GC Talk with Boe Ellis

GC Talk with Boe Ellis

Talking missions with church planters and missionaries locally, nationally, and around the world. Come along with Great Commissions Partnerships’ Executive Director, Boe Ellis, in search of insights and inspiration from Christians called to “GO… and make disciples of all nations.” For the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Visit us online at gcpartnerships.org. WHERE WILL YOU GO?

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June 30, 2026 43 mins

God pulled him out a garbage can, literally. He was just a new-born when the Lord used a pastor / missionary and his wife to rescue him, and to adopt him as their own. His name is Lielson Penido, and his very life is a picture of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

And, he wouldn't have it any other way.

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So what do consultants and project managers do anyway? Especially in this era of exploding technology?

Let's find out from our guest, Aaron Williamson, a business owner based in Tampa FL, where he and his partner are helping large organizations all over the world develop systems, solve problems, achieve goals and do it all with an eye on the bottom line.

Only the bottom line for Aaron is Jesus. So much so, he named the business Cor...

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He grew up in Nepal with 33 million Hindu gods. Little g, false gods. At age 20, he met Jesus Christ, the One True God. And that changed everything for him.

His name is Dr. Dan Pokharel, and he is a pastor, church planter, missionary, and the executive director of Global Mission Nepal based in Charlotte, NC.

More recently he founded the National Baptist Convention of Nepal as the first denominational organization of its kind in cou...

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He heard the Great Commission as a command. So he just did what Jesus said: "Go, therefore, and make disciples."

And for Dr. Bob Magruder, he's been doing it for 40 years since, as a pastor in just about every role you can imagine, and now, in a new role as the full-time Executive Director of Multiplying Culture Ministries. He is co-author of Multiplying: Creating a Culture of Disciple-Makers, which he wrote with his wife Barbie. H...

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He has served in Thailand with the International Mission Board; he has served as a missions and sending pastor in Tampa. And now, who better to serve as the new Associational Missions Strategist for the Brevard Baptist Association on the Space Coast of Florida? His name is Pastor Marc Corradino.

And if you have ever wondered how one guy can balance all the responsibilities of making disciples, equipping leaders, serving partners, l...

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He is a church planter. So, he packed his wife and kids in the minivan and moved to New England to plant a church in 1994 and he never left.

In fact, God used Dr. Terry Dorsett and his family to plant multiple churches in Vermont. They went on to lead the Green Mountain Baptist association. They relocat...

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Pastor Hilario Polanco couldn't adopt just one kid, so he adopted the whole neighborhood. Well, not exactly, but what he did to create a safe, Gospel-centered before-school / after-school place for kids has transformed hundreds of lives and families, and the whole town for Christ.  From Bible camps, and games, to martial arts, music and violin lessons, Voando Alto (The Flying High Foundation) is a Brazilian NGO with an all-vo...

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God told him to start a business that puts Jesus first. So he did.

Of course, being from Illinois and starting a business in Tampa, he named it Dallas 1 Construction. And 40 years later Bart Azzarelli Jr's business is a $30M-a-year company with the mission of "Serving Christ through Construction."

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He prayed that God would send someone else. And, God sent him instead.

It was that kind of Jonah calling that moved Joe Pardo with his wife and kids from Tampa to Puerto Rico in 2015; not to plant a church, but to plant Hope Women's Clinic, San Juan's first evangelical women's crisis pregnancy center.

And in ten years since, they have been celebrating life. And the Lord has grown Joe's family, and grown the ministry to two location...

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He moved to New England for an internship, and he never left.

And in just 10 short years since, that unmarried, English-speaking gringo has become fluent in Portuguese, has married his Brazilian pastor's daughter, has become father to a new baby; he is also a school teacher, and a co-pastor of a Portuguese-English-speaking, Brazilian congregation in Boston, MA.  Meet Josh Rowley. One of the leaders of the Celebration Church P...

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Mke Kahn is pastor to the pastors — more than 150 pastors in the Tampa Bay Baptist Association.

Since taking on the role of Mission Strategist in 2013, Pastor Mike has led out of a vision to "encourage, equip and multiply" first the man and then the leader with specific emphases in evangelism, in prayer and discipleship.

Pastor Mike was an engineer who pursued seminary training at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary afte...

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