Missions Pulse

Joel and Joye Dicharry are the Co-Founders of the non-profit Commission Mankind, based out of southern Louisiana. In 2019, with only a word from God and enough plane tickets for their family to make it to Kenya, Joel left a career position, and they moved their family of 9 to the Machakos hills to work in missions and clean water projects. God miraculously provided the first community solar well system in 2020, 9 more in 2021 and 16 so far in 2022. Each well site in Africa has a community baptismal and thousands have been baptized in a public decision to follow Christ. The heart of Commission Mankind is to ignite a generation for missions and to connect the church to the unreached. They do this through clean water projects, often strategically located near unreached people groups, to open doors for Christian ministry. Entire villages of unreached people groups have committed their lives to Christ through these outreaches. Commission Mankind is currently serving in Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Nepal. God’s heart is their compass.

Find Missions Pulse episode #104 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/104joeldicharry/

In this episode, David interviews Bill Yoh about his recently-released book, Unvarnished Faith: Learning to Love with a Servant’s Heart.

Bill Yoh is chairman of The Yoh Company and co-owner of Day & Zimmermann, his family's 43,000-employee, century-old family business—one of the largest family businesses in the US as ranked by Forbes. Bill is also an award-winning author of Our Way, the life story of Spike Yoh, Bill's father, which received a Gold Award from the Nonfiction Writers Association. He recently published Unvarnished Faith: Learning to Love with a Servant’s Heart

Find Missions Pulse episode #103 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/103billyoh/

Kyle Barrington currently serves as an International Missionary Partners (IMP) Coordinator at Christ’s Commission Fellowship in Manila, Philippines. He and his wife Jessa have been serving among Filipino Muslims since 2015, specifically focused on implementing Disciple Making Movements and mobilizing churches to do the same. Kyle also serves as admin, alongside six others, of the dynamic millennial/Gen-Z Christian apologetics social media movement in the Philippines called “The Christian Think Tank PH.” His passion is to see all people follow Jesus, especially Muslims and religious skeptics.

Find Missions Pulse episode #102 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/102kylebarrington/

Bradley Bell is a former missionary who serves as the lead pastor at Antioch Church in Louisville, Kentucky, https://www.antiochpeople.org/ and as senior editor at The Upstream Collective. https://www.theupstreamcollective.org/ He is the author of The Sending Church Defined https://www.amazon.com/Sending-Church-Defined-Bradley-Bell/dp/1734370548 and Receiving Sent Ones During Reentry, https://www.amazon.com/Receiving-Sent-Ones-During-Reentry-ebook/dp/B06WLKRWPQ and his writing is compiled at BrokenMissiology.org. http://brokenmissiology.org/ He and his wife, Katie, have four daughters.

Find Missions Pulse episode #101 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/101bradleybell/

Dr. Richard Blackaby is the president of Blackaby Ministries International (www.blackaby.org) where he works with his father Henry. He is an author and a popular international speaker. Richard also co-authored the revision of "Experiencing God" and speaks often in churches and to Christian organizations. Richard has written or co-authored over 30 books, including "Living Out of the Overflow," "The Seasons of God," "Unlimiting God," and "Putting a Face on Grace." Richard is married to Lisa and they have three amazing children: Mike, Daniel, and Carrie.

Find Missions Pulse episode #100 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/100richardblackaby/

George Sisneros is the Founder of Ordinary Missionaries and the author of Do You Love Me?: Giving Up the American Dream to Serve the Underprivileged.

Find Missions Pulse episode #99 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/099georgesisneros/

Jimn Kyles is the lead pastor at Anchor Bend Church in Richmond, TX. He spent the bulk of his twenties as an entrepreneur, working in real estate and restaurants. Then, in the mid-2000s, he and his wife Phyllis felt the call to full-time vocational ministry, where they started traveling and working with an organization that recruited and trained thousands of leaders across the nation to facilitate short-term missions worldwide. Jimn is also the author of Unstuck & Unstoppable.

Find Missions Pulse episode #98 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/098jimnkyles/

The man who cringes when he gets pegged as the sabbath guy talks about why rest is a necessary component for wildfaring and risk-taking!

Mark Buchanan is a pastor, author, and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Ambrose University. His books include The Rest of God, Spiritual Rhythm, Your God Is Too Safe, Your Church Is Too Safe, and others, plus his recently released "God Walk: Moving at the Speed of Your Soul." He regularly contributes to the Leadership Journal and Christianity Today.

Craig is the founder and director of Alongsiders International (www.alongsiders.org) - a fast-growing movement mobilizing and equipping thousands of young Christians in 25 countries to walk alongside those who walk alone.

Find Missions Pulse episode #96 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/096craiggreenfield/

During more than 20 years living and ministering in slums and inner cities in Asia and North America, Craig has established a number of initiatives to care for vulnerable kids, as well as formed Christian communities for those marginalized by society.

Craig is the author of The Urban Halo, Subversive Jesus, and his third book, Subversive Mission, offers a fresh new framework for mission in a post-colonial and post-covid world. For more info visit Craig's website: www.craiggreenfield.com

Dr. Laura Horvath, Director of Program Development and Global Engagement at Helping Children Worldwide.

Find Missions Pulse episode #95 on our website at https://davidjoannes.com/095laurahorvath/

HCW has spent the past several years overhauling its mission trip model in order to more meaningfully empower the communities they’re visiting. They began in 2000 as an orphanage in Sierra Leone, but over the past 6 years, they’ve transitioned away from just rescuing children to also reintegrating children into loving families. As a result, their U.S. short-term mission groups now focus on equipping the permanent residents and families — the real heroes for the country’s vulnerable children. https://www.helpingchildrenworldwide.org/

​Prior to joining the Helping Children Worldwide staff in November 2014, Laura was an active volunteer with Helping Children Worldwide for more than ten years, serving on and leading the Education Committee, serving as the Vice Chair and then Chairperson of the Child Rescue Center Program Team, and leading multiple Volunteers in Mission teams to Sierra Leone. ​Laura holds a doctorate in education, and brings to her role an in-depth knowledge of education, and a deep passion for global child welfare, the care of orphans and vulnerable children, public health, ethical missions, and sustainable community-led development programs. Laura and her husband, David, are members of Floris United Methodist Church and have three children.