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Medina Focus
by Medina Focus
This podcast is a project of the MEDINA focus with the goal of providing space for collaboration and community among practitioners to the Muslim Diaspora in North America. As people around the world have immigrated to the West many Christians have realized that they live and work in the midst of the nations and they often feel alone and unprepared to communicate cross-culturally. If you are looking for conversation and community surrounding issues of loving Muslim friends in Jesus name, we welcome you into the conversation.
Episodes
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Vision Trips Overseas
For many who work among Middle Eastern people in North America, there is a natural progression toward imagining what it would be like to live abroad and minister in the home countries of their friends. But how to gain the confidence it would take to take such a big cross-cultural step. Our guests...
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Special Announcement for Merge 2022
Nate and Brian talking about what they're looking forward to at Merge Conference in September.
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Diaspora Ministry as Innovation
What could be more innovative than an entire culture being affected by the gospel? Perhaps not many of us would think of Diaspora ministry as being particularly innovative, but it is still a relatively new field compared to the efforts we put into sending workers overseas. Today, we welcome Paul...
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Nimble Sending and Staying Agencies
There's a new generation of innovative organizations that train up workers to go to the nations, and helps send them there. They are also placing workers in North America, where they will contribute to the dynamic interaction between domestic and international outreach. We're pleased to have two...
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Practical Outreach Training in Atlanta
Founder of Global Frontier Missions, Grant Haynes, shares some of the experiences and struggles of his students as they learn how to effectively impact the lives of Muslims in their community with the love of Jesus. This is a great resource for anyone who would like to learn from others with more...
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Muslim International Students
Nate and Brian are pleased to welcome three veterans to international student ministry among Muslims. Jake is on staff at Central Christian Church in Tempe, Arizona and intentionally connects with students on the ASU campus. Liz and Jonathan work with Chi Alpha Ministries on a large state campus…
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Moving to Meat Packing Jobs
Muslim refugees looking for work often move away from the city they were initially resettled in to find jobs in meat packing plants in smaller towns. Fred and Joe join us in this episode to share stories of how they minister in these marketplace settings.
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Exploring Media to Movements Strategies
In this episode, Brian helps to introduce a great new word picture, “gospel remittances,” referring to the ways that the good news travels on the relationships between Muslims in the diaspora and their family in homelands. Carlos and Tim outline a trending outreach strategy involving social…
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Honor and Shame
This episode we interview two leaders in the discussion on Honor and Shame: Special guests: Syed Ibn Syed and Audrey Frank. Audrey Frank is an author, speaker, storyteller. She and her family have spent over 20 years living and working among Muslims in North Africa, the Middle East, and beyond.…
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The Global Impact of Diaspora Missions
Brian and Nate explore how ministry among the diaspora in North America is extended back to home countries. Special guests, Susan and Josh, share stories of how their own local ministries have overflowed into global influence.
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Lessons Learned among Friends in 2020
Brian and Nate reflect on a year of collaborative conversations in this summary reprise of memorable moments with guests in 2020. Discovering common trends give us insights into new topics for the next year.
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Cross-cultural Trauma Care in San Diego
Samantha shares about her work in trauma-care informed ministry, specifically utilizing cultural awareness to develop non-western approaches that may be effectively received.
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Bible Translation in San Diego
Trevor shares how he finds language speakers from countries that are hard to enter for cross-cultural workers. Though they are now in diaspora in the United States, they are uniquely qualified to help as consultants in projects where the Bible is being translated into their mother tongue.
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ESL in Detroit
Aaron describes the difference it has made to switch from holding their ESL classes at a church building to working with learners in their homes within the high density Arab Muslim environment around him.
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Third Culture Identity Engagement in the Midwest
Jenifer describes how she creatively accesses her local refugee community by coaching community college students to connect with Somali students who are bridge builders as generation 1.5 in their diaspora context.
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Missional Micro Church Outreach in Vancouver BC
Nicole shares about how belonging to a non-traditional, micro-church has expanded her outreach beyond the Arabic-speaking community, and of her insights about "imposter syndrome."
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Overcoming Obstacles in Amarillo
Ryan shares about how he helps church-goers build cross-cultural competencies by bringing them with him to visit his refugee friends in Texas.
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Year One in Alaska
Marie shares with us about her journey of God leading her to reach the Muslim community in Alaska.
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Mobilizing Latin America for Central Asia
This week on the MEDINA podcast, Dave tells us about his experience mobilizing Latinos to go to Central Asia.
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MUPPIES in the Bay Area
Candace tells us what MUPPIES are, and talks about her ministry among them in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Trauma Care in Nashville
Steve shares about his experiences moving to a new city to serve others in various Muslim ministries and to introduce the key need for trauma care in all that we do. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and ideas for future interviews. Interactivity is our primary goal in presenting this…
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Internship in Anaheim
Brandon shares about his work with The Guild in Little Arabia - a training program/ministry community with glocal focus. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and ideas for future interviews. Interactivity is our primary goal in presenting this podcast. We're after the richness of "tribal"...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is a project of the MEDINA focus with the goal of providing space for collaboration and community among practitioners to the Muslim Diaspora in North America. As people around the world have immigrated to the West many Christians have realized that they live and work in the midst of the nations and they often feel alone and unprepared to communicate cross-culturally. If you are looking for conversation and community surrounding issues of loving Muslim friends in Jesus name, we welcome you into the conversation.
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