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What if joy isn’t a reward at the finish line but a sign you’re already on the right path? We sit down with our friend Faith, a teenager learning to trade fear for peace and tight control for open hands, and watch how Scripture, mentors, and missions weave into a coherent, hope-filled life. This isn’t theory. It’s a bus ride to the airport with a brave smile, Psalm 23 spoken over a nervous commute, and a simple listening exercise that surfaces a childhood memory bursting with joy—and a nudge about the future.

We unpack how identity in Christ reframes pressure, how Philippians 4 can quiet the mind when anxiety spikes, and how James 1 turns trials into training for steadfastness. Faith shares the low-tech habits that made her love the Bible: color-coding God’s character, chasing cross-references through Revelation, and letting the Word interpret her world. We talk about the power of mentors when a parent’s voice lands too close to home, and how families can set intention, pray specifically, and invite trusted guides to speak into their kids’ lives. The result is a network of voices helping young people hear the one Voice that matters most.

From Mexico to the Middle East, Faith’s story highlights a clear, humble question: if I can go, why wouldn’t I? But going is only one expression of mission. We explore the many ways to participate—praying, giving, welcoming, sending—and why an open-handed posture keeps us responsive when plans shift at the last minute. If you’ve been wrestling with purpose, consider this a practical roadmap: notice where joy appears in obedience, answer fear with Scripture, and take the next step with a steady heart. If this conversation encouraged you, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs courage today, and leave a review to help others find these stories of faith, identity, and mission.

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What if the safest place is not where risk is lowest, but where God has called you? That question threads through a wide-ranging conversation with Faith, a high school student whose quiet prayer for boldness grew into a clear mission identity and a heart for the nations. We share how surrender loosens our grip on control, how prayer became her lane of courage, and why simple presence can change a room—whether in Mexico, a refugee camp in the Middle East, or back home at church.

We unpack the Great Commission with fresh eyes, drawing on the Perspectives course to redefine “all nations” as ethnos—people groups united by language and culture. That lens transforms mission from a distant idea into practical steps anyone can take: pray, give, go, welcome, and mobilize. Faith’s story shows how those pathways intertwine. She describes the joy of serving in Mexico, where a memory as small as a soccer game inspired a local woman to serve her community years later. Short-term doesn’t mean shallow; when love is sincere, seeds multiply.

The Middle East trip brings the tension of restrictions and the surprise of open doors. Our team navigates careful language, crafts simple VBS moments, and partners with local leaders who build long-term relationships with moms and families. One camp started with “don’t share,” but ended with gatekeepers asking, “Are you Christians?” and inviting a return for Christmas outreach. Along the way, prayer moved from daunting to natural, and fear gave way to the calm assurance that God’s will is the safest place to stand.

If your heart is tugging, consider your next step. Pray for an unreached people group. Welcome a neighbor from another country. Give to send or strengthen a team. Or say yes to going, like Faith did. Subscribe for more stories of mission, identity, and hope—and leave a review to help others find the show. What part will you play?

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A high school senior named Faith tried to dodge a demanding missions course with every excuse in the book—time, cost, workload. Then the excuses crumbled, doors opened, and a quiet prayer for boldness began to change everything. What followed was a vivid dream about Jesus’ return, tears at youth camp, and a defining moment of surrender that turned fear into joy.

We sit down to talk about the subtle pull of culture and how music and media can bend our mood and normalize what doesn’t give life. Faith explains how discernment—not legalism—helped her ask better questions: does this draw me closer to God, or nudge me away? From there, we trace her path across two Mexico trips. On the first, she checked the box and still watched God gather a crowd around a simple gospel story. On the second, prayer and sharing became a delight, not a duty.

The conversation deepens around identity—naming who God says we are and noticing the tangible difference it makes. With resources like Living Fearlessly and Identity Exchange, Faith learned to replace pressure with presence and to live from truth rather than self-talk. We also unpack the urgency of the unreached and the 10/40 Window, where billions live with little to no access to the gospel. Perspectives didn’t just inform; it connected Faith to mentors and a Middle East opportunity, expanding her view of what obedience can look like right now.

If you’ve ever felt the ache of “something’s missing,” wrestled with FOMO, or wondered how to start living on mission, this story will nudge you toward a simple next yes. Listen, reflect, and share it with a friend who needs courage today. If it resonated, follow the show, leave a review, and tell us: what bold step is on your heart this week?

