What Every Church Should Know About Global Missions | Brooke Buser and Jonny Ardavanis
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Jonny Ardavanis
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🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this insightful conversation, Jonny Ardavanis sits down with missionary Brooks Buser to discuss the local church's vital role in global missions. Brooks, who served 13 years as a missionary among the Yembi people, shares practical wisdom on:
Key Topics Covered:
• Why missions should flow from local churches, not independent efforts
• The four primary lanes of modern missions work
• How to move from "naval gazing" to global vision as a church
• Practical ways families can "hold the rope" for missionaries
• Creating sustainable missions budgets and policies
• Quality vs. quantity: Why fewer, deeper partnerships work better
• What missionaries actually need when they return home
Perfect for:
• Pastors developing missions strategies
• Church members wanting to engage in global missions
• Anyone interested in biblical approaches to sending and supporting missionaries
Brooks emphasizes that effective missions requires both "goers and senders" working together, with local churches serving as the primary sending agents rather than just financial supporters.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Missions is not meant to be an independent lone ranger, the guy who gets excited about going to India's |
| 0:05.8 | venture, it's the church's venture. It emanates from the local church, and the goal of it really |
| 0:10.6 | is to see churches planted, but most of a church is going to be made up of senders, and senders |
| 0:15.6 | who are willing to have skin in the game, so to speak, that's where a lot of supporters or a lot of those who hold the |
| 0:22.1 | rope that we're going to stick with this until these ones come off the field or until Christ |
| 0:27.6 | calls us home. We have a role in this as well. |
| 0:39.7 | Brooks, thanks for sitting down again. You know, one of the things that I think through and pray through as a pastor, you know, |
| 0:44.1 | I'm in a, we're in a young church, it's grown, but we're still informative stages, but |
| 0:48.9 | maybe it could be another church that's very well established. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm trying to think through and pray through along with our elder team. What is our church's role in global missions? You know, obviously, I'm in Franklin, Tennessee. |
| 1:00.4 | We want to reach the people in our immediate context. I told the church this morning that it's easy |
| 1:05.4 | to become a naval gazing church where we're all about us. And we almost lose sight of the fact that we're called to be a part of |
| 1:11.7 | God's global work. And so my question for you is, what is the church's role in global missions? |
| 1:17.5 | And what would be your encouragement to me as a pastor or to anybody else in a church? |
| 1:24.3 | How can I support God's global mission just by being in my local context? |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah, I think first and foremost, you've got to be grounded in the idea that missions is not meant to be an independent lone ranger, the guy who gets excited about going to India's venture. |
| 1:39.4 | It's the church's venture. It emanates from the local church, and the goal of it really is to see churches planted. |
| 1:45.4 | We see that in the life of the apostles. How the apostles understood the great commission was not, |
| 1:50.7 | we just go and we go as fast as we can, and we evangelize many people. We go and we see people |
| 1:55.7 | evangelized, then we disciple them, and we teach them all that Christ has commanded us, and that's the |
| 2:00.2 | local church. And so it's from local church to local church, one, and so that premise of we are |
| 2:06.4 | the primary agents of this and the members of Stonebridge Bible, they will be the ones that |
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