Exloring Life Eternal

SIA: MEDIA AND EVANGELISM VIGNETTES
from: link:www.lausanne.org:Lausanne Council on World Evangelism
- February 2006

By Wing Tai Leung

In Indonesia, Christian artists present shadow plays using cow
skin to make vivid characters to communicate the gospel. They
also paint tapestries to tell biblical stories and themes in
non-linear forms. This type of folk media is very portable and
can be featured in the market, home, or other places. Folk media
is very effective with rural Asians or those who have strong
cultural ties.

Television as a mass medium is quite effective in promoting social
profiles for Christian life stories. A Christian group called
Shower of Blessings documents life stories of people who face
crises and are converted to Christianity. These television docu-
dramas are shown in Asia and North American Chinese communities.

Full story here (http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/worldreports/222).

NOTE: Dr. Wing Tai Leung is general secretary of Breakthrough
(http://www.breakthrough.org.hk) and youth ministry coordinator
of Chinese Coordination Center for World Evangelization (http://www.cccowe.org) (CCCOWE).
He convened the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization Issue Group 19 on Media and Technology.
This group produced a 65-page paper available as a PDF; click here:
(http://community.gospelcom.net/lcwe/assets/LOP48IG19.pdf).

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