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#92: Is the Church Still Connected to Global Missionaries?

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328SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Ryan Martin (Doctor of Ministry, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) serves as Director of Missions for Lightbearers Ministries. He previously served for 13 years as a missions pastor after earning an MDiv in Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Ryan lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with his wife, Rebekah, and three…

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#91: Connecting Missionary Stories to the Western World

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258SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Darin Dunn, the Multimedia Specialist at Helps Ministries, has a passion for using media to help connect people in the West to the work God is doing throughout the world. Darin and his wife Staci are both “MKs” (missionary kids) with a heart to serve those ministering on the “front lines.” Darin was born…

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#90: Is the Commission Still Great?

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342SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Steve Richardson has served as President of Pioneers-USA since 1999 and is the author of Is the Commission Still Great?: 8 Myths About Missions & What They Mean for the Church. Steve was raised in Indonesia, where his parents planted churches in a jungle tribe. He witnessed the impact of the gospel on their…

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How Christians Unwittingly Prevent Gospel Access

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296SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I recently joined Mike Falkenstine and Steve Schirmer on Missions Talk to talk about how Christians unwittingly prevent gospel access to the unreached. This episode is based on a story from the book Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret. In the book, a new Chinese convert asks Taylor, “How long have you had the glad tidings…

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