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What if the strongest call on your life isn’t a U-turn, but a re-aiming of everything you already know how to do? That’s the heartbeat of this conversation with Sandra, a veteran educator whose “halftime” moment turned administrative chops and classroom empathy into fuel for global missions and church planting across the Middle East.

We walk through the unlikely path from a bulletin announcement about Peru to chairing an international missions team, then to equipping new believers with Foundations—a narrative, symbol-driven way to teach Scripture where literacy and access are limited. Along the way, Sandra shares the courage framework that steadies her steps: be wise, not fearful. Habakkuk 1:5 reframes the news cycle with a command to look and be astonished, and Revelation 7 expands our horizon with a future choir already forming in living rooms and back rooms today. From house churches taking root to Bibles passed around like yearbooks for signatures, the details are small, human, and unforgettable.

We also get practical. Why three smaller teams instead of one large group matters in sensitive contexts. How a children’s day program opened doors for local believers to meet mothers and get invited back. Where partnership, patience, and presence beat flash and speed. And why encouragement is a mission field of its own for workers who don’t get to come home. Sandra’s white hair became a bridge in cultures that revere elders, and her decades in leadership helped “get down in the details” so others could flourish.

If you’ve wondered whether your skills translate to ministry, or if the Middle East feels too far and too fraught, this story offers a grounded way forward: put your yes on the table and let God do the aiming. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a review with one line about the next faithful step you plan to take.

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The songs reached us before we saw the faces—women in white dresses who had ridden hours in the back of a truck to greet us at the airport, singing it’s true, they’ve come. That moment set the tone for ten days in Masinja Village, Malawi, where radical hospitality, daily child feeding, and a hunger for Scripture collided into a story we’re still processing. We came to serve with Kelly and Greg and their partner New Mary, co-founders of Divine Mission Ministry, and we left with a deeper conviction: when a village hears the gospel together, transformation doesn’t wait.

We walk through the Foundations training that tells the Bible’s grand narrative in five stories—creation to Messiah—in language that first-time hearers can hold onto and retell. With chiefs baptized the year prior and trust already built, we saw the message spread from leaders to families, men and women, youth and elders. The men launched a Bible study that continues today. Teachers in the preschool embraced prayer and story even as they manage classes of eighty toddlers without aides. Children learned to brush their teeth with a song and waited patiently to eat until every child had a bowl and the community had prayed. Along the way, our carefully crafted VBS plans met reality: many little ones had never held a pencil. We pivoted to simple stories, big smiles, and fish drawn on paper, and watched attention turn into delight.

This conversation digs into questions that matter: Do short trips make a difference? How does a team serve without rushing or imposing? What does it look like when locals take the lead and carry the mission to neighboring villages? We share the moment a village elder said, “You came, you shared, we will go tell other villages,” and the day we were given thirteen chickens—costly gifts that spoke of shared ownership and lasting impact. If your heart beats for missions, unreached peoples, and practical ways to help, you’ll find a path here: go, send, welcome internationals locally, and pray. Subscribe, share this story with a friend, and leave a review to help more people discover how everyday obedience can change a village—and change us.

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Join us to hear Pastor Jason and Pastor Chad as they recount how God worked around them during their recent trip to South Asia. This is Part 3 of their journey!

What if multiplication looked less like a stage and more like a living room? We sit down to unpack a journey across North India—from the dusty lanes of Bihar to the radiant Golden Temple in Amritsar—and trace how a quiet network of relationships has become tens of thousands of house churches. The map stretches fast: a tiny headquarters coaching layers of leaders, catalytic planters guiding clusters of churches, and a rhythm of discipleship that moves through families and neighborhoods instead of events.

The contrasts are striking. In Amritsar, Sikh devotion and disciplined beauty mirror values Christians affirm—dignity, service, humility—even as the gospel tells a different story about grace. That contrast becomes a conversation, not a conflict, when a Sikh-background leader opens doors to homes where worship is simple and full. Then the border comes into view. We stand at a fence framed by rival stadiums once built to shout across at each other, and learn how training still leaps the barrier: screens blacked out for security, trusted connectors in Pakistan and Afghanistan, seeds of faith taking root in places most of us only read about.

