As this month brings an international focus on Social Justice, today’s podcast highlights how Reach Beyond is passionately involved in acts of social justice combined with evangelism globally.
Today’s young emerging leaders are passionate about social justice. They want to engage in being part of the solution. Micah 6:8 reminds us to “Act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.”
Listen to Steve Harling and Jon Fugler as they tell powerful stories of redemption and life transformation. You’ll hear how God is using acts of justice that demonstrate the love of Jesus to clear the way for evangelism. Much like Jesus did -- when he met personal physical needs first, that opened the way for others to receive his message of salvation.
From the jungles of Ecuador to the borders of Nepal, you’ll hear real stories of lives that have been pulled from the pits of darkness through the ministry and partnerships of Reach Beyond.
If you have a heart and passion for social justice, you won’t want to miss this episode. Grab a latte, tune in, or get plugged in, and listen to ways you can be involved in acting justly around the world!
“Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.” – ECC. 4:9
Do you know the God-given purpose of your marriage? Do you wonder how you and your spouse can best serve the Lord together? On today’s podcast, you’ll hear how God has designed marriage for ministry “as vast and creative as God is”, and discover the keys to unlocking God’s purpose for yours. As marriage ‘coaches’, Greg and Julie Gorman share scriptural insights, wisdom and truth for building God-centered marriages. Listen to ways you can learn to plant seeds of love, be “inspirationally disciplined” and reciprocate God’s unconditional love to one another. You won’t want to miss this dialogue for empowering you and your spouse to greater love, and for building a marriage that thrives! ]
Today’s episode will challenge and inspire you to be bold and passionate in sharing your faith with others. Hear how Shazam Mohamed with Reach Beyond Canada is using creative technology to reach thousands of internationals and Muslims. Be encouraged as you listen to Shazam talk about overcoming fears to reach out to others with the gospel, and how to make the most of opportunities before us.
You’ll also hear how God brought Shazam from working in the secular world to where he never thought he’d be – in full-time ministry!
Today the outreach of Reach Beyond Canada includes reaching many who have never even met a Christian before. If you want to know how to make cross-cultural connections and what it takes to be an effective witness for Christ, you won’t want to miss this podcast!
What will it take in 2017 to make significant progress in ‘finishing the task’ of reaching the unreached and unengaged?
Casting vision for this in the new year is more than just making resolutions. It’s a call to take action. That’s what you’ll hear from Reach Beyond President Steve Harling in this episode.
Two key strategies of the vision involve (1) a paradigm shift in how we view missions as a whole, and (2) for missions agencies and churches to form strategic partnerships.
You’ll want to hear Steve outline the steps for accomplishing the vision in 2017 and beyond. Steve outlines five key areas of focus, with the overarching goal in mind: that all people will hear the gospel, and getting the name of Jesus into unreached people groups.
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Everyone loves a good story. And do we have stories to tell in this episode.
Hear some incredible tales from around the world, as told by the Reach Beyond staff that serve behind the scenes. You’ll hear stories of real people whose lives have been changed through this ministry this year. Now many of these are celebrating Christmas for the first time this year.
Hear about how a community in Burkina Faso has come to faith and is now thriving, through our radio outreach there.
Listen to the story of Pablo who lives in a remote village along the Amazon in Brazil. Through a partner ministry, MP3 players are being distributed to some of the most unreached places of this region, and the gospel is changing lives.
From the Asia Pacific region comes riveting stories of total life transformation. You’ll hear about one couple who was prevented from committing suicide after hearing about the love of Jesus on a partner radio station.
These are just a few of the life-changing stories in this episode. You’ll also hear stories from Ghana, West Africa, Indonesia, Latin America and more. Through partner ministries around the globe, Reach Beyond is being the hands and voice of Jesus to bring his love to those who have been unreached. God is bringing forth much good fruit through these outreaches.
Listen and enjoy these stories with us!
From law enforcement, to family ministry to global outreach. In a few words, that’s been the career path of Australian Dale Stagg.
You’ll meet Dale in this episode and hear how God is using him to take the light of the gospel to one of the hardest places in the world. Dale leads Reach Beyond Australia, a ministry that beams hundreds of thousands of watts of radio power to Asia in 30 languages.
The power is really in the message, though. You’ll hear encouraging stories of how God is releasing people from spiritual bondage to freedom in Christ.
Becky Harling was confronted with a life-threatening illness. And she had a choice to make.
How would she respond to her breast cancer diagnosis? What she decided not only made a difference in the time of crisis, but her life has never been the same since.
