Everyday Mission Podcast

On this episode, Gina talks with 3 very intentional, very missional people who have just released a new book designed for people like you and me who want to start living an intentionally missional lifestyle with others. Mark & Jacolien Van Den Steenhoven and Sharon Earl are the authors of "GO (together) & MAKE: Seven Practical Stepping Stones to Help You Learn a Missional Lifestyle," and they're here to tell their stories and to explain how this resource can help you better live a lifestyle of everyday mission.www.3dmovements.comGO (together) & MAKE: Seven Practical Stepping Stones to Help You Learn a Missional Lifestyle

On this, our 50th episode, Gina is joined by two men who lead an organization that is empowering literally hundreds of everyday people all over North America to live Jesus-Shaped lives and minister to thousands of their immediate neighbors. Pete Kelly and Josh Jackaway are leaders with Apartment Life, a faith-based, non-profit organization that has been serving the apartment industry since 2000. They're here to share the story of Apartment Life, and it's a story that is sure to spark missional creativity in your heart and mind as you listen!www.3dmovements.comFall Learning CommunitiesApartment Life Web SiteJoshJackaway@apartmentlife.org

This is the third and final episode in our mini-series on Sabbath. Austin Catalano has been with Gina the last two episodes - and she's here once again! Austin has become convinced that all disciples of Jesus should consider the instruction of the Lord for His people to take a weekly (and literal 24 hour) Sabbath. This is something she has been doing now for some time, and she has been very honest with us about how reluctant she was to do this - and how hard it was at first. Like all of us, she's busy - busy being a wife and mom, a school leader, and a house church leader. On this episode, she gives us some helpful insight into how to not only press-in to sabbath ourselves, but how to as disciple-makers encourage and lead others in this practice as well.www.3dmovements.com"Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest" by Ruth Haley Barton"Invitation to Retreat" by Ruth Haley Barton

This is the second episode in our three-part series on Sabbath featuring discussions between our host, Gina Mueller, and Austin Catalano. Austin is a wife, mother, school leader and house church leader who has embraced taking a weekly 24-hour Sabbath. She's back on this episode to continue talking about how important it is to rest by pressing-in to the God-given gift of Sabbath so that disciples can move toward living a more balanced Jesus-Shaped Life.www.3dmovements.com"Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest" by Ruth Haley Barton"Invitation to Retreat" by Ruth Haley Barton

This episode begins a 3-part series on the Sabbath where Gina and Austin Catalano talk about how important it is to rest and press-in to the God-given gift of Sabbath so that we can live a balanced Jesus-Shaped Life. Austin is a familiar voice on this podcast, and she's back to talk about the importance of Sabbath - mainly because she's studied it at length and because she fought against the concept of Sabbath keeping for a long time like most of us probably do! She is a wife, mother, school leader, house church leader, and Sabbath keeper, and she has so much to offer us as we think about our own work/rest rhythm and the importance of taking advantage of the gift of Sabbath that God offers us.www.3dmovements.com"Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest" by Ruth Haley Barton"Invitation to Retreat" by Ruth Haley Barton

On this episode, Gina is joined by a familiar voice in the 3DM Movement - Bob Rognlien. Bob is the chairman of the board of 3DM North America. He's also an author, teacher, and archaeological guide with over 30 years of experience leading groups on archaeological and spiritual journeys in the Middle East. Bob joins Gina today for a discussion about what it takes to be an imitator of Jesus - to live a Jesus-Shaped Life - and they share stories and experiences from their lives as they and their families are working toward living consistent Jesus Shaped Lives.3DM Web Site: www.3dmovements.comEveryday Mission Podcast Web Site: www.3dmovements.com/podcast"SWOT Your Life" Resource: www.3dmovements.com/resources-3/swot-reflection-tool

Recently, the leaders of 3DM North America gathered to worship, pray, learn, and talk about the vision of the movement. Some of our leaders presented short "TED Talks," and on this episode, we are featuring one of them. Austin Catalano who is a wife, mother, school leader and house church leader spoke about how parents can think and parent missionally as they raise their kids. Specifically, her challenge is for parents to consider ways that they can prepare their children to grow into missional adults. Austin's talk was so powerful and helpful that we are sharing it with you - and then our host and director of 3DM North America, Gina Mueller, chimes in to share her thoughts about missional parenting.3DM Website: www.3dmovements.com

