We all know that prayer is a critical part of world missions. The command of Christ to His disciples was that they pray the Lord of the Harvest that he might send forth laborers into His harvest. That text in Matthew 9 and the subsequent selection of the apostles in Matthew 10 sets forth a pattern that has been repeated time and again over the history of the church.

My guest today is a man that has taken prayer for missions seriously for a long time and now His prayers to the Lord of the harvest has resulted in his call to the foreign mission field. Bro. Tony (we’re withholding his last name for security reasons), pastored in the midwest for the last eighteen years before being called of God to take the gospel to the Middle East. Bro. Tony relates his call to foreign mission, including the important part that prayer played, and then he and I discuss Biblical principles of missions and prayer and some of the instances where these principles have played out over missions history.