Dear readers,
Sorry that it’s been awhile since my last post. There has been a lot going on this week. I am working a lot with our church, Folkkyrkan, where the vision is starting to really take hold and we know that a great future awaits us.
Several other projects are underway simultaneously. We are launching PTL in Norway in October, starting TV broadcasts in November, and that’s taken more time than I thought it would. This week we have worked on a Norwegian intro and outro, as well as designed the Norwegian studio. We have prepared for subtitles, since I hardly think anyone in Norway will understand my dialect. “Räkna med Pengar” and some other material has been translated and we are nearing the end of all of this prep work.
We have also received an offer to send the English version of our program in Asia. According to the TV director we would reach a huge number of households. I forget how many million he said, but it was a huge number. It would be so fantastic to get to show the crusade trailers and share about Jesus with all of the Asian households in the China/India regions who don’t even know who Jesus is. It would be so great if we could help out!
We are also launching PTL Children AID, a project where we are focusing on businesses to sell our CSR-packages, in order to release money for children in the third world. We are already helping many children, but all of our projects are under-financed, and now we are hoping that the budget can swell so that we can help more children.
We also want to do more in Nepal, which is wide open right now. We have 200 pastors who are living at poverty level and who could do so much more if we trained them and gave them a bit of money so that they could concentrate on their ministry. But that would also require a rather large budget since there are so many of them. But the Lord sees the need, and we’ll have to see what He does.
One very positive piece of news is that 867 people have already been saved in Sodo, the city where we are going to hold the next crusade in Ethiopia. As I told you before, we have started the School of the Crusader in Addis. Twelve wild, young evangelists. They are now cooperating with the local organization to improve the marketing strategy for our crusade and we already seem to have had a breakthrough. That raises the temperature and creates expectation. Thanks to all of you who are standing with us.
If God speaks to you about PTL and what we are doing, please let us know. Our ministry is a collaboration, something we all do together, one for all and all for one.Have a great weekend,
Tommy