When it comes to being a disciple and making disciples, what are you? Are you more a theologian or more a practitioner? Most of us are one or the other, but Gina's guest on this episode helps us see the importance of being both. David Broberg is the Assistant Director of Discipleship at Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, so - for sure - he's a theologian. But, he's also been in a 3DM Huddle where he was sharpened in his disciple-making practices and called it 'life changing!" So, he's a theologian and a practitioner as well! David shares how important it is to be both in discipleship and disciple-making, and he shares some stories from his neighborhood where he and his wife have seen God at work.www.3dmovements.com www.3dmovements.com/podcast Recovering the Way by Bob Rognlien

What happens when a family who is new to a town - a town where it's "weird" for neighbors to get together - park their grill in their front yard and fire it up? Actually, pretty cool things happen - like laughter, sharing, new friendships, and even "church!" This is the story of Gina's guests on this episode. Rob and Kelly Abrams hold family-on-mission as a high value, so when they moved their family from New Jersey to Maine a few years back, they came with a plan! And this plan shaped not only their home's design, but it also shaped their family calendar, their people interactions, and even when they fired up their grill and what they put on it!3DM Web Site: www.3dmovements.comEveryday Mission Podcast Web Site: www.3dmovements.com/podcast"SWOT Your Life" Resource: www.3dmovements.com/resources-3/swot-reflection-tool

On this episode, Gina is joined by co-host, Grace Maconochie. Both sit down to talk about the intersection of worship and discipleship with Sol and Kali Grimes. Sol and Kali oversee The Gospel House in Ft. Wayne, IN which is a prayer and worship ministry that primarily works with the emerging generation of young adults in the Midwest dedicated to ministering to the Lord. They are here to talk about how they see worship and discipleship being interconnected and to share stories of how they've seen God at work through their incarnational worship and discipleship ministry over the last 10 years together.3DM Web Sitewww.3dmovements.com2024-25 3DM Discipleship School Informationwww.3dmovements.com/discipleship-schoolThe Gospel House Web Sitewww.gospelhousefamily.com

Gina's guest is Steve Bruns who leads a 3DM-like network of missional church movements from his home base in Norway called Agenda1. Agenda1 is a relational network of churches on a journey together to build missional churches that transform cultures by making disciples who make disciples in the power of the Holy Spirit. Sounds familiar, huh?!Under Steve's leadership, Agenda1 currently has fourteen Learning Communities in Norway with around 130 groups representing 80 churches from many denominations. And, they've also spread their disciple-making influence to churches in Myanmar, the Philippines, Nepal, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, Finland, several countries in Africa, Cuba and even the United States!Steve is here to share some amazing stories of how God is at work raising up everyday people in Asia to be disciples who make disciples, and he has a few important words for us here in North America about the things he's learned from the explosive missional movements he's a part of worldwide.Resources:3DM Web Site: www.3dmovements.com3DM Fall Workshops: www.3dmovements.com/workshops3DM Fall Learning Communities: www.3dmovements.com/l-cAgenda1 Web Site: www.agenda1.no 

Gina's guest is Brian Gerig who has been on mission for a long time! Brian co-founded a city-wide youth ministry in Ft. Wayne, Indiana called "The Powerhouse" in 1995 that is still going strong today. He joins Gina to tell stories of how he and his team have been equipping teens to go on mission to their friends and family members for nearly 30 years. He also shares some encouraging news about what God is doing today among a new generation of teens who are hungry for community, for purpose, and for God!MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:3DM Web SiteBOOK: Target: Leading Missional Communities for Students and YouthBOOK: Tools for Life: Lifeshapes for Youth

Gina's guests are JD and ChristianAnn Larson who are pastors of an innovative church plant in Minneapolis called North City Church. They're here to talk with Gina specifically about what they call "Dinner Church" which they see as a way to follow Jesus' example of taking temple things into table spaces. Their story is sure to give you some creative imagination for mission in your own neck of the woods!MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: People of Peace Prayer Exercise (FREE DOWNLOAD) North City Church, Minneapolis 3DM Web Site

