What if your everyday work in healthcare could become a platform for sharing the gospel?

For pharmacist Matt Harney, the connection between healthcare and missions became clear during a 2018 medical mission trip to Peru. Serving on the pharmacy team, he realized that his professional training, experience, and daily interactions with patients could become an opportunity to demonstrate Christ's love and participate in Kingdom work.

In this episode, Matt challenges healthcare professionals to look beyond the daily demands of insurance claims, paperwork, and patient loads to recognize the people behind every prescription and appointment. While not every interaction allows for an explicit gospel conversation, simple acts of compassion, making eye contact, welcoming patients, listening, and giving people the time they need can reflect the heart of Jesus. He emphasizes that serving others well begins with resetting priorities and making room for opportunities the Holy Spirit provides.

Matt also explains why medical missions are not limited to doctors, nurses, pharmacists, or dentists. Non-medical volunteers play an important role by welcoming patients, offering encouragement, praying with people, and helping create an environment where individuals feel seen and cared for. Through hospitality and a servant-hearted attitude, anyone can contribute to the work of a medical mission team.

He shares a powerful story from a medical clinic in Boka Kiyotari, where an initially hesitant community eventually welcomed the team. What began as a difficult conversation with local leadership opened the door to serving three additional communities. When the team returned six months later, they experienced a much warmer reception, and a local church had begun partnering with community leaders to share the gospel.

Ultimately, Matt reminds listeners that living on mission doesn't require a passport, a medical degree, or an invitation to travel overseas. It begins with prayer, a willing heart, and a commitment to making God known wherever He has placed us. Whether behind a pharmacy counter, in a hospital room, or serving in a remote medical clinic, everyday acts of compassion can create meaningful opportunities for the gospel.

• Healthcare can become a mission field when professionals recognize that their everyday interactions with patients are opportunities to demonstrate Christ's love.
• Kingdom work doesn't always require an explicit gospel conversation. Making eye contact, welcoming patients, listening, and showing compassion are meaningful ways to reflect Jesus.
• Healthcare professionals can shift their perspective by prioritizing knowing God, caring for people, and remaining open to opportunities the Holy Spirit provides.
• A servant-hearted attitude is more important than having a medical background. Anyone willing to love and welcome others can contribute to a medical mission team.
• Effective missions begin with prayer, listening to God, and developing a willing heart rather than waiting for a special calling or opportunity to travel.
• You don't need a passport to live on mission. God can use your profession, relationships, and everyday circumstances to make Him known right where you are.

00:00 — Finding Mission Opportunities in Everyday Healthcare

00:35 — Welcome to Season Three: Can You Do That in Missions?

01:04 — Can Healthcare Become a Mission Field?

02:04 — When Pharmacy Work Became Kingdom Work

07:06 — Creating Opportunities for Gospel Conversations

08:29 — Who Can Serve on a Medical Mission Team?

10:38 — The Impact of Serving Alongside Medical Professionals

12:49 — Start Living on Mission Right Where You Are

13:14 — Prayer, Listening, and a Willing Heart

14:48 — A Story from the Medical Mission Field

15:14 — Overcoming Barriers in Boka Kiyotari

16:28 — Returning to a Community Transformed by Relationships

18:01 — Learn More About Medical Missions with Go International

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What if your business could become a platform for God’s Kingdom?

For this Christian entrepreneur in Iraq, business began as a way to reclaim his time, care for his family, and rebuild his relationship with the Lord. After leaving a demanding career, he started providing compliance services to nonprofit organizations. What began as freelance work soon became an opportunity to support ministries, serve humanitarian organizations, create jobs, and develop leaders.

His story challenges the idea that business and missions belong in separate worlds. Through consulting, leadership training, and plans for employment-focused businesses, he has discovered how profit can serve a greater purpose. But business as mission requires more than good intentions. It takes genuine profitability, operational excellence, and a healthy workplace culture.

At the heart of his work is a commitment to equipping others. Through experiential learning, coaching, and intentional delegation, he helps leaders grow in practical skills, servant leadership, and confidence.

