This bonus episode features a panel discussion from the Neighbors Conference, hosted in Oklahoma City in 2025, highlighting diverse pastors and ministry leaders who embody Christian Community Development in their neighborhoods. Panelists share stories of churches deeply rooted in place, practicing holistic ministry. Through honest dialogue and encouragement, they offer a vision of faithful presence, long-term commitment, and the transformative power of neighborhood-based discipleship and leadership development.

In this episode, John-Mark and Kori reflect on Season 1’s exploration of displacement, identity, and the church’s role in welcoming refugees. They contrast the narratives of fear and scarcity, with the gospel’s call to generosity, abundance, and Spirit-led hospitality. The episode encourages listeners to respond with humility, local action, and courageous public witness in a world facing record levels of human displacement.

In this episode Dr. Everardo Burunda shares his personal and ministry journey, highlighting his work in planting and supporting Spanish-language congregations and advocating for the vital role of bi-vocational pastors. Drawing on his lived experience and doctoral research, he discusses the challenges immigrant and multicultural churches face across generations and languages. This episode emphasizes the power of bilingual, multiethnic churches as spaces of peacemaking, inclusion, and intergenerational faith communities..

In this episode, Dr. Paul Sanchez helps us think about the historical complexity of Latino cultural identities as well as the unique gifts that Latino churches contribute to the body of Christ. We also explore what the Bible says about hybrid identity and the ways that God often works redemptively through people who are a bridge between different cultures.

Dr. Sanchez is a historian and theologian who teaches in the honors college at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is currently writing a book on the history of Christianity in California. In this episode, we also engage with a chapter that he wrote for the book Confronting Racial Injustice: Theory and Praxis for the Church, edited by Gerald Hiestand and Joel Lawrence.

Listeners may be interested in other books referenced in this episode, including:

• Justo L. Gonzalez, Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective

• Daniel A. Rodriguez, A Future for the Latino Church: Models for Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations

In this episode, Pastor Christendoza (Chris) Le  and Pastor Ben share powerful personal stories about their own experiences of displacement and how God’s love brought them healing and purpose along the way. Both of these pastors are now helping lead churches that share the love of Christ with displaced people from their countries of origin. As they dialogue with Kori and John-Mark, many practical principles emerge for how ordinary Christians can become instruments of God’s grace in the lives of others.

In this episode, Kori and John-Mark interview Matthew Soerens and Daniel Yang from World Relief as well as Eric Costanzo, who pastors South Tulsa Baptist Church. The conversation explores the global and historical context for our current crisis of human displacement while helping listeners to see this crisis in the light of the gospel.

Questions discussed include: How might God want to work through migrants from the global South and East to bring spiritual transformation to Western churches? How can we practice Christian hospitality for the migrant neighbors who show up in our communities? How could the church shift national conversations about displacement and human dignity? How should mass migration affect the way we think about the Great Commission?

Listeners can learn more by reading Matthew,

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