Dia-Logos Podcast -Ep 19 - Transforming Communities One Story at a Time with Challenge Good News Paper

So, so let's go back to where it originated, um, Ilze, um, so that we can get a bit of an idea where this all started.

Yes.

Uh, Eric Evans, he's an Australian guy who radically came to know the Lord Jesus Christ, and he got saved.

Um, he lived in Perth in Australia, and he trusted the Lord for a way to share the gospel in a non-offensive way with other people.

And yes, uh, he prayed about it, and this is, was the idea that he felt the Holy Spirit, uh, laid on his heart to have a really friendly, effective first contact tool to reach the lost with the gospel.

Mm.

And it's so effective because people can relate to stories.

Yes.

And it's so non-offensive because sometimes when you give a Bible to a person, they feel offended by it, but the moment you ask him, "Can I share good news with you?" And you can have one of the stories as a connection point, it is such a friendly way to, to share the good news of Jesus because everybody wants good news, right?

Yeah.

I'm actually seeing that th- this is not just a paper that you read, and then when you're done, you use it at the bottom of the budgie cage.

You know, I feel like this is something-

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... that you use over and over again, you know.

It almost doesn't matter what the date is on the paper, the pow- the stories remain timeless and powerful.

powerful.Yes, that's true, and there's no date on the paper because, like, just like you say, the stories never gets old, and it's always relevant to people.

And, um, yes, so we are also seeing it that when people read the paper themselves, they are more eager to share it with others because they've been blessed by it first.

So then it's so easy to pay it forward because you've been blessed by it.

And also, it's like we said, it's a, it's just a, a conversation starter, um, just to share the gospel with someone.

Mm.

Uh, Kobus, there's not just one edition of, uh, Challenge Good News paper that goes out.

It comes out in so many different formats f- for a different reading audience.

Tell us a bit about that.

Yes, we've got a, a community edition that we basically use for churches and ministries, uh, to assist them to make themselves known in the community.

Then we've got a military edition that actually goes to our military bases, and we've also, um, went, uh, and spread it to the Congo as our military was involved in the Congo.