Evangelist MK Yeboah

I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED AUDIOVISUAL MINISTRY

“Dear Sir, I have the honor to request for a Torch Kit.  Please, one pastor came to my area to evangelize among the lost, and he showed Filmstrips to communicate to the people.  He gave me your address.  I hope my request will be considered in your good office.”

We enjoy introducing you each month to individuals God has allowed InterComm to equip and encourage.  Evangelist MK Yeboah of Suhum, Ghana discovered our ministry simply by observing a countryman using a simple but powerful new media, the Torch Kit.  As a wise Evangelist, he quickly realized AVangelism drew a much larger audience and provided a greater opportunity to share Jesus Christ.

“I have a heart for the unreached.  Man must be saved.  I have made a vow to the Lord Almighty God that I will carry the Gospel to fulfill the Great Commission,” he wrote in an early letter.  For the past 15 years, he has worked as a church planter, and as his Pastor wrote about him, “He is always an effective tool among our church workers, diligent, reliable, and of stable character, as he devotes time and care to new converts.” 

We praise God to be connected with such servants, held in high esteem.  Evangelist Yeboah is located in East Ghana, a small country of just over 20 million people, located in West Africa between Cote D’Ivoire and Togo on the Gulf of Guinea.  Average yearly income is roughly $2,000.  Living is difficult in their struggling economy, and life expectancy is well below 60 years of age. 

“I’ve never experienced using any audiovisual tools in my ministry.  May the Lord bless you for giving me this opportunity to fulfill my vision in evangelism.”

Torch Kit in use

Correspondence and eventual shipping take time, but soon enough not only a Torch Kit, but a large selection of video and special training tools for the Sunday school were on the way.  “I have received my parcel on June 11, 2004, and there was no problem about it.  Now I believe that you are going to help me fulfill my vision, because I made a vow to God that I will carry the Gospel message throughout my lifetime to fulfill the Great Commission.”

The harvest began, as noted on his first Report.  “We are overjoyed with the tools of AVangelism.  People show very good interest to listen to the message about our Lord.  With these tools, we have planted a new church at Asuboi near Suhum.  Now in our 3 new branches we have 120 members worshiping.”

Three Media Reports have arrived in a timely fashion, listing showings to 5,050 people and 53 accepting Christ as Savior. With faithful men, such as Evangelist Yeboah, these numbers will grow each year into the future, because you make it all possible.  May God bless you ever so much for making such ministries productive.

PHILIPPINES PROJECT SET-UP MEETINGS

On April 24 and 25, organizational meetings will be held in Cotabato, Philippines to present a Language Recording Project, tentatively scheduled for February/March 2007.  Lane and Jill Anderson will be traveling to the Philippines after completion of the Recording Phase of the Telugu Language Recording Project in Visakhapatnam, India.  Please keep these meetings in your prayers, as key leadership will be chosen, videos selected, and project details discussed.  Ask God to bring clear understanding to those attending the meetings, an enthusiasm for the Project, and evidence of a heart for Media Evangelism in the Ilonggo and/or Cebuano Languages.

PASTORAL MINISTRY

Rev Myint Nwe was the Project Director for our Burmese Language Recording in Yangon, Myanmar, a number of years back.  He writes:

“In Myanmar, there are many unreached villages in the hilly regions and jungles near the Thai border.  We try each year to go into these more difficult places to sow Gospel seeds, as well as encourage the local village pastors.  On one such trip, the Pastor with whom we had ministered before, said that he was extremely upset, depressed, and discouraged in his ministry to the jungle villages, because of lack of physical needs as well as spiritual needs. 

First we ministered to his physical needs by providing him food, clothing, medicine, mosquito nets, and even blankets to bless him.  Then we provided some training, some Bible teaching, and some spiritual encouraging.  Even then, he felt that he wanted to give up his ministry work, because he just was not finding satisfaction.  He was not happy in life. 

Finally, we watched the Burmese Language version of the film, JOURNEY TO THE SKY, the story of Sadhu Sundar Singh from India.  Afterwards, he said that his thoughts, his feelings, and that his mind were completely changed.  When he compared his situation to that of the Sadhu, presented in the video, he realized his troubles were very small by comparison and that God gave spiritual strength to the Sadhu in a time of great trouble.  The Pastor realized that God would also give him spiritual strength in a time of troubles.  He recommitted his life to Christ to continue to work in the ministry faithfully in the jungle locations.  How we praise God for this spiritual victory in the life of one of His servants.”

NOT COMMON

Mr Pius Ozowa of Nigeria writes:

“We thank God, who called us into the ministry of reconciliation.  We are asking God to help us to be faithful in doing His work, as we have much area to cover with the Gospel through Film Showings.  This ministry is not common.  So many people come out each time we come with Film Showings, and this allows us to share the Gospel and to pray with them.  Pray for us that God will help us.”

He reported showings to 22,180 people with 1,294 accepting Christ.

WALKING INTO THE KINGDOM

Pastor John Namun of Papua New Guinea writes:

“ASHA, THE BLIND GIRL and THE JUDGE Filmstrips have touched many people’s lives, especially in the area of youth and community school showings.  These 2 Filmstrips are very powerful evangelism media showing tools.  These are the first 2 we have learned how to use, but we’ll be making use of other ones in the near future.  You will see that a total of 132 youth have walked into the Kingdom after only 7 days of showings with just 2 Filmstrips.  We can sense the anointing of God upon this ministry, and we will continue to pray that God will reveal the right Filmstrip stories for the right location in the future.  We thank you so much for this gift from God, which has already touched so many lives.”

HEARTBEAT

by Ken Anderson

One of the most difficult aspects about retiring and slowing down in general was having to give up the classes I was allowed to teach at the Haggai Institute.  Let me tell you, however, about the challenges some of the participants faced.

Some come from such impoverished nations that they can scarcely find the money to buy a Projector Bulb much less a 16mm Projector.  One of the concepts I tried to leave with the men was simply this - When God gives a vision, God also gives the provision.  It may not always be possible to function with high tech, as we call it.  So we often trained people how to function in low or no tech. 

I think we first worlders miss something in supposedly not needing to trust God as much as some of our brothers and sisters do from other parts of the world.  “Not needing to trust?”  Letting such a question cross your mind can be a challenging discipline.  Of course, we need to trust Him, but in a different way.  Our compatriots in the Third World trust God for the basic supply of their everyday needs.  We, on the other hand, blessed with such abundance, need to learn how to trust our Lord to guide us in the right use of our abundance.  In fact, I believe that vision for us can be diminished by the very impact of affluence.  Yes, we do need to trust God - Trust Him to show us how to make the very most of the affluence that God has given us for His glory.

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