UNREACHED
In Revelation 7, John shares his vision of heaven with members from every tribe, tongue, people and language standing in the throne room before the Lamb.
Yet today there are still over 7,000 unreached people groups around the world.
For the last six years, my family and friends have been on a journey to find, vet and fund the task remaining.
Come journey with us to the ends of the earth as we share the supernatural stories of God at work through the men and women he has called to reach the UNREACHED.
UNREACHED
Bridging the Gap Between the Mission Force and the Mission Field in Africa - With Guests from Switchboard & Mapps
This episode ignites a passionate conversation about bridging the gap between the mission force and mission field, highlighting collaborative efforts to reach unreached communities. Our guests share their inspiring journeys and innovative approaches that combine faith, skills, and community engagement for sustainable impact.
• Discussing the vision of reaching unreached people groups
• Introduction to Switchboard as a connector for skilled individuals
• Julie’s journey from consulting to mission work
• Bob’s architectural focus on faith-based community projects
• Peter’s mission in Kenya and the concept of a mission hub
• Exploring sustainability through community engagement and tourism
• Emphasizing the importance of collaboration in mission efforts
• Calling listeners to engage their skills in mission work
Check out these websites!
www.globalswitchboard.io/
https://mappsfoundation.org/invest-for-the-unreached-of-africa/
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In Revelation 7, john shares his vision of heaven, with members from every tribe, tongue, people and language standing in the throne room before the Lamb. Yet today there are still over 7,000 unreached people groups around the world. For the last six years, my family and friends have been on a journey to find, vet and fund the task remaining. Come journey with us to the ends of the earth as we share the supernatural stories of God at work for the men and women he has called to reach the unreached.
Speaker 2:Hey friends, thanks for tuning into this episode of the Unreached Podcast Today. We have a packed house in the studio. We have four people who have literally come together from around the world through switchboard to work on a project in Africa that is bridging the gap between the mission force and the mission field. So let's jump into the Unreached Podcast studio with Dustin and the crew and see what God has for us today.
Speaker 1:Hello friends, welcome back to the Unreached podcast. As you know, we are in our fourth season and we are recording one of our first few episodes this year. Clinton and I talked about our cadence for the podcast and we've decided to move from an every other week cadence to a monthly cadence. I'm going to give our audience more time to really enjoy each episode as well. Today is super unique. We're going to have more people on the mic than we've ever had. We have four voices today and this is kind of a continuation or a follow-up from season two, episode six of season two, when we had Scott Eloquin from Switchboard on.
Speaker 1:And, if you remember, globalswitchboardio is the website where you as a Christian, as a kingdom-minded person, can go in and you can build a profile and you can share your skillset with Switchboard. What are you good at? Are you good at accounting? Are you good at finance? Are you good at architecture, which we're going to get into today Are you good at running a business? And ministries and missions, organizations and parachurches and even companies all over the world can go in and they can search. They need a graphic designer, web designer, they need someone to do marketing, they need someone to write content and they can find each other through Switchboard, and so it's a great technology. And then, just recently, heather and Scott no-transcript the recipients of the conversation and hear how Switchboard truly made a difference in their lives and in the lives of those that they're serving. So why don't we start with Julie? Ladies, first Give us a little bit about your background, your involvement with Switchboard, and maybe tee this up for us a little bit.
Speaker 3:Sure, Well, if Scott Eloquin was here he would say I'm the poster child for Switchboard, because I had a career in consulting, implementing computer systems for many years with CNN, Ernst Young, all those and I decided after a lot of prayer to stay home with my children, raise my children.
Speaker 3:But I had a heart to serve and I kind of thought well, how do you serve others? I guess I'll go back to medical school so I can be a medical missionary, because I really had a heart for others. And how on earth could I use implementing computer systems to help the body of Christ? Like that's just preposterous. And so I went to Don Ellsworth here at Austin Ridge and was kind of explaining my background and how preposterous it is to use systems implementations to serve the gospel. And he said I think you ought to meet a guy named Scott Eloquent. So the next thing, you know, I'm dropping out of my prereqs for med school and joining a company called Switchboard which was building a platform to connect everyday believers like you, like me, with ministries around the world that have needs. So today I am using my background and expertise in implementing computer systems to further the gospel, which is something I thought was impossible.
