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Our guest this week is Paul Poteat, Midwest Network Director for Campus Outreach. Paul's staff experience and his interaction with many CO teams over the past years uniquely position him to speak into the context of how the seven strengthening needs came to be. Drawing on 40 years of CO history and the current waves of cultural impact, this episode reviews the challenges and opportunities campus ministries face. Paul concludes our episode with a charge to actively pursue what will strengthen, not only for a successful ministry, but also for a fulfilling life with Christ. Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Indianapolis Season 5 will focus on the Ministry Strengthening Needs that we believe every Campus Outreach location has in this current season: spiritual fervency, evangelism culture, multiplication, contextualized strategy, church alignment, partnering culture, and expansion commitments.  Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Season 5 of the Campus Outreach StaffCast will launch in September 2026. We at Campus Outreach SERVE desire for the StaffCast to encourage, equip, and STRENGTHEN those laboring in God's harvest field, on the campus and beyond. Season 5 will focus on the Ministry Strengthening Needs that we believe every Campus Outreach location has in this current season:  spiritual fervency, evangelism culture, multiplication, contextualized strategy, church alignment, partnering culture, expansion commitments. Join us for new episodes every 2-3 weeks during Season 5.  Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

This week, we welcome back Melanie Rogers, LEAD Program Team Leader with CO SERVE. Also, Mary Kelly Letro from the SERVE Mobilization Team joins us again as our special guest co-host. As we look back on 10 years of the LEAD Program, we discuss the recent history of international mobilization with Campus Outreach, including our personal stories! Melanie shares statistics and stories from the field, from both LEAD staff and tenured CO staff who mobilized internationally with the NEXT program.  If you're interested, this is also our FIRST EVER VIDEO podcast! You can enjoy audio as usually or dive into the video version on your podcast service. Music by QubeSounds _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Today, we bring a special episode with a special co-host, Mary Kelly Letro from the CO SERVE Mobilization Team. Also, joining us as our guest is Derrell Mims, Campus Director at Berry College in Rome, GA. Mary Kelly and Derrell have teamed up over the past years as the Berry College staff team has made it a point to keep the nations - both going and sending - as an integral part of their campus movement. Join us to hear more about how it looks on this specific campus and how it might look on yours! Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach SERVE Mobilization Team  The Mobilization Team's mission statement is “to engage and inspire Christians to play their part in what God is doing.”Visit them at lead.campusoutreach.orgResources: 4Ds: Desire, Design, Development, DoorsSenior Transition Tool BookletMusic by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Alan Andrioni. Alan is currently on staff in Birmingham, England. However, his testimony and first years on staff trace back to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where and when both hosts, Kent Bailey and Jon Elam, were on staff. Alan shares how the missional community he experienced drew him to Christ, and how the gospel transformed not only himself, but his family, classmates, and friends. After his tenure in Brazil, Alan and his family moved to labor in England, and he shares particularities of these two contexts, both challenges and opportunities. Europe is awakening once again, and he is excited to share how the church is meeting needs. Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Lima Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Joanne Lewis, who has faithfully labored and discipled since her college days. Joanne came to Christ at the University of Montevallo in the early days of Campus Outreach and embarked on her "life of adventure”with her husband Brian Lewis (episode #60). Today, she lives in Memphis, TN, and continues to invest her time in Campus Outreach and women in ministry. Joanne's passion stems from the reality that the Lord grows us as we go, and we go as we grow. She desires to see the amazing things God will do with our availability. Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Athens Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Blake Buckman, Area Director with Campus Outreach Lexington, Kentucky. Blake is a blue-blood Kentuckian and loves to labor where his roots are strong. Blake came to faith in college through the faithful ministry of a few CO staff. His staff experience came when he felt so strongly about spending his days sharing Jesus on campus, “I can do nothing else.” Through fruitful seasons and very hard seasons, Blake boldly relies on the simplicity of the gospel and the saving grace of Jesus to continue to labor. Blake also shares about the incredible fruitfulness of CO Lexington's recent years on campus and how they strive to continue developing Christ-like laborers who can engage persuasively in any context with the good news of salvation. Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach CONNECT (click link to register) Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Sarah L., on staff with Campus Outreach Birmingham, England. Sarah shares her upbringing as a child of Campus Outreach staff, her conversion, and the first twinges of a desire to become a laborer. She shares her reflections on what it means not only to be a follower and disciple of Jesus, but also a laborer in God's harvest field. Sarah's burden is to see multiplication happen all over the world, especially among the multiple worldviews, religions, and nationalities she works with on the U.K. campus.  Sarah's passion and resolve to be a laborer can be heard when she says, "Lord, you've got to take this to the next generation, and they have to be able to multiply this to the next generation, it can't end with me!” Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach San Diego Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

