Who is watching for the changes that could reshape missions and ministry? In this episode of Signal Café, Chris Forbes and Matt Tullos welcome Rudolf Kabutz, a South African missionary and trained futurist. Starting with a cup of coffee, they explore how leaders can recognize emerging signals, challenge assumptions, and prepare for multiple plausible futures. The conversation examines Africa’s growing role in global Christianity, the influence of AI, and the importance of equipping future generations. Rudolf introduces the concept of the sentinel, a watchman who helps Christian leaders discern changing times, recognize opportunities, and prepare for what lies ahead.

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As AI, digital media, and mediated relationships reshape communication, could in-person conversation become more important, not less? Chris Forbes and Matt Tullos talk with missionary, researcher, and communication specialist Steve Evans about the return of orality, the power of story, and the role of trust in human communication. They explore secondary orality, digital isolation, cross-cultural communication, worldview formation, and the growing influence of oral cultures in the Global South. The conversation asks how ministry leaders can communicate more effectively through narrative, experience, and community while remaining biblically grounded in a world increasingly shaped by screens, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.

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Chris Forbes and Matt Tullos talk to Dr. Matthew Klein from the Water Foresight Podcast about how foresight works in practice. Using water as a case study, they explore scarcity, aging infrastructure, contaminants, data-center demand, smart systems, surveillance, regulation, water rights, and resilience. They also examine how foresight can benefit the church through Christian stewardship, human dignity, religious liberty, apologetics, moral realism, and a biblical understanding of humanity. The conversation shows how ministry leaders can read emerging signals, challenge assumptions, exegete the times, and prepare faithfully for disruption.

© 2026 Forbes Nonprofit Strategies. All rights reserved. Signal Café is a podcast of Forbes Nonprofit Strategies, and Incite Futures Labs is a foresight training offering. Music generated using Suno AI, lyrics adapted and produced for Signal Café