Television Ministries

Television Ministries

Since the late nineties, satellite television has drastically changed the media landscape of the Middle East and North Africa. As seen in the photo above, dishes are literally everywhere: on rooftops, on balconies, sticking outside windows and even sitting on shacks. Homes can now access hundreds if not thousands of satellite channels in a number of different languages.

Christian agencies have jumped on this unobstructed door of ministry and have been presenting the Gospel in one form or another. Except that with over 20 Arabic Christian channels, none was providing a daily solid Bible exposition, none until Thru The Bible Radio Network and Endure International partnered to produce for television Dr. J. Vernon McGee’s studies.

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Production costs were fully covered by TTB and airtime was free. In February of 2013 the first televised Arabic TTB program began airing on one Arabic Christian satellite channel. In July of that same year, and due to the richness of the program, the high quality of production and popular demand, a second Arabic Christian satellite channel asked to air it, also free of charge. And if that were not enough, a third channel asked for the same and began airing it in January of 2014. Depending on where they live, viewers can watch as many as 7 airings a day, Monday to Friday of every week. Today, those programs air on 6 satellite channels. Moreover, these programs are also available on social media.

In 2019, work was undertaken to dub or li-sync the Arabic version into the Dari or Farsi language, spoken in Iran and also widely spoken in Afghanistan. The process was painstakingly long and tedious. The 1423 video programs had to be transcribed word for word, then translated into English and then from English into Farsi. By January 2020 we had enough supply to launch it on 4 Christian Farsi satellite channels. A fifth channel was added later in the year.

By the middle of 2019, work was undertaken to dub or lip-sync the same into the Turkish language. By the Lord’s grace, the Turkish version was launched at the end of August 2020, initially on one Christian Turkish channel, with a second added more recently.

As in the case of the original Arabic, the two other languages are strongly represented and present on all platforms of social media.

The links below allow viewers to watch previous and up to date episodes.