MONGOLIA: Church is the Core of Missions

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🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last week Brian and Louise Hogan, trainers to church planters and former missionaries to Mongolia, shared about their efforts to plant a church in Mongolia—and the high cost they paid for serving there when their infant son died. This week, listen as they unwrap some of the principles they learned in that process, lessons they are now teaching to pastors and church leaders around the world, including hostile areas and restricted nations where VOM works.

Brian, the author of There’s a Sheep in My Bathtub and An A-Z of Near-Death Adventures, says that many in Western churches want to “buy a box” and follow a checklist for church planting, skipping the difficult process of seeking the Holy Spirit’s wisdom and guidance. He challenges church planters to empty themselves of their own culture and learn the people and culture of where they are church planting, while always keeping in step with the New Testament.

“If we don’t see it in the New Testament,” Brian says, “then we’re not going to institute it on the nations.”

Brian and Louise also share how generous and missions-minded the church in Mongolia is. They ask, “What can we do to obey Jesus?”

As Brian & Louise train Mongolian missionaries to go out to the nations, these radical church planters know that the core of missions is the church. They are not willing that anyone should be unreached. A nation that once sent out violent conquerors is now sending missionaries committed to conquering hearts with the Prince of Peace.

Please pray for Mongolian Christians, and for church planters throughout the world as they work and sacrifice to bring every tribe, tongue, and nation into fellowship with Christ.

Listen also for a special testimony from a former prisoner for Christ in Uzbekistan, Dmitry “David” Shestakov. Hear the difference it made when Christians around the world wrote letters to him in prison, then go and write letters to Christians in prison right now at PrisonerAlert.com. You can also hear Shestakov share his story in this episode of VOM Radio.

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0:00.0	Last week here on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio, Brian and Louise Hogan told us about serving as gospel workers in Mongolia.
0:07.9	They watched the Lord bring many people into his kingdom.
0:11.8	But in the middle of that season of fruitfulness, tragedy struck their family.
0:18.9	Their son died of sudden infant death syndrome.
0:22.6	There's three words on the stone that we put on our son's grave. There's a marble stone on his grave.
0:29.2	We've been carved into it with his name and date, it's his three words.
0:32.6	Jesus is worthy. And for Louise and I, that was the major takeaway.
0:38.7	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world
0:44.4	would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life
0:50.4	of the apostles, and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers
0:54.5	around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can
1:00.0	help right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome back to the Voice of the
1:04.4	Martyrs Radio. Brian and Louise Hogan are with us again this week. They were part of a team
1:09.2	that planted the church in an isolated city
1:12.4	in Mongolia. Brian and Louise now teach other church planters around the world. Brian is the author of
1:19.4	a couple of books with very memorable titles. One is called There's a Sheep in My Bathtub
1:24.4	about their time in Mongolia. Another is called A to Z of Near Death Adventures.
1:31.2	I would encourage you get a copy of those books. Last week they told us why their experience in
1:37.0	Mongolia was like a roller coaster. They saw God work powerfully and begin to establish his church.
1:45.3	But in the middle of that season of effectiveness, the Hogan's infant son died.
1:51.8	To hear part one of that conversation, visit us at v.oam radio.net.
1:57.1	We're going to review some of what we heard last week, then dive into part two of our conversation.
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