Mission Connect is a podcast brought to you by Passion to Reach Ministries. This podcast will help you connect with God's mission for your life and help you connect others to their mission. Host Pastor Finu Iype will discuss biblical truths and practical keys that will empower you to live out your mission. You will be challenged and encouraged as guests on the show share their incredible stories of discovering God’s mission for their lives and how they have been able to help others do the sa ...
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MCP 66: Colin McCartney on how he launched Urban Promise Toronto and on engaging young adults for mission
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Colin McCartney will inspire you to get moving! He shares his incredible story of launching Urban Promise Toronto, an urban missions ministry that is impacting the lives of thousands of young people in the Greater Toronto Area. Colin’s passion today is to engage young adults for the mission of God and to plant churches in the GTA…
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MCP 65: Tim Barnett on Apathy, Apologetics and Divine Unrest
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Tim Barnett shares his amazing journey of going from a high school kid who didn’t have a defense for his Christian Faith to being a full-time Apologist, defending God’s truth to audiences across the United States and Canada. Tim’s story of stepping out of a comfortable teaching position in Toronto to pursue the mission of his life is a testament to…
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MCP 64: Crystal Lavallee on why fulfilling your mission will require a few doses of crazy faith
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Crystal Lavallee’s journey to fulfilling her mission is a fascinating story of what God can do when you are willing to take steps of faith that may not make sense in the natural realm. Her tenacity, determination and unwavering faith in the God who called her influence and impact Canadian culture, is a lesson in how to fully commit to the will of G…
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MCP 63: Tony Soldano on Overcoming Fear on the Road to Fulfilling Destiny
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Dr. Tony Soldano’s story is one of perseverance and following the call of God in spite of past failures. From a young boy paralyzed by fear and unable to succeed academically to the Dean of Leadership at a College today, his journey of discovering God’s mission for his life will inspire you to press through, regardless of the obstacles you face on …
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MCP 62: Dr. Kevin Harney on mobilizing Christians for Organic Outreach
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In this episode of the Mission Connect Podcast, Dr. Kevin HArney shares his amazing journey of coming to faith in Christ and his insatiable desire to see people around him experience salvation. From how he led his entire family to Jesus to how he mobilized unengaged, disinterested Churches to reach thousands of people with the gospel. Kevin’s passi…
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MCP 61: Faytene Grasesschi on being a voice to the nation
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In this episode of the Mission Connect Podcast, Faytene Grasesschi shares her incredible journey of coming to faith in Jesus and being ignited to be a voice for God in her generation and to the nation of Canada. Fayetene shares from her heart about developing a passion for the mission of God for your life through prayer and surrender. She challenge…
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MCP 60: James Kelly on the intersection of faith and technology
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In this episode, we talk to James Kelly, founder of Faith Tech Hub. Faith Tech is a startup that’s helping bridge the gap between faith and technology. James shares his amazing journey of someone who was not from the ‘tech’ community called to lead a network of Christian technology professionals in cities across North America, with plans to expand …
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MCP 59: Playing on God's Team and Reaching the World
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**RE-BROADCAST** Pastor Alan George is the Online Campus Pastor at Life.Church in the USA. They are one of the fastest growing churches and have campuses all over the world. He shares his incredible story of salvation and how God is using him to reach the world and empower others to live out their call! He is also one of our guest speakers at our G…
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MCP 58: Emily’s Announcement Podcast
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Important announcement from our co-host Emily James! Emily, is our director of development and training here at Passion to Reach Ministries and the co-host of Mission Connect Podcast. In this episode she shares exciting news about her first book that will be published soon and the launch of a ministry God laid on her heart, Multipliers Leadership. …
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MCP 57: Turning your pain into your purpose and fulfilling God’s mission
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*Repost: MCP 3* In this episode our special guest , Alicia Johnson is a certified social worker, and youth leader. Alicia shares her testimony, of the pain she experienced in her past and how she turned it into her purpose of reaching and comforting those who have gone through similar situations. Listen to find out more about how Alicia drew closer…
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MCP 56: Robert Dickson on how a gangster was transformed by the gospel
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In this episode of Mission Connect former gang member Robert Dickson shares his powerful testimony on how God transformed his life. From a life of drugs, guns, and crime Robert reveals how he encountered Jesus and was forever changed. He delves into how God loves all people and can redeem you from the consequences of your past and restore you to Hi…
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MCP 55: Craig Kraft on his journey to becoming Executive Director of Outreach Canada, a national and international missions ministry, and keys to reaching Canadians with the gospel.
