History
Founding
The vision for Voice of Faith began in 2019 when Nadalla was working a delivery job near Toronto, Ontario. While listening to the radio to learn English as a new refugee in Canada, he came across a station that was broadcasting the Qur'an. He felt a fire in his heart that the nations who worship a false God use any means to make their voice heard, while Christians, who worship a living God, are silent.
At that time, he shared his desire to start an Arabic radio ministry, but the stations he contacted asked for amounts that he could not afford. He shared the idea with ministers and pastors from different churches, four of whom said, "No. God will not use this." However, one person told him, "If this is from God, He will open the door for you and give you a clearer vision."
Within a few months, the whole world was infected with COVID-19, and the Internet was the only way for Nadalla to find people to whom he could deliver the message of Christ. He started preaching through Facebook Live Broadcasting, and hundreds of people heard sermons and asked questions about Christianity. Nadalla told his church what was happening, but the response was, "We do not support this idea. Please do not use our name in what you are doing." Others said that the Internet is only for unholy things. But God continued to give Nadalla ideas about an Internet radio ministry, to the point that Nadalla would wake up in the middle of the night to write down ideas that came to his mind while he was sleeping.
Several months later, Nadalla heard about an Internet radio platform. He started praying together with his wife Rachelle for an Internet ministry. After some preparation, the first live broadcast aired on Friday, November 27, 2020.
Fruit
By December 28 of the same year, 23,000 people had visited the online radio, about 1,250 people had followed the Facebook page, and two precious people had put their faith in Christ through the ministry.
During 2021, God blessed the ministry with more than 1.3 million visitors to the website per month, 50,000 followers on the Facebook page, and the ability to respond to about 8,832 people who reached out asking questions about Christianity. One hundred forty-four people from 24 different countries believed, all of them from a Muslim background. Eighty-nine of them were sent to local churches, and the rest formed home groups because there were no churches in their countries (ex., Saudi Arabia), or to preserve their lives in hostile environments.
On February 15, 2022, the Voice of Faith Instagram page was established, and, within 3 months, about 100,000 people started following the page, and the number of questions about Christ increased. By the end of 2022, there were one million followers on the Instagram page, 30,000 daily likes on the posts, 100,000 followers on the Facebook page, and 2.8 million visitors per month to the website from more than 123,000 cities and towns around the world. Two hundred eighty-seven people believed in Jesus Christ, and 244 of them were subsequently connected to churches; 83 people were baptized; and a weekly discipleship lesson with about 50 students was running.
In 2023, 306 new believers experienced salvation by the blood of Jesus, 304 of whom have taken a discipleship course; 118 baptisms in 14 different countries took place; Voice of Faith reached more than 705,238 cities and towns all over the world; and seven home churches were planted in Iraq, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan!
In 2024, there are about:
- 1.7 million followers on Instagram
- 213,000 followers on Facebook
- 3.1 million monthly visitors to the website
- 708,000 cities and towns around the world being reached through the online radio
- Two discipleship classes per week, with about 58 attendees in each
Future
Our mission for the Middle East:
- Support the home churches planted through Voice of Faith in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, and Tunisia
- Plant a church in Lebanon
- Train local leaders who can later on lead those churches
- Continue the online radio ministry
- Reach 8 hours of daily live streaming
According to DATA REPORTAL 2023, there are about 300 million Arab users of the Internet, distributed as follows:
- Algeria: 32,090,000
- Egypt: 80,750,000
- Iraq: 33,720,000
- Jordan: 9,950,000
- Kuwait: 4,250,000
- Lebanon: 4,700,000
- Libya: 3,140,000
- Morocco: 33,180,000
- Oman: 4,440,000
- Palestine: 3,960,000
- Qatar: 2,680,000
- Saudi Arabia: 36,310,000
- South Sudan: 773,400
- Sudan: 13,490,000
- Syria: 8,110,000
- Tunisia: 9,800,000
- United Arab Emirates: 9,380,000
- Yemen: 9,100,000
