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Description: Have you read The God Ask and want to hear more from the author Steve Shadrach? Here’s your chance. Be encouraged and inspired to follow God wholeheartedly down the path of support raising with this episode!

Notes:

The God Ask by Steve Shadrach

Support Raising Solutions Website: https://supportraisingsolutions.org

Five Keys to Personal Support Raising: https://supportraisingsolutions.org/docs/5Keys-v3.1.pdf

Center for Mission Mobilization: mobilization.org

Support Raising Boot Camp: https://supportraisingsolutions.org/bootcamp/

Article: https://supportraisingsolutions.org/rethinking-short-term-mission-fundraising/#.YVssB5rMKUk 

Bio:

Dr. Steve Shadrach (https://twitter.com/steveshadrach) has a passion for developing laborers for Christ to reach the world. In college, he was involved with Cru, Navs, and as head counselor with Kanakuk Kamps. He served as Pastor of Students and Missions at University Baptist Church in Fayetteville, AR. He is the founder of Student Mobilization, which focuses on evangelizing and discipling college students in the U.S. and abroad, The Traveling Team w/Todd Ahrend, Center for Mission Mobilization and Support Raising Solutions w/John Patton, and Campus Ministry Today w/John Allert. From 2004-2012 he also served as the Director of Mobilization for the U.S. Center for World Mission, including the oversight of the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement study program w/Dave Flynn. Dr. Shadrach has a Masters in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate of Ministry in Church and Para-church Executive Leadership from Denver Seminary. Steve and his wife Carol reside in Fayetteville, AR, where he serves as the Global Ambassador of the Center for Mission Mobilization(www.mobilization.org). They have five adult children and a growing brood of grandchildren!




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Description: Support raising is difficult for all missionaries but minority missionaries have their own challenges. Byron Johnson from Vision 9:38 shares about these challenges, how to overcome them, and what churches and organizations can do to support minority missionaries.

Notes:

https://www.vision938.org/

https://www.naamcevents.org/

Bio:

Byron Johnson's roles included campus staff, campus director, area director, and regional director. He is the Founder and Executive Director of VISION 9:38 (2012). For 20 years (1992-2012), He served as a missionary with CO (Campus Outreach). He served in various capacities with CO. 

He continues to disciple and mentor young African-American male college students at Morehouse College. His hope and prayer is that God would raise up other African-American missionaries to labor in His harvest.

Byron is married to Kim and they have five children (Kelsey, James Byron II, Kaitlyn, Jordan, and Jonathan). Byron met Kim on a summer mission project hosted by CO while the two of them were in college. They were married in 1993 and currently reside in Atlanta, GA.


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Description: What if fundraising was a ministry in itself? What if fundraising and giving became joyful? We talk with Scott Rodin about how we can approach fundraising from a biblical perspective that makes God the fundraiser and us a minister to those around us.

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Books by Scott Rodin: Million Dollar Dime, The Sower, The Third Conversion

https://thestewardsjourney.com/

https://thefocusgroup.com/

Bio:

Scott Rodin has a passion for helping Christian ministry leaders take a biblical approach to leadership development, strategic planning, board development and raising kingdom resources. Over the past thirty-five years he has worked with hundreds of organizations in the U.S., Canada, Middle East, Great Britain, China, India, the Philippines and Australia.

Dr. Rodin is president of The Steward’s Journey and a Senior Consultant and Chief Strategy Officer for The FOCUS Group. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Association of Biblical Higher Education. Dr. Rodin holds Master of Theology and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Systematic Theology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.  He has authored seventeen books and he blogs weekly at www.thestewardsjourney.com.


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Description: How can you share the gospel with someone in a Muslim culture? This podcast with Pierre Houssney of Horizons International explores some key doctrines of Islam including their view of God, forgiveness, and much more. He also provides some basic ideas that will help you build friendships with muslims and have the confidence to share the gospel in a meaningful and relevant way.

Notes:

https://www.horizonsinternational.org/

www.biblicalmissiology.org

www.engagingislam.org

Bio:

Pierre Rashad Houssney / Executive Director, Horizons International

Pierre Rashad Houssney is a Lebanese-American who grew up in the context of cross-cultural ministry among Muslims and international students. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado, and is fluent in English and Arabic. He has been in full-time ministry with Horizons International since 2006, and has been an active member of Horizons’ teaching staff and curriculum development team since 2002.

He played a lead role in the development and teaching of the Engaging Islam and Cubs to Lions training curricula, and co-edited Engaging Islam (Georges Houssney, Treeline Publishing, Boulder, CO, 2010). Pierre has traveled to over 30 countries, and his field experience in the Middle East began when he spent summers doing outreach in Lebanon as a teenager and spent a gap year during university doing music ministry in Beirut. 

Pierre lives in Beirut, Lebanon, with his wife, Gigi, and their three children -Rami, Talia, and Jana - where he leads a team of 98 nationals and missionaries who run 8 centers for evangelism and discipleship in Lebanon and surrounding countries, the School of Hope for refugee children, and the Middle East Center forWorld Missions (MEC) in Beirut, Lebanon, through which Horizons partners with a network of over 80 Lebanese churches and hundreds of foreign churches and organizations who minister to Muslims in the Middle East. As a key part ofHorizons' teaching staff, he trains Arab and Western Christians for effective ministry to Muslims, and is active in missiological advocacy among the global missions community. Pierre is a team player, and loves to see new leaders thrive and work together to glorify God.


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Description: What do you need to know about the culture before serving in an Asian country? While not every country or region is the same, this podcast with “A friend of Asia” will help you with large cultural themes that will help you understand and communicate with those you are visiting. We talk about views of the after-life, “face,” honor-shame, ancestor worship and other elements of culture but, most importantly, talk about how the message of the gospel can be uniquely good news for those you are visiting.

Notes:

go2serve.com

cyclingadventures.org


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Description: Gene Harter from Greater Europe Mission discusses how to prepare for ministry in a European, post-modern, post-Christian setting. Before you assume western Europe is just like your culture, have a listen to this podcast! We talk about how to shatter preconceived ideas of visiting Americans and Canadians and the importance of authentic relationships, among many other things.

Notes:

gemteams.org

gemteams@gemission.org


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