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Craig Kraft is the Executive Director of Outreach Canada, an organization that works across the nation to impact local churches and make disciples. Craig shares his journey of discovering God’s mission for his life including serving as a missionary in Africa. Craig shares great insight and wisdom on how we can take practical, small wins and win bac…
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MCP 54: Kerri Persaud on discovering your mission in everyday moments
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If you have a sense that you are called to serve in Christian ministry this podcast will encourage and inspire you to abandon fear and embrace the call of God over your life. Kerri’s story will challenge you to invest your life in fulfilling God’s mission and leaving an eternal legacy!Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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MCP 53: Leading Change with Pastor Brendan Witton
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In this episode of Mission Connect, we discuss leading change in the church with Brendan Witton, Lead Pastor of Toronto City Church. He gives incredible insight and practical tools to millennials about leading change in a culture of honor, while challenging Pastors and church leaders to provide opportunities to a new generation of leaders…
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MCP 52: How To Impact The World By Investing In One Life At A Time
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In this episode, Pauline shares powerful stories that happen when we take the time to invest in others. She shares important keys that will empower us to be able to fulfill God’s great commission- make disciples!Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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MCP 51: Cheryl Walker on How To Fuel Your Dreams With Courageous Compassion and Changing The Lives of Orphans in Congo
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This podcast is a must listen! Cheryl Walker, Director of Mwana Villages, an organization that works in the Republic of Congo rescuing and caring for the widows, and orphans, shares her powerful testimony with us! Make sure to listen in and stay tuned for an awesome special on our Missional Academy courses!!…
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MCP 50: Questions for God with Jonathan Gallo
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In this episode, Jonathan Gallo, Executive Pastor at Central Community Church in St. Catherines, Ontario gives us incredible insight on how asking questions can lead us to the true revelation of God and His purpose for our lives. Get ready to be challenged, inspired and moved to take action towards your God given mission!…
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MCP 49: Hope for The Canadian Church-Mark Clark
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Re-published episode (MCP33): Our guest Pastor Mark Clark gives a charge to the local church, pastors, leaders, and all believers to live on mission for God; to have a radical change in our lives, sacrificial living, and to be culturally relevant.Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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MCP 48: Reaching Muslims with Renod Bejjani
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Renod was persecuted by Muslims as a young boy for being a Christian, and today he is on a mission to reach the Muslim community to share the love of God with them.Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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MCP 47: Finding Truth with Kimone Clunis
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Our special guest, a close friend and our co-worker, Kimone Clunis was there. She was looking for fulfilment and meaning but in all the wrong places. One day she began an incredible journey to finding freedom in God’s truth.Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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MCP 46: Jump in with Jennifer Dean
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This episode of Mission Connect is with Jennifer Dean, leader, wife, mother and disciple! She empowers us to jump into God's mission for our lives by living out bold and practical faith on a daily basis! Make sure to check out this powerful episode of Mission Connect!Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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MCP 45: Overcoming Your Past to Move Forward
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We all have a past. Some worst than others, but all of us have done things we may not be proud of. Pastor Finu and Emily share profound keys to overcoming your past, and moving forward into God’s mission for your life with integrity, joy and passion!Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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MCP 44: Multiplication with Pastor Nick Klinkenberg
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In this episode of Mission Connect, we have a guest all the way from New Zealand! Pastor Nick Klinkenberg is a pastor, husband, father, leader and church planter.Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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** Re-Broadcast ** Have you ever felt like you weren’t good enough? Did you ever think no way I could achieve that? Well Jason Persaud was that kid that was picked last for everything, yet God has a destiny for his life. It took some incredible people that saw potential in him that kickstarted Jason to move into all that God had called him too! Lis…
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MCP 41: Reaching your Community with Shawn James
