About Us: The Forerunner
By Jay Rogers
Published October 2008
At this web site are articles from Christian newspapers published by university students from the United States, Russia, Ukraine, Latin America and China. We also host several web sites of related Christian organizations involved in promoting Revival in the Church and the Reformation of society.
The Forerunner is a grass-roots organization which is dedicated to the training of student interns to produce media. The Forerunner assumes an explicitly biblical worldview. Our long term goal is to bring all types of media under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We are Christians who desire to see the kingdom of God advanced in the world through the media. In short, our goal is to help fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) through the media.
Our Purpose
The Forerunner trains and equips young people worldwide to produce media so that they may impact and ultimately transform their own culture according to biblical principles. Our model on-line publication is The Forerunner, which provides information, articles and resources to other organizations who make up a world-wide network of publications and media proclaiming a victorious Christian worldview.
Here is a list of just some of the publications we have produced:
The Forerunner (1981-1994) was a publication with an emphasis on the reformation of society and biblical worldview. The Forerunner was published by Maranatha Ministries from 1981 to 1989. Most of the articles from 1987 through 1994 appear at this site. Contributing editors and correspondents from Russia, Ukraine, China, Latin America, South Africa, Turkey, Pakistan and many other countries wrote many of the articles. These are reports from young people who produced similar publications. You will be encouraged when you read the reports of what God has done to advance His kingdom in the earth in our day.
Predvestnik (The Russian language Forerunner), was produced in Kiev, Ukraine. This student run publication was founded in July 1991 and has played a significant role in bringing the Christian message to the former USSR. In its first seven years, Media House Ukraine produced 20 issues of Predvestnik and distributed over 400,000 copies throughout the former USSR, as well as other books and publications
The Mandate We worked with a ministry called Churches Serving Internationals to produce a newspaper, in English and Chinese, which reached Chinese students studying in the United States. The on-line version has made an impact on students and intellectuals throughout China.
El Campeón, a Spanish newspaper, was produced in cooperation with Champions for Christ (Campeones para Cristo) for Latin America. The goal was to sow the printed word in the high school and college campuses during evangelism outreaches in countries such as Peru, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama and Colombia. Some copies were even distributed in Cuba.
The Turkish Forerunner is an on-line collection of articles written and translated by a young minister from Turkey — a nation of 70 million people with less than 4000 church-going Christians. We are working together to build a Turkish language website that we believe will become significant since Christian literature is rare in this “gateway” nation to the Muslim world.
The Pakistani Forerunner is an outreach to the 270 million speakers of the Urdu language throughout the Middle East and the world. Although Urdu is widely spoken there are few Urdu language websites featuring Christian teachings. We are working with a young woman from Pakistan who has a burden to translate the best articles from The Forerunner.
The Vision
We live in a time in world history that promises to be significant for the goal of world evangelization. Never before has the Church had such a great opportunity to reach so many with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We believe that God himself has raised up a “forerunner” to reach many nations.
Today, God requires a new wineskin to hold the new wine that He is pouring out in the nations. As the Holy Spirit has directed the Church toward the great task of evangelizing the nations, we must pray that God will use us to fulfill this mandate. God himself has shown us through scripture that there will be a dramatic multiplication of ministry as Christians reach out with an increasingly international focus.
Instead of just having one publication, or attempting to build a media organization, we want to equip many to produce dynamic Christian media around the world. We will accomplish all this — and much more — as we multiply our vision into others. In turn, they will multiply what they know into even more lives – and on and on. Instead of being just “one” there will be many.
Support the World-wide Network!
You can support the world-wide network of publications proclaiming Christ’s victorious kingdom by donating to Media House International, a non-profit organization that funds all The Forerunner’s media projects. All donations to Media House International are tax-deductible. You can click on the DONATE button for more details.
