50.000 Muslim Iran Murtad** TV Kristen Iran Terus Menjangkau Ribuan Muslim Kelompok Pengabaran Injil dari gereja di California yang dipilih sebagai “America’s Church of the Week” di bulan Februari telah melaporkan bahwa lebih dari 50.000 Muslim Iran telah memeluk Kristen sejak satelit TV jarak jauh pertama kali disiarkan 2 tahun yang lalu. International Antioch Ministries (IAM), yang menayangkan 10 jam program2 setiap minggu melalui Republik Islam Iran, telah menerima ratusan panggilan telpon, e-mail dan fax dari orang2 Iran yang hidup di Iran dan seluruh dunia, dan tiga kali lipat lebih banyak dalam 6 bulan terakhir ini. TV Kristen Iran (ICTV) menawarkan program2 seperti tanya jawab dengan pendeta live show; ibadah dan puji2an, dan petunjuk2 hidup Kristiani. Siaran TV ini berfungsi sebagai “gereja rumah” bagi banyak orang Iran yang hidup di negara2 Islam yang khawatir untuk melakukan ibadah secara terbuka. “Sebagai bekas Muslim dari Timur Tengah, kami bisa menjangkau jutaan Muslim dan membawa mereka ke dalam terang Kristus,” kata pendiri IAM yakni Pastor Hormoz Shariat. “Hanya dalam dua tahun saja, kita perhitungkan lebih dari 50.000 Muslim Iran telah memeluk agama Kristen melalui pengabaran injil via satelit TV IAM. Banyak orang Kristen baru itu yang sekarang menghadapi hukuman penjara, penyiksaan, kehilangan pekerjaan dan pembunuhan. Dengan dukungan yang murah hati dari pengabaran2 injil seperti as Voice of the Martyrs dan Sammy Tippit Ministries, dan juga donasi orang2, IAM dapat melakukan dan mengembangkan kegiatan utamanya.” IAM recently welcomed its first ministry partner, the Sammy Tippit Ministries, which is now sharing the Gospel through IAM’s ICTV. Pastor Sammy Tippit, who leads the ministry formerly known as God’s Love in Action, presents his preaching and programs over IAM’s ICTV one hour each week, translated into the Iranian language, Farsi. “We would be delighted to help other churches and ministries reach Muslims in the 10/40 window by advising them as well as assisting with media production and literature translation,” said Shariat. “We would also like to thank our donors and supporters, without whom this great work could not continue.” IAM, headquartered in San Jose, California, is also involved in planting churches, training Iranian-speaking Christian leaders for ministry, developing Iranian language evangelistic and discipleship materials and providing humanitarian support to Iranians worldwide. Its California-based church plant, The Iranian Christian Church, has the largest affiliated Iranian Christian membership outside of Tehran, Iran. In February of 2004, the Christian Broadcasting Network’s The 700 Club featured the church as “America’s Church of the Week”. “The work to evangelize in Iran first began in 1830, by American missionaries. By 1979, nearly 150 years later, only 3,000 evangelical Christians lived in an Iranian population of 50 million,” explained Shariat. Today, with an estimated population of 69 million, Muslims still account for the majority of the population at 98%, however Christians now account for close to 1%. IAM’s five-year objectives include winning 10% of the Iranian population to Christ, planting an additional 20 churches among Muslims in North America, having a 24-hour Christian satellite broadcast service to the Middle East, printing Bibles and Christian literature for Muslims, and holding evangelistic crusades in Tehran’s One Hundred Thousand Stadium. Currently, the ministry’s California-based churches are located in San Jose, Fremont, Sacramento, Fresno, and Los Angeles. Farsi speakers can learn more about IAM’s ICTV, including broadcast times and stations at ic-tv, while English speakers can learn more about IAM and its broadcast ministry at its website, iam-online.net. christianpost/dbase.php? ... ies&id=751 iam-online.net/Press_release ... (Read-Only).pdf
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