Church Leadership Podcast
Church Leadership Podcast
Episode 133 - Scotty Goldman on Missions: Calling, Partnerships, and Training
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Welcome back to the Church Leadership Podcast! Mark and Andy are back in the saddle, and we are glad to share another great episode with you, We all need to be encouraged, challenged, and to laugh a little. Our conversation this week with Scotty Goldman will do just that. For over thirty two years, Scotty has served as a state missionary with the Office of Global Missions for the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. You will quickly come to appreciate Scotty’s story, as well as his passion to help people share the gospel around the globe and even here at home. We hope this conversation equips and encourages you to lead in your local church and on the mission field.

If you or your church would be interested in mission training, preparation, or short term opportunities in Alaska, abroad, or in your area, you can contact Scotty and the Office of Global Missions at sgoldman@alsbom.org

Quotes from this week’s episode…

“When I was dealing with the call to ministry, I was serving as a summer missionary in Taiwan. So, I immediately thought at that point that God was calling me to international missions, to foreign missions. So, I went to seminary, and I continued that prayer to foreign missions, and He sent me to Alabama.”

“I sit there and think, how did this little redneck boy from east central Mississippi wind up in the back of a tuk tuk in India, riding down the streets of Delhi?”

“As pastors, you guys know people in your church who could check all the boxes. So, I need you guys to let me know who can go and do these things (short term mission partnership projects).”

“Where can you partner us with a missionary that maybe doesn’t have any partners? Or a missionary that has a great need?”

“If you have people that don’t know which end of a hammer to hold, you don’t want to send them on a construction project.”

“We’ve learned through the years that true difference is made over a period of time, especially in other cultures.”

“It’s all about getting folks on the field and getting folks mobilized to do what God called us to do.”