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The Silent Scream (DVD) Eight Languages
“When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.” – President Ronald Reagan to National Religious Broadcasters Convention, January 1981
Ronald Reagan became convinced of this as a result of watching The Silent Scream – a movie he considered so powerful and convicting that he screened it at the White House. More recently, it was by catching just a glimpse of what this film reveals that Planned Parenthood director and abortion advocate Abby Johnson turned and became a strong advocate for the pre-born.
The modern technology of real-time ultrasound now reveals the actual responses of a 12-week old fetus to being aborted. As the unborn child attempts to escape the abortionist’s suction curette, her motions can be seen to become desperately agitated and her heart rate doubles. Her mouth opens – as if to scream – but no sound can come out. Her scream doesn’t have to remain silent, however … not if you will become her voice. This newly re-mastered version features eight language tracks and two bonus videos.
“…a high technology “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” arousing public opinion just as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 antislavery novel ignited the abolitionist movement.” – Sen. Gordon Humphrey, Time Magazine
Languages: English, Spanish, French, South Korean, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese
Running Time: 28 minutes
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Dr. Francis Schaeffer - A Christian Manifesto (DVD)
That Swiss Hermit Strikes Again!
Dr. Schaeffer, who was one of the most influential Christian thinkers in the twentieth century, shows that secular humanism has displaced the Judeo-Christian consensus that once defined our nation’s moral boundaries. Law, education, and medicine have all been reshaped for the worse as a consequence. America’s dominant worldview changed, Schaeffer charges, when Christians weren’t looking.
Schaeffer lists two reasons for evangelical indifference: a false concept of spirituality and fear. He calls on believers to stand against the tyranny and moral chaos that come when humanism reigns-and warns that believers may, at some point, be forced to make the hard choice between obeying God or Caesar. A Christian Manifesto is a thought-provoking and bracing Christian analysis of American culture and the obligation Christians have to engage the culture with the claims of Christ.
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The Abortion Matrix: Defeating Child Sacrifice and the Culture of Death (DVD)
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Is there a connection between pagan religion and the abortion industry?
This powerful presentation traces the biblical roots of child sacrifice and then delves into the social, political and cultural fall-out that this sin against God and crime against humanity has produced in our beleaguered society.
Conceived as a sequel and update to the 1988 classic, The Massacre of Innocence, the new title, The Abortion Matrix, is entirely fitting. It not only references abortion’s specific target – the sacred matrix where human beings are formed in the womb in the very image of God, but it also implies the existence of a conspiracy, a matrix of seemingly disparate forces that are driving this holocaust.
The occult activity surrounding the abortion industry is exposed with numerous examples. But are these just aberrations, bizarre yet anomalous examples of abortionists who just happen to have ties to modern day witchcraft? Or is this representative of something deeper, more sinister and even endemic to the entire abortion movement?
As the allusion to the film of over a decade ago suggests, the viewer may learn that things are not always as they appear to be. The Abortion Matrix reveals the reality of child-killing and strikes the proper moral chord to move hearts to fulfill the biblical responsibility to rescue those unjustly sentenced to death and to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves (Proverbs 24:11,12; 31:8,9).
Speakers include: George Grant, Peter Hammond, RC Sproul Jr., Paul Jehle, Lou Engle, Rusty Thomas, Flip Benham, Janet Porter and many more.
Ten parts, over three hours of instruction!
Running Time: 195 minutes
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Abortion Clinic 911 Calls (DVD)
Exposes the Dangers of Abortion to Women!
These shocking eyewitness accounts expose the dangers of abortion not only to unborn children, but to the health and lives women as well. An antidote to the smokescreens of the liberal media, these six short clips show what really happens in and around abortion clinics.
Although the content is emotionally gut-wrenching, these videos have been used in church seminars and small groups to educate Christians on the abortion issue and to lead people toward a pro-life position.
Watch these pro-life videos on-line.
“These videos helped change my mind from pro-choice to pro-life. Your videos are what did it for me. I will be walking in next year’s March For Life in San Francisco.” — A. Jackson, California
“I was going to have an abortion until I saw your video. Praise Jesus!”
— M. Drew, YouTube Commenter
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