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Global Mission Toolbox episodes

May 22, 2024 225: Ministering from the Heart
Our conversation with Kyle Farran focuses on caring for missionaries by helping them serve from the heart. Kyle shares practical tips like using evaluation tools before sending missionaries overseas, providing ongoing coaching calls, and encouraging rest. For both missionaries and their supporters, Kyle offers insights on developing an overflow of holiness, humility and faith through prioritizing one's relationship with Christ. [et_social_share]
43 min
April 01, 2024 How Missions Committees Can Work Well Together
Sharon Hoover shares three key ideas to help missions committees work well together. Sharon's insights from her book "Mapping Church Missions: A Compass for Ministry Strategy" will empower your church's mission efforts.
Bio:
Sharon R. Hoover is the Director of Missions at Centreville Presbyterian Church. She is passionate about equipping the local church to serve well and to connect with ministry partners worldwide. She is the author of Mapping Church Missions: A Compass for Ministry Strategy (InterVarsity Press, September 2018). Sharon lives in the Washington DC metro area with her husband and occasionally-visiting young adult children.
Show Notes:
Mapping Church Missions: A Compass for Ministry Strategy
Leaders Guide: Mapping Church Missions
When Helping Hurts
Toxic Charity
Window on the World
Perspectives USA
Perspectives Canada
Episode 014: What is the Perspectives Course?
Episode 017: How to Help Without Hurting
Episode 107: How Sending Churches and Mission Agencies Can Work Well Together
Episode 118: How You and Your Church Can Pray for Missionaries
Episode 128: 5 Things Everyone Should Understand About Missionaries
Episode 141: 4 Ways Churches and Agencies Can Work Together to Prepare Missionaries for Ministry
Episode 165: 3 Essential Aspects of Missionary Preparation
Contact Sharon Hoover:
[email protected]
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Topics: Sending Church
38 min
April 01, 2024 224: How Missions Committees Can Work Well Together
Sharon Hoover shares three key ideas to help missions committees work well together. Sharon's insights from her book "Mapping Church Missions: A Compass for Ministry Strategy" will empower your church's mission efforts. [et_social_share]
38 min
February 22, 2024 Building Healthy Cross-Cultural Church Partnerships
John Yoder shares about how church leaders can help create healthy cross-cultural church partnerships. He highlights the significance of casting a compelling vision, building genuine relationships, and initiating manageable initiatives.
Bio:
John Yoder is Executive Director of Immigrant Ministry Connections. He has pastored in a multicultural international church in Beijing, China and trained pastors across Asia. He has worshipped in over 75 diverse immigrant churches in Minnesota, listened to the stories of their pastors, and coached American pastors regarding partnerships with them. He coaches small group cohorts of pastors and denominational leaders across North America to promote the multiplication of healthy cross-cultural partnerships. One of his particular passions is empowering second-generation immigrants for ministry leadership.
Show Notes:
Immigrant Ministry Connections
Episode 116: Reaching International Students: A Strategic Opportunity
Episode 145: A 3-Step Model for Churches to Reach Out to Immigrants
Episode 004: Reaching Our New Neighbours
Jump Starting Church Momentum
Cross-Cultural Friendships 101
Networking Directory
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Topics: Sending Church
31 min
February 22, 2024 223: Building Healthy Cross-Cultural Church Partnerships
John Yoder shares about how church leaders can help create healthy cross-cultural church partnerships. He highlights the significance of casting a compelling vision, building genuine relationships, and initiating manageable initiatives. [et_social_share]
31 min
January 30, 2024 Essentials to a Meaningful Partnership between Church and Agency
Ryan Martin returns to the podcast to share four essential elements of healthy and effective collaboration between a church and a missions agency. Ryan emphasizes the importance of clear communication, understanding a church's role and capacity, coordinating advocacy teams, and clarifying post-field expectations.
Bio:
Ryan Martin (Doctor of Ministry, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as Director of Missions for Lightbearers Ministries. He previously served for 13 years as a missions pastor after earning an MDiv in Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Ryan lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with his wife, Rebekah, and three children. Ryan has spoken and written on the topic of member care at the local church level, having been featured on The Missions Podcast and The Missions Pulse Podcast, as well as having written for the Biblical Recorder (Baptist State Convention of North Carolina publication), Center for Great Commission Studies at SEBTS, and serving as a regular contributor to the Upstream Collective’s blog. He is also the author of Holding the Rope: How the Local Church Can Care For Its Sent Ones.
