Gospel Hope in Germany’s Secular Cities w/ Micheal

About this episode

Paul Akin interviews missionary Michael about his journey and experiences in church planting in Germany and Central Asia.

Host Paul Akin interviews missionary Michael about his journey from nominal Catholicism in Knoxville, Tennessee, to serving nearly 15 years overseas in Central Asia and Germany. Michael shares how God used prayer for unreached peoples to call his family to missions, the challenges and opportunities of church planting in post-Christian Germany, and the story behind their German-speaking church plant in Cologne. They also discuss international churches, missionary pastors, language learning, and the importance of healthy local churches in global missions.

People in this episode

Host: Paul Akin

Guest: Michael

Topics covered

• missionary work
• church planting
• secularism
• prayer
• international churches
• language learning
• local churches

Keywords

• Gospel
• Germany
• missions
• church planting
• secular cities
• prayer
• local churches
• language learning

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Germany, Cologne, Central Asia, Knoxville, Tennessee

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