The Reflexio Podcast

Costa Rican mission leader Allan Matamoros shares with us his inspirational journey into ministry and explores Latin America’s growing role in global mission. Allan shares how unexpected leadership opportunities influenced his original plan to serve in Pakistan to his current role supporting missionaries and local ministries across the Muslim world.

Partnership is at the heart of this candid conversation. Allan reflects on burnout, recovery, and the mentors who helped him regain perspective. His experiences highlight the importance of rest, the benefits of setting realistic expectations, the value of language learning, and why attaining cultural understanding matters when serving cross-culturally.

Through stories from North Africa and West Africa, Allan describes a future of mission shaped by local leadership, practical service, and global collaboration.

Federación Misionera Evangélica Costarricense / Costa Rican Evangelical Missionary Federation (FEDEMEC) https://fedemec.net/ 

La Cooperación Misionera Iberoamericana (COMIBAM) Spanish: https://comibam.org/es/ 

Ibero-American Missionary Cooperation (USA) https://www.comibamusa.org/en 

Vision 5 9: https://vision59.odoo.com/ 

PMI People in Mission International (Spanish): https://pminternacional.org/

PMI People in Mission International USA (English): https://pmiusa.org/ 

Partners International: https://wearepartners.org/

00:00 Opening Teasers: Surprises in Morocco and an Unexpected Call to Lead

Mona Alber’s life took a turn she could never have fully anticipated when God drew her from a promising engineering career in Egypt to serving Arabic-speaking immigrants in Spain. In this conversation, she reflects on the calling that brought her and her husband, Hany, to Europe more than three decades ago.

Mona shares the joys and challenges of crossing cultures and building community among people who are living far from home. Her story offers a personal glimpse of the changing face of global mission—and how simple acts of hospitality can open unexpected doors.

In this episode, we also explore the harder parts of that journey: financial uncertainty, chronic pain, and learning to trust God amid uncertainty. With warmth and honesty, Mona reflects on a life of faith and the blessings of God.

Come Walk With Me: A Journey of Joy on God's Uncharted Road

by Mona Alber (On Amazon.com)

Evangelism and the problem of the gap: Christian Presentation vs. Community Perception

by Hany Fouad (On Amazon.com)

Ministry website: Arab Ministries in Spain

00:00:00 From Egypt to Spain: Meet Mona Alber

Pastor Samuel Ayodele shares his journey from rural Nigeria, to a career in banking, to a challenge from Jesus to live as a true Kingdom person. 

God’s call on his life led him to establish the Rural Pastors Network, an initiative that equips indigenous pastors in northern Nigeria with encouragement, training, resources, and vision for church planting among unreached people groups. He explains how he discovered a disconnect between churches and the communities they served, inspiring him to develop new ways of engaging unreached and Muslim-majority communities through practical, holistic development. 

Throughout the episode, Samuel shares stories of miraculous healings, supernatural provision, and unexpected open doors that have advanced ministry in resistant communities. The conversation closes with practical encouragement from Pastor Samuel for young people to trust God to expand their influence. 

His is a story of surrender, resilience, innovation, and hope—a reminder that God can use faithful obedience to bring transformation to individuals, churches, and entire communities.

Centre for Human and Community Development

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00:00:00 Welcome and Meet Samuel Ayodele

Brother Tom (penname) offers a personal window into Nepal’s history, culture, and spiritual life. He reflects on the pressures facing ordinary families, the legacy of decades of violent political conflict, and the urgent needs following the devastating flood.

He recounts the searching questions of his childhood, his first encounter with the message of Jesus, and the unexpected path that led him to serve Nepali communities far from home. Tom explains why personal relationships, patient discipleship, and locally rooted leadership remain vital—even as digital tools create new opportunities to reach seekers. 

His story points to lives changed by grace and invites us to pray for those grieving, those rebuilding, and lasting hope across Nepal and the Nepali diaspora.

GC Ministries’ Website: https://gcministries.org/

In Addis Ababa, Abrham Asres serves in the midst of immense needs, including children and teenagers living on the streets and women facing unplanned pregnancies. His work takes place amid a widespread abortion industry with few local Christian ministries offering alternatives for women in crisis. He shares how he seeks to meet women with conversation, practical help, housing, work opportunities, medical connections, prayer, and ongoing care for both mothers and children.

Abrham knows pain and desperation firsthand. Orphaned as a child, drawn into destructive habits as a teenager, and nearly overcome by despair while alone in Sudan, he describes how God met him, gave him a new direction, and taught him to care for people in crisis.

Today, supporting himself as an Uber driver, he responds when women, doctors, and families call for help. In this candid conversation, Abrham shares stories of mothers who chose life, children restored to families, and the ongoing need for Christians to pray, speak up, and provide compassionate, practical care.

Links:

If anyone would like to support his ministry or connect with Abrham, his U.S. church, friends, and family support the ministry through We Love Life America. 

To donate online to support Abrham's ministry click on this link.

Abrham's contact information: ✉️ [email protected]

The article linked below is a radical pro-abortion propaganda piece that mentions the work of Abrham and has a picture of his Uber car with the “Pray to end abortion in Ethiopia” sign on the back. Reading it will give insight into how pro-abortionist view abortion and how they see pro-life people as an evil threat to women’s rights!

Fertile Ground - The Rising Anti-Abortion Movement in Ethiopia: A Threat to Women's Rights

In this episode of Reflexio, Don Little welcomes Feruza, an Uzbek follower of Jesus whose life has been shaped by a searching faith, a love for language, and an extraordinary calling. Listen for a deeply personal testimony and encouraging wisdom for anyone seeking to follow God faithfully.

