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🗓️ 20 December 2025
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This week, we begin looking back on some of the most moving moments shared on The Voice of the Martyrs Radio in 2025:
Hope & Nagy have been called by God to live in some very difficult places. They were serving Him in Libya when civil war broke out; they stayed and thrived under the Lord's protection. Then they heard the Lord call them to a new and equally-challenging land.
Jerry Mattix has been banned twice from entering Türkiye, once in 2013 and again earlier this year. Jerry knows God is able to do His work among Turkish people without him in the country.
Nathan and Kari were raised differently, yet the Lord called them to Himself, and to missions, together. In South Asia, they are seeing the gospel on fire, not waiting for foreign missionaries but moving forward through the gospel fervor of national Christians.
John Samara knows the high cost of serving Christ in a place like Syria. He grew up there and continues to serve persecuted Christians in the Middle East and North Africa through Ananias House.
Eric Mock, from Slavic Gospel Association, shares how war between Russia and Ukraine has actually accelerated SGA's ministry as they provide aid and share the gospel with hundreds of thousands of people.
Teaching students in the UK and around the world, Dr. Michael Reeves has a passion for strengthening the faith of persecuted Christians in hostile and restricted nations. He served as a missionary on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Ty Scott, leader of VOM's work in east and southern Africa, shares about Christians living in a country that has never been discussed on VOM Radio until this year — Comoros. He also shared how VOM handles Bible distribution in Africa.
Author of the book, Inside Afghanistan, John Weaver, shares what it looks like to be a Christian in Afghanistan today. Believers must carefully plant gospel seeds and seek out people of peace.
Abraham & Sara minister to Muslim refugees in the Middle East who are open to the gospel. They see the hunger to know Jesus, and the Lord is revealing Himself to these refugees through dreams, visions, and the love of Christ, as seen in the example of Abraham, Sara, and their team.
After hearing these brief excerpts, you'll want to listen to the entire conversations with these guests from 2025. Click on the links below to listen at VOMRADIO.net or listen in the VOM APP.
We thank the Lord for allowing VOM Radio to encourage and challenge listeners all over the world this year. Thank you for faithfully listening and praying for our persecuted family in restricted nations and hostile areas around the world!
We'd love to hear from you! Let us know what conversation in 2025 most inspired your faith or equipped you to pray. You can also give online to support persecuted Christians through the work of The Voice of the Martyrs.
Next week, we'll have Part II of our look back to the most moving moments of 2025 on VOM Radio.
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| 0:00.0 | God is always at work. He's doing amazing things. I'm grateful that this year on the Voice of the Martyrs |
| 0:07.8 | radio, we've been able to hear so many reports about what God is doing around the world. |
| 0:14.6 | Since the year 2000, on average, 106 people groups per year have been engaged for the first time. |
| 0:20.8 | Wow. Ukrainian believers have been engaged for the first time. |
| 0:21.2 | Wow. |
| 0:25.6 | Ukrainian believers have been spread across Europe, and what are they doing? |
| 0:26.6 | They're planting churches. |
| 0:30.5 | The Lord protected us in Libya, and he will do it again. |
| 0:32.2 | The Turkish church is strong. |
| 0:32.8 | It's vibrant. |
| 0:35.7 | We're talking of over maybe 10,000 Turkish believers by now. |
| 0:41.9 | Believers in the heart situations are showing Christ truly is all sufficient. Yes, it's terrible tragic times, just like it was for the early church. |
| 0:46.5 | But what we've seen is people come into faith. |
| 0:50.5 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:53.7 | In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 0:57.0 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 1:00.0 | Jesus' words came true in the life of the Apostles, |
| 1:03.0 | and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:07.0 | Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now |
| 1:12.7 | on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio network. Welcome to a special edition of the Voice of the Martyrish |
| 1:17.6 | Radio. My name is Todd Nettleton. I'm excited to be here this week to review with you some of the most |
| 1:22.6 | moving moments of 2025 here on V-Home radio to protect their identities. As you know, we often have to |
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