Show Notes:
Episode 203: How Local Churches Can Care for Missionaries at Every Stage – Ryan Martin
Light Bearers Ministries
The Upstream Collective Blog
Holding the Rope: How the Local Church Can Care for Its Sent Ones
Evaluating Partner Organizations
Global Missions Toolbox
Deepen Discipleship
IMB Foundations
Episode 100: Returning Well: A Guide to Thriving After Serving Cross-Culturally
The Sending Church Defined
Encountering Missionary Life and Work
The Missionary Call: Find Your Place in God’s Plan for the World
Serving as Senders
How Can the Sending Church and Organization Work Together in Missionary Care?
Holding the Rope Resource List
Episode 121: 3 Principles for Growing a Healthy Sending Church
Contact Ryan:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @ryanallenmartin
Instagram: @ryanallenmartin
Facebook
Center for Great Commission Studies
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Topics: Sending Church
42 min
January 30, 2024 222: Essentials to a Meaningful Partnership between Church and Agency
Ryan Martin returns to the podcast to share four essential elements of healthy and effective collaboration between a church and a missions agency. Ryan emphasizes the importance of clear communication, understanding a church's role and capacity, coordinating advocacy teams, and clarifying post-field expectations. [et_social_share]
42 min
January 16, 2024 From Failed Expectations to Enduring Hope: A Journey in Missions
Peter Greer addresses the reality of disillusionment in missions work and provides insights about how mission workers and believers can sustain a lifetime of service for the Lord. Peter cautions about succumbing to cynicism, and encourages us to find enduring hope amid challenges.
Bio:
Peter Greer is president and CEO of HOPE International, a global Christ-centered organization working to alleviate physical and spiritual poverty in more than 20 countries around the world. Peter’s favorite part of his role is spending time with the remarkable entrepreneurs HOPE serves. A graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School, Peter has co-authored 15 books, including Lead with Prayer, Mission Drift, Rooting for Rivals, and The Gift of Disillusionment. He lives with his wife, Laurel, and their four children in Lancaster, PA.
Show Notes:
Peter K. Greer
Hope International
Books by Peter Greer
Lead with Prayer
Mission Drift
Rooting for Rivals
The Gift of Disillusionment
The Dip – Seth Goden
Episode 197: Building Resilience for the Missionary Task – Dick Brogden
Episode 207: Developing Resilience as Goers and Senders – Ken Guenther
Episode 202: Finding Freedom and Realism for Measuring Success in Missions – Amy Young
“Are You Disillusioned?” Test
The Book of Jeremiah
Contact Peter:
Hope International: https://www.hopeinternational.org
Peter K. Greer: https://www.peterkgreer.com
Succession: https://www.peterkgreer.com/succession
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Topics: Biblical Foundation
45 min
January 16, 2024 221: From Failed Expectations to Enduring Hope: A Journey in Missions
Peter Greer addresses the reality of disillusionment in missions work and provides insights about how mission workers and believers can sustain a lifetime of service for the Lord. Peter cautions about succumbing to cynicism, and encourages us to find enduring hope amid challenges. [et_social_share]
45 min
December 12, 2023 Building the Churches’ Awareness of Missions
In this episode, Rich Noble, founder and director of the Center for Missional Engagement, shares with us ways for the Church to build awareness of Missions. With Rich, we go back to the basic but foundational ways, that members of a church of any size can utilize to start thinking about missions.
Bio:
Richard Noble is the founder and director of the Center for Missional Engagement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he lives with his wife, Amy. Together Richard and Amy raised four children and gained two sons-in-law and two granddaughters along the way. Richard also serves as a pastor and missions mobilizer with The Christian & Missionary Alliance, a regional coordinator for the Refugee and Immigrant Network of the C&MA, and adjunct faculty at Crown College and Geneva College. As a missions mobilizer, his main focus is graciously nudging pastors to lead their congregations into missions, as well as encouraging people from all ethnic groups to engage in God’s work around the world.
Show Notes:
On Mission Together: Integrating Missions into the Local Church by Rich Noble
Ep. 022: How to Debrief a Short-Term Mission Team by Don Johnson
Ep. 043: Short Term Missions – Charity vs. Justice by Gena Thomas
Ep. 020: Doing Cross-Cultural Partnerships Well by Mary Lederleitner
Ep. 182: Healthy Partnerships with Local Churches on the Mission Field by Jaime Saint
Ep. 116: Reaching International Students: A Strategic Opportunity by Yaw Perbi
Ep 145: A 3-Step Model for Churches to Reach Out to Immigrants by Rick and Patti love
World Relief
International Students Inc
Wells of Refuge – Welcoming Devotional Bible
Allegheny Center Alliance Church
Dream with Me: Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win by John Perkins
One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love by John Perkins
The Third Option: Hope for a Racially Divided Nation by Miles McPherson
Multiethnic.church
Contact – [email protected]
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Topics: Sending Church
35 min