Rethinking Missions by Language: Brooks Buser on the Four Lanes

Brooks Buser (Radius International) joins Taylor Hartley to rethink how churches and agencies map the missions task.
July 8, 2026


Brooks Buser (Radius International) joins Taylor Hartley to rethink how churches and agencies map the missions task. Together they walk through his “four lanes” of missions: training national pastors, English-speaking churches in strategic cities, major national languages like Hindi and Mandarin, and the hardest lane of all — minority language groups with no church and no Scripture. Along the way they discuss the biblical roots of language as the primary barrier (Babel to Pentecost), how the lanes work together in partnership, and how even the smallest churches can pray, give, and send toward the ends of the earth.

 

Original Article: A Better Way to Look at Missions