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Dear Friend of Creation,
“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance…”
The Holy Spirit was unleashed at Pentecost, and what did God choose to do first for His empowered followers? Translate His “wonderful works”!
The crowd of people who gathered to hear the commotion exclaimed, “...how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.” (Acts 2:4-11)!
In His great love for the world, and His great desire for intimacy with people, created in His image, the Lord wanted His message spoken in every language in which the people were born!
Everybody marveled. Then Peter shared the good news of Jesus Christ, listeners were “pricked in their heart,” and “that same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls” (Acts 2:37-41). In summary: a move of God proclaimed the works of God, then the Son of God was preached, and the hearts of men were stirred unto salvation!
With your help, through the Holy Spirit, starting this October (next month), we want to launch more proclamation of the Son of God — across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East! We will be proclaiming “the works of God” and Jesus “the Son of God”, so that through the power of His Word He may reclaim a harvest of souls in this region of the world! We will begin broadcasting over this expansive area a new 15-minute creation-evangelism weekly format of our programming to English speakers. The new weekly program includes Creation Moments transcripts plus scriptures, plus prayers and a call to salvation — more details to come!
Then following up 3 months later, in January, through separate broadcast transmitters also into North Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Europe, our plan is to launch our 10th language translation - Arabic, the 5th most spoken language in the world, after English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, and Spanish. This programming will go into Islam-dominated countries like Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and the growing 6-10 million Muslims across Spain, Germany, Italy, France, and the surrounding areas. If you’ve been following Creation Moments this year and have read my February, March, and April newsletters, you know that Arabic and Muslim outreach have been on the heart of our ministry for quite some time. There has also been a great deal of apostasy in Western Civilization, thanks in large part to evolutionism. But there are now exciting signs of revival in many European countries which were once strongly Christian. So it is wonderful that we can proclaim the gospel-in-creation, formally now, also in Europe!
Today, I’m asking that you not only pray for this important new mission field, but also partner with us financially. The need for these projects is great, but the time to act is now! Together, the total yearly cost of this new and important outreach initiative is $74,975. Will you help us? God’s Word does not return void (Isaiah 55:10,11), and it is His will and purpose to gather “children” and “a bride” through faith in the preached word of the Living Word (Romans 10:13-17) - for eternal fellowship with Him! This is our most ambitious project yet!
Over the last ten years we have expanded greatly with creation-evangelism internationally, launching radio outreaches in both English and native languages into North and South Korea, Communist China, Latin and South America and the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent and S.E. Asia, Western and Southern Africa, and Japan! Many of these areas are places of Christian persecution and oppression. These outreaches are ongoing, and you, our supporters, have made this possible!
Christianity was birthed in the Middle East, and those who heard the truth spoken in their own language at Pentecost returned to their lands carrying the “translated” gospel of Christ. They established some of the earliest churches, and the good news spread like fire east of the Roman Empire. In Antioch (in what is now the predominantly Muslim country of Turkey), the disciples were first called Christians (Acts 11:26). Large Christian communities developed in Syria, modern-day Iraq and Iran, Egypt, North Africa, Arabia, and elsewhere.
Then, 527 years after Pentecost, the “Prophet” Muhammad was born. According to the sayings of Muhammad, warriors who died fighting for Allah were given the rank of martyrdom (Shahaadah), complete forgiveness of sins, and high status in heaven. And those who survived were guaranteed the spoils of war (Ghanima). It was a theology “piggy-backing” on Judaism and Christianity, but of quite arguably demonic origins and ripe for radicals and cruel conquest. Islam is an ideology that has imprisoned over a billion people.
And the “god” of Islam is distant. He is not anyone’s Heavenly Father. The god of Islam has no love, and where they might say he does, his “love” is quite conditional. Muslims have been reporting dreams and visions of Jesus. And many are growing disillusioned and despairing of sharia, and of all the oppression.
Now, through our radio partnerships, we’ve been given a special opportunity to broadcast expanded, daily 5min versions of our Creation-Evangelism programming in Arabic across the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe — more places where the Gospel is forbidden, and physical Bibles are banned! To protect station workers, we cannot share images of the exact broadcast area and/or location of these radio transmitters.
Combined, our new English and Arabic plans will reach over some 4.5 million square miles, encompassing the countries I mentioned above and more — every weekday in Arabic, and for 15 minutes every weekend in English! Compare that to the 3.8 million square miles of the USA, and you can understand how big this project is — reaching millions more people and in two languages! These are people who do not have the same opportunity for Christian fellowship and resources that we do. Our contracts will also include audience relations. Listeners will be able to call Christian Arabic speakers with questions about our program, which will also be promoted and posted online and on social media!
We are ready and have hand-selected programs from our regular broadcast for this specific outreach to the Muslim world — programs that proclaim the care and works of our Creator, the truth of Jesus Christ, and the unconditional love of our One, True God.
We live between the history of Acts and the prophecies of Revelation. God’s great desire is for the world to know His truth and experience His love and intimacy (1 Timothy 2:4). The good news is for everyone, in every tongue!
Please be praying for us, for God to move mightily as we enter this new mission field, and ask if this is indeed a good investment in giving to the Lord. Every bit helps. The fruit of the gospel is eternal fruit! And consider the adage, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose!” With your help, we will proclaim the “wonderful works of God” and preach the “wonderful Son of God”, so that the hearts of Arabic and English-speaking men and women in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, might be stirred by the Holy Spirit unto salvation!
Yours in Christ,
Mark Cadwallader, Board Chairman
Images: Bowyer Bible Luke Pentecost Acts 2 Picart, Phidev74, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. Mahomed the Prophet, XIX century engraving, Alonzo Chappel, PD, Wikimedia Commons.
P.S., I want to recommend I Dared to Call Him Father. This is the riveting true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman in South Asia who gave her life to Christ and faced backlash and oppression. Her entire life turned upside down as a series of strange dreams launched her on a quest that would forever consume her heart, mind and soul.
I’m also excited to offer Why Won’t They Listen: The Power of Creation Evangelism. In this bold book, Ken Ham makes it clear that reaching people for Christ is now more than preaching the cross and resurrection, but the whole bible - beginning with creation. Easy to read and filled with research and real-world application, this book makes the case for creation-evangelism, a term first coined by Creation Moments founder Walter Lang according to Henry Morris. Biblical creation and its Creator need to be preached along with the gospel, as the last mention of “the everlasting gospel” in the Bible, Revelation 14:6,7, points out!
And if, like me, your interest has grown in His-story in the world through the march of time, I’d like to suggest The Global Church--The First Eight Centuries: From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam, by Donald Fairbairn. The Christian church of the early centuries spread throughout much of Asia, Africa, and Europe, spoke many languages, was situated within diverse cultural settings, and had varied worship practices; yet it maintained a vital unity on core teachings at the heart of the Christian faith. This history pays attention to Africa, Turkey, and Syria, where most of the church's intellectual energy was first nurtured, and ventures outside the Roman Empire, as far afield as Persia and India, alongside communities within it. And it takes into account early Christian interactions with other religions, particularly Islam.
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