Graduate of Living Faith Bible Institute, church planter, and missionary Kale Horvath, joins us again to give an update on the new church plant growth in Budapest, Hungary, including personal testimonies from the first few years on the mission field.

Kale moved his family to Budapest, Hungary as missionaries in December of 2020, in the middle of Covid quarantines (lockdowns). Kale shares what challenges they faced, including: landing during a pandemic, getting a visa during the shutdown, learning a new (foreign) language, preaching with a Hungarian Bible to people of Hungarian culture, praying for & finding a church building, learning to effectively evangelize in a new culture and finding schools and education for Kale and Brooke’s children.

Kale walks us through how the Living Faith Bible Institute and ministry service in his local church (youth pastoring) built him into a minister ready for missions work. He served on staff at First Baptist Church as the youth pastor from 2015-2019. Kale and Brooke first visited Hungary in 2014, and returned annually until moving to Budapest in 2020.

Kale & Brooke have ministered through short trips in Hungary since 2014 through summer camps for kids and sharing the gospel. By the end of 2023 into early January, the Horvath’s had officially planted Zuglói Biblia Gyülekezet (Zugló Bible Church) in the fourteenth district of Budapest, Hungary.

Finally, Kale gives a glimpse into a book he is authoring which is meant to help those who are deconstructing or have deconstructed their faith. In the book, he gives the biblical handles a believer needs to actively engage in faith and grow closer to God and his people.

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Visit https://www.horvaths2hungary.com/ to learn more about the Horvath’s church ministry in Budapest, Hungary.

We continue our unknown missionary series with Professor of Missiology James Fyffe. This time we trace the conversion and missions work of Henry Martyn (1781-1812). Henry left a life of comfort and ease in the West to labor for 6 short and meaningful years in the work of Bible translation and evangelism. His legacy is felt most today from the Middle East all the way through India where his Bibles are still being used for gospel and discipleship-centered church planting movements. Henry shows us believers what it means to burn bright for the Lord Jesus Christ, heeding the call to world missions.

Living Faith Fellowship and Living Faith Bible Institute has a heart to train and equip key leaders to plant churches worldwide. Graduate of L.F.B.I., and discipleship pastor Thomas Harding of Oakland Heights Baptist Church in Cartersville, GA shares his testimony how God has given him a burden to plant a church in Portland, OR.

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Pastor and professor of missiology James Fyffe returns to continue our “Unknown Missionary” series. This time we discuss the history of the Waldensians, an Italian group of mission-minded Bible believers severely persecuted for their faith. We cover their core doctrines, methods of evangelism and legacy which included a church-planting movement spanning 400 years.

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We discuss the life of missionary Narcissa Whitman with James Fyffe, professor of missiology at the Living Faith Bible Institute. Narcissa moved West with the gospel in the 1800's at a time women were not commonly going to the mission field. We discuss the hurdles she faced and how she went to the Cayuse and the Nez Percé tribes with the intention of spreading the gospel. Lastly, we glean principles from an analysis of her journals for supporting sent missionaries from home churches.

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Associate pastor of First Bible Baptist Church of Blue Springs Bobby Bonner joins us to share his testimony salvation and how he became a missionary in Zambia, Africa. Pastor Bonner recounts his career as a professional baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles and tells us how God burdened him for a life of missions.

Through a series of events, God led Bobby back to the U.S. where he remains an associate pastor and President of International African Missions which is set to reach all of Sub-Sahara Africa with the gospel and to establish churches.

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Dan Jalowiec joins us today to share his testimony of salvation and how that led to a missionary call to Zambia, Africa for him and his wife, Jan. Dan shares many ways in which he has experienced God’s grace along the way. He discovered the mission field of Zambia on his very first mission trip, after a long career with his wife Jan in optometry. Most recently, Dan and Jan have planned to return to Zambia for more focused cultural and linguistic training; this time they will be without their children who have grown and are trusting Christ in their own endeavors as they have come to maturity.

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We continue our unknown missionary series with Living Faith Bible Institute Professor of Missiology, James Fyffe. This time we cover the life and ministry of man named Qureshi, otherwise known as “The Peanut Butter Man” of Pakistan.

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In this episode Jeff Bartell, the missions pastor of First Baptist Church in New Philadelphia, OH and host of the podcast Theology Roundtable shares his missions experience in post-communist Albania. In 1992 Jeff found himself amidst a people who had never heard the gospel. He learned the language, preached the gospel and made disciples. Now that same Albanian local church God used Jeff to plant is biblically envisioned and actively reproducing local churches in other parts of the world. We discuss missions and specifically how the local church described throughout the New Testament fits God’s plan for evangelizing the lost and making disciples of Jesus Christ.

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Visit https://www.lffellowship.com/focus for sermons and additional materials from the Living Faith Fellowship’s 2022-23 Mission Focus Conference.

Randy Foster of Heartland Baptist Fellowship in Harrisonville, MO shares his story of coming to faith after reading a booklet regarding the rapture. Randy then shares how he was discipled, caught a heart for missions in Belarus and quickly found himself leading in the mission. He tells us how God prepared him to preach through ministries such as Backyard Astronomy club.

After a long season of missions work in Zambia, Africa Randy was invited by Brian Hedges of Heartland Baptist Fellowship in Harrisonville, MO to help start a Bible school. Randy is now also trusting God to get the Word of God to the nations through Word First Publishing at Heartland which seeks to print and ship Bibles of various languages to peoples around the world.

We continue our unknown missionary series with James Fyffe, professor of Missiology at Living Faith Bible Institute. This time we cover the life of Columba of Colmcille, an Irish-born missionary credited with a fruitful church planting ministry spanning Ireland and Scotland. We discuss the legends surrounding the man as well as Catholic mythology in the tale of Saint Columba and the banishment of the Loch Ness monster.

We continue our missions series with missionary and LFBI professor James Fyffe. Last time we spoke, we covered the ministry of George Grenfell in the Congo, Africa (Ep. 116). This time we travel to Asia to cover the life of another lesser-known missionary, Quan Xuan, who worked in Vietnam during a communist uprisal which severely opposed the spread of Christianity. His passion for Christ led him to become a great example of what it means to go before those we lead.

In this weeks episode we sit down with Pastor James Fyffe, professor of Missiology at Living Faith Bible Institute and former missionary to Southeast Asia to discuss a missionary not often talked about, George Grenfell. For over 20 years Grenfell gave his life to establish a chain of churches through the Congo. His story is one of inspiration and resolve.

In this episode, we sit down with Bethany and talk about her missionary journey thus far. She shares how God used Bible school to grow her in a leadership capacity. She also tells a few stories of how God has been changing lives abroad, including the fun story of how she met her husband in the field.

In this episode we interview a beloved friend & missionary of 15 years to India. We hear how he received the missionary call. He recounts many testimonies from the field. Lastly we hear his short-list of favorite books on the topic of World Missions.

In this episode we interview Missions professor James Fyffe regarding lasting effects of Covid on the church & world. How will missions potentially change moving forward & what should the disciple of Christ be prepared for in a post-Covid world?

Brian speaks about the high church, low church & the true church. Then, we hear what motivates him to keep preaching in the face of opposition.

We speak specifically here about the complex work of translating the Bible into other languages in order to disciple the nations.

Word First Publishing is a ministry that takes on projects to print, assemble and send Bibles to works of need throughout the country and world.