Matt Mikalatos: Missionary, Teacher, Servant
moving the podcast – interview from September 17, 2013
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Matt is just a genuinely nice guy. He has a heart for service and Jesus and I think teaching. I wanted to talk to him about his work for Cru, a Christian non-profit that’s active in 191 countries across the globe. We did that, and then we did a little verbal globe-trotting ourselves! We talk about his foreign travels, how he gets paid to go to the beach on spring break, and the importance of being of service to other people.
“Instead of making myself the center of a ministry…I’m coming in as a servant
to other people and the body of Christ, and I’m saying ‘what has the Lord
put on your heart…and how can I help you accomplish that?'”
0:00 ~ writer, StoryMan, huge smiler
6:50 ~ Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ)
13:30 ~ from teacher to Cru missionary
18:45 ~ an open-ended job description
29:00 ~ What are those trips all about?
36:25 ~ life changing world travels
44:05~ two awesome travel stories
50:10 ~ “it doesn’t matter what your role is, it matters what your relationship is”
Matt explains the Atheist Support Group
Matt defines Evangelical for me and I still don’t quite get it
Connect with Matt
on his blog mikalatos.com
on Twitter @mattmikalatos
on The StoryMen podcast
References
Cru
Cru’s many Ministries
StoryMen podcast where Matt talks about his Hawaii trip
More travel tales from The StoryMen podcast (a favorite episode of mine!)
JR. Forasteros
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