Media Missionary Focus

Back to Where it Started

Today I finally am back in a place with good internet access. In fact, I am sitting in the same place I was a few months ago when I first started this blog.

I am currently in Springfield, MO working on the same video project that brought me here back in April. This is a project to produce, among other things, a two minute promotional video to be shown at the upcoming World Missions Congress that will be held in December in Tennessee (I thin k that’s where it is anyway). The meeting is to bring together college age young people who are interested in missions and to challenge them to give a year of their lives to work overseas, with the hope that during that time God will call some of them into full time missions work. The video I am working on is to highlight the Asia-Pacific region, and the needs represented there.

So let me ask you what you think. Here is the video script. But before you read it, let me remind you of a couple things. First, this is targeted at young people, so it moves along pretty fast and doesn’t pull any punches. Second, there is a video component that I can’t share with you right now. There will be a lot of images that precede this part of the video. The scripted part is only about half of the overall video. Also, it won’t be me talking, but rather a college age young man who is working in Thailand. So have a look at what we say, and let me know what you think; post your comments and suggestions and we’ll see what we come up with. Here’s the script;

Forget the hype, forget all the flash. Asia Pacific has 33 countries and close to a billion people. But less than 5 % of them know Jesus Christ as their lord and savior. That leaves more than 950 million unreached, and about half of those have had little or no exposure to the gospel.

At the same time there are less than 300 Assembly of God missionaries in the region and less than 100 missionary associates. That’s about 2 and a half million unreached people for every missionary. So what’s the answer?

Jesus said pray that God would send more workers into the harvest field. We need workers. People like you who are willing to invest up to a year of your life in the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Bottom line, I’m not talking about warm bodies to fill a slot, and if your looking for a chance to travel and see Asia, don’t waste your time with this. Working overseas with missionaries to reach these groups isn’t all fun and games; it takes real commitment to prayer, hard work and servanthood. But if you really want to follow Jesus, if you want to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and change the eternal destiny of people who have lived too long with no hope and no future, this is exactly what your looking for.

God is calling laborers into the harvest field of Asia Pacific. Can you hear His voice? Will you answer the call?

posted by Troy In Cambodia @ 3:55 AM