{"version":"1.2.0","chapters":[{"startTime":0,"endTime":27},{"startTime":27,"endTime":97,"title":"Twanna welcomes listeners and introduces this episode's guest, Melissa Alderman, Converge Missionary in Togo, West Africa. "},{"startTime":97,"endTime":173,"title":"Melissa shares with listeners the beginning stages of how she was introduced to international ministries at a young age. "},{"startTime":173,"endTime":204,"title":"Melissa highlights her first international short-term mission trip at the age of 17, being the definitive moment where she chose to do missions for the rest of her life. "},{"startTime":204,"endTime":326,"title":"Twanna asks Melissa if she thought her husband was crazy when he told her they would work and live in West Africa. "},{"startTime":326,"endTime":421,"title":"Melissa says the best way to prepare for life as a missionary would be to surround yourself with like-minded, Christ-centered, collaborative, life-giving people that want to build and grow you and God's calling on your life. "},{"startTime":421,"endTime":486,"title":"Melissa and the team in West Africa have five different projects within the initiative to further the gospel and continue the church planting movement."},{"startTime":486,"endTime":561,"title":"Twanna asks Melissa, \"What were the early days like living cross-culturally?\" "},{"startTime":561,"endTime":657,"title":"In West Africa, Melissa shares, the Togolese people worship out of fear. So they have learned to speak of God as the Creator, Redeemer and Friend when presenting the gospel. "},{"startTime":657,"endTime":944,"title":"Melissa speaks of one life change story out of the many they have seen that can help summarize the last 13 years that they have been on the field.  "},{"startTime":944,"endTime":984,"title":"Twanna asks Melissa to share some thoughts with the listeners who are considering living abroad."},{"startTime":984,"endTime":1073,"title":"Melissa lists different opportunities and ways to explore a future with short-term or long-term missions"},{"startTime":1073,"endTime":1201.344,"title":"Melissa closes in prayer. "}]}