Inlander Podcast

We sat down with Michelle to talk about her new memoir, Worst Case Scenario: Finding Overwhelming Rescue in the Promises of God. Sharing insights from the book, we talk about the impact her late husband Chris had in Africa, just how complicated grief can be, and what it looks like for God to show intimate care for us in even the darkest of circumstances. Check out her book on Amazon Hear more of Michelle's story on her previous episode.

From Mozambique to Central Africa, Steve and Sharon have led outreach teams in some of our most challenging fields. Steve shares what it looks like to become a true “belonger” in a community, endure hardship, and surrender the unanswered questions to the Lord. Learn how a passion for the lost and an undaunted trust in God’s sovereignty can take you far beyond your abilities, but never beyond His sufficiency. Watch the video Steve talks about as a motivation to go to Central Africa, "Move Against the Fear" Learn more about our training teams here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

Hope, excitement, nerves, and mystery. Debbie's journey has, at every turn, been one or more of these. For over thirty years she has served through teaching and nurturing the children of missionaries working in remote places. From rainforest to desert, village and city, through rebel uprisings and unexpected fresh starts – Debbie’s story puts God’s sustaining grace on display, and His faithfulness to draw us close, crafting us to become like Him no matter the place or space we find ourselves in. For more about Rift Valley Academy, tap here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

Surprised how God led her into cross-cultural missions, Abby shares about the importance of doing life and ministry with a team, while navigating some of the hard realities and hard hearts among her island community. Her 16-year journey with AIM would continually bring her back to this truth: it is God's work. We are simply invited to come alongside, witness what He is doing, and revel in the beauty of taking part in bringing truth and hope to the lost. Learn more about AIM's TIMO program (Training in Ministry Outreach) here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

Jake and Mandi twice set out to serve in one of AIM’s most difficult fields: Chad; and each time found themselves beyond their own sufficiency and outside of the plans they had in mind for ministry. God provided much needed family in teammates and new-found Chadian friends. God even provided a miracle for their son. But His path for Jake and Mandi was still a redirection.  Learn about the power of community and prayer in the face of formidable odds and unexpected turns, where learning to abide – even in our sorrows and disappointments – is one of the greatest lessons the mission field can teach us. Learn more about our training teams here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

Pilot, producer, gifted storyteller; Ted got his start with AIM serving from a remote mountain airstrip with his young family, a Cessna airplane, and a calm determination to follow God's call - wherever that might lead. Learn how Ted made the leap from aviator to film producer to a key member of AIM's mobilizing team.  Whether he's engaged with the stories of persecuted Christians, Africans longing to become missionaries, or the average Joe at a coffee shop in Minnesota - Ted reflects on how other people's stories can change us, and challenges us to consider the stories our own lives are telling. Also, if you're a boat captain, Ted needs to talk to you. ASAP. Learn more about AIM's field-based media team Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

Michelle describes her journey as the story of God’s grace in the middle of profound difficulty. Following the sudden death of her husband Chris early in their first ministry assignment in Lesotho, Southern Africa, she found herself as a single mom in a country far from home. But even in the darkest moments, she recalled this grounding truth: “I knew that God was with me.” Hear the story of how God helped and sustained her through a season of incredible loss, and revealed His purposes to her as she entrusted her ways to Him. For more about Rift Valley Academy, tap here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

As a young and single business owner, KB’s decision to skip part of the Super Bowl and head to church to hear a missionary speaker changed the course of his life forever. Today, some forty years later, he reflects on his family’s incredible journey of serving on remote islands in Lake Victoria, to laying the foundations for Africa Inland Mission’s two-year missionary training program, and later, helping to launch outreach in Africa’s Islamic North.  KB’s story is a testimony of how God can use our gifts and abilities in incredible ways as we surrender them to His purposes. Learn more about our training teams here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

In their 19 years of outreach ministry among two of Africa's unreached peoples, Colin and Becca saw God work in incredible ways as lives were transformed by Jesus. Today they serve in south Atlanta, Colin as AIM's US Director, and Becca through outreach among African immigrants and refugees. Hear their stories, their hearts for global missions, and their passion to make Jesus known across the street and around the world. Learn more about working with Africans in the U.S. as a part of our Diaspora ministry here Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

It was at the ripe old age of 10 that Karen first sensed a call to missions. Today, looking back over a 30 plus year missionary journey that took her from Rift Valley Academy (RVA) in Kenya, where she served as a dorm mom, to a nation in Africa’s north, where she served through business, to a pioneering role as a missions coach at Africa Inland Mission’s US headquarters. She shares what it means to yield to God’s call and to trust him with the big stuff and the small - even when you get on the wrong train and none of the other passengers speak a word of English. For more about Rift Valley Academy, tap here. For information about Creative Access Ministry, go here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

It was on a short-term mission trip to Haiti in 1971 that a young Sam told God that he'd go where nobody else wanted to go. And that's exactly where God led him and his wife Bonnie. Several years later, Sam took the wheel of a packed-out Ford F-150 pickup truck and set out from language school in France to the very heart of Africa - Central African Republic - crossing the Sahara Desert in a dramatic beginning to a 44-year ministry journey marked by God’s faithfulness all along the way. For more information about our Diaspora Ministries in the US, Canada, and Europe, tap here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

Join our conversation with Amelia as she shares her journey from growing up in Kenya and her years at a missionary boarding school, to short-term ministry assignments that took her from the bustling streets of “America’s most diverse square mile” to eight months on a tiny African island with no streets or electricity. And how, despite language and cultural barriers (and the occasional flying goat head), God worked through her in ways she never expected. For more about Rift Valley Academy, tap here. Explore Short-Term with AIM here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

With a deep desire to share the Good News that transformed their own lives, Joel and his close friend Dan joined an Africa Inland Mission outreach team serving in a remote region of South Sudan. Joel shares lessons learned through his two years of serving among the unreached Laarim people, the ins and outs of daily life in the African bush, and what it means for God to use us even in our own weakness. To read more about the Laarim people group, tap here. Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission. To learn more about our ministry and how you can be involved, go to aimus.org For stories, videos, featured opportunities and more, follow us on Facebook and Instagram! Join us as we pray for Africa’s unreached peoples at prayafrica.org

The Inlander is a podcast of Africa Inland Mission (AIM) – a Christian mission agency dedicated to outreach among Africa’s remaining unreached people groups. Each episode will feature a conversation with a missionary or mission leader, exploring what it means to live out Christ’s call to share his Good News among the nations.