Escrito Está

The Best Time

to Be

or the past two years, Escrito Está had been affected by the WhatsApp changes.

Ffaithfully shared the Spanish daily We moved forward in faith, knowing that devotional, Una Mejor Manera de Vivir, people appreciate the effort and trusting through the WhatsApp mobile application. God to lead us to the right audiences there. We had over one thousand contacts who I was still discouraged that we could received the devotionals and, in turn, would not rely on WhatsApp anymore, until I forward the messages to their friends and received a phone call from an unknown family. Everything was going number to my personal cell great until one morning I phone. Since I didn’t recognize received a notification that our “The gospel the number, I didn’t answer, but account had been permanently I later listened to the voicemail: suspended due to a change in is reaching “My name is Aracely from the WhatsApp privacy settings. Mexico. Please call me back. I Our IT department worked places we have a friend asking me about diligently to find a solution. Unfortunately, we realized cannot even Escrito Está’s airing schedule.” Just as I finished listening to WhatsApp would no longer be a reliable option. I felt as if I had imagine!” the message, Aracely called again. “Hello Miss Carolina! lost all those people and had no I was calling you to confirm way to get them back. Escrito Está’s airing schedule on Azteca

Our next step was to move forward with TV. I also want you to know that my prayer a similar mobile application, Telegram, group fasts every week for the people who along with many other users who had also work in this wonderful ministry. I listen to Una Mejor Manera de Vivir every day. I CAROLINA BONILLA is the administrative assistant for Escrito share it with 10 different groups of friends, Está. Born in Ecuador, Carolina has and they can’t get enough! Our church a passion for reaching the Spanish- is bombarding social media! I’m giving speaking community with the gospel. Bible studies over the phone and have two candidates ready for baptism!”

After listening to Aracely’s story, I shared with her about what happened to us at Escrito Está. She responded, “It’s okay, sister. The devotionals continue to be shared. There are many, many groups of people who still send Una Mejor Manera de Vivir on WhatsApp. The gospel is reaching places we cannot even imagine!” What a relief! As limited as we may feel in times of COVID-19 with some of our churches still unable to reopen or mobile apps failing us, this is actually the best time to be creative in our ministry.

This is an opportunity for all of us to find new ways to share our faith and love with others. I would have never known how much a brief daily devotional meant to people until WhatsApp crashed. Since it happened, I’ve been continually receiving messages from people expressing what these short videos mean to them:

MOACIR: “I’ve been receiving these messages for a long time. I want to continue sharing them with my contacts who love to listen to Pastor Costa. May God bless your ministry.” NORMA: “Thank you for your daily messages. They help us start our mornings accompanied by Jesus.” JUAN FERNANDO: “Please, do not stop sending me these videos. Many people are fed through these.” VICTOR: “Thank you for the videos. I share them with over 200 people. They are so important.”

One great thing about the Escrito Está programming is that it is available on multiple platforms for free! God knew ahead of time that this “hiccup” would happen and allowed us to become available months in advance on mobile applications such as Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts, as well as the Escrito Está app, escritoesta.tv, YouTube, and Facebook. We must never feel that we are doing too much! The gospel must be shared in as many ways as possible so that we can reach as many people as possible. If you would like to receive the daily devotionals in Spanish and share them with others, please find us on Telegram at: t.me/escritoestatv.

Robert Costa, speaker/director

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