Speaker 1:That's outstanding. I love that. And through that platform you got to know Bob. And so Bob Galloway is here. Bob is an architect. He has an architecture firm here in town. Bob, why don't you tell everybody a little bit about yourself?
Speaker 4:Sure, moved to Austin in 96 and started a firm with my business partner, which was my buddy from school. We started a business, didn't necessarily start out to specialize but we were blessed to get a few church projects to begin with. That's where our network of friends and acquaintances were, and so over the years, majority, probably 70, 80% of our work has been in the faith-based world churches.
Speaker 4:Wow, that's fantastic Not necessarily worship buildings but classroom buildings Done a lot of master planning work with either a church moving to a new campus or a church on the campus that never had a master plan or bought abutting land or any number of reasons that planning was important. So over the years been blessed to do a lot of church projects here in Austin. So the original firm was Jackson Galloway, now it's FGM Architects. We're connected with a larger firm network out of Chicago and St Louis but it's sort of business as usual here in Austin for us Still do a lot of faith-based work in the Central Texas area.
Speaker 1:Perfect. Well, thanks for being here and sharing your story. And then through Switchboard and Scott and Julie and now Bob's involved and you I guess you created a profile on Switchboard.
Speaker 4:Possibly you put yourself out there I did yeah, yeah At Julie's encouragement, yeah, I'd never, heard of Switchboard before.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Clint and I created a profile when we did the episode with Scott, so he was sitting here. We created a profile. I got a hit and got connected to a physician in the Middle East. So I've seen the technology at work. You saw the technology at work as well, and we're coming to Peter. I know everybody wants to hear from Peter and you do Trust me. But, bob, what happened next for?
Speaker 4:you after you created it. Well, I actually got connected with a project in the Philippines, did a small project there. I had previously not a part of the Switchboard Network, had done a project in Uganda, Okay, so it really caught my attention. When the opportunity came through with the Kenyan project that I felt like, well, that's pretty close next door and so I said yeah, tell me more about it, love it.
Speaker 1:Okay, the guest of honor. Who's all the way visiting from Nairobi to Austin, texas? Peter, please tell everyone about yourself and give us a little gist. Who's Peter?
Speaker 5:Peter is, I just turned 16.
Speaker 1:He just turned 16?.
Speaker 5:But with 40 years experience.
Speaker 1:I get it. You're a comedian too.
Speaker 4:That's fantastic yeah.
Speaker 1:Just a little gray in your beard, just a little like me.
Speaker 5:I hear you. Just some paintwork, some paintwork. I'm married. It's March 15th this year It'll be 28 years. Congratulations Married. I have four daughters. So we live in Nairobi and my wife is in the corporate world. She runs businesses. We travel quite a bit. We enjoy traveling. These days we mix it business and ministry Perfect.
Speaker 1:Perfect. Thanks for sharing a little bit about yourself. Thank you. Please tell everyone how this story kind of got going from your point of view.
Speaker 5:Well, it's very accidental how I met Switchboard. I've been involved in the corporate world for many years in the social development work and consulting. I've always wanted to mix faith and work, but it's not gone very well for many years. But it's not gone very well. For many years I've been to corporate jobs that I was literally kicked out because of sharing the gospel, and so I began to ask the Lord what would be the best way to still get to live out my faith. So a few years ago the Lord just moved my heart to begin a missions organization.
Speaker 5:During my corporate years I did a lot of work amongst the remote communities and I kept seeing such a great need. So six years ago I founded the mission organization MAPS, which is M-A-P-S. Maps, which is M-A-P-S, and we began looking out for communities that have a great need for the gospel. Through several happenings, we ended up in the northern part of our country, a place called Trukana. So we started doing the work and planted some churches. And then I got invited to a conference in thailand for global leaders. During the meeting I was in a group, and part of the people that were in the group was a group from an organization called tent makers international yes, it was we know them.
Speaker 5:So that that's where everything started. And so, because I introduced myself as a tent maker, because I do tent making as I do ministry, so I do consulting work, so that I'm still in the marketplace, because part of our ministry is being able to help people in the marketplace get involved in missions, so I'm in this meeting and they asked me if I would be interested to join them and help them get an office going in a row before the African continent. I said I'm not very sure about that, but I will talk to you once I get back home. So I go back and I'm beginning to just search on the internet tent makers. But before I could put, international tent makers network just came up and immediately I just read what they're doing. They were just beginning their project, the switchboard, right, exactly what they were trying to put together.