In this episode, you’ll hear how God taught Becky to praise Him, and how she has taken this message to anyone who will listen. Just as it has transformed her life and the lives of so many others, you’ll discover how you can experience the power of praise in your life.
Becky is the author of several books, including The 30-Day Praise Challenge, Rewriting Your Emotional Script, Freedom from Performing and Finding Calm in a Life of Chaos. She is a sought-after speaker and has shared her message of hope and praise with audiences around the world.
Every summer, students from across America and other nations commit several weeks to serve the Lord in other cultures. They come back home … changed.
They go to places like Ghana, Ecuador, UK and Romania to bring the love of Jesus through media, healthcare and community development.
These are the Reach Beyond summer internships.
In this episode, you’ll meet one of the students, as well as missionaries who lead these internships. You’ll hear stories of what God has done and how he has used students as the voice and hands of Jesus.
Have you assumed you need special qualifications to serve God overseas? In many cases, a willing heart is all that’s needed.
If you or someone you know is looking for a short-term missions experience, then maybe the summer of 2017 is the right time. And Reach Beyond may be the right ministry. You’ll hear what’s coming up next summer and how you can apply to go.
He lives to tell others about Jesus. He has done it in every nation in a very unique way. His name is Arthur Blessitt and you may know him as the man who has carried a large wooden cross around the world.
He started his journey during the Jesus movement in the 60’s in California and since then has walked over 41,000 miles with that wooden cross on his shoulder. On every “crosswalk,” Arthur has had the chance to share the gospel message. He has spoken with people from just about every religion and every walk of life.
In this episode, you’ll hear first-hand how God has used Arthur in some of the most unusual places and the Lord has shown favor on his journeys. You’ll also find out how he is continuing his ministry today with more impact than ever. He still does crosswalks, but in a whole different way.
It’s not business as usual lately. Christ-followers are taking on the challenge of the Great Commission. But hasn’t that been the mission of the Church for 2,000 years? Yes. However, these days, there’s a growing, different approach in the works. Rather than the Western Church doing it on her own, she’s partnering with the indigenous Church to reach the unreached for Jesus.
Meet Steve Harling, the brand new President of Reach Beyond. He has a passion to mobilize the Church to take Jesus to places that have never heard the name of our Savior. Hear his passion and heart in this episode of the Reach Beyond Podcast.
Outgoing President Wayne Pederson interviews Steve in Steve’s first public appearance since he took the reins of the Reach Beyond presidency September 1. Some leadership transitions can be messy. You’ll be encouraged hearing these two men together and sense the healthy transition at Reach Beyond.
Steve is a long-time pastor, serving at churches in New York, California and Colorado. The son and grandson of missionaries and he also served as a missionary with SIM and as a pastor in Sudan. He has more than 25 years of mission board experience with SIM, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Global Refuge and Bethany Home.
What exactly is Steve Harling’s vision? Hear it first-hand in this episode.
There are seasons in our lives where it is simply a “dangerous place to be." One of those seasons seems to be when we hit age 40. In this episode, join us for a candid discussion with Peter Greer, co-author of the book 40/40 Vision: Clarifying Your Mission in Midlife.
Midlife is a disruptive season where we collide with limitations on all sides. We recognize there is more to life in the rear view mirror than the road ahead of us. We wonder if our lives so far have been worthwhile. But midlife is also an opportunity to recalibrate our vision.
Peter tells his own story of hitting 40 and how he dealt with this milestone. He gives us counsel on how we can avoid common pitfalls at this stage and make our lives count in a new way with Christ’s eternal perspective.
Peter has a heart to take the gospel to the world, and you’ll catch his excitement and vision in this dialogue. WARNING: It may rub off on you.
In this episode, you’ll also be able to download a simple one-sheet that will help you stay on the course God has for you.
Last month, a small team of believers went deep into Nepal on a critical mission. Two of those team members will tell their stories on this episode of the Reach Beyond Podcast.
Ty Stakes and Ron With spent a week in the rain and mud to begin restoration work in a Nepali village shattered by last year’s earthquake. Just 15 miles from the epicenter, homes were leveled, buildings were badly damaged and the local Christian-run radio station became unusable.
Listen as Ty and Ron tell you how their team performed the first rebuilding effort, laying the cement foundation for the new radio station building. You’ll hear how God has been moving to turn resistance to an openness to the gospel. Even to the point that a church now exists in that village.
Ty Stakes is the Executive Director of Reach Beyond’s Asia Pacific Region and Ron With serves as Reach Beyond’s Information Technology Manager.
