Leah Hatefi, wife to Aaron and mother of Evelie and Noah, is a vocational missionary with Youth With a Mission (YWAM).

YWAM equips young adults to go into all nations and make disciples of all peoples groups. After leading many teams to other countries, sharing the Gospel, and serving with various long-term mercy-ministry projects, Leah felt Jesus asking her to return to the US and answer the call to serve within the local church.

After returning, she was invited to help establish a YWAM School of Biblical Studies in Atlanta. Leah became part of the leadership team to launch that school in 2022.

Her prayer is that their students discover the truth of God’s word and deepen their understanding through the love of the Holy Spirit while they study, then take what they learn into the world so that others may know God through their life example.

In this final episode of the For God So Loved the World Podcast Series, I chat with Leah about being a vocational missionary and how raising young children has influenced how she (very gracefully in my opinion) integrates motherhood into her work.

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Brittany Woods is a brand new mother and a vocational missionary with SIM (Sudan Interior Mission) USA. She and her husband Alex (who is Campus Director at Howard University for Campus Outreach) are planning to move to Lusaka, Zambia to join the Campus Outreach team there in just a few short weeks. In Lusaka, Brittany will use her experience mobilizing missionaries in order to help Zambian Christians explore how God may be inviting them into missions and equip them in sharing the Gospel cross-culturally.

In this third episode of the For God So Loved the World Series, Brittany and I will chat about:

Her story of how she became a missionary

Some of Brittany's concerns about working vocationally as a missionary while being a mother

Her thoughts on why there are so few people of color in the mission field

And she'll share a couple of amazing stories from her work in missions around the world.

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Not everyone is called to serve in ministry in another country for years.

Not everyone is called to short-term mission trips outside of their country.

Some people are not in seasons where world ministry travel is reasonably within reach.

But, believers all have a universal call to share the good news of Jesus to the nations.If you're not the one to actually go, then how can you participate in the work of missions?

I believe the answer to this is unique to each and every individual, but it basically boils down to this: Some are called to go, and some are called to send those that do.

Send through prayer.

Send through time and support.

But mostly, send through giving finances.

In Episode 2 of my series For God So Loved the World, Emily Manginelli, Founder of the School of the New Testament, Director of the School of Biblical Studies - Atlanta Campus, Co-Lead Pastor of The Square Church, and my sweet dear friend shares her heart on the universal call of missions.

This message changed my life, and I pray it changes yours as well and takes you even further into the heart of God for the nations of the world.

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