Speaker 5:Just before the conference I had actually, uh, put together the whole concept. I wanted to do exactly exactly what they wanted they were doing. But I'm not an it, I'm not in from there, I'm not, I'm not it um, skilled, yeah. So I knew that was going to be an uphill task. So I quickly just reached out to them and things just began to snowball. I talked to Scott and finally a moment came and I was able to put up my project and Bob was able to just jump on it and we began talking. It's been a year and a half now. We have a beautiful project coming up now. In my sense, it's really a miracle how I got connected to Switchboard and what's happening now that I've got to meet Bob. It's been a dream. I was telling Bob that 20 years ago I dreamt about this project and I even drafted how it's going to be, but it took me that long for God just to bring everything together and to get me the right person and the right team. So I'm extremely excited, super happy.
Speaker 1:Oh, man, well, in God's perfect timing, oh, perfect timing, yeah, I think immediately. If I go to the Bible, I think Nehemiah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think all the prep work that he went through while he was cupbearer, while he was exiled, while he was there and, if you think about, before he ever actually went and asked for permission to go back, and build right, he had dreams. He spent a ton of time in prayer.
Speaker 1:And then he gathered all the necessary documents he needed. He had all of the documents for the king to sign to allow him to cross certain borders and to get the materials that he needed. He had gathered the right family names and the right partners he was going to need. He was all ready, right. So when his moment came right, it was go time. And, man, you just remind me of Nehemiah. Like you spent the time. You had the dream, you had the vision, you put the pieces together, but you patiently waited for that moment, right? And then, ironically, God took you to Thailand to meet a bunch of Texans to build a project in your home country. That's fantastic. Julie, back to you. Give us your perspective on this story, among other switchboard stories.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that story, peter. I was listening intently, excited to hear I had no idea that that's how you found tent makers, and I haven't heard the word tent makers in a while. So these two are actually old school. This is before we had the actual skills assessment and this match was not made by an algorithm on a platform. This is back when we were testing the idea and I remember meeting Peter.
Speaker 3:I remember I was in a hotel room in San Antonio for our first Zoom and hearing his vision and hearing what he wanted to do and remembering that Daryl had served on the elders board with Bob Galloway, which reminded me that I had met his wife even earlier than that, like 20 years ago, and just thought she was an amazing woman of God. And I was like you know what? I'm going to text Carol and see if Bob is still. I think I texted Daryl to make sure Bob was an architect, that I remembered that properly, and then I texted Carol and said, hey, any chance your husband would be interested in this, and she texted back I don't know, here's his email and so reached out via email. Since then, bob has filled out a proper skills assessment.
Speaker 4:So reached out via email. Since then, Bob has filled out a proper skills assessment. Got it.
Speaker 3:Things go through the platform and it's all fancy with algorithms, but this is Tentmakers, old school Got it.
Speaker 3:This was two people being connected. And I just I was thrilled when Bob said yes, and I think at that time you mentioned you had worked in Padere. But I just thought what a blessing to have somebody that understands a little bit of the culture, because we're very careful with that and we don't want our volunteers to come in thinking they know everything. And Bob came in with a humble heart and seeking to understand and even looking at the plans that we saw today I was just like wow, perfect match, god.
Speaker 1:So why don't you pick up from there for us, Bob, and then we'll go back over to Peter to maybe explain this vision he had? But what happened in your world from that moment on?
Speaker 4:Well, peter and I began trading emails just trying to learn about the project and his vision for that, and I don't know if the sketch that Peter sent me was the original sketch or was one that was, you know, a little bit more recent. But Peter had had drawn out a bit of a diagram for this campus, this Mission Hub campus, that vision that he had. It described a whole series of facilities on a 20-acre campus. Right now there's not a site, there's not a piece of land, and so it's a theoretical 20-acre campus right now. But it's a master plan template so that when the real site comes along, then, you know, with a bit of adjustments and considerations for maybe some unique features of that site, then hopefully that 20-acre campus template will be able to be used again and again and again, you know, hopefully, as the vision gets repeated. So we traded information. I just began to fire questions back at Peter Well, tell me about this food stand, or tell me about this guest house, or tell me about these resort villas that you're thinking about. And I began to do what we call programming, which is really just identifying what is the activity that's going on here, how is it supported, what kind of spaces or rooms are needed for that and what their square footages are, what the relationships, just what architects do to begin a project and start master planning a site. And then we started drawing things to scale.
