Challenge
The greatest challenge facing Christians in the early 21st century is how the love, peace, truth and saving power of Jesus can be communicated to those in the world who have the least opportunity of hearing it. Difficulties are encountered if there are harsh restrictions on religious freedom or constraints on human rights.
TBC is using satellites, cable television, Internet, MP3 devices and iPods to deliver Bible teaching programmes into people’s homes. By using these methods, remote areas of the world are being reached with the Gospel.
Why Satellite TV?
What’s significant about satellite broadcasting is that it crosses borders and there’s no way that governments can stop it. There’s no way that the secret police or internal security can stop this message from getting to the people for whom it’s intended.
Why use the Internet?
Over 1.3 billion homes in the world have access to the internet and in the period from 2000-2007 this figure has increased by a staggering 265.56%.
Exponential discipleship using today’s technology.
Encouraging comments from Christians regarding Satellite TV
"Satellite is a tremendous way of reaching, we never had anything like that before. We are much luckier than Saint Peter preaching and winning three thousand persons to Christ on the day of Pentecost, we can reach more people. Satellite is a blessing, let’s use it for the service of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and its expansion."
Pastor Manis Abdulnoor - Cairo, Egypt.
"It’s very clear that millions of people watch The Bible Channel and when you walk Cairo’s streets or any city outside Cairo, you will find many satellite dishes over the roofs of the buildings and we are fortunate that we have free accessibility to receive satellite dishes here without any obligations."
Pastor Hani, Underground Church - Egypt
"One of the greatest challenges we have as we seek to use the medium of television to minister to the peoples in North Africa and the Middle East is availability of programming. We are very happy to be working with The Bible Channel who’s programming complements that of Sat-7 and provides valuable teaching - especially to isolated groups of believers in different countries across the region. In North Africa especially, it’s very hard for believers to meet together to get adequate teaching and encouragement and so The Bible Channel is playing a very vital part to providing that kind of support for the believers in these very needy areas."
Terry Ascott - CEO Sat-7 Channel - Middle East
"The most powerful thing we can do is to get the Word of God out and by having Bible teaching going out over the satellite airwaves we are able to literally impact tens of millions of people for the gospel of Jesus Christ. For its the Bible that God uses to touch people’s hearts and the Holy Spirit will use it to convict them of righteousness and of sin and of judgment and of the wonderful salvation in Jesus Christ."
Campus Crusade for Christ