Migrant Ministry

31/07/2024 42 min Temporada 2 Episodio 6
Migrant Ministry

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Episode Synopsis

In episode five of The Same Commission, Jim and Matt meet up with mission partner Sam Killins, as they reflect on the changing trends in migration, particularly in South America. They focus on the new missional opportunities that migration can provide to believers, as we seek to share the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ throughout the world. with Sam Killins, mission partner Sam Killins, with his wife Alejandra, has served in Colombia for many years, focusing on church planting among young people and Venezuelan immigrants. Alejandra and Sam continue to help a number of Venezuelan immigrants on a regular basis, and host missions teams as well as participate in camps and conferences in Colombia. In particular they support the Refuge Church in the border city of Cucuta, which is home to new believers from Venezuela who struggle significantly to just get by in their everyday lives.  "We're made of the same stuff, we have similar desires and similar dreams and we start finding common ground and a friendship that can last well beyond what we can imagine" – Sam Killins, mission partner Podcast participants: Jim Armstrong, General Director, Echoes International, Matt Pitts, Missions Director, Echoes International and Sam Killins, mission partner TAG ON SOCIAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sam.killins Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sam.killins/ 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; Mission partners; Gospel; Christian; Brethren; Believers; migrants; migration; immigration; asylum seekers; emigration; emigrants; economy; economic; population; movement; diaspora; dispersion; South America; mass migration; ministry; church planting; refugees; refuge; refugee