Jo Saxton is back for part two of her conversation with Gina that began on the last episode. Jo is the founder of Ezer Collective, which is a 2-day leadership intensive made up of about 75 women from all industries, life stages, and leadership roles. She's also a speaker, podcast host, author, and leadership coach. On this episode, she and Gina talk about why it's so important for women to step into their missional calling, and they also talk about how Jesus invested in women and empowered them for ministry and mission.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 3DM Web Site www.3dmovements.com Ezer Collective www.josaxton.com/ezer-collectiveThe Ezer Collective is a 2-day leadership intensive made up of about 75 women from all industries, life stages, and leadership roles. November 2023 in Minneapolis and February 2024 in Portland, Maine. FEATURED BOOKS BY JO SAXTON: Ready to Rise www.josaxton.com/ready-to-rise The Dream of You www.josaxton.com/the-dream-of-you

Gina's guest on this episode is Jo Saxton who has been a part of the 3DM movement for a long time. Her name might be familiar to you since many in the 3DM movement have interacted with her books and teachings. Jo has committed her life to raising up and equipping women to lead, and she's here to encourage women to step into their identity, gifting, and calling. She's also here to exhort men to facilitate that process in their churches and ministries.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 3DM Web Site www.3dmovements.com Ezer Collective www.josaxton.com/ezer-collectiveThe Ezer Collective is a 2-day leadership intensive made up of about 75 women from all industries, life stages, and leadership roles. November 2023 in Minneapolis and February 2024 in Portland, Maine. FEATURED BOOKS BY JO SAXTON: Ready to Rise www.josaxton.com/ready-to-rise The Dream of You www.josaxton.com/the-dream-of-you

Something big is happening in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Gina's guests are here to tell us all about it! Gina Jehl, Daisy Baily, and Deborah Hughes - who are known by the people in Fort Wayne as the "Fort Wayne Intercessors"  - have been gathering together to pray for their city for decades. They join Gina to tell us how it all began, what the Lord has taught them as they've prayed, what the Lord has done over the decades through their prayers, and what big thing is happening right now that they could only have dreamt about in the past. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:EMPOWERED Prayer & Worship Retreat June 22-24 in Holland, Michiganwww.3dmovements.com/prayer-and-worship-retreat3DM Weekly Prayer GatheringTuesdays 9:30am ESTTuesdays 12pm ESTWednesdays 12pm ESTZoom link available in the show notes of this episode.www.3dmovements.com/podcastFort Wayne 24/7 Prayer Roomwww.prayerworksfw.com

Gina's guest is Steven Barr, the founder of Cast Member Church, a global network of micro-churches for Disney cast members - most of whom have never been part of a church or have ever even opened a Bible before! The Cast Member church movement is a Jesus-centered family specifically designed for Disney cast members that ​extends across six continents, with local expressions (called "CommuniDs") in Orlando, Anaheim, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. These CommuniDs include different nationalities, ethnicities, languages, and perspectives - including those who are critical of religion, conflicted about faith, confused by Christianity, or curious about Jesus. www.3dmovements.com

Jeremy and Nicole Snoberger join Gina to tell their story of how God is speaking to and leading them (as empty nesters) on a brand new mission. Actually, they're still in the middle of their story, and it's a story of how God is calling them to move from their home and community into a completely different home and community as He calls them into a new season of missional living. www.3dmovements.com

Paul Maconochie is back to talk to us about how we can engage in and see victory in the spiritual battles we face when we step out in obedience to Jesus' call to discipleship and mission. That's when spiritual warfare seems to always heat up - when we step out in obedience to Jesus. Paul is a pastor with the 5-fold gifting of prophet, and the insight he brings on this topic is important and very helpful.From 2004 to 2014 Paul led the church in Sheffield where much of Lifeshapes and the other 3DM tools and principles were developed, following Mike Breen as Senior Pastor. During this time the church grew significantly through Missional Communities based all over the city. Paul also helped to establish 3DM Europe and the UK 3DM Network during this time (now called Kairos Connexion). In 2014 he and his family moved to the USA, where he now works as a Pastor at Grace Gathering, New Haven Indiana and is a part of the 3DM North America Team. www.3dmovements.com

