Worthless Servants

This week it’s all about making the dream work. How is your church working as a team to complete the mission of God? Once again, it’s story time with the Worthless Servants. We hear examples (both good and bad) of teamwork in sports, medicine, and from churches around the region of people collaborating with each other to accomplish a goal.

This week the Worthless Servants ask, how is your church identifying and developing those who feel a call to ministry? What opportunities are there for education and training? We discuss these questions and more as we learn how the Mesoamerica Region is responding to these questions. Emily also explains how Amish friendship bread somehow connects with all of this.

Just when you thought you were safe, the Worthless Servants plunge you into culture shock again! It was the topic of one of our most popular episodes, so we used an article by Dr. Howard Culbertson to dive deeper into the symptoms of culture shock, as well as how to get through it. We share more stories from our personal lives and try to fend off inexplicable bouts of weeping.  But through it all, we come to the conclusion that - even during culture shock - there is hope.

As we continue our talk on culture from episode 22, this time we focus on practical stories and examples. We look at some info-graphs, and comment on bikini figures, PriceSmart, and lines of zombies.

This week the Worthless Servants dig deep into culture. Listen as we tell stores and share analogies about why culture matters and why it is important to Christians.

In this episode we talk about the fifth characteristic of a Genesis Church. What does "preaching holiness regularly and practicing it daily” look like? AJ and Emily break it down for us with definitions, and we learn why people should hide their babies from Chelsea.

The challenge of this week’s episode is for all of us to be actively involved in planting a new congregation in the urban center. What does this fourth characteristic of a Genesis church look like? How is it done? How can we make a difference in our cities? The conversation highlights 5 challenges of urban church planting that author Ant Frederick writes about, and we also share some encouraging examples from different countries.

Three of the Worthless Servants go to New York City, NY to be a part of a great experience. Listen as the share what they learned about global missions and the city. As well as stories of getting lost and eating hot dogs.

You might feel like you know them already, but there's so much more to find out! Listen in as AJ and Chelsea reminisce about college days, mission calls, and milkshakes. Also, don't miss Emily's last question that throws them for a loop!

It’s almost Christmas and we wondered what does the Incarnation have to do with missions? Why did God choose THAT method of communication? What difference does Christmas make in the life of a Christian and a missionary? We also learn what pink eye and broken zippers have to do with any of this.