The Same Commission

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The Same Commission podcast focuses on aspects of mission you might not have considered before. Whether you are thinking about mission for the first time or you've been faithfully serving in or supporting mission – this is the podcast for you! Echoes International's Jim Armstrong and Matt Pitts meet a new guest each week from the world of mission, learn about a new topic and hear ways in which we can pray effectively. Find out how God is moving across His world and be inspired to follow God's leading.

  1. 10.12.2025

    Brought To Bolivia

    The Same Commission  Echoes International podcast  Season 5  Episode 9  BROUGHT TO BOLIVIA  with Helen, mission partner, Bolivia  "We know that it is in the deep trials in our lives that God does wonderful things. I said "Andrew, go ahead, I'm going to Bolivia, I'll go", and within two weeks, I was on the plane to Bolivia."  In the last episode of season five of The Same Commission, mission partner Helen Ponce, who has been serving in Bolivia for over 48 years, takes a trip down memory lane with Echoes International directors Matthew and Mark. Helen shares how she became a believer, about the journey she took to serving in Bolivia and about the people she has worked with, particularly in her prison ministry. She highlights the both the joy and the cost of becoming a mission partner years ago, at a time when travel and communication wasn't as easy as it might seem today.   🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on mission issues today.   Podcast participants: Matthew Pitts, Echoes International General Director and Mark Wood, Echoes International Operations Director, with Helen, mission partner, Bolivia  SOCIAL:   Facebook: @echoesinternational  Instagram: @echoesinternational;   PODCAST INFO:  Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission   Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905   Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5  SOCIAL:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational   Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk   KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #SouthAmerica #Bolivia #missionary #missionaries #Christian #Gospel #prayer #church #believer #prisons #ministry #salvation #trust #commendation #serving

    40 мин.

  2. 03.12.2025

    Impact in Italy

    The Same Commission Echoes International podcast Season 5 Episode 8 IMPACT IN ITALY with Alec, mission partner, Italy "As soon as I got to Naples, it was the strangest thing, I just felt a call of the Lord upon my life to preach the gospel to these people and I just felt a real affinity with the people and a love for these people." From socialist revolutionary to a follower of Jesus, mission partner Alec Catchpole, serving now in Italy, shares with Echoes International's team, Matt and Lesley, his journey to faith and then to mission in Italy. Alec considers the surprising ways in which the Lord works in our lives, and the unlikely partnerships in the gospel that have happened along the way.    🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on mission issues today. Podcast participants: Matthew Pitts, Echoes International General Director and Lesley de Blieck, Echoes International Communications Manager, with Alec, mission partner, Italy  SOCIAL: Facebook: @echoesinternational @Chiesa Evangelica Pozzuoli - Fiume di Vita Instagram: @echoesinternational; @chiesaevangelicapozzuoli YouTube:  ⁨@fiumedivita1997⁩    PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905 Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5 SOCIAL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #Europe #Italy #missionary #missionaries #Christian #Gospel #prayer #church #believer #youthwork #Naples #partnerships

    40 мин.

  3. 26.11.2025

    Travelling to Thailand

    The Same Commission Echoes International podcast Season 5 Episode 7 TRAVELLING TO THAILAND with Adam, mission partner, Thailand "Working in the place that we do and working with the people that we do, we really need God's wisdom. Often ministries like this and the way that the politics works in Asia it can change overnight. With these changes that can come quite quickly, we need to ask God for wisdom." In this Season Five of The Same Commission, we're focusing on how people are called to cross-cultural mission. Today, mission partner Adam chats to Jim and Matt about how he became a mission partner and the journey that he took to get there. Listen back to how Adam became a Christian, who has encouraged him along the way, the challenges of serving in Thailand and the awkward road to marriage for Adam and his wife Nu Nu!    🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on mission issues today. Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Adam, mission partner, Thailand SOCIAL: Facebook: @echoesinternational Instagram: @echoesinternational PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905 Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5 SOCIAL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #Asia #serving #missionary #missionaries #Christian #Gospel #prayer #Myanmar #Thailand #Burma #refugees #school #church #teaching #discipleship #crosscultural #marriage

    47 мин.

  4. 19.11.2025

    Arriving in Asia

    with Dan, mission partner, South Asia "Here was an educated man, who knows something about the different religions of the world, who isn't solely stuck in his bubble, and yet in this unreached place, he had no idea of anything the Bible spoke to" Jim and Matt from The Same Commission met with Dan, who has recently started serving in mission in a country in South Asia. He describes the journey of how he ended up as a mission partner, the lengths it can take to get to the mission field, the challenges of beginning to live in a new place and who has encouraged him along the way.   🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on mission issues today. Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Dan, mission partner, South Asia SOCIAL: Facebook: @echoesinternational Instagram: @echoesinternational PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905 Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5 SOCIAL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #Asia #SouthAsia #unreached #closed #creativeaccess #Bible #serving #missionary #missionaries #Christian #Gospel #language #prayer

    32 мин.

