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The Word for Today for Bougainville

Bougainville’s very own special 12 month edition of The Word for Today will be launching in 2025!

This 200 page book will be available through churches and other outlets. There are a limited number of copies available so make sure you get in touch so you don’t miss out.

What does it cost?

All the costs are being covered by your donations, so what you contribute is up to you. We don’t charge for it because the price shouldn’t be a barrier for anyone to receive the Good News of the Gospel.  After all Jesus said “Freely you have received, freely give”. Matthew 10:8 NIV

Your generous donation today will enable us to grow this valuable ministry all across Bougainville so more and more people can be blessed by reading (and hearing) God’s Word.

Brand New Station

Laef 102.5 FM Ambym is now on air.

Do you have friends or family living on the north side of Ambrym island?  Make sure you tell them to try tuning to 102.5 FM to enjoy our all new Laef FM station.

Most phones have a built-in FM radio. You just need to connect a set of headphones to your phones to be able to listen in. The headphones cable works as the antenna to help you listen to the station.

Just search your phone for ‘FM’.

20Twenty Interview

Grant Kennedy

Recently UCB Asia Pacific’s Project’s Manager, Grant Kennedy, was interviewed in Australia on Vision Christian Radio’s 20Twenty program about UCB’s work in the pacific.

Listen as he and Vision’s Andrew McLennan talk about the exciting things happening in Christian media in the Pacific.

UCB Asia Pacific is our partner, and helps Life FM with a lot of what we do, including organising the design and printing of our devotional book The Word for Today.

Preaching to Empty Auditoriums

Pastor Jeff Vines shares his perspective on what it’s like to preach to an empty auditorium, while reminding us that it’s now more important than ever to continue meeting, even if we have to find new ways of doing it.

For the first time in modern history, many Pastors around the world are finding themselves in the position of having to preach to an empty auditorium. What does it feel like to have no crowd?

“A huge part of the art of communication is reading your audience”, says Jeff. “You often allow them to help you decide what direction to take, and particularly to know if your jokes are going over well!”

While an empty auditorium is not ideal, Jeff points out that in a crisis, more people than ever are turning to the church for answers.

“Suffering and illness is not something any of us ever want to see”, continues Jeff. “But we can use these tragedies to teach people to pray, and to point as many people to God as possible.”

Jeff believes it is often seasons of suffering that wakes people up to what really matters. When we are living a life of affluence and peace, it’s very easy to become spiritually lazy. This is the time for the church to lead, and we all need to work together as best we can to defeat this disease.

“We need to find ways of caring for each other, without spreading this disease”, Jeff says. “When our church meets together online, there are 20,000 people coming together at once. We must be good citizens and save lives.”

But Jeff also believes God inspires the church to be ready for what’s coming. God is always preparing the way for the gospel to go out, regardless of the political or social events that are happening around us.

“God does not promise us protection, even when what we are doing is honest and true. People have always been persecuted for the sake of the Gospel”, Jeff continues. “We should come together whenever and however we can, whether it be in a small group, a life group or in our homes watching. But we must continue to honour the sacrifice that Jesus made for us all.”

But Jeff reminds us, there is no guaranteed protection against suffering for doing the right thing. However, he believes we all have a responsibility to do it anyway.

Jeff Vines is heard weekdays on Laef FM
The Word for Today

Keep hope alive

‘Now faith is the certainty of things hoped for, a proof of things not seen.’ Hebrews 11:1 NASB

At some stage in our lives, most of us will have experienced times when things looked hopeless. But, when you decide things are hopeless, you slam the door in God’s face.

First: Take all your troubles or desires to God. If you’ve gotten to the stage where you feel things are hopeless, you’ve clearly neglected your faith, or you’ve been hoping for something that is not in God’s will. ‘Now faith is the certainty of things hoped for, a proof of things not seen.’ (Hebrews 11:1 NASB)

Second: Give hope a symbol—something you can centre your thoughts around. Jeremiah taught God’s people a lesson in hope by buying land at Anathoth (see Jeremiah 32:9). He knew they would be taken into captivity, and during those long years, the memory of that faraway field in Judah would act as a symbol of future restoration.

During World War II, when Leo Algimas and his family were herded into concentration camps, they maintained a symbol of hope, a tiny piece of paper from a box of chocolates with an American flag on the bottom. They passed it from hand to hand, looked at it, held it, and whispered about the liberation army that was coming.

Symbols help us fix our minds on what’s possible. In fact, the greatest symbol the world has ever known was the hardest to believe. A baby in a manger and a cross on a hillside signalled God’s Kingdom on earth and changed mankind’s destiny. And He can change your destiny. Define what you hope for, ask in His name, and if it’s God’s will, no matter how impossible it looks, expect it to come true.

SoulFood: Eph 5:21–33, Song 2:1–7, Ps 45, Prov 5:15–19

The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright ©