Today is GivingTuesday, and once again we invite you to partner with us in bringing the Gospel to those who have never heard the Good News of Jesus. This year, we are partnering with our friends at Asia Christian Services (ACS) to help bring the Gospel to unreached people in Myanmar and neighboring countries.
Every dollar you give will be doubled through a match by Sound Mind Investing, up to $20,000. So, if SMI readers contribute $20,000 collectively, that will turn into a $40,000 donation.
Making a difference
Asia Christian Services traces its history to 1921, when J. Russell Morse and his wife, Gertrude, accepted a call to serve as missionaries in Tibet. In the decades that followed, the Morses lived and brought the Gospel to countless people in Western China, Northern Burma (now Myanmar), and Thailand, seeing thousands place their faith in Christ.
In 1966, the Morse’s youngest son, LaVerne, established Asia Christian Services to expand that work by training and equipping Asian national missionaries to share the Gospel with their own people. In 2022, ACS began distributing tablets preloaded with the JESUS film to evangelists it works with. With versions of the film now available in 47 of the 200 languages spoken in Myanmar, the film is being used with great effectiveness.
Countless people in Myanmar have been displaced by a long-running civil war. ACS is helping to meet the many needs people have — for food, medicine, and hope.
As SMI founder Austin Pryor has gotten to know ACS in recent years, he has been moved by the ministry’s evangelistic efforts that are bearing great fruit “actually and visibly” right now, not just “hopefully” in the years to come. So it is that this year Austin and his wife, Susie, along with many of us on the SMI staff, are directing our GivingTuesday offerings to help further the work of ACS. We invite you to do the same.
Twice the impact
Funds raised in this year’s GivingTuesday campaign will be used to purchase more tablets that will be distributed to more evangelists. We are praying that the SMI community will collectively contribute $20,000 to ACS, which will be matched dollar for dollar by Sound Mind Investing. If successful, $40,000 will be enough to purchase more than 130 tablet kits that include a tablet preloaded with the JESUS film, a battery, and a portable solar panel for charging.
If each tablet is used as instructed — to show the JESUS film at least 25 times per year to at least 10 people at each showing — through this GivingTuesday initiative, 32,500 people per year will hear the Gospel, many for the first time. Local Christian missionaries will then follow up with and disciple new believers.
In it together
For several years now, the SMI family has generously participated our GivingTuesday initiatives, and we’re praying for the same response this year.
We hope you'll agree that funding the spread of the Gospel in Myanmar and neighboring countries is a great way to begin your celebration of Advent and Christmas! After all, Christ came and loved a lost world (which includes us), and he has given us a similar mission: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20).
To learn more about ACS and then give as the Lord leads, click here. To have your gift doubled, be sure to use that link. Thank you!
