by Wayne J

We all look forward to that glorious future day when multitudes from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation rejoice before God and before the Lamb, Jesus Christ, in heaven. But today, we are part of a grand mission: to spread the Good News of Jesus’ death for our sins and His resurrection from the dead to the whole world, even to the ends of the earth. Indeed, this includes every tribe and every language, as God tells us. Jesus spoke of the good shepherd who leaves the 99 sheep to find the one lost sheep. God desires for all to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4). The apostle Paul had the   ambition to preach the good news where the name of Christ had never been heard before (Rom. 15:20). And indeed, this mission is not just for professional missionaries or full-time Christian workers, but for all of us who name the name of Christ. For we read in Acts 11 that the Christians dispersed from the persecution in Jerusalem spread God‘s holy Word of truth to Antioch, leading to an amazing work of God and a strong assembly of new followers of Jesus.

Today, globally, 100 million people representing 1200 languages have no material of any kind by which they can hear the Good News of Jesus in their own language—except for the audio and visual resources available from  Global Recordings Network. Like the paralytic lowered through the roof of a house in a  desperate attempt to receive Jesus’s healing, many people today are similarly in desperate need of God‘s life-saving message. And yet it has been shown that people who hear and understand this message in their own native language are four times more likely to respond to it than those who hear in a secondary language.

In recent times, people from many tongues are coming to our land. Yet so few of them have a single Christian friend. People typically come to the Lord, at least partly, from observing some Christian’s remarkably different manner of life. What are we doing to reach them? Yes, there is a natural fear of the unknown in meeting different kinds of people. Yet, from our experience, we overwhelmingly see that other people are thrilled to hear messages in their own language and are so grateful.Global Recordings Network’s website and the 5fish mobile phone app make these materials readily and freely available for you to share with others.

Like Nehemiah in the Old Testament, who so un-swervingly labored to rebuild and complete the destroyed wall around his city, we also are part of a great mission, to fulfill God’s call to reach the whole world. What will you and I do to play our part in this wonderful work? Whatever role God calls you to play, we have tools: resources that can help the message of salvation be shared across religious, cultural, and language barriers.