Mike's guest is Paul Maconochie who was "on the ground" when 3DM got its start in Sheffield, England some 30 years ago. Paul was a university student back then and found his way to St Thomas Church, Crookes (which is now known as "STC Sheffield."). It would be there that Paul would experience an incredible move of God, and it would be there that Paul would be connected with 3DM's founder, Mike Breen. Paul is here to not just share with us some of the "behind the scenes" stories of how 3DM came to be, but he will also tell about some of the significant and powerful moves of God that has led to 3DM as we know it today. www.3dmovements.com 

Mike's guest on this episode is someone who has been on mission to make disciples and grow the church all of his adult life. His name is Tony Plummer, and along with his wife Lisa, they live and minister in Venice, FL. Tony is here to encourage all of us to keep going in the ministry God has called us to. His story - which is still being written - is one of high highs and some pretty low lows. In the early 2000s, Tony had what he describes as a "complete breakdown" as a result of ministry burnout, depression, and anxiety that sidelined him for over a year. All of this led him to the realization that he didn't really know Jesus like he thought he did. He's here to share what he has learned - and is still learning - through all of this. So, if you're on mission - whether in your neighborhood, with friends or co-workers, or at your church, then this conversation about how to deal with and even avoid ministry burnout will be so important. www.3dmovements.com

Gina is on a well-deserved mini sabbatical, so Mike Potter fills in as the host with his guest, Jesse Harden. Jesse has quite a story to tell. He and his wife, Joanna, are people who listen to the Lord and seek to follow His leading in their lives. This listening and following has led to quite an adventure - an adventure full of fruit, and an adventure full of hurdles too.  Jesse served as a youth and associate pastor in Albuquerque, NM for 12 years, and during that time began to sense the Lord calling him and his family to move into the roughest section of an already rough city. Jesse is here to tell the story of what happened when he sensed God calling him to leave his traditional church ministry position, move to an area of town referred to by many as the "war zone," and live and minister there with his wife and kids. www.3dmovements.com

This podcast is just over a year old, and one of our most popular episodes so far was a discussion Gina had about living on mission in a small town setting (Episode 9). So, we decided to do another episode about being on mission in a small town, but this time with pastor and professor Jason McConnell. And if there was ever a guy to talk about this topic - it's Jason!He has a B.A. in pastoral ministry from Moody Bible Institute, an M.Div. and Th.M. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and (get this!), he has a D. Min. in rural ministry from Beeson Divinity School! Jason and his family are small town residents, and he is a small-town missional practitioner there pastoring two small churches. www.3dmovements.com

The Everyday Mission Podcast is officially one year old as we launched our first episode in January of 2022. As we move into our second year, we thought it would be fun to begin by giving you a look behind the mic at the two people who make this podcast happen. On this episode, host Gina Mueller and editor and producer Mike Potter sit down together to share stories of how God has been and continues to lead them in their everyday lives. Gina is the North American Director of 3DM, but she's also an everyday wife, mom, church-planter, disciple of Jesus and a disciple-maker. Mike is the pastor of Foothills Fellowship in Albuquerque, NM, but he's also an everyday husband, dad, grandfather, follower of Jesus, and an audiophile (you might have to look that word up - but just know that it's not a bad thing!). www.3dmovements.com 

As promised, here is part 2 of Gina's compelling conversation with Bob Rognlein. Bob is the chairman of the board of 3DM North America. He's also an author, teacher, and archaeological guide with over 30 years of experience leading groups on archaeological and spiritual journeys in the Middle East. Bob believes that archaeology helps reveal the real Jesus to us - and on the last episode, we saw how biblical archaeology can have a direct impact on our everyday mission. Bob and Gina continue with this conversation on this episode. www.3dmovements.com 

What does archaeology have to do with discipleship? And even more, what does archaeology have to do with the everyday mission that everyday people are called to by Christ? Gina's guest believes that archaeology not only reveals more about the time in which Jesus lived, but it reveals more about the way Jesus lived - which is the way that all Christ-followers are to imitate. He believes that archaeology helps reveal the real Jesus to us.  Bob Rognlien is the chairman of the board of 3DM North America. He's also an author, teacher, and archaeological guide with over 30 years' experience leading groups on archaeological and spiritual journeys in the Middle East. He joins Gina to show how archaeology, discipleship, and disciple-making all go together. So, prepare yourself for a spiritual and archaeological journey that will profoundly impact your everyday discipleship and mission and reveal to you more about the real Jesus! www.3dmovements.com

