In the meantime, ministries like Transform Iran make bold use of satellite TV, YouTube, websites and more to spread the truth about Jesus. 

“We have two 24/7 radio stations, one purely worship music, and one a whole mix of discussion, Bible study, Bible reading. Any way that we can use the digital world to help us communicate with the people of Iran, we will use it,” says Lana Silk with Transform Iran.

Is reform on internet restrictions possible in Iran? We’ll have to wait and see. (Representative stock photo courtesy of Ali Haghighi via Unsplash.)

Silk shares the reasons that media is so effective in reaching Iranians. 

“One of them is the accessibility that it gives us. You can see that picture of the nomadic herdsman sitting in the foothills with his radio station dialing in, you know, right through to people in the inner cities on their social media networks, trying to access different information to what they’ve been fed.

“Also, media allows us more easily to speak to different language groups, ethnic minorities in Iran who wouldn’t as easily connect to a Farsi presentation of the gospel. We can have audio dramatizations of the Word of God in their languages, and suddenly we capture their hearts with that.” 

Another reason for media’s effectiveness comes from the Iranian regime itself, which bans access to Christian media. 

“They’re breeding an increased hunger in the people of Iran who want to know what this thing is that the government is so determined they don’t access. Again, media helps us get that to them quickly,” Silk says. 

Lives changed in God’s perfect timing

Stories come in regularly of how God led people to turn on Transform Iran’s TV or radio programs at a critical moment in their lives. Pray for more people to be reached! 

“We can be literally praying them through that process, that God would draw them to the media at the right time, that God would speak to them clearly in those moments when they’re reaching out, that there would be a heart connection,” Silk says. 

“Then once they hear the gospel, we can be praying for them to connect with believers for their discipleship process, for fruit to come out of their lives.”

(Photo courtesy of Transform Iran)

Consider sponsoring a broadcast segment at Transform Iran. Just $800 (€735) will cover all associated costs to produce 30 minutes of high-quality evangelistic or discipleship material for satellite broadcast. 

Learn more about Transform Iran’s media ministries and give here. 

Header photo courtesy of Transform Iran.

Brandon Neal explains. “On radio, you can’t just play the audio from a movie, because there are parts of a movie that would make absolutely no sense if you’re only listening to it. So one thing that Jesus Film did was they took that audio track, and then they added narration into it. And that’s called the Jesus Film Audio Drama. We’ve taken that, and we are distributing it all over the world. We do that digitally through TWR360, and some different partner websites within TWR. And we’re also broadcasting that on the radio.”

How to pray

TWR will broadcast the drama in 21 different languages during the weeks following Easter. These include Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, and Hindi. Neal says, “In this particular strategy, we’re doing 21 languages. Now the Jesus film audio is available in over 1600 languages. So it’s got a whole lot of different options out there, but we’re doing a very concentrated effort right now in 21 languages.”

Neal encourages listeners to pray that many will hear the good news of Jesus: “Please be praying that people’s hearts and minds will be open that they will hear the broadcast at the right time when it’s being broadcast, and that they will hear the Gospel, understand the Gospel and respond positively to it.”

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