Young Entrepreneurs
Why generosity should begin early, even when resources are limited.

20:26 — The Future of Missions
Marketplace engagement, local leadership, and new models of mission impact.

Want to learn how GO International is planting the Church where it isn’t - and what that could look like for you?

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Christianity is no longer centered in the West. 

The fastest growth is happening in post-colonial contexts across Africa, Asia, and Latin America - places where believers are asking different questions of Scripture and developing theology from within their own realities.

In this conversation, Jay Moon reflects on his years among the Bulsa people of Ghana and the moment he realized that a guilt-based presentation of the gospel did not address their deepest fears. That shift reshaped his theology of evangelism.

But the conversation doesn’t stop overseas. Jay argues that the emerging worldview in the West is no longer guilt, fear, or shame - but indifference. And if the Church fails to listen carefully, we will continue offering answers to questions no one is asking.

• Christianity is growing fastest in post-colonial contexts where Western influence is weakest.
• All theology is contextual theology - the question is who gets to ask the questions.
• The gospel addresses guilt, but also fear and shame.
• Many cultures operate from a fear-power or shame-honor worldview rather than guilt-justice.
• The emerging worldview in the West is indifference - a longing for belonging and purpose.
• Evangelism begins by listening to the conversation God is already having with people.
• Churches and mission agencies must cultivate missional imagination to avoid the “curse of knowledge.”

 00:00 – Christianity shifting to the Global South
05:30 – Post-colonial theology and local autonomy
12:40 – Secularization and the loss of spiritual imagination
18:15 – A story of spiritual warfare and worldview assumptions
24:20 – Ghana and the Bulsa people: When guilt didn’t resonate
33:10 – Fear, shame, and the power of Christ
41:45 – The rise of indifference in the West
49:30 – Belonging, purpose, and Zacchaeus
56:00 – Missional imagination and kingdom innovation
1:05:00 – The curse of knowledge and Blockbuster vs. Netflix

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For decades, Mongolia was shaped by isolation, communism, and spiritual suppression. Today, the doors are open, and a young generation is responding to the gospel with hunger and joy.

In this conversation, Ron Howe and Dr. Thane Urie reflect on why Mongolia matters now. They share firsthand stories of young pastors, first-generation believers, and churches being planted one relationship at a time. 

Growth is steady, but the need for discipleship is urgent.

This episode challenges Western assumptions about success in missions. It reminds us that the Church is not built through events or personalities, but through long obedience, patient teaching, and walking with local leaders who will carry the work forward.

• Missions is not starting something new, but catching up with what God has been doing for centuries
• Mongolia’s Church is young, both in age and spiritual formation
• Discipleship, not speed, determines long-term fruit
• Freedom of religion brings opportunity and new challenges
• Local leaders need presence more than programs
• One faithful convert at a time can reshape a nation

• 00:00 – Why Mongolia, Why Now
• 08:30 – Catching Up With What God Has Been Doing
• 18:45 – Life After Communism
• 30:10 – The Urgency of Discipleship
• 42:00 – Walking With Local Leaders
• 54:30 – What Faithful Growth Really Looks Like

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Women across cultures carry physical, emotional, and spiritual weight that often goes unseen. These burdens shape families and communities, yet are rarely named in discipleship models. 

When they remain hidden, growth stalls and leaders remain isolated.

In this episode, we explore how equipping women with truth helps break silence, restore confidence, and activate disciple-makers within their existing networks. 

Rather than importing programs, the focus is on facilitation, trust, and walking with women as they recognize their God-given worth.

The conversation highlights how discipleship multiplies when women are given tools that are transferable, relational, and rooted in Scripture. 

What emerges is not hype, but steady growth shaped by obedience and long-term presence.

• Women often carry unseen shame, silence, and responsibility across cultures
• Discipleship stalls when burdens remain unnamed
• Confidence grows when lies are replaced with God’s truth
• Women are naturally positioned to multiply disciples relationally
• Facilitation works better than expert-driven models
• Equipping leads to activation, not dependency
• Multiplication happens when women lead within their existing networks

• 00:00 – Why Equip Her exists
• 04:30 – The unseen weight women carry
• 09:45 – Silence, shame, and discipleship gaps
• 16:00 – Truth, lies, and activation
• 24:30 – Holistic discipleship and women’s health
• 33:00 – Training that multiplies
• 41:15 – What success really looks like

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This conversation starts with a simple question: what has short-term missions gotten right? 

The answer isn’t a strategy. It’s discipleship. Not discipleship as a program, but discipleship as formation through obedience, exposure, and surrender.

Clint Bokelman shares how his earliest mission experience challenged what he thought was possible and forced him to confront how “manageable” he had made God. 

The point isn’t the story itself. The point is what happens when our theology has no room for the book of Acts.

The episode also names the risk: good intentions can still do real harm. Partnerships with local leaders require character, trust, and careful stewardship, especially when money, resources, and “success” can distort a leader’s life and ministry.

• Short-term missions can be a powerful discipleship tool when it forms people in obedience, not performance.
• Trying to “choreograph” the trip can become a subtle way of asking God to submit to our script.
• A healthier posture is to ask where God is already moving and join Him, instead of asking Him to bless our plans.
• Field partnerships should be built on proven character and ongoing fruit, not on what outsiders want to accomplish.
• “Blessing” can backfire when it creates dependency, unrealistic expectations, or temptation that harms local leaders.
• Gen Z may be more open than we think, but the bridge from worship moments to mission lives is discipleship.
• The goal is not going somewhere. The goal is making disciples who make disciples.

