A former youth pastor started a podcast out of a desire to speak truth and share God's Word with people. The Grow Deep Podcast now has thousands of listeners in 35 countries. In this CoffeeTalks episode, Matthew Velasquez shares about his vision for the podcast, how God has used it for the spiritual growth of his listeners, and how it has impacted his own life.

Shin has always been different and never lived up to his parents' expectations. After failing an art program, he gave up on his art and worked various manual labor jobs. But he felt empty. After almost a decade, Shin rediscovered his passion for art and now uses his talent for the Church.

Find more about him here: https://www.shinhappens.art/

With the potential of the internet and social media to reach even the farthest person, how does it help us reach those who don't know Jesus yet?

Co-founders of ASEAN+ UNITE group, Mario and Danny, in Indonesia shares about how they were able to join and support what God is doing through incubating starting up ministries and responding to God's invitation in the new era. Hear how they were able to come together with their four loaves and two fishes in the spheres of expertise they have and grow from there.   

In everyone’s life there are opportunities to speak about God’s goodness. Such was the case when Kelly shared God's message of comfort to those in pain using his mobile phone and a social media platform called WhatsApp.

When Andrew met a young Christian artist who works at Disney, he invited that artist to draw something that could increase awareness for unreached people groups. That helped spark a project where a group of artists drew for the mission and created a booklet that mobilizes the Church to pray for the top 31 unreached people groups. Hear how collaboration opens up doors as it unleashes followers of Christ to glorify God with their talents!

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Moses let God write the 10 Commandments in a tablet, from a cloud. Meanwhile, Bituin used her tablet to write God's word, and uploaded it to the cloud-- in a Facebook page. What can God do with what's on your hand? Listen as Bituin of The Creative Encourager shares how she found a way to go out during the pandemic, no excuses, and inspiring ladies with her art!

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How encouraging would it be to know that many people around your city have been praying for your street? Phil Hardwick is using a simple solution for tracking prayer to mobilize people to pray for his city. Everyone can do something. For Phil, it’s getting people to pray. Be encouraged to find out how God might use you.

In this bilingual episode, we’re joined by Din Ragumtong from Thailand. His small team runs a Christian Facebook page. When the recent tragic loss of a famous actress led many in his country to be curious about Christianity, they saw traffic to the page increase more than 100%. Find out how they used that opportunity and how everyone can do something to lead someone to Christ!

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Still on Culture Matters, meet Jean Francois, often called JF. He is the director of Je suis deuxième, a unique initiative that engages an unreached people group within Canada. JF has developed highly contextualized resources in partnership with local churches and in this episode we'll be talking about how context melds with mission as we reach out online.