Feruza reflects on her early years in Uzbekistan, the questions that would not leave her alone, and the encounters God used to introduce her to the Bible. Her story is one of courage, discovery, and the grace of God at work in unexpected ways.

She also offers a window into the vital work of Bible translation: why Scripture in a person’s heart language matters, what it takes to serve translation teams, and how God continues to work across Eurasia. Today she is a mother-tongue translation consultant, helping Muslim communities receive Scripture in their heart languages to discover a God who says, “I see you!”

Uzbek Bible Online: https://ibt.org.ru/muqaddas-kitob

The Uzbek Bible App on iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/uz/app/muqaddas-kitob/id1234998557

The Ubeck Bible App for Android Phones: 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ibt.uzbek.muqaddas.kitob.kirill.sab&hl=ru

SIL’s Eurasia ministry: https://global.sil.org/regions/eurasia/

Pioneer Bible Translators: https://pioneerbible.org/

What does it mean to follow Jesus without leaving your heritage behind? Bob Mendelsohn, a Messianic Jewish leader with Jews for Jesus, joins Don to recount his search for belonging amid the turbulence of the 1960s—and the encounter with Yeshua that changed everything.

Bob reflects on a lifetime of sharing the gospel with Jewish people around the world, offering moving stories of patient witness, unexpected faith, and God’s work in individual lives.

Together, Don and Bob explore Jewish context in Scripture, the significance of Jerusalem, and how followers of Jesus can pursue unity across deep cultural and political divides.

His website

Facebook

Instagram

YouTube

Blogger

On X

Jews for Jesus website

Jewish Testimonies

On Vision Radio

Kamal Fahmi grew up in a devout Sudanese Christian family but describes his early faith as cultural rather than personal. During his teenage years, a youth conference inspired by the "Jesus Revolution" led him to genuinely surrender his life to Christ and initiated a clear call to full-time ministry, beginning with a 20-month voyage aboard the Operation Mobilization ship Logos through Asia and the Middle East.

Kamal went on to minister in Sudan for nearly two decades and later served for 15 years as OM's Middle East area coordinator. Throughout the region he witnessed firsthand the devastating toll of Islamic apostasy and blasphemy laws—believers imprisoned, tortured, or executed simply for changing their faith, including martyrs like Mehdi Dibaj in Iran.

These experiences led Kamal to establish Set My People Free, an advocacy ministry appealing to the Arab League, EU, and UN for the religious freedoms guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While 11 countries still impose the death penalty for leaving Islam, Kamal notes progress such as Sudan’s abolition of its apostasy laws.

Kamal urges listeners to pray, advocate, and use your resources to pressure governments—framing the cause as both a political battle for human rights and a spiritual battle for the persecuted church.

Set My People Free on:

Facebook

Their Website

Linked In

Medium

An interview with Hulda Fahmi, the International Director of Set my People Free, and Kamal's daughter.

To join the Set My People Free Network fill out this FORM.

In this stirring Reflexio conversation, Pastor Samir shares remarkable stories of faith and transformation from across the Arab world. He describes how Christ meets people through fearless friendships and costly discipleship–even amid social opposition and persecution.

You’ll hear moving testimonies of Muslims encountering Jesus, believers growing through suffering, and churches learning to serve their communities with wisdom and love. Pastor Samir explains how love, patience and humility open hearts in ways arguments and debates never can. He urges Christians to focus on relationships, prayer, and the beauty of Jesus’ character rather than winning theological battles. 

In addition, Pastor Samir offers practical insight on how Western Christians can pray, partner, and listen humbly to what God is already doing in the Middle East. 

Bishop Yassir Eric grew up hostile to Christianity, viewing it as a foreign, Western religion. In this episode, he shares how Jesus met him through the miraculous healing of his cousin in a hospital. An eight‑hour late‑night conversation with Coptic believers led to a simple prayer expressing faith in Christ that began his lifelong journey of discipleship.

Forced to flee for his life after coming to Christ, Yassir describes losing his community, finding a new spiritual family with German missionaries in Kenya, and eventually moving to Germany to study theology and plant churches.  

Bishop Eric explains why leaving Islam is never just changing beliefs; it often means losing family, community, and identity. Many believers of Muslim background are deeply isolated and without a church home. The burden of this reality led to the formation of Ekkios, a non‑geographical global church network that connects believers of Muslim background across languages and regions.

Along with challenging the church in the West to a higher Christology, he urges the global church to pray daily for the Muslim world, to welcome believers of Muslim background into genuine fellowship, and to trust that Jesus is building his church in the midst of war, suffering, and the long-standing conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.  

Links:

Ekkios on Facebook

Ekkios Website

The Ekkios App - access to resources

Yassir Eric on the Global Anglican’s (Gafcom) site (scroll down a little)

Email contact: [email protected]

An article about Bishop Yassir Eric in Christianity Today: I Was the Enemy Jesus Told You to Love

Yassir’s Autobiography in German. Hass gelernt, Liebe erfahren. Vom Islamisten zum Brückenbauer (Learned Hatred, Experienced Love. From Islamist to Bridge‑Builder)

Eric’s Testimony Video on YouTube: I Lost Everything to Follow Jesus… And Found Life

Yassir speaks at a Missions Conference in 2026. Mission Conference 2026 - Yassir Eric

Bank Details, for donations: 

EKKIOS - IBAN: DE32520604100005039355

BIC: GENODEF1EK1, Evangelische Bank

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