Speaker 4:Master planning a site, and then we started drawing things to scale what Peter's ultimate goal is right now. The number one objective is to create a virtual fly-through of this campus. Fly around. I mean, we could have guessed and just put some buildings down on the ground, but I couldn't do that without knowing that there was a program there, that there was reality to the footprints and to the massing and the spaces that we were doing.
Speaker 4:So we kind of went, building by building, and there's 13 different unique facilities. Some of them get repeated, because if it's a resort villa, then there's a whole handful of resort villas, but there's 13 unique buildings. And so Peter was super patient, because I was. You know, it took weeks and months for this to kind of go from one building to the next building and we would trade emails and Peter would say, well, yeah, that makes sense, but have you thought about this? And finally we worked our way through the buildings and now they've been all modeled in three-dimensional software. They've all now been placed on the campus and we're right at the threshold of beginning the rendering software to fly through the campus. Wonderful that's fantastic, okay.
Speaker 1:So back to you, peter the visionary. What's going on here? What's the goal, what's the purpose of this?
Speaker 5:When I actually got to start this ministry, I heard very clearly from the Lord about the book of Acts 17, about the Macedonian call. I had this call of people calling him to come and help, and I've been involved in mission efforts through our church for many years been involved in mission efforts through our church for many years and even when I was in campus. One of the consistent thing that I've had, especially when you are talking to missionaries, is there is a calling of come and help, come. We have this need and that's how it it all started with our first missionary. So our ministry is working with indigenous missionaries so we look and identify indigenous people to reach their own communities, got it so while we were praying, and so that's a big story even how we got to identify this missionary. So we go out in this region called Trucana. He's among his people and he's going about his own businesses, but in his heart he has a calling in his heart and he has always been praying before we go to him God, would you send somebody to us, or to me, actually, so that I can reach my own people? I mean, we got to learn this later. This was his prayer, right, and so we come along and we find him, and then we begin to walk with him and finally we identify his calling and he settles down and he plants a church amongst this community. And he plants a church amongst this community and one of the things that he tells us is that he has a problem with his health. He's got this sickness for the longest and he's not able to get to hospital, but he will serve the Lord in the state he is in. So this was my first time to be in that community. I've never been there before, and so I'm listening to a lot of these stories and stories of children who are not going to school because they don't have a meal in the morning and therefore they can't stay in the school. You're hearing about girls who are married at 15, forcefully married at 15. And you begin to hear a lot of these stories and they're beginning to ask what can you do? How can you help us? Yes, the gospel is here and people are coming to faith, but then how does God's love look like? And so it took me back again to the scripture that God gave me. You know the Macedonian call come and help. And so I remembered at that point. I now remembered that 20 years ago I had that vision of having a place, a facility, a program that can be able to begin to help bring dignity, because, you know, the gospel is the only thing that can bring dignity to human beings. So the Lord helped me to put together my thoughts. That's now what I shared with Bob and who was able now to bring it out in the fashion it is my idea.
Speaker 5:With this project as a collaboration, it's what I call a highly concentrated collaboration project. So it will help people who are coming into missions to be able to connect with this community, because within the project, within this 20-acre project, there is a farm, there is a school, there's a hospital, there is a resort that is ready to use facilities for missionaries. So if there's a group coming into that area, the Lord is leading them to minister in that community. They don't have to think too much about infrastructure. They just come and plug in and just go. They could be there for six months, they could be there for a year and just go. They could be there for six months, they could be there for a year.
Speaker 5:So it is meant to be like a platform to go into the places that the Lord leads different mission actors that are directed towards that community. So the way we are doing it is, in a sense, which is you can duplicate it, you can actually take it to another place in Africa and, ideally, how we are trusting all, it's going to work. These are high traffic mission routes, so where there's a lot of missionary work and effort going, we want to be a platform which makes it easy for them, it's easy for everybody coming into that community to serve the Lord as the Lord is directing them. Okay, I've got a lot of threads to pull on here.
