MISSIONS: Hold On To God's Call
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 17 April 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
"Brother Jeff" served as a long-time gospel worker in South Asia and Indonesia—places with intense Christian persecution. Today he helps lead Assemblies of God World Missions (AGWM).
Listen as he shares about the time he was arrested for his work, how God worked to set him free and how his arrest actually opened a doorway to more (and more secure) ministry opportunities.
He'll also talk about the challenges he and his wife experienced in their early years of missionary service, and how God's clear call on their lives became an anchor they could hold on to in difficult seasons. His stories will help you know how to pray for missionaries currently in the field.
Jeff will also offer advice to listeners sensing a call to serve God cross-culturally, including the need for a sense of adventure: "In 23 years [of overseas ministry]," he says, "the greatest things we did were not planned."
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| 0:00.0 | When God calls you to missions, that calling will help you stay committed when things get difficult. |
| 0:07.3 | There is a certain romance to missions. You're overseas and you're living out in these strange |
| 0:14.5 | places among people and sharing the gospel. I mean, there is this romantic side of that. |
| 0:20.4 | Boy, the romance is over pretty quick. And I think the calling becomes an anchor |
| 0:26.4 | to keep you there through hard times because it's kind of like when you really have heard |
| 0:30.9 | from God that you're supposed to be there, almost no matter how bad it gets, you're like, well, |
| 0:36.0 | this is horrible. I guess it would be better if we went home, but we're just not going home. |
| 0:42.5 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world |
| 0:48.2 | would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life of the |
| 0:54.2 | apostles. And they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 0:59.3 | Join host Todd Netletons. We hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the |
| 1:05.0 | Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. My name is Todd |
| 1:09.8 | Netletons and we are in our studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with Brother Jeff. We're not going |
| 1:16.0 | to use his last name to help protect him, but he is one of the leaders of assemblies of God, |
| 1:22.0 | World Missions, AG World Missions. He is also a longtime gospel worker in South Asia and in |
| 1:28.8 | Indonesia. We'll talk a little bit about that. Brother Jeff, welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:34.7 | Todd, great to be here with you today. Let's talk about the beginning. How did God |
| 1:42.7 | get a hold of your heart to say, Jeff, I don't want you to stay in America. I want you to get |
| 1:48.1 | on an airplane. I want you to go to the far reaches of the world. How did that seed sort of grow |
| 1:54.4 | in your life? Well, you know, I grew up in New Jersey and pretty multi-ethnic kind of setting. |
| 2:03.2 | And, you know, we've had this deep interest, you know, in other cultures, other peoples and foreign |
| 2:10.1 | languages. And when I was a kid, I had a globe and, you know, I used to spin that thing around and |
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