Ministry Projects Purpose: Evangelism and Discipleship A Bold New Initiative for East Africa
With a potential audience of over fifty million, TWR is breaking new ground in a comprehensive strategy of daily programing. The goal of this project is to saturate the Swahili-speaking world with forty-five minute daily blocks of varied programs whose aim is to reach women, children, leaders, oral learners and those with wholistic health needs. Programs we will air include: Women of Hope, Family Life, Oral Scriptures, Witness at the Water and Foundations for Farming.
This story, from a TWR missionary visiting listeners in Kenya, is a powerful example of what happens when God’s Word breaks through to even the most desperate soul:
Voi is a small, impoverished town. There I met a wheelchair-bound TWR listener named David who shared this testimony. He has been paralyzed for more than 10 years after being struck by a car one night, while he was walking on the road in a drunken stupor. As he often did back then, David had spent what little money he’d earned by working on a farm to buy alcohol to drown his sorrows. He was poor and felt he had nothing to live for.
After the accident, David woke up in the hospital, fortunate to be alive. But he cursed God for what happened to him, and he also heaped verbal abuse on his wife and children until they couldn’t take it any longer. In desperation they asked the pastor of a local church to visit David, which he did several times while enduring David’s bitter verbal abuse. But one day the pastor brought a radio. As David became abusive, the pastor tuned the radio to TWR, turned up the volume, put it out of David’s reach, and left.
David had no choice but to listen, and he was challenged by a speaker who told of God’s love for him even though he may be walking through the valley of the shadow of death. The next day David listened again—and then again and again until he gave his life to Christ! With tears in his eyes, David thanks TWR for our programs. Today he plays guitar in his church, and it’s all because someone gave so he could hear the gospel.
If you have a passion to reach women, children, leaders, oral communicators or communities with developmental health needs, TWR can do it very inexpensively. With a potential listening audience of 50 million people, it costs us only $.003 to reach one listener. That means a gift of $100 will reach a potential audience of approximately 33,332 people with the gospel! Would you join us in reaching this vast population of Swahili speakers by making a generous gift today?