Karyn Austin is the One.Kingdom Operations Manager. She is supporting the team through effective systems, processes, and financial oversight.
Europe is home to over 28 million people who have never heard the Gospel and have yet to encounter Jesus. Since 2015, God has called me into the mission field, sending me to various countries across the globe. In recent years, that call has led me to several nations within Europe—and now, He is leading me to Budapest, Hungary, where I will serve as a full-time missionary.
As I step deeper into God’s will, I hold fast to Colossians 4:2–6 as a guiding anchor: “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.”
This passage reminds me daily to walk in prayer, speak with clarity, and live with grace—so that every moment becomes an opportunity to share the love and truth of Christ.
The team I am joining started in Bosnia sharing the gospel to the people they encountered. After years in Bosnia spreading spiritual seeds one person at a time, they the saw little fruit. The people there just weren’t interested in Jesus or spiritual conversations. The team was doing “good” things, but it never led to the discipleship relationships they were looking for.
That’s when they decided to try media.
They learned about a strategy from a team in another country using media to catalyze disciple-making movements—or media to movements for short (M2M). In this strategy, media serves as a way to find and connect with those seeking spiritual answers online. But it doesn’t stop there. The goal is to move these relationships offline as quickly as possible and see people become disciples of Jesus who continue making disciples among their friends and family.
It took six months to launch the first campaign… the response exceeded their expectations. In 20 days there were more engagement with spiritually seeking people than the first 10 years combined in Bosnia!
As a result, they realized they needed to build systems for prayer, media development and partnerships to follow-up with those who responded. This has become the OneKingdom team and this is the team I am joining.
Since our M2M launch in Bosnia in 2018, God has expanded the use of digital strategies to nearby countries. God continues opening doors to share what was learned in the Balkan region and we now have coached and are coaching 18 other teams across Europe using this same strategy.
Our vision is to see the Great Commission fulfilled in Europe, together. To get there, we want to see media to movement initiatives taking root in all 44 countries in Europe, so that they too, can experience an increase of fruitfulness that ignites a powerful movement of God.
Learn more about our team: OneKingdom
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