One day a group of about 10 tribal people and their children showed up outside a GFA Bible college. They had come to believe in Jesus through listening to a GFA Radio broadcast in their native language— Kannada—and had traveled more than 125 miles on foot to be baptized by the radio announcer.

Radio

If native missionaries carrying Gospel literature are the “people on the ground” sharing God’s Good News with those who have never heard, then radio and television are in a sense the “missionaries in the air” that cross difficult geographical, cultural and political barriers.

GFA broadcasts penetrate regions where Christian activity is severely restricted (such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and China) and where high illiteracy rates limit the effectiveness of Gospel literature.

GFA broadcasts radio programs in more than 100 languages across all of southern Asia, and over the years,

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millions of men, women and children have written in asking for more information about Jesus. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people have come to faith in Christ.

In some places with limited missionary contact, believers come together at the time of the broadcasts each week to listen, sing and pray in a “radio church.” It is not uncommon for a GFA worker to travel to a remote “unreached” village and find a thriving group of believers—who have accepted Christ and are being discipled solely through the radio witness.