Transformed & Transformational

For our first special summer bonus episode Keane talks with Pastor Prosper about his experience as a refugee and how God reveals who he is and our identity is in Christ. Pastor Prosper speaks about understanding ourselves as refugee's in the world as well as fully home accepted in the body of Christ. We hope this episode speaks to you during World Refugee Week as well as World Refugee Day. Consider how you can get involved in loving the full body of Christ.

Have a trip coming up? We're wrapping up season 3 with this fun finale of travel tips from TeachBeyond members around the world! What would you add to the list? Share your travel tips on social media and tag us!

Have you enjoyed listening along this season? We'd love to know your favorite episodes and who you'd like to hear in season 4. Be sure you're subscribed or following this show on the platform where you listen so you don't miss our bonus episodes and the start of season 4!

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In our final Spiritual Development episode of the season, we talk with Brian Delamont about how we can honor God with the condition and content of our hearts. As we intentionally build our lives on the firm foundation of the Gospel, the Holy Spirit sanctifies us and gives us supernatural peace.

• Luke 6:45
• "The condition and content of our hearts matter greatly to God."
• Proverbs 4:20-27
• "It's my responsibility to guard what's in my heart and how it gets there."
• 2 Corinthians 1:21-22
• "The way you and I can stand firm in Christ is by His Spirit, who lives in our hearts. The Spirit is the deposit, the promise of what's to come when we're fully sanctified in God's presence."
• Philippians 4:6-8
• Luke 6:46-49
• Psalm 19:14
• "God is the One who has purchased us so that we receive His righteousness. He has all the resources necessary to help my heart be the kind of heart He wants it to be. He's also the rock, the foundation [...] He provides the foundation that my heart needs in order to stand firm when things shake."

May Reflection: After reflecting on Psalm 19:14, what are you going to do with it?

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: City parks and recreation department
• Heather: Not getting sick while traveling
• Brian: Working in his yard

Weekly Spotlight: North Africa TCK Classical School

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From the African Children's Choir to an IT job to becoming National Director of TeachBeyond Uganda, follow along with Morris Kabuye's story of being a vessel, available for the Lord to work through Him.

• "It doesn't matter which side of River Jordan you are, I will bless you."
• "If we all remain in the west, who is actually going to take charge? Who is going to lead, who is going to impact, who is going to show them a better way of doing things?"
• "We want them to be able to sit and read and let the Holy Spirit speak to them through the Word of God."
• "I don't do the transformation, but God uses people. God wants us to be available."
• "The impact is being created, and the ripple is starting to go."
• "People asked why I had come back, whether I [was] not wise for having decided to return."
• "God has given each and every one of us numerous chances and opportunities, and so I've learned not to give up on the youth because they are stubborn, because they are not changing, because it takes time."
• Deuteronomy 9
• "I am here as a vessel, and God can decide to pluck me out of it and put someone else here, but while I'm here, I'm going to do my best to do what God put me here for."
• "This is not my work; this is God's work, and He will make sure that it is accomplished."

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: Reconnecting with high school friends
• Heather: Having friends move to my neighborhood
• Morris: New phone and kids becoming good swimmers

Weekly Spotlight: Open Schools Worldwide

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How can we foster curiosity in learners of all ages? Andrea Craddock of TeachBeyond School Services introduces us to the topic of holy curiosity and how we can integrate this into our classrooms and conversations.

• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity... Never lose a holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
• "Cultivating a Holy Curiosity through Social Studies" Article
• "Looking to the world around us, words are used like 'madness' and 'folly.' We see that if we can satisfy our curiosity through God's Word, we eventually end up in this place of transformation."
• "We don't want to teach students what to think; we want to teach them how to think."
• "It's a lot easier to create opportunities for the younger ones because they are so curious about life, whereas the older ones, for them it's really more about helping them find what they're curious about."
• "When a student asks a question in the classroom, you don't just immediately give the answer."
• "We want them to take what it is that they are learning in the classroom and be able to apply that to life."
• "There's a lot of good that comes out of curiosity, and that's how we were made, so we want to be supporting that and fostering that."

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: Scooter walks
• Heather: Family reunion
• Andrea: Multi-generational Bible study

Weekly Spotlight: Timothy Academy

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Mark Kordic from the Alliance for the Unreached shares about how we can all be part of reaching unreached people groups with the hope of the Gospel. Join Mark and the Alliance for the Day (and Week) for the Unreached later this month!

• Alliance for the Unreached
• A Third of Us
• Joshua Project
• "One third of the world doesn't have access to who Jesus is and what He's done for us. [...] They don't have access to a believer - they've never met a Christian; they don't have access to a building - they've never seen a church; and they don't have access to a Bible in their language that they can understand."
• A Third of Us Book
• "Three billion or more people have no access to who Jesus is."
• "We believe that the greatest injustice is those that don't have a relationship with Jesus because they have no way of knowing about Him."
• Unreached of the Day Podcast
• Great Commission Action Guide
• International Day for the Unreached on May 28, 2023
• "Whether it's children's ministry to broadcast ministry to church planting to compassion and healthcare ministries, all of that touches the lives of the unreached, and sometimes that's an entree into their lives and then you're able to go deeper into their lives to share the Gospel."
• "God knows how to multiply His message as it goes out in faith."
• "The BIble is a storybook of God's love story with man, and He longs for each people group to hear His heart for them."

