APMedia was established in 1989 as a regional ministry of Assemblies of God World Missions.
Vision Statement
We see Christ followers effectively utilizing media to reach every people group in Asia
Mission Statement
We advance the gospel in Asia Pacific by empowering Christ followers to effectively utilize media and technology
Values Statement
We are a Christ-centered ministry that values:
• Integrity
• Excellence
• Contextual relevance
• Innovation
• Partnerships and teamwork
Keith
&
Delsey Garner-
ASIA PACIFIC MEDIA DIRECTORS
A MESSAGE FROM KEITH
We Are APMedia—And So Are You!
Have you ever wondered who is holding the camera? Who’s editing the video, praying over the post before it goes live?
Here’s what I know: through 37 years of Asia Pacific Media history, this ministry isn’t just about the people in our office.
APMedia is the pastor in a remote village who now creates weekly devotionals. APMedia is the young believer in Manila teaching others to use smartphones as gospel tools. APMedia is the missionary who equipped an entire region we’ve never visited.
APMedia extends far beyond these walls—to everyone we’ve trained, and everyone they’ve trained. That’s the power of multiplication.
Over the next few pages, you’ll meet some faces from our team. People whose faithfulness you may never witness—but whose impact is eternal.
Here’s what I really want you to see: their work doesn’t end with them. Every person they train becomes a multiplier. Every church they equip becomes a training center. Every tool gets passed on and used in ways we may never see this side of heaven.
Right now, a single post can reach 92 million people.
And somewhere in that reach is someone we trained, sharing a resource we created. That’s APMedia. And that’s you.
Your prayers cover every post. Your partnership fuels every training. Your faithfulness multiplies the gospel’s reach in ways only heaven will fully reveal. Not just a message sent. But His Message, Multiplied
JayR Manalo— Behind Every Screen Beats a Shepherd’s Heart
Long before cameras, lights, and film sets, there was a young man in a church pew making PowerPoint slides—heart tender toward God, eyes already imagining how stories could move people toward Him.
JayR Manalo did not chase filmmaking. In many ways, it chased him.
“I actually did not take any film-related course in my college days. I just liked the idea of creating those slides.”
What began as humble service—presentations for church camps and
worship nights—quietly planted a seed. He loved how a well-crafted image could soften hearts and help people see Jesus more clearly. He didn’t know then that God was gently leading him toward a life of media ministry.
After college, JayR spent seven years at a video production company in Makati, learning everything from the ground up. He carried crates, set up tripods, and cut footage late into the night. But his heart never drifted far from the church.
A Door God Had Already Opened
When the opportunity came to join Asia Pacific Media full-time, it felt less like a career move and more like coming home.
“It was an easy transition for me to be a part of this team because I like the people; I like what APMedia is doing.”
Since 2013, JayR has served as APMedia’s Video Production Team Leader—not just creating content, but shaping the storytellers who will carry the gospel into the next generation.
When asked about his strengths, JayR doesn’t point to technical mastery. He points to something quieter—and more powerful.
“Honestly, I don’t think I have a very unique skill … I just like the joy of serving.”
JayR has traveled to different countries training churches in media—not as an expert, but as a disciple-maker. His joy comes when students begin creating their own content and reaching their own communities for Christ.
Ministry Isn’t Glamorous
There are long days under blazing sun, late nights on remote shoots. Yet JayR has learned a sacred secret: “I always try to find joy in whatever we’re doing … to create something that you know the people will be blessed.”
He speaks of Ang Sugo—a film that continues reaching people online. Comment after comment pours in from viewers led closer to Christ. For JayR, these aren’t just views. They’re souls. Not just comments—but conversations with eternity.
When you support Asia Pacific Media, you’re fueling a movement led by faithful servants like JayR Manalo, who are reaching the unreached and carrying the gospel into every digital space.
Some missionaries preach from pulpits. Others preach through lenses. JayR does both—quietly, faithfully, and powerfully.
Grace Banzon—
The Quiet Keeper of the Flame: Carrying His Message with Faithfulness
Some callings arrive like lightning. Others arrive like a persistent whisper that settles into the heart and stays.
For Grace Banzon, the desire to serve in ministry was not sudden—it was steady.