Speaker 1:This is kind of like creating a tech stack to start a new company, right. It's like here's all the pieces you need to start your company right. Here's your accounting software here. It's like here's all the pieces you need to start your company, here's your accounting software, here's your email system, here's your internal comms, here's your website. You're building that with real infrastructure and I feel like you've got a massive value proposition to your community. You're going to the community and you say look for 20 acres, I got you a hospital, I got you a school, I've got you these resources. These are critical resources for your community that are going to level things up. I mean, think about the amount of commerce that can come through your community and do business here if there's access to good health care, if there's access to good education, right, and I'm not sure what all the components are, but, as I'm hearing it, maybe most importantly access to living water, right, and eternal hope and someone there to really build up and disciple that community and eternal hope and someone there to really build up and disciple that community. And then I go into this other thread, and this other thread is you've got groups like TMAI who have these pastoral training centers all over the world and they're coming under indigenous leaders and saying, hey, we just like Bob, we want to hear you, we want to listen. What do you need? What's going on here? We're not coming in from the West with all the big ideas and how to do everything. What do you need? How do you reach your people? Because you're talking about these communities you're starting in. Have believers in them. These are indigenous, local Christ followers with a real heart to reach their people and the peoples around them. Which brings me to the episode we did with Peter Swan in South Sudan. Right, they reached one group, then the three other groups and now they're flying bush planes around to the other groups. Right, to do that.
Speaker 1:But with this central track, bob, with this 20 acres, with these critical facilities, man, you've got a hub. You've got something really special that's going to draw people to it. You almost think of like you know, got a hub. You've got something really special that's going to draw people to it. You almost think of like the Roman's Road, not just the scriptural version, but the actual version of like here's your stop points. Right, you're talking about the routes the missionaries use. Like I'm going to go from here, you know. Then I got another five or six days to go to this one, and then I've got a place to stay and I've got a place to rejuvenate. I'm going to run into other people. Am I catching this? Bob Is that kind?
Speaker 4:of weird. Not only that, but think of it as, on the resource level, you've got these folks coming in who need a place to stay or to work or to have a conference and all, and the funding that they bring in to do those kinds of things is what undergirds and underwrites the school and the health facilities and so forth.
Speaker 1:So you say that and I hear you on that, but for me, funding isn't the problem here. We just got to get this story out and this vision out, and I think funds are going to flow in for it. I think there's a partnership component, right? So, in the interest of a little bit of time and you'll learn this about me, peter I'm probably too bold sometimes and not afraid to ask what do we need to take the next steps?
Speaker 5:Good question. I think once we're through with the model that Bob is working on, we want to use it to cast a vision. Cast a vision to people who can join with us. And the way it is is like modular projects, where people you can connect at different levels of the project. Either at school level, if your ministry is into school infrastructure, you can come in and help with that. If you're in agriculture and you've got skills you can bring in, you can come and train the locals how to do farming and part of the extra produce will be accessible to the community. There's a water well we call it a borehole. So if you're in that direction and you can help, our next level will be making sure now that we can actually take off in terms of the different components of this project and get it moving.
Speaker 1:There's a movie in America called Field of Dreams. You've heard of Field of Dreams? Yeah, I think I have. The concept is if you build it they will come. Yeah, if you build it they will come right. And this has a very Field of Dreams kind of a feeling to it, although we're not trying to pull baseball players out of the afterlife here, but missionaries out of the current.
Speaker 3:But you hit on something that was really good earlier and I think it's something that's impressive about the sustainability of it. So we do have to raise funds in order to build it, but the beauty of what Peter and Bob have designed is that you have a tourist part on one side that helps fund the education and agriculture on the other side.
Speaker 3:And I think sustainability is a big buzzword in missions, for good reason, especially in Africa, because you've got to be able to sustain yourself. You don't want to constantly raise funds. So the way they designed the tourist, where you have the hotel we don't call it a hotel the guest house, and you have a store where people can sell things and then you have even like a little fast food stop, because it's on the way to a safari, like where tourists are going to be going on safari in Africa and so just brilliant that you can take, that you can serve people as tourists and then you can use those funds for education and agriculture and to sustain a place that houses missionaries. That's brilliant.
