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Episode 24 The Holy Land - Arab Christians in the Midst of Turmoil Jul 20, 2022

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I met Saleem and Andrea his wife several years ago but for over 35 years the Christian Holy Land Foundation has been focused on educating and advocating for issues concerning Israel and Palestine, both in the middle east and in the United States. Trust me if have not been there and, we will talk about that a little more later, Israel is a nation full of beautiful but traumatic history. it has obviously been a place of great religious significance as well as great turmoil and suffering. the team there wants to help bring grace, peace, and understanding through Christ to this incredible land and its people.

So in the middle east, chlf works with local churches and pastors to disciple, encourage and grow the local Christian community through evangelism, church planting, discipleship, relief and development ministries, and many more outreach programs.

But their ministry is not limited to the holy land, in the United States, chlf educates on and advocate for the many complex issues facing the holy land today. they offer programs for churches, small groups, or other ministries to help your church better understand these challenges and that’s what we intend to do with this podcast to our CCV family. they also organize and provide trips to the holy land to help educate and advocate through travel by spending time in communities, providing authentic cultural engagement, showing the reality of people's daily lives, and visiting biblical sites with experts, theologians, and historians.

Through relationships between western Christians and local indigenous Arab Christians, they share the gospel and disciple those who accept Christ and then provide holistic support that will foster a Christian movement across the holy land.
LINKS

Website: https://www.chlf.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CHLF.org

Instagram: @chlf_israel

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saleem-hanna-0285486/

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 23 Transforming The Kingdom of Swaziland Jul 13, 2022

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Today we will talk with my good friend Joshua Ward about Bulembu, Swaziland. Swaziland is surrounded by South Africa, except for a short border with Mozambique, Swaziland depends heavily on South Africa from which it receives more than 90% of its imports and to which it sends 60% of its exports. Joshua was born in Southern Africa and is a 3rd generation Swazi. He grew up in ministry life, with both parents in vocational ministry.

Swaziland, now Eswatini, has the highest HIV rate in the world, resulting in over half of the child population either being orphaned or vulnerable. Struck by the masses of children flocking to the streets of the capital city, Kevin Ward, Joshua’s father, resigned from his corporate job to start caring for orphans.

Starting out as a soup kitchen in the capital city, serving street kids, the ministry has grown to include family-based orphan care, community development, a men’s rehabilitation center, and a safe house for abused women. Together, we are on a mission to bring Kingdom Transformation, One Life At A Time, and we believe we can really transform this entire nation within 1 generation.

Joshua spent much of his childhood on a farm, where he and his family lived with 50 orphaned and vulnerable children. It was here that the Lord birthed the vision of Bulembu – an abandoned mining town rebuilt to be a refuge of safety for the orphaned generation of Eswatini.

After studying business in Tennessee and working in corporate America for a little while, Joshua was quickly drawn back to serving the ministry. Joshua now lives in Phoenix, AZ. He attends CCV and serves at the Verrado campus, and leads Partners in Action, a 35-year old Phoenix-based nonprofit that is focused on resourcing Kingdom Transformation in Eswatini and beyond.

He is married to his college sweetheart, Caroline, who is a part of the CCV worship community.

They don’t have children yet but are excited for that season to come. In the meantime, their Corgi puppy proves to be challenge enough for them.
LINKS

Website: https://www.bulembu.org/

https://www.partnersinaction.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bulembu

Instagram: @bulembu

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadward/

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 22 3.2 Billion Will Die, Will you Meet them In Heaven? Jul 06, 2022

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I am so excited about today's episode. I have to admit that our next guest has helped me in rediscovering missions at CCV more than anyone. He has become one of my heroes as I try to be obedient to the Great Commission. He co-authored two books “When Everything is Missions and then another follow-on Book “ conversations on When Everything is Missions”

Matthew Ellison, is the President and Church Missions Coach at Sixteen: Fifteen, he served as a missions pastor at a mega-church for nine years, helping them transition from a reactive approach to world missions to a proactive one. During this time he realized that there was a growing wave of churches no longer content to only support missions, instead, they desired active global engagement. This led to the founding of Sixteen:Fifteen. Since 2004 he has been coaching churches across the United States, helping them to develop missions vision and strategy that fulfills the biblical mandate while taking into account their unique gifts, talents, and passions as local bodies of believers.
LINKS

