SCGo: Recent Episodes
South Carolina Baptist Convention
Welcome to the SCGO Podcast from the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Our goal is that this podcast would help to cultivate a missional DNA within the context of the local church. New episodes drop every other Wednesday. To learn more about us, visit http://www.scbaptist.org/send. To support all of the ministries of the South Carolina Baptist Convention and SCBC Churches, visit http://www.scbaptist.org/give.
What is the Asia Pacific Rim Affinity and how can you partner with them both at home and on the mission field? Jeff Waligora and Tony Wyrick, Affinity Connections Strategists for the Asian Pacific Rim Peoples Affinity with the International Mission Board, join Tim Rice in sharing their calling to missions and how you can partner with, pray for, and support them and the Asian Pacific Rim Affinity.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
What does it look like to plant an evangelical, biblically-based church in a state where the Mormon church is so prevalent? Michael Cooper and David Gaskins, North American Mission Board church planters serving in Utah, join Ken Owens in sharing about the joys and challenges of church planting there and how they are seeing God at work to spread the good news of Jesus.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
Robbie McAlister, the People Group Strategist for the SCBC, and Ryan Dupree, Multi-Ethnic Church Strategist for the SCBC, join Ken to discuss how South Carolina Baptist churches can partner with, engage, and serve foreign-born peoples and their ethnic congregations living in SC. Robbie and Ryan discuss the FINISH Initiative of the SCBC and how our SCBC Anglo-churches can actively be involved with helping to plant, train, and raise up ethnic leaders to serve in multi-ethnic churches around our state.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
Dr. Casey Williams, lead pastor of North Trenholm Baptist Church in Columbia, SC joins Ken to discuss missional engagement of the diverse ethnic groups living in and around local communities. Casey is passionate about the local church and reaching multi-ethnic people groups within the surrounding community. Join Ken and Casey as they talk about some practical ways that pastors can lead their churches to love and serve diverse peoples around them.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
Sarah Farley, Student Mobilization Associate with the IMB, and Steve Turner, Senior Director of Next Generation Mobilization with NAMB, join Ken to discuss all things next generation mobilization! Together, the three of them discuss how both the IMB and NAMB are working to engage and equip the next generation in sending and going. Learn about all of the many avenues available to students to serve both internationally and across North America.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
Otis, a missionary with the IMB seeking to reach and serve North African and Middle Eastern refugees, joins Ken to discuss his current mission assignment and strategy for reaching refugees in his particular place of service. Join them as they talk about sensing and discerning God’s call and ways that our South Carolina Baptist churches can partner with Otis and his team.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
Travis Ross, a South Carolina native now serving with the Baptist Resource Network of Pennsylvania and South Jersey, joins Ken to discuss church planting and partnership between South Carolina and Pennsylvania Baptists. Ken and Travis dive into the BRN’s strategy for church planting in Pennsylvania and the South Jersey region, the need for strategic partnership, and ways that South Carolina Baptists can connect with such efforts.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
William King and his wife Darlene serve with the International Mission Board in Athens, Greece working with Central Asian peoples. William joins Ken to discuss their current mission assignment and strategy for reaching Central Asian peoples, how the Lord is working Athens, and specific ways that South Carolina Baptist churches can partner with them in Greece.
David Butler, Send Network’s New England Director of Church Planting, and Bryant Sims, Pastor of First Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood, SC, join Ken to discuss the ongoing church planting partnership between South Carolina and the Send City of Boston. Ken, David and Bryant discuss church planting strategy, the significance for meaningful partnership and support between local churches, and the vision for church planting and missional engagement in the Greater Boston area over the coming years.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
Nathan Sloan, Pastor of Sending at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY and author/coach for the Upstream Collective joins Ken to discuss the Upstream Collective and their vision to equip churches in the area of sending and missions mobilization. Nathan shares some incredible resources and tools that are available to all churches and leaders that will help equip their church to advance in sending.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
Ryan Day came to faith in Jesus while attending Coastal Carolina University. Today, he and his family serve as missionaries in Japan with the International Missions Board. Ryan joins Ken to discuss their call to ministry and specifically to the Japanese people. Ryan shares some incredible ways in which the Lord is working in their place of service, as well as how our South Carolina Baptist churches can partner and support them in their work.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
How does the church navigate missions and sending in the midst of a pandemic? Nathan S. joins Ken Owens as they discuss what it has looked like for one of our own SCBC churches to do just that. Ken and Nathan also discuss some strategies and resources that could assist the local church in developing a missional DNA within the entirety of a local body of believers.
This South Carolina Baptist Convention resource is made possible through the Cooperative Program giving of South Carolina Baptist churches. For more information, visit www.scbaptist.org.
Dr. Chuck Lawless is the Dean of Doctoral Studies and the Vice President for Spiritual Formation and Ministry Centers at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In this episode, Ken welcomes Dr. Lawless to the podcast to discuss what healthy missions sending looks like in the local church and current trends affecting evangelism.
Welcome to the first ever episode of the SCGO Podcast! Join host, Ken Owens, South Carolina Baptist Convention Send Team Leader, as he welcomes Dr. Paul Chitwood, President of the International Missions Board, and Dr. Gary Hollingsworth, Executive Director-Treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, as they discuss missions sending and how South Carolina Baptists can continue to support and partner with the International Missions Board.