Great Commission Work
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The Voice of the Martyrs
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Would you like to be on staff, delivering aid and encouragement to persecuted Christians in the 70+ nations where VOM works?
Jonathan Eckman leads a staff of 65 people living in 24 nations who conduct VOM's international ministry, being the hands and feet on the ground among persecuted Christians all over the world. This week he shares about VOM's international work, and some of the people from among our persecuted family who have inspired his personal faith walk.
Listen to understand better how VOM's international ministry happens in the 70+ nations where VOM works, the importance of partnerships, and where Jonathan sees persecution increasing as we enter a new year; and where things are getting better for Christians—or at least not getting worse.
Jonathan will also share how you can pray for VOM workers as they travel in and out of restricted nations and provide help and encouragement to Christians who are persecuted for the name of Christ, as well as their families who remain at home. He'll also issue a challenge to pray for church and mission leaders conducting Great Commission work in an increasingly complex and hostile world.
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| 0:00.0 | The world is getting more and more complicated and complex as we see |
| 0:07.8 | anti-conversion laws come in in places like Nepal and India and how does that work as we see the crackdown in China on the church. |
| 0:17.9 | Imagine if you're the pastor of a house church and you know that when you gather your people this weekend they may go to jail. |
| 0:25.0 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:30.0 | In fact he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 0:33.5 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 0:36.4 | Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles, |
| 0:39.4 | and they're still coming true today |
| 0:41.1 | in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 0:43.6 | Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. |
| 0:48.3 | Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. |
| 0:51.7 | Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio as we start out a new year talking about |
| 0:57.4 | what God is doing around the world. |
| 0:59.8 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 1:01.2 | Thank you for listening and for praying for our persecuted |
| 1:04.9 | family around the world. We have a special guest here back on voice of the |
| 1:09.5 | Martyrs radio. Jonathan Ekman is VOM O. M.'s Vice President for International Ministry. We will talk |
| 1:16.2 | sometimes today about I am, we mean International Ministry, which is the part of |
| 1:21.6 | Voice of the Martyrs that goes into the hostile and restricted nations where we work, meets with Christians, |
| 1:27.8 | evaluates their needs, and then provides help, provides projects, manages that help going to them. |
| 1:34.3 | Jonathan, welcome back to Voice to the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:37.4 | It's great to be back with you, Todd. |
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