In 2025, there are still people in the world, even entire people groups, that have never heard the Good News. What's more is that access to distant places and global migration has never been higher. Is it possible to finish the Great Commission in our life time? We've got questions on how to reach more with the Gospel in word and deed and joining us for the conversation is Lisa Pak who is a leader with Finishing the Task that is focused on mobilizing the whole church to fulfill all of Christ's commands. Lisa shares with us what it's like to grow up and worship in a diaspora church, how global coordination and new technologies can help us reach more people and what it means to be a church that is not easily shaken.

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Conversation Notes

• 6:30 - Lisa shares all the influences that led her into global missions
• 10:10 - Caring for all people everywhere ties all the way back creation covenant and stewardship entrusted to all people
• 13:00 - Who is really Western? Lisa speaks to the reality of second and third generation immigrants
• 19:30 - The link between countries that are economically developed and the spreading of the gospel.
• 31:25 - Taking a pulse and understanding the stats around who is unreached
• 34:00 - Opportunities that show up on our doorstep and seeking the unreached in our own neighborhoods
• 41:25 - "Prayer is the most underutilized tool in the Kingdom of God"
• 47:20 - Understanding diasporas and what it's like worshiping and growing up in a diaspora community
• 53:25 - Following God's heart and being a church that will not be a shaken

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