Middle East Archives - Great Commission Media Ministries https://www.gcmediaministries.org/category/news/middle-east/ Using media to fulfill the Great Commission Wed, 28 May 2025 20:37:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-favicon_gcm-32x32.png Middle East Archives - Great Commission Media Ministries https://www.gcmediaministries.org/category/news/middle-east/ 32 32 Ethiopia’s largest church “Mekane Yesus” requests Mega City Campaign https://www.gcmediaministries.org/megachurch-hopes-for-media-mission/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/megachurch-hopes-for-media-mission/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:11:43 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8954 At the beginning of the year, we received a heartfelt invitation from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia to come together in a spirit of prayer to discuss having a Mega City Campaign with the leaders of “Mekane Yesus” church. The Evangelical Lutheran Mekane Yesus Church already has 15 million members. By God's grace, the church will soon celebrate its 70th anniversary, and…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/megachurch-hopes-for-media-mission/feed/ 0 Cairo, Egypt — A Door of Opportunity https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-mission-call-from-cairo-the-capital-of-egypt/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-mission-call-from-cairo-the-capital-of-egypt/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:07:40 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8892 Photo: Christian television programs in production for the Arabic world at GCMM’s ministry media center in Finland. Weekly programs are produced in Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Tajik, Berber, and Sudanese Arabic. Programs have also been produced in Somali, Amharic, and Urdu. Egypt, with a population of 113 million, is a country featured throughout the Bible, from…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-mission-call-from-cairo-the-capital-of-egypt/feed/ 0 The Power of Christian Media 2024 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-power-of-christian-media/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-power-of-christian-media/#respond Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:09:32 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8868 Reaching the Arabic world GCMM produced more than 1,000 evangelistic TV programs conveying the gospel message via 18 satellites to millions of viewers, from North Africa, spanning across the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asian countries. More than 200,000 responses from the satellite viewing audience reach us monthly with questions and feedback from the…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-power-of-christian-media/feed/ 0 War in the Middle EastDisrupts TraditionalChristmas Celebrations https://www.gcmediaministries.org/war-in-the-middle-east/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/war-in-the-middle-east/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:04:18 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8776 GCMM has been ministering to Jews since the early 2000s. The first media training seminars were organized for congregations in Haifa. Successful media campaigns followed in Hebrew, Russian, and Arabic in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. As a result, one core ministry of GCMM has developed to reach Russian-speaking Jews in Russia, Ukraine, and Israel.…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/war-in-the-middle-east/feed/ 0 Islamic Ministry: New Opportunities to Share the Gospel https://www.gcmediaministries.org/islamic-ministry-a-new-year-and-a-new-task/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/islamic-ministry-a-new-year-and-a-new-task/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:20:28 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=7672 [caption id="attachment_487" align="alignnone" width="3261"]A call center like this will be set up in Calcutta to receive calls from people who want to hear the Gospel.[/caption]

Preparations are underway to conduct an evangelistic media campaign in Kolkata, India. 

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/islamic-ministry-a-new-year-and-a-new-task/feed/ 0 Arabic & Muslim – Follow Up https://www.gcmediaministries.org/follow-up/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/follow-up/#respond Sun, 02 Sep 2018 06:37:35 +0000 http://dev.gcmediaministries.org/2010/09/02/follow-up/ [caption id="attachment_191" align="alignnone" width="900"]Follow up is handled by email and messaging due to restricted access in many countries.[/caption]

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/follow-up/feed/ 0 EAST UKRAINE: GCMM Takes The Gospel To The World’s Dangerous Regions https://www.gcmediaministries.org/gospel-worlds-dangerous-places/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/gospel-worlds-dangerous-places/#respond Mon, 30 Jul 2018 19:41:17 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=1600 Many Seek God Approximately 1.5 million people live in the war zone. The director of a local orphanage is Pastor Gennadiy Mohnenkon. His congregation has been struggling to help the residents in the conflict zone. Missions groups from the church visit with people offering them spiritual help as well as humanitarian aid. Some families have offered their…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/gospel-worlds-dangerous-places/feed/ 0 Arabic & Muslim – Internet https://www.gcmediaministries.org/internet/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/internet/#respond Sat, 03 Mar 2018 06:18:00 +0000 http://dev.gcmediaministries.org/2014/03/03/internet/ [caption id="attachment_173" align="alignnone" width="200"]GCM Ministries maintains 10 evangelical and discipleship websites designed for Arabs and Muslims [/caption]

 

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/internet/feed/ 0 BEIRUT: Unprecedented Opportunity To Reach Lebanon LIVE on Prime-Time! https://www.gcmediaministries.org/beirut-unprecedented-opportunity-to-reach-lebanon-live-on-prime-time/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/beirut-unprecedented-opportunity-to-reach-lebanon-live-on-prime-time/#respond Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:13:00 +0000 http://dev.gcmediaministries.org/2015/12/15/beirut-unprecedented-opportunity-to-reach-lebanon-live-on-prime-time/ [caption id="attachment_428" align="alignnone" width="700"]Together with 57 church pastors of Beirut the GCMM team watched as a new page in missions history was written in the Middle East.[/caption]

Great Commission Media Ministries, in partnership with East-West Ministries conducted an evangelistic campaign this past November, that was without parallel.

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/beirut-unprecedented-opportunity-to-reach-lebanon-live-on-prime-time/feed/ 0 Media Campaign in the Heart of Islam https://www.gcmediaministries.org/media-campaign-in-the-heart-of-islam/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/media-campaign-in-the-heart-of-islam/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2015 08:00:00 +0000 http://dev.gcmediaministries.org/2015/06/03/media-campaign-in-the-heart-of-islam/ [caption id="attachment_364" align="alignnone" width="290"]Mega city campaign in Erbil, Iraq was surprisingly peaceful and response was beyond expectations.[/caption]

In February, 2013 GCM Ministries conducted a very suspenseful and most unlikely mega city media campaign, one that should never have been. It took place in the heart of the Islamic world...

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