019: How Can I Know God’s Will for Me?
Dr. Rick Reed, President of Heritage College and Seminary, talks to us about God’s will, how we can discern His directing for our lives, and how we can walk along others helping them to determine where God is calling them.
018: Moving In
Nigel Paul, Founder of MoveIn, shares with us the impact of presence. In this episode we learn how ordinary Christians are moving into low-income, unreached, urban areas in cities in Canada and around the world. Here they are salt and light, reaching people in a creative and courageous way.
017: How to Help Without Hurting
Brian Fikkert, co-author of bestselling book, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor and Yourself, discusses with us how the church should define poverty and how it can address poverty in ways that bring dignity and help people understand that they are God’s image bearers.
016: Urbana15
Steve Colby, the Director of Missions for Intervarsity Canada, will be co-hosting Urbana15 December 27-31, 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri. Steve shares with us how Urbana is impacting the hearts of students and impacting missions. Tune in to learn a little bit about how Urbana started, what to expect this year, and how you can pray for those who will be attending!
015: Orality, Bible Translation and Its Impact
Roy Eyre, President of Wycliffe Canada, talks about the greater impact that Bible translation has had on societies, how Wycliffe has adapted to reach oral societies and gives us a peek into the nuts and bolts of Bible translation.
014: What is the Perspectives Course?
National Coordinator for Perspectives Canada, Wayne Matthews gives us an overview of the Perspectives course, how it is making an impact on the Canadian church and explains why you should consider signing up for a course near you!
013: The Canadian Church and Global Poverty
Melissa Giles, Training Manager at Food for the Hungry Canada, shares about how Canadian churches can partner with communities in the Global South for mutual transformation and poverty alleviation. Melissa also tells us about Poverty Revolution Boot Camps, a great weekend course for Canadian churches to help us better understand our role in global poverty alleviation.
012: How to Create a Mission Strategy
Ellen Livingood, founder and director of Catalyst Services, describes for us the importance of missions priorities and strategies in local churches, the basics of developing priorities and strategies and how to communicate them effectively to your congregation.
011: How Can We Support Missionary Kids?
Paul Dyck, leader of the Canadian MK Network, shares with us the highlights of being an MK, the hurdles that MKs face and how Canadian churches can help MKs transition well when they return to Canada.
010: How Can We Pray for Missions?
Karen Bird, a theological student at Tyndale Seminary, shares with us why prayer is a discipline all Christ-followers need to pursue. She shares with us how we can be praying for missions as well as giving listeners practical tips and resources for practicing the discipline of prayer in our lives, so that God’s restoration will come to His creation.
Resources: Top Picks
* resources are provided as recommendations only.
When Helping Hurts
Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Standards of Excellence in Short-Term Mission
Strangers Next Door
J.D. Payne
The Celtic Way of Evangelism
George G. III Hunter
Rob Magwood
Podcast Host
Rob, also known to his friends as “Mags”, was raised near Edmonton, AB. He met Kathleen Hayes during his studies at Briercrest Bible College, and they were married in 1992. God has blessed the Magwoods with three fantastic kids.
Mags and Kathleen first served together on a short-term mission team to the Philippines. In 1996 they moved to Ukraine and Russia to participate in church planting, theological education, and agency administration. Mags has served as Canadian Director of SEND International since 2004.