Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
As I write this, Christmas is just a few days away. I wonder when the first Christmas was celebrated, if they could have envisioned the Christmases of today. Did they see “Black Friday” becoming an unofficial holiday? Did they see thousands of light bulbs and plastic figures covering houses and lawns? Every year we talk about how commercial this celebration of Christ’s birth has become, yet we all participate in the commercialization.
Don’t get me wrong. I love this time of the year...and not for the typical reasons. I love this time of the year because it presents us with amazing opportunities to share the story of Christ via radio and television. Secular media is more open at Christmas time to sharing the story of Jesus than at any other time of the year.
For example, Christmas music has been produced in the Bengali language of East India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan in preparation for a special live broadcast of Swarger Shidi “Ladder to Heaven” on Christmas Eve.
The South America team just finished production on the third season of Mujer Valiosa “The Valued Woman” television, which includes a Christmas special.
World Mission Broadcast uses these opportunities to make Christ known around the world. Consider us the ‘herald angels’, which have the job of ‘harking’ the arrival of the Christ-child. Christmas themed media has been produced months in advance in places like Timor L’Este, Cote d’Ivoire and Lebanon with the sole purpose of announcing that Christ is born!
So, let me say thank you for your continued prayers and support for the ministry of World Mission Broadcast. Without your continued partnership these ‘angels’ wouldn’t be able to ‘hark’ at such an important time as this.
Please continue to keep this ministry in your prayers. Like all families, we are feeling the impact of this current economic crisis. Consider making an end-of-year Christmas gift to World Mission Broadcast as we trumpet the arrival of our newborn King!
---Brian Utter, World Mission Broadcast