Safe Communications

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.” Matthew 10:16

Frontiers is blessed with the task of taking the love of Jesus to people in the Muslim world who have little or no human witness of the Savior living among them – the unengaged and unreached. Unfortunately, there are some that see this work as a threat. As a result, there are numerous efforts to scour all forms of communication and media to identify the Lord’s laborers and block His work.

The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. Proverbs 27:17

Among the materials that are searched in attempts to block the Gospel message from going forth are many of today’s social media outlets. Methods such as Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, LinkedIn, YouTube, and many more, are subject to intense scrutiny.  Church websites may also be closely watched.

Information gathering on current and future laborers for Frontiers represents a threat to the safety of those workers, their teammates, and the nationals they befriend. Privacy policies are of little value in most cases, as the sponsors of these media have acquiesced to pressure  in the past and may expand on those concessions in the future.

Remember that anything that is published on the web or electronically transmitted has a permanent record. An innocent attempt to raise support for a worker, using the  laborer’s name and city or country on a Facebook page could some day be used to stop that worker’s ministry overseas. Even email lauding the coming to faith by people in specified countries may be enough to bring unnecessary persecution to believers in those countries.

So, whether you are a worker, praying about or preparing to become a worker, financial partner or sending  church, always communicate with the understanding that attempts to spread Light will meet with resistance. Frontiers advocates not fear, but wisdom.