Leading The Way's dual-language broadcasts feature Michael Youssef's Gospel messages in English, which are translated phrase by phrase into one of 20 languages reaching some 115 countries. Many listeners tune in to learn English — and, as a result, hear the Gospel.

Leading The Way's Cantonese broadcast began March 26, 2006. The English-Cantonese program broadcasts via Far East Broadcasting Company transmitters in Manila, Philippines. The broadcast targets the coastal-south, mid-south, and southwest areas of China. Listen to these programs online E-mail Cantonese representative Find stations airing this program Your gift helps us share the Gospel over 2,300 times each week

Cantonese, a major dialect group of the Chinese language family, is the 14th language to be added to Leading The Way's dual-language programming lineup.

More than 65 million people speak Cantonese, the language mainly used in China's southeastern area — including Hong Kong, Macau, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan. Cantonese also is spoken in other countries with significant Chinese populations.

The English-Cantonese dual-language program joins the Mandarin program in Leading The Way's outreach to China, the third largest state in the world. China's Christian population is estimated at 7 percent, according to an Operation World report. The report states that "Christian radio has been and still is one of the most potent pre-evangelism and Christian teaching media for China today."

Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) airs Leading The Way's English-Cantonese dual-language program from its transmitters in Manila, Philippines. FEBC's Web site describes the spiritual climate of China, where the program will reach: "The spiritual vacuum created by nearly five decades of atheistic teaching draws people toward the questions of existence, mortality, and spiritual life, and material success has not yet crowded these questions out. Because access to churches is limited because of government control, millions of Chinese tune into FEBC for insight into the 'meaning of things.' A very common thing is for Chinese young people, raised entirely under atheistic teaching, to wrestle over spiritual issues."

A 1995 survey indicated that 86 percent of FEBC listeners in China claim to have no religion at all. Still, another survey taken the same year showed that some 200,500 listeners tune in to FEBC in 10 Chinese cities — a total that represents more than 2 percent of the country's population. "Extrapolating that ratio over the whole of China would mean around 8,000,000 listeners," the FEBC Web site states. "Since we believe listenership is even higher in the villages of China, it is likely that figure could be significantly higher yet."

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