Website: www.1615.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1615.Official

Instagram: @1615_ministries

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-ellison-5142895/

Books: When Everything is Missions, Conversations on When Everything is Missions

https://www.wheneverythingismissions.com/

Book discount code: Summer25

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 21 Compassion Energized by Love to Children Trapped Jun 29, 2022

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I have a good friend. Her name is Stephanie Freed and she co-founded Rapha International in 2003 after she was challenged by her father to research the issue of human trafficking. Beginning with one aftercare program for underage female survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation in Battambang, Cambodia, 15 years later, Rapha now serves child survivors in Cambodia, Thailand, and Haiti. Stephanie is a firm believer in quality programming and collaboration, which allows Rapha to enjoy the cooperation and respect of the governments where they are working.
Rapha International is a public benefit 501c3 nonprofit committed to ending the trafficking and sexual exploitation of children. Founded in 2003, Rapha continues to rescue and rehabilitate children, while bringing them to lasting freedom. Rapha’s vision is to see all children living in sustainable freedom within safe communities.

Rapha is a faith-based organization that takes seriously the scripture that reads: “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with action and in truth” (1John 3:18). It is with compassion energized and sustained by love that we act on behalf of victimized and vulnerable children. Though we are faith-based, we offer aid without requiring those that we help to embrace our faith. When Jesus fed the 5,000 he did not withhold from those who refused to believe. He gave freely, and so do we.
LINKS

Website: https://rapha.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Rapha%20INternational

Instagram: @rphaintl

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-freed-6318091b6/

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 20 Training Pastors to Reach Millions Jun 22, 2022

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On today's show, we have Dr. Tony Twist. He's the president of TCM International. He is the also chief executive officer and serves as a professor at the Leadership and Spiritual Formation. He holds a degree from Milliken College, a BA, an MDIV, from Immanuel School of Religion, a doctor of ministry from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a PhD from Indiana University.
LINKS

Website: https://www.tcmi.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TCMII

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 19 The Story Must Change Jun 15, 2022

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On this episode, we are with Wade Landers and Roger Twitchell from Blackbox International.
Blackbox seeks to bring healing to boys rescued out of sex trafficking through holistic aftercare.
Wade Landers and his wife Beth celebrate 27 years of marriage this year. They have been blessed with 8 children and two son-in-laws. They currently reside in Carl Junction, MO. Wade has served on the faculty at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri for the past 18 years. He currently teaches in the Intercultural Studies, Biblical Justice, and Organizational Leadership majors, as well as serves as the Program Director for both the Biblical Justice and Organizational Leadership programs. Early in his career he served in Haiti working with a school and a church plant. Since those days has traveled in over eighty countries representing various mission ministries. He, along with his wife, are the founders of Blackbox International, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing aftercare for boys rescued out of sex-trafficking for the past 12 years. In 2013 he co-founded the organization, Global Research Team, which is dedicated to providing quality research with missiological insight. Wade has served on several non-profit profit boards (CIY, TRAIN International, Lifted Up International, etc.). Wade has a bachelor’s degree in Biblical literature from Ozark Christian College, a master’s degree in Intercultural Studies from Biola University and is currently a PhD Candidate at Biola.
Roger Twitchell and his wife, Elaine, have been married for 30 years. They spent nine years in Honduras with a multi-national church-planting team. They also served in Costa Rica for 10 years in a similar role. They now live in Joplin, MO. For the past 11 years, Roger has served with Blackbox, both as a volunteer and now as a part-time employee. Roger and Elaine spend the other part of their time providing missionary care for several families. They have two daughters and two granddaughters, ages 7 and 5.
LINKS

Website: https://blackboxinternational.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackboxinternational

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackboxintl

Twitter: @blackboxintl

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 18 Developing Christ Centered Communities Jun 08, 2022

