Advancing the Mission

Episode 219: Egypt Recap Part 1

This week on Advancing the Mission, I talk through my recent trip to Egypt. In Part 1, I give a general overview of the week and the churches we visited. I spent 12 days in Egypt and visited 10 churches and pastors during that time. Listen to hear about how the Church of God is growing and doing amazing work in Egypt!

Episode 218: REPLAY - interview with Rod Stafford

This week on Advancing the Mission, we replay an episode from 2021. This is part of my top 5 interviews of all time! We chat with Rod Stafford, the lead pastor at Fairfax Church. Join us to hear about their strategy to impact lives locally and globally.

Episode 217: REPLAY - Interview with Thomas Smith

This week on Advancing the Mission, we continue playing my top 5 favorite interviews with a replay of a conversation with Thomas Smith during Black History Month in 2022. Tom Smith is the assistant school leader and co-founder of Smith Academy For Excellence. We have partnered with this school for several years at County Line. Tom has been in many leadership positions in Fort Wayne schools and was the first minority varsity coach in Fort Wayne in 1983. We can all learn from his experience of being a black man in a predominantly white community. Listen as he talks about his life and some of the injustices he has dealt with. Hopefully, this is something we can all learn from.
Some resources he recommends:
1) The Bible - so we can respond to racism like Christ.
2) ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Im-Still-Here.../dp/1524760854⁠
3) ⁠https://www.amazon.com/.../080704.../ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0...⁠
4) ⁠https://www.amazon.com/White.../dp/0807047414/ref=sr_1_1...

Episode 216: REPLAY - interview with Pastor Jon Fogel

This week on Advancing the Mission, we replay our Father's Day episode from last year when we interviewed Jon Fogel, Senior Pastor at Hope Covenant Church in Orland Park, IL. This is continuing our series on my top 5 favorite interviews from Advancing the Mission.
For our conversation today, we talk about a viral parenting account Jon created a few years back with over 750,000 followers. If you are a parent, want to be a parent one day, or have parents you need to check out this conversation. What an incredible blessing that Jon agreed to talk through holistic parenting with us this week

Episode 215: REPLAY - interview with Pastor Beth Wolff

This week on Advancing the Mission, we replay an interview from back in 2020 as part of my top 5 interviews of all time! We talk with Beth Wolff, Lead Pastor at Clarksburg Church, and talk about what it looks like for a congregation to live on mission! If you want to learn more about how to reach your neighbors and those around you for Christ, give this episode a listen!

Episode 214: REPLAY - interview with Joshua Raines

This week on Advancing the Mission, we begin a 5 week series where we go back and play my top 5 favorite interviews on Advancing the Mission (in no particular order). This first week we replay a conversation from Black History Month in 2023 with Joshua Raines of Star 88.3 and Destiny Rescue. We talk with Joshua about his experience and what this month means to him.

Episode 213: REPLAY - interview with Zach Langford

This week on Advancing the Mission, we replay an interview with Zach Langford from January of this year. Zach and his wife Audrey serve as missionaries with Three Worlds serving in Birkenhead, UK. Zach and I serve on an advisory board together for a ministry in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
If you'd like to learn more about Zach and Audrey's ministry, or to give to them, click this link: ⁠https://chogglobal.org/team/zalangford/

Episode 212: REPLAY - interview with Sophie Kihm (missionary kid)

This week on Advancing the Mission, we replay an episode from 2023 when our Children's Pastor, Stacey Zeisloft, joined me to interview Sophie Kihm. Sophie is a missionary kid who is growing up in Budapest, Hungary. She shares some of her unique experiences as someone growing up in another culture. You won't want to miss her talk about this and see how things like school and grocery shopping are different there compared to life in the United States.
If you'd like to learn more about the work of Three Worlds or the Kihms, you can follow them on Facebook here:
Three Worlds: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/3wchog⁠
Dan & Christy Kihm: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/kihms3w

Episode 211: REPLAY - interview with John Johnson

This week on Advancing the Mission we replay an interview from 2022 that Pastor Chris recorded while traveling in Tanzania. He interviews John Johnson, Regional Coordinator for Africa with the Church of God. Join us as he talks about some of the fantastic work happening on the continent of Africa and as he shares stories of his lifelong work in Global Missions.

Episode 210: REPLAY - interview with Alejandro & Carmen DeFrancisco

This week on Advancing the Mission, we replay an interview with Alejandro & Carmen DeFrancisco from back in 2023. The DeFrancisco's are missionaries to Madrid, Spain, with Three Worlds. This interview was part of our lunch & learn after service on Sunday, April 16, 2023.