We talk with Gigi Awabdeh from SLED about restoring dignity in the MENA region by serving people who are overlooked, hidden, and often labeled as a shame. We share how humanitarian aid, long-term relationships, and Discovery Bible Study create real openings for the gospel among special needs families, refugees, and survivors of war.
• SLED (Serve Lead Empower Develop) and a dignity-driven mission rooted in Christ
• Humanitarian aid as a trusted way into hard places
• Special needs as the most marginalized group in parts of the Middle East
• Home visits and caring for families’ basic needs
• Discovery Bible Study as a simple tool anyone can use
• The burden carried by mothers and the isolation of families
• Retreats and gatherings that bring people out of hiding
• Partnership with local churches and the Austin Ridge Embrace ministry curriculum
• Stories of transformation including a woman saved from suicide
• Work among refugees and displaced communities across Iraq Lebanon Syria Yemen and beyond
• Dreams and visions that lead people to ask about Jesus

https://sledinternational.org/

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We talk with Doug Cobb about why the Great Commission has clear finish lines and why the global church may be closer to them than most people realize. We dig into Scripture, modern missions strategy, and practical ways to join the sprint with prayer, giving, and going.
• Revelation 7 as the north star vision for the nations
• Matthew 24:14 and the link between gospel proclamation and Jesus’ return
• Three finish lines: every nation, every language, every place
• Bible translation momentum and why language matters
• Technology, transportation, media, and collaboration as accelerants
• The Finishing Fund approach to funding first engagement efforts
• Indigenous missionaries and near culture workers as the growing mission force
• What the American church often misses about cross-cultural responsibility
• How to hold urgency without unhealthy end-times pressure
• Finding your lane: pray, give, go, including diaspora ministry and online discipleship

Find Doug Cobb's book "The Sprint To The Finish" on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Finish-Complete-Commission-Generation/dp/B0FSJKT1YW

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We share how East-West Ministries fuels church-planting movements in the spiritually darkest places and why local ownership, simple training, and courageous witness are building lasting fruit. Stories of persecution, collaboration, and measurable faith goals show practical ways to engage now.

• vision rooted in Revelation 7 and the need among 7,000+ unreached people groups
• early callings to missions and the path from short-term to long-term service
• East-West focus on Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and animist contexts across 52 countries
• practical on-ramps: short-term trips, evangelism training, and field readiness
• giving and prayer partnerships with real-time updates and project impact
• frontline stories: long-term fruit from short trips; house-church multiplication
• persecution realities in India and resilient strategies for hard places
• shift to local ownership and indigenous leadership as the biblical model
• collaboration through the Coalition of the Willing and shared village-level maps
• 2033 vision for a church in every village; role of tech and AI
• 2026 faith goals: gospel shares, disciples, leaders, churches, workers, new UPGs

https://www.eastwest.org/

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We reconnect with pastor and linguist Jason Peters to trace how God redeemed a life shaped by addiction and turned it toward the unreached. We share why our strategy shifted from short-term projects to adopting people groups until churches and Bibles in heart languages exist.

• every tribe and tongue as the guiding vision
• host and guest testimonies of surrender and discipleship
• mentors, study habits, and learning Greek and Hebrew
• planting and pastoring through hardship to Driftwood
• moving from short-term projects to long-term adoption
• why Bible translation and linguistics are mission-critical
• small churches making a global dent with steady giving
• business as mission and practical skills for workers
• urgency around 2033 translation goals and technology
• crowns, rewards, and motivation without works-righteousness
• partnerships with Ethnos360, stories from PNG and Bangladesh
• prayer in Greek and a call to take the next step

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We walk the path of Waha as we seek to create reproducible discipleship that reaches the unreached by equipping ordinary people to lead Bible-centered groups that multiply across languages and borders. Jeff Peterson shares stories from MENA to Mauritius showing how God draws people and how simple tools help us obey.

• the gap between conversion and discipleship
• why missions struggles to scale without simple tools
• discovery Bible study as a reproducible framework
• Waha’s audio-guided format and multilingual reach
• case studies: Sarah’s dreams and five generations of groups
• family transformation through gratitude and obedience
• shifting the paradigm: discipleship before labels
• how $30 helps one family start a study
• practical steps to start a group today

Visit https://waha.app/eng to find out more!

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We trace the hidden network that carried William Tyndale’s English New Testament from German presses to English hands, revealing how merchants, widows, lawyers, and pastors risked everything to move the word across borders. Eric Weathers shows why accuracy from the original languages still shapes healthy churches and how marketplace skills can fuel the Great Commission today.

• Tyndale’s translation grounded in Greek and Hebrew
• John and Anne Walsh as early patrons and protectors
• Humphrey Monmouth’s funding and trade routes
• Printing in Worms and small-format smuggling tactics
• The courage of Simon Fish, Mrs Fish, and James Bainham
• Antwerp’s English House, Thomas Pointz, and betrayal by Henry Phillips
• Anne Boleyn’s role in circulating reform texts
• Tyndale’s martyrdom and the Great Bible in churches
• Why rigorous training in original languages matters
• The call for marketplace professionals to be senders

Purchase William Tyndale's Accomplices by Eric Weathers here...

https://www.amazon.com/William-Tyndales-Accomplices-Essential-Forbidden-ebook/dp/B0GFD249SS/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1

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We trace Henry Kaestner’s path from startup grit and an IPO to faith-driven community building, redemptive investing, and a practical roadmap for stewarding capital to reach the unreached. Along the way, we unpack righteous risk, local partnership, and excellence in public and private markets.

• learning from 40 venture rejections to build durable growth
• how identity in Christ steadies leaders beyond stock volatility
• sovereign’s capital as a partner for convictional founders
• why faith-driven entrepreneur and investor were born
• righteous risk and stewardship vs scarcity thinking
• giving fish vs teaching to own the pond
• discernment, local partners, and fund managers in Africa
• stories of entrepreneurs solving power, cold-chain, and data gaps
• using donor-advised funds for redemptive investments
• integrating values in public markets with smart screens
• solving the world’s greatest problems through focused DAFs
• keeping the Great Commission central while building markets

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We trace Eric Long’s path from American Dream career to a redemptive tech mission that brings thoughtful connectivity to remote workers reaching the unreached. A field-tested pilot in Papua New Guinea shows how mesh networks can lift isolation, support families, and enable care.

• vision of all nations and the task remaining
• college friendship becomes a faith-fueled partnership
• ritual faith challenged by loss and rebuilt as relationship
• leaving IBM to pursue a calling grounded in Ephesians 2:10
• forming a three-legged company with a redemptive core
• why “Pleroo” and the wind-in-the-sail metaphor
• mesh networking explained in simple terms
• guardrails against harmful, unfettered internet access
• Papua New Guinea pilot outcomes and daily impact
• telehealth, Bible access, and offline-first tools
• cost, kits, and a nonprofit model that lowers barriers
• design for needs, not ego or one-size-fits-all
• plug-and-play deployment and remote support
• discipleship ripple effects and practical next steps

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