{"id":5402,"date":"2025-12-17T16:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/missions-christ-will-empower-us-to-take-his-message-to-the-world\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:46:24","slug":"missions-christ-will-empower-us-to-take-his-message-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/missions-christ-will-empower-us-to-take-his-message-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"MISSIONS: Christ Will Empower Us to Take His Message to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four in 10 people on earth have never heard the name of Jesus. Brother Harold, a gospel worker for 15 years among Muslims in Central Asia, joins VOM Radio this week to share what he&#8217;s seen and learned during seven years mobilizing missionaries to go into all the world.<\/p>\n<p>Harold will share how his own daughter was called to full-time missions and offer advice and encouragement to parents sending out their sons and daughters to be gospel workers, knowing that some will never come back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are about 450,000 Christian missionaries worldwide,&#8221; Harold says, &#8220;but only 15,000 go to the unreached, to the 3.4 <em>billion<\/em> unreached people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today Latin American and African churches are on fire for Christ, sending out the greatest number of missionaries to the world. How can the church in North America come alongside these willing workers?<\/p>\n<p>Listen as Brother Harold encourages local pastors to be involved and supportive of missions in their congregations, including practical advice to pastors. He will also encourage those of every age to be involved in missions and share the benefits of attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/perspectives.org\/\">Perspectives<\/a> course that helps all believers understand their roles in the Great Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Harold also shares a recent experience where he was convicted by God in a taxicab.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for unreached people groups to hear the gospel and for missionaries to be sent into the harvest fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/app\/\"><strong>The VOM App<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for your smartphone or tablet will help you pray daily for persecuted Christians throughout the year, as well as giving\u00a0<u>free<\/u>\u00a0access to e-books, audio books, video content and feature films. 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Harold will share how his own daughter was called to full-time missions and offer advice and encouragement to parents sending out their sons and daughters to be gospel workers, knowing that some will never come back. &#8220;There are about 450,000 Christian missionaries worldwide,&#8221; Harold says, &#8220;but only 15,000 go to the unreached, to the 3.4 billion unreached people.&#8221; Today Latin American and African churches are on fire for Christ, sending out the greatest number of missionaries to the world. How can the church in North America come alongside these willing workers? Listen as Brother Harold encourages local pastors to be involved and supportive of missions in their congregations, including practical advice to pastors. He will also encourage those of every age to be involved in missions and share the benefits of attending the Perspectives course that helps all believers understand their roles in the Great Commission. 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