Everyday Mission Podcast

The Apostle Paul in Romans 12 tells all Christ followers (then and now) to "Practice hospitality." In 1 Peter 4, Peter encourages us to "offer hospitality to one another without grumbling." Evidently, grumbling was a thing back then when it came to offering hospitality! The same could probably be said for many of us today. Offering hospitality can be difficult. It can be inconvenient. And it often calls for sacrifice. But…Hospitality is to Christianity what peanut butter is to jelly. Because God has shown us such incredible and all-encompassing hospitality thru His Son, Jesus, we are called upon by Him to do the same for others.  For some Christ-followers, this comes naturally. But for others, extending hospitality does not come so easy.Gina's guest on this episode is one of those Christ-followers for whom offering hospitality comes naturally. Heidi Macias is here to help all of us "up our hospitality game" with literally dozens of helpful, simple, and sustainable ideas for offering hospitality. RESOURCE: “Help! I’m Leading a Group in My Home!” https://www.3dmovements.com/help-series 

On this episode, Gina has a conversation with Joe and Melissa Eastman. After they had four young children of their own, Melissa experienced a life-threatening health issue that nearly ended her life. Just before this happened, God called them to bring more kids into their home thru foster care. They are here to share their story of fostering children, adopting some of them, and walking together thru the valley of the shadow of death. Theirs is a story of courageous obedience in the midst of very bleak times, but it's also a story of God's abundant provision, care, and blessing.

Have you ever considered that business could be a powerful tool for mission and ministry? Gina's guest today does because he’s ALWAYS thinking about this. As a seminary-trained pastor and church planter, Pat Dierkse, is using his catering company in Compton, CA as an intentional tool for not only making money for his family but also for providing jobs for those in his neighborhood and for making disciples. Pat and his wife, Julie, planted City Church in Compton over a decade ago, but Pat soon recognized that most of the pastors in Compton were bi-vocational, so he decided to do the same. Together with his love for people, desire to make disciples in his neighborhood, and his passion for culinary arts, Pat started City Catering which now employs several people from the community and feeds the homeless there on a weekly basis. Pat also now coaches others who desire to marry business with mission, and he’s here with Gina to tell his story.See more about the mission of City Catering and the innovative space Pat and City Church are developing in Compton called "The Lab" at www.citycateringcpt.com.

On this episode, Gina is joined by Cath Livesey who is a part of the 3DM UK team and the leader of an organization called Accessible Prophecy that helps local churches grow a prophetic culture. If you've been involved in the 3DM movement for any amount of time, you're probably familiar with Cath because she's the author of a book that we use called "My Sheep Have Ears" that has helped many people learn to listen to the Lord in their own lives and in the life of their missional community and church.  Cath is with Gina on this episode to talk not only about how to hear from the Lord, but she's got a new book out called "Holy Disruption: Harnessing the Prophetic to Shape a More Christlike Church," and she's with Gina to help us see how a healthy prophetic culture in our churches can lead to creative and effective mission.

Gina is joined by Brandon Kelly who is the Lead Pastor of College First Church of God in northwest Ohio and the co-director of an organization called 5Q. 5Q provides a rich and biblical way for leaders who are committed to equipping and releasing the church to be on mission for the Kingdom of God. Some of you may be familiar with the term APEST - which is one way to remember what the five-fold gifting is that the Apostle Paul spoke of in Ephesians 4. APEST stands for Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, and Teacher. Brandon is with Gina today to specifically discuss how we can engage in mission thru our 5-fold gifting - and how to help those we lead do the same.5Q Web Site: www.5QCentral.com3DM Web Site: www.3dmovements.com

Gina is joined by an everyday person who is leading a discipleship and house church movement in India. Josh Howard is the Director of Leadership Training and Multiplication for the Central India Christian Mission, and his story of how literally thousands of everyday people have been and are being trained to make disciples who make disciples is incredible! 

Gina is joined by three guests on this episode: Tanner Morgan, Gaelin Elmore and Kayla DeJesus Rodriguez - all of whom have deep connections with Athletes in Action. Tanner is the starting quarterback of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, Gaelin is a former NFL player and current speaker and facilitator, and Kayla is the team leader of Athletes in Action in Puerto Rico. Each guest shares what they learned about discipleship through Athletes in Action and how God is opening opportunities for them in the area of discipleship and mission.3DM Web Site: www.3dmovements.com 

Gina is joined by an everyday husband, dad, fund manager, and introvert who is also a neighbor on mission. Chris Gleason has been following the Lord since he was a child, but something happened when he was 8 years old that caused him to say that he would never share the Gospel with anyone ever again. That is until about 7 years ago when he blindly agreed to go to a 3DM training event that he says, "floored him." Chris' story is one of God breaking into his life in such a powerful way that he ended up experiencing the redemption of his 8-year-old self and was given a powerful ministry of "presence" in his suburban neighborhood where he is seeing spiritual fruit as he allows the Holy Spirit to lead him and his family on mission.Featured Resource: On-Ramp Huddles. www.3dmovements.com/huddles

We seem to be inundated with bad news these days from our schools, but on this episode, you will be encouraged to hear about some of the ways in which God is on the move in our high schools and on our college campuses. Gina's guest is a young man named Colin Jester who, when he was a sophomore in high school, sensed God calling him to begin a missional community in his school. Colin was an athlete and ran with that crowd, but he sensed God calling him to reach out to those who were different than him - those who were overlooked by some in his high school. His stories of how God moved are pretty incredible! Today, Colin is in college, and after a fruitful ministry in high school, he is continuing to follow the Lord's direction in developing missional relationships with people on his college campus as well. There is so much we can learn from Colin on the faith and prayer it takes to go on mission, and there is much encouragement to be had from hearing how God worked through him at such a young age. 

On this episode, Gina is joined by Mark Burgess. Mark is an Englishman who left England over 15 years ago to go on mission in Lima, Peru. He'll share a bit of that story, and he'll share the amazing thing God did for his church during Covid. But Gina's main focus with Mark is on exploring the ways in which he has learned to listen to the Lord and step out in faith in areas like prophetic words and healing.