The Same Commission Echoes International podcast

Season 5 Episode 8

IMPACT IN ITALY

with Alec, mission partner, Italy

"As soon as I got to Naples, it was the strangest thing, I just felt a call of the Lord upon my life to preach the gospel to these people and I just felt a real affinity with the people and a love for these people."

From socialist revolutionary to a follower of Jesus, mission partner Alec Catchpole, serving now in Italy, shares with Echoes International's team, Matt and Lesley, his journey to faith and then to mission in Italy. Alec considers the surprising ways in which the Lord works in our lives, and the unlikely partnerships in the gospel that have happened along the way.

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Podcast participants: Matthew Pitts, Echoes International General Director and Lesley de Blieck, Echoes International Communications Manager, with Alec, mission partner, Italy

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KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #Europe #Italy #missionary #missionaries #Christian #Gospel #prayer #church #believer #youthwork #Naples #partnerships

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Season 5 Episode 7

TRAVELLING TO THAILAND

with Adam, mission partner, Thailand

"Working in the place that we do and working with the people that we do, we really need God's wisdom. Often ministries like this and the way that the politics works in Asia it can change overnight. With these changes that can come quite quickly, we need to ask God for wisdom."

In this Season Five of The Same Commission, we're focusing on how people are called to cross-cultural mission. Today, mission partner Adam chats to Jim and Matt about how he became a mission partner and the journey that he took to get there. Listen back to how Adam became a Christian, who has encouraged him along the way, the challenges of serving in Thailand and the awkward road to marriage for Adam and his wife Nu Nu!

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Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Adam, mission partner, Thailand

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KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #Asia #serving #missionary #missionaries #Christian #Gospel #prayer #Myanmar #Thailand #Burma #refugees #school #church #teaching #discipleship #crosscultural #marriage

with Dan, mission partner, South Asia

"Here was an educated man, who knows something about the different religions of the world, who isn't solely stuck in his bubble, and yet in this unreached place, he had no idea of anything the Bible spoke to"

Jim and Matt from The Same Commission met with Dan, who has recently started serving in mission in a country in South Asia. He describes the journey of how he ended up as a mission partner, the lengths it can take to get to the mission field, the challenges of beginning to live in a new place and who has encouraged him along the way.

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Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Dan, mission partner, South Asia

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KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #Asia #SouthAsia #unreached #closed #creativeaccess #Bible #serving #missionary #missionaries #Christian #Gospel #language #prayer

with Liz, mission partner, cross-cultural mission in the UK

"That's an important lesson that I'm learning, that I don't have to be perfect for God to use me, I just need to be available and his power is made perfect in my weakness."

In this episode of The Same Commission, Liz shares with Echoes International directors Matthew Pitts and Jim Armstrong about how she got to where she is today, serving cross-culturally in the UK with various ministries to women, particularly those who are refugees, and to families with children who have special needs. Listen to her describe her life story and her rich Christian heritage in India, and what got her personally interested in mission work.

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Liz works in cross-cultural mission in Cardiff, working in particular

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Liz, mission partner, cross-cultural mission in the UK

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KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #belief #Christian #crosscultural #women #refugees #migrants #specialneeds #autism #disabilities #care #church #support

with Mike Packer, mission partner, France

"People are living a life but are lost and unless somebody tells them about the gospel, about Jesus, about his love for them, about his compassion and care for them that is why we've been put in this world, to go into all the world and make disciples."

We're delighted to have Mike Packer in the Echoes International podcast studio today. As well as working in mission in France, Mike and Alison Packer also serve as Mission Partner Care Coordinators at Echoes International, supporting mission partners pastorally. In this episode, Mike shares of how he reluctantly became interested in mission in France, having been thrown out his French class at school! We follow his journey to France and the ways in which the Lord used people along his way to encourage him.

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Mike, alongside his wife Alison, serve as mission partners in France. They are involved in evangelism, pastoral care, teaching, prison chaplaincy, Bible publication and distribution, youth and young adults' work, as well as being Mission Partner Care Coordinators with Echoes International.

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Mike Packer, mission partner, France.

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KEYWORDS: #mission #faith #christianity #christian #believers #brethren #France #called #serve #prison #Bible #Publications #Missionpartners #Support #Mobilisation #French

with Mia, mission partner, Middle East

"Everything we needed, at the right time, He was providing it. When the tough times came, when we were struggling with things I'd remember that."

