The Reflexio Podcast

Mona Alber’s life took a turn she could never have fully anticipated when God drew her from a promising engineering career in Egypt to serving Arabic-speaking immigrants in Spain. In this conversation, she reflects on the calling that brought her and her husband, Hany, to Europe more than three decades ago.
Mona shares the joys and challenges of crossing cultures and building community among people who are living far from home. Her story offers a personal glimpse of the changing face of global mission—and how simple acts of hospitality can open unexpected doors.
In this episode, we also explore the harder parts of that journey: financial uncertainty, chronic pain, and learning to trust God amid uncertainty. With warmth and honesty, Mona reflects on a life of faith and the blessings of God.
 
Related Resources
Come Walk With Me: A Journey of Joy on God's Uncharted Road
by Mona Alber (On Amazon.com)
Evangelism and the problem of the gap: Christian Presentation vs. Community Perception
by Hany Fouad (On Amazon.com)
Ministry website: Arab Ministries in Spain
Chapters:
00:00:00 From Egypt to Spain: Meet Mona Alber00:03:00 Leaving a Promising Career to Follow God’s Call00:06:58 Starting Over: Language, Culture Shock, and Prejudice00:14:30 How an Open Home Became a Community Ministry00:17:43 Helping Immigrant Women Find Hope and Belonging00:26:37 A Church That Becomes a Family Far from Home00:29:45 Discipleship and Generosity Amid Everyday Struggles00:34:00 Trusting God When the Money Isn’t There00:44:33 Global Mission: From Everywhere to Everywhere00:52:23 We’re Not Called to Be Heroes00:55:29 Serving God While Living with Chronic Pain00:58:48 Raising Up Immigrant Leaders and Staying Fruitful

Pastor Samuel Ayodele shares his journey from rural Nigeria, to a career in banking, to a challenge from Jesus to live as a true Kingdom person. 
God’s call on his life led him to establish the Rural Pastors Network, an initiative that equips indigenous pastors in northern Nigeria with encouragement, training, resources, and vision for church planting among unreached people groups. He explains how he discovered a disconnect between churches and the communities they served, inspiring him to develop new ways of engaging unreached and Muslim-majority communities through practical, holistic development. 
Throughout the episode, Samuel shares stories of miraculous healings, supernatural provision, and unexpected open doors that have advanced ministry in resistant communities. The conversation closes with practical encouragement from Pastor Samuel for young people to trust God to expand their influence. 
His is a story of surrender, resilience, innovation, and hope—a reminder that God can use faithful obedience to bring transformation to individuals, churches, and entire communities.
Links:
Centre for Human and Community Development
Facebook: Centre for Human and Community Development
LinkedIn: Centre for Human and Community Development
Upcoming Summit Nov 5 - 7, 2026: Global Professionals Summit 2026 - Abuja
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Welcome and Meet Samuel Ayodele00:03:51 Rural Roots and an Early Call to Ministry00:09:13 Leaving Banking to Follow God’s Call00:18:58 Prayer, Research, and a New Ministry Vision00:27:27 Community Development Opens Doors to Muslim Communities00:29:02 Equipping Faithful Leaders Through the Rural Pastors Network00:34:19 Supporting Pastors’ Children and Strengthening Families00:37:28 Reaching Unreached Neighbors and Planting Churches00:44:46 Gospel Hope Amid Violence in Northern Nigeria00:50:37 Stories of Protection, Provision, and Answered Prayer00:58:44 Five Foundations for Personal and Ministry Growth01:01:58 Following God’s Call: Mentorship, Obedience, and Starting Where You Are
 

In Addis Ababa, Abrham Asres serves in the midst of immense needs, including children and teenagers living on the streets and women facing unplanned pregnancies. His work takes place amid a widespread abortion industry with few local Christian ministries offering alternatives for women in crisis. He shares how he seeks to meet women with conversation, practical help, housing, work opportunities, medical connections, prayer, and ongoing care for both mothers and children.
Abrham knows pain and desperation firsthand. Orphaned as a child, drawn into destructive habits as a teenager, and nearly overcome by despair while alone in Sudan, he describes how God met him, gave him a new direction, and taught him to care for people in crisis.
Today, supporting himself as an Uber driver, he responds when women, doctors, and families call for help. In this candid conversation, Abrham shares stories of mothers who chose life, children restored to families, and the ongoing need for Christians to pray, speak up, and provide compassionate, practical care.
Links:
If anyone would like to support his ministry or connect with Abrham, his U.S. church, friends, and family support the ministry through We Love Life America. 
To donate online to support Abrham's ministry click on this link.
Abrham's contact information: ✉️ Abrhamaasres@outlook.com
 
