The SEND938 Missions Podcast

Pastor Jake Schopf joins us again, this time for a conversation about the dynamics of being the sending church pastor for his own daughter, Katie Schopf (Native Focus Ministry Team USA 2024). You won't want to miss this practical and encouraging conversation through the theology, philosophy, and practice that brought the Schopf family to this place. 

Martin Euku, Director of the Rural Pastors Institute in Central Uganda joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about his experience with and perspective on the prosperity gospel's descent upon a nation, and a continent. Martin expertly directs the problem and explains why the soil in Uganda was so ripe for such a false gospel. You will be encouraged and informed by this conversation with a man who shares his lived experience in a nation afflicted by all the ills of this deception. 

On the 100th episode (NOT counting recycled episodes) President Patrick Odle and President Emeritus Gary Anderson join host Steve Anderson for a discussion about challenges we've faced and are facing, the dynamics of ministry under the banner of BMM, the role of a mission agency in view of the centrality of the local church in what God is doing, and the task of awaking the church to their responsibility in the global initiative of the modern missionary endeavor. 

Fred and Rachel Whitman, along with their administrator, Steve Gault, join host Steve Anderson for a conversation about their life and ministry in Italy, the graveyard of missionaries, as one of the last truly pioneer mission fields. They discuss the dynamics of surrender, calling, oppression, hardships, wide-open doors, and loss of co-workers on their missionary endeavoring. You won't want to miss this episode. 

Host Steve Anderson visits with a BMM family who recently left a Creative Access Nation due to God burdening their hearts for the international community right here in our backyards. You won't want to miss the passion they have for the church in America to take up the mantle of bringing the nations together under the banner of Christ in the body of the church. 

In this episode Pastor Jake Schopf (BMM Missionary Kid - Jake & Izzy Schopf, Brazil) joins host Steve Anderson to discuss what God has been doing in the Pacific Northwest amongst the second largest population of Brazilian ex-patriots, many of whom have been significantly afflicted by a religious cult in Brazil. 

Do pioneering ministry opportunities still exist? They do in the middle of the Mediterranean on an island first visited with the gospel by the Apostle Paul after a shipwreck. Hear the incredible story of how the Gospel was brought back to an island nation where the law was amended to allow for a Baptist church to be built and how God has moved to secure citizenship for the first missionaries given a religious workers visa on the Island of Malta. Joe and Jenny Mifsud share their story of coming to faith and surrendering to ministry in Joe's ancestral home. 

Jonathan Stilwell, BMM administrator for Latin America, joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about the challenges and joys of new missionaries finding their place and fulfilling their calling in the context of well-established fields of service with existing field teams, ministries, and missionaries. 

In this first installment of a new feature to the Send938 podcast, host Steve Anderson offers an insightful review of one of the most influential missiology books on the market, Let The Nations Be Glad, by John Piper. 

Today's episode is the audio from one of our recent Revitalization Seminar sessions outlining the philosophy of ministry behind this effort to train men for revitalization work. We believe the health of a church rests on the shoulders of the under shepherd who has been given the responsibility of leading and feeding the flock. This session was the introduction to this year's 3 day seminar. If you'd like to hear more or be a part of our next seminar, send us a note at [email protected] with comments or questions.