with Mike Packer, mission partner, France

"People are living a life but are lost and unless somebody tells them about the gospel, about Jesus, about his love for them, about his compassion and care for them that is why we've been put in this world, to go into all the world and make disciples."

We're delighted to have Mike Packer in the Echoes International podcast studio today. As well as working in mission in France, Mike and Alison Packer also serve as Mission Partner Care Coordinators at Echoes International, supporting mission partners pastorally. In this episode, Mike shares of how he reluctantly became interested in mission in France, having been thrown out his French class at school! We follow his journey to France and the ways in which the Lord used people along his way to encourage him.

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Mike, alongside his wife Alison, serve as mission partners in France. They are involved in evangelism, pastoral care, teaching, prison chaplaincy, Bible publication and distribution, youth and young adults' work, as well as being Mission Partner Care Coordinators with Echoes International.

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Mike Packer, mission partner, France.

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PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905
Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5

SOCIAL:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/
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Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk

KEYWORDS: #mission #faith #christianity #christian #believers #brethren #France #called #serve #prison #Bible #Publications #Missionpartners #Support #Mobilisation #French

with Mia, mission partner, Middle East

"Everything we needed, at the right time, He was providing it. When the tough times came, when we were struggling with things I'd remember that."

Mission partner Mia (not her real name) joins Echoes International directors Matthew Pitts and Jim Armstrong, as she shares how she and her family arrived in the Middle East as mission partners. From unlikely family beginnings, through Mia's search for a mission role in Africa, to her work with women today, Mia shares the ways in which the Lord led her to the Middle East and how she was mobilised and equipped for mission.

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Mia and her family work in the Middle East, where they provide support in finance and admin for an organisation, alongside outreach and discipling.

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong and Matthew Pitts, Echoes International Directors, with Mia, mission partner, Middle East

SOCIAL:
Facebook: @echoesinternational
Instagram: @echoesinternational

PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905
Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5

SOCIAL:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational
Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk

KEYWORDS: #mission #outreach #discipleship #MiddleEast #Christian #believers #mobilisation #equip

with Blair, mission partner, South East Asia

"So sport if you like is the bridge, the bridge then enables us to make relationships. Once you have those relationships that are strong, we are very intentional about doing discipleship."

Series 5 of The Same Commission podcast takes a new turn - each week of this season, we'll hear from a different guest sharing their story of how they ended up serving in cross-cultural mission! Today, Blair (not his real name), who works in South East Asia in sports ministry, looks back on God's call on his life, and the challenges and encouragements that accompanied him along the way.

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Blair, Eleanor and their sons Robin and Cameron serve in a country in South East Asia, where they use sports to help plant churches to reach unreached people groups. They are mission partners associated with Echoes International.

Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong, General Director, Echoes International, Matthew Pitts, Missions Director, Echoes International and Blair, mission partner in South East Asia

SOCIAL:

Facebook: @echoesinternational;
Instagram: @echoesinternational;

PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk/commission
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-same-commission/id1735900905
Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/be7b52bc-c722-41d2-a211-2cd958f6b7eb/the-same-commission
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0LlwFSwHrVeYrJlhfcvJy2?si=b78369ad3f5945e5

SOCIAL:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/echoesinternational/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echoesinternational
Website: www.echoesinternational.org.uk

KEYWORDS: #Christianity #Witness #Evangelism #Faith #Mission #CrossCulturalMission #Evangelism #sports #sportsministry #football #soccer #goodnews #believers #Asia #SouthEastAsia