God is on the Move: The Global Impact of Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
Living on the Edge
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
If you are tired of all the negative, depressing stories dominating the nightly news, listen to this special broadcast. Andrew Accardy, who leads the Living on the Edge Global Team, is joined by the rest of the international staff from around the world. They take turns sharing powerful stories of how the gospel is transforming lives, and church leaders are finding encouragement, even in some of the most hostile places on the planet. Do not miss this hopeful discussion of how God is at work in our world.
- Living on the Edge focuses on discipleship, helping Christians grow and live out their faith.
- The ministry impacts pastors and church leaders globally, believing strong leadership leads to strong churches.
- India: Facing persecution (ranked 11th globally), but God is moving, with 90,000+ pastors trained and a goal for 300,000 more, impacting 40 million believers.
- Africa: Immense growth opportunity by 2050; addressing a "discipleship deficit" by equipping over 211,000 pastors.
- Middle East: Believers face severe persecution (family, government, society), yet hunger for discipleship; 1,700+ leaders trained last year despite small church numbers.
- Latin America: Pastors struggle with violence and lack of resources; 29,000+ leaders trained are seeing transformation and hope.
- Overall Impact: Nearly 440,000 pastors trained globally, with a goal of 3 million.
- Support Needed: Financial partnership helps provide resources and training for pastors, with gifts doubled during the Mid-Year Match.
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| 0:00.0 | If you listen to the news regularly, you get lots of bad news every single evening from all over the globe. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, today, it brings me incredible joy to share with you where God is working through Living on the Edge all over the globe. |
| 0:17.0 | You do not want to miss this. Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with |
| 0:25.1 | Chip Ingram. We are an international discipleship ministry devoted to helping Christians worldwide |
| 0:31.0 | live out their faith for the glory of God and the benefit of all people. I'm Dave Drury, |
| 0:36.3 | and over the past few weeks, Chip's been teaching through the Book of Philippians, |
| 0:39.3 | but today we're pushing pause on that study |
| 0:41.3 | to do something a little different. |
| 0:43.3 | Andrew McCarty is with me in studio now. |
| 0:45.3 | He leads our international team here at Living on the Edge. |
| 0:49.3 | Andrew, thanks for joining us, |
| 0:51.3 | and I'm really excited for you to share the unbelievable ways God is using this ministry all over the globe. |
| 0:57.6 | And to help you do that, you have a handful of friends with you. So take it away. |
| 1:01.7 | Great to be with you, Dave. Today's a special broadcast for me because I have our entire leadership team here with me today. |
| 1:09.5 | Hello, everyone. Hi, Andrew. Great to be here with you. |
| 1:12.3 | Hi, everyone. It's good to be here with you. I'll introduce you to each of them in a minute, |
| 1:17.4 | but first, you know, if you've listened to our broadcasts for a while, you've probably picked up by now |
| 1:22.2 | that living on the edge is all about discipleship. We want to help Christians live like Christians. We want to help |
| 1:29.3 | you grow closer to God. And that's what we're all about. You know, in the United States, |
| 1:35.3 | we do that primarily through this broadcast. We are on about 1,100 radio towers here in the U.S. |
| 1:41.9 | And, of course, on the podcast or on the app or streaming. |
| 1:46.8 | But overseas, we help Christians live like Christians by investing in pastors and church |
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