Mission150

M150 Ep31 - Training Cross-Cultural Missionaries Today

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.

M150 Ep30 - A Modern Missionary to Southeast Asia

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

M150 Ep29 - The First Missionaries to the Middle East

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).

M150 Ep27 - Mission to China

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)

M150 Ep26 - Changing Horizons

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)

M150 Ep25 - Reforming for Mission in 1903

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.

M150 Ep24 - Reorganizing for Mission in 1901

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)

M150 Ep23 - Mission Stalls in the 1890s

In the 1890s, the expansion of the Adventist Church slowed down as personal clashes, administrative difficulties, and a wrong-headed approach to managing what had become a worldwide movement, all took effect. This episode examines how and why Adventist mission growth stalled at the very end of the nineteenth century, and draws some comparisons to the digital world of the early twenty-first century.