Your assignment (should you accept it) is to get an urgent message out to as many people as possible, in as many places as possible, in as short a time as possible. How are you going to do it?

You could get online and post your message to all your friends on Facebook. That’s a good method if you’ve got lots of friends who have access to the internet.

You could invest in an auto-dialing system for smart phones. That’s a smart move for people who have smart phones.

TV? That’s a good call for people who can get good cable.

No matter how you cut it…radio is still the best way to reach as many people as possible in as many places as possible. Almost everybody on the planet has access to a radio. Radios can be found in virtually every taxi cab, every coffee shop and every village square. In even the most remote and isolated places on the planet, radio can reach people. Whether it’s AM, FM, XM, satellite, shortwave or internet, radio, in one form or another, can reach beyond every border and every barrier.

Since 1931, radio has been a crucial resource in the toolkit of Reach Beyond. Looking to the future, radio will continue to be one of our most significant tools for making Jesus known and loved among all nations.

Reach Beyond pioneered missionary radio and our shortwave broadcasts circled the globe. But our founders ultimately believed that local radio, using local people was the best way to reach people with the Gospel, and we operated local stations in Ecuador, Panama, and along the U.S. Mexico border.

Over the years, we’ve helped partners start more than 600 local radio stations all over the planet. We’re not slowing down now. Every few months, we’re launching new radio stations across Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and many other places.

While most of the world has moved toward local radio, there’s still a very significant role for shortwave. Every day, millions of people in India, Japan, Myanmar and North Korea hear the Good News of Jesus Christ as it’s beamed from our shortwave transmitters in the Outback of Australia.

As some countries are closing the door to evangelistic radio, we’re adapting to the use of internet radio. Every day, in North Africa, in the Middle East and in Central Asia, internet radio is reaching thousands of men, women and children, with the good news that Jesus loves them. God is continuing to use radio as a powerful tool for making Jesus known and loved. 

P.S.  Ask God to show you how you can get involved. Our vision is to make the Gospel readily accessible to every unreached people group of more than 100,000 people. That’s 1900 people groups. That’s a lot of radio stations! Let’s do it. Let’s do it together.