SO THAT Missions Podcast | FBC Boerne
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"So That" is an FBC Boerne podcast focused on what God is doing around the world with missions and through FBC Missions partners.
SO THAT Missions Podcast | FBC Boerne
Episode 79: Lori Rogers From Village Welcome to Lasting Discipleship in Malawi TRIP REPORT
The songs reached us before we saw the faces—women in white dresses who had ridden hours in the back of a truck to greet us at the airport, singing it’s true, they’ve come. That moment set the tone for ten days in Masinja Village, Malawi, where radical hospitality, daily child feeding, and a hunger for Scripture collided into a story we’re still processing. We came to serve with Kelly and Greg and their partner New Mary, co-founders of Divine Mission Ministry, and we left with a deeper conviction: when a village hears the gospel together, transformation doesn’t wait.
We walk through the Foundations training that tells the Bible’s grand narrative in five stories—creation to Messiah—in language that first-time hearers can hold onto and retell. With chiefs baptized the year prior and trust already built, we saw the message spread from leaders to families, men and women, youth and elders. The men launched a Bible study that continues today. Teachers in the preschool embraced prayer and story even as they manage classes of eighty toddlers without aides. Children learned to brush their teeth with a song and waited patiently to eat until every child had a bowl and the community had prayed. Along the way, our carefully crafted VBS plans met reality: many little ones had never held a pencil. We pivoted to simple stories, big smiles, and fish drawn on paper, and watched attention turn into delight.
This conversation digs into questions that matter: Do short trips make a difference? How does a team serve without rushing or imposing? What does it look like when locals take the lead and carry the mission to neighboring villages? We share the moment a village elder said, “You came, you shared, we will go tell other villages,” and the day we were given thirteen chickens—costly gifts that spoke of shared ownership and lasting impact. If your heart beats for missions, unreached peoples, and practical ways to help, you’ll find a path here: go, send, welcome internationals locally, and pray. Subscribe, share this story with a friend, and leave a review to help more people discover how everyday obedience can change a village—and change us.
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