• 00:00–02:25 Welcome to Edge of the Map and why this episode matters
• 02:26–05:35 What short-term missions can get right: missions as discipleship
• 05:36–09:10 A story that challenged “safe” theology and exposed a packaged view of God
• 09:11–13:55 What didn’t work: scripting outcomes and trying to control the trip
• 13:56–15:40 When “disaster” becomes invitation: letting God lead in the field
• 15:41–20:45 Partnering with local leaders: vetting, posture, and stewardship
• 20:46–22:35 The hidden harm: blessing that creates dependence or compromise
• 22:36–27:45 Gen Z and mobilization: why the bridge is discipleship, not hype
• 27:46–end Closing encouragement and the long view of mission

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Cultures are changing, global voices are rising, and the gospel is being planted in places long considered unreachable.

Yet the Commission hasn’t changed.

Edge of the Map is the podcast from GO InterNational that explores what it looks like to press into uncharted spaces, redraw the frontier, and do whatever it takes to carry the good news further.

For generations, the funding of missions has followed familiar patterns: churches send missionaries, donors give financially, and organizations coordinate the work.

But what if the future of missions requires something more diverse?

In this episode, Curtis Elliott sits down with Lexington business leader Philip Petrie to explore how the marketplace can become a meaningful part of global mission. 

Drawing from years of entrepreneurship and international engagement, Philip shares how business leaders can think about stewardship, generosity, and the responsibility that comes with resources.

Their conversation challenges assumptions about return on investment, control, and the role of business in the Great Commission.

The result is a thoughtful exploration of what it means to fund and participate in the mission of God with open hands.

• Marketplace leadership can be a genuine calling - not separate from mission but integrated with it.
• Kingdom generosity grows when leaders see resources as something entrusted to them, not owned by them.
• Relationships often reveal where God is inviting believers to give or participate.
• Sustainable mission models increasingly prioritize empowering local leaders.
• Marketplace-based mission approaches can create deeper cultural engagement.
• Early generosity forms habits that shape long-term stewardship.
• The future of missions may include smaller, more contextualized expressions of impact.

00:00 — The Question of Funding the Future of Missions
Curtis introduces the episode and the importance of kingdom investment.

01:16 — Business Calling and Christian Identity
Philip reflects on how entrepreneurship and faith have become integrated in his life.

03:22 — Marketplace Community in Lexington
The influence of relationships among Christian business leaders.

04:58 — A Hard Business Decision That Changed Everything
Closing company markets to rebuild culture and align the business with kingdom values.

06:54 — How Kingdom Culture Connects to Global Missions
Why relationships often reveal where God is calling believers to participate.

10:30 — The Problem with Measuring Kingdom ROI
Why obedience matters more than calculating spiritual returns.

13:27 — Stewardship vs Ownership
The danger of controlling resources instead of holding them open-handedly.

16:21 — Prayer, Discernment, and Giving Decisions
How Philip and his wife approach generosity together.

18:08 — Advice for Young Entrepreneurs
Why generosity should begin early, even when resources are limited.

20:26 — The Future of Missions
Marketplace engagement, local leadership, and new models of mission impact.

Want to learn how GO International is planting the Church where it isn’t - and what that could look like for you?

Visit gointernational.org to give, go, or grow the movement.

Christianity is no longer centered in the West. 

The fastest growth is happening in post-colonial contexts across Africa, Asia, and Latin America - places where believers are asking different questions of Scripture and developing theology from within their own realities.

In this conversation, Jay Moon reflects on his years among the Bulsa people of Ghana and the moment he realized that a guilt-based presentation of the gospel did not address their deepest fears. That shift reshaped his theology of evangelism.

But the conversation doesn’t stop overseas. Jay argues that the emerging worldview in the West is no longer guilt, fear, or shame - but indifference. And if the Church fails to listen carefully, we will continue offering answers to questions no one is asking.

• Christianity is growing fastest in post-colonial contexts where Western influence is weakest.
• All theology is contextual theology - the question is who gets to ask the questions.
• The gospel addresses guilt, but also fear and shame.
• Many cultures operate from a fear-power or shame-honor worldview rather than guilt-justice.
• The emerging worldview in the West is indifference - a longing for belonging and purpose.
• Evangelism begins by listening to the conversation God is already having with people.
• Churches and mission agencies must cultivate missional imagination to avoid the “curse of knowledge.”

 00:00 – Christianity shifting to the Global South
05:30 – Post-colonial theology and local autonomy
12:40 – Secularization and the loss of spiritual imagination
18:15 – A story of spiritual warfare and worldview assumptions
24:20 – Ghana and the Bulsa people: When guilt didn’t resonate
33:10 – Fear, shame, and the power of Christ
41:45 – The rise of indifference in the West
49:30 – Belonging, purpose, and Zacchaeus
56:00 – Missional imagination and kingdom innovation
1:05:00 – The curse of knowledge and Blockbuster vs. Netflix

Want to learn how GO International is planting the Church where it isn’t - and what that could look like for you?
Visit gointernational.org to give, go, or grow the movement.