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: School events and building a pie-throwing booth
• Heather: Apron
• Mark: Christ from Beginning to End by Hunter and Wellum

Weekly Spotlight: Creative Access locations

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How can we follow Jesus out of joyful obedience rather than dutiful obligation? Brian Delamont, Executive Vice President of TeachBeyond, returns to the podcast to unpack how we can follow Jesus out of joyful obedience, rather than dutiful obligation. As our hearts are aligned to His and our mindset is transformed, we can live in victory and love.

• "Obedience always involves two aspects: what is being obeyed or followed, and the person carrying out the action of response."
• "Obedience, like everything else God has given us to understand who He is and to understand how he loves us, has been twisted and broken by the fall. God initially set this in place out of love, knowing this was for our very best, that we would follow His lead, that we would follow His instructions."
• 1 Samuel 15:19-22
• "He requires more than external compliance. He's not about the sacrifice; He's about our heart's devotion to Him."
• "Trust and obedience [...] are deeply connected to walking with Jesus. In order to walk with Him, I have to trust where He is going and to follow Him there."
• "Obedience means that we listen to what Jesus has to say, and then we do what He tells us to do."
• John 14:12-18
• Matthew 21:28-32
• "Don't just say the right thing; do the right thing. If you love Me, you will keep My commands."
• "He's just longing for us to do the things that He knows will lead to life, not death."
• A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson
• James 1:22-25
• "How can obedience lead us to victory rather than duty?"
• 2 Corinthians 10:4-6
• "Obedience doesn't begin with the externals [...] obedience begins with our minds being transformed."
• Matthew 15:18-20
• "Love for [Jesus] is what motivates our obedience."

April Reflection: Where are you most challenged to obey? What would it look like to have victory in this area of your life?

What's changing our lives from our Africa Regional Conference:

• Keane: Meeting people in person
• Heather: Praying together with people in person
• Brian: The obedience of our team members in Africa

Weekly Spotlight: Evangelical Christian Academy

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How do you reach a nation with the hope of the Gospel and quality education? Open a program to train Christian teachers! Marisol Gomez, TeachBeyond's National Director for Argentina, shares her story of coming to faith, experiencing personal transformation, and waiting on the Lord's timing for opening a Teachers College.

• "This is a great opportunity for Christian education, for Christian schools. You know why? Parents who are not necessarily believers are looking for values-based education, so it's a great opportunity and we have to get ready. We have to be ready, we have to be equipped for what the Lord is already doing here in Argentina."
• "Wait on the Lord; wait for His time."
• "When this is the time - the time of the Lord - He will bring the resources, He will change hearts, He will make it possible."
• Pray for at least 30 students, as well as funding for the Teachers College project!

What's changing our lives:

• Keane: Instrumental covers
• Heather: Roasted chickpeas
• Marisol: Running and listening to the Lord 

Weekly Spotlight: TeachBeyond Argentina

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Are you or someone you know going through the process of transitioning back to your passport country? Or, perhaps you are on the receiving end of welcoming someone into your community. Melissa Chaplin, master coach and author of Returning Well, shares helpful guidance for debriefing and unpacking baggage, as well as offering a supportive listening presence to others. Tune in to discover how to return well and help others do the same.

• Returning Well by Melissa Chaplin
• Acts 14
• “Debriefing is like saying, ‘I’m not going to just drop my bags in the middle of the living room and just try to exist around them and not trip over them. I’m going to unpack them.’”
• “The way you end one season is how you’ll enter the next.”
• “When you’re able to name it and label it, it allows you to step back and say, ‘Okay, now that I know that, how do I want to interact with that? How do I want to move forward from that?’”
• “There’s a sense that I should fit here, but I don’t.”
• Suggested questions:
• • How are you doing today?
  • What are the things you miss the most?
  • What are the questions that you wish people would ask you right now?
  • What are you finding hard?
  • What’s confusing to you about this culture?
  • Where have you noticed the most change?
• “Create a presence of really good listening and being able to really hear them.”
• “Lord, You know what I need to process. Will you lead me to the questions?”
• Learn more and connect with Melissa!

Check out the book mentioned in the Story from the Field, The Giver: Living Out the Life of Jesus in Giving, Serving, and Construction Missions by Renée Burkette.

What’s changing our lives:

• Keane: Large paper map
• Heather: Physical therapy
• Melissa: Experiencing the power of partnership

Weekly Spotlight: Puebla Christian School

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Brian Stiller of the World Evangelical Alliance shares from his vast life experience - over 80 years of life and more than 90 countries visited! - about the centrality of the Gospel, indigenous leadership in missions, and unity in the global Church. 

• From Jerusalem to Timbuktu: A Global Tour of the Spread of Christianity
• Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21st Century
• Jesus and Caesar: Christians in the Public Square
• Dispatches from Brian
• World Evangelical Alliance’s Statement of Faith
• “A good dose of humility is at the core of our working out relationships.”
• “On any one of these items, you can have division of opinion.”
• “Even though they’ll have variances on each one of them, and they’ll have cultural or tribal patterns that will maybe emphasize one over the other, these are core.”
• John 17
• “The nature of evangelicals is to be entrepreneurial, to have initiative, to listen to God speak to you, to be courageous, to work in faith. This results in all kinds of denominations.”
• “To be drawn together in unity in Christ, as Jesus prayed, by the Spirit, where unity creates a love for each other, a respect and a willingness to work with each other - that for me is more critical than any other thing that we face in the world today. How can we experience unity in Christ?”
• “Unity is not something that we create. Unity is something that we pray for and we hope for, but unity is something that the Spirit brings.”

What’s changing our lives:

• Keane: Mini golfing 
• Heather: Lunchtime prayer and journaling
• Brian: Wife recovering from congestive heart failure and gratitude for people praying for them

Weekly Spotlight: International Christian School of Budapest

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