The P radio ministry is far more effective and impacting than I had suspected. When I was with the P’s in January, I was blown away at the feedback I was getting from people who were listening. When you are all by yourself in your studio recording programs, you have no idea who’s actually listening on the other end. I got a taste of that in January and I realized, “we need more radios!”
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We estimate there could be up to 100,000 P’s. There are at least 11,000 believers and over 200 churches that we know of. It’s very difficult to quantify accurately all that the Lord is doing behind closed doors of borders and jungle territory, but we know the Lord is working powerfully and in high volume of numbers as the P people have an incredible hunger to know God. The church is growing rapidly, both numerically and in spiritual maturity. The radios are having a huge impact on this! Imagine that… I am able to teach over the airwaves to thousands of people daily, way out in the jungle where we just can’t go.
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2 years ago, we distributed 2,800 radios. The impact is immeasurable but we know it is good. I was so impressed by the people that commented to me personally in January. The theology and understanding reflected in the feedback that I heard personally revealed a deep understanding of the gospel as we as our union and life with Christ. The radio ministry is powerfully affecting the nation, but the amount of radios is small among so many. As I stood in the crowd and reflected, my heart said, “we need another 10,000 radios“. We want to see radios in the hands of the unbelievers too as the teaching specifically speaks to believers as well as unbelievers.
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There is a strong appeal and invitation in every program and to all people, small and great, boy or girl, good and bad, saved and lost. It is an appeal to believe the gospel and receive the infinite love of God and to walk with Him in life. It is an appeal to believe the word revealed to mankind in the scriptures. As people hear the power of God’s truth, love and grace in their native language their lives are changed by the power of the truth to the measure they believe it. This is what impacted me. These radio programs are 100% in the native language of the P’s. There are virtually no other people outside the P nation who have learned their language. Our missionaries are the only ones. But since the government has evicted us from the indigenous territory, we cannot be bodily present there as foreigners. But God has blessed me with a continuing ministry in the P language through radio!
I enjoy teaching verse by verse through the NT and also composing music in P. Ha! who would of thought I’d be composing music! Below is a song I recently composed and recorded it two days ago. Yesterday, I recorded another.
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Comes from the heavens
And when his splendor is made manifest
We shall see his faceWe will hear his voice
The voice of love
He will speak goodness to us
And our hearts will be healed.
CHORUS
Putting an end to darkness
In absolute light
He will come, He will come
Our Lord will come.
He will put an end to
Bodies that die,
And to our suffering
And we shall be changed
BRIDGE
The righteous ruler of all
He will restore
All that which was created
He, the highest ruler of all
Will come to join with us
And he will judge
The wicked rulers of this world
The P’s themselves will be joining the air waves soon as they are building their recording studio. But all this is for not, if we cannot furnish them with more radios. The radios are a dedicated short wave frequency with solar chargers on them. They also have the entire P audio NT installed on an inner chip so they can listen to the word even when we are not transmitting the programs.
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Many false groups and cults are targeting the hungry hearts of the P’s. These cults are Venezuelan Nationals who speak in Spanish, but since many P’s are bilingual, they are infiltrating the nation through the bilinguals. This, of course, has no power like the power of the Holy Spirit to convince and free the heart, but it causes blindness and confusion. We want to see them fed with the truth!
To build and ship one radio it costs about $20 USD. We are trusting the Lord for 10,000. Many thanks for your prayers for this project. If you would like to donate towards it, or if you know of others who may you can access our donation page here: https://spiritofmartyrdom.com/piaroaprojects/
I plan to leave Mexico on Saturday. I am missing Robin and family. I appreciate your prayers for a safe drive home.
All for now,
t.