Welcome to the #BeMakeXSend podcast. My name is Matthew Perry, Lead Pastor at Arapahoe Road Baptist Church in Centennial, CO. Today, we sit and talk with Mat and Amy Kountz. Mat and Amy are currently serving in Cuenca Ecuador through Reaching and Teaching Ministries, with their children - William, Lina, Jude, and Oliver. Mat completed an MA in Missiology at Southern Seminary and an MA in Church Planting at Southeastern Seminary and is doing Doctoral Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Missions and Theology. The Kountzes intend to train and mobilize Ecuadorian pastors and missionaries to reach their own neighboring communities as well as peoples beyond the borders of Ecuador. The way they work towards this goal is church planting, partnering with church-planters and local church leaders, and training leaders in formal and informal manners including the founding of a formal Bible School in the major university city of Cuenca. We will talk about discipleship in their context and ways that local churches that engage in international short term missions can best help and serve the Christians with which they partner. Thanks for tuning in. You’ll be glad you did. 

Kountz Family Mission Page:  https://reachingandteaching.org/missionaries/kountzfamily 

Arapahoe Road Baptist Church: http://www.arbc.net

BeMakeXSend blog: http://www.bemakeXsend.com