The SEND938 Missions Podcast

The SEND938 Missions Podcast

The SEND938 Missions Podcast encourages, equips, and inspires the next generation of missionary servants and the churches who send them. Listen in as Steve Anderson and his guests uncover fresh insights into missions, ministry, and church life. As a leader in global missions, Baptist Mid-Missions empowers churches and their missionaries for missions in today’s complex world: www.bmm.org. Email:Send938@bmm.org

Episodes

April 23, 2025 6 mins

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Dr. Patrick Odle, BMM President, joins host Steve Anderson for part two of their discussion on global trends in missions today. 

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March 18, 2025 26 mins

Dr. Patrick Odle, BMM President, joins host Steve Anderson for a discussion about both the encouraging and the challenging trends in global missions developing today. 

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March 5, 2025 41 mins

Carl Kerby, founder of Reasons for Hope (rforh.org) joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about the landscape of apologetics ministry across multiple generations, reasons for hope related to the future of GenZ, and challenges parents and pastors should be aware of as they seek to win and disciple the next generation. 

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Is it the borders of a nation-state, ethnolinguistic similarities, or shared heritage, history, culture, language, and geography that make a "nation"? Or, is it something else entirely? Brian Trainer, chair of the World Missions Department of Faith Baptist Bible College joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about the missiological challenge of varying views on the identity of "the nations" in scripture an...

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February 19, 2025 26 mins

President emeritus, Dr. Gary Anderson joins host Steve Anderson for a look at the unique ways in which BMM stands apart as a modern organization; from unalterable Articles of Faith, to its governance structure, to its origin as a modern church council which has continuously met for 104 years. You will be surprised, encouraged, and blessed by this episode. 

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Host Steve Anderson renews his ongoing series of missions book reviews, addressing in this episode the book by Paul Beals - A People For His Name: A Church Based Missions Strategy. 

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"Stop calling it 'redemptive relationships' if there's no evidence of redemption."
Pastor David Doran Jr. joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about the nature, dangers, and wisdom in relational evangelism while reminding us of the necessary proclamation of gospel truth.

Read David's substack blog here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-148764513

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January 22, 2025 32 mins

Are we in the middle of a giant cultural pendulum swing? Is there a looming opportunity for the church corporately and believers individually to participate in a harvest of should unlike anything recent generations have seen? Does the changing political and social climate in America mark the beginning of an opportunity to engage in moral, biblical, and redemptive conversations with those who would have previously rebuffed gospel pr...

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Originally aired 5/8/24
Pastor Tim Potter, Grace Church of Mentor - ARCH Ministries, joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation surrounding his recent experience in pastoral transition at Grace Church as those he discipled for ministry moved into leadership roles while he transitioned to full-time ministry with ARCH Ministries. You won't want to miss the encouragement and wisdom surrounding the goal and blessing of inten...

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Host Steve Anderson provides insight and provocation for carefully thinking through the balance of divinely ordained institutions; human government and the church. Each institution has its own God-given directive and each must be honored in pursuit of the fulfillment of the other. 

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December 18, 2024 4 mins

Join us this week for a reflective reading of Luke 2 and a portion of Matthew 1 as we approach the Christmas season.

We look forward to returning to regular weekly uploads in the New Year.

Merry Christmas!!

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December 4, 2024 36 mins

President emeritus, Dr. Gary Anderson joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about the necessity of properly defining missions, the challenges of poorly developed missiology, and the notion that "we're all missionaries, called to do what we can where we are."

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Nancy Freund, veteran of the Global Ministry Center staff and resident historian joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about her newly published biography of William Haas. The Reward Unseen is the definitive guide to the life and ministry of the man who God used to start a global revolution in missions ministry through Independent Baptist churches. You will not want to miss this story. 

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November 6, 2024 39 mins

Veteran missionary and BMM mk, Jim Leonard (Brazil), joins host Steve Anderson and Graham Foran (administrator for Brazilian ministries) for a discussion about the work he and his wife, Julie, have engaged in as they wind down their life of ministry in Brazil. Jim describes a concerted effort to finish the "final lap" as they leave a region of Brazil that BMM missionaries pioneered with the gospel almost 80 years ago. One...

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October 30, 2024 34 mins

Jon Casbohm, Executive Director of SkyView Ranch and Camp Patmos joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about their experiences in engaging a younger generation pursuing ministry who's biggest hurdle is their parent's encouragement to "Prepare for the real world." or "Get a real job." This isn't a bash on parents, but a challenge from two ministry leaders to carefully think about what one ge...

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Jonathan & Clarinda Halk join host Steve Anderson for a conversation about life and ministry in Zambia as well as the unique path from being saved in a BMM church plant in Alaska, to serving as a pastor in that church, to surrender to ministry in Zambia after a pre-field ministry visit from a BMM missionary couple headed to Zambia. You won't want to miss this episode. 

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October 8, 2024 27 mins

You can donate to World Relief for Hurricanes Helene and Milton Victims here:
https://www.bmm.org/news/world-relief

Dr. Gary Anderson, President emeritus, joins us for a conversation about t he history of BMM World Relief as well as the theology of compassion ministries done in the name of God, who reveals Himself over and over to be a God of mercy.

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Art and Deb Brammer join host Steve Anderson for a conversation this week about their 26 year ministry in New Zealand. In an increasingly secular land, once proclaiming itself to be a christian nation, Art & Deb recently graduated a church plant and saw a member of their own flock raised up to pastor the church in Invercargill. Their insight on relational evangelism, long-term ministry endeavoring, and ministry in secularized w...

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Dr. Jim Tillotson, President of Faith baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary joins host Steve Anderson for a conversation about the future of christian higher education, the amazing growth at FBBC, and some of the distinctions between the tangible blessings of God and the favor of God that may not be visibly evidenced. 

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