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Missions Today
by Lambert Creative Media
As technology connects us together, both shrinking and expanding our world, the global church is changing, too. Missions Today will introduce the people, places, and practices leading in today’s missions field: from pastors and non-profits to business leaders pioneering missional entrepreneurship. Join host and radio veteran Collin Lambert each week to meet the global trailblazers who inspire us to advance the future of mission work from wherever God has placed us. Many of the guests featured will be Resource Global teachers, mentors, marketplace leaders, and young alumni from all over.
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God's Heart for the Nations with Jeff Lewis - Encore
As a college student he tried to disrupt a Christian student meeting on campus. But when he arrived, something amazing happened. God met him there. That meeting has led to a career in mobilizing people with the Gospel. Join us this week as we hear Jeff’s story and what motivated him to write one…
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Heartfire Missions with Dr. Jeff Dyer and Martina Ghabour - Encore
There are many medical and humanitarian missions organizations out there. The uniqueness of this one, is that their goal beyond helping people medically and sharing the gospel wherever they are, is to impact those that go on the mission trip so strongly that they will commit themselves to…
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On Mission in South Africa with Kevin Pippert (Encore)
God is at work in Southern Africa! This week on Missions Today we’ll talk with a young man who is helping leaders in two different outreach organizations. Kevin is training leaders and community groups how to implement Community Health Evangelism and he’s the city leader in Capetown for Resource...
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International Mission Board with Victor Hou (Encore)
Victor Hou was born and spent part of his childhood in Asia before coming to the US with his family. Events in High School and college led him to faith in Christ and began to shape his vision for reaching the world with the Gospel. He spent a number of years in the business world before…
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Leaving for Tanzania with Joel and Katie Geberich
Last episode we talked to Colin McDougall, the US Director for Africa Inland Mission. This week, we learn about two of A.I.M.s missionaries headed to the field in the next month. With a young child and a baby on the way, how are they preparing for this big move? What are they thinking about? What...
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Africa Inland Mission with Colin McDougall (Encore)
He was raised in a church that loved and supported missions and missionaries. Then at the age of 20 he felt the call to overseas mission work spending 16 years in Northern Kenya. Now he oversees the work of one of the world’s leading missionary organizations, Africa Inland Mission, and makes sure...
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A Time for Rest and Reset with Matthew Ellison (Encore)
Have you been doing ministry or mission work for years and years without a break? Are you nearing burn out? On this episode of Missions Today, Matthew Ellison, Co-Founder of 16:15 Outfitters shares how his recent sabbatical has impacted his life and ministry. There is something for everyone in…
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Art Opens Hearts with Dr. Muhammed D - Encore
Dr. Muhammed D (not his real name) was born and raised in North Africa in a Muslim household. Through his years of schooling, he began to learn more and more about the Bible and more importantly the Jesus of the Bible. A transformational moment in his life came when he received a Bible from a...
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When Everything is Missions with Matthew Ellison and Denny Spitters (Encore)
You may have heard the phrase, “Everyone is a missionary”. Is that true? Is it biblical? On this episode of Missions Today we’ll look at the importance of definitions and what the bible says about missions and missionaries and their service in the Kingdom of God. Matthew and Denny, authors of…
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Mentoring and Mobilizing Gen Z with Nicole Parks (Encore)
Many are saying that Generation Z could be one of the best generations for ministry and missions, if we can help them find Jesus. Nicole Parks, our guest this week, helps to lead an organization that specifically focuses on young adults aged 18-29 years old. They are committed to in depth and in...
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A Mission of Grace with David Anderson
David is a member of the Red Lake Tribe of Northern Minnesota. He didn’t spend much time on the reservation as a kid because he grew up in his father’s home, but a trip to a traditional native funeral on the reservation changed the direction of David’s life dramatically. He now oversees the...
