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Shannan Martin is Gina's guest on this episode of the Everyday Mission Podcast. She's just written a book called Start with Hello (And Other Simple Ways to Live as Neighbors). It's a field guide for helping all of us become more connected to the people around us. She's here to share her family's story of moving from a rural farm to a city full of neighbors and shares what they have learned about building deep connections with those who live close to them. Shannan also shares some very practical tips and ideas to help us do the same in our neighborhoods. www.3dmovements.com

On this episode, Gina is joined by Marika Springer and Brittney Bowers who are two of the women who are students in our 3DM Discipleship School. Both have committed to taking ten months out of their lives to press-in to discipleship and mission, and both have given up a lot to do it - jobs, family, friends, and one even sold her home! But as you will hear, they both say it's worth it!

Gina is catching them as they are completing the first of four stages of the Discipleship School and preparing to move-on from Maine to make their way to Indiana. They'll then go to California and finish in Lima, Peru. Ten months in all with immersion into four of our 3DM missional contexts. What they're learning and experiencing and what they'll share with us on this episode are valuable and practical discipleship and mission tools and practices.

Gina's guest is Pastor Dan Koller who is leading a church "revitalization" process in Yakima, Washington that is using both the gathered and scattered expressions of the church to move forward in discipleship and disciple-making. Dan joins Gina to talk about the struggle that many church people are experiencing - especially those who have caught the vision to make disciples who are now wondering if there is any real discipleship value in the gathered expression of the church (i.e. Sunday morning worship).

Many are tempted to consider that the scattered approach of doing church (like missional communities, micro-churches, and home churches) is the better way. Dan believes that both approaches are effective, needed, and beneficial for discipleship and disciple-making, and he's here to explain why he believes this and how his church is using both approaches.

RESOURCE: On Ramp Huddles www.3dmovements.com/huddles

Jesus made it clear that we are to be His witnesses wherever we are to whomever we are around. His final words to His disciples recorded in Acts 1 say as much - and these words apply to His disciples today as well. The question then becomes: How do we gauge how well we're doing as His witness? For sure, we know that part of that answer lies in our actions and in our love for others, but we all know that our conversations play an important part in our witness as well -and this is where many of us struggle. What do we say to others to bear witness to Christ in our lives without coming across as trite, as rehearsed, or even worse, as overbearing?

Gina's guest today is here to help! Alyssa Tocci is a mom and pastor of a house church network in Boston. She's here to talk about how she and her husband engage in intentional yet very natural spiritual conversations with their neighbors, and she offers us some really helpful ideas on how we can do this ourselves.

FEATURED RESOURCE: New Fall Learning Communities https://www.3dmovements.com/l-c 

The Apostle Paul in Romans 12 tells all Christ followers (then and now) to "Practice hospitality." In 1 Peter 4, Peter encourages us to "offer hospitality to one another without grumbling." Evidently, grumbling was a thing back then when it came to offering hospitality! The same could probably be said for many of us today. Offering hospitality can be difficult. It can be inconvenient. And it often calls for sacrifice. But…

Hospitality is to Christianity what peanut butter is to jelly. Because God has shown us such incredible and all-encompassing hospitality thru His Son, Jesus, we are called upon by Him to do the same for others.  For some Christ-followers, this comes naturally. But for others, extending hospitality does not come so easy.

Gina's guest on this episode is one of those Christ-followers for whom offering hospitality comes naturally. Heidi Macias is here to help all of us "up our hospitality game" with literally dozens of helpful, simple, and sustainable ideas for offering hospitality. 

RESOURCE: “Help! I’m Leading a Group in My Home!” https://www.3dmovements.com/help-series 

On this episode, Gina has a conversation with Joe and Melissa Eastman. After they had four young children of their own, Melissa experienced a life-threatening health issue that nearly ended her life. Just before this happened, God called them to bring more kids into their home thru foster care. They are here to share their story of fostering children, adopting some of them, and walking together thru the valley of the shadow of death. Theirs is a story of courageous obedience in the midst of very bleak times, but it's also a story of God's abundant provision, care, and blessing.

On this episode, Gina is joined by Cath Livesey who is a part of the 3DM UK team and the leader of an organization called Accessible Prophecy that helps local churches grow a prophetic culture. If you've been involved in the 3DM movement for any amount of time, you're probably familiar with Cath because she's the author of a book that we use called "My Sheep Have Ears" that has helped many people learn to listen to the Lord in their own lives and in the life of their missional community and church. 

Cath is with Gina on this episode to talk not only about how to hear from the Lord, but she's got a new book out called "Holy Disruption: Harnessing the Prophetic to Shape a More Christlike Church," and she's with Gina to help us see how a healthy prophetic culture in our churches can lead to creative and effective mission.

Gina is joined by Brandon Kelly who is the Lead Pastor of College First Church of God in northwest Ohio and the co-director of an organization called 5Q. 5Q provides a rich and biblical way for leaders who are committed to equipping and releasing the church to be on mission for the Kingdom of God.

Some of you may be familiar with the term APEST - which is one way to remember what the five-fold gifting is that the Apostle Paul spoke of in Ephesians 4. APEST stands for Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Shepherd, and Teacher. Brandon is with Gina today to specifically discuss how we can engage in mission thru our 5-fold gifting - and how to help those we lead do the same.

5Q Web Site: www.5QCentral.com
3DM Web Site: www.3dmovements.com

Gina is joined by an everyday husband, dad, fund manager, and introvert who is also a neighbor on mission. Chris Gleason has been following the Lord since he was a child, but something happened when he was 8 years old that caused him to say that he would never share the Gospel with anyone ever again. That is until about 7 years ago when he blindly agreed to go to a 3DM training event that he says, "floored him." Chris' story is one of God breaking into his life in such a powerful way that he ended up experiencing the redemption of his 8-year-old self and was given a powerful ministry of "presence" in his suburban neighborhood where he is seeing spiritual fruit as he allows the Holy Spirit to lead him and his family on mission.

Featured Resource: On-Ramp Huddles. www.3dmovements.com/huddles

On this episode, Gina is joined by Mark Burgess. Mark is an Englishman who left England over 15 years ago to go on mission in Lima, Peru. He'll share a bit of that story, and he'll share the amazing thing God did for his church during Covid. But Gina's main focus with Mark is on exploring the ways in which he has learned to listen to the Lord and step out in faith in areas like prophetic words and healing. 

Gina's guest is Stacy Hendricks, an everyday mom of three teens who Gina discipled years ago. Stacy is someone who listens to the Lord for His missional direction, and what she heard Him tell her five years ago was quite a shock! She will join Gina to tell her about how she processed God’s surprise call on her life and how, after hesitantly stepping-in to this calling, God has used her in ways she never thought possible.