The Missions Podcast

In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott sit down with returning guest, Chris Howles, as he talks about the must-read books for any missions-minded reader in 2025. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

What have we learned from studying giants of the faith in 2024? In this special episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott analyze key takeaways from their favorite guests and topics in 2024. They discuss important figures in missions history, impactful guests on the show, and reveal their 2025 theme for the podcast. Episodes featured: Medieval Missions Explored: Boniface, Patrick, and More With Glenn Sunshine More Modern Lessons From Medieval Missions With Glenn Sunshine Andrew Fuller and Combating Hyper-Calvinism With Jared Longshore Who Was John Nevius? Joshua Bowman on the Missionary to China and Three-Self Missiology What You Didn’t Know About D.L. Moody The Gospel Worth Dying for - The Testimony of John and Betty Stam With Andrew Montonera Why Have the Missionary Conference? Brooks Buser | Missionary 2024 The State of Christianity in Africa With Conrad Mbewe | Missionary 2024 The Truth About the Crusades and ‘Radical’ Islam With Raymond Ibrahim What’s Going on in Nicaea? | Missionary 2024 Defining the Missionary Call and Training With E.D. Burns Are you curious about global missions but not sure where to start? ABWE's 24-Hour DEMO is designed to help you find, explore, and encourage you to take your next step in missions. Find out more and register for the next event at demo.abwe.org. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

In this week's episode, Alex and Scott reflect on the theme for 2024 of "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" and all of the things they've learned by talking about heroes of the faith. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

Would you be prepared to die for the gospel? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott sit down with Andrew Montonera, author of a new missionary biography on John and Betty Stam. They discuss the tragic story of the Stam's martyrdom in China (1934), the ordinariness of their lives, and the impact that their story has on Chinese Christians today. Andrew Montonera is the great grand nephew of John Stam. Upon finding a collection of old books owned by John and Betty Stam, Andrew felt called to write a new missionary biography, "By Life or By Death", about their incredible life and death. Want to hear more of the conversation? In this week's Overtime episode for Premium Subscribers, Alex, Scott, and Brian dive into how stories of martyrs have affected their lives and what those stories do for the global church. Become a Premium Subscriber and listen to that conversation and more at missionspodcast.com/premium. With over 3 billion people in the world who have never heard of Jesus, the global need is tremendous for workers to go into the harvest fields (Matthew 9:37-38). Is God calling you to missions? We'd love to have a conversation with you on how you can use your gifts and talents to advance the Great Commission at home and abroad. Visit abwe.org/SendMe for more information and to take your next step in missions. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Andrew Montonera, author of a new missionary biography on John and Betty Stam, talks about how their life and death impacted the Chinese church and a whole generation of Christians.

How does the house-church model work? What about a whole network of house churches? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott talk with Matt Lynskey, a pastor and church planter in a network of house churches. Together, they talk about the Biblical model for house churches, how house churches can fit within the culture of a city, and how house churches can serve an evangelical and pastoral purpose. Matt Lynskey is a church planter and pastor of Noble City Church in York, PA. He's a former missionary to East Africa, has done translation work, taught at Lancaster Bible College, and founded Noble Collective, a church-based missionary society that plants churches, does pioneer evangelism, and trains ministry leaders. Want more of the conversation? Join our Premium Subscribers in the exclusive Overtime episode to talk over some of the challenges and logistics of running house churches. Become a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium. Help missionaries get to the field. God has called and trained individuals and families to answer the Great Commission, but they need supporters to get there. Encourage and hold the rope for those on Prefield by generously giving to those that God has called to cross-cultural missions. Find a partner in ministry at abwe.org/Prefield. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

This week on The Missions Podcast, Alex and Scott sit down with Matt Lynskey, a local pastor and church planter, to talk about how house churches can engage those who wouldn't normally walk into a typical church building. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

How much do you know about D.L. Moody? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott sits down with Gregg Quiggle, retired professor of Church History at Moody Bible Institute to talk about this critical figure in modern evangelicalism. They discuss how this simple man impacted, through speaking and writing, around 100 million people during his lifetime, was a figurehead in American evangelicalism, and seamlessly combined social initiatives with biblical gospel. Gregg Quiggle is a retired professor of Church History and Historical Theology at Moody Bible Institute. He also ran the Study Abroad program at Moody for 20 years. Currently, he runs a Christian History travel company, Quotelos Travel. He has recently released a biography on D.L. Moody titled, "Bread and Bibles". Gregg lives in Wheaton, Illinois. Explore your calling to global missions at ABWE's 24-Hour DEMO event. These events, held throughout the year, help individuals and churches explore how they can help fulfill the Great Commission and explore God's calling on their life and church. Learn more at demo.abwe.org. Keep the conversation going by becoming a Missions Podcast Premium Subscriber and get access to this week's Overtime episode. Sign up at missionspodcast.com/premium. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott sits down with professor and historian Gregg Quiggle to talk about D.L. Moody and the critical effect he had on modern missions. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.

How do you mobilize students to evangelize to their friends? In this week's episode of The Missions Podcast, Scott sits down with Greg Stier, founder of Dare2Share, as they discuss the challenges and opportunities of equipping young people to effectively and passionately share the gospel. Greg Stier is an evangelist, speaker, author, and founder of Dare 2 Share Ministries. Dare 2 Share helps come alongside the Church to help equip teens to share their faith and youth leaders to build youth ministries that advance the Gospel. Greg is also the author of a newly released book, "Radical Like Jesus", and hosts the Radical Like Jesus Podcast. Become a Premium Subscriber and get access to the bonus Overtime episode where the conversation continues as Scott and Brian discuss how to start evangelistic conversations. Get access at missionspodcast.com/premium . With over 3 billion people in the world who have never heard of Jesus, the global need is tremendous for workers to go into the harvest fields (Matthew 9:37-38). Is God calling you to missions? We'd love to have a conversation with you on how you can use your gifts and talents to advance the Great Commission at home and abroad. Visit abwe.org/SendMe for more information and to take your next step in missions. Do you love The Missions Podcast? Have you been blessed by the show? Then become a Premium Subscriber! Premium Subscribers get access to: Exclusive bonus content A community Signal thread with other listeners and the hosts Invite-only webinars A free gift! Support The Missions Podcast and sign up to be a Premium Subscriber at missionspodcast.com/premium The Missions Podcast is powered by ABWE. Learn more and take your next step in the Great Commission at abwe.org. Want to ask a question or suggest a topic? Email alex@missionspodcast.com.