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Better Ways to Care for Displaced Children (Orphans) with Elli Oswald
Every year, westerners give billions and billions to orphanages and orphan organizations around the world, but are all types of orphan care beneficial? In the last decade or so, research has shown that a holistic approach to caring for these children is more beneficial to their long-term...
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Mission Care Part 2 with Jeff Jackson ENCORE
In Part 2 of our conversation with Jeff Jackson, we’ll learn more about the ministry he founded to serve missionaries in the field. We’ll hear how his “life sentence” turned into another opportunity to serve, and how the church can truly make an impact on the lives of men, women and families...
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Mission Care with Jeff Jackson Part 1 ENCORE
How can churches and church members best serve people they have sent to the field or those already in the field? In the first of a two-part conversation, Collin talks with Jeff Jackson, a man who was in the field with his family in the Philippines for over 5 years before returning home to start…
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Missions, Aviation and The Next Generation
The son of missionaries, our guest this week felt the call to missions early on. A conversation with his father led to him considering and ultimately deciding to go into missionary aviation. That decision led he and his family to the field. However, God had other plans for this young couple…
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On Mission for the Disabled with Joni Eareckson Tada
She has faced incredible life challenges – living in a wheelchair, depression, cancer…twice, COVID and more. Yet for decades she has put Jesus first in her life and served Him and the disabled community faithfully. This week on Missions Today, a conversation with Joni Eareckson Tada. If you’re...
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Getting the Church Involved in Missions with Don Andersen
How does a local church build a missions program? How involved should the pastor be? How do they choose which missions opportunities to support and which ones to let go? Short term mission trips? Longer, deeper engagement with missions partners? On this episode, learn how a local missions pastor...
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Creating a Space for Innovative Missions with Tyler Prieb
During the 1940’s and 1950’s following World War II there was an explosion of mission agencies and ministries that were birthed from a unique set of circumstances: spiritual hunger, technological advancement, geopolitical upheaval and financial capacity. Our guest this week feels we are in a...
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2026 Far East Broadcasting UPDATE with Ed Cannon
FEBC is a ministry whose sole purpose is to share the Good News of Jesus Christ to the world through radio, the Internet, and emerging technologies. Last year they received 150 million listener engagements to the Gospel. FEBC broadcasts are heard in 152 languages and in 50 countries around the...
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Olympics, Pin Trading and the Gospel
The International Mission Board (IMB) is ready to share the hope of Christ with the nations! As the 2026 Winter Olympic games are under way, IMB missionaries are in Italy teaming up with hundreds of U.S. volunteers from South Carolina, South Dakota, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia…
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Tithe Your Career to Missions with Paul Van Der Werf and Katy White
GoCorps is where faith meets action—mobilizing everyday believers to step into extraordinary service around the world. By equipping and sending skilled professionals into some of the most challenging places on earth, GoCorps helps meet real needs in education, healthcare, business, and community...
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Mobilizing for Missions with Dave Jacob
If you’re looking for a conversation that will stir your heart for what God is doing around the world, you won’t want to miss this interview with one of the leaders of Gospel Mobilization. It’s a candid, hope‑filled look at how the gospel is moving in places you might not expect, packed with...
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IRAN Alive Update with Dr. Hormoz Shariat
If you’re curious about how God is moving in some of the most unlikely places, you’ll want to hear this conversation with Dr. Hormoz Shariat. He shares an eye‑opening, hope‑filled update on the church in Iran—stories of courage, transformation, and a growing hunger for the gospel that’s unfolding...
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Digital Missions Update with Jeff Reed
The Church Digital is a movement focused on equipping and mobilizing Christians to make disciples in online spaces, helping churches and individuals see the internet as a legitimate and vibrant mission field. Through resources, training, podcasts, and communities, it encourages digital…
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International Prison Missions with Brian Kamstra
Crossroads Prison Ministries’ international outreach is a growing global movement that brings the hope of the Gospel to incarcerated men and women across more than twenty countries. Through partnerships with national ministry leaders, Crossroads equips local teams with Bible study lessons,...
