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Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Bryon Mondok, former Shepherd's Staff missionary, continues telling the story of how his family navigated a life-changing family crisis while preparing to go to the mission field. Listen to part one here.
Watch a documentary about the Mondok family here.
Jeff also mentions J Oswald Smith of the Peoples Church in Toronto. Here's some background on him.
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
The Mondoks are former Shepherd's Staff missionaries. While preparing to go to the mission field in the Middle East when, crisis struck, derailing all plans, and changing the course of their lives. This is part one of an interview with Bryon Mondok where he shares how his family navigated a life-changing family crisis.
Watch a documentary about the Mondok family here.
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
This is part two of our interview with Shepherd's Staff Missionaries Byron and Emily Johnson. They are sent out from Calvary Aurora where Ed Taylor is the lead pastor. Emily's transparency about her medical condition is endearing and disarming. It comes with challenges one could not imagine without going through it. Their testimony of perseverance on the field is phenomenal.
Click here for part one of this interview.
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
In a previous podcast, we interviewed Pastor Ed Taylor, lead pastor of Calvary Aurora. Pastor Ed and his team have developed effective onramps for missionaries preparing to work on the international mission field. The podcast with Pastor Ed is definitely worth listening to.
Byron and Emily Johnson are missionaries sent to Ukraine from Calvary Aurora. These two are an incredible couple with a fascinating story, a testimony of God's direction and provision. You'll really enjoy this two part interview.
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Tuesday May 28, 2019
Tuesday May 28, 2019
We're very pleased to have Pastor Ed Taylor, lead pastor at Calvary Aurora, with us in this podcast. This is part two of our interview with Ed. Listen to part one here.
Other resources:
» Ed mentions What's App
» Jeff mentions the late Pastor John Michaels. Here's more about Pastor John.
» Ed references the passing of his son. He writes here about that.
Tuesday May 14, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 2019
We had a great time interviewing Pastor Ed Taylor in this episode of Facilitating the Mission. Pastor Ed pastors Calvary Chapel Aurora, a church he planted in the late nineties. One of the key things we learn from Pastor Ed in part one of this interview is how important accessibility to the heart of the pastor is to communicating mission and changing church culture.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
In this episode Jeff Jackson explains missionary self-care from biblical and practical perspectives.
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Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
In this podcast, we learn about what a missionary needs to do to prepare for furlough and how the church can provide the support a missionary needs to have a productive and refreshing furlough.
Resources mentioned:
» Philippians 1:12-26
» 12 Articles about Furlough from Our Favorite Blogs
Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
In this episode of Facilitating the Mission, the idea of "Furlough" is tackled. Many don't even know what the word means. Pastor Jeff Jackson unpacks this term for us and we learn that, when done well, a furlough is a valuable gift to a missionary.
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Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
House church movements like the one Francis Chan founded in 2013 called We Are Church are becoming recognized as normal and needed for reaching local culture with the Gospel. So how will missionaries from house churches get equipped when called out to go to the mission field from within a house church network? In this episode of Facilitating the Mission, we discuss serving missionaries sent from house churches.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
» Letters to the Church by Francis Chan
» Total Church by Tim Chester