Two-thirds of global missionaries are women. And most of them will tell you they have never heard an episode like this one.

Denise Beck, Executive Director of Velvet Ashes, has spent years sitting with women in every season of missionary life, and she is not afraid to say what most people skip over. The single woman who wonders if anyone on her team actually values what she gave up. The married woman stretched between her family and her calling. The woman who has been pouring out for so long she has stopped asking what she needs. And the extraordinary strength that exists in all of them, often unrecognized, even by themselves.

This conversation goes to the places most missionary care conversations do not. We look at what it specifically costs women to serve on the field, what they uniquely bring to it, and what leaders, husbands, teammates, and fellow women can do to make sure the largest group of missionaries on the planet is actually being seen and supported well.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• What single and married women on the field are actually experiencing including the specific tensions around sacrifice, comparison, identity, and feeling unseen that rarely get named out loud
• How to stop running on empty and start building the rhythms and community that will actually sustain you for the long haul on the field
• What it looks like to practically support the women on your team, whether you are a man in leadership, a husband in ministry, or a fellow woman on the field who wants to show up better for the people around you

Hey missionaries—how are your finances on the field? At Modern Day Missions, we make it simple for missionaries to receive donations and for donors to give. Serving 1,100+ missionaries worldwide, we free you to focus on your calling. We also offer resources like our weekly podcast, fundraising coaching, and a resource-packed newsletter. Connect with us at modernday.org

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Your MK’s are watching everything. They see how you handle the hard seasons, how you hold it together when everything is falling apart, and how much space there is in your family for the hard stuff to be said out loud. But what are they actually holding inside? And what do they wish you would ask?

In this episode, three young adults who grew up on the mission field sit down to share what that life actually formed in them, what they carried silently, and what they wish their parents had known. One of them is my own daughter, and I invited them all to be very honest. They were. Whether you are a missionary parent, an MK yourself, or someone who walks alongside missionary families, this conversation has something for you.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

• What missionary kids are actually thinking when they go quiet, and why it is rarely what their parents assume
• The unexpected thing that shapes MKs more than the mission field itself, and what parents can do with that information
• What it looks like when a family decides to be missionaries together, not just parents on mission with kids in tow

Hey missionaries—how are your finances on the field? At Modern Day Missions, we make it simple for missionaries to receive donations and for donors to give. Serving 1,100+ missionaries worldwide, we free you to focus on your calling. We also offer resources like our weekly podcast, fundraising coaching, and a resource-packed newsletter. Connect with us at modernday.org

Thanks for listening! Email us your questions at care@modernday.org

Website: https://www.modernday.org/podcast

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Have you ever been in a season where everything seemed to be working against you, and you could not tell if it was spiritual warfare, burnout, or just the hard reality of missionary life? When you can tell the difference, you know how to fight.

In this episode, evangelist, World Harvest founder, and Modern Day missionary Jacob Ebersole shares what spiritual warfare actually looks like on the mission field, the dramatic and the invisible, and the surprisingly practical ways missionaries can stand and fight without losing their joy in the process. You will walk away with new language for what you have already been carrying and a clearer picture of how to build the kind of team and foundation that holds when everything else is falling apart.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn

• How to recognize the difference between overt and covert spiritual attack, and why that distinction affects how you respond
• What Jacob discovered about building the kind of team that does not crumble when the opposition gets intense
• The unexpected thing that could carry you and your team through the hardest season of your ministry

Hey missionaries—how are your finances on the field? At Modern Day Missions, we make it simple for missionaries to receive donations and for donors to give. Serving 1,100+ missionaries worldwide, we free you to focus on your calling. We also offer resources like our weekly podcast, fundraising coaching, and a resource-packed newsletter. Connect with us at modernday.org

Thanks for listening! Email us your questions at care@modernday.org

Website: https://www.modernday.org/podcast

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu3ie6N7vXvESqcHrM-SRTC7-XoPEmnv6

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