Imagine standing on the deck of a ship and suddenly hearing a scream. A fellow passenger has fallen into the sea. Frantically, you look around for a way to save the person and see the following:  a life jacket, an inflatable raft, and a rope. Which one do you use to save the lost passenger?  That's correct: All of them.

The same goes for Christian ministry today.  Despite current economic differences between nations, the tools of communications can be found in every corner.   Populations who've never had telephones before (land lines were too expensive for their government to install) are now saturated with cellular phones.  In Latin America you are always within walking distance of an Internet café.  In 2008, a Nazarene radio boat will travel along the banks of the Amazon river in Brazil, broadcasting daily devotionals as far as it can reach into the jungles, reaching people groups who will hear the Gospel for the first time.

There are millions of "lost passengers" within the reach of someone who can save them.  They just need the Truth.  How do we save them?  By all means possible.  If it can, in any way, house a Biblical truth, we need to seize the opportunity and throw a Lifeline out into a lost world.
   
So what are those means?  With new tools being developed everyday, the following are some of the ways World Mission Broadcast (WMB) is now spreading the Good News: Shortwave radio, AM and FM radio, satellite download radio, alternative radio (broadcasting with loudspeakers from street poles or the decks of boats), television, internet-radio streaming, podcasting, cell-phone texting, and the posting of ministry video clips on the popular web site www.youtube.com.

On the Mexico/Central America Region, a full-time Nazarene radio station is now broadcasting on the Internet – you can hear it at www.idnradio.com.  In South America, weekly radio programs are posted to an online server where station managers from Europe, North America, Central America, Africa and Central and South America go each week to download content for use in their broadcasts.  On the Asia-Pacific Region, where cellular phones have become the main means of communication, WMB provides evangelism and follow-up discipleship right over the phone, via texting.  Computers easily communicate with cell phones, and we now have a person in the Philippines whose sole ministry is communicating with cell phones throughout the region.  Asia-Pacific is also our first region to begin using podcasts as ministry tools.  Listeners can subscribe to their favorite audio program and download it automatically to a computer or audio-listening device.  South America is soon to launch their own podcast.  The video-streaming phenomenon www.youtube.com has become an innovative place to post videos with God-centered messages where thousands will view them as word spreads.  Several of our regions regularly post ministry videos on this web site.

As we stand on the world's ship-deck today, we are surrounded by ways to rescue those lost in the sea. Hard to image how anyone could drown if we reach out to him or her by all means possible.

To read more about the Church of the Nazarene’s global broadcast ministry, log on to www.worldmissionbroadcast.org.