When You're Called to Stay
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
God sends some to other countries to share the gospel, but he calls many to minister in their own backyard. John and Danny offer practical advice to help your family become mission-minded wherever you live.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast. You can find more helpful advice at |
| 0:06.8 | Focus on the Family.com slash parenting podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | It's recorded in the Bible in the book of Mark that Jesus freed a man who had been |
| 0:16.1 | controlled by an unclean spirit and as Jesus was getting into a boat to |
| 0:20.8 | leave the region after that healing. The man begged to join him, but |
| 0:25.0 | Jesus said, no, you've got to stay. And then he said, go to your friends and tell them how much |
| 0:29.7 | the Lord has done for you. And that is a good reminder that God calls some to go to other |
| 0:35.8 | countries but he calls some to stay and share the good word in their own backyard. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta. He's the |
| 0:44.3 | vice president of parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family and today we're |
| 0:48.4 | going to hear a conversation that Jim Daly and I had with Shauna Pilgrine and Shauna described how God called her family not to go to a distant country but to go to another part of the United States to minister to other people. |
| 1:02.0 | Here's how we began that conversation. |
| 1:04.3 | Shana, welcome. This is your first time. This is my first time. I love it. Welcome to |
| 1:10.0 | focus on the family. Thank you. Thank you. So appreciate you taking the time and the energy to get here. I love your story because this is a humorous God story and I do think God has a wonderful boundless sense of humor. |
| 1:23.0 | I agree. |
| 1:24.0 | Someone wants to ask me, what do you think God's belly laugh will be like? |
| 1:27.4 | And I think that's part of what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:30.3 | You and your family were enjoying this normal, if I could call it, that safe, comfortable life in Missouri, |
| 1:36.0 | when your husband made a suggestion that turned your life upside down. |
| 1:41.0 | What did he say to you in that nice cozy big yard Missouri home? |
| 1:46.0 | He said, I think God is leading us to start a church in one of the most strategic cities in the United States. |
| 1:54.0 | How did you translate that as a want to be missionary since you were a little girl? |
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