By Laurie Fortunak In a country where nearly ninety-two percent of the one billion plus people profess to be either Hindu or Muslim, Christians in the nation of India are working hard to get the gospel message out to those who have never heard. One of the ways this is being done is by integrating […]
By Wing Tai Leung Asian Christians creatively make use of folk media as well as modern communication technology for evangelization purposes. Evangelism is more than transmission of information, it is also relationship building, giving voice for the voiceless and enabling people to search for their identities. Folk Media Evangelism In Thailand, Chiang Mai University students […]
By Harvey Hoekstra The advent of the “Talking Bible” revolutionizes how we can make the translated scriptures available in audio for non-readers. The “Talking Bible” dramatically increases the value of every Bible translation. It creates new possibilities we could not have dreamed of just a few short years ago. Using the Talking Bible is simple […]
By Glenn Carlson For the first couple of decades following its founding in 1959, TransWorld Radio’s German sister ministry, Evangeliums-Rundfunk (ERF), based in Wetzlar near Frankfurt, kept fairly close to the extended family’s radio-only mode. However, with the advent of VHS tape distribution in the 1970s, ERF slowly edged its way into video production and […]
By Howard Baldwin Ray Bearden When Jesus was in the region of the Decapolis, a deaf man with a speech difficulty was brought to him. After the man’s friends begged Jesus to lay his hand on him, Jesus took the man away from the crowd, put his fingers in the man’s ears, spit and touched […]
By Ron Forseth The mission of Outreach, Inc., www.outreach.com, is to empower Christian churches to reach their communities for Jesus Christ. To do this, we seek to identify and utilize timely and appropriate bridges of relevance by which churches can engage the culture. These bridges are comparable to the redemptive analogies found in cultures around […]
By Tom Newman Twenty years ago, I led a group of young people on a tour through England with the stage show “Toymaker & Son.” After performing on a makeshift stage in a packed room at a local YMCA, I felt inspired to take the microphone and communicate a vision that had been emerging in […]
By Jim Green “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20) […]
By Adrian de Visser Sri Lankan beaches are the most picturesque in the world. Soft sounds of the waves lapping, an endless strip of white, sandy beaches contrasting with deep, blue waters and coral reefs that are home to many types of tropical fish—these are the wonders of the Sri Lankan coast (www.triptosrilanka.com). In December […]
By Durk Meijer A provocative call to radically rethink our communication of the gospel was the central theme of the 2005 International Orality Network (ION) Annual Working Conference held recently in Anaheim, CA, USA. ION participant shares her expertise in storytelling. Two hundred ministry leaders, field practitioners, educators, media producers, pastors and interested lay people, […]
By Justin Long The amount of media evangelism among the unreached really is amazing. The Western world is media-rich, and missionaries worldwide have learned to use this medium very effectively. Audiocassettes and CDs are widely used in some countries. For example, the North Africa Partnership has used tapes with recordings of the JESUS Film for […]
[Cybermissions: The intentional front-line cross-cultural use of computers and the Internet to facilitate the Great Commission.] Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN can help hundreds of millions of people who are interested in searching for faith to find the gospel. In fact, “God” is one of the top online search terms. For the […]