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Shawn James, Executive director of Urban Promise Toronto shares his powerful story of how God took him full circle from growing up in government assisted housing, desperately seeking God admist difficult circumstances and yet passionately pursuing God and how he can reach the people right where he was! Now Executive Director of Urban Promise and as…
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MCP 40: Hands and feet of Jesus with Sam Beaulieu
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This powerful episode of Mission Connect is with Pastor Sam Beaulieu, Lead pastor of a church here in the GTA. Years ago he found himself homeless, struggling with addictions and in the party life but empty handed, with nothing. A stranger who decided to be the hands and feet of Jesus and changed the course of Pastor Sam’s life! Now he is living on…
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MCP 39: Storytelling Through the Process
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Drew Brown is a singer, songwriter and producer. Winner of Covenant Awards and a Juno nomination, he takes us on his journey of discovering who he is in Christ by using His gift of storytelling through music. Drew desires for those influenced by his music to understand you don’t have to have it all together to inspire people. Write what God has pla…
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In this episode of Mission Connect Sara Brown, a Funeral Celebrant, discusses how she came through a process of discovering God’s call that brought her to place of dedicating her life to comforting those who have lost loved ones. As a funeral celebrant she has discovered deep truths about waiting on God, and keeping your eyes focused on Him even in…
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MCP 37: Courageous and Creative Leadership
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Chris Vacher, Pastor of Sites and Services at C4 church, a vibrant and growing church in the Durham Region gives us incredible insight on how God takes our ordinary and transforms who we are so that we live according to His purposes. Pastor Chris shares some powerful keys on how to live missionally by living a faithful and courageously. Through his…
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In this episode of Mission Connect we interview financial coach and teacher, Mike Crofts. We know living missionally requires every part of our life and that includes our finances! Mike, gives us some incredible keys on developing good financial habits so that we are ready and equipped to not allow the lack of finances to hold us back from taking t…
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MCP 35: One of the greatest hindrances to fully living out God's mission
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In this episode our hosts Pastor Finu and Emily discuss one of the greatest obstacles to reaching the lost, discipling people and growing closer to the Lord. Make sure to listen in to his episode to discover this obstacle and learn practical steps we can take to ensure we are using it for God's purposes.…
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MCP 34: When you seek Me, You will find Me
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Pastor Ray grew up a Sikh, he followed the practices, played the part but never felt truly fulfilled. He went on a quest to discover if there is a God and who he truly is? All roads led back to the one-one true living God. When he met a believer who lived fulfilled in his purpose and life following God, he discovered the answer for himself! Pastor …
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MCP 33: Hope for The Canadian Church-Mark Clark
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This is an episode not to miss! Our guest Pastor Mark Clark gives a charge to the local church, pastors, leaders, and all believers to live on mission for God; to have a radical change in our lives, sacrificial living, and to be culturally relevant.Oleh Passion to Reach Ministries
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MCP 32: Playing on God's Team and Reaching the World
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Pastor Alan George is the Online Campus Pastor at Life.Church in the USA. They are one of the fastest growing churches and have campuses all over the world. He shares his incredible story of salvation and how God is using him to reach the world and empower others to live out their call! He is also one of our guest speakers at our GO Conference comi…
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In this episode of mission connect our hosts Pastor Finu and Emily discuss how our individual missions are connected to God's greater mission. We have had the opportunity to hear from so many incredible followers of Christ whose life have been redeemed from the saving power of Christ and are now pursuing their mission in light of God's great missio…
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MCP 30: Empowering a Generation of Vocational Ministers
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Andrew Jones knew the call on his life to be a Pastor from a young age, he shares his incredible story about the journey of discovering his call in vocational ministry and how he desires to see this next generation pursue their call! He has an incredible gift to empower the young people around him to preach, teach and reach all those in their area …
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Jerry was all about a fast paced life! He loved fast cars, fast bikes, and a fast lifestyle yet he was empty and broken inside. He filled his life with things that left him unfulfilled. Now Jerry is a successful business owner, leading one of the largest motorcycle shops in Ontario, where he is listening to the voice of God, and has seen countless …
