Listen to the Missionary Voice

Western North Carolina Conference United Methodist Women.....

New on the General Board of Global Ministries website....listen to interviews with missionaries! Check it out, and share the links with others.

Listen to the Missionary Voice
by Wendy Whiteside and Mary Beth Coudal

What is social justice? What did Mary do with those gifts given to her on the occasion of Jesus' birth? And where can you find a good chili cheese dog in Washington, DC? To find the answers to these and other questions, you can listen to short, substantive online interviews with missionaries.

The Global Ministries website now offers a new, exciting resource, The Missionary Voice: podcasts from a broad spectrum of locations, on a variety of topics. From Palestine/Israel to the Deaf Shalom Zone in Baltimore, you can listen in as missionaries discuss real-life faith challenges and values, and receive firsthand accounts of their efforts to do God's work.

The Missionary Voice podcasts are contemporary, clear, and even controversial. You can hear the voices of the missionaries and find out just what matters to them and the people they work alongside. You can hear for yourself just what makes a missionary tick and how they persevere, given extraordinary obstacles.

Featuring the voice of Rev. R. Randy Day, general secretary, and interviews by reporters Chris Tricomi and Mary Beth Coudal, the podcasts entertain, inform, and inspire. Check them out and you'll find personal and creative stories about amazing people from unlikely places.

The Missionary Voice is meant to be shared. Send a friend or colleague the link to a podcast that was particularly meaningful to you. Download a podcast and play it as part of your worship service or at a missions committee meeting. You can reach this resource from the home page of Global Ministries, http://gbgm-umc.org/. Scroll down and, in the right column, click on the purple icon that says The Missionary Voice.

We invite you to listen and use The Missionary Voice. New podcasts are added twice a month, so come back frequently and see what is new. Or sign up to be notified whenever a new podcast is posted. Your understanding of mission will be expanded. Your knowledge of the church's impact on God's wide world will grow. Your faith in God will deepen as you hear the faith of these people active in God's mission.

To hear the Missionary Voice podcasts, go to http://new.gbgm-umc.org/work/missionaries/podcasts/
To learn more about becoming a missionary, go to http://ummissionaries.org