A Chinese itinerant evangelist wrote to FEBC about a visit he made to an isolated village of a hundred people.  Upon his arrival, he struck up a conversation with a local resident, and soon launched into the story of creation.

It wasn’t long before the villager said, ‘We know about Jesus.  We have a radio, and we’ve been listening to Christian broadcasts for a long time.  We even have a church with 35 members.’

The evangelist finished his letter, ‘Thank you for your broadcasts and the work that God is doing through your ministry.  I must confess that I didn’t think God could build a church through radio but clearly He can!’

Taken from an FEBC giving / promo leaflet.

I love the work of FEBC for reasons like this story.  It’s so cool to read correspondence like this and see how God is growing the mustard seed tree when no-one’s looking.  And there are thousands more stories like it – some of which FEBC gets to hear about and some they don’t.  

If you didn’t already know, you’ve probably gathered that FEBC does its main work of evangelism and edification by radio.  They transmit Christian programs, usually by short-wave, into many countries around the world where people (missionaries) can’t get to easily (for political or other reasons), and miraculously and wonderfully, God causes people to listen and to hear and to become part of His kingdom.  

We’re yet to finalise this, but FEBC will probably be one of the organisations that we support as a church this year.  It’s well worth getting excited about (when was the last time you got EXCITED about converting worldly wealth into the currency of heaven?!) so do some more reading about them here!