Episode 189: How Can I Support International Missions? (with Mark Collins)

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Every Christian has a role in supporting international missions. In this episode of Pastors Talk, Jonathan Leeman chats with Mark Dever and Mark Collins—a supported worker in East Asia—about the relationship between a church and its missionaries.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan Lehman.
0:09.0	I'm Mark Collins.
0:10.9	Mark Collins.
0:12.1	I thought it was Mark Devere, who was with Jonathan Lehman.
0:15.6	They all start this way.
0:17.1	Yeah, I kind of know.
0:18.2	Welcome to this Nine Marks Pastor's Talk.
0:20.7	Nine Marks exist to equip
0:22.1	church leaders with a biblical vision and practical resources for building healthy churches learn more at
0:26.3	nine marks.org. It seems like we've got two marks today. I know. Two of the nine. Well,
0:31.0	you're the missions, Mark. I am. And that's what we're going to talk about today. As Devere just
0:36.3	said, this is Collins, Mark Collins. You've been a
0:39.1	missionary forever. About 20 years. Can you give us, you know, a quick timeline of whatever you're
0:45.8	allowed to tell us? Yeah, so I got saved in college. I heard about an opportunity to serve in
0:50.9	East Asia, a closed country in East Asia. So after college, went there, doing
0:55.9	student ministry, evangelism, discipleship with college students, did that for about 10 years,
1:00.9	and then spent some time here, got some more training in seminary, and then went back for
1:04.2	about 10 years doing pastoral training, planting churches, and forming an association of churches
1:10.4	there in East Asia.
1:11.7	You're on sabbatical now.
1:13.6	You're...
1:14.3	Yeah.
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