"Ruined for the Ordinary" with Kim Garrity

About this episode

Kim Garrity shares his journey as a GEM missionary and discusses the refugee opportunity in Europe.

Kim Garrity was appointed to be a GEM missionary over 40 years ago. After a backpacking trip around Europe in his early years, he was "ruined for the ordinary". In this episode, we discuss Kim's story of getting to Europe full time as a global worker. We also discuss one of the biggest buzz words of today, "refugees". Kim's focus became the refugee opportunity in Europe from 2015 onward. He has led hundreds of teams to come and serve in Europe with the hope that all people come to know and ...

People in this episode

Guest: Kim Garrity

Topics covered

• missionary work
• refugees
• Europe
• global worker
• Christianity
• service

Keywords

• missionary
• refugees
• Europe
• GEM
• global worker
• Christianity
• service

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GEM

Places: Europe

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