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Dan Brokke is the president of Bethany International (www. BethanyInternational.org), an organization with the goal of "Taking the church to where it is not, and helping others do the same." Listen as Dan shares how Bethany set the goal of engaging with 500 unreached, unengaged people groups by 2020. He'll share where they are in that process, and how the organization trains workers to go to the h...

Dr. Hormoz Shariat, the president and founder of Iran Alive Ministries, has been called "The Billy Graham of Iran" by author Joel Rosenberg. Millions of Iranians refer to Shariat as, "my pastor" as he speaks to them in their living rooms each evening through satellite television. In recent months, protests broke out all over Iran; people marched in the streets against their Islamic government. Dr....

Tom and JoAnn Doyle have been married almost 38 years, and God has used their marriage to draw others to Christ in the United States and even in the Middle East. Listen in as they share how they've seen God use their marriage. They'll tell you what Muslims see as different about a Christian marriage and how they have worked to balance God's call to ministry and marriage in order to be successful a...

John Grooters is the director of a new movie portraying the story of VOM's founders, Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand, the story told by Richard in his best-selling book, Tortured For Christ . Listen this week as John talks about turning this iconic book into a film, including the challenge of portraying Richard's suffering in an appropriate way. John will also share how God's hand was on the producti...

Join us this week as we get to know Cole Richards, who has served more than a decade with The Voice of the Martyrs and in January, 2018, stepped into the role as President and CEO of the organization. Cole will share about how God called him to missions work and share about some of the persecuted Christians he's met who have inspired his own faith walk, and how VOM plays a unique role within the w...

For years, Helen Berhane read Scriptures about forgiving our enemies and praying for those who persecute us. But during long months as a prisoner in Eritrea—including long stretches locked in a metal shipping container—Helen got to see those Scriptures come to life in her own spirit and actions. In this second half of our conversation, she shares how she found that in the fires of intense persecut...

Helen Berhane was a well-known worship leader and gospel singer in the churches of Eritrea when the government outlawed evangelical churches. In one week these churches went from meeting openly in large public services to being underground, meeting in homes and hiding from police. In the midst of that crackdown, Helen was arrested, beaten and put in prison. Listen as Helen shares how she prepared...

Jim Dau served at VOM for 18 years, including in recent years as VOM's President and CEO. Join VOM Radio this week to hear about Jim's recent visit to persecuted Christians in Myanmar (Burma), including a family that faced intense persecution just days after coming to faith in Christ. Jim will also look back on some of the Christians that impacted him during his service at VOM, and some of the spi...

MovingMomentsof2017Part2 by The Voice of the Martyrs

This week we begin a look back at some of the most memorable moments on VOM Radio in 2017. Hear Petr Jasek share how, after he was arrested in Sudan and put into a prison cell, he realized God had been preparing him for that moment, and had even shown him the prison cell door in a dream. Brother David will share how when police showed up to arrest him in Turkey, he was excited that God must have b...

Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth With a Mission (https://ywam.org/), is back with us this week on VOM Radio, fresh off of a visit to the nation of Nigeria. Listen as he shares why Nigeria is such a strategic nation in reaching Africa for Christ. God is working to bring people to Christ in Nigeria—including militants violently opposed to the gospel—and He's using YWAM workers in powerful ways...

Edward Ayub is back to continue our conversation about gospel work and persecution in Bangladesh. Listen as he shares about a training center where Christians, Muslims and followers of other faiths come together to study the different religions. Edward shares how some Muslims who come to the center find that Jesus offers answers to questions of their heart that Islam has no answers for. He also gi...

Edward Ayub grew up in a Muslim family, and aspired to be "one of the best Muslims." When a Christian came to witness to Ayub during the Ramadan fast, Ayub was deeply offended. He gathered some friends and beat the Christian badly. When the Christian came back days later, Ayub was sure he was seeking revenge. Instead, that Christian forgave his attackers and continued to befriend Ayub. That respon...