But the heart of this episode beats in small spaces. A family clears their bedroom and moves the fridge to make room for church. Their story begins with a son miraculously healed after a near-fatal accident; it continues as cousins, parents, and neighbors encounter Jesus and plant more gatherings down the same lane. On a quiet Tuesday night in Bodh Gaya, a rooftop water tank becomes a baptistry as thirty-five new believers step into the water under the gaze of a 90-foot Buddha. No campaigns. No cold contact. Just patient steps through relationships, Scripture, and obedience.

If you’ve wondered how movements grow, why compassion matters across faith lines, and what it looks like to act like Jesus where borders and beliefs collide, this conversation will widen your view and warm your resolve. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review to help others find the show—and then tell us: where is God asking you to take the next step?

We trace how a house-church movement in India grows from relationships, not events, and why compassion turns rivals into neighbors. Stories from Bihar and Amritsar show miracles, cross-border training, and rooftop baptisms in the shadow of a giant Buddha.

• multiplying networks from small staff to thousands of planters
• Bihar origins and Bodh Gaya context for rapid growth
• Sikh culture in Amritsar and bridges for the gospel
• cross-border equipping for Pakistan and Afghanistan via Zoom
• a village home turned church after a dramatic healing
• rooftop baptisms beside a 90-foot Buddha statue
• relationships over street evangelism to reach whole families
• compassion toward other faiths as a missional posture
• unity, dignity beyond caste, and everyday callings
• invitation to explore and join upcoming mission trips

Go to the FBC website to check out upcoming mission trips and sign up for the Perspectives class

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A dusty road, a two-room house, and eighty neighbors pressing in to sing at full volume. That’s where we watched despair give way to freedom and a young farmer—months into his new faith—open his home night after night until ten house churches sprung up along a single stretch of road. We went from the weight of ritual in Bodh Gaya to a leader gathering that pulsed with joy, and the contrast reset our hearts: three million gods demanding payment versus one Savior who gives grace first.

We dig into why northern India remains one of the most complex mission fields on earth—thousands of distinct people groups, layered by caste and language—and how the gospel is still moving with surprising speed. You’ll hear about a humble network leader quietly coaching more than 8,000 verified churches, the role of audio Bibles and oral storytelling among low-literacy communities, and why healing testimonies have become a frequent doorway to faith. We also unpack the daily devotional rhythms that sustain these movements: hours of worship before sunrise, field work, then evening gatherings that turn simple homes into hubs of discipleship.

Back home, the stories sharpen our own calling. Prayer isn’t an intro; it’s the engine. Equipping everyday believers and releasing them quickly—before everything feels polished—can unlock growth we rarely see in traditional models. If you’ve felt a tug toward the unreached or wondered how your ordinary skills could matter, this conversation will help you take a next step. Join us as we explore the tension between spiritual hunger and cultural barriers, the beauty of house churches, and the courage it takes to say yes.

If this stirred you, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find these stories. Then ask God how you can pray, open your home, or take the next Perspectives course—and tell us what step you’re taking.

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What if a nation of 1.4 billion held entire communities who might live and die without ever hearing the name of Jesus? We sat down to talk through our recent journey to India, why we sent both our senior pastor and missions pastor, and what we learned as statistics turned into stories and faces. The scale is staggering, but the questions we asked were simple: Are the reports of explosive growth real, what does discipleship look like on the ground, and how do local leaders sustain ministry when they also need to feed their families?

We unpack how missiologists define unreached and unengaged peoples, why “no access” changes the way we prioritize mission, and what it means to pursue a gospel that not only reaches new places but roots deeply and thrives. From claims of a network with 45,000 churches to conversations with planters in rural villages, we looked for durable fruit—Scripture obedience, reproducible practices, and everyday faith that reshapes home, work, and community. Jason shares a full-circle moment returning to regions he first visited as a young engineering student, reflecting on calling, perseverance, and the Lord’s faithfulness across 25 years.

We also explore business as mission in practical terms. Many catalytic leaders are subsistence farmers whose time is stretched thin as they coach new believers. Our church brought simple, field-tested business training and small seed funding to help leaders start microenterprises that support their families and ministry. It’s not about importing a Western model, but about nurturing local income streams so pastors can remain present, travel to nearby villages, and model integrity in the marketplace. Along the way, we connect the unique gifts within our congregation—entrepreneurs, tradespeople, planners—to global needs that require patience, relationship, and humble service.

If this conversation sparks your heart for the nations—or challenges how you think about calling and sustainability—hit play and share it with a friend. Subscribe for part two, leave a review to help others find the show, and tell us: what skill would you bring to the nations?

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