RAW Mission

In this episode Matt talks with 'Diana' about her 25 years serving in Turkey. 

As a Chinese-American woman, Diana has fascinating insights into Eastern cultures. She also talks about raising daughters in a Muslim context and how a godly marriage spoke volumes to many of her friends who lived under the constant threat of domestic violence.

She relates a frightening dream that her husband had, which God used to protect their family, a traumatic event for one of her daughters and deep friendship with Muslim ladies that often led to conversations about Jesus.

Diana also discusses times in Istanbul when she found it really hard to love those she had been called to serve and how she overcame that. 

If you're interested in doing a short-term prayer trip to Turkey, do get in touch!

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In this episode Matt talks to three students, all buzzing with God’s heart for the nations and considering the call to go. 

Zach, Lena and Astu (all in their 20s) are at the same university and doing an amazing job encouraging their Christian Union (CU) to reach out to international students, running all night prayer meetings and much more.

Astu also shares some stories from her childhood, growing up as a missionary kid in West Africa, on the edge of the Sahara Desert. 

These guys have also all loved doing the MomentumYes Course, a free online 6-week global missions & discipleship course. It’s easy to access and is full of high-quality video content. Perhaps you could run the course with a bunch of your friends from church?

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In this episode Matt catches up with Joe, an old friend who came to help with the shelter-building relief work following the huge Pakistan/Kashmir earthquake in 2005.

Since then, Joe and his family have lived in Pakistan and the Middle East, working among the poor and, over the last several years, with Syrian refugees.

They discuss the negative impact that geopolitics, money and NGO work can have on evangelism and church-planting efforts, the challenge of visa insecurity and the life of transition that many workers have to adjust to.

Joe is someone who combines a deep love for evangelism and church-planting with a life committed to serving the poor and those on the margins of society.

If your heart has been stirred and you'd like to give to one of our teams working with the poor, we always have opportunities available. For example, one team are involved in training and employment for young disabled adults in North Africa. Another team is currently raising funds to build a school and an educational centre (the latter especially focused on helping women to get employment).

Do email [email protected]  if this is something of interest to you.

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In this episode we pick up where we left off from last week's interview with Martin Goldsmith. 

Martin talks about the importance of storytelling and how parables can be reframed for an Islamic context.

He also talks about an occasion when some young men threw stones at him for talking about Jesus!

We discuss colonialism, slavery, gender stereotypes in other cultures and whether it's appropriate to use the name Allah when talking about the God of the Bible.

Martin Goldsmith is something of a legend in the UK, as an author, speaker and long-term missionary in South-East Asia. Now 87 years old, he has been married for 60 years. 

He has spent his life studying & teaching God’s word and sharing the good news with people from all over the world. He is a brilliant storyteller and has a cheeky sense of humour!

https://martingoldsmith.wordpress.com/

See also Martin & Elizabeth's many books, including:
Storytelling
Beyond Beards & Burqas
God Can Be Trusted

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Martin Goldsmith is something of a legend in the UK, as an author, speaker and long-term missionary in South-East Asia.

Now 87 years old, he has been married for 60 years. 

He has spent his life studying & teaching God’s word and sharing the good news with people from all over the world. He is a brilliant storyteller and has a cheeky sense of humour! 

In this episode Martin talks about his experiences of antisemitism and bullying at school and then how he and Elizabeth set off as missionaries, travelling to Singapore by boat, as was the norm in those days.

He shares fascinating stories about shamanism and witchcraft in Asia, the growth of the Indonesian church and the contrast between Western individual approaches to discipleship and Asian collectivistic/group ones.

https://martingoldsmith.wordpress.com/

See also Martin & Elizabeth's many books, including:
Storytelling
Beyond Beards & Burqas
God Can Be Trusted

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Support the show

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Do get in touch if you have any questions for Matt or for any of his guests.
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Or, if you're outside the UK, visit www.frontiers.org
(then select from one of our national offices).

For social media in the UK:
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And do check out the free and outstanding 6 week video course for churches and small groups, called MomentumYes:
www.momentumyes.com (USA)
www.momentumyes.org.uk (UK)
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In this episode we meet Samir Rocha, a Brazilian full of passion for Jesus, for the church and for reaching Muslims. He has spent many years leading a team in Asia and is soon to return there to set up a training and mentoring programme for Latinos and others from the Global South to become church-planters in the Muslim world.

He and Matt talk about calling/guidance, the advantages of on-field practical ministry training over academic/theoretical training, the importance of sacrifice in Muslim cultures, and mobilising young people for mission.

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And do check out the free and outstanding 6 week video course for churches and small groups, called MomentumYes:
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www.momentumyes.org.uk (UK)
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In this episode you’ll hear Trish's story and her experiences of life in some very dangerous places in North-East Africa.

She speaks frankly, humbly and powerfully about some traumatic events in her own family (including a nasty car crash), personal struggles with guilt and shame, civil war, evacuation, burnout and loneliness. 

Alongside all of this, she and her husband have had the great joy of seeing hundreds come to faith and be discipled.

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And do check out the free and outstanding 6 week video course for churches and small groups, called MomentumYes:
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In this episode Matt interviews Daniel Waheli, who spent 20 years church-planting in Africa and India.

Hear his incredible stories about an 'indestructible' witchcraft-charmed shirt, a local lady who had a dream about two of his team 15 years before they arrived, death threats and Daniel's two months of solitary confinement in an African prison.

Daniel also talks about how to share the good news to Muslims both boldly and wisely, about mistakes he made in his early years of church-planting, and the importance of a strong theology of suffering.

The full story of his arrest and imprisonment in Sudan can be found in his book: Lessons Learned in the Lion's Den: Imprisoned for Sharing Jesus

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In this episode Matt meets a biomedical scientist and teacher, called Nekesa. She has a West African heritage, grew up in France, studied in Germany and The Netherlands, and is now serving on a team in East Africa! 

We discuss the challenges of leaving parents behind, how to deal with the constant stream of marriage proposals she faces, and how she overcame her fear of sharing the good news with Muslims.

She also shares some fascinating stories of healing, deliverance and evangelism in various locations including a wedding, a shoemaker’s, on the street and in homes.

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We're back! After a few weeks off over Christmas, we're excited to launch 2022 with a new series of inspirational stories.

In this episode Matt welcomes some guests and old friends from AIM, Africa Inland Mission. Tim and Bronwen spent 10 years in Mozambique, reaching out to Muslims there and encouraging the church to do the same.

You’ll hear about their constant battles with rats, the time when Tim set fire to their friend’s house, a local friend who was dramatically healed and a bizarre witchcraft story.

They also tell the story of an island just off the coast where missionaries landed after being blown off course by the wind. The Muslim people group there were very receptive to the gospel and a couple of thousand turned to Christ.

For more information about the work of AIM, please see www.eu.aimint.org

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