Speaker 1:Wow, what a cool model. Okay, so you're going to let us know, as you kind of complete, if you will, right, give us some images, if you can, something that we can share and keep our network informed of. In our nonprofit with Bless, we have mission partners and we have resource partners. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So, when you're ready to engage with mission partners, which would be, I would say, the other organizations that may be sending teachers Okay, and may be sending agricultural component Okay, and may be sending those pieces Right, we need to share your story with them, okay, right. And then resource partners, which is a fancy way of saying the people that will fund it. Right, clinton, are so lucky to be in the seat we're in and get to talk to all these people that we need to talk to, because an amazing movement is a bonus right now, which is this whole concept of what you talked about earlier, which is mobilizing the marketplace, right, and being a light through your company, right, so I don't need to like work 40, 50 hours a week and then cut a check to the church and then that tithe be the only money that goes to missions, like I need to be doing missions with every part of me all the time right, and because a lot of the demographics of Africa and where you are.
Speaker 1:There's venture capital firms right now in the West who are working with ultra high net worth family offices to deploy capital and bring commerce to Africa. Heron Ventures is one we did a podcast with. There's a whole nother component there to say, hey, here's our model, we're looking for a site. We kind of think this is a good spot. Do you have anything nearby? If you do, how could we do this together? How could it be a net accretive solution for both of us? Because if you do this, where they're investing is going to be more valuable. There's going to be a lot more reason for companies to grow there and more talent to be attracted there in a farm system which is a baseball term for developing your own talent right For bringing the kids that are there up and equipping them to be part of the solution. Am I getting all this? Yeah, sure You're getting it right.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I think that's a way it is going to play out, so that people can find how to connect. They can connect at what you're going to skills level.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Bringing their skills, or you can come with your resources, right and mission, resources, mission and resources.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is a church one of the buildings or a worship center?
Speaker 4:Yes, there's several spaces. The school itself has a large auditorium. The residential areas have a commons hall that could be used for Sunday services. There's meeting rooms in the guest house, so there's quite a few opportunities for a variety of different groups all at the same time to do ministry.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, I mean, we know from stories on the pod and just working around the world a lot of churches. So you said you planted some churches in your past. And a lot of churches. When we think of a church plant, some people may think, okay, a building was built and it had these things that were needed to be a church. But that's not necessarily what a church plant in Africa looks like.
Speaker 5:This is a certain tree that everybody agrees to be what a church plant in Africa looks like. This is a certain tree that everybody agrees to meet on here, and I've been on such a tree.
Speaker 1:Right yeah.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and it's a vibrant church, vibrant. Worship is so pure and so joyful and you keep moving the seats as the sun moves.
Speaker 1:Oh, there you go. It's a sundial church Because it may go on for hours, right? Yeah, exactly, oh yeah, because it may go on for hours. Yeah, exactly, oh yeah, four hours it goes for hours, yeah. But so a lot of these church plants don't start out as a building. Yeah, which is probably how we would start a lot of them in the west, like, hey, let's build a building and then we'll call that the church and we'll start figuring out how we're going to put people in it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, these are we get the people.
Speaker 1:The lord gets them excited about what's going on and then you start to see a reason to eventually bring a building and grow that church, and then that church can become an Acts 1-8 launch ground right to go out to the others around it and what you're trying to create here, is that launch ground that's sustainable and it's bringing jobs and it's bringing commerce and it's bringing more reasons to be investing in that growing community.
Speaker 1:That's beautiful, man. I mean for God to put that on your heart 20 years ago and you to feel very stuck in corporate Africa we would say corporate America here Corporate.
Speaker 4:Africa Corporate Africa.
Speaker 1:And then just to stay faithful and prayerful and work your way through it.
Speaker 5:Man.
Speaker 1:I commend you.
Speaker 5:You know it's been many years and I share with my friends when we've been in corporate world and ask me what exactly are you doing? Why are you stuck there? I mean it's kind of this never leaves me. I mean I try running but it just keeps coming back to me. But the Lord has helped me to be able now to bring in my skills.
Speaker 1:You tried to go to Tarshish and the Lord said go to Nineveh.
