That is the answer God gave us as we prayed earnestly for the remaining least reached people groups. It has taken us, along with more than 50 ministry partnerships, thirty years to complete culturally relevant gospel films for 225 of the largest and least reached people groups. How can we ever hope to see indigenous gospel films produced for hundreds of smaller remaining peoples?

God’s response to our desperate prayers were these words, “You can’t, but they can!” The Lord made it clear that the answer to our inability was His ability to call out new believers from among these people groups to produce and use media to reach the lost. In partnership with field partners and nationals, we have worked together to produce gospel films for the unreached. God’s challenge and His plan is to now use those from unreached people groups to produce their own media: in their own way, in their own language, and for their own people. From the harvest field, God wants to raise up laborers to reap the remaining harvest through dynamic gospel media. God is already building an army of indigenous gospel communicators and filmmakers.

What are Movements and Why are They Important?

“What’s the buzz about church-planting movements (CPMs)? Since the 1990s missionaries have been tracking the emergence of modern church-planting movements. They are really not new. From the early church in the book of Acts, to the Moravians and the Methodists, to the Naga of India, history has been peppered with large movements of people coming to Christ. Amazingly, in the last 25 years we have seen the rapid emergence of hundreds of these movements worldwide, often in places most resistant to the gospel.” www.2414Now.Net

The focus of church planting and disciple making movements is to make every follower of Christ a reproducing disciple rather than merely a convert. A church planting movement engagement is considered a stage 5 mature movement once it has reach to the 4th generation of church multiplication. It is considered to be very likely that it will continue to multiply exponentially without the need for outside resources. In the past 5 years we have seen an unprecedented increase in the number of these movements among unreached peoples. This level of growth of the church is like nothing we have ever seen in the history of missions.

The Media4Movements Coalition recognizes the significance of what God is doing in the world today among the Unreached through movements. We are convinced of the need to support movement leaders in order to see the acceleration and multiplication of disciple making movements all over the world among the least reached peoples.

Media4Movements Goals

In our coaching, we will communicate the high value of developing and implementing “Comprehensive Media Strategies.”Digital strategies, by nature of the world’s online habits, will continue to expand. But real engagement takes place in building relationships online and offline – which the Body of Christ can do in a variety of creative ways. One of our most effective cross-cultural film genres makes this case through the Contextual Gathering films. Modeling indigenous worship, prayer, and fellowship, each home fellowship film shows seekers and new believers what it looks like to become a follower of Jesus within their community. These films have attracted many to follow Christ, inviting their friends and family to share in this new community of Christ followers. Blending the experience of watching the film with relationship building, these comprehensive strategies have proven fruitful. New fellowships will emerge, infused with their own creative expressions.

Some of our movement leaders are already recording their own indigenous worship music and testimonies. When they heard of our desire to equip them to produce their own gospel music and films, they proclaimed, “when can you come—we are ready!”

Many nationals are putting these films on their own YouTube sites and seeing more than a million views, accelerating their church planting movements. These films show how the gospel is lived out among their people and culture. Home group fellowships multiply and the gospel thrives in their community.

Media4Movements – The Way Forward

We invite your participation in this M4M resource community! Movement leaders please contact us for ways we could serve and coach your teams in media strategies. Media coaches, producers, trainers and distributors all are welcome to join in our united efforts. Together, we can see movements multiplied and all peoples embrace the Gospel as their own!