Approaches To Evangelism - Radio Evangelism

Radio Evangelism

Radio evangelism is an approach to evangelism which began around 1921, and has reached more people per hour than any other kind of evangelism, according to The Encyclopedia of Protestantism. It is the usage of radio broadcasts to evangelize to listeners, sometimes worldwide in one broadcast.

Maria Miranda, the most listened to radio evangelist from Latin America in 1990, was heard by over 100 million people per day through 537 radio stations in 22 countries during that time. in Yemen, a country in which 97 percent of the country is listed as Muslim, 10 percent of the population listens to Christian radio. The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod has had a radio station on KFUO called "The Lutheran Hour" since 1925, had 5 million listeners by 1931, and broadcast in over 31 languages with 40 million listeners in 1987. The first missionary specific radio station, HCJB, went on the air in Ecuador on December 25, in 1931.