How to Pray for the World and Learn from the Global Church | Becoming a Global Disciple Ep. 3
What would change if your prayers became as wide as God’s mission?
Janet Sewell and Joe Handley explore two essential practices for global discipleship: global prayer and global learning. Learn how to pray for believers around the world, for the lost, and for those in authority—and how listening to the global church can deepen your faith, expand your perspective, and make you more like Jesus.
Global discipleship is not just about going. It is about growing.
Episode 3 of Becoming a Global Disciple
A Lausanne Movement series on prayer, learning, and following Jesus with the global church.
Episode Outline
00:00 Opening
01:04 Practice Global Prayer
01:52 Prayer is not just for us
02:28 Two practices for global discipleship
03:15 Aligning our hearts with God’s heart
03:42 God’s vision is personal and global
04:45 We learn to love what we pray for
05:50 A house of prayer for all nations
06:16 Where do we start with global prayer?
06:37 Pray for believers around the world
08:29 Pray for those who do not know Jesus
09:47 Pray for those in authority
11:19 Build a global prayer rhythm
12:21 Pray for God’s world
13:08 Practice Global Learning
13:28 The danger of cultural blinders
14:21 Learning from the global church
15:13 From everywhere to everywhere
16:09 How to learn from the global church
17:30 Global discipleship is about growing
17:45 Final challenge and takeaways
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Speakers' Bios
Janet Sewell
Director of Gathering Support
Janet serves as the Director of Gathering Support for the Lausanne Movement and serves on the regional leadership team for Lausanne Europe.
Janet spent 14 years in Greece as a missionary with Hellenic Ministries where she worked as an event coordinator, IT support, sailor, photographer, sound engineer, and web developer.
She holds an MA in Contemporary Missiology with a European focus where she researched missiology and ecclesiology within virtual reality. She is also a graduate of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and holds a CTPS from Oxford University.
Now based in London, Janet and her husband, Mehran, are engaged in church planting among Iranians. Her passion is to see lives transformed by Christ throughout Europe.
Joseph W Handley, Jr.
Catalyst for Leadership Development
Joseph W Handley, Jr is the president of Asian Access. Previously he was the founding director of Azusa Pacific University’s Office of World Mission and lead mission pastor at Rolling Hills Covenant Church. He co-led one of the first multi-national high school mission congresses in Mexico City in 1996 and is a contributing blogger for the Billy Graham Center’s Gospel-Life Blog. Joe serves as co-catalyst for the Lausanne Movement in leadership development and on the advisory teams for the Nozomi Project, BiblicalTraining.org, and DualReach, as well as on the board for ReIgnite Hope. Joe strives to accelerate leaders for mission movements. Learn more about Joe: https://www.asianaccess.org/senior-leaders/bio-joe-handley