What if preparing someone for the mission field looked less like a classroom and more like special forces training?

In this episode, we explore exactly that question with Jeremy Taliaferro, founder and CEO of Anchored International, an organization dedicated to training, mentoring, and encouraging missionaries around the world.

With over 22 years of experience as an IMB missionary, Jeremy has led church planting teams in war zones, taught trauma healing in refugee camps, and developed some of the most rigorous missionary training programs in the field today. He shares his personal journey to Christ, his calling into missions, and what it was like uprooting his family to serve in a remote village—along with the challenges that eventually led him to create the Elite Missionary Training program.

We dig into what real preparation for cross-cultural ministry looks like: how special forces-style training principles apply to church planting, and how missionaries can be equipped to serve safely and effectively in high-risk, high-security regions. Jeremy also speaks candidly to anyone who feels called to missions but unsure if they're equipped—and offers practical next steps for getting trained and sent.

A quick note: the audio cuts out briefly a few times during this episode, but the content is well worth pushing through for—Jeremy's insight and experience make this one worth every minute.

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In this episode, we sit down with Chris Clayman, Executive Director of Joshua Project, to hear the story God has been writing through his life and to explore how each of us can find our place in the Great Commission.

Chris takes us from his early days and coming to faith, to pioneer mission work among Muslim peoples in Mali, West Africa — the joys, the challenges, and the ways God used hard seasons to shape him. From there we follow the surprising redirection to New York City, where Chris discovered the strategic opportunity of global gateway cities and new avenues for ministering to West Africans right in the middle of the Big Apple. Along the way he helped launch and develop efforts like Global Gates, Heart for Muslims, Welcome Africans, and UPG North America.

We also talk about how the Lord led Chris to Joshua Project, the vision he brings to highlighting the peoples and places with the least access to the gospel, and his book Superplan: A Journey into God's Story. Most importantly, Chris shares how you can discover God's "Superplan" for your own life and take your next step in reaching the unreached.

Whether you're wrestling with God's will for your life or looking for a concrete way to engage frontier and unreached people groups, this conversation will encourage and equip you.

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In this episode, we're joined by Dave Jacob of Gospel Mobilization to trace the mission of God across the entire Old Testament. Far from being a New Testament afterthought, God's heart for the nations is woven through Scripture from the very beginning.

We start before the fall, with God's command to Adam to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. From there we follow the thread through the great covenants — God's promise to Abraham to bless all peoples, the calling of Israel through Moses, and the kingdom established in David. We finish at the temple, where the Court of the Gentiles stood as a sign of God's welcome to the nations, and in Psalm 67, a prayer that God's saving power would be known among all peoples.

Along the way, we challenge the church to recover this vision. From the beginning, God had the nations on His heart — and today, so many still have never heard the gospel. The call to missions isn't a departure from the Old Testament story. It's the fulfillment of it.

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