{"id":32103,"date":"2024-05-29T12:43:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/gospelforasia\/?p=32103"},"modified":"2024-05-29T14:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:38:56","slug":"k-p-yohannan-radio-ministry-touching-millions-of-lives-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/gospelforasia\/2024\/05\/k-p-yohannan-radio-ministry-touching-millions-of-lives-across-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"KP Yohannan in Radio: “That’s Something We’ll Cherish”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
WILLS POINT, TX \u2014 The public viewing for the late Dr. K.P. Yohannan (Metropolitan Yohan) on May 15 in Dallas, Texas, was attended by approximately a thousand mourners, including presidents of national Christian organizations; former dignitaries of the Indian parliament; bishops, priests and leaders of various Christian denominations; and many men and women who grew up listening to Yohannan on the radio overseas.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen I was very young, my mother, at 5:30 in the morning, would turn on the radio, and I would hear K.P.\u2019s voice,\u201d said one individual whose words were echoed by many who attended the public viewing.<\/p>\n
Dr. K.P. Yohannan, founder of GFA World, doing his Athmik Yathra radio recording during the coronavirus lockdown in April 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Victor Abraham, CEO and president of Skypass Group, knew Yohannan for more than 30 years and handled most of his travel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a special anointment that we see,\u201d Abraham said while at the public viewing. \u201c[Yohannan] has blessed many across the globe. You know, today still people are talking about when they wake-up in India they listen to Athmik Yathra<\/a> radio. \u2026 That\u2019s how they connect to him. \u2026 That\u2019s something we\u2019ll cherish the rest of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
K.P. Yohannan started broadcasting radio messages in 1986. In an article published in GFA World\u2019s magazine,[1]<\/a> Yohannan shared how his radio program (Athmik Yathra) began through the encouragement of longtime friend David Mains, Chapel of the Air radio broadcaster.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Mains<\/a>] was doing a radio program and wanted it broadcast in my native Indian language,\u201d Yohannan wrote. \u201cI told him, \u2018No problem. As soon as you can find someone to pay for it, we can find someone to do it.\u2019 I didn\u2019t expect him to say, \u2018No, I want you to do it.\u2019 I told him I didn\u2019t have the formal language to do that. When I tried, I found out I didn\u2019t know the biblical words in my native language because in my formative years I had been away from home. But I agreed to try, and so I stumbled along and recorded those 50 programs as best I could.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was Yohannan\u2019s simple, informal language that helped many understand Christ\u2019s love for the very first time. In the first years of Yohannan\u2019s radio ministry, millions of letters and phone calls poured in from those whose lives were changed because of his powerful messages.<\/p>\n
Troy Miller, president of the National Religious Broadcasters Association (NRB), traveled from Nashville to attended the public viewing of the late missionary stateman.<\/p>\n
\u201cK.P. and Gospel for Asia were longtime members of NRB and had a tremendous impact on our membership,\u201d Miller said. \u201cMany of our members have been encouraged, blessed and many people have gone into the ministry because of the work of K.P.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year, Yohannan was on the international panel at the 2023 NRB convention and shared about what was happening around the world concerning missions.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe brought that broader vision to the NRB audience,\u201d Miller shared. \u201cAnd of course, he was very much into broadcasting and used media to reach lost people and encourage and strengthen the Church. I think he was probably one of the early pioneers on that, particularly\u2026across Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2003, NRB presented Yohannan with its Individual Achievement in International Broadcasting award in 2003.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n
Today, K.P. Yohannan\u2019s messages are aired in more than 110 languages across the world. In North America, people can listen to Yohannan\u2019s radio program GFA Minute<\/a>, which invites listeners to live in the light of eternity.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n
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