When you share the message of the Gospel by sending it across radio waves, you never know how far it will reach or how many lives it will touch--until someone comes to thank you. At the end of each Guarani radio program, we add an invitation to come to our home to learn more about God's word. Thanks to this, we've met some of the people whom the programs are reaching.

The Duck Boys

Because we've bought ducks from these two brothers, they've become known to us as "the duck boys." When their family has something to sell, they walk two hours into town from their village. They worked hard to earn money for a hand-held radio, “so we won’t miss hearing your programs when we come into town,” they told us. Sometimes they come in to read the Bible with us.

Marcelina

Marcelina listened to the Christian radio programs in secret when her abusive husband was working in the field. Once he left to work in Buenos Aires, she was able to listen to all the programs. She came to visit us and told us how important Christian broadcasts in Guarani are to her. We read the Bible and pray together on her occasional trips into town. She also hears Bible messages from one of the young leaders in our church who travels to her village on weekends to evangelize, but she’s learned far more from the daily lessons on the radio.

Maria

Maria made the long trip to our house on horseback, over a river, walking, then taking a bus, all to tell us how much the radio programs mean to her. She asked for prayer because she was the only Christian in her village. Months later, she returned with her husband who wanted to follow Christ. Dan had the honor of praying with Reinaldo to ask Jesus to forgive his sins and come into his heart.

Lorenzo

"I listen to the Bible course on the radio," the man told me after he'd gotten off his motorcycle. He was responding to the invitation at the end of the radio programs. The timing wasn't great. Dan had just sat down for a meeting with Jorge, and we had to leave in an hour for a planning for December's youth camp. But Dan and Jorge went out to talk to him. Lorenzo was a teacher who wanted to "defend God" in the attacks of his secular colleagues, but didn't know what to say. Dan and Jorge enjoyed fielding his many questions, and clearly shared the Gospel with him.

We're convinced the Guarani radio aspect of our church planting may be one of the most effective things we're doing to reach rural Paraguay for Christ. We are thankful for the radio ministry that reaches places we can't.

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