Mission partner Mia (not her real name) joins Echoes International directors Matthew Pitts and Jim Armstrong, as she shares how she and her family arrived in the Middle East as mission partners. From unlikely family beginnings, through Mia's search for a mission role in Africa, to her work with women today, Mia shares the ways in which the Lord led her to the Middle East and how she was mobilised and equipped for mission.

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Mia and her family work in the Middle East, where they provide support in finance and admin for an organisation, alongside outreach and discipling.

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Mia, mission partner, Middle East

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KEYWORDS: #mission #outreach #discipleship #MiddleEast #Christian #believers #mobilisation #equip

with Blair, mission partner, South East Asia

"So sport if you like is the bridge, the bridge then enables us to make relationships. Once you have those relationships that are strong, we are very intentional about doing discipleship."

Series 5 of The Same Commission podcast takes a new turn - each week of this season, we'll hear from a different guest sharing their story of how they ended up serving in cross-cultural mission! Today, Blair (not his real name), who works in South East Asia in sports ministry, looks back on God's call on his life, and the challenges and encouragements that accompanied him along the way.

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Blair, Eleanor and their sons Robin and Cameron serve in a country in South East Asia, where they use sports to help plant churches to reach unreached people groups. They are mission partners associated with Echoes International.

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong, General Director, Echoes International, Matthew Pitts, Missions Director, Echoes International and Blair, mission partner in South East Asia

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KEYWORDS: #Christianity #Witness #Evangelism #Faith #Mission #CrossCulturalMission #Evangelism #sports #sportsministry #football #soccer #goodnews #believers #Asia #SouthEastAsia

with Peter Turtle, mission partner, Moldova

There are 28 villages without an evangelical church, so it equates to 0.4% of the population that are followers of Jesus

In this episode, Peter shares his story of moving from Northern Ireland to Moldova and the reasons why he is serving there today. From his initial conversion, he takes us on the journey of being called to mission, shares of those who have inspired him along the way and chats about what mission looks like in Moldova today.

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Peter and Debbie Turtle and their family serve in Moldova, where they are involved in church planting, children's ministry, evangelism and humanitarian aid. They are mission partners associated with Echoes International.

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong, General Director, Echoes International, Matthew Pitts, Missions Director, Echoes International and Peter Turtle, mission partner, Moldova

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KEYWORDS: #Mission #Faith #Belief #Moldova #Orthodox #Gospel #Aid #Believers #Church #Churchplanting

"Bearing in mind that we're trying to reach the unreached, we're trying to reach those who are migrant, we're trying to reach into areas where there are vast cities, there's all sorts of priorities that align with some of the things that Lindsay brought out in his podcast"

To finish Season 4, Jim and Matt take a look back at the purpose of The Same Commission, give some of their highlights of the past few seasons, particularly from Lindsay Brown and Prof. John Lennox, and reflect on how Echoes International is trying to respond to changing models in mission. They also call for feedback on what mission topics we might cover in future editions of The Same Commission, so please send in your thoughts!

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Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors

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KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #belief #Christian #strategy #missional #Biblical #BibleTranslation #unreached #peoplegroups #prayer #brethren #priorities #strategy #modelsofmission

with Lindsay Brown

"We argue a lot over different Bible translations we have and we argue about the circumstances surrounding the second coming of the Lord Jesus, when most people haven't heard about His first coming and haven't read about it"

In this final episode with Lindsay Brown on The Same Commission, we look at the role of Bible translation in mission, sharing the 'voice of God' through Scripture. He looks at the issue of unreached people groups, who have yet to hear the gospel, the missional aspect of migration and the growth of megacities on mission strategy today. Jim, Matt and Lindsay then reflect on the suffering faced by believers persecuted for their faith, proclaiming the Lord Jesus Christ around the world.

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Lindsay Brown is a native of Wales and was involved in student ministry with IFES for over 45 years. He has also headed up the Fellowship of Evangelists in the Universities of Europe, the FEUER network, and served as the International Director for the Lausanne Movement for World Evangelization.

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Lindsay Brown

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KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #belief #Christian #persecution #migration #strategy #missional #Bible #Biblical #BibleTranslation #Translation #cities #megacities #urban #unreached #peoplegroups