Feba Middle East’s Jerry Wilson says: “There are a lot of people out there who do not have much hope. They often live in a difficult country with high unemployment, lack of water, growing rebel violence.

We’ve got a different message, words of hope from the Bible.” Feba listener Mohammed in Yemen had no access to a Bible or a local church, but he listened to Feba’s radio programmes collecting Bible verses for 20 years.

“Without my own Bible I got to know Jesus Christ from the radio,” says Mohammed. ”For 20 years I have been listening to radio programmes by Feba and each time I was writing down the Bible reading that I heard on the radio. I had a notebook full of verses from the Old and the New Testament but I could not put them in order so I asked Feba to send me a Bible. I shared what I learned with my friends. Now my friends and I listen to Feba Radio together.”

As the Feba logo was redesigned we wanted to reflect our renewed commitment to giving hope to the hard-to-reach. The new tagline: ‘life. change. hope.’ expresses our desire to take God’s life-changing hope to those significantly hindered in responding to the Gospel. Hope is a new perspective for many who face difficulties and persecution as they follow Christ. Change to their situations may take its time coming, but hope sustains people in the waiting.

Jerry interviewed a pastor in the Middle East asking him about believers who come from a Muslim background. The pastor replied: “First of all, most of them came to faith through a ministry like yours: your radio. The only spiritual food they get is through your programmes broadcast to them, because that’s their church. That’s their contact with the Christian world and the Bible. Because many of them, they do not even have a copy of the Bible.”

The pastor continued with this story: “I met a man one day who thought he was the only Muslim who believed in Jesus Christ in the whole Arab world. He thought nobody else does, so he was scared. He couldn’t talk about it; he was so secretive about it. During the night, he switches on the radio to listen to Feba programmes. He can’t wait till that time comes, because he loves listening to his little radio – to the songs, to the Scripture reading, to the teaching – that is his church.”

In Yemen church leaders are keen to be involved in presenting some of our programmes for Yemen, particularly Reality Church (a discipleship series teaching new believers how to ‘be’ church). When asked about security issues, one replied “We lived in fear for 15 years, then reached a peak, and now don’t live in fear as we realise the future we are heading for!” Another added “Last year I was afraid but now my wife is a believer, I no longer fear!”

A Reality Church listener says: “Thank you for your beautiful message and for the answer in today's programme. What you said is true and your programmes give me hope.”

“For those in Islam, there’s no guarantee,” shares Jerry. “We have an eternal hope and a hope for peace, a hope for restoration, a hope for a new life, and a life that means something.”

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