Our goal is to equip every church to serve its community with gospel-centered mercy and compassion ministry.
From Send Relief, Stories of Hope is a podcast about people who meet needs, build relationships and change lives. Every two weeks, you will hear a story about a believer or a church who looked honestly at the world around them, discovered a need and then couldn’t sit still until they’d done what God told them to do. Subscribe today.
Join host Greg Teffertiller and special guest Rod Marshall as they discuss why any ministry of mission will have a degree of messiness including Foster Care.
Join host Greg Teffertiller as he discusses with Mary Vincent, vice president of programs at United Methodist Children’s Homes, how to reach the 17,000 young people who aged out of the foster care system every year.
Join your host and marketing director of Send Relief, Greg Teffertiller, as he discusses ministering to birth families with special guests, Rick Morton, vice president of engagement for Lifeline Children’s Ministries and Riley Green, senior director of WinShape Homes.
It’s no secret we live in a broken world. Join your host, Greg Teffertiller, and executive director of Uniting Hope for Children, Tom Covington, as they answer practical questions asked by families stepping into the “messiness” of foster care.
What would it look like for 1,000 churches or 5,000 churches matched with the number of kids coming into foster care?
On this Send Relief podcast, Joey Anthony sits down with Ryan West to discuss the importance of meeting people where they are and pointing them to Jesus. Joey Anthony is pastor of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Colonial Heights, Va.,and chairs the North American Mission Board’s Chaplains Commission. He served those in the wake of the attack on a night club two years ago and is here today to share how we can step into the daily patterns of people’s lives and share the gospel.
How do you create a culture of compassion in your church? In what ways can Christians invest their vocations and passions in mercy ministry? In this conversation between Ryan West and Justin Lopez you can learn how to help your church members find ways to create a culture that is compassionate.
In this special episode, host Ryan West speaks with Scott Ward, a former IMB missionary in Tanzania and current missions pastor of Grand Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Listen as they discuss what it means to be a mobilizer and how the Lord uses mobilizers to engage the Church. Take your next step at SendRelief.org.
How do you create a culture of compassion in your church? In what ways can Christians invest their vocations and passions in mercy ministry? In this conversation between Ryan West and Justin Lopez you can learn how to help your church members find ways to create a culture that is compassionate.
On this special episode, you’ll hear about Jay Watkins and his ministry, Camp Rock—an initiative providing for the needs of foster families. Discover how Jay grew Camp Rock from a heart calling to a program that hosts families during different times of the year, provides Christmas gifts for those who can’t afford them and hosts camps for foster kids—all of which are aimed to brings a sense of normalcy and peace to those who don’t get to experience that daily. Learn more about Camp Rock, and how you can help, by visiting https://www.sendrelief.org/news/camp-rock/.
How can short-term volunteers further the ongoing work that God is doing through missionaries they support? Although your contribution may seem small at the time, it can have a tremendous impact after you leave. Hear from James Copeland, a missionary in Montreal, concerning how mission teams have helped him build significant relationships and share the gospel because of small yet impactful acts of mercy carried out by short-term volunteers.
Pastor and author Jason Dukes has led churches in various settings, addressing the needs of churches’ communities. In this special episode, Jason frames disciple-making within mercy ministry. Hear how caring for people in need both growths your faith and shows how you are an authentic disciple of Christ.
Join co-hosts Ryan West and Lorna Bius as introduce a conversation Ryan had with Joe Costephens, pastor of First Baptist Church in Ferguson, Mo. Costephens and his church are trying to re-engage with their community as it trys to rebuild after the recent devastating events in Ferguson. Listen and learn how this church is building a positive reputation with its neighbors. Discover more about First Baptist Church of Ferguson’s work in their community at http://fbcferguson.org.
Freddy T. Wyatt serves as senior pastor of First Southern Baptist Church of Scottsdale, AZ. On the surface, the people of Scottsdale have everything they could possibly need. But Freddy sees things differently. A former missionary and pastor of the Gallery Church in Manhattan, New York City, he believes there is a common theme that bridges differing ministry contexts: human loneliness and the need for meaningful relationships. His solution? To offer his neighbors mercy and compassion by creating a ministry of presence. For more information on First Southern Baptist Church of Scottsdale, visit fsbcs.org.
