Introduction

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Hello friends and welcome back to the Everyday Mission Podcast, which is brought to you in part by Missio Alliance. I'm Mike Potter. Your host of the Everyday Mission Podcast is Gina Mueller, who is the director of 3DM North America. You can find out more about 3DM at 3Dmovements.com. Well, I gotta tell you that I found Gina's conversation on this episode to be incredibly compelling, and I hope you will too. Her guest is Steve Brunnes, who leads a network very similar to 3DM, of missional church movements from his home base in Norway. He'll fill you in on how all of this came about, but the stories he shares about what he's seeing God doing all around the world are simply amazing. And, he has a few important words for us here in North America about the things he's learned from the explosive missional movements that he's a part of. So, let's get right into it. Here's Gina with Steve Brunnes. Hey
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everyone, welcome to the Everyday Mission Podcast. Today's conversation is so fun because we get to connect with kind of our wider 3DM connection family across the world. And today I have with me Steve Brunnes, and he leads Agenda 1, which is a network in Norway. And I'm going to let him tell you much more about that. So, Steve, so glad to have you here. Welcome to the podcast. Thank
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you so much, Gina. It's great to be part of this.
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Hey, can you start us out with some introductions? Tell us a little bit about you, your family. Tell us where you live, those kinds of shorter things. Sure.
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I'd be happy to. Steve Brunnes, like you said, I was actually born in Japan. My parents were American missionaries over there back after the war. I moved to Boulder, Colorado when I was 9, and that became my home in the States. I grew up there until I was finished at high school and then fell in Maine Passion, which was music. I studied music at a conservatory back east for four years, and then came to Norway to work as a professional musician, played in symphony orchestra here. So, that was my identity for many years. I fell in love with Norway. I was actually planning to move on to another country, but I couldn't leave because it was so great to be here. I met on a Christian with my wife. We settled down here, had four kids. I became a Christian after I came to Norway, which is really one reason I stayed here, I guess, but became very much a development of local church here. When I was 40 years old, I had my 40-year-old crisis. I was now at the midlife crisis. I retired as a musician and became a pastor. I started working in this church here in Stavangar, Norway.

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