Jericho
Christian Television is a strong
supporter of Christian missions
and the dedicated men and women
that serve in the mission field.
Spring of 2002 marked the inauguration
of our program that we are still
calling
Mission Awareness.
Our first trip took our Mission
Awareness Team to
a mountainous region of Eastern
Honduras. Our team took a digital
video/still camera, laptop,
GPS and a rented Nera WorldPhone
satellite telephone into those
mountains. Suddenly, through
the eyes of the television camera,
the marvels of satellite communications,
and the Internet that team's
church members were transported
closer to the mission field
than they ever thought possible.
Take a moment and imagine the
excitement that comes from tracking
the daily location of your church's
missionary team as they travel
village to village in some distant
country, viewing the pictures,
reading the team's daily travel
log and praying for the team
members. Perhaps you would like
to trek through the mountains
of Guatemala with a doctor and
his wife as they ministry to
the physical and spiritual needs
of people that rarely receive
medical care. Walk down dusty
and bombed out streets in Monrovia,
Liberia as you follow young
men dedicated to carrying the
Gospel of Jesus Christ to people
that have only known war for
over fourteen years. Mission
Awareness Teams now
travel with the latest technologies
including internet enabled cellular
telephones that can capture
both video/still photos, provide
text messages, and can post
directly to YouTube
from many parts of the world.
Broadband satellite service
allows the transmission and
posting of videos from virtually
any place on the globe.
We pray that the pictures and
videos that visitors see on
our web site will begin a stirring
in hearts for missions. Jesus
said in the Book of Matthew,
"The harvest is plentiful
but the workers are few. Ask
the Lord of the harvest, therefore,
to send out workers into his
harvest field." (Matthew
10:37-38) Before each
of us knew Jesus, someone had
to take the time to tell each
of us.