Shannan Martin is Gina's guest on this episode of the Everyday Mission Podcast. She's just written a book called Start with Hello (And Other Simple Ways to Live as Neighbors). It's a field guide for helping all of us become more connected to the people around us. She's here to share her family's story of moving from a rural farm to a city full of neighbors and shares what they have learned about building deep connections with those who live close to them. Shannan also shares some very practical tips and ideas to help us do the same in our neighborhoods. www.3dmovements.com

On this episode, Gina is joined by Marika Springer and Brittney Bowers who are two of the women who are students in our 3DM Discipleship School. Both have committed to taking ten months out of their lives to press-in to discipleship and mission, and both have given up a lot to do it - jobs, family, friends, and one even sold her home! But as you will hear, they both say it's worth it!Gina is catching them as they are completing the first of four stages of the Discipleship School and preparing to move-on from Maine to make their way to Indiana. They'll then go to California and finish in Lima, Peru. Ten months in all with immersion into four of our 3DM missional contexts. What they're learning and experiencing and what they'll share with us on this episode are valuable and practical discipleship and mission tools and practices.

Gina's guest is Pastor Dan Koller who is leading a church "revitalization" process in Yakima, Washington that is using both the gathered and scattered expressions of the church to move forward in discipleship and disciple-making. Dan joins Gina to talk about the struggle that many church people are experiencing - especially those who have caught the vision to make disciples who are now wondering if there is any real discipleship value in the gathered expression of the church (i.e. Sunday morning worship). Many are tempted to consider that the scattered approach of doing church (like missional communities, micro-churches, and home churches) is the better way. Dan believes that both approaches are effective, needed, and beneficial for discipleship and disciple-making, and he's here to explain why he believes this and how his church is using both approaches. RESOURCE: On Ramp Huddles www.3dmovements.com/huddles

Jesus made it clear that we are to be His witnesses wherever we are to whomever we are around. His final words to His disciples recorded in Acts 1 say as much - and these words apply to His disciples today as well. The question then becomes: How do we gauge how well we're doing as His witness? For sure, we know that part of that answer lies in our actions and in our love for others, but we all know that our conversations play an important part in our witness as well -and this is where many of us struggle. What do we say to others to bear witness to Christ in our lives without coming across as trite, as rehearsed, or even worse, as overbearing? Gina's guest today is here to help! Alyssa Tocci is a mom and pastor of a house church network in Boston. She's here to talk about how she and her husband engage in intentional yet very natural spiritual conversations with their neighbors, and she offers us some really helpful ideas on how we can do this ourselves.FEATURED RESOURCE: New Fall Learning Communities https://www.3dmovements.com/l-c 

The Apostle Paul in Romans 12 tells all Christ followers (then and now) to "Practice hospitality." In 1 Peter 4, Peter encourages us to "offer hospitality to one another without grumbling." Evidently, grumbling was a thing back then when it came to offering hospitality! The same could probably be said for many of us today. Offering hospitality can be difficult. It can be inconvenient. And it often calls for sacrifice. But…Hospitality is to Christianity what peanut butter is to jelly. Because God has shown us such incredible and all-encompassing hospitality thru His Son, Jesus, we are called upon by Him to do the same for others.  For some Christ-followers, this comes naturally. But for others, extending hospitality does not come so easy.Gina's guest on this episode is one of those Christ-followers for whom offering hospitality comes naturally. Heidi Macias is here to help all of us "up our hospitality game" with literally dozens of helpful, simple, and sustainable ideas for offering hospitality. RESOURCE: “Help! I'm Leading a Group in My Home!” https://www.3dmovements.com/help-series 

On this episode, Gina has a conversation with Joe and Melissa Eastman. After they had four young children of their own, Melissa experienced a life-threatening health issue that nearly ended her life. Just before this happened, God called them to bring more kids into their home thru foster care. They are here to share their story of fostering children, adopting some of them, and walking together thru the valley of the shadow of death. Theirs is a story of courageous obedience in the midst of very bleak times, but it's also a story of God's abundant provision, care, and blessing.

