Is There A Cause?

Scott [Last Name Redacted] is a missionary in South Asia. For safety reasons, we can't share his exact location. Join the hosts Zach, Alex and Serge as we discuss the philosophy of missions and their practical application on the field.

In recent months, news out of the Middle East has focused on the conflict between Israel and Gaza. In the West, we are familiar with the historic and present division between Palestinians and Jews. We hear about the wars, the bombs, the missiles, the terror, the violence, the poverty, the hunger, and the death. But we don’t hear about the work of the gospel in Gaza. We don’t hear about the Christians and pastors who minister in Gaza. People like Dr. Hanna Massad.Visit Dr.Hanna's website at: https://cm2g.org/main/

Will Anderson lives with his wife and child in North Nashville, where he runs a non-profit woodworking apprenticeship. The company, Maple Built, focuses on training, mentoring, and discipling young men who live in the city. Will is passionate about seeing the lives of the young men he works with changed by the gospel. This doesn’t just mean teaching them how to be materially successful, he explained, but showing them how to live their lives with purpose.

In this episode, the ITAC team discusses what the border crisis actually is, and if it's our obligation as Christians to get involved.

In the late 1980s, a Mexican man illegally crossed the US border to seek work and a better life in the US. Eventually, he made his way across the country, working in Dallas, Atlanta, New York, and Denver. “I wanted to build a nice house in Denver for my mother,” he said. Little did he know how God would use him in his future.

JC Groves is the College and Student Pastor at the Connection Church in Statesboro, Georgia. He is also a husband and a father of six children. JC co-hosts for The Recovering Fundumentalist podcast, one of the fastest growing Christian podcasts in the nation.In this episode, Andrew talks with JC about how their podcast focuses on encouraging Christians and pastors to stay faithful to Christ and God’s Word, not to man-made rules and legalism. Andrew also asks JC how we as Christians can still love each other through disagreement. “I think the biggest thing sometimes is to not say anything,” JC said. “You don’t have to give an answer to everybody.” JC explains that many times Christians easily respond wrongly to fellow Christians instead of responding with the love of Christ. “If you’re spiritually dry, your response is going to be spiritually dry,” JC said. “If you’re spiritually filled up, you’re going to speak with grace seasoned with salt.”You can listen to the full discussion on the Is There a Cause Podcast.

Jonathan Archer, along with his wife Michelle and three children, is a missionary in Kara, Togo, a small country in west Africa. Togo is the twelfth poorest country in the world, and the city of Kara has a population of 90,000 people. Behind Christianity and local folk religions, Islam is the largest religion in the country.Before coming to Togo, Jonathan and his family spent time as a missionaries in France, reaching out to the one of the largest Muslim populations in Europe. Through reading the Quran with a Muslim friend in France, Jonathan developed a relationship and had opportunities to evangelize. “At the base, it comes down to Jesus. That was the question that would always come up,” Jonathan said. “When I would talk with these guys I would love them. I would spend time with them.”In Togo, Jonathan is focusing on planting churches and discipling men to lead them. “What we’re praying for is that God will direct us to an individual in the church that desires to be a lead pastor and a church planter that we can work alongside as a team,” Jonathan explained.You can learn more about Jonathan Archer and his ministry in France by listening to this episode of the Is There a Cause Podcast and visiting the Archers’ missionary profile here.

Nahum O’Brien, along with his wife Arin, are missionaries and church planters in Norway. Nahum also hosts the Hermeneutics Podcast, where he discusses the importance of digging into Scripture.

Pedro and Stephanie Garcia are serving Christ in Iquique, Chile. They have six children--two adopted daughters, three adopted sons, and one biological son.

In this episode, Zach and Andrew discuss the latest news, our new podcast series LUX, and interview Pastor Ross Shannon.