Mission150
Mission150 tells the exciting story of the 150 years of Adventist Mission to the world. Each week, the podcast explores the past and the present of the Adventist missionary enterprise. Join each episode to learn, to be challenged, and to be inspired, to be come part of the mission of the Seventh-Day Adventist church. Watch the video clips on https://adventistreview.tv/programs/mission150
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
M150 Ep32 - An Extraordinary Mission Innovator (Part I)
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
This episode tells the story of the most important Adventist missionary most people have never heard of: George D. Keough. It covers the first ten years of his and his family's mission experience in Egypt from 1908 to 1918, when he won extraordinary numbers of people to the Seventh-day Adventist message. It also examines how he achieved his remarkable success.
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
M150 Ep31 - Training Cross-Cultural Missionaries Today
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Wednesday Dec 27, 2023
Sam and David are joined by a native of Kenya, Dr. Oscar Osindo, director of the Adventist Church's Institute of World Mission, to talk about his many years of experience as a foreign missionary for the Church, about his years of involvement in ministry to Muslims, and his current work with the Institute of World Mission, training, resourcing and supporting current Seventh-day Adventist missionaries.
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
M150 Ep30 - A Modern Missionary to Southeast Asia
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Sam and David interview a modern missionary, Amy Whitsett, about her experiences of ten years of missionary service in the Lao Democratic People's Republic, and then six years in Thailand; and about her current work as Associate Director of the Church's Institute of World Mission
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
M150 Ep29 - The First Missionaries to the Middle East
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
In this episode, Sam and David talk about some of the early missionaries to the Middle East, about the sacrifices they made, about what historic photographs can tell us about Adventist history, and about the tendency to over-work among Adventist pastors and administrators. Some of the stories shared in this episode appear in D. J. B. Trim, A Living Sacrifice (Pacific Press, 2019).
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
M150 Ep27 - Mission to China
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
Thursday Nov 02, 2023
This episode looks at how missionaries to China fell in love with the country and its people but had to face local diseases for which there were no cures, so that misssionaries took terrible risks in their service. For more about the stories shared in this episode, see D. J. B. Trim, A Living Sacrifice (Pacific Press, 2019)
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
M150 Ep26 - Changing Horizons
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
This episode looks at how missionaries to China fell in love with the country and its people but had to face local diseases for which there were no cures, so that misssionaries took terrible risks in their service. For more about the stories shared in this episode, see D. J. B. Trim, A Living Sacrifice (Pacific Press, 2019)
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
M150 Ep25 - Reforming for Mission in 1903
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
The 1901 Reforms of the Adventist Church, discussed in Episode 24, were not an end. The work of reforming the church was completed att the 1903 General Conference Session, which laid the foundations for mission expansion in the following decades. To find out more, read chapter 4 of A. L. Chism, D. J. B. Trim, and M. F. Younker) "We aim at nothing less than the whole world": The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s missionary enterprise and the General Conference Secretariat, 1863–2019 (Silver Spring, MD: Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, 2021), available from Amazon.
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
M150 Ep24 - Reorganizing for Mission in 1901
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
The Seventh-day Adventist Church got back on track after the problems of the 1890s by undertaking very major organizational reforms at the famous 1901 General Conference Session, where Ellen White urged that change was needed "right here ... right now". More information can be gained from A. L. Chism, D. J. B. Trim, and M. F. Younker) "We aim at nothing less than the whole world": The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s missionary enterprise and the General Conference Secretariat, 1863–2019 (Silver Spring, MD: Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research, 2021), available from Amazon; and Barry David Oliver, SDA organizational structure: Past, present and future (Berrien Springs, Mich.: Andrews University Press, 1989)