His vision extends beyond business to the future of the church in Iraq. Despite seeing friends and family leave amid ongoing challenges, he remains committed to strengthening local churches and pursuing unity among Christian leaders.

The result is a compelling picture of business as mission: a way to serve communities, empower people, and advance God's Kingdom through faithful work in everyday life.

Key Takeaways

• Missions can happen through ordinary work, hobbies, businesses, and relationships rather than only through traditional mission trips.
• Long-term discipleship often begins with someone ahead of us who is willing to invest in our lives.
• Jason’s decision to start Tin Soldiers was shaped by a willingness to step into uncertainty rather than wait until everything made sense.
• A workplace can become a place of gospel community when people are welcomed, known, discipled, and given space to encounter Jesus.
• The Bible study at Tin Soldiers grew organically from a small gathering into a larger community and eventually into satellite men's groups.
• Jason repeatedly emphasizes the importance of pointing people toward the local church rather than allowing a ministry gathering to become a substitute for the Church.
• Loving people where you already are may be the simplest and most faithful place to begin living out the Great Commission.

Chapter Markers

00:00 — Welcome to Season Three: Can You Do That in Missions?

01:36 — What Is Tin Soldiers Race Cars?

05:15 — From Motocross to Ministry

08:43 — The Men Who Discipled Jason

10:39 — When the Plan Fell Apart

12:54 — The Dream of the Cliff and the Water

16:15 — Taking the Jump

19:46 — Why Race Cars Became a Mission Field

21:09 — Jesus the Carpenter and the Workplace

22:59 — A Bible Study in the Race Shop

24:47 — From Small Group to a Growing Community

28:20 — Bound for Glory and Satellite Groups

30:39 — What Happens When Men Encounter Jesus?

34:49 — Start Where You Are

36:16 — A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

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For Jason Terrell, missions didn’t begin with leaving home. It grew out of motorcycles, race tracks, friendships, welding, and eventually a race-car business. What began as Tin Soldiers Race Cars became an unexpected place where men could encounter Jesus and one another in a setting where many of them never expected the Church to show up.

Jason’s story is also a story of discipleship. From a teenage mentor who pulled him forward, to watching older business leaders live out their faith, Jason learned that following Jesus is rarely something we figure out alone. Someone ahead of us sharpens us, and eventually we turn around and pull someone else along.

The result is not a polished ministry model. It is a community. A Bible study that started with a handful of men eventually grew into a gathering of dozens and sometimes more than a hundred, with satellite groups forming in other race-car shops. The central conviction remains simple: love God, love people, and learn to see the people God has already placed in front of you.

Key Takeaways

• Missions can happen through ordinary work, hobbies, businesses, and relationships rather than only through traditional mission trips.
• Long-term discipleship often begins with someone ahead of us who is willing to invest in our lives.
• Jason’s decision to start Tin Soldiers was shaped by a willingness to step into uncertainty rather than wait until everything made sense.
• A workplace can become a place of gospel community when people are welcomed, known, discipled, and given space to encounter Jesus.
• The Bible study at Tin Soldiers grew organically from a small gathering into a larger community and eventually into satellite men's groups.
• Jason repeatedly emphasizes the importance of pointing people toward the local church rather than allowing a ministry gathering to become a substitute for the Church.
• Loving people where you already are may be the simplest and most faithful place to begin living out the Great Commission.

Chapter Markers

00:00 — Welcome to Season Three: Can You Do That in Missions?

01:36 — What Is Tin Soldiers Race Cars?

05:15 — From Motocross to Ministry

08:43 — The Men Who Discipled Jason

10:39 — When the Plan Fell Apart

12:54 — The Dream of the Cliff and the Water

16:15 — Taking the Jump

19:46 — Why Race Cars Became a Mission Field

21:09 — Jesus the Carpenter and the Workplace

22:59 — A Bible Study in the Race Shop

24:47 — From Small Group to a Growing Community

28:20 — Bound for Glory and Satellite Groups

30:39 — What Happens When Men Encounter Jesus?

34:49 — Start Where You Are

36:16 — A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

Want to learn how GO International is planting the Church where it isn’t — and what that could look like for you?

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