Dan Hitzhusen, Finishing the Task, Global Missions, Rick Warren, Great Commission 2033 Financial Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 40

Dan Hitzhusen, Global Church Planting Strategist from Finishing the Task, on Reaching All Nations with the Gospel by 2033

You may want your generosity to help advance the Great Commission, yet still wonder where your resources can make a meaningful difference among people who have never heard the name of Jesus.

How can your giving, skills, relationships, and influence help the global church reach remaining unreached people groups while strengthening Bible access, evangelism, church planting, and prayer?


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Meet your guide

Dan Hitzhusen, Global Church Planting Strategist for Finishing the Task, brings more than three decades of ministry experience across organizations including e3 Partners and the Barnabas Group. After committing his life to the Great Commission as a college student, Dan spent years traveling internationally, planting churches, developing ministry partnerships, and learning how multiplying church movements can reach communities where the gospel has little or no presence.

Dan explains how Finishing the Task helps unite churches and ministries around a shared vision of reaching remaining unreached people groups and expanding gospel access beyond the first believers. Their strategy connects four areas: Bible access, evangelism, church planting, and focused prayer, with collaboration helping prevent each effort from operating in isolation.

He also describes generosity as far more than writing checks. Strategic funding, business expertise, relationships, technology, and other resources can all accelerate ministry. By the end, you may see your generosity as an invitation to participate personally in the global church’s shared mission.

What you’ll gain

  • Why reaching unreached people requires more than evangelism alone
  • How global ministry collaboration accelerates the Great Commission
  • Why church planting movements can multiply far beyond individual efforts
  • How strategic funding can catalyze ministry in difficult places
  • Why your skills and relationships belong in your generosity portfolio
  • How to direct more giving toward unreached people groups

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Quotes to Remember

  • “To unite the body of Christ to fulfill the Great Commission”
  • “We began to see how to start churches that multiplied.”
  • “The momentum right now, in terms of the body of Christ reaching people groups, is phenomenal, just in the last 4 or 5 years.”
  • “Rick likes to describe the Great Commission with the 3 B’s: Believers, Bodies (of Christ), and Bibles.”
  • “If this is such good news, why has it taken you so long to get it to our village?”
  • “COVID has really opened a lot of doors for the gospel.”
  • “People are around Jesus first, not their logos, not their organizations.”
  • “The technology today gives us the capacity to reach everyone in the world.”
  • “One of the biggest barriers right now is knowing where the church is and where the church isn’t.”
  • “As you begin to give your treasure away, God tends to multiply it in phenomenal ways.”
  • “There’s a lot of money tied up in foundations that isn’t out working now.”

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Bible References from the Show

Revelation 7:9 | Every Tribe, Tongue, and Nation

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Matthew 28:19-20 | The Great Commission

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 10:18-20 | You Will Be Brought Before Kings

18 rand you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles. 19 When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

John 17:11 | Jesus’ Prayer for Unity

bHoly Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

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