  5. 12.11.2025

    Following Christ to Cardiff

    with Liz, mission partner, cross-cultural mission in the UK "That's an important lesson that I'm learning, that I don't have to be perfect for God to use me, I just need to be available and his power is made perfect in my weakness." In this episode of The Same Commission, Liz shares with Echoes International directors Matthew Pitts and Jim Armstrong about how she got to where she is today, serving cross-culturally in the UK with various ministries to women, particularly those who are refugees, and to families with children who have special needs. Listen to her describe her life story and her rich Christian heritage in India, and what got her personally interested in mission work. 🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on mission issues today. Liz works in cross-cultural mission in Cardiff, working in particular Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Liz, mission partner, cross-cultural mission in the UK SOCIAL: Facebook: @echoesinternational Instagram: @echoesinternational PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905 Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5 SOCIAL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk KEYWORDS: #faith #mission #belief #Christian #crosscultural #women #refugees #migrants #specialneeds #autism #disabilities #care #church #support

    27 мин.

  6. 05.11.2025

    Finding France

    with Mike Packer, mission partner, France   "People are living a life but are lost and unless somebody tells them about the gospel, about Jesus, about his love for them, about his compassion and care for them that is why we've been put in this world, to go into all the world and make disciples." We're delighted to have Mike Packer in the Echoes International podcast studio today. As well as working in mission in France, Mike and Alison Packer also serve as Mission Partner Care Coordinators at Echoes International, supporting mission partners pastorally. In this episode, Mike shares of how he reluctantly became interested in mission in France, having been thrown out his French class at school! We follow his journey to France and the ways in which the Lord used people along his way to encourage him. 🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on mission issues today. Mike, alongside his wife Alison, serve as mission partners in France. They are involved in evangelism, pastoral care, teaching, prison chaplaincy, Bible publication and distribution, youth and young adults' work, as well as being Mission Partner Care Coordinators with Echoes International. Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Mike Packer, mission partner, France. SOCIAL: Facebook: @echoesinternational Instagram: @echoesinternational PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905 Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5 SOCIAL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk KEYWORDS: #mission #faith #christianity #christian #believers #brethren #France #called #serve #prison #Bible #Publications #Missionpartners #Support #Mobilisation #French

    32 мин.

  7. 29.10.2025

    Mia in the Middle East

    with Mia, mission partner, Middle East "Everything we needed, at the right time, He was providing it. When the tough times came, when we were struggling with things I'd remember that." Mission partner Mia (not her real name) joins Echoes International directors Matthew Pitts and Jim Armstrong, as she shares how she and her family arrived in the Middle East as mission partners. From unlikely family beginnings, through Mia's search for a mission role in Africa, to her work with women today, Mia shares the ways in which the Lord led her to the Middle East and how she was mobilised and equipped for mission.   🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on mission issues today. Mia and her family work in the Middle East, where they provide support in finance and admin for an organisation, alongside outreach and discipling. Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Mia, mission partner, Middle East SOCIAL: Facebook: @echoesinternational Instagram: @echoesinternational PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905 Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5 SOCIAL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk KEYWORDS: #mission #outreach #discipleship #MiddleEast #Christian #believers #mobilisation #equip

    38 мин.

  8. 22.10.2025

    Sport in South East Asia

    with Blair, mission partner, South East Asia "So sport if you like is the bridge, the bridge then enables us to make relationships. Once you have those relationships that are strong, we are very intentional about doing discipleship." Series 5 of The Same Commission podcast takes a new turn - each week of this season, we'll hear from a different guest sharing their story of how they ended up serving in cross-cultural mission! Today, Blair (not his real name), who works in South East Asia in sports ministry, looks back on God's call on his life, and the challenges and encouragements that accompanied him along the way. 🔔 Subscribe for more thought-provoking conversations on mission issues today. Blair, Eleanor and their sons Robin and Cameron serve in a country in South East Asia, where they use sports to help plant churches to reach unreached people groups. They are mission partners associated with Echoes International. Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong, General Director, Echoes International, Matthew Pitts, Missions Director, Echoes International and Blair, mission partner in South East Asia SOCIAL: Facebook: @echoesinternational; Instagram: @echoesinternational; PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905 Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5 SOCIAL: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk KEYWORDS: #Christianity #Witness #Evangelism #Faith #Mission #CrossCulturalMission #Evangelism #sports #sportsministry #football #soccer #goodnews #believers #Asia #SouthEastAsia

    32 мин.
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The Same Commission podcast focuses on aspects of mission you might not have considered before. Whether you are thinking about mission for the first time or you've been faithfully serving in or supporting mission – this is the podcast for you! Echoes International's Jim Armstrong and Matt Pitts meet a new guest each week from the world of mission, learn about a new topic and hear ways in which we can pray effectively. Find out how God is moving across His world and be inspired to follow God's leading.

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    Echoes International
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