Cuban pastors go to church each week knowing government spies are planted among their congregation, people wanting to collect evidence to get the pastor arrested. It's just one of many ways the Cuban government brings constant pressure against the church. Listen in as Jonathan Ekman, VOM's Vice President for International Ministry, shares stories from a recent visit to Cuba and the believers he me...

The family in Myanmar had recently come to Christ when they were called to the monastery to stand before the entire community and a gathering of Buddhist monks. The monks explained that there was no room for Christians in that area. If the family wouldn't denounce their new faith and return to Buddhism, then their safety couldn't be guaranteed. Boldly, the family said that, whatever the cost, they...

North Korea is heavily featured in current news, especially as U.S. President Donald Trump visits Asia. This week on VOM Radio we'll look behind the headlines with Dr. Eric Foley, the President of VOM-Korea who oversees VOM work to encourage Christians inside North Korea and to reach North Koreans with the gospel message of Christ—North Koreans living inside North Korea and those living in other n...

Our guest this week says there is a special spiritual window open right now in a place you might not expect: The Islamic Republic of Iran. "Ali" is a gospel worker in that country with amazing testimonies of how God is at work inside Iran right now, showing off His power and bringing Iranians into fellowship with Jesus. Ali will challenge us with the difference between a convert and a disciple and...

YWAM Frontier Missions (www. YWAMFM.com) is sending gospel workers to unreached peoples around the world, including many nations where Christians are persecuted for their faith. Listen as leaders from YWAM discuss the places where they see God working mightily today, and describe how they train church planters to thrive in hostile regions. They'll talk about the most important quality they look fo...

Dr. Carl Moeller is the CEO of Biblica: The International Bible Society, helping deliver God's Word to people all over the world. Biblica is one of the organizations VOM partners with in delivering the Scriptures into hostile and restricted nations. Listen in as Dr. Moeller discusses Bible delivery into countries where Christians are persecuted, what it means to Christians in those countries to ha...

"Whenever I read the Scripture, it's full of persecution." For Dr. Berhane, a Christian from Eritrea, persecution is not only in Scripture, it's also a part of his personal story. He spent 11 months in prison for his faith in Christ. But even in prison he saw God's hand at work and found opportunities to witness to others. Listen as he shares about how prison guards would come and read the names o...

Petr Jasek, VOM's Africa Regional Director, was visiting persecuted Christians in Sudan and assessing how VOM could best help believers there. But instead of flying home from the trip, he was detained at the airport in Khartoum. Listen as Petr shares highlights from his story, which is also told in the October issue—the 50th Anniversary Edition—of VOM's free monthly newsletter. Listen as Petr shar...

What might God do if you made the commitment to pray every day for a specific country? What doors might He open? Two decades ago Peter Smith and his wife were challenged to adopt a country and specifically pray every day for God's Spirit to move in that country. The country God led them to was the Islamic Republic of Iran. Listen to hear how Peter and his wife began to pray, how God opened the doo...

The first time "Brother Dan" travelled to India was on a mission trip 25 years ago. With one visit to this vast country, he was hooked! Six years ago, Dan moved to India full time, working to share the gospel and strengthen the church. Listen this week as Dan shares how God is at work in India, including performing miracles that show He is more powerful than any of the millions of gods Hindus foll...

When "Brother David" told his Tibetan Buddhist family that he had left Buddhism and was following Jesus Christ, they kicked him out of the family. They wouldn't even let him take his suitcase with him! But God provided for David, not only to survive but to attend Bible school and become a bold evangelist and church leader. Listen as David shares his story, and how God has allowed him to minister o...

"Brother David" was born into a Tibetan Buddhist family. He was even chosen for special training by the Dalai Lama. Yet even as he learned more about Buddhism, he was filled with darkness and says he was a man who "never had peace." But he saw something different—light—in his roommate, a man he didn't know at that time was a Christian. David asked him why he was different. Before that conversation...