{"id":610,"date":"2010-04-10T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2023-05-04T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:07:01","slug":"meet-shane-bennett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?page_id=610","title":{"rendered":"Meet Shane Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Shane Bennett wrote monthly Practical Mobilization columns for Missions Catalyst until mid-2022.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shane has served in missions mobilization since 1987, much of his energy going to\u00a0 recruiting, training, and sending short-term teams. He\u2019s been on research teams in Bangkok, Bombay and Turkey. He coauthored\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aerbook.com\/maker\/productcard-2661901-4292.html\">Exploring the Land<\/a>, a guide to researching unreached peoples, and has written numerous articles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an ordinary guy. I began school planning to be a pastor, but through a number of people and events, God focused my calling on missions, specifically catalyzing efforts for the world\u2019s most under-evangelized peoples. After 20 years of barely venturing beyond the borders of Indiana, God began bouncing me around the world. In each place my objective has been, with a team of people, to discover how the church might be established where it hasn\u2019t yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today Shane helps normal Christians connect with Muslims in the U.S. and everywhere. He works for a cool, new organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/healingnations.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/healingnations.net\/\">Healing Nations<\/a>, speaks at\u00a0Perspectives classes and churches, and\u00a0writes a super-short weekly email that helps people\u00a0think about Muslims the way God does and love them like\u00a0Jesus does. <a href=\"https:\/\/shanebennett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/shanebennett.com\/\">Check it out<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/jesusplanet.us1.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=d29944800aacc3e14aab102e1&amp;id=96050a1d62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/jesusplanet.us1.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=d29944800aacc3e14aab102e1&amp;id=96050a1d62\">sign up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:shanedar@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"mailto:shanedar@gmail.com\">Contact Shane<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Bennett wrote monthly Practical Mobilization columns for Missions Catalyst until mid-2022. Shane has served in missions mobilization since 1987, much of his energy going to\u00a0 recruiting, training, and sending short-term teams. He\u2019s been on research teams in Bangkok, Bombay and Turkey. He coauthored\u00a0Exploring the Land, a guide to researching unreached peoples, and has written &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?page_id=610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet Shane Bennett<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":578,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12018,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions\/12018"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}