Media Evangelism

Peoples of the World

In Light of Eternity: Trans World Radio and the Gospel in Latin America

February 2006
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PUBLISHER'S MEMO:

Reflections on Lausanne and the Year Ahead

By Doug Birdsall
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THEMED ARTICLES:

Evangelisation via Satellite: An Initiative Moves Forward

By Jan-Peter Graap
It is amazing to see what God has done at the turn of the millennium using modern satellite technology both in Germany and throughout Europe. Read >>

Contextualizing Cyberspace—Missiology Still Matters When it Comes to Cybermissions and Internet Evangelism

By John Edmiston
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. Read >>

Multi-Media Evangelism: Opening Spiritual Ears through Deaf Ministry

By Howard Baldwin
Isaiah 29:18 says, “And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the Book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.” Without Christ we are all spiritually deaf to God. Deaf people need the gospel. God opens deaf spiritual ears through total communication for the deaf. Read >>

Media and Outreach: The Search for Bridges of Relevance

By Ron Forseth
The mission of Outreach, Inc.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. Read >>

Engaging a New Generation through Media

By Tom Newman
From films, books, television and videogames, media and the art of storytelling have become the currency of culture and influence in our world. And though it's often an unconventional method within the body of Christ, I can't think of a greater place to communicate the stories and truths of God than through these mediums. Read >>

The JESUS Film Project: Finishing the Task

By Jim Green
The JESUS Film Project remains faithful to the calling of joining Christian workers throughout the world—both CCCI staff members and partnership ministries—to lift up Jesus in the whole world by producing language translations for the unreached people groups of the world. Read >>

Seekers and Skeptics at Your Door: Internet Evangelism and You

By Rusty Wright
Could God use you to reach people for Christ via the Internet? The answer may surprise you. Read >>

The Advent of the Talking Bible

By Harvey Hoekstra
The advent of the “Talking Bible” revolutionizes how we can make the translated scriptures available in audio for non-readers. Read >>

Media and Evangelism in Asia: A Vignette

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. Read >>

In Light of Eternity: Trans World Radio and the Gospel in Latin America

By Dawn Overman
In a traditional sense, the countries of Latin America have had access to the light of the gospel for decades, yet thousands still live in the dark, remaining “unchanged” in their lifestyles. Read >>

PERSPECTIVES:

Chinese Christian to lead OMF International

OMF International (formerly the China Inland Mission) has announced that Dr. Patrick Fung will become the tenth general director of the mission. Dr. Fung, a Chinese Christian, is the first Asian to lead the ministry, and succeeds the Rev. Dr. David Harley, who served as general director since 2001. Read >>

ERF Television: Opening Evangelistic Windows to Europe’s One Hundred Million German-speakers

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. Read >>

My Hope India: Using Technology and Home Groups to Bring the Gospel to Hundreds of Thousands

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. Read >>

URBAN COMMUNITIES:

Media Evangelism among the Unreached

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. Read >>

Into Their World…The Afar (Danakil) of Ethiopia

By Laurie Fortunak
Claiming to be descendents of Ham, Noah’s son, the Afar (Danakil) of Ethiopia have had a very turbulent history. The Afar are a proud people, valuing power and prestige, the latter which many times comes from killing one’s enemies. Read >>

RESEARCH:

World Evangelization Analysis – Strategy Working Group

By Paul Eshleman
When we speak of world evangelization, we look at the macro strategies that must be employed so that all the peoples of the earth have an opportunity to: Read >>

LAUSANNE REPORTS:

Strengthening and Uniting the American Church through Media Outreach

By Jim Overholt
The Mission America Coalition* (MAC, www.missionamerica.org) was formed with the vision of “the whole Church taking the whole gospel to the whole nation,” and for many years has carried out that charter as the “behind-the-scenes” organizer of a long series of successful national evangelism initiatives. Read >>