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- speaker-0: Hey, welcome back to the Ethnos 360 Podcast. My name is Annette Kenzora and I'm one of the hosts of our Real People Real Stories show. As we kick off season two here, we really just wanted to stop and take a minute and introduce ourselves as the hosts and give you a little bit more perspective of the heart behind each one of our shows and why we have three separate shows underneath one Ethnos 360 podcast umbrella. So I'm gonna pass it over to Alan to introduce himself and the Bible admissions podcast. So Alan, take it away. speaker-1: Okay. So my name is Alan McDowell, and one of my favorite things about growing up overseas was hearing the stories from different missionaries and what God's been doing in their lives and how they've been impacting people around them. And so when I went to Bible college, on top of hearing more missionary stories, I got to talk with the different teachers at the Bible college to answer some of my theological questions. And so with my podcast, the Bible and Missions Podcast. We get the best of both worlds and we get to talk to different missionaries and also talk to different teachers and dive into some theological topics that hopefully you'll be interested in. All right. speaker-2: So next, then Keith Copley, and I've had the privilege of being with Ethnos 360 for 26 years, which is pretty cool. And 22 of those years, we lived overseas and got to be a practitioner in a church plant, learning language, culture, all that fun stuff. And then I also got to be a field leader and been in lots of different roles of leadership over the the years. And so I really feel like God's given us an opportunity to see kind of different angles of our organization and what we do and why we do it the way we do it. And I I really feel like we have the opportunity over the years I to be thought leaders and I like that idea. So this year I'm looking forward to talking about kind of the nuts and bolts of why we do things the way we do. So I have some some good topics picked out, some good guests picked out. we'll talk about things like AI and where it can be used and where it absolutely cannot be used in any way, shape or form. We'll talk about literacy, we'll talk about orality, we'll talk about worldview change, we'll talk about academia versus discipleship. What are we going for? So all those kinds of things. We'll hopefully get into some debates a bit, but also help people understand why we do things the way we do things in our organization. So looking forward to it. speaker-0: Okay, awesome. and for the real people, real stories show I guess I'll talk about myself first. my husband and I have been with the organization for thirteen years. we lived in Columbia for two and a half years and God ultimately directed us back to the States. so we've been here at the home office for about nine years and I really felt like the Lord was really laying on my heart the fact that Athmas three sixty doesn't have a podcast and it's such an important space to be in where we get to share stories and get to dig into questions that you just you don't get to answer all the time. So I had brought the idea of a podcast up to our communication director at the time and we just didn't have the personnel for it. We didn't have it just wasn't the right time. And so she asked me to join the team in a different capacity and I did. but just kept pushing. Hey, what do you think about a podcast? What do you think about a podcast? And so it's been a labor of love trying to get this out there to you all. And I think really the heart behind the real people, real stories is every single person has a story. And missionaries aren't these super virtual, super talented, whatever. We are just regular people. And so being able to get with a bunch of different missionaries who have had very different life experiences, but God has met each one of us in amazing ways. And just being able to hear those stories and be impacted and blessed, like man, we just wanna share that with anybody and everybody who we can. So That's a little bit about the real people real stories. So I think really these we there was so many neat ideas of okay, the Bible school having a podcast and the ELT, our leadership team really wanting a podcast of why Ethnos 360 does things the way we do and differently. But also, man, we need those real life stories. And so like I think all three of these shows are really necessary and it's really cool that we've been able to pull them all together. so that if you're looking for more of the just the nitty-gritty how we do things, Keith's podcast is where you go, or if you really want to hear the big broad spectrum, that would be Alan's podcast. Or if you have a a long time where you really want to sit and hear someone's testimony, that will be the real people real story. So we hope that this blesses you guys. That's our the heart behind it that we all have is just really the heart to see the unreach reached and to give everybody more information about that. speaker-2: A little bit we're all trying to we're all trying to do the same thing, right? At the end of the day we're trying to glorify God and point people towards Jesus. Yeah. But I think we're doing that in three different ways and coming at it from three different angles. So I think you'll find something for everybody. Yeah. speaker-0: Absolutely. So we hope that clarifies why we have the three different shows. And Alan and Keith, thank you guys for joining me here in the studio. Yeah, of course. so we'll be dropping a new episode every Tuesday, just like we have for our last season. So make sure that you subscribe to wherever you find your podcasts and so that you don't miss anything. And yeah, thanks for listening. Mm.