The article linked below is a radical pro-abortion propaganda piece that mentions the work of Abrham and has a picture of his Uber car with the “Pray to end abortion in Ethiopia” sign on the back. Reading it will give insight into how pro-abortionist view abortion and how they see pro-life people as an evil threat to women’s rights!
Fertile Ground - The Rising Anti-Abortion Movement in Ethiopia: A Threat to Women's Rights

In this episode of Reflexio, Don Little welcomes Feruza, an Uzbek follower of Jesus whose life has been shaped by a searching faith, a love for language, and an extraordinary calling. Listen for a deeply personal testimony and encouraging wisdom for anyone seeking to follow God faithfully.
Feruza reflects on her early years in Uzbekistan, the questions that would not leave her alone, and the encounters God used to introduce her to the Bible. Her story is one of courage, discovery, and the grace of God at work in unexpected ways.
She also offers a window into the vital work of Bible translation: why Scripture in a person’s heart language matters, what it takes to serve translation teams, and how God continues to work across Eurasia. Today she is a mother-tongue translation consultant, helping Muslim communities receive Scripture in their heart languages to discover a God who says, “I see you!”
Links to the Uzbek Bible and Feruza's Ministry Organizations
Uzbek Bible Online: https://ibt.org.ru/muqaddas-kitob
The Uzbek Bible App on iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/uz/app/muqaddas-kitob/id1234998557
The Ubeck Bible App for Android Phones: 
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ibt.uzbek.muqaddas.kitob.kirill.sab&hl=ru
SIL’s Eurasia ministry: https://global.sil.org/regions/eurasia/
Pioneer Bible Translators: https://pioneerbible.org/

What does it mean to follow Jesus without leaving your heritage behind? Bob Mendelsohn, a Messianic Jewish leader with Jews for Jesus, joins Don to recount his search for belonging amid the turbulence of the 1960s—and the encounter with Yeshua that changed everything.
Bob reflects on a lifetime of sharing the gospel with Jewish people around the world, offering moving stories of patient witness, unexpected faith, and God’s work in individual lives.
Together, Don and Bob explore Jewish context in Scripture, the significance of Jerusalem, and how followers of Jesus can pursue unity across deep cultural and political divides.
To explore more about Bob and his ministry visit him online:
His website
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube
Blogger
On X
Jews for Jesus website
Jewish Testimonies
On Vision Radio

Kamal Fahmi grew up in a devout Sudanese Christian family but describes his early faith as cultural rather than personal. During his teenage years, a youth conference inspired by the "Jesus Revolution" led him to genuinely surrender his life to Christ and initiated a clear call to full-time ministry, beginning with a 20-month voyage aboard the Operation Mobilization ship Logos through Asia and the Middle East.
Kamal went on to minister in Sudan for nearly two decades and later served for 15 years as OM's Middle East area coordinator. Throughout the region he witnessed firsthand the devastating toll of Islamic apostasy and blasphemy laws—believers imprisoned, tortured, or executed simply for changing their faith, including martyrs like Mehdi Dibaj in Iran.
These experiences led Kamal to establish Set My People Free, an advocacy ministry appealing to the Arab League, EU, and UN for the religious freedoms guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While 11 countries still impose the death penalty for leaving Islam, Kamal notes progress such as Sudan’s abolition of its apostasy laws.
Kamal urges listeners to pray, advocate, and use your resources to pressure governments—framing the cause as both a political battle for human rights and a spiritual battle for the persecuted church.
Set My People Free on:
Facebook
Their Website
Linked In
Medium
An interview with Hulda Fahmi, the International Director of Set my People Free, and Kamal's daughter.
To join the Set My People Free Network fill out this FORM.

In this stirring Reflexio conversation, Pastor Samir shares remarkable stories of faith and transformation from across the Arab world. He describes how Christ meets people through fearless friendships and costly discipleship–even amid social opposition and persecution.
You’ll hear moving testimonies of Muslims encountering Jesus, believers growing through suffering, and churches learning to serve their communities with wisdom and love. Pastor Samir explains how love, patience and humility open hearts in ways arguments and debates never can. He urges Christians to focus on relationships, prayer, and the beauty of Jesus’ character rather than winning theological battles. 
In addition, Pastor Samir offers practical insight on how Western Christians can pray, partner, and listen humbly to what God is already doing in the Middle East. 

