Radio Outreach in Thailand

God continues to open up new opportunities over here. The latest is still in very infant stages at the moment, but one of the Christian organisations over here is keen to look at the possibilities of using Radio as a way of encouraging people to seriously consider the Bible.The plan is to try and reach 1. those who have never heard or read it in their lives, 2. those who might be christians, but have never read or see the importance of reading the bible because they don't know any better and have never been taught. As for how it'll work just at the moment is still to be determined, but the idea is to look at getting some testimonies from people who have really been impacted by God's word and to hear how their lives were changed when they did hear God's word/read the Bible.

There was one story i was told about a thai soldier who was ready to commit suicide by drowning in a river. However before he went through with it, he thought that he'd have one last meal. So he went and bought some fried banana's. While he was eating his 'last' meal, he noticed that the banana's he'd bought were wrapped in in paper that had some writing on it. Those 'pages' of writing were in fact pages from a Bible. As this guy read the writing on the pages, he realised that life was worth living, that there was a point to life. Since then, he became a pastor of a church and has has been on fire for God since. I believe now he's in his 80's and still serving God. I don't know what the passage of scripture was that he read that day, but i thought it was a great way of being reminded that it is God's word that changes people's lives. It's not necessarily about what we do or how well we do it. We just always need to be pointing people back to God's Word!

Anyway, it's been interesting to be once again thinking about possibilities of various types of 'media evangelism'. It really is still early days and i have no idea what role i can/will play with this, especially given my recent thoughts about how hard it would be to do any kind of multimedia recording/editing with my current language level. But it's exciting to be seeing Thai's passionate for the gospel and getting God's Word out there. If i can help with that, that'd be awesome. Please pray for those who are involved with the project, for wisdom, discernment and a continued love for God's Word