Speaker 5:Yeah, and I have my training. I have training. My postgraduate is in strategic management. So one time I asked the Lord what is this training helpful in the kingdom of God? And so the Lord helped me to understand that the kingdom of God. And so the Lord helped me to understand that the kingdom of God needs strategy and strategists. So I consider myself that the Lord has helped me to bring strategic thinking in missions, and so I do a lot of that in this mission field. So that's one of the projects.
Speaker 1:I think we'll all consider you someone the Lord's given some strategic thinking to after hearing this. Peter, this is very cool.
Speaker 5:You don't have to carry that opinion on your own, yeah so I'm happy that I can be able to bring that on the table and my prayer is that I'll be able to have as many people organizations, marketplace believers to see their place in ministry.
Speaker 1:Because actually our ministry is trying to help bridge that gap between the mission force and the mission field. Clint's got his hands in the air over here. He's worshiping and celebrating I think he just named the episode. The cool thing about getting to do the Unreached podcast is we get to just tell these stories and let God do his thing with the listeners and whoever they decide to share it with. It's one of Clint and I's greatest pleasures and privileges.
Speaker 1:So, peter, to wrap up here, the quote you said that got Clint, you know, hands in the air back here was bridge the gap between the mission field and the mission force. Bridge the gap between the mission field and the mission force. Create a hub, create a central spot, create a model that can be replicated. This is something that could be really meaningful to the task remaining to reaching unreached people groups. With that in mind, would you pray for our listeners, peter? Would you just close us in a prayer today and know that we're going to be praying for you and this entire project and I'm going to hope that I get plenty of follow-up and things that we can be sharing, and I would be quite certain that you will find some good connections from this event, and that will be in the form of mission partners and resource partners.
Speaker 5:Thank you so much for having me on this podcast. I really thank Switchboard and my greatest friend, bob I'm really grateful and for giving us this platform. I believe this is part of the collaboration that we're building and we're grateful for what you're doing for the kingdom.
Speaker 1:It's our pleasure. It's our pleasure.
Speaker 5:So let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you, we're so grateful because times and seasons, they belong to you and you place us where you have us best and how we can serve you. And we thank you, lord, for the way that you have just orchestrated everything. Two years ago, this was not even in my dreams, not possibly in the dream of anyone here. But, god, you have made it so work and we thank you, lord, that you want us to work in your vineyard together, hand in hand, to work in your vineyard together, hand in hand. And so we bring our skills, our strengths, our dreams, and we just want to ask that you may bless the work of different ministries that are laboring every day and we ask, oh God, that you'd give us fruit in that which you put in our hands to do.
Speaker 5:Thank you, dear Lord, for this podcast.
Speaker 5:Ask you, god, that you continue to bless this platform, even as they get the word out to God and the stories, and so people may be encouraged that you're at work.
Speaker 5:Thank you for many who are giving in their time, in their skills and in their time, and we just ask for your blessings and that, dear Lord, that the people that we're reaching out, that this effort to God, we shall see in our generation, the gospel reaching to these communities and rich people groups, and that we will see them, the gospel reaching to these communities, the Enriched People groups, and that we will see them turning to the Lord and beginning to enjoy the forgiveness and the grace that we ourselves have enjoyed because the gospel came to us, and we just pray that, lord, that you encourage us on the way and that you cause us to be faithful, which you have put in our hearts because it is your work. Thank you, lord, that you help us to accomplish all that is in your heart for these communities across the world. We give you praise and we thank you because we pray in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, amen, amen. All right, reminder everybody. We give you praise and we thank you because we pray in Jesus name. Amen, amen, amen, amen. Alright, reminder everybody go to globalswitchboardio and fill out your profile and take their fancy new assessment and get yourself out there. Regardless of your skill set, regardless, somebody out there is looking for you and you've got a role to play. I say this a lot, right? We're all a unique combination of time, talent and treasure and no one can play your role but you. Thank you for listening to Unreached. Our sincere desire is that what you've heard today will cause you to see the mission of God differently and your role in it more clearly. If this adds value for you and we hope it does would you please rate and review the podcast wherever you listen. Also, share with your family, your friends, your church, your life group, small group dGroup, wherever you do life, and if you want to connect with us, find us on Instagram at unreachedpodcast, or email us at unreachedpodcast at gmailcom.