Bishop Yassir Eric grew up hostile to Christianity, viewing it as a foreign, Western religion. In this episode, he shares how Jesus met him through the miraculous healing of his cousin in a hospital. An eight‑hour late‑night conversation with Coptic believers led to a simple prayer expressing faith in Christ that began his lifelong journey of discipleship.
Forced to flee for his life after coming to Christ, Yassir describes losing his community, finding a new spiritual family with German missionaries in Kenya, and eventually moving to Germany to study theology and plant churches.  
Bishop Eric explains why leaving Islam is never just changing beliefs; it often means losing family, community, and identity. Many believers of Muslim background are deeply isolated and without a church home. The burden of this reality led to the formation of Ekkios, a non‑geographical global church network that connects believers of Muslim background across languages and regions.
Along with challenging the church in the West to a higher Christology, he urges the global church to pray daily for the Muslim world, to welcome believers of Muslim background into genuine fellowship, and to trust that Jesus is building his church in the midst of war, suffering, and the long-standing conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.  
Links:
Ekkios on Facebook
Ekkios Website
The Ekkios App - access to resources
Yassir Eric on the Global Anglican’s (Gafcom) site (scroll down a little)
Email contact: info@ekkios.com
An article about Bishop Yassir Eric in Christianity Today: I Was the Enemy Jesus Told You to Love
Yassir’s Autobiography in German. Hass gelernt, Liebe erfahren. Vom Islamisten zum Brückenbauer (Learned Hatred, Experienced Love. From Islamist to Bridge‑Builder)
Eric’s Testimony Video on YouTube: I Lost Everything to Follow Jesus… And Found Life
Yassir speaks at a Missions Conference in 2026. Mission Conference 2026 - Yassir Eric
 
Bank Details, for donations: 
EKKIOS - IBAN: DE32520604100005039355
BIC: GENODEF1EK1, Evangelische Bank
 
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In this episode of Reflexio, Don talks with Samir, an Afghan follower of Jesus whose story runs from rockets falling on Kabul to long, TikTok conversations about the gospel with hundreds of Afghans around the world. 
Samir talks about how Christ met his whole family in their desperation, freed him from the fear of death, and eventually called him out of a promising political career and into ministry. Samir reaches thousands of Afghans, both Muslims and ex-Muslims, through TikTok and Facebook live shows, engaging in open dialogue about faith, theology, and hope—even as he faces death threats on a weekly basis.
This is an exciting yet sobering window into what God is doing among Afghans today—and an invitation to carry Afghanistan on our hearts in prayer.
LINKS for follow up:Lumens of Truth website
Lumens of Truth on TikTok
Lumens of Truth on Facebook
Lumens of Truth on YouTube
Lumens of Truth's Blog  
The Afghan Journal of Theology
Afghan Worship Songs 
Support Lumens of Truth
 
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In this insightful episode of the Reflexio Podcast, Don speaks with Rev. Dr. Mark Durie about his journey from a childhood in Papua New Guinea to a career in academic linguistics and eventually to pastoral ministry in Melbourne, Australia. Mark shares pivotal spiritual encounters, including experiences of personal deliverance and ministering to those with troubled backgrounds, highlighting the spiritual realities faced by many. 
The conversation explores his work with believers of Muslim background (particularly Iranians) who are navigating trauma and experience transformation after leaving Islam. Mark reflects on key differences between Islamic and Christian worldviews, spiritual warfare, and the unique challenges of discipleship among those from Islamic contexts. 
The conversation closes with wisdom for younger listeners, emphasizing the importance of seeking God's calling rather than self-fulfillment. This episode offers profound wisdom and practical insights for anyone interested in spiritual formation, cross-cultural ministry, and the power of genuine pastoral care.
Links for follow up:
Mark’s Webpage: https://markdurie.com/
Mark’s bio at Melbourne School of Theology: https://www.mst.edu.au/faculty/mark-durie/
Mark’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markdurie
Below are several links to Mark Durie’s book: Liberty to the Captives: Freedom from Islam and Dhimmitude through the Cross
On Mark Durie’s website: Liberty to the Captives
Kindle Version: Liberty to the Captives
Paperback on Amazon USA: Liberty to the Captives
Paperback on Amazon Australia: Liberty to the Captives
Liberty to the Captives available in multiple languages at luke4-18.com
 
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