Have you ever considered that business could be a powerful tool for mission and ministry? Gina's guest today does because he's ALWAYS thinking about this. As a seminary-trained pastor and church planter, Pat Dierkse, is using his catering company in Compton, CA as an intentional tool for not only making money for his family but also for providing jobs for those in his neighborhood and for making disciples. Pat and his wife, Julie, planted City Church in Compton over a decade ago, but Pat soon recognized that most of the pastors in Compton were bi-vocational, so he decided to do the same. Together with his love for people, desire to make disciples in his neighborhood, and his passion for culinary arts, Pat started City Catering which now employs several people from the community and feeds the homeless there on a weekly basis. Pat also now coaches others who desire to marry business with mission, and he's here with Gina to tell his story.See more about the mission of City Catering and the innovative space Pat and City Church are developing in Compton called "The Lab" at www.citycateringcpt.com.

On this episode, Gina is joined by Cath Livesey who is a part of the 3DM UK team and the leader of an organization called Accessible Prophecy that helps local churches grow a prophetic culture. If you've been involved in the 3DM movement for any amount of time, you're probably familiar with Cath because she's the author of a book that we use called "My Sheep Have Ears" that has helped many people learn to listen to the Lord in their own lives and in the life of their missional community and church.  Cath is with Gina on this episode to talk not only about how to hear from the Lord, but she's got a new book out called "Holy Disruption: Harnessing the Prophetic to Shape a More Christlike Church," and she's with Gina to help us see how a healthy prophetic culture in our churches can lead to creative and effective mission.

Gina is joined by Brandon Kelly who is the Lead Pastor of College First Church of God in northwest Ohio and the co-director of an organization called 5Q. 5Q provides a rich and biblical way for leaders who are committed to equipping and releasing the church to be on mission for the Kingdom of God. Some of you may be familiar with the term APEST - which is one way to remember what the five-fold gifting is that the Apostle Paul spoke of in Ephesians 4. APEST stands for Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, and Teacher. Brandon is with Gina today to specifically discuss how we can engage in mission thru our 5-fold gifting - and how to help those we lead do the same.5Q Web Site: www.5QCentral.com3DM Web Site: www.3dmovements.com

Gina is joined by an everyday person who is leading a discipleship and house church movement in India. Josh Howard is the Director of Leadership Training and Multiplication for the Central India Christian Mission, and his story of how literally thousands of everyday people have been and are being trained to make disciples who make disciples is incredible! 

Gina is joined by three guests on this episode: Tanner Morgan, Gaelin Elmore and Kayla DeJesus Rodriguez - all of whom have deep connections with Athletes in Action. Tanner is the starting quarterback of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, Gaelin is a former NFL player and current speaker and facilitator, and Kayla is the team leader of Athletes in Action in Puerto Rico. Each guest shares what they learned about discipleship through Athletes in Action and how God is opening opportunities for them in the area of discipleship and mission.3DM Web Site: www.3dmovements.com 

Gina is joined by an everyday husband, dad, fund manager, and introvert who is also a neighbor on mission. Chris Gleason has been following the Lord since he was a child, but something happened when he was 8 years old that caused him to say that he would never share the Gospel with anyone ever again. That is until about 7 years ago when he blindly agreed to go to a 3DM training event that he says, "floored him." Chris' story is one of God breaking into his life in such a powerful way that he ended up experiencing the redemption of his 8-year-old self and was given a powerful ministry of "presence" in his suburban neighborhood where he is seeing spiritual fruit as he allows the Holy Spirit to lead him and his family on mission.Featured Resource: On-Ramp Huddles. www.3dmovements.com/huddles

We seem to be inundated with bad news these days from our schools, but on this episode, you will be encouraged to hear about some of the ways in which God is on the move in our high schools and on our college campuses. Gina's guest is a young man named Colin Jester who, when he was a sophomore in high school, sensed God calling him to begin a missional community in his school. Colin was an athlete and ran with that crowd, but he sensed God calling him to reach out to those who were different than him - those who were overlooked by some in his high school. His stories of how God moved are pretty incredible! Today, Colin is in college, and after a fruitful ministry in high school, he is continuing to follow the Lord's direction in developing missional relationships with people on his college campus as well. There is so much we can learn from Colin on the faith and prayer it takes to go on mission, and there is much encouragement to be had from hearing how God worked through him at such a young age. 