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2025 Launch Survey with Katy White and Dave Jacob
The 2025 Launch Survey from Gospel Mobilization offers a revealing look into the motivations and barriers shaping today’s aspiring missionaries, drawing insights from 2,428 respondents. The analysis highlights generational differences, the factors most likely to propel someone toward…
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Missions Today 2025 Highlights with Collin Lambert
From a mission to the public schools to missionary journalism, from reaching the unreached to AI and online missions, we have traveled the globe to find stories of God at work around the world. On this episode of Missions Today, we’ll look at five highlights from 2025 and hopefully bring a bit of...
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God's Moving Through Local Church Missions with Tonya Zunigha
At one point in college she wanted nothing to do with God. Then, a special bible study opened her eyes to God’s mission in the world and the need to provide God’s Word and local churches to the least and the lost. Now, as a Director of Missions at a local church, she is seeing where and how God…
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Shared Foundations Initiative with Kimberly Drage and Vern Salter
The Shared Foundations Initiative is a strategic collaboration launched by the People Care & Development track of the Missio Nexus Leaders Conference, in partnership with the John Powell Institute at Mission Training International. It seeks to create a unified framework for Member Care, or…
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That All May Hear His Voice 2 with Philip Asare
He had no desire to get involved in his father's ministry. He wanted to work in finance, travel the world, spend time with friends. But God clearly communicated to him one day that he was to serve in his father's organization, and that's just what he did. Now, after his father's tenure of 36…
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Missions to the Deaf with Dr. Rob Myers
DOOR International is a global Christian ministry dedicated to reaching Deaf communities with the Gospel through sign language Bible translation and Deaf-led church planting. Founded in 1983, the organization partners with indigenous Deaf leaders to ensure that Scripture is accessible in the…
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Unto the Least with Joe Pryor and Doug Cupery
This week on Missions Today: Crossroads Prison Ministry is a faith-based organization dedicated to sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with incarcerated individuals and helping them grow as disciples. Its mission is to glorify God by fulfilling the Great Commission inside prisons, offering Bible...
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Bibles for China with Kurt Rovenstine
Bibles for China is a nonprofit ministry dedicated to providing God’s Word to Christians in rural China, equipping believers and lay leaders with Scripture to strengthen their faith and ministry. With over a million bibles distributed, Bibles for China continues to take God's Word to people in…
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God's Call to Engage with Jeff King
From an early age, he was fascinated with the stories of missionaries. In college he was challenged to pray that the Lord would put a country on his heart. He had no desire to fulfill the “American Dream” but rather his desire was to “go to the hard places and do hard things” for the Kingdom.…
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Barnabas AID with Jeremy Frith
It is said that 1 in 8 Christians around the world are facing persecution. Just a few years ago, that number was 1 in 10. Persecution and suffering of our brothers and sisters in Christ is on the rise. Join us this week as we hear the story of Jeremy Frith and his organization Barnabas AID. They...
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Church Centric Missions with Tim Hood
Imagine planning to study politics, run for office and ultimately become president and then ending up on the mission field in North Africa! That is just a bit of the story of our guest this week who now runs an organization that focuses on making sure the local church is actively involved in...
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Reflecting Christ: Reflejo! with Dave Matthews
The saying about sending missionaries used to be “from here (the West) to there (everywhere else)”. But with the move of the Church from the West to the Global South, Asia and Africa, we now hear the phrase “from everywhere to everywhere”. Missionaries are truly being sent out from nations all…
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Reclaiming Detroit for Jesus with Noah Stricker
Regent Park…it was named “Detroit’s Most Dangerous Zip Code” in 2011. Now, it is being reclaimed, rebuilt and empowered through the work of many people and through the ministry of LifeBUILDERS Detroit. Join us this week as we speak with one of the young leaders of this impactful and life-changing...