She had already spent seven years working in a Christian organization, her first job out of school, when life required her to step back to care for her young child. Yet even in that season of motherhood, the longing to serve never left her.
Years later, that quiet stirring returned with fresh urgency. Grace prayed—sincerely, expectantly—asking God if ministry work was still part of His plan for her. Then, in a moment that felt unmistakably divine, Asia Project 2000 (now Asia Pacific Media) posted a part-time opening.
“It was a prayer answered … I sincerely appreciate God hearing my request and guiding me to APMedia.”
The Unseen Work of Dedication
What began as part-time work became a lifelong assignment. Thirty years later, she’s still here. Grace’s strength has never been flashy. It has been faithful.
“Throughout the many years that I’ve been with APMedia, I never forget that I am working for God and this is His work.”
In administration, faithfulness looks like emails sent, schedules kept, partners remembered, details tended to, and prayers whispered over every responsibility. Grace has carried this torch for three decades—not because it was easy, but because the work mattered to God.
Beginning Every Day with God
Ministry work can be demanding, especially when it stretches across decades. Grace’s secret has been simple and sacred.
“It’s important for me to start my day in prayer. I read His Word and ask God for strength, guidance, and wisdom. So I always put Him first in my life.”
This rhythm—prayer before paperwork, Scripture before spreadsheets—has sustained her through busy seasons, leadership transitions, and the ever-changing landscape of media ministry.
She has welcomed pastors and church leaders through APMedia’s doors, listened, encouraged, and prayed with them. She has watched God provide again and again through faithful partners. And through it all, she has remained steady.
A Legacy of Service
When Grace speaks of her legacy, she doesn’t speak of titles or retirement. She speaks of steadfast obedience.
“I would also like to remain faithful to the task that is given to me … that APMedia will continue to equip God’s people so His message will be multiplied in many places and many ways.”
Grace Banzon has carried the torch of APMedia quietly, faithfully, and prayerfully for more than three decades. She has watched the ministry grow from radio programs and newsletters to digital discipleship across Asia Pacific.
And because of women like Grace—faithful in the unseen, prayerful in the waiting, steady in the serving—God’s message continues to be multiplied, one story, one screen, one heart at a time.
Your Prayers Make the Difference!
prayer requests & praise reports
PRAISE REPORTS (REPLACE ALL TEXT)
1.) Local leaders trained by APMedia in Myanmar and Vietnam are conducting their own media training workshops, multiplying impact across the region.
2.) Churches utilizing APMedia strategies have seen improvements in social media outreach. One Indonesian church doubled Instagram followers in four weeks.
3.) APMedia welcomed new team members from Germany and the US, expanding capacity to serve more countries.
4.) The Likha Short Film Lab 2026 launches in August-September, engaging church teams across the Philippines in creating faith-based films.
PRAYER REQUESTS
1.) Local leaders trained by APMedia in Myanmar and Vietnam are conducting their own media training workshops, multiplying impact across the region.
2.) Churches utilizing APMedia strategies have seen improvements in social media outreach. One Indonesian church doubled Instagram followers in four weeks.
3.) APMedia welcomed new team members from Germany and the US, expanding capacity to serve more countries.
4.) The Likha Short Film Lab 2026 launches in August-September, engaging church teams across the Philippines in creating faith-based films.
Peter Banzon—
Some call it media. Peter calls it ministry.
As long as God gives me life and media, it will be part of who I am and what I do.”
Thirty-six years in, that sentence doesn’t feel like ambition—it feels like surrender.
Peter didn’t stumble into media ministry. God planted the vision early, back when cameras were bulky and editing was linear, slow, and holy work. While his wife Grace first joined APMedia, Peter was already directing television programs at their local church, drawn
toward a ministry that dared to believe media could carry the gospel farther than walls ever could.
“This was the vision God gave me—to use media for His glory.”
At APMedia, he found kindred fire. In Bill Snider, he saw a leader who didn’t just talk vision—he lived it. “He walked the talk,” Peter recalls. So he began as a volunteer, a consultant, a servant—never chasing a title, just faithfulness. Thirty-six years later, he’s still here.
Prepared Before the World Knew It Needed Them
He watched the ministry grow from radio waves and cassette tapes to video, digital tools, and global reach. “It took a long time for people to understand the power of media,” he says. Many were late adopters.
