Associate pastor of First Bible Baptist Church of Blue Springs Bobby Bonner joins us to share his testimony salvation and how he became a missionary in Zambia, Africa. Pastor Bonner recounts his career as a professional baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles and tells us how God burdened him for a life of missions.

Through a series of events, God led Bobby back to the U.S. where he remains an associate pastor and President of International African Missions which is set to reach all of Sub-Sahara Africa with the gospel and to establish churches.

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In this episode with Dr. Scott Pace, Dean of The College at Southeastern and Vice President for Undergraduate Studies we discuss the widely lost art of invitational ministry, particularly the work of calling growing leaders to fulfill their potential as pastors or missionaries.

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Dan Jalowiec joins us today to share his testimony of salvation and how that led to a missionary call to Zambia, Africa for him and his wife, Jan. Dan shares many ways in which he has experienced God’s grace along the way. He discovered the mission field of Zambia on his very first mission trip, after a long career with his wife Jan in optometry. Most recently, Dan and Jan have planned to return to Zambia for more focused cultural and linguistic training; this time they will be without their children who have grown and are trusting Christ in their own endeavors as they have come to maturity.

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We continue our unknown missionary series with Living Faith Bible Institute Professor of Missiology, James Fyffe. This time we cover the life and ministry of man named Qureshi, otherwise known as “The Peanut Butter Man” of Pakistan.

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In this episode Jeff Bartell, the missions pastor of First Baptist Church in New Philadelphia, OH and host of the podcast Theology Roundtable shares his missions experience in post-communist Albania. In 1992 Jeff found himself amidst a people who had never heard the gospel. He learned the language, preached the gospel and made disciples. Now that same Albanian local church God used Jeff to plant is biblically envisioned and actively reproducing local churches in other parts of the world. We discuss missions and specifically how the local church described throughout the New Testament fits God’s plan for evangelizing the lost and making disciples of Jesus Christ.

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Visit https://www.lffellowship.com/focus for sermons and additional materials from the Living Faith Fellowship’s 2022-23 Mission Focus Conference.

Randy Foster of Heartland Baptist Fellowship in Harrisonville, MO shares his story of coming to faith after reading a booklet regarding the rapture. Randy then shares how he was discipled, caught a heart for missions in Belarus and quickly found himself leading in the mission. He tells us how God prepared him to preach through ministries such as Backyard Astronomy club.

After a long season of missions work in Zambia, Africa Randy was invited by Brian Hedges of Heartland Baptist Fellowship in Harrisonville, MO to help start a Bible school. Randy is now also trusting God to get the Word of God to the nations through Word First Publishing at Heartland which seeks to print and ship Bibles of various languages to peoples around the world.

Living Faith Bible Institute Student Jessica Makona shares her testimony of coming to faith in Jesus after encountering truth during a church service. She tells us how relationships she made during her college years impacted her decision to be saved, baptized, biblically discipled. Join us as Jessica shares her international story of finding a home at a little disciple-making church, being equipped through LFBI and now being set out on a church-planting team.

Student of Living Faith Bible Institute Brooke Sidebottom shares her story of how God took her from Kansas City to being part of a church-planting team in Boston, MA. She shares how God helped her grow into the mission-minded believer that she is today. She also updates us on what God is doing now at Living Faith Boston just a couple of years after the initial launch.

We continue our missions series with missionary and LFBI professor James Fyffe. Last time we spoke, we covered the ministry of George Grenfell in the Congo, Africa (Ep. 116). This time we travel to Asia to cover the life of another lesser-known missionary, Quan Xuan, who worked in Vietnam during a communist uprisal which severely opposed the spread of Christianity. His passion for Christ led him to become a great example of what it means to go before those we lead.

In this weeks episode we sit down with Pastor James Fyffe, professor of Missiology at Living Faith Bible Institute and former missionary to Southeast Asia to discuss a missionary not often talked about, George Grenfell. For over 20 years Grenfell gave his life to establish a chain of churches through the Congo. His story is one of inspiration and resolve.

In this episode with Missions Pastor Chris Best of Midtown Baptist Temple we hear how God gave a Chris a burden to develop a team. Then we look behind the scenes at the vision “DNA”, plan & work ongoing to prepare, send and support missionaries worldwide.