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For more than twenty-five years, Terry Dalrymple has championed the cause of the poorest of the poor, training and mobilizing workers around the world for transformational ministries in villages and slums that make disciples, plant churches, and lift families and communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.
The strategy he employs, called Community Health Evangelism, is now being used by Christian ministries and denominations in over 129 countries. As the coordinator of the Global CHE Network, he is guiding the expansion of a growing movement aimed at establishing CHE ministries in a million villages and finishing the task among the unengaged people groups that make their home there.
Terry is founder and coordinator of the Global CHE Network and Vice President of the Alliance for Transformational Ministry. He serves on several boards including the board of Transform World where he is catalyst for the Million Village Challenge. He is also Faculty at the Geneva Institute for Leadership and Public Policy at the United Nations. He is a capable teacher, trainer, and enthusiastic speaker on Biblical wholism and transformational development. He recently authored the book, Beyond Poverty: Multiplying Sustainable Community Development.

LINKS

Website: www.chenetwork.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/globalchenetwork/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalchenetwork/

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Poverty-Multiplying-Sustainable-Community-Terry-Dalrymple/dp/1645083179/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36GT80D0C5GFR&keywords=Terry+Dalrymple&qid=1650994712&sprefix=terry+dalrympl%2Caps%2C159&sr=8-1

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 17 Strengthening Families and At-Risk Kids Jun 01, 2022

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Mark Upton is the President and CEO of Christian Family Care in Arizona. Mark is a leading advocate in Arizona for children and families. Prior to joining Christian Family Care in 2007, Mark served as the Executive Vice President and Provost of Phoenix Seminary. He currently serves on the Governor’s Council on Child Safety and Family Empowerment, the Prevention Workgroup of the Council on Child Safety and Family Empowerment, and the Department of Child Safety Community Advisory Committee. In addition, Mark has served on the Board of Pinnacle Forum AZ, Arizona Life Coalition, Bible Education Legacy Fund of Phoenix Seminary, Arizona Serves Task Force, No Child Waiting Executive Committee, Child Welfare League of America, and the Scottsdale Bible Church Elder Board. Mark is a true family man. With his wife of close to 50 years, he enjoys spending time with their three children and 12 grandchildren, four of which were adopted.
LINKS

Website: https://cfcare.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristianFamilyCare/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christianfamilycare_az/

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/christian-family-care-agency/

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 16 Effective Youth Transformation May 25, 2022

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I'm honored to have my good friend with us today, Jason French. Jason is CIY's president. and for the few of you who are not familiar with PSI and what it stands for, it stands for Christ in Youth. Jason has been with CIY since 2002 when he started as the associate director of conferences before being promoted to the Director of conferences and then into his current role as executive president. Jason has a bachelor's degree in biblical literature from Ozark Christian College and a master's in organizational leadership from Hargrove School. Prior to CI, Jason was a youth minister at Central Christian Church in Carl Junction, Missouri. East Side Christian Church in Fullerton, California. East Tulsa Christian Church and Paramount Terrace Church, now Hillside Church in Armadillo, Texas. He and his wife, Janice, has have four children Justin, Levi, Sydney and Silas. Their family attends the church in Orinoco near Joplin, Missouri. Jason, my friend, welcome to the show.
LINKS

Website: https://ciy.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristInYouth

Instagram: @ciymove

Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-french-a970a3185
Email: jayson.french@ciy.com

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church

Episode 15 Transforming Urban Youth May 18, 2022

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Adam Mosbrucker is a Phoenix native and is newly married to his wife Briona. Adam is a teacher and mentor and serves at the non-profit organization, Elevate Phoenix. Elevate Phoenix, strives to create long-term, life changing relationships with urban youth. Adam is passionate about the next generation and seeing them become thriving young leaders in the community and around the world.
LINKS

Website: https://elevatephoenix.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elevatephoenixaz
Instagram: @elevatephoenix

Christ’s Church of the Valley: https://ccv.church/

CCV Missions: www.ccv.church/missions

Pastor Larrie Fraley: linkedin.com/in/larrie-fraley-53445032

Email: missions@ccv.church