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Missionaries Funded and Thriving with Marvin Slaton
One of the leading reasons that missionaries don’t make it to the field is the fear of not being able to raise and handle all the financial needs that accompany a move abroad. This week on Missions Today, we look at an organization that is helping over 1200 missionaries in 101 countries keep it…
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Mission Discovery with Nathan Walters
For over 30 years, Mission Discovery has been finding just the right mission trips for people who desire to help those in need. One of their discoveries has been that many of those who go on these trips are changed even more than those they went to help. Some are even finding Jesus in the midst…
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Free Wheelchair Mission with Nuka Hart
Some 80 million people around the globe need wheelchairs but don't have access to one. This weekend on Missions Today, Nuka Hart of Free Wheelchair Mission joins me to talk about how they are providing quality wheelchairs to people in need in over 90 countries. These wheelchairs not only meet the...
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From the City to the Mountains with Chris Nickerson
He came to Christ in college and almost immediately felt a call to missions. He and his family began a work in Chihuahua with the Tarahumara people who had moved from the mountains to the city. Through bible study, discipleship, church planting and leadership programs, they have seen miraculous...
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Called to Serve with Mark Luckey
He never planned to be in missions, but God had plans for him. He and his family served for over a decade in countries throughout Africa. Then he came back to the states and was asked to lead an organization dedicated to Sunday School and Family Empowerment. Here how this Call to Serve is now...
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Family Life Missions with Lisa Steele
Family, it’s something that many children around the globe do not have. This weekend on Missions Today we’ll dig into the work and outreach of Family Life Missions. Founded in 1993, this organization, working in the heart of Honduras, is seeking to bring hope, health and stability to families…
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Women Missionaries Reaching the Least of These with Mischelle Manis
In just two years, Mischelle Manis has seen God do some amazing things through the lives and work of women missionaries with Reaching Souls. What began with a few women in Cuba, now totals 332 missionaries in a dozen locations around the globe. From Zambia to Mexico and SE Asia to Kenya…
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Expanding the Reach of the Gospel with Doug Lucas
College boys sitting around a map of the world, praying for the Lord’s direction. That’s where Team Expansion really began. Now impacting over 100,000 people in 10,000 churches, Team Expansion is sharing the love and light of Jesus all over the world. It’s a powerful story. Hear it on this week’s...
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CADENCE Cont. and Free Burma Rangers with Paul Bradley
Last week we spoke with Brian Kleager about CADENCE International, a ministry serving the military all over the world. This week we follow up with a conversation with Paul Bradley on his work with CADENCE and an update on the FREE BURMA RANGERS!! That's on this week’s episode of Missions…
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On a Military Mission with Brian Kleager
He served in the military, now he serves our military. But it doesn't stop there. He and his team serve the military in war torn Burundi and Ukraine. Hear his powerful story and the incredible things that CADENCE International is doing around the world for the cause of Christ. That's on this…
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Mission Field: Public School with Joel Penton
An obscure law from the 1950s makes it possible for kids to leave their public school campuses for biblical instruction. Hear how this former football player from THE Ohio State University used his influence and abilities to create an organization now impacting over 1000 schools nationwide!…
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One Way with Michael Thompson
He’s been a missionary, a worship pastor, a recording artist and more. While serving overseas he had a dream, a dream of starting an organization that would impact people with the reality of the Gospel. Now, his work impacts millions in over 190 countries. Hear this powerful story of God-at-work…
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As technology connects us together, both shrinking and expanding our world, the global church is changing, too. Missions Today will introduce the people, places, and practices leading in today’s missions field: from pastors and non-profits to business leaders pioneering missional entrepreneurship. Join host and radio veteran Collin Lambert each week to meet the global trailblazers who inspire us to advance the future of mission work from wherever God has placed us. Many of the guests featured will be Resource Global teachers, mentors, marketplace leaders, and young alumni from all over.
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