Author: Joel Potter

Are we speaking to the void or to a person?

Are we speaking to the void or to a person?

One of the most valuable things we can do when it comes to building community, whether it’s to support missionaries or to rally around a common purpose, is to communicate. Obviously, right?! I think it’s important to state it again though. We live in an era where “speaking to the void” is easy. Social media […]
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A New Ministry (for a season)

A New Ministry (for a season)

Today’s update is the third update of the Potter Mission and maybe one of the most important. We hope you’ll read or watch the whole thing! Let me first of all say, WE HAVE GOOD NEWS to report. We’ll get to that in a second. But first you should know that this is a long update. But, we […]
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Why Are We Still Here? (Guest post)

Why Are We Still Here? (Guest post)

This is a guest post by Caleb Dueck I’ve been a part of Ethnos360 my whole life. I was born while my parents were in training. When I was two years old, we packed our things and went to serve in Guinea. Spending the first part of my life overseas, I certainly viewed overseas missions […]
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Grounded in God’s Word (Guest Post)

Grounded in God’s Word (Guest Post)

This is a guest post by Bryan Conard My name is Bryan Conard. My wife Martha and I presently live in Senegal, West Africa, with our three children where we serve as missionaries with Ethnos360.” My life today is incomparably different than I ever imagined it would be growing up in the ghettos of South […]
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Accountable…not called.

Accountable…not called.

I like to say that I was never “called” to be become a missionary. It confuses some people. “Why would you do that with your life if you weren’t supposed to?” That’s the confusion right there. “Called” and “supposed to” aren’t the same thing. And I actually think that neither one is right when you […]
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Serious and Timely

Serious and Timely

I’ve tried to think through different ways of communicating the subject of this post (which was an email) and I’ve sat down a few times to work on it but gotten drawn away to other things. Part of why I’m so easily distracted is that the subject of this is my least favorite part of […]
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Here is what’s next…

Here is what’s next…

 After we settled back into a summer routine following the trip west, Joel hit the ground running! He’s preparing to spend time with some of our overseas-based missionaries as they start their furloughs. He and his intern will spend a week in central Pennsylvania towards the end of this month encouraging them in the area […]
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After 4,000 miles what could possibly be next?

After 4,000 miles what could possibly be next?

The great western road trip was AWESOME! Between the privilege of seeing, from the ground, the incredible country we’re privileged to live in and all of the people we were able to connect with we were really encouraged. After the trip west, in which we drove from central Florida to central California and back, we settled […]
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Rejoice with the Menya and pray for us!

Rejoice with the Menya and pray for us!

//If you’re interested in watching a video version of this update click here// News about our family, what we’ve been up to and what we’re praying about doing this summer. Let’s start somewhere else though… On the other side of the world in Papua New Guinea, the Menya people live. They’ve had a team of […]
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