Chris Hunsberger CEO Radical David Platt Global Missions Financial Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 32

Chris Hunsberger, CEO of Radical, on Why Something Needs to Change in Global Missions

You may want your missions giving to advance the Great Commission, yet still wonder whether your resources are reaching places where people have little or no access to the gospel.

How can you identify the world’s most urgent spiritual and physical needs and direct your giving toward work that helps establish healthy, multiplying local churches?


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Chris Hunsberger, CEO of Radical, shares how the organization evolved from a teaching ministry built around David Platt’s resources into a broader effort to equip churches for global missions, particularly among unreached people groups. Drawing on seventeen years of local church leadership before joining Radical, Chris brings a church-centered perspective to the challenge of making disciples among all nations.

Chris describes the “Great Imbalance” in missions funding, where only a small portion of global missions resources reaches places with little or no gospel access. Radical’s Urgent initiative responds by identifying and supporting vetted indigenous believers working in difficult locations, while Stratus uses hundreds of data points to highlight where urgent physical and spiritual needs intersect. The goal is not simply evangelism or humanitarian relief, but the development of healthy local churches capable of making and multiplying disciples.

By the end, you may feel better equipped to evaluate where your missions resources are going and intentionally include unreached people in your giving, praying, and global missions priorities.

What you’ll gain

  • Why missions giving often overlooks the world’s unreached people
  • How to identify where global resources are needed most
  • Why indigenous believers are essential in hard-to-reach places
  • How physical needs can support long-term gospel ministry
  • Why evangelism must lead toward healthy multiplying local churches
  • How to include the unreached in your giving portfolio

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Quotes to Remember

  • “I want to do everything in my power to get the gospel to those who’ve never heard it.”
  • “If we’ve all received the same command, to be part of making Jesus known in all nations, then what does that look like for the local church?”
  • “99% of global missions funding is going to places where the church already exists. That’s called the Great Imbalance.”
  • “We know that for a lot of global missions work, the type of work that’s done is not necessarily the type of work that’s most needed.”
  • “Your giving or missions portfolio must have space for the unreached.”
  • “If we really believe in this command to go and make disciples of all nations, then shouldn’t that drive everything that we do?”
  • “If you are not equipping those that are a part of your faith family to make disciples of all nations, then you are directly disobeying that command.”
  • “Just introducing people to the saving power of Jesus is not enough. So what does the end of the road look like? It looks like healthy churches all over the world.”

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