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Watch out for Scorpions!
Lena has spent the last few months teaching kids in East Africa, serving a long-term team who live there.Just a few years ago she was a student, learning about God's heart for the nations, working with international students on campus an...
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The Blood of the Martyrs
In this episode Matt talks to Dr. Aweis Ali from Somalia, who grew up in a Muslim home in and around Mogadishu, the son of a Muslim cleric and preacher.After coming to Christ and finding some other believers, Aweis' small church s...
Filipino Assassins
In this episode we meet Tom O'Brien who has spent more than 40 years living and serving in South East Asia with his family, making disciples and planting churches.Tom shares some extraodinary stories of twenty years or so in the Southern...
Giant Spiders & Poisoned Dreams
In this episode we meet Nate who taks about his 13 years living in the Middle East, sharing stories of healing, spiders, poisoned fish, expulsion and much more. How can workers deal with burnout and betrayal?Are there benefi...
Faith & Friendship, Grief & Glory
In this episode Matt talks with an old friend and mentor, Dr. Tim Green. Tim and his family lived in Pakistan, Jordan, the UK and South East Asia for many decades. He is a trainer, an educator, a writer and friend of many Mus...
Veiled and Voiceless in Iran
This is the testimony of Esther, an Iranian lady who grew up as a Muslim under the Ayatollah's Islamic regime. Her story is a powerful one - of religious rituals and rules, of strict segregation, of being silent and unseen.She had only 8...
Hunters of Affliction (The Life of Nomads)
In this episode we meet Ron, who spent decades with his family living in South Asia with nomadic peoples - shepherds and goatherders who spend the winters on the plains and the summers up in the mountains. We'll hear about the many dangers that...
The Power of Gentleness & Compassion (ft. Dick Brogden)
In this episode Matt hosts Dick Brogden, a missions leader with decades of experience of church planting amongst Muslims in various countries across Africa and the Middle East. Topics include the power of indirection and comp...
Fulani Nomads - Faith Under Fire
In this episode Matt interviews Peter who spent years working in the Sahara desert amongst one of the most populous unreached Muslim people groups in the world, the Fulani. It's an amazing story of dreams & discipleship, baptism...
Revival & Mission
In this episode Matt interviews a Revival historian called Mathew Backholer about the connection between the great revivals of church history and global mission.Enjoy a brief overview of several hundred years of missions history i...
From Shame to Sonship (ft. Shahriq Khan)
In this episode we meet a young ex-Muslim called Shahriq Khan, who grew up in New York to immigrant parents from Pakistan and India. Shahriq in many ways embodied the American dream, the son of immigrants who achieved great success...
Guns Under The Bed (Stories of Darfur)
In this episode we meet Yasmeen, a lady from rural Switzerland who has spent more than twenty years in Africa. You’ll hear about bold African evangelists forced to dig their own grave for preaching in a certain village, the beginni...
10 Myths about Mission & Missionaries
In this episode Matt & Mike do some myth-busting, challenging many of the half-truths and misunderstandings about mission in today's world. Here are the 10 myths that they tackle:1. There are churches all over the world. ...
From Mecca to Christ (ft. Ahmed Joktan)
In this episode Ahmed shares the mind-blowing story of how he came to Christ from a very strict Muslim family background. He learnt the Quran by heart as a child, his father was a Mufti (a religious scholar) in Mecca, the birthplace of Islam. H...
Iran: Empty Mosques & The Underground Church
The church in Iran today is thought to be the fastest growing church in the world, in spite of intense persecution. Why is that? In this episode Matt talks with Lana Silk, the CEO of Transform Iran. Lana grew up in an Ir...
Somalia - Too Hard for God? (ft. Shino & Shania Gabo)
In this episode former Muslims Shino and Shania Gabo tell their incredible story of coming to faith in Jesus. They both grew up in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, before the civil war broke out. Then they relocated to Europe.&nbs...
Top 10 Tips (for Sharing Jesus with Muslims)
In this special episode Matt and Mike share their top 10 tips for sharing the gospel with Muslims. These are a summary of things we've learned over several decades of conversations with Muslims about Jesus.We'll talk about pitfall...
Befriending Freedom Fighters
60 million Pushtuns live in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are a people admired for their generous hospitality but feared for their warrior culture. It is often said that they are 'the best of friends and the worst of enemies'.In this ep...
Civil War - The Escape
In this episode Matt interviews Daniel & Maria, a young couple from Europe who moved to East Africa with their two-month old baby.Within a year, however, they faced an intense and traumatic week where the country unexpectedly descend...
My Prison. God's Silence.
NB. This is a story of abduction by extremists and there are mentions of torture. In that regard, it is not suitable for younger children. In this episode we meet 'Jonathan' whose story is somehow chilling, gripping an...
Overcoming Fear (ft. Jamie Winship)
In this episode Matt interviews Jamie Winship. Jamie tells some amazing stories from when he served in law enforcement in the Washington DC Metropolitan area, including a miraculous revelation during an active kidnapping case. &nbs...
Inviting Muslims To Hear God’s Voice (ft. Donna Winship)
In this episode Matt interviews Donna Winship. She and her husband Jamie spent 25 years living and working in the Muslim world: Indonesia, Iraq & Jordan. In those locations their greatest joy was seeing Muslims discern the voice of ...
The Motorcycle Diaries (Mozambique)
In this episode we meet a couple from Northern Ireland who have been living and working in rural Mozambique amongst the Yawo people for the last 6 years.Johnny and Kathryn tell some fascinating stories of bugs, witchdoctors, curses and t...