It’s a jungle out there. For Miriam Gebb, it’s usually the case. That’s where she has done much of her medical work as a nurse in Latin America. In fact, she’s more at home in the jungle than anywhere else. For nearly 40 years, she has served as a Reach Beyond medical missionary, much of it in Ecuador’s Amazon River basin.
In this episode, you’ll hear stories from the jungle. You’ll find out first-hand how God led Miriam into missions work in 1979 and why she has stayed ever since. You’ll get a glimpse into how she is bringing Jesus to Latin Americans through the open door of healthcare.
Imagine this scene:
American medical doctor Dilip Joseph and two colleagues are driving back to Kabul, Afghanistan, after serving villagers that morning at a rural clinic. Suddenly a man waving an AK-47 blocks their path. More armed men jump out of hiding. For Dilip, it is the beginning of a nightmare—he’s being kidnapped by the Taliban.
Our guest on this episode is Dr. Dilip Joseph, and he shares the details of his story, from that moment on the road to his harrowing rescue a few days later by Navy SEAL Team Six. It’s what happened in between that changed his life forever.
God used this experience to renew within Dilip a passion for the unreached, and open his eyes to those who are blind to Jesus and living a life of violence and hopelessness. How did God use Dilip in the lives of his Muslim captors? He brings us into his story and shares the answer to that question.
You’ll also hear how to win a copy of Dilip’s book, Kidnapped by the Taliban.
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The story of Joseph Kebbie is a blend of tribulation, hope and victory. Through the intervention of God, Joseph was rescued from a refugee’s life to one that is now serving Jesus throughout Sub Saharan Africa.
Born in Liberia, Joseph’s life was turned upside down during a brutal civil war there. After leaving the country, he lived in three African countries. At one point he was earning just $20 a month in a full-time job.
You’ll meet Joseph in this episode. His contagious faith in the midst of hardship will cause you to look at Jesus in a new way in your own life.
Joseph and his wife Genevieve, were recently blessed with a new baby girl and they live in Ghana. His life is certainly one of transformation and being used by God to transform others.
There’s no shortage of bad news coming out of the Middle East, but did you know that Iran is one of the fastest growing churches in the world? God is at work in the Middle East in unprecedented ways.
Best-selling author and Middle East expert and ministry leader Tom Doyle is our guest on the latest episode of the Reach Beyond Podcast. Tom spends a lot of time in the Middle East, fellowshipping with and mentoring believers who are risking their lives simply by being Christians.
Tom opens our eyes and shares things you won’t hear hardly anywhere else. Be encouraged, in the midst of persecution, that the Lord Jesus is winning the hearts of thousands in that volatile region.
Tom is the author of Killing Christians and Breakthrough—The Return of Hope to the Middle East. You’ll have the opportunity to win a copy of Breakthrough at the end of the episode.
There’s a country in West Africa called Sierra Leone. This is a nation hit by trauma. More than 50,000 people were killed in the nation’s brutal decade-long civil war that ended in 2002. Hardly recovering from that, Ebola invaded Sierra Leone in 2014-15. It paralyzed the nation.
In the midst of this, there is a Christian radio station that is providing hope in Jesus Christ, Believers Broadcasting Network (BBN). Not only on the air, but through a dynamic counseling ministry that has helped thousands of people deal with PTSD caused by the war and Ebola.
On this episode, you’ll hear the inside story of hope from two volunteers who just returned from Sierra Leone. They worked side by side with BBN to train counselors who will come to the rescue of a hurting people. In Jesus’ name.
Listen as Kenny and Lauri Dennis share their experience with us.
A gang member suddenly turns to Christ in an African village... Clean water leads to salvation throughout a Latin American community… People along the river in Brazil hear about Jesus for the first time through Players of Hope… 80 passengers are part of an Acts 27 experience in a horrible storm on the seas... restoration is coming to one Nepali village.
This is a glimpse of the God stories you’ll hear in this episode. Wayne Pederson and Jon Fugler are joined by multiple missionaries and guests in the studio to give the accounts of how Jesus is bringing people to Himself in miraculous ways.
Listen as you hear about the voice and hands of Jesus in the lives of people who have finally discovered His love around the world.
It’s story time on the Reach Beyond Podcast!
70,000 people each day die without Christ. More than 2 billion people have never heard the name of Jesus. And yet, the church is growing in extraordinary ways in some parts of the world.
In this episode, Wayne and Jon celebrate an important day coming up on your calendar. May 15 has been designated International Day for the Unreached, and is being recognized by believers around the world. Christian radio stations, churches, missions organizations and individual Christians are raising the flag for the cause of the unreached.
You’ll also hear from special guest John Pudiate, President of Bibles for the World. He shares how God captured his family’s heart to bring the Word of God to unreached people.
