Podcast Episodes

MIDDLE EAST: Christians Intentional About Sharing Jesus

Many Muslims are ready to hear the gospel and experience the love of Jesus Christ. For more than two decades Peter Smith has prayed for the nation of Iran and connected with ministries reaching peopl…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

CHINA MISSIONS: "Your Ministry is Over"

Last week, Brother Kevin shared how he came to Christ and how God gave him a passion to reach the 13 million Hui people in China. For members of this people group, to be Hui is to be Muslim. Those wh…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

CHINA MISSIONS: "That's When We Felt the Call"

Within two months of Brother Kevin and his wife beginning gospel work in India, more than a thousand people had come to Christ! The fruit of the gospel was immediate. Local missions leaders asked the…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

SOUTH ASIA: Children are Included in the Great Commission

"For us, it's not AWANA, it's 'Can we disciple one more child?'"

Gajendra Tamang is the Regional Director of AWANA in South Asia, coming alongside pastors and local churches to help reach and discipl…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

CUBA: Pastors Willing to Pay a Price

Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba's communist revolution, died in 2016. But has Castro's death changed the level of Christian persecution in Cuba? "No difference at all," Pastor Mateo, a church leader in …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

HOSTAGE'S WIFE: "Look for the Promises of God and Pray"

It was four in the morning when Els Woodke answered the phone to hear the words she'd been praying for and waiting on for six-and-a-half years: "Jeff has been recovered!"

The last two weeks we've sha…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

MISSIONARY HOSTAGE: "Prayer Works; I'm Proof"

"Hope is the first thing to go" Jeffery Woodke says, speaking about his six-and-a-half years as a hostage held by radical Islamist terror groups. He says he started out, after being kidnapped, prayin…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

KIDNAPPED GOSPEL WORKER: Forgiveness is the Best Weapon We Have

"It's better to be dead than taken hostage."

When Jeff Woodke said those words, he didn't know that he would be taken hostage from his home in Niger in 2016. But Woodke, a long-term relief and gospel…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

SOUTH ASIA: "It's Not an Easy Calling"

David Paul fell in love with Muslims as a college student visiting Turkey (now Türkiye) to share the gospel. After getting married, he and his wife thought they'd go where Muslims are — the Middle Ea…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

TRAUMA CARE: There's a Place for Mourning

Last week, Brother Philip, a field minister for The Voice of the Martyrs in West Africa, shared how witnessing stories of trauma from persecuted Christians and addressing their spiritual needs is a g…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago