On Mission

Dec 10 2024 101 ep. 49 mins 34
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On Mission is a podcast that explores personal mission in the lives of leaders in ministry, community, and business. Each episode features a leader dedicated to pursuing a life of excellence, service, and eternal significance.

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S9E8 | Aria Saunders

Dec 10 2024 43 mins  
Sometimes personal needs direct career choices, as MBU Assistant Professor Aria Saunders explains in this podcast episode. Aria pursued a master’s degree in science and biomedical engineering with an emphasis in assistive technologies and served as research coordinator in a lab specializing in developing medical equipment for people with disabilities. She focused her research pri

S9 Ep 7 | Dan Pelletier

Nov 19 2024 49 mins  
Ministry often includes the unexpected, as Pastor Dan Pelletier recounts in this episode of On Mission podcast. Having served from the East Coast of the United States to a tiny island in Micronesia, Dan’s heart is entrenched in youth and Christian camp ministries. However, when a conference center he directed closed, the Lord provided lodging in the steeple of Hamilton Square Bap

S9 Ep 6 | Jon Bladine

Oct 29 2024 48 mins  
Dr. Matt Davis welcomes Jon Bladine, Director of Longview Camp in Arcade, New York, as his guest on this episode of On Mission. Jon discusses how the Lord guided him to camp ministry, the skills that have been beneficial, and those he had to acquire, as well as the challenge of revitalizing a struggling ministry. Out of college, Jon had plans to be a missionary pilot; his journey m

S9 Ep 5 | Scott Nupson

Oct 22 2024 52 mins  
Join Dr. Matt Davis as he talks with retired chaplain Lt. Col. Scott Nupson on this episode of On Mission. Mr. Nupson represents the Associated Gospel Churches Chaplaincy, a tool of the local church to endorse and send chaplains into limited access institutions (all branches of the military, Civil Air Patrol, Veterans Affairs, police, fire, federal prisons) in order to share the go

S9 Ep 4 | Jarid Lawson

Oct 15 2024 47 mins  
In this episode of On Mission, Dr. Matt Davis gets to know 2010 graduate and MBU's new assistant athletic director and soccer coach, Jarid Lawson. In the fourteen years since graduating college, the Lord has kept the Lawson family on the move: from student teaching and meeting his wife in Missouri, to teaching, coaching and starting a family in Arizona, to Montana to be near family

S9 Ep 3 | Sarah Urban

Oct 08 2024 46 mins  
Dr. Matt Davis talks with Maranatha’s own nursing faculty member, Dr. Sarah Urban, on this episode of On Mission. With years of experience as a nurse, Dr. Urban has dedicated herself to nursing education, driven by the goal of training nurse leaders. Dr. Urban talks about the satisfaction of teaching and the excitement of watching her students succeed in the healthcare field. She

S9 Ep 2 | David Canedy

Sep 24 2024 39 mins  
In this episode of On Mission, Dr. Matt Davis sits down with Dr. David Canedy, Deputation Director of Baptist World Mission (BWM). A former accountant, Dr. Canedy’s professional skills and pastoral gifts have been faithfully utilized by God in his current position to assist local churches in sending out missionaries. He discusses the process of missionary deputizing and board app

S9 Ep 1 | Ron Perry

Sep 17 2024 56 mins  
On this episode of On Mission, Dr. Matt Davis speaks with Pastor Ron Perry of Faith Baptist Church in Folsom, California. Pastor Perry shares poignant life lessons from his experience as a pastor, police chaplain, husband, and father. One key he shared is the involvement of his wife and their entire family in church ministry. Pastor Perry shares his unique gifting of relational she

S8 Ep 8 | Mark Cover

Jul 23 2024 50 mins  
In this episode of On Mission, Dr. Matt Davis speaks with Mark Cover, Co-CEO at Hines in Houston, Texas, where he has spent his career overseeing real estate acquisition, development and operations for Hines’ Southwest Region. Mr. Cover shares insights from working across cultures to build everything from community apartment complexes to billion-dollar stadiums; and how his uniqu

S8 Ep7 | Randell Gillespie

Jul 16 2024 47 mins  
In his second appearance in the On Mission podcast, Randell Gillespie, chief production officer for Thrive Mortgage and member of the Maranatha Board of Trustees, sits down with Dr. Matt Davis to talk about how his mission in life has evolved after parenting nine children, and the different ways the Lord has led as he and his wife plan for an empty nest. Gillespie shares heart-warm