Missionary Stories

Osvaldo & Vanessa Lerma: On the Border

Download It might be the most unique classroom in North America. The Send Relief Ministry Center in Laredo, Texas, located just a few miles from…

Tyler & Ashley Martin: Circuit Riders

Download This blows Tyler Martin’s mind: “Of the 203 cities and towns in Wyoming,” he says, “over 60 don’t have a church of any kind.”…

Christian & Laura Rowland: Connecting the Dots

Download Sometimes, the best way to figure out what God is doing is to look back. That’s what Christian and Laura Rowland learned after planting…

Joshua & Brittany Brown: Gospel Deployment

Download Joshua Brown knows what it means to be sent. As an active duty Marine for 20 years, the military sent him and his family…

Leo & Miosha Robinson: Let Us Do Good

Download “Let us do good to everyone.” That admonition from Galatians 6 led Leo and Miosha Robinson to do something completely unexpected. They planted Good…

David & Sara Gaskins: The Real Jesus

Download He can trace his family all the way back to the Mormon pioneers who came to Utah 178 years ago with Brigham Young. But…

Tony Dungy and James Brown on Character and Integrity in Leadership

In this episode of the Equipping Pastors podcast, Ken Whitten is joined by Tony Dungy, former coach of the Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and James Brown, host of “The NFL Today” on CBS.

Joseph & Kristen Gibbons: What Happens in Vegas

Joseph and Kristen Gibbons thought they knew all there was to know about the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. But then, when God called these lifelong…

Josh & Beth Glymph: Who’s In My Family

If Josh and Beth Glymph were to show you a family photo, you’d see different skin colors and ethnicities and people who, at first glance,…

Noelson & Edna Chery: Taking Care of the Kids

It started innocently enough. Noelson and Edna Chery just wanted to study Scripture with their children. But when you live in a city like Philadelphia…

Jefferson & Carol Hernandez: Campo Blanco

The name was appropriate. When God led Jefferson and Carol Hernandez to start a church for all the Hispanics moving into their Sterling, Virginia community,…

Matt & Ruth Lahey: The Rock

People who live there call Newfoundland “The Rock.” That title is an accurate physical description for an island that’s located in the farthest northeast corner…

Matt & Amanda Hadden: White Van Season

The Oglala Lakota people who live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota refer to summertime as “White Van Season.” They say it’s…

Emanuel & Ioana Grozea: For All Nations

There’s nowhere on earth like Ridgewood. That’s what people who live in this New York City neighborhood will tell you. Here, there are people from…

Sam & Joanna Choi: For All People

Sam and Joanna Choi had no idea when they moved to South Minneapolis that their neighborhood would soon end up on newscasts all over the…

Vergil & Kelsey Brown: A Front-Row Seat

When Vergil and Kelsey Brown announced they were moving to Portland, Oregon to start a new church, their kids were, “not crazy about the idea.”…