On this episode, Gina is joined by Mark Burgess. Mark is an Englishman who left England over 15 years ago to go on mission in Lima, Peru. He'll share a bit of that story, and he'll share the amazing thing God did for his church during Covid. But Gina's main focus with Mark is on exploring the ways in which he has learned to listen to the Lord and step out in faith in areas like prophetic words and healing. 

Gina's guest is Stacy Hendricks, an everyday mom of three teens who Gina discipled years ago. Stacy is someone who listens to the Lord for His missional direction, and what she heard Him tell her five years ago was quite a shock! She will join Gina to tell her about how she processed God's surprise call on her life and how, after hesitantly stepping-in to this calling, God has used her in ways she never thought possible.

A recent study shows that 97% of America's land mass is rural. 97%! While the majority of the population lives in urban areas, a whopping 64 million people live in rural areas – in small towns or in the country. So, the missional need in rural areas is huge, and while we often think the most effective mission is in urban areas, there are some who have responded to God's call to live missionally in small towns and communities. Gina's guests are living missionally in a small town in Southern Maine. Frank and Austin Catalano join Gina to share their story and to provide helpful ideas and strategies for doing mission in a small-town setting. 

On this episode of the Everyday Mission Podcast, Gina sits down with Tom and Jen Catanzaro, parents of five young children, who are making a missional difference in the San Francisco Bay area. In a city that's not very open to the gospel, they are utilizing a powerful and effective missional weapon - their front yard! If you're looking for ideas on how you can make a difference for God's Kingdom in your neighborhood, then this episode is for you.

Julie Dirkse is Gina's guest on this episode of the Everyday Mission Podcast. Julie and her husband, Pat, followed God's call on their life 10 years ago to move as missionaries and church planters into one of the most dangerous cities in America - Compton, CA. She shares their story about a city and a people they have fallen in love with as they live among them as neighbors and friends. It's a story of everyday people following the Lord where He leads them and experiencing more of God's goodness and grace than they could ever have imagined!

Gina's guest is Dan Wolf, a former full-time pastor at a multi-staff church in Florida who left there to go on mission in one of the most post-Christian cities in America, Portland, Maine - right in the middle of the pandemic. His story is a story of how God is at work in powerful ways through everyday people in a city where the hard soil is seeing gospel fruit starting to break through.

Gina's guest has an incredible story to tell! Gwen Adams is an everyday mom and grandma who God called out of the church she was serving to be the church way out on the margins of society. It all started with a simple missional challenge from the Lord to pray. And those prayers have led to a profound movement of crazy church ladies who are having an amazing impact combatting sex trafficking in Alaska. 

What if your church caught the vision for seriously and intentionally equipping you and the others in your church to live everyday missional lives in your community. What if your church was so serious about this that you started hearing words and phrases like "decentralization of the church," "scattered church," and "home churches" being tossed around by your church's leadership?Gina's guest today is Shannon Colwin, a pastor who has dared to utter these words. His story is a story of ups and downs, it's a story of great joy and lots of big hurdles, it's a story that is still being written, and it's a story that is sure to encourage you and make you think about what discipleship and mission could look like in your church and in your everyday life.

In Ephesians 4, the Apostle Paul told the church in Ephesus that Christ himself gives the church "apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up." These are what many call "The 5-Fold Spiritual Gifts," and many believe that every believer has been given one of these gifts for the purpose of serving the church and building unity within it. We often think of spiritual gifting being only for adults, but Caren Hunter, who is back with us for another episode, believes that these gifts are manifested even in children - and she and her husband are serious about identifying them and helping them grow in their own four kids.

Gina's guest today is Caren Hunter - an everyday mom of 4 kids who self-identifies as an "introvert." But she and her family decided years ago to step out and set up a weekly missional predictable pattern that is simple, often involves cereal, and is making a Kingdom difference in their neck of the woods. 

On our very first episode of the Everyday Mission Podcast, host and director of 3DM North America, Gina Mueller, talks with Grace Maconochie - a woman that we think is pretty special - but like all of us, Grace is just an everyday person seeking to live her life on mission one day at a time. She's here to share her story of how in opening her home, her life, and her bathtub to her friends - God is growing His kingdom!