Diane & Joe Moody

Light the Window Ministries

In 2007, Joe W. Moody, a pastor for over 40 years resigned his "safety zone" ministry and launched out to make a global impact — especially on that part of the world known as the 10/40 Window. Two-thirds of earth's population of 6.7 billion people live here and little is being done to make the gospel accessible.

Light The Window Ministries (LTW) is a missions organization dedicated to getting God's Word in audio form to the unreached people groups of the 10/40 Window. Scriptures and Bible stories are narrated into the heart languages of the people and shared on hand-held solar Bibles and over shortwave radio broadcasts.

More than 6,000 unreached people groups

More than 6,000 unreached people groups (UPG's) — many with 100,000 plus populations — have very little or absolutely no access to the good news of Jesus Christ! These cultures have a combined aggregate population approaching 3 billion people and more than 85% live in the 1040 Window.

How do you tell them the good news when they cannot read a Bible even if they had one in their own language? Many of these unreached people groups are “oral learning,” cultures which means that they learn by process of “hearing” rather than “reading.” (see video) Stories are passed down from one generation to another. This makes the audio presentation of truth very desirable.

Does the Great Commission obligate our generation to take the gospel to UPGs?

The vast majority of these people groups are in countries that are “closed” to missionaries, dominated by poverty, false religious systems, illiteracy, and openly hostile to the preaching of the gospel by outsiders. Is it possible to reach them using “traditional” approaches, “inside-the-box” thinking, and old methods? There are other strategies we can use to give them the good news.

Actually the fulfilling of the Great Commission is now easier than at any other time in history, even with the rapidly growing population explosion (now over 6.7 billion). The availability of radio is worldwide and most people in the 10/40 Window use radio as "their window" to the rest of the world. People show an intrinsic interest in new technological devices such as the solar Bible. It has been received with open arms in these countries, many of which have no dependable electricity.

Can we reach the world in our life time?

The heartbeat of God is to have some of every tribe and nation around His throne in heaven.

For You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. — Rev. 5:9

With the many thousands of Christians and local churches in the western world, it is not a big stretch to realize that we can plant a gospel witness in every UPG in our life time. As believers are won among these people, they will in turn spread the gospel to more in their community and to other neighboring UPG. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 30 local churches to every UPG in the world!

There are 1.5 billion shortwave radios world-wide and over 1 billion listeners around the globe. Shortwave radio is nearly 4 times more prevelant than internet use in the Eurpoean community and has a larger listenership than satellite radio. Worldwide it has a larger listening audience than all US radio stations simultaneously.

And presently, surveys show that one solar Bible is listened to thousands of times in the first year. Very few people in foreign cultures listen alone. Usually it is multiple listeners, a whole family, and in many cases groups of people listening together.

By using available and developing technologies (such as solar-powered, hand-held audio Bibles), and shortwave radio broadcasts, the gospel can go to every unreached people group.

Using technology to maximize the way we do missions!