Great Commission Conversations

Marriage is powerful illustration of the gospel, as well as a potential problem area for stable, fruitful ministry - perhaps especially cross-cultural mission work. Our guest today, Bro. Stephen (last name withheld for security reasons) serves in a creative-access country in Southern Asia. Bro. Stephen knows the marital pressures of the foreign-field and addresses this subject of marriage graciously and straightforwardly, based upon Biblical principles. This is part one of a two part interview with Bro. Stephen. 

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Getting the gospel out demands seed-sowing and that includes looking for needy fields (which are never difficult to find) and effective methods for getting the seed into the soil of men’s hearts. Our guest today is Missionary James Hoffmeister and he’s spent more than twenty years sowing the seed of the gospel in the island nation of Trinidad and beyond. Among the many outreaches that Bro. Hoffmeister has employed in the evangelistic crusade. Bro. Hoffmeister has a lot of experience with this method of evangelism and has even been able to employ it in the work of church-planting. In this interview, he walks us step by step on how to conduct an evangelistic crusade from preparation to execution to follow-up.

If you would like to contact Bro. Hoffmeister directly, you can email him at [email protected]. 

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In part two of this interview with Missionary Stephen Holt, we take a look at some of the living conditions and cultural and religious features of Sierra Leone and how Bro. Holt has developed a strategy for evangelism and evangelism training suitable to that field. 

If you would like to learn more about the Holt's ministry, including their regular field reports and Mrs. Laura's blog, "Fragments of Gold", you can visit their website at gatherthefragments.com.

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Why do we do what we do when it comes to the work of missions? The question of motive is an important one no matter what the endeavor may be. In this interview, Missionary to Sierra Leone, Stephen Holt walks us through an experience that he had on his survey trip in 2005 that readjusted his motives for foreign service and we go on to discuss some of the ways in which that perspective has carried he and his wife through the various challenges that they have faced serving the Lord in West Africa. 

If you would like to learn more about the Holt's ministry, including their regular field reports and Mrs. Laura's blog, "Fragments of Gold", you can visit their website at gatherthefragments.com.

Your feedback is welcome. You can email Lee at [email protected]

Part two of this two-part interview with Missionary Mitch Muller looks at some of the church-planting strategies that the Muller's have employed over the years and the way those strategies have been adapted dependent upon the location where they're working. 

The second half of this interview addresses the difficult decision the Muller's made back in 2014 to come off the foreign field to care for for their aging parents; it provides a rare look at one of the forgotten challenges of foreign missions service. 

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In this interview with Missionary Mitchel Muller, we hear the powerful and unusual story of how the Lord saved Mitch and his wife, got them into a Bible-believing Baptist Church, and eventually to the field of Mexico. In the course of the conversation we are reminded of the value of short-term mission trips and the importance of cultural adaption, including a great story illustrating the importance of language-learning on the foreign field. 

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This second part of our interview with missionary to Uganda, Keith Stensaas  picks up where we left off on the subject of the indigenous principle and foreign funds. We also discuss the use of radio and other technologies in gospel outreach in Uganda, and Bro. Keith tells us about their efforts in the training of national preachers in the city of Masaka and beyond. 

If you would like to learn more about the Keith Stensaas family you can visit their website at kstensaasfamily.com or check out his podcast, Always Abounding.

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The story of the Keith Stensaas Family to Uganda traces back at least one generation earlier to Rota, Spain where a sailor named Bryan Stensaas was converted under the ministry of an American missionary to the military. This dramatic conversion would not only transform one American military family stationed in Western Europe, but countless families in East Africa as well. This is the story that kicks-off today's interview with 24-year veteran missionary to Uganda, Keith Stensaas. 

In the course of this interview, Bro. Keith also relates an extremely helpful application of Biblical, indigenous church-planting principles which helps to guide their work in Africa. 

If you would like to learn more about the Keith Stensaas family you can visit their website at kstensaasfamily.com or check out his podcast, Always Abounding.

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In part two of this two-part interview with Missionary Kenneth Murphy, we talk about the need for missionaries in the field of Germany, different church-planting and missions strategies in the cultural context of western Europe, and some of the spiritual warfare that missionaries face in this part of the world. 

For more content on missions in Germany, you can check out the missionary podcast hosted by Bro. Murphy and his fellow-laborer Philipp Frei, 2&2 Missionaries. You can contact Bro. Murphy at [email protected].

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The country of Germany, along with the rest of Western Europe, is a place of tremendous spiritual darkness despite the lengthy history of Christianity there. In this first segment of a two-part interview with Missionary Kenneth Murphy, we take a look at how the Lord got him from a small town in rural Alabama to the land of the Reformation. We also look at how the religious history and composition of this country has contributed to the dark spiritual environment  that persists there; a spiritual darkness that can only be addressed by Bible-believing, gospel-preaching preachers and churches. 

For more content on missions in Germany, you can check out the missionary podcast hosted by Bro. Murphy and his fellow-laborer Philipp Frei, 2&2 Missionaries. You can contact Bro. Murphy at [email protected]. 

Your feedback is welcome. You can email Lee at [email protected].