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Have you ever felt like you knew the calling and promise of God in your life but yet the promise remained unfulfilled? The pain and hurt of waiting or unfulfillment can cause discouragement and even anger. But God, He hears our every cry, our every heart’s desire. Sometimes in our greatest disappointment, comes our greatest reward. Listen to Laura,…
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Jerome, is a singer, songwriter and worship team coach. He recently released a single and is leading and training worship leaders! His desire is to see worship rise up from people, and heal and restore them to Christ! Jerome gets real and honest with us about his painful past and how he came to understand His identity and security in Christ through…
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Special guest, Lorna McDougall, founder and director of Durham House of Prayer and an incredible voice for the nation of Canada, shares about her journey of “jumping in”., usually in the deep end, into all that God called her too! She shares on the importance of mentorship, and pouring into the next generation of leaders! Don’t miss her powerful pr…
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Tresha Iype, Coordinator of Volunteers for the Region of Peel, originally from Guyana, but grew up in Trinidad shares her story about how God took care of her through the community of people she encountered in her small town, during times of being poor and parentless. She now desires to see people in her current community receive the same care and …
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James Ahola, Sales Manager shares his testimony of how he connected to God’s mission for his life and now uses the grace and love he receives from the Father to minister in the marketplace. He empowers and encourages his team, at the same time as using every opportunity to minister as the Holy Spirit leads. If you are serving in a secular job and w…
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Michelle is a speaker, youth pastor and PK! She shares her story about growing in a stable and Christian home, but learning to discover God for herself. She shares some incredible keys about intimacy with the Lord, staying connected to your local Church body, and how that plays an important role in your destiny, and how every generation has a part …
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MCP 21: Taking great risks, seeing God’s faithfulness
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Is it hard sometimes to trust God? Do you feel like you hold back if there are great risks involved? Have you missed a calling because you hesitated to step out in faith? Rohit, a business owner and originally from India, shares his testimony about making incredibly difficult, life changing and risk-taking decisions because they felt God leading th…
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Sean James shares his powerful testimony of how he connected to God through his wife! For years God was trying to get his attention but he ignored it all! His wife, a believer prayed for years for his salvation. Running as far away from God as possible , God got a hold of his life through multiple people. God is always pursuing us! Now Sean, is a c…
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MCP 19: It can’t get much worse! But God!
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**Viewer discretion is advised! Well not really but this is a seriously powerful testimony of hearing about a life that seemed so far from God. If Rafer had continued in the same path of his past, he would most likely be in prison or dead. He was living a life of crime, lust, and horrible choices. But God! But God took him out of the ashes through …
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Emily James, our Director of Training and Development, shares her testimony on being “playing church” growing up, getting into the party scene, to hearing God call her out from her mess, into what He had destined for her life. She moves from a past of guilt and shame in the grace of God and now is living out her mission, and working with churches a…
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MCP 17: From Witchcraft to Born Again Believer
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On this episode of mission connect Vash shares with us his testimony on being deep into witchcraft and other religions, so far from God, so poor that he had to eat dog food, and how God one day miraculously saved him from his messy life through a Men’s event! Vash now serves at his church, is a leader for young adult men and has done incredibly wel…
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MCP 16: A phone call that turned a Hindu into an Evangelist
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Worried for her children, Sajanth’s mother went looking for answers, because of her Hindu religion she went looking to an astrologer, but God had other plans! That phone call changed an entire family. Listen to this episode of Mission Connect to find out how Sajanth went from being a Hindu to an evangelist and Assistant Pastor!…
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Have you ever felt like you weren’t good enough? Did you ever think no way I could achieve that? Well Jason Persaud was that kid that was picked last for everything, yet God has a destiny for his life. It took some incredible people that saw potential in him that kickstarted Jason to move into all that God had called him too! Listen to this podcast…
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