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#93: What It Means to Be “At Home” in Cross-Cultural Missionary Service

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376SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List A Tennessee native, Carol Ghattas earned an M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, after serving two years in Ivory Coast, West Africa. She met and married her late husband, Dr. Raouf Ghattas, while attending an Arabic-language church in Texas, where he served as pastor. They…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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