VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Benjamin Kreps:

Hey everyone, and welcome to the Mark Prater Podcast, where our aim is to connect our global family of Sovereign Grace churches with our executive director.

Mark, on a previous podcast, we spent some time talking about how you and the leadership team are seeking to steward the remarkable global expansion that God has brought to us in Sovereign Grace. We want to build our global partnerships well and wisely. On a previous podcast, we talked about a global strategy to do that, to seek to ensure that we are partnering well and wisely. You recently updated the executive committee about how that’s going, and you want to talk to us about it.

Mark Prater:

Yeah, I do. Last week at the Executive Committee retreat, I was just giving them a broad update on a number of things happening in Sovereign Grace, in a number of different categories. One of those being our global expansion. The executive committee, like me, we are so grateful to God for the opportunities that he’s given us to plant churches and partner with churches throughout the world. I mean, we’re stunned, actually. We’re just following God in something we never expected that we would follow him in. All these opportunities we have—it is the Lord’s doing, and it’s marvelous in our eyes. We’re grateful for it. We’re trying to respond to it in a wise way. But the main thing is that God gets all the glory. This is not some big plan that we had. It’s just God at work, advancing the gospel and saving more people who don’t know Christ as their Savior. So that’s where we start.

This vlog was originally published on The Mark Prater website on September 1, 2025. To view the original post, click here.