WIND-FM in Mongolia

Four years after a fire nearly destroyed WIND-FM in Mongolia, FEBC continues sharing the Gospel and have plans to grow.

Director of FEBC Mongolia and WIND-FM's Manager Bot Tuvshintsengel says Christianity has grown dramatically since the fall of communism. "From only knowing four believers in 1990, the church has grown to about 40,000. So, that's about 10,000 a year in the last 16 years. And, basically, our goal by the year 2020 is to make 10-percent of our population disciples of Jesus Christ," says Tuvshintsengel.

Since the fall of communism, Tuvshintsengel says people feel lost. "They have basically lost all the identities and now they're very much interested in the answers that the Gospel gives to the lives of people. We're actually targeting young families so that they can understand the Gospel so that they can be a blessing to the nation," he adds.

WIND-FM invites pastors in to the studio to help answer important life questions. Many text message or call in questions to these pastors who then share answers with the biblical world view.

While WIND-FM wants to grow, Tuvshintsengel says there are a few things holding them back.
"Christianity is so young. We very much lack Christian professions. We would like to see more and more Christians training in journalism and in social work."

The goal is to expand the radio outreach throughout the nation, but it's a challenge. Half of the people live in the city, while the other half are nomadic herdsman. That leaves few options says Tuvshintengel. " Either through syndication or either through building more relay radio stations around the county so we can reach out to them."

WIND-FM has the desire to do even more work. "There are about six-million Mongolians that are living in China and we as the church in Mongolia feel that is our immediate responsibility to take the Gospel to these people as well. And, so either through radio or either through internet radio we would like to reach these people also."