MISSIONS: Emerging Technology Key to Spreading Gospel

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🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

There are more cell phones in the world than cars, toilets, or people. What if each of those phones could be turned into a Bible? Using their backgrounds in electrical engineering and software development, David and Josiah Palusky have developed technology tools to help Christian workers spread the gospel in places where people are unreached and there is often Christian persecution.

David is the founder and president of Renew Outreach. He will share how the ministry began and tools they've developed to help provide unreached people in remote places with access God's Word. Josiah, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Renew, explains efforts to help persecuted Christians around the world share the gospel using emerging technology.

They will share stories of camels preaching the gospel using LightStream devices, leading an entire family to meet Christ, how AI disguised a Christian brother's voice, and how Christians in restricted nations and hostile areas can revolutionize communities for Jesus.

David also recounts the story of he and his sister hearing Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, the founder of The Voice of the Martyrs, share Richard's story of persecution in Romania at a remote Christian camp in Minnesota. That one sermon deeply impacted the lives of both David and his sister—an impact they still feel almost 40 years later.

Today, the Lord has put on their hearts to further the Great Commission among the deaf community, one of the least-reached groups in the world. Using Visual Vernacular to tell the Bible story from creation to Christ, Renew is hearing of new believers and baptisms among the deaf community weekly!

The VOM App for your smartphone or tablet will help you pray daily for persecuted Christians in nations like North Korea, Nigeria and Bangladesh, as well as provide free access to e-books, audiobooks, video content and feature films. Download the VOM App for your iOS or Android device today.

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0:00.0	Those of us who are alive today, we think about all church history, they didn't have the same opportunities to reach the world that we do now.
0:07.0	And the opportunity to bring the Word of God to every single person in the world is kind of sitting in our laps.
0:14.0	Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate
0:22.3	them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles,
0:28.6	and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. Join host,
0:33.7	Todd Nettleton, as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help, right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton, and we are in the studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with David Palluski and Josiah Poluski. They are from Renew Outreach. David and Josiah, welcome to Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
0:55.1	Thank you. Good to be here with you. Father and son. That's right. Okay.
0:58.8	If you'll claim me. I will claim you. I was going to say older brother, younger brother,
1:03.3	but no. Father son, okay. Renew Ministries is going to be new to a lot of our VOM radio listeners.
1:09.8	So maybe give me a little bit of an update.
1:12.7	What is Renew Ministries? How long have you been doing it? Where are you working in the world?
1:17.2	Just give us kind of a 30,000 foot view of the ministry.
1:20.3	I'll start. I'm an engineer by backgrounds. I married a missionary girl, and she and I have a heart for missions.
1:31.0	An amazing story.
1:32.4	We end up with a tribe in the Amazon and we bring them a Jesus film with 400 pounds of
1:38.2	equipment and we show it to them in the middle of the Amazon and they are so happy and
1:41.8	they come to us afterwards saying we have to have this.
1:44.3	Some of them said, we've been waiting our whole life to hear this message.
1:48.3	And I ran into a dilemma at that point.
1:50.6	How do I get 400 pounds of equipment to the middle of the Amazon and not sink dugout canoes?
1:57.0	So I realized, wait a minute, I went to college, I learned things.
2:00.5	I'm a tinker. So I made solar
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