Here’s the recipe for successful mission work: Start with manpower and money. Put plenty of both into a project, add some compassion and courage, stir and cook until good results are obtained. This episode is about the power of funding to transform lives – and generations. Mentioned many times is the phrase “Business As Mission” (“BAM”). Helping people and families build sustainable businesses is remarkably simple if you know what you’re doing. That’s what Mercy, inc. does!Guests: Mike Sullivan, Bud LindstrandLinks: MercyToday.global

From the beginning of time, as we read in the book of Genesis, there is great power in family. Throughout human history family has been for great good, but it has also led to hurt and evil. As we reach out to help people with the compassionate work of Mercy, Inc. the power of family plays a huge role. We learn that the God-given bonds of family can make all the difference in the world.

Guest: Rich Danzeisen

Links: One Mission Society, Mercy, inc., MercyToday

There is a vital key to helping people, whether it is meeting their pressing needs or sharing the love and truth of Jesus with them. Do you know what that key is? Listen to this episode to learn about it.

Clue: it has to do with understanding the bonds that people have when they share common ground. And what does that have to do with the work of Mercy, Inc.?  Push ‘play’ and find out.

Guest: Rich Danzeisen

Links: One Mission Society, Mercy, inc., MercyToday

Come with us to a place where people are excited to be learning how to read and write. As we get near the African village, we see the group gathered around a big chalkboard, and they are ready to start. We hear singing and clapping. They are excited to be set free from illiteracy as a world of opportunity opens up to them. They are happy and grateful. Listen, and you’re there!

Guest: James Kigamwa

Links: Bridge to Reading, One Mission Society, Village Church Planting, Mercy, inc.

In most areas of the world, a person who cannot read and write lives a life of darkness and severe limitations. Literacy turns on the lights and liberates the person to vast opportunities they never had before. God has raised up a man to bring the gift of literacy to several African countries. Hear of the door-opening power of literacy, and how this gift can change lives in even bigger ways.

Guest:  James Kigamwa

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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, what if a picture is worth a thousand souls? Or how about a million? Hear the story of how a picture of Jesus over Jerusalem showed up on a smart phone. A picture that wasn’t knowingly taken, but is verified as authentic and unmistakably clear and obvious. Hear how that picture came with an assignment and a mission.

Guest: Randy Butler

Links: Mercy, inc., Jesus Over Jerusalem

God is in the business of raising up people to do His work all around the globe. Sometimes that happens with one person here and another person there. And sometimes there is a cluster or a congregation that yields many people who respond to His calling. There is energy and passion there. You just never know who will be called next. And you know that God is up to something special!

Links: Mercy, inc., One Mission Society, MercyToday

Mission work requires a lot of hands and hearts doing a lot of different things. Bud Lenker takes us behind the scenes to get a view of some of the essential tasks that help everything run. What went through his mind as he was falling 30 feet from a ladder? Hear what happened next. Did he hesitate to return to the mission field? He’ll tell you.

Links: MercyCompassion.org, BethesdaMedical.org, MercyToday.Global

Mercy board chairman Dave Graffenberger was called to serve the Lord at age 14. Hear how he was protected by a circle of angels in a Haitian banana plantation. Just might give you the shivers! And how about his Dad’s prayer from 3,000 miles away?  Little did he know that Dave needed the protection at that very time.Links: MercyCompassion.org, OneMissionSociety.org, MercyToday.Global

Question: How does the life-changing work of Mercy, Inc. get done?Answer: God calls, people respond.

Doug Hoffman, Executive Director and Dave Graffenberger, Board Chair, talk about the work God is doing around the world and how He taps people to join His mission. Turns out that by God's enabling, ordinary people do extraordinary things!

Links: Mercy, inc., One Mission Society, Voice of the Martyrs, Empowering Lives International, Bethesda Medical Center, Jesus Wells, Shalom Africa, Bridge to Reading.