A few years ago, Bill and Penny Roullier were busy with their suburban life in Reno, Nevada raising a family, homeschooling, working and serving in their church.
How do we form intentional strategies and mercy ministries to mobilize our congregations corporately while valuing individual members’ ministry interests? Craig Mintz gives us insight to striking this balance. We can equip the saints for the work of ministry to see them engage in unplanned and amazing ways without starting a formal ministry around every good idea that church members present to us.
Who do you do life with? For the second part of this amazing series, Kathy Litton and Lori McDaniel discuss how women can live on mission in a broken world.
Are you an activist? Using their lives as gospel platforms, pastors’ wives Kathy Litton and Lori McDaniel talk about how to leverage each stage of life for the Great Commission.
What are some foundational issues that Christians need to think through when it comes to refugees? Host Ryan West sits down with Micah Fries, senior pastor of Brainerd Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tn., to discuss Fries’ work with refugee care and how the church can best invest in immigrant populations. Learn more about this compelling evangelistic topic and discover how Scripture guides Christians to care for the least of these. For additional resources, visit https://www.sendrelief.org/podcast/send-relief-podcast/.
The nations are coming to us. So, what does Scripture have to say about the church’s response to the relocation of people groups to our communities? In this interview, special guest Alan Cross offers a biblical framework to help believers understand how we can capitalize on this opportunity to share the gospel with the nations.
How can we use our love for the arts to engage people with the gospel? Co-hosts Ryan West and Lorna Bius sit down with Aklesso Agama to discuss how he uses his passions in art to evangelize to others.
What happens when the people of God spread the gospel through word and through deed? In this episode, you’ll discover how Von Minor and Restoration Community Church, a group of believers God used, bring restoration to a lost city through a church plant in Dallas, TX.
What happens when the people of God spread the gospel through word and through deed? In this episode, you’ll discover how Von Minor and Restoration Community Church, a group of believers God used, bring restoration to a lost city through a church plant in Dallas, TX.
How can mercy ministries make disciples? In this episode, vice president of Send Network Jeff Christopherson offers a three-fold framework—Christology, missiology and ecclesiology—necessary for engaging your context to make disciples. Additional Material for Show Notes: Send Relief Website https://www.namb.net/send-relief/ Material—Kingdom First: Starting Churches that Shape Movements
Meet Jeff Christopherson, vice president of Send Network, as he discusses with host Ryan West the connection between mercy ministry and church planting. In this episode, you’ll discover why healthy church plants thrive and how that relates to mercy ministries. Additional Material for Show Notes Send Relief website – namb.net/sendrelief Kingdom First: Starting Churches that Shape Movements
Did you know that thriving churches often engage in mercy ministries with their communities? Vice President of Send Relief, David Melber, dives deeper into the connection and shares how any church of any size and budget can use Send Relief strategies to effectively impact the local community. Additional Material for Show Notes: Send Relief Website https://www.namb.net/send-relief/ Send Relief video https://vimeo.com/170253698
How do churches and people get involved in mercy and compassion ministry? David Melber and Ryan West provide simple steps you or your church can take to offer community, build relationships and share the gospel through any of Send Relief’s initiatives.
Meet David Melber, vice president of Send Relief for the North American Mission Board (NAMB). David Melber’s heart for mercy and compassion ministries is clearly uncovered in this special episode behind NAMB’s newest initiative, Send Relief. Discover what exactly Send Relief is and the goals it aims to accomplish. Special guest Ryan West shares practical ways your church can embrace a compassion or mercy ministry and share the gospel in your neighborhood. Send Relief Website: https://www.namb.net/send-relief/ Send Relief video: https://vimeo.com/170253698
Ryan West continues the conversation with Ray Parascondo.
Ryan West continues the conversation with Ray Parascondo.
The 9/11 attack on New York City launched Crossroads Church in Staten Island into community ministry before they even held their preview service. As a result, that congregation has seen doors of ministry and witness open in all five boroughs of the city, especially with firefighters, schools, police officers and veterans. Host Ryan West interviews pastor Ray Parascando.
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