Every year we take time to talk about orphan Sunday. For this year, Jason Zastrow, our Growing team lead, thought it would be a blessing to hear the story of Drew and Melissa Clemens. They are a family of 6 with two biological and two adopted children.

We thought it might help to split this episode into three parts. This first part is about the Clemens family story of entering into foster care and adoption and how they wrestled with a desire for control and comfort.

Make sure to listen to the second part of this episode here!

Also, if this episode was encouraging or helpful for you, please share it with others who haven’t heard it yet. We want to bless as many people as possible!

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Three of our team members joined us to talk about God's work in the South Asian Affinity Bloc: Rosalind Whitman, the Apex Going Team Admin, Matt, who works for a ministry that is working to transform small rural communities in India with the Gospel, and Hephzi, who grew up in India and saw firsthand the persecution of the Church.

Whether you’re a part of Apex or not, we want you to join us on our mission to reach 10% of the unreached. Please consider going to apexcommunity.org/going-on-mission to get involved. We’d love to have you!

Also, if this episode was encouraging or helpful for you, please share it with others who haven’t heard it yet. We want to bless as many people as possible!

If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at [email protected]. We’d love to hear from you!

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In today's episode, we wanted to give you an example of what life looks like for our international missionaries. Thankfully, we were able to sit down with two missionaries that we sent out from Apex, Ben Collins and Suzi Collins.

We hope this episode encouraged you and gave you a glimpse into the Collin’s life. Thailand is part of the South-east Asian Affinity bloc, so make sure to go to apexcommunity.org/mission-on-mission to get involved. Also, the Collin’s said if anyone is interested in hanging out with them in Bangkok, they have an extra bedroom. Make sure to email [email protected] for more information on that!

If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you!

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This is the last episode about the overall structure of Apex. We'll be discussing our Gatherings in Kettering and Xenia.

We figured it would be helpful to separate the two gatherings into different episodes. That way you can hear the heart of all our ministry leaders.

In this episode, we'll be talking with Kevin Bowman, our Family Ministry Team Lead, and Phil Wing, the Gathering Team Lead.

If this podcast got you excited for our Kettering gatherings, we invite you to come check it out! Go to Apexcommunity.org to find the times and location. If you would like to listen to our sermons, go to apexcommunity.org/sermons. Finally, if you'd like to hear some of our music, check out apexsings.com/listen.

If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you!

For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

This is the last episode about the overall structure of Apex. We'll be discussing our Gatherings in Kettering and Xenia.

We figured it would be helpful to separate the two gatherings into different episodes. That way you can hear the heart of all our ministry leaders.

In this episode, we'll be talking with Jenny Weller, our Xenia Family Ministry Director, and Jay Jackson, a Region 2 Elder and our Xenia Team Lead.

If this podcast got you excited for our Xenia gatherings, we invite you to come check it out! Go to Apexxenia.org to find the times and location. If you would like to listen to our sermons, go to apexxenia.org/sermons. Finally, if you'd like to hear some of our music, check out apexsings.com/listen.

If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send an email at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you!

For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

This episode is focused on sharing stories and thoughts from our Sub Saharan Affinity Bloc. Jesse Bowers and I will be talking with two of our Sub Saharan Affinity Bloc Champions, Sandy Corbin and Jessica Anderson.

If this episode gave you the desire to get involved, go to apexcommunity.org/go-on-mission. Also, if you're not an apexer and want to be involved, we'd love to have you join us! We want this strategy to be about all of God's body reaching the unreached, not just Apex.

If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send us an email at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you!

For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Today's episode is focused on the history of Apex Going and how God is forming it based on our mission and vision. We'll be talking with Jesse Bowers, our Going Leadership Development Lead, Jim Shindler, who helped start and shape our Going ministry, and Jim Corbin, our new missions elder.

If this episode gave you the desire to get involved, go to apexcommunity.org/go-on-mission. Also, if you're not an apexer and want to be involved, we'd love to have you join us! We want this strategy to be about all of God's body reaching the unreached, not just Apex.

If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send us an email at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you!

Apex's mission is to make and multiply disciples with the gospel of Jesus Christ through the power of the Spirit. We envision God using every Apexer to join His disciple-making movement in reaching the Greater Dayton area and unreached people groups of the world. If you'd like to learn more about us, go to apexcommunity.org

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We finish our conversation with Elizabeth Ward, Ryan Ruff, and Jason Zastrow and discuss the training house churches can get from Apex.

If you're interested in the Equipping Community, talk to your house church shepherd or email [email protected].

For names of people who have helped shape our training, check out Caesar and Tina Kalinowski, Ben Hardman, Gino Curcuruto, Mike Breen and Tim Chester. You can also go to apexcommunity.org/shepherd-resources for more resources.

If you have any questions comments, or show ideas, please send us an email at [email protected]. I'd love to hear from you!

Apex's mission is to make and multiply disciples with the gospel of Jesus Christ through the power of the Spirit. We envision God using every Apexer to join His disciple-making movement in reaching the Greater Dayton area and unreached people groups of the world. If you'd like to learn more about us, go to apexcommunity.org

For more stories and future episodes, visit apexanthologies.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.