We're all called to Global Missions | E55

Every Christian picks up assumptions about missions somewhere along the way. Some of them are mostly right. Some of them quietly convince us that missions is somebody else’s job.This episode kicks off a new series on the myths we tend to believe about missions, and it’s the first time Jared and Leanne have recorded together in the same room. They start with the big one: missions is for missionaries. Where does that idea come from, what does Paul’s letter to the Philippians say about it, and what does it look like to be part of God’s mission if you’re never going to move overseas?What we talked aboutWhere the line between “missionaries” and everyone else comes fromWhy church leaders are meant to equip the saints, not do all the ministry for themPaul’s thank-you to the Philippians, and fruit credited to their accountRoles vs. responsibility: why every believer has a part in God’s missionWays to be involved without moving overseas: pray, give, go, welcome, connectInternational students, and the mission field that shows up in college towns every semesterWhy the U.S. is a mission field tooWhat to do when you’ve been faithful for years and haven’t seen any fruit________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer. 

Ninety percent of pastors around the world have never had formal training. In the last handful of years, 21C has trained more than 100,000 pastors and church leaders. So what are we actually teaching them, and is it any good?Leanne White, co-founder of 21C, helped build our study model, so Jared spent this episode asking her how it works. She talks about our first training in Haiti, where hungry pastors still nodded off during the lectures, the pastor in Kenya who told us we could do better, and how 10 to 15 pastors with a Bible and a good set of questions end up starting more groups of their own.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer. 

In this final episode of their four-part series on how every believer can invest in the global church, Jared and Leanne tackle a question that matters more than most churches realize: are we doing missions in a way that actually lasts? They walk through the diagnostic questions 21C has learned to ask over years of cross-cultural ministry — did we bring something that was actually needed, or something we wanted to give? What happens the week after we leave? Is any of this sustainable without us?From there, they talk about what long-term missions calling actually looks like in Scripture (less mystical than we've made it, more communal than we expect), and they close with a challenge that might reframe how your church thinks about the Great Commission: the goal isn't to build a church where everyone becomes a missionary. It's to build a church where everyone understands that they belong to a missionary God.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer. 

In this episode, Jared and Leanne continue their series on how every believer can invest in the global church — and this time they tackle a question the church talks about too little: what happens after the send-off? Researchers have studied missionary attrition for over thirty years, and the finding that keeps surfacing is that most departures aren't caused by danger or persecution. They're caused by the preventable stuff — dried-up support, unresolved conflict, isolation that went on too long, and churches that meant every word of their commissioning prayer but gradually stopped thinking about the people they sent.Jared and Leanne unpack why 21C uses the word "partners" instead of "donors," what Paul's relationship with the Philippian church teaches us about mutual investment, and how one faithful pastor in Michigan set off a chain of impact that reaches hundreds of thousands of people today.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer. 

In this episode, Jared and Leanne kick off a new series on how every believer can invest in the global church — and they start where Jesus started: with prayer. In Matthew 9, Jesus looks out at a crowd of people, harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. And the first command He gives isn't go. It isn't give. It's pray. Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers.Jared and Leanne talk about why prayer is step one and not step forty-two, how specificity in prayer changes everything, what persecuted pastors actually ask people to pray for (it's not what you'd expect), and how to move from vague goodwill to faithful, specific intercession for the global church.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer.

85% of pastors say global missions is for every Christian. Only 25% of churchgoers agree. How did we get here? In this first episode of a four-part series, hosts Jared and Leanne White explore why so many believers have quietly filed missions under "somebody else's job." From the missionary-on-a-pedestal myth to the American tendency to check out once someone else is sent, they unpack how the church hasdrifted from God's original design—where His people are blessed so that the nations would know Him. Drawing from Acts 1:8, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, and the missionary Psalm (Psalm 67), they make the case that global missions isn't sequential or specialized—it's simultaneous and for all of us.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer.

The disciples were in a locked room. They were afraid. And then the risen Christ walked in, showed them His scars, and said three words that changed everything: "I send you." In this standalone episode, Jared and Leanne slow down to study a single passage of Scripture — John 20:19–21 — and unpack what it means for every believer.They walk through the sequence Jesus establishes — peace first, then joy, then mission — and explore the weight of the Hebrew word shalom, which means far more than the absence of conflict. They talk about the cost of being sent, from the minor discomforts we face in the West to the life-threatening persecution our brothers and sisters endure around the world. And they land on a truth that's both comforting and confronting: the same mission the Father gave Jesus is the mission He's given us.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer.

Three out of four unchurched Americans haven't been invited to church by anyone in the last year. Not once. And fewer than one in three Christians today say evangelism is their personal responsibility. The door is wide open — we're just not walking through it.In this episode, Jared and Leanne wrap up their series on what the Western church can learn from our brothers and sisters in the majority world — and this time, the lesson is about living on mission. Not as a program or an event, but as a way of life. They talk about what it looks like when believers treat every interaction as an opportunity, why the majority world church doesn't wait for open doors but walks through cracked windows, and how a Kenyan man with no pastoral training started a church in his living room with one Bible passage and six neighbors.Along the way, Leanne shares a personal story about a fifteen-dollar pillow that became an unexpected moment of witness, and Jared reframes the Great Commission as something that happens not when we go somewhere special — but as we're alreadygoing.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer.

Individualism is rising around the world — and the United States is leading the charge. But is that how the Christian life was meant to be lived? In this episode, Jared and Leanne continue their deep dive into what we can learn from the majority world church, this time focusing on community: what it looks like, why Scripture demands it, and how to actually build it in your own life.The conversation moves from the research — a 51-year, 78-country study showing individualism on the rise everywhere — to the theology of why community matters, to what the majority world church gets right, and finally into deeply practical advice for finding and building real Christian community wherever you are.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer.

Across the majority world, pastors walk for miles, sleep on roadsides, and give up entire days just to sit with God’s Word. Meanwhile, many of us with Bibles on every shelf and apps on every device struggle to open it consistently. In this episode, Jared and Leanne explore where that hunger for Scripture comes from, why it matters, and what it looks like to build it as a discipline in our own lives.The conversation traces a path from the majority world church’s desperate hunger for training in God’s Word, through the theology of why Scripture is so central to the Christian life, and into the deeply practical question of how each of us can cultivate our own passion for the Bible.________________________________Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn or via email at [email protected] the Move is created by 21C International, a Christian, non-profit ministry on a mission to transform communities in the majority world by developing healthy pastors. Learn more about how we're bringing Biblical training to pastors around the world at 21cinternational.org.Help us provide free, nonformal training to pastors in the majority world by joining us in prayer.