This week, we are posting a message by Reverand Frank Barker from the 1999 Campus Outreach Christmas Conference, "He Is No Fool”, organized by CO Birmingham, AL. In the weeks following the 2026 CO NatCon, the missional drive that permeates Campus Outreach ministries on college campuses worldwide serves as a reminder of the impact that Rev. Barker had on the ministry in its founding and expansion. Rev. Barker's simple and authentic explanation of 5 Biblical Motives for our missional response to the gospel is compelling – "That's the greatest thing in the world,” he concludes. Enjoy this archive delivered to a previous generation and be encouraged to continue laboring today. Music by QubeSounds _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Jeff Bolger, Program Coordinator for the CO National Conference 2026. Jeff shares his testimony and his path with CO Birmingham, AL, to his current staff role and his responsibilities with the NatCon. Jeff, Kent, and Jon are excited about laying a foundation of excitement, vision, and prayer for what God has prepared for this catalytic event. Do you remember what God did in your life through a conference as a student? Have you seen God work in clear ways at a conference in the men and women in whom you are investing? Let's pray and prepare our own hearts for the amazing ways God will meet us at NatCon26. See more at www.conatcon.com  Music by QubeSounds _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Brian Lewis, Pastor of Outreach at Second Presbyterian Church in Memphis, TN. Brian spent over 30 years on staff with Campus Outreach before transitioning to pastoral ministry at the church where he served as Regional Director for Campus Outreach Memphis. Brian's fervor for evangelism and multiplying discipleship is clearly seen as he shares about his conversion, ministry experience, and current efforts to be a laborer in God's harvest field. Brian's discipleship emphasis on being in Christ and his missional drive stem from being compelled by Christ, his personal Lord and Savior. We kept every minute of his interview intact because it was too good to cut!  Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Minneapolis Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Resources: The Cross of Christ - John StottJohn Hannah - Leadership in the ChurchMusic by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate? _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Kike Astorga, Regional Director of Campus Outreach Guadalajara, Mexico. Kike is a native of Guadalajara, commonly referred to missiologically as the center of "the circle of silence” in Mexico, where only 1-2% of the population identifies as evangelical Christian. Kike's personal testimony of faith, his drive to tell others about the gospel, and being convinced to labor among his own people in Jalisco, Mexico, are inspiring to hear. Kike also shares about his family and how good the Lord has been to them in the midst of hardship. The team in Guadalajara is experiencing a movement, and God is doing much to exemplify what can happen when a ministry is dedicated to walking faithfully with Christ and developing new believers into laborers.  Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Guadalajara, Mexico. Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Grant Linneman, Tasman Network Director for Campus Outreach. Grant's testimony and experience are filled with the efforts of laborers in his own life. Now, after 20 years of laboring on staff with Uni-Impact (Campus Outreach in Australia), he invests in pastoral care of and investment into developing laborers from campus, his local church, and regional staff teams. Grant's insight into the challenges and opportunities in Australia and New Zealand is helpful for any context.  Movement Spotlight: Engage Otago/Campus Outreach Dunedin, NZ Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Samantha Roberts, International Network Women's Development Director with Campus Outreach SERVE. Samantha brings so much to our conversation about the Definition of a Laborer from her personal testimony and ministry experience. She also brings the experience of women leaders from Campus Outreach ministries. Her convictions and passion concerning seeing people as Jesus did, engaging with the “unlikelies” on campus and beyond, and walking slowly with the Holy Spirit will help anyone looking to be a laborer in God's harvest field.  Links to Samantha's podcast, “Women's Leadership Development hosted by Samantha Roberts” Apple podcastsSpotify podcastsMovement Spotlight: Campus Outreach Johannesburg Season 4 will focus on our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Music by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.

Our guest this week is Beau Hughes, Lead Pastor at The Village Church Denton in Denton, TX. As a CO hub church pastor, Beau has actively engaged with Campus Outreach staff and teams, which makes him the perfect guest to kick off Season 4 of the StaffCast as we dive into our definition of a laborer, “a person mobilized through the church to live out Christ-centered identity with Spirit-filled character, who is governed by a Biblical worldview and who engages persuasively among non-Christians with the gospel and is equipped to multiply this lifestyle in others.” Beau brings wisdom and clarity to how a dynamic church and campus ministry can work together to build laborers for a lifetime.  Movement Spotlight: Campus Outreach West Michigan Resources: Practicing the Way: https://www.practicingtheway.org/Relational Spirituality, A Psychological-Theological Paradigm for Transformation by Todd W. Hall - IVPressThe Relational Soul, Moving from False Self to Deep Connection by Richard Plass and James Cofield - IVPressThe Holy Spirit and Christian Experience by Simeon Zahl - Oxford University PressMusic by QubeSounds and Bamboo Corporate _________________ If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting service to receive new episodes as soon as they are released. Would you like to hear more stories like these? Check out our blog, which publishes stories about what God is actively doing through Campus Outreach ministries around the world. Visit serve.campusoutreach.org/blog/ The Campus Outreach StaffCast is a production of Campus Outreach SERVE. The mission of Campus Outreach is to glorify God by building laborers on the campus for the lost world. To learn more, visit www.campusoutreach.org and serve.campusoutreach.org.