Missions Today

The Church Digital is a movement focused on equipping and mobilizing Christians to make disciples in online spaces, helping churches and individuals see the internet as a legitimate and vibrant mission field. Through resources, training, podcasts, and communities, it encourages digital missionaries to build authentic relationships, spark gospel conversations, and create meaningful discipleship pathways across platforms like Discord...

Crossroads Prison Ministries’ international outreach is a growing global movement that brings the hope of the Gospel to incarcerated men and women across more than twenty countries. Through partnerships with national ministry leaders, Crossroads equips local teams with Bible study lessons, training, and ongoing support so they can disciple students in culturally relevant and meaningful ways. Lessons are now offered in multiple lang...

The 2025 Launch Survey from Gospel Mobilization offers a revealing look into the motivations and barriers shaping today’s aspiring missionaries, drawing insights from 2,428 respondents. The analysis highlights generational differences, the factors most likely to propel someone toward international service, and the obstacles that most commonly prevent them from reaching the field. By examining both those who have already launched an...

From a mission to the public schools to missionary journalism, from reaching the unreached to AI and online missions, we have traveled the globe to find stories of God at work around the world. On this episode of Missions Today, we’ll look at five highlights from 2025 and hopefully bring a bit of encouragement to your heart about the ways God is at work in the lives of people all over the world. Check out 2025 Highlights on this we...

At one point in college she wanted nothing to do with God. Then, a special bible study opened her eyes to God’s mission in the world and the need to provide God’s Word and local churches to the least and the lost. Now, as a Director of Missions at a local church, she is seeing where and how God is on the move and how much it is impacting the people in her congregation. Local Church Missions, the focus of this week’s episode of Miss...

The Shared Foundations Initiative is a strategic collaboration launched by the People Care & Development track of the Missio Nexus Leaders Conference, in partnership with the John Powell Institute at Mission Training International. It seeks to create a unified framework for Member Care, or “People Care & Development,” across Western mission-sending organizations. This field has traditionally lacked common guidelines, which ...

He had no desire to get involved in his father's ministry. He wanted to work in finance, travel the world, spend time with friends. But God clearly communicated to him one day that he was to serve in his father's organization, and that's just what he did. Now, after his father's tenure of 36 years, he has been given the mantle of this incredible organization that brings the Good News of God's Word to hundreds of...

DOOR International is a global Christian ministry dedicated to reaching Deaf communities with the Gospel through sign language Bible translation and Deaf-led church planting. Founded in 1983, the organization partners with indigenous Deaf leaders to ensure that Scripture is accessible in the heart languages of Deaf people worldwide. With over 70 million Deaf individuals across more than 400 sign languages—and less than 2% knowing a...

This week on Missions Today: Crossroads Prison Ministry is a faith-based organization dedicated to sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with incarcerated individuals and helping them grow as disciples. Its mission is to glorify God by fulfilling the Great Commission inside prisons, offering Bible studies, mentorship, and spiritual encouragement to those behind bars. The ministry believes that no sin is too great for God’s forgiveness...

From an early age, he was fascinated with the stories of missionaries. In college he was challenged to pray that the Lord would put a country on his heart. He had no desire to fulfill the “American Dream” but rather his desire was to “go to the hard places and do hard things” for the Kingdom. Hear the powerful story of this young man who has committed his life to the call and cause of Christ. That and more on this episode of Missio...

It is said that 1 in 8 Christians around the world are facing persecution. Just a few years ago, that number was 1 in 10. Persecution and suffering of our brothers and sisters in Christ is on the rise. Join us this week as we hear the story of Jeremy Frith and his organization Barnabas AID. They are working to help persecuted Christians and the suffering Church around the globe. Helping the persecuted and suffering church on the ne...

The saying about sending missionaries used to be “from here (the West) to there (everywhere else)”. But with the move of the Church from the West to the Global South, Asia and Africa, we now hear the phrase “from everywhere to everywhere”. Missionaries are truly being sent out from nations all over the world. This week on Missions Today, we’ll learn more about that as we talk with a young man who leads an organization focused on se...

Some 80 million people around the globe need wheelchairs but don't have access to one. This weekend on Missions Today, Nuka Hart of Free Wheelchair Mission joins me to talk about how they are providing quality wheelchairs to people in need in over 90 countries. These wheelchairs not only meet the physical needs of the people they serve, these wheelchairs are given in the name of Jesus, providing hope and love. Hear more about t...