Missionary Talks

Josh is the oldest son of the missionaries we had on episodes 7 and 8. Josh is a sophomore in college and talked about how his ministry opportunities as a teenager growing up on the mission field helped direct his choice of college studies and his future ministry. Josh has plans to return to the…

This is the first in a group of conversations with missionary kids (MKs). John has grown up on the mission field since he was 4 years old and has recently returned to the USA for college. He shares with us some of his earliest memories about driving from Pennsylvania to Guadalajara, México in a bus…

It was a joy to speak with Tammy Allred, the wife of the missionary in the show last week. In this episode she gives some great insight into shopping and its frustrations. Also, she surprised me with what she had to say about raising teenagers on the mission field. She would rather be there raising…

Larry Allred is a missionary in the same city where we live, Mérida, México. He has been here about 4 years longer than we have and has started a good strong church in the northern part of the city. You will enjoy hearing about Bro. Larry’s ministry and philosophy. In this episode he talks about…

This week I take the time to define some of the terms that you will hear in Missionary Talks. This will help familiarize you with some words that we use often in our talks with missionaries that will help you enjoy the conversations more. You will hear me mention mission boards quite a bit in…

Steve Hathaway is a church planting missionary in the Boston, Mass. area. He was able to start his work in the spring of 2004. God has blessed and the church has seen great growth in the last 2 and a half years. Steve shares with us a powerful testimony of how God changed his life…

Debi has been a missionary in Mexico for 17 years. She has worked in Monterrey most of that time. At the beginning of her career in Mexico she started a school for missionary kids. While doing that she also worked with the Deaf. There came a point where she had to decide where she would…