Pete Humphreys tells the story of how the Manhui first came to understand the gospel. Through his story he shares an important lessons about contrastive Bible teaching and the church planter's life example.  This story and lessons are also in a book you can find here: https://www.goodseed.com/in-ka-hai-how-sweet-it-is.html

Penny Warner has been working as a church planter and Bible translator in West Africa for 38 years. Through many trials she has remained faithful to what God has directed her to do. Listen to why she has stayed and served all those years. 

Lisa Kappeler shares her church planting story among the Uriay people of Asia Pacific. She also shares some important principles for Bible Translation. 

Arnie has served in Southern Africa for over 10 years as a church planter. At first he was a part of a church planting team that saw slow growth, but now thousands are being impacted. Now he has joined another church planting team in a different people group. He is implementing some key lessons learned from the first church plant that he shares in this episode

Vern and Holy tell their story of the church plant among the "P" people group. Vern shares some essentials for nurturing a baby church into a maturing church. Holy challenges us to consider God's call to missions as being for regular people with varying talents. She also shares some tips from her experience of homeschooling their 5 children. 

Mr. Jungle shares from his 25 + years of church planting and training church planters on the role of Biblical doctrine in a church plant. He also shares helpful teaching principles and a framework that Bible teachers can implement. 

Joel McMartin shares from his experience of first adapting to West Africa. He highlights the role of a host church and host family for the new cross-cultural servant to integrate well. 

Andi and Joel share their story of first adapting to West Africa. Then Andi shares some language learning principles in her current role as a language consultant. 

Dr. Don invested his life to help cross cultural servants communicate clearly. He shares some key elements in discourse analysis for clear and accurate translation. He also starts the conversation about the merits of a curriculum called Firm Foundations: Creation to Christ. 

We kick off Season 2 by recapping our first year of language learning and culture adaptation in West Africa. Though this year was full of challenges, God's faithfulness was on full display for us.