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All right, welcome back to this episode. My name is Ethan Sen. I'm Chief of Staff at New Christen Press. And I'm joined today by Alex Kochman. Alex, thanks for being with us.

Thanks for having me. Good to be here. Alex, you're the Director of Communications for the Association

of Baptist World Evangelism. Can you tell us a little bit about your organization and what you do

there? Absolutely.

Yeah, it really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

We're a mission sending organization for about 450 like-minded churches.

We have about 1,000 workers reaching into nearly 90 countries.

So preaching the gospel, making disciples, planting churches, and training local

qualified men as shepherds, elders, leaders to continue on the work of mission. We were founded

about 100 years ago, splitting off of the Northern Baptists at a time in history when they

were apostatizing. They were getting into the social justice of their day,

and our founders and our early first missionary said, we're not going to do that. We're not

going to play around with that. Instead, we're going to focus on preaching the gospel,

jagged edges and all, and winning disciples and gathering them into sound biblical, faithful,

local churches. And so we've been

about that ever since. And I have the privilege of leading a team here where we're putting out

content that addresses topics of missions, topics of evangelism, but from a theologically grounded

perspective, but from a local church-centric perspective as well, trying to do all of that in a

responsible and faithful way and mobilizing people to care about their nation, and then as the

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