GLOBAL ACTION: Raising up Pastors to Shepherd their Flocks

That's why we tell them.

That's why we write books about them.

That's why we send out a magazine every month.

That's why we do VOM Radio is to share those stories because, you know, who knows? Who knows who's listening right now who's going to get, oh, wow, global action.

Oh, training pastors.

I could be a part of that.

I could— Get involved with that.

So that's why we tell these stories.

We're talking this week on Voice of the Martyrs Radio with Rich Griffith.

He is the Chief Development Officer for Global Action.

One of the things, Rich, that I think about as I look at some of the countries where you're training people, including Cuba that you mentioned, including India, including Mexico, including other places where Christians are persecuted, is the idea that if I'm training a pastor, I'm training someone who might be persecuted.

How does that factor into the training? This is one of my lifelong questions to anyone I talk to who works with training Christians in hostile and restricted nations is, how do you get somebody ready to face persecution? And for you, it was the stories and an encounter with God to say, God, I'm willing.

I think two things that just resonate so much is their incredible faith.

They're teaching me when I talk about faith.

When I was in Cuba, again, the phrase I heard the most, God will provide.

And then they'd say something else.

And if he doesn't, then I'll be with him.

It's almost Paul.

If I live, it's my gain.

If I die, it's my gain.

But Christ is the only thing that I need to focus on.

And so that piece, if understanding and solidifying that faith, we complement that in our training, going back to that very organic piece.

But the second piece of that is relationship.

Do you know Jesus? We know a lot about faith.

We know a lot about religion.