SO THAT Missions Podcast | FBC Boerne
So that...God's ways may be known on Earth. "So That" is an FBC Boerne podcast focused on what God is doing around the world with missions and through FBC Missions partners.
Episodes
Church in a living room. Pastors with no building, no staff, and often no safe way to gather publicly. Now add one more question that changes everything: how do you shepherd people and provide for your family at the same time? That tension is exactly why we sat down with Mike for part two of our conversation on Business as Missions (BAM) and the work unfolding in India.
We talk through what BAM really means o...
A comfortable life can quietly convince you that your biggest impact is behind you, until God interrupts the story. Brittany sits down with Mike K., a long-time member of FBC and a lifelong entrepreneur, to trace how a decades-long business journey becomes preparation for Christian missions work among unreached people groups in the 10/40 Window.
We talk honestly about why India sits at the center of so many g...
Rock bottom is not the end of a story, but it can be the first honest page. We talk with Ashley Thomas, whose path runs through years of addiction, incarceration, and the crushing loss of trust, then into a surprising place of peace: late nights in prison reading a Bible and finally surrendering everything to Jesus. What follows is not a quick fix. It is a slow, steady rebuilding of a life, a faith, and a new identi...
Your kids will remember a mission trip long after they forget a tournament score and we’ve seen it firsthand. Brittany sits down with three FBC moms (and one of our trip leaders), Teresa, Dallas, and Christie, to share what happened when our families served together on a family mission trip to the Yucatan near Cancun, Mexico. We talk about the honest stuff parents worry about: safety, sickness, language barrie...
A dirt road through the “jungle,” a church plant filled with new faces, and an 11-year-old discovering she can communicate love without fluent Spanish. We’re sitting down with Shauna Verrett and her daughter Claire to tell the real story of our family mission trip to Mexico in the Cancun area, where First Baptist Church partners to serve communities beyond the tourist version most people picture. I...
A family mission trip sounds simple until you actually try to do it: take time off work, travel with kids, step into a new culture, and serve where you cannot rely on comfort or clear communication. Brittany sits down with Justin Burleson plus Luke, Hope, and Abigail to share what pulled them back to Yucatan, Mexico near Cancun and what they brought home with them that no souvenir could match.
We talk a...
A mission trip can feel like a one-week event until the plan falls apart and you find out what you really believe. Britney sits down with James Smith to tell the behind-the-scenes story of how First Baptist Church built a long-term missions partnership in Cancun, Mexico, and why bringing families along changes everything. What starts as construction and service work becomes something deeper: a new way of seeing peop...
Japan gets labeled “hard soil” so often that many Christians quietly assume spiritual breakthrough there is rare, slow, and maybe impossible. Sitting down with our friend James, a young missionary serving in Japan, challenges that assumption with both honesty and hope. We talk about his winding story from a childhood of constant moving in a military family to watching God rebuild his parents’ marri...
Saying yes to God can feel simple in theory and brutal in real life, especially when the assignment changes. I sit down with Kelly, a longtime missionary connected to Divine Mission Ministry in Malawi, and we talk honestly about what happened when God nudged her toward a Middle East missions trip instead. The pushback was real: safety concerns, financial questions, and the quiet fear of disappointing the people she ...
India can feel like a world away until you hear what it’s really like on the ground: a roadside slum made of tarps, families surviving on a few dollars a day, and a small hut with a cross that still functions as a church. Brittany Holland sits down with Heather to unpack Heather’s recent SE Asia missions trip and the two realities that kept showing up side by side: heartbreak over poverty and spiritual n...
Your life can look “successful” and still feel strangely small. Brittany sits down with Nicole Parks from Cafe 1040 to talk about why that happens, and what changes when we stop treating the Great Commission like a nice idea and start treating it like a clear calling.
Nicole explains how Cafe 1040 serves young adults through a highly intentional missions mentorship program: three months of pre-fie...
They drove twelve hours to reach an airport, flew into another country, and showed up hungry to learn the Bible for the first time. That kind of faith has a way of shaking you awake.
We sit down with Lori, Chris, and Heather for part two of our Middle East mission trip conversation and ask for personal highlights, the moments they can’t forget. Lori shares what it’s like to spend a week with brand...
You can’t legally own a Bible, you can’t safely say names out loud, and you definitely can’t “do missions” the way most of us picture it, yet people are meeting Jesus and choosing to follow Him anyway. We sit down with Chris, Lori, and Heather from FBC to tell the story of a recent Middle East mission trip and the quiet, courageous work happening through trusted local partners.
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What if joy isn’t a reward at the finish line but a sign you’re already on the right path? We sit down with our friend Faith, a teenager learning to trade fear for peace and tight control for open hands, and watch how Scripture, mentors, and missions weave into a coherent, hope-filled life. This isn’t theory. It’s a bus ride to the airport with a brave smile, Psalm 23 spoken over a nervous co...
What if the safest place is not where risk is lowest, but where God has called you? That question threads through a wide-ranging conversation with Faith, a high school student whose quiet prayer for boldness grew into a clear mission identity and a heart for the nations. We share how surrender loosens our grip on control, how prayer became her lane of courage, and why simple presence can change a room—whether ...
A high school senior named Faith tried to dodge a demanding missions course with every excuse in the book—time, cost, workload. Then the excuses crumbled, doors opened, and a quiet prayer for boldness began to change everything. What followed was a vivid dream about Jesus’ return, tears at youth camp, and a defining moment of surrender that turned fear into joy.
We sit down to talk about the subtl...
What if the strongest call on your life isn’t a U-turn, but a re-aiming of everything you already know how to do? That’s the heartbeat of this conversation with Sandra, a veteran educator whose “halftime” moment turned administrative chops and classroom empathy into fuel for global missions and church planting across the Middle East.
We walk through the unlikely path from a bulletin an...
The songs reached us before we saw the faces—women in white dresses who had ridden hours in the back of a truck to greet us at the airport, singing it’s true, they’ve come. That moment set the tone for ten days in Masinja Village, Malawi, where radical hospitality, daily child feeding, and a hunger for Scripture collided into a story we’re still processing. We came to serve with Kelly and Gre...
Join us to hear Pastor Jason and Pastor Chad as they recount how God worked around them during their recent trip to South Asia. This is Part 3 of their journey!
What if multiplication looked less like a stage and more like a living room? We sit down to unpack a journey across North India—from the dusty lanes of Bihar to the radiant Golden Temple in Amritsar—and trace how a quiet network of relations...
A dusty road, a two-room house, and eighty neighbors pressing in to sing at full volume. That’s where we watched despair give way to freedom and a young farmer—months into his new faith—open his home night after night until ten house churches sprung up along a single stretch of road. We went from the weight of ritual in Bodh Gaya to a leader gathering that pulsed with joy, and the contrast reset ou...
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