Mac joins Eugene to discuss starting businesses on the mission field and his journey from restaurant owner to training missionaries in food-based enterprise. Is it possible for missionaries to become fully self-sustaining and never need donations from Western churches?

Eugene wanted to share insights from recent conversations with underground house church pastors in China. They revealed many disturbing things, including widespread misinformation aimed at downplaying the persecution occurring there.

Eugene wanted to take a moment to share something that he believes is crystal clear in the Bible and may relate to what we're seeing in Iran today. The similarities and symbolism of this Biblical prophecy and what we're seeing in the news today was too overwhelming not to share.

This is the audio from a recent livestream. As you have been seeing on the news, the situation in Iran is extremely dire. Eugene has been working in Iran for more than 20 years but he has never received more messages from Christians inside of Iran than right now. Here's the latest.

Just shortly before recording this podcast, Eugene was able to sit down with one of the pastors that was able to escape from being arrested when the Chinese police raided meetings of the Zion House Church. He shares an update with the latest known information on those who were arrested in October 2025.

Before boarding a flight in Korea, Eugene has some very exciting news to share with you. Baptisms in Afghanistan, doors opening in North Korea, and more.

The world is not going to be the same after today. What we have just witnessed is not only the killing of a leader, president, or military leader, but the death of the highest religious leader of Shia Islam. What does this mean for the Church in Iran?

Doing business inside of closed countries is one of the best, most practical ways of preaching the Gospel. We'd love for you to join us at our next Business as Missions conference in the Middle East. Chinese missionaries who are starting and operating businesses inside of places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yeme, UAE, Oman, and Kuwait will be sharing about what they're doing and finding new ways to collaborate together to further the Gospel.

Eugene just met with an underground house church pastor who shared something urgent: Bibles are being confiscated in raids across China and the need has never been more desperate. BTJ is pushing to get 200,000 Bibles into China this year and just three US dollars gets one Bible into the hands of a believer who is asking for it right now.

It's the 10-year anniversary of the Back to Jerusalem Podcast and Eugene is recording it the same way he's recorded every other episode... alone, on his phone, mid-hike, somewhere inside the borders of..... Eugene reflects on a decade of sharing from the underground church, the critics who called him out, the stranger in Ephesus who recognized his voice, and why he's still doing it the same way he did it on day one. All the while, standing on the same beaches where missionary Robert Morrison landed 200 years ago and on the 500th anniversary of William Tyndale illegally smuggling the Bible into England.