Who Are We

Arab Vision is a community of Christians committed to communicating the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Arab World.

Arab Vision implements its commitment by:
 

• Producing television programs that strengthen the Churches in the Arab World, invite all Arabs to become followers of Christ, and focus on changing society in accordance with the Gospel.

• Distributing these programs in the Arab World through satellite television broadcasts, national, regional and local television, and the internet and other new media.

• Training Christians from the Arab World who share a similar commitment to produce television programs that proclaim the Gospel.

• Educating Christians globally about mission in the Arab World, the Churches of the Arab World, and Islam.

Arab Vision cooperates with the Churches of the Arab World as well as with like-minded organizations in all aspects of its work, from the creation of content for its programs to audience follow-up.  

[With the term ‘Arab’ we mean anyone whose native language is one of the vernaculars of the Arab World. The Arab World consists of many different people groups, and we hold that these are entitled to hearing the Gospel in their own vernacular.]

Arab Christians Proclaiming the Gospel through Television

Some of the first Christian Churches were established in the Arab World. Nowadays, there are still millions of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa but they have become a minority amongst the 270 million Arab Muslims.

Many Arab Christians desire to heed the call of Christ to proclaim the Gospel and live its consequences. As the Word of God speaks to the whole person and to all mankind, many Arab Christians are eager to teach and live this Word of God in its entirety, in their individual lives, in the life of the church, and in all society.

More than half of all Arabic-speaking people are functionally illiterate. In cultures where literacy is low and reading is not common, television is an excellent educational tool for communication. And even though many Arab families are extremely poor, they still own a television set. Arab Christians can use television and the various means of distributing their productions as an ideal and highly effective way of reaching the peoples of the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa with the Gospel.

Some Arab countries are willing to broadcast Christian programs on national television. Satellite broadcasts enable millions of people throughout the whole Arab World to watch Christian programs. In many countries the skyline is mushrooming with satellite dishes.

However, while many in the Arab World can be reached in this way, the greater need is for the actual Christian programs themselves. Arab Vision’s mandate is to produce and distribute these vitally needed programs.