Joey Durmire talks with Jared Looney, looking back on his participation in the 4th Lausanne Congress.  7 months later, they discuss some of the key highlights that continue to resonate with ongoing missiological reflection.  #greatcommission #lausannesport #lausanne #globalmission #gospel #globalchurch

In this episode Dr. Jared Looney talks with Ben Cheek about ministry in post-Christendom. They explore the increase of mistrust in institutions, discipleship, and evangelism among post-religious communities.  

In Matthew 25, Jesus says to welcome the stranger is the equivalent of welcoming Jesus himself.  In this episode, Dr. Jared Looney and Joey Durmire share a discussion with Mission Catalysts, Dave Smith & Gabriel Brazle, about the Christian practice of welcoming the stranger, what it's taught them about discipleship, and the power of hospitality. 

This episode dives into a conversation with Joey Durmire, Global City Mission's Director of Mobilization, on the need & opportunity for mission among South Asians in Metro Atlanta. Joey has zero background in South Asian outreach, but he recognizes the need.  Addressing a mission gap in mission in North America, Joey shares what he's been learning and some of his reflections as he seeks to address a new arena of mission in his ministry as a mobilizer. 

Evangelism in local churches in the U.S. can be described as a crisis.  However, in this episode we speak with two church leaders that have experienced training in healthy conversational evangelism and have seen their churches experience the fruit that has resulted from equipping their members. Moving from presentation to conversation, has empowered an evangelistic impact within their churches.  

In this week's very special Christmas episode, Joey and GCMI Executive Director, Dr. Jared Looney discuss the incarnation and how that affects ministry, mission and the church. 

Joey and Chris talk about the 2022 International Conference On Mission (ICOM) and Why Cities Matter.

Join us as Chris and Joey unpack the previous episode on Cross-cultural Missional Inroads and continue the conversation about how to reach out missionaly in your community.

Join us as we look back to season one for another perspective on ethnography and reaching out cross-culturally in your city. This question of where and how to begin is one of the most asked questions we get.

Chris is joined by GCMI Executive Director Jared Looney to talk about Contextualization in ministry, how it shapes what we do at GCMI and how it can apply to other ministry contexts both in North America and around the World.

Chris and Joey continue the conversation about mobilization as we reflect on Joey's first year on the team and our first year of having an official mobilization team member.

Chris and Joey discuss what it takes to mobilize college students in 2022 for both full-time missions work and for ministry in general. This is a conversation about where we are at... feel free to join the discussion. You can email Joey or Chris to jump into the conversation. joeydurmire@globalcitymission.org or chrismarsden@globalcitymission.orgCheck out the episode on Mobilization at https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/globalcitymission/episodes/2022-03-23T05_00_00-07_00

Join us this week as Joey and Chris talk about the word mission, what it means, what GCMI means when we use it, and why we do mission the way we do.

We're back from a summer of conferences, camps, and time with the family. In this episode, Joey and Chris catch us up on all the busyness and talk a bit about campus ministry, diversity in missions, mobilizing Gen Z and a new season of ministry and the podcast.

This week we talk to Gabe and Sarah Brazle about living in a global city and the challenges and joys they've had as a young married couple, parent to 3 children, and cross-cultural missionaries in the city.

Join us this week as Joey and Chris talk with Gabe Brazle about his experiences with GCMI in cross cultural ministry and his move to Philadelphia in 2019. This is part 1 or 2 with Gabe. Next time we are joined by his wife Sarah to talk about married life and parenting while learning how to be missionaries in New York and Philly. We are switching to a twice per month publishing schedule, so look for that next episode on June 15th.

Join Chris and Joey as they talk to John Lancaster, Senior Minister at Huntsville Christian Church, about his experiences with GCMI and seeing his city through the eyes of Jesus.

In this week's episode, we are introduced to Dave Smith. Dave is a member of our team in Phoenix. He has served associate pastor of Global Missions, Church planter, professor and now missionary. Dave shares a little of his story, gives us an update on what is happening in Phoenix, and offers his thoughts on how the local church and missionaries can support each other. If you are interested in any of the resources that GCMI offers, please check us out at globalcitymission.org

Join us this week as Chris and Joey talk about getting equipped for mission and ministry.

Join us as we talking about missions training with a throwback to season 1, talking about making spiritual statements.