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2021 was another year watching God work, lifting us over countless obstacles and multiplying our feeble efforts in ways we could not have imagined or planned. For example, despite November’s unsubstantiated copyright disputes to block ROCK’s 1000+ videos on YouTube, within a week all were reinstated and in the final 3 months of 2021 one of those videos (REY de GLORIA https://youtu.be/lPCnJO2VQOc ) received nearly 600,000 views with an average watch time of 41+ minutes per click. Such stats along with daily viewer feedback remind us that our God is at work! Here’s a comment from yesterday: “Wow. This is the most beautiful story I have seen on YouTube. It made me cry what they did to Jesus…” and from this morning: “Wow, thank you so much for the effort. I understand it so well… God bless all who made this movie. I will definitely watch this over and over again. I love it.” In another realm, while the world was shocked by the rapid Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, our loving heavenly Father was not. Back in 2015 He put into the hearts of His servants in Central Asia a plan to produce KING of GLORY in the languages of Afghanistan (Dari and Pashto) AND in the five languages of the countries that surround it: Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. www.king-of-glory.com Over the past two years, 9 of our 24 monthly updates include stories of Afghanis transformed by the gospel, discipled, and equipped with ROCK’s media tools to reach others also.
By God’s grace, 2022 promises to be a year filled with many more multi-language resources reaching their finish lines (i.e., start lines), ready to shine Christ’s light into people who sit in darkness. By God’s grace, this new year will find ROCK team members doing the same kind of things we did in 2021, collaborating with hundreds of worldwide partners – handling daily demands and long-term projects, overseeing translating, proofing, troubleshooting, recording, broadcasting, formatting, editing, printing, publicizing, and distributing ROCK’s multi-media multi-language videos, radio programs, books, social media content, etc. Thank you for your prayers and participation.
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This past year in Niger, the Youth Development Center has been used in many fresh, impactful ways, such as a place from which the growing church is reaching out to its neighbors, offering computer courses, kids clubs, and a print-on-demand press producing materials in national languages that grow and equip God’s people. In Senegal, through the Lord’s people working together, many relationships and ministries are flourishing, touching individuals, families, and communities. In Tanzania the science labs have been completed as local believers continue to look to the Lord for the wisdom and provision yet needed to open the New Hope Secondary School for Girls.
In 1874 Frances R. Havergal wrote a poem for a New Years greeting card, which later became a hymn. Here’s an excerpt:
Another year is dawning, dear Father, let it be – In working or in waiting, another year with Thee;
Another year of progress, another year of praise – Another year of proving Thy presence all the days. Amen!