The HOPE for Tibetans
- Posted: 2017-04-24
Following is a short story from one of our partners in the field.
"We recently showed a film called “Hope” that is tailor made for Tibetan people to hear and see all the stories of the Bible and understand the gospel. One Tibetan Buddhist monk arrived an hour late to our showing one night. He was so enthralled with the last half that he insisted we come into the Buddhist school the next night and show the film again for him and all the staff. The next day he discussed the gospel and Christianity with one of our translators for over an hour.
When the film was played that night, the monk quieted everyone and then explained the stories, translating them from proper Tibetan (spoken by monks) to the village dialect. Here was a monk, inviting in the gospel, and helping preach it to his fellow villagers."
In January 2017, missionaries living in Thailand told us that several years ago they gave out 75 copies of The Thai HOPE to all the employees of one company. A woman who received a copy found the disc stuck in her DVD player a year later... so she watched it. It made such an impact that she called them with questions and ended up asking Jesus to be her savior! God's timing is always perfect!
Early in 2015, we partnered with other ministries to send 40 thousand of micro SD cards to the underground Church in Iran for undercover distribution. Each card contained The Farsi HOPE video (and some other videos) and a Farsi Bible. In an earlier project, we partnered to send 50,000 micro SD cards with The HOPE to Arabic-speaking countries. Unlike printed Bibles, micro SD cards can easily be copied and inserted into mobile phones, where they are hidden from the view of those who are hostile to the Gospel.