Join us in spreading the gospel throughout the largest people group in Central Asia and inviting seekers to respond and receive God’s Word.
In Central Asia, millions of people live their lives without Christ. Most of them have only heard lies about Jesus taught by the cultural majority. Our team partners with the small-but-growing church to proclaim the gospel’s truth online through engaging video, photo, audio, and written content. Seekers who want to know more about Jesus use the contact information to reach our team. Each new contact receives a copy of God’s Word and, within a short time, is paired with a believer who can answer their questions and connect them to a church in their area.
Your gift expands our ministry’s reach to more people and provides more materials for distribution. Partner with us today to ensure thousands of people hear God’s call out of darkness into the marvelous light of Christ!
Gifts toward specific efforts show us what you are excited about. Occasionally, we may redeploy gifts as we follow God's leading with urgent opportunities or changing international contexts. Any gifts received beyond the goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
The Gospel Media Project
Creating digital media tools in the local language will get the gospel in front of as many eyes as possible. These tools include evangelistic websites, smartphone apps, social media, videos, and other digital media platforms. Your gift and prayer support will go towards the creation, maintenance, distribution, expansion, and advertising of these digital media tools so that thousands of Central Asians can hear the good news that God loves them!
Expanding the Gospel’s Reach
Our work results in a lot of travel as we seek to share the gospel, disciple new believers, nurture churches, and develop leaders. Your gift helps us get to the people who most need the gospel and discipleship. It also enables us to attend trainings so we can grow in the missionary task ourselves by sharpening personal skills, biblical knowledge, and application.
Can AI (artificial intelligence) assist us in sharing the gospel? Just ask Hekim*, whose journey to Jesus started in the middle of the night as he reached out through our social media platform.
He asked a few questions about faith, and our AI Chatbot, customized to answer questions about biblical Christianity, answered them. When a member of our team picked up the conversation, Hekim was ready to meet a Christian in person.
A visit with a teammate was followed by attending a local church, where Hekim soon accepted Jesus as his Savior. Praise God!
Running online media channels brings the gospel to thousands of people each week.
Because of the generosity of givers like you, we send out over 100 New Testaments and facilitate dozens of meetings between contacts and believers weekly.
These connections allow Central Asians to hear about the love of Christ.
Your faithful gifts provide internet ads, books, shipping, and new content development. Thank you for helping push the gospel into new arenas.
Please continue joining us in prayer:
Thank you for partnering with our team to invest in using technology to reach the lost with the gospel. God is using your generosity to make an eternal difference!
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With less than 50 known Christians among this people group across the world, and less than 20 living in their homeland, this is one of the most unreached people groups in the world.
Imagine our team’s surprise when Azad*, a young man from this people group attended a recent event and professed faith in Christ.
We soon discovered he had been watching English-language gospel videos online. Through those videos, he came to understand the salvation Jesus offers.
Young people like Azad are hungry for something more than the works-based religion they see around them.
Just as Azad connected with the gospel online, we see online interactions as an opening to engage women in this region.
We receive dozens of requests for New Testaments every week from men. However, few women are willing to submit their contact information online, for fear of an unbelieving father, husband, or brother intercepting a mailed Bible.
But online chat allows believing sisters to share the gospel, disciple, and encourage other women from the security of their phones.
Thank you for sacrificially giving so that young people like Azad can hear the gospel. Your gifts enable the lost to hear about God’s love for them.
Please continue joining us in prayer:
Thank you for being part of a giving, praying Church that responds generously to needs. You are an encouragement to us and your brothers and sisters in this region.
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Thank you so much for your generosity to this ministry and the Central Asian people God calls us to reach. Your prayers and sacrificial giving create, maintain, and distribute gospel digital media tools. In addition, when a seeker interacts with the digital message and expresses interest in learning more, we will connect them with a church planter or local pastor in their region. We pray those meetings lead to salvation and future discipleship!
Human obstacles abound. So far, 2023 has been a challenging year. New restrictions from the largest social media companies and search engines have limited the reach of our gospel advertisements and forced us to spend more money for fewer specific contacts. While these seem like obstacles to our earthly eyes, we know God sees everything, and social media restrictions do not limit Him.
Our team was encouraged by a report from one of the partners on our follow-up team. “We are rejoicing that we get to baptize another Gospel Media contact this Sunday, along with a friend she brought us. We originally met the pair a few years ago, but they made confessions of faith around Christmas and are getting baptized on Sunday. That will be four members of our small church impacted by Gospel Media follow-up. Praise God!”
This testimony is a beautiful picture of the end goal of all our team does. While we are happy to see people interact with us online, the ultimate goal is to connect each person who responds with the local church and to see them come to saving faith in Jesus. Gospel Media is a strategy for growing God’s Church in our area.
Through digital engagement, we find people whom the Holy Spirit is calling to Himself and follow up by offering a copy of God’s Word and contact with a local believer and church. We are excited whenever we hear a report like the one above because it is a testimony to God’s work among our people group.
Please join us in prayer.
Pray more people will respond as they are called out of darkness into Christ’s glorious light through the Gospel Media Project.We are so thankful for you, our partners, who make this project possible. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness.
The goal represents the cost of our team’s ministry activities for this calendar year. The Cooperative
Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO) fully fund our living expenses. The goal amount resets
every January 1st. All gifts completed through this form are directed to our team’s ministry strategy.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through
the Cooperative Program.
Giving to one of our specific team efforts allows us to know what you are excited to see God complete within
our ministry. Occasionally, we may need to redeploy gifts within our team strategy as urgent opportunities
arise, as we do our best to follow God's leading, or adjust to changing international contexts. Any gifts
received beyond the posted goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made
possible through the Cooperative Program.
Our living expenses are fully provided by generous churches and individuals participating in the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO). These gifts enable us to remain on mission without interruption. Your support is a partnership with these churches, providing for us and our colleagues through LMCO. Our team receives recognition when partners give below to make our presence here possible.
The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® is a registered trademark of WMU.
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