Advancing the Mission

This week, on Advancing the Mission, we continue talking to those with whom Pastor Chris interacted while in Egypt.  This week, he interviews Dr. Latif Ramses.  Dr. Latif is the National Leader of the Church of God in Egypt and the President of the General Assembly there.  This is a great conversation to learn more about what is happening in Egypt and the long-term vision for the Church of God there.

This week on Advancing the Mission, I interviewed Nate Tatman, the Regional Coordinator for Europe and the Middle East, as part of the Three Worlds team. I interviewed him on site in Egypt as we drove around to some of the different churches there. This is a great opportunity to hear about where our Joy to the World offering will be going for 2024 and to hear from Nate, who has seen the growth of the Church of God in Egypt over the last decade.

This week on Advancing the Mission, I continue talking through my most recent trip to Egypt. Here we get into some of the details of each church that we visited and the way God is specifically impacting those communities!

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!

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.

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...

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

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!

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.

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/