How to Raise Mission-Minded Children | Practical Steps for Parents | Brooks Buser & Jonny Ardavanis
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Jonny Ardavanis
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jonny Ardavanis speaks with Brooks Buser from Radius International about how to cultivate a heart for global missions in the next generation. After serving 13 years as a missionary translator in Papua New Guinea with the Yembi Yembi people, Brooks now leads Radius International, which trains, equips, and deploys missionaries all over the world.
In this conversation, discover:
• Practical ways parents can instill mission-mindedness from toddlers to teens
• The impact of missionary biographies and strategic short-term mission trips
• Why global missions reflects God's heartbeat from Genesis to Revelation
• How to authentically model missions as a priority in your family
• Steps for any parent—regardless of vocation—to align their children with God's global purpose
Whether you're a pastor, business professional, or stay-at-home mom, learn why missions isn't just "something some Christians are into" but the very heartbeat of God for all believers.
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't just something that Stonebridge Bible is into, Claremont-Imanio Baptist, Radius, they just kind of like the missions thing. |
| 0:05.9 | No, no, no, no. This is something that our God is into, from the fall of mankind to the wedding supper of the lamb. |
| 0:12.6 | This is the heartbeat of our God that all peoples, all nations would be gathered to him. |
| 0:24.3 | Brooks, thank you for coming on. |
| 0:25.8 | I wanted to just first, maybe just introduce yourself, your background as a missionary, |
| 0:31.3 | and then what you do now, I think it provides a valuable context for the question I want to ask you. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, so my wife and I were over in New Guinea for |
| 0:38.0 | 13 years, got to spend that time among the MBMB people. I was the lead translator on the team, |
| 0:44.1 | so got to be involved with that. And then came back to the U.S. in 2016, have been leading |
| 0:50.0 | radius since then. Thankful for nearly 400 students that have gone through the program, gone |
| 0:55.6 | out to over 30 countries. So that's what I do right now. And Radius is primarily focused |
| 1:00.1 | in with unreached people groups. Yeah. Yeah. We train them up to go to places where no church |
| 1:06.8 | exists. So that's the thrust of it. Now, question I want to ask you, and we talked about this |
| 1:11.2 | a little bit at lunch. You were preaching at our church this morning, and you talked about just as a |
| 1:15.9 | church or as a family, instilling in the next generation the priority of global missions. And I even |
| 1:21.3 | think about my upbringing growing up. I've mentioned it before, but I remember my parents reading |
| 1:25.7 | me, as I was telling you, missionary biographies almost every single night my entire life. And growing up, there was just this, |
| 1:32.5 | I think, palpable sense of God's calling for every single Christian to be a part of God's |
| 1:37.6 | global mission. Even as I think about my older sister, she's a missionary, I have a younger |
| 1:41.7 | sister, she's going to be a missionary with her husband, |
| 1:44.6 | hopefully in the next couple years. But that was something my parents cultivated. And I think the |
| 1:49.5 | church environment I grew up and cultivated that, hey, you're either, as you said, and Piper, |
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