How Mark & Michelle Have Built A Family On Mission To Build God's Kingdom

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What does it really mean to live as a family on mission?

In this inspiring episode of the Family Teams Podcast, Jeremy is joined by Mark and Michelle Tiderman, this month's Accelerator community coaches, to share their journey of following God as a family.

From meeting on the mission field in Mexico City to planting roots in Fairfield, Ohio, the Tiderman's reveal how they've woven mission into every stage of life - raising kids, coaching sports, hosting neighbors, even starting a CrossFit community.

You'll hear how they've learned to see family not as an obstacle to mission, but as God's design for mission itself.

If you've ever wondered how to blend family life with kingdom purpose, this episode is full of practical wisdom and powerful stories.

On this episode, we talk about:

0:00 Intro

4:25 Marriage & Mission Roots in Mexico

5:45 Stewarding a Mission AND a Family

11:06 Involving Kids in Mission

19:04 Integrating Your Entire Life

21:57 Be The Initiator

24:10 CrossFit as Missional Community

32:58 Faithfulness Over Impact

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Resources Mentioned:

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

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

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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	it can be tempting to have a vision of how we want to do mission, and then it might not actually
0:04.9	be needed. But what we found is like, if you start with where the need is, that actually
0:10.7	opens up those doors. Because when they're aware of a need, they actually are more oftentimes
0:16.0	aware or open to a conversation about other needs. And one of the things in those years that we found that
0:22.6	actually has been transformative from our community connection is,
0:26.9	Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a
0:33.4	multi-generational team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools,
0:38.9	and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about
0:44.2	all things family. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Family Teams podcast. I am joined today by Mark and
0:50.7	Michelle Tiderman. Thank you guys for jumping on here today. What's up? Thank you for having us. Yeah. I'd be here. Fellow Cincinnati family and we're good friends with
0:59.0	Mark and Michelle. And one of the things that we are going to be talking about, April and I talked about
1:03.8	it last week in the podcast, the importance of being a family on mission. We know that oftentimes,
1:09.5	the way we think about this as families is that our mission
1:12.4	as believers in Jesus and all that we're called to do for his kingdom can sometimes be pit
1:18.6	against our life as a family and our desire to build really strong families, to be present with our
1:24.8	families. And so we are always looking for the win-win.
1:28.8	Sometimes that trade-off just does happen and you have to take steps back in certain seasons
1:33.2	from mission. But we definitely want to be looking for creative ways to go on mission as a family.
1:39.7	We talked last week about it's not family and mission, you know, family as mission, but family on mission.
1:45.3	So I am so excited for you guys to get to hear from Mark and Michelle. And they are also the
1:51.6	community coaches for the family team's accelerator for the month of October.
1:55.6	So one of the great things we get to do in the family teams accelerator, every single
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