International (MNN) — If you long to know more of God and His power in your life, a recently launched radio program might spur you on in your pursuit.
Mission 66 from Trans World Radio is a chapter-by-chapter journey through the Bible. Its two co-hosts are eager to help Scripture come to life for every listener. One of the hosts is John-Paul Davies, a freelance broadcaster from Wales.
“People are looking for something that only God can offer,” Davies says about Wales today. To him, Jesus’ words in John 14:6 (“I am the way, the truth and the life”) is a message that people from every country in the world long for.
“That sense of hope and encouragement,” he says. “What’s a hope that lasts? Well, a hope that lasts is a hope that goes beyond this life.”
John Paul Davies is the voice of John Mathews on the Mission 66 program. (Photo courtesy of TWR)
Today, Davies sees how technology and media offer so many distractions from what really matters. But only the gospel of Christ gives hope for eternity. That’s where a program like Mission 66 redirects our focus — back on the eternal things in God’s Word.
“It’s deep, because the Bible is deep and people’s needs are deep, but it’s accessible as well,” Davies says of the program.
Would you join in praying for Mission 66? (Check it out for yourself here!) Pray that God will open the hearts of listeners to receive from His Word. Pray for blessing on the team as well.
“We go to it really with a sense of, ‘Lord, this is Your work. It’s not ours,’ and so we cover it in prayer,” Davies says. “That would be my prayer for Mission 66, that we would surrender it completely to Him and just say, ‘Lord, you lead the way.’”
Pray also for a move of God to come again to Wales.
“There was [a revival] in the 18th century, 1735 — it was a Methodist revival. There was one in 1859, and then 1904 was the last great revival that swept across Wales, when tens of thousands of people were converted in a matter of months,” Davies says. “There’s a real sense of longing, I think, amongst young people — amongst students, amongst 20-year-olds. I see a longing for hope, a longing for something more in Wales.”
Header photo courtesy of Humble Lamb via Unsplash.
