The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him. Psalm 103:13
The hardest thing about breaking a cycle is that you can’t do it alone—and for fathers in three countries, a radio broadcast became the help they didn’t know where to find.
“I grew up in an atheist family,” says a dad in Albania. “I saw myself repeating with my children the same behavior I saw in my dad. I didn’t know any better.” In Albania, biblical teaching on fatherhood isn’t easy to find.
That dad isn’t alone. Fathers in Cambodia and Kyrgyzstan share the same struggle—men who love their children but have no map for what good fatherhood looks like. One dad in Kyrgyzstan admitted, “They get on my nerves sometimes and then I hit them. I don’t want to do it.” For men like these, a Christian radio broadcast may be the only place they will ever hear what God says about being a father.
The Bible speaks directly to them: “The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him” (Psalm 103:13). For a man who never experienced that, this verse isn’t just comfort—it’s a model. God himself becomes the father a man never had.
Scripture is also specific about what that looks like: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).
That’s exactly what these men are learning in their own languages, often with no other access to biblical teaching. The dad in Albania shared, “I am a better parent today.” A father in Cambodia said the programs taught him to “walk his children in God’s ways.” The man in Kyrgyzstan is still in the middle of his story. But he’s listening. And he wants to change.
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