Through media, we can go to every room with the gospel.
Years before he became a pastor, Mahendra wanted nothing to do with Christianity.
Growing up in a Hindu community in Nepal, he heard Christians talk about Jesus, but he resisted their message. When one believer shared a story from the book of Daniel, Mahendra challenged him.
“He was preaching from the book of Daniel where God rescued believers from fire,” Mahendra remembers. “And I asked him, ‘Okay, then can you do that yourself? I will see if your Lord rescues you from fire, and I’m going to believe. Otherwise, I won’t.’”
At the time, Mahendra was not interested in faith. But years later, while studying away from home, deeper questions began to trouble him.
“Where do people come from, and after death where do we go?” he wondered. “We have a limited amount of time. We work a lot to survive in this world and make our future, but we don’t know where we will go when we die.”
As he searched for answers, he remembered the Christian witness he had once rejected. He found a church, began speaking with an older pastor, and slowly came to understand the gospel.
“Eventually I came to know that Jesus is the way and the life,” Mahendra says. “And I gave my life to him.”
Rejected for Following Christ
When Mahendra returned home as a new believer, his faith came with a cost.
His mother wept. Neighbors turned against the family. Community leaders banned them from using the village water source, forcing them to travel much farther for daily water. Anyone found helping them was fined.
“Because of me, my family was banished from the society,” Mahendra says.
The pressure lasted for six months. Yet Mahendra and his family stayed. Instead of leaving the community that had rejected them, they continued living among their neighbors with patience, kindness, and respect.
Over time, some people began to question whether the punishment was right. Eventually, a community meeting was called, and Mahendra’s family was welcomed back.
Then something even more remarkable happened. Mahendra’s parents began asking questions.
“My mom said to my dad, ‘Let’s go to church and understand what it is that he believes.’”
In time, both of his parents came to faith in Christ. His sister did as well. What began with rejection became a story of grace moving through one family and into a wider community.
Winning Trust One Neighbor at a Time
Later, Mahendra was sent to pastor a struggling church plant. Only seven believers attended regularly.
He did not begin by trying to preach to everyone he met. He began by building relationships.
“I started visiting people’s homes,” he says. “They worked in their fields, and I started working with them. I went and asked, ‘Can I help you?’”
As neighbors got to know him, trust began to grow. They invited him into their homes, shared meals with him, and slowly opened their lives to him.
“They started to think of me as a member of their family,” he says.
Only then did deeper conversations about faith begin. As people came to Christ, they started sharing what they were learning with their own relatives and friends. Within a year, the church had grown from seven believers to more than twenty. Today, the congregation is around eighty people, and the growth no longer depends on one pastor alone.
“Actually, I don’t go everywhere anymore,” Mahendra says. “Church members have started going and sharing the gospel with people themselves.”
Disciples are becoming disciple-makers.
The Gospel in Every Room
That same pattern of multiplication is one reason Mahendra is passionate about radio ministry.
Through Words of Hope Nepal, biblical teaching reaches people in places where public faith can carry real pressure. Nepal enforces anti-conversion laws, and Christians can face opposition from family, society, and local authorities.
Radio helps open a quiet door.
Some listeners hear God’s Word while cooking. Others listen while working in their fields. Many later gather with other believers to discuss what they heard and how they can live it out in their families and among their neighbors.
“I always encourage believers to listen to the radio program,” Mahendra says. “We gather and discuss what we heard, what the sermon was all about, and how we can exercise this teaching in our family and among our neighbors.”
For people who are curious about Christianity but afraid to enter a church, radio can be a safe first step. Long before someone is ready to visit a worship service, they can hear the hope of the gospel.
“Through media, we can go to every room with the gospel,” Mahendra says. “People can hear the sermon in their own home, privately.”
Because of your support, this is happening across Nepal. God’s Word is reaching homes, strengthening churches, and equipping believers to share their faith with others.
And the church is being built—one relationship, one family, and one room at a time.
When you give, you help equip indigenous Christian leaders like Mahendra to share the hope of the gospel in the heart languages of unreached people. Your support lets people hear about Jesus in places where the gospel is difficult to access.
