Family On Mission: Live a Life of Kingdom Impact in Every Season

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Ever feel like your family is just surviving - keeping up with school, meals, and schedules - but missing a bigger sense of purpose?

In this episode, April and Jeremy get real about what it looks like to move from “just doing family” to becoming a family on mission.

They share the seasons when mission felt impossible, the small ways they started anyway, and the surprising fruit that followed.

You’ll hear stories of how their own family mission has shifted over the years and why it forged deeper bonds instead of pulling them apart.

If you’ve ever wondered how to live with more meaning as a family team, this conversation will help you see what’s possible.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

1:25 Surviving vs Living with Purpose

2:52 3 Models: Family vs Mission

8:35 Early Years: Discipleship & Ministry

13:56 Expanding to Cincinnati & Israel

23:57 Multiplying Multipliers

30:04 Father vs Mother Tension

34:49 Join the Accelerator

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Resources Mentioned:

Free Family on Mission Playbook: https://familyteams.com/mission

Join Family Teams Accelerator: https://familyteams.com/accelerator

Life on Life Discipleship: https://1kh.org

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Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast! Our goal here is to help your family become a multigenerational team on mission by providing you with Biblically rooted concepts, tools and rhythms! Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke. Make sure to subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube so you don't miss out on future episodes!

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0:00.0	We are not in this to just focus on our little babies and make them into like the cutest,
0:06.0	most aesthetic accessories to the life that we're wanting to design.
0:12.0	No, we are surrendered to the king.
0:15.0	We've dedicated our children to him.
0:17.0	And it is our job to carry out the mission that we are on as believers.
0:23.9	Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast.
0:26.6	Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission
0:31.1	by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms.
0:35.5	Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait
0:39.1	to chat about all things family. Hey, guys, welcome back to the podcast. We are here creeping up to the
0:45.1	month of October. So we're currently in September still, but we are about to start a new
0:52.0	month in the family team's accelerator, and this month is all about being a family
0:55.9	team on mission we're going to talk about the idea of being on mission in October if you guys
1:01.7	want to grab that one pager that is available to you for free you can go to family teams.com
1:07.0	slash mission and get kind of that that one page we have awesome community coaches it'll be on
1:11.5	the podcast next week mark and michelle titerman really good friends of ours who have done such a
1:16.3	fantastic job of leading their family on mission in the city of cincinnati and so we're really
1:21.4	excited for you guys to meet mark and michel but today april and i are going to talk through
1:25.8	the different ways our family has gone on mission we want to encourage you guys to be a family that's all about blessing others. And so oftentimes you are in a season where you're like, I feel like I'm just trying to keep my head above water. I can't even imagine being on a mission. And we totally understand there are seasons for that. You're just at a baby. You're starting a business, whatever. We've been in those seasons. But there are some times where you're like, hey, life's kind of good and I want to see us bear more fruit as a family. Or you might look around and look at each other, your kids and say, okay, we've got these great relationships we've been building together, but why? There's not enough meaning or purpose behind what our family is all about.
2:04.9	And those are oftentimes indicators that you may be in a season of needing to push into
2:10.4	mission as a family.
2:11.8	You want to make sure that your family doesn't just exist for your family.
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