The Message and the Method

“YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 (NIV, caps my own)Time has a way of changing things—well, not everything, but some things. One of the things that sometimes needs to change is the way we do ministry. I remember back in the early 1980s, reading some of the writings of NEFC Founder, Tom Francis, and his successor, Joseph Jolly.There was a section in our NEFC objectives that said: “NEFC yearns to share the Gospel in every Native community in Canada.” My unspoken thought at the time was, “Yeah, right! That’s just dreamy. It’s not reality! How could we ever reach a goal like that?”In the early 2000s, NEFC’s radio broadcast “Christ Jesus the Light (CJTL)” was born. As time went on, it became more and more of a gospel tool that has been used effectively for Jesus. When we added internet audio broadcasting several years later, it became globally accessible. Anyplace that has internet can now tune in to the 24-hour, 365-days-a-year gospel programming that CJTL offers! About 90% of our Native communities can now get nonstop gospel broadcasting! (That’s besides the 28 communities that have a local CJTL FM radio broadcast.)The words that were penned back in the early 1970s are becoming reality many years later! The message hasn’t changed, only the methods.– Kene Jackson   Council Fire is a collaboration with Intertribal Life Ministries and Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. The Council Fire Daily Devotional Book Set is available on the Intertribal Life Ministries website. Learn more about Council Fire at councilfire365.org