You’ll also be encouraged by stories of God at work in Thailand, Ecuador and Nepal.
Get your free Great Commission Action Guide at www.dayfortheunreached.org. You’ll learn how you can get involved in the International Day for the Unreached in one of more of these ways: Pray, Advocate, Serve or Share.
Update on the earthquake in Ecuador
“For the love of Christ compels us…”
Paul wrote those words in 2 Corinthians 5:14 and they are as important today as they were in his culture. Once we experience the depth of Christ’s love in our own life, it will launch us into magnificent things for the Kingdom of God. It will transform us.
In this episode, we visit with Yemi Mobolade, an entrepreneur, pastor and musician who has discovered the richness of Christ’s love and takes this love to people around him. His unique business is really his ministry and you’ll hear stories of how God has used him in his city.
You’ll also hear how you can have free and immediate access to a new video series called BOLD. Yemi is featured in this series, which helps believers understand, experience and share the love of God with others.
BOLD is unlike what you have seen before. It’s all about guilt-free witnessing, and you’ll hear testimonies from people from around the world an in all walks of life who have experienced that.
BOLD is also about dialogue and discussion in a small group setting, or for study on your own. The series comes with the videos and workbooks, all downloadable from the BOLD site. Reach Beyond is making this series available to you as our gift.
One of the most innovative tools for the work of the gospel today is a device called the SonSet Radio. It’s a solar-powered hand-held radio, fixed-tuned to the local Christian station. In most cases, it is the only Christian media voice in the community. More than 50,000 of these missionary tools have been distributed around the world in some of the most remote places.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of people are hearing the Good News for the first time, and lives are being transformed by Jesus Christ. In this episode, you’ll hear stories from across the globe as multiple guests bring their personal experiences to the microphone.
You’ll be encouraged by the SonSet Effect and the effort to send 5,000 SonSet Radios to the Asia Pacific region this year, proclaiming Jesus in Indonesia, Thailand, Mongolia and Nepal. God has used Reach Beyond to plant dozens of stations in these countries and SonSet Radios will grow the gospel impact of the stations.
From an African jungle to an indigenous gospel radio station, this episode takes you on location for the first time. Jon Fugler recently traveled to Ghana, West Africa, and recorded some rare experiences.
You’ll journey with Jon to a radio station that Reach Beyond helped establish and is run totally by local believers. Hear from one of the DJs who explains his role in bringing the gospel to the area.
Then step into an African village that has been transformed by the construction of a clean water well. You’ll hear an exclusive interview with Ben, a Ghanaian believer who has been discipling the village leaders for several years. Clean water and the Living Water have brought new life to people there.
Then experience a walk to the dirty, contaminated pond where these same villagers used to get their water. You’ll walk the path the women and children used to walk every day.
"With more than 2 billion people who haven't had a chance to meet Jesus, it's time for the body of Christ to take a radical stand and say 'this has to end in our generation.' Would you join me in committing to pray, give, go and advocate for those who need to know Christ by participating in the International Day for the Unreached? The time is now." -Rick Warren
You may have heard the figure. Over 2 billion people have never heard the name of Jesus. But did you know that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world? These two facts are highly contrasted, but they are true.
Believers are coming alive to this issue, and headway is being made in taking Jesus to the unreached in some of the toughest places in the world. In this episode, you'll hear about an exciting day that has been set aside to carry the banner for the cause of the unreached.
Wayne Pederson and Jon Fugler have a revealing conversation with Steve Johnson, who is spearheading the first-ever International Day for the Unreached. Sunday, May 15, has been set aside for this big day. You'll be hearing more about this day in coming weeks, but listen in to this first public announcement. Be challenged as you hear the conversation.
Jon and Wayne also bring in Beth Patton, who shares two powerful stories of God at work on two continents. Beth has been on our podcast before, and she has the inside track on stories from around the world.
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If you’re not facing this question now, you certainly will at some point: “What is God’s will for my life?” Our guest on this episode, Dave Jolly, was at a crossroads twice when faced with a major life decision. He shares the journey he and his wife, Beth, have been on for many years and how they responded to God’s call at their two crossroads.
As we come up to the end of the year, maybe this is the time you’re seeking God about some major life decisions. You’ll find Dave and Beth’s story real, relatable and powerful. It may be what you need to hear right now.
Wayne Pederson also shares from his heart steps you can take as you seek God’s will. And you’ll hear about an opportunity to reach people around the world right from your home.
Merry Christmas! And we pray that you’ll be in the center of God’s will as you start 2016.
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