Better Together

While on a trip to Cuba in January 2020 (and trying to beat the incoming rain), Pastor Josh Baer briefly spoke with Eddie Moody to share the ways that mission trips their church took helped confirm the call on people's lives and shaped the way their church invested in missions. Josh serves as pastor of Cramerton FWB Church. #NAFWB

 

The 2020 World Missions Offering for IM, Inc. is this Sunday, August. Find out how your church can participate: https://iminc.org/wmo/.

Dr. Ronald Callaway, program director for Intercultural Studies at Welch College, joins the podcast to talk about ways to encourage young people to be more missions-minded and find their place in fulfilling the Great Commission.

 

You can support IM, Inc. and their mission to fulfill the Great Commission through the 2020 World Missions Offering: https://iminc.org/wmo/.

Living among an unreached people group that cannot read or write, Edward and Amanda Simmons have found unique ways to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the Samburu people in Kenya through IM, Inc.

Hear more about their ministry and follow their story at Simmons to the Samburu. #NAFWB

 

For more, visit https://nafwb.org/jeremiah29/.

While many churches have resumed meeting in person for worship services, ministry still looks very different. Dr. Kelton Hinton joins the podcast to describe the need for a more "family first" style of ministry, moving from an attractional model of ministry to a missional model. 

 

Dr. Hinton serves as the associational missionary for the Johnston Baptist Association in North Carolina, working with churches in evangelism, missions, and discipleship.

 

For more: https://nafwb.org/jeremiah29/. 

It is no secret that there is a shortage of pastors for our churches. Dr. Barry Raper, program coordinator for Pastoral Ministries at Welch College, joins the podcast to share how we can help equip pastors and encourage others to consider their calling to ministry.

Elizabeth Hodges, executive director of WNAC, joins the podcast to discuss the various ministries the organization has to offer for women of all ages.

 

Tune in to their online Flourish! Conference, "Grace in the Chaos," this Saturday, August 15, on WNAC's Facebook page.

As a coach and athletic director, Greg Fawbush's focus is to cultivate the talents of young people so that they can excel in athletics while pursuing a life pleasing to Christ. He gives specific pointers for parents on maintaining the balance of faith and athletics for their children.

 

Greg coached women's baskeball at Seffner Christian Academy for 22 years before becoming athletic director and men's basketball coach at Welch College in 2017. He was inducted into the National Athletic Association of Private Schools Hall of Fame in 2019.

Dr. Greg Ketteman, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Graduate Dean of Education at Welch College, spent thirty years in the public school systems. He shares how his experience as an educator, coach, and principal was an opportunity to be salt and light in the public schools.

As school resumes across the nation in one form or another, school counselor Molly Hudgens joins the podcast to encourage parents as they prepare their children to return to class.

 

Molly serves as school counselor for Sycamore Middle School in Pleasant View, Tennessee. She was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Citizens Honor in 2017 after she talked a student with a loaded handgun out of committing a mass shooting.