Episode 43: Open Grill

What happens when a family who is new to a town - a town where it's "weird" for neighbors to get together - park their grill in their front yard and fire it up? Actually, pretty cool things happen - like laughter, sharing, new friendships, and even "church!" This is the story of Gina's guests on this episode. Rob and Kelly Abrams hold family-on-mission as a high value, so when they moved their family from New Jersey to Maine a few years back, they came with a plan! And this plan shaped not only their home's design, but it also shaped their family calendar, their people interactions, and even when they fired up their grill and what they put on it!

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Episode 42: WORSHIP - The Intersection of Worship and Discipleship

On this episode, Gina is joined by co-host, Grace Maconochie. Both sit down to talk about the intersection of worship and discipleship with Sol and Kali Grimes. Sol and Kali oversee The Gospel House in Ft. Wayne, IN which is a prayer and worship ministry that primarily works with the emerging generation of young adults in the Midwest dedicated to ministering to the Lord. They are here to talk about how they see worship and discipleship being interconnected and to share stories of how they've seen God at work through their incarnational worship and discipleship ministry over the last 10 years together.

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Episode 41: Stories of Everyday People in Asia Who Are Leading Disciple-Making Movements

Gina's guest is Steve Bruns who leads a 3DM-like network of missional church movements from his home base in Norway called Agenda1. Agenda1 is a relational network of churches on a journey together to build missional churches that transform cultures by making disciples who make disciples in the power of the Holy Spirit. Sounds familiar, huh?!

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Episode 40: Discipling Teens To Go On Mission

Gina's guest is Brian Gerig who has been on mission for a long time! Brian co-founded a city-wide youth ministry in Ft. Wayne, Indiana called "The Powerhouse" in 1995 that is still going strong today. He joins Gina to tell stories of how he and his team have been equipping teens to go on mission to their friends and family members for nearly 30 years. He also shares some encouraging news about what God is doing today among a new generation of teens who are hungry for community, for purpose, and for God!

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