But God was patient. And then the pandemic came—and suddenly, the church needed the very tools APMedia had been stewarding all along.
“God prepared us ahead of time.”
What once felt optional became essential. Across denominations, churches embraced media—not as a trend, but as a lifeline. Peter believes this wasn’t accidental. “Media was in God’s mind before He created the world.”
Filling the Digital Space with Light
Peter’s heart burns for the church to fill the digital space with light. “If we don’t fill it, somebody else will.” And so he teaches. He equips. He keeps learning.
“You don’t stop growing. You don’t stop learning.”
The stories fuel him—like testimonies recorded on cassette tapes smuggled into villages, one landing in the hands of a communist leader who said, “I have never heard a message like this.” Or films shown in remote communities that opened hearts and awakened faith.
This is what media does when surrendered to God—it multiplies the message.
Peter stays refreshed the old way: Word, prayer, community. “Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.” And so he runs again. And again.
A Legacy Burning Bright
His legacy is simple: faithfulness. Faithfulness to adapt. To learn. To use every tool God places in willing hands.
Because the message of Jesus deserves to be seen, heard, and multiplied—until the whole world knows.
Through a Lens of Faith: Leaving a Legacy for the Next Generation Johnson Li—
Some callings begin with a thunderous moment. Others begin quietly in a classroom filled with children and crayons. For Johnson Li, ministry first took root in Sunday school, where his heart was stirred for kids before he ever held a camera.
At the same time, he was a quiet hobbyist behind a lens, learning to see light, beauty, and story through photography. Those two loves— children and images—would one day converge in a way he never planned.
It was his pastor’s wife who first nudged him toward Asia Pacific Media. “Why don’t you come over and give it a try?” she said.
Johnson hesitated, prayed, and eventually stepped into an interview with Brother Bill. What began as a tentative “I’ll think about it” became a life-defining yes.
Counting the Cost—and Choosing Obedience
Johnson came from a business-oriented family, and he knew that
choosing ministry meant choosing sacrifice. The salary would be different. The rhythm of life would change. He had heard that APMedia mainly produced radio programs with only a little video at the time— nothing like the digital movement it is today.
Still, something in him sensed that God was weaving his hobby into a calling.
Stepping into full-time ministry did not feel glamorous. It felt weighty. Holy. Real.
From Quiet Observer to Courageous Connector
By nature, Johnson is reserved. He does not fill rooms with words; he notices them. He watches. He listens. But APMedia stretched him.
In his role, he learned to call pastors, meet church leaders, and build relationships far beyond the office walls. What surprised him most was how naturally those connections came. Conversations that once felt intimidating began to feel like meeting old friends.
Beyond videos and radio, Johnson discovered that ministry is deeply personal—handshakes, shared stories, and trusted referrals that led him to photograph church events and even weddings. Each invitation was a quiet affirmation that God was using both his faith and his craft.
The Hidden Reach of Every Video
One of the hardest parts of Johnson’s work is something few people ever see: distribution. Once a video leaves APMedia, it travels by faith. He does not always know where it lands—in what village, in what school, in what heart.
Then, sometimes, God sends a glimpse of the harvest.
Johnson remembers a Christian school in a predominantly Muslim area of Mindanao. One day, he heard that children and their parents watched APMedia’s videos together for the very first time. They were overwhelmed by the message—moved, stirred, changed.
In that moment, Johnson understood that his work was not just technical. It was eternal.
When Johnson speaks of legacy, his voice softens.
He wants his children to grow up knowing exactly what their father gave his life to. Not just a job—a mission. He wants them to say, “Dad, I understand what you did. You helped people. You changed lives.”
Sometimes God Plants a Seed and Waits Nine Years to Water It Heather Riggleman—
Fifteen years ago, I was sitting on a pew in a small church in Kearney, Nebraska—sippy cups in the van, laundry waiting at home, three children who still needed me to tie their shoes and butter their toast—when the pastor opened the invitation to serve in the Philippines.
I didn’t raise my hand. I didn’t even look up.
A Stirring I Couldn’t Explain
I just sat there with a stirring in my chest I couldn’t explain.
I was a stay-at-home mom. I barely had enough energy to make dinner, let alone raise support, pack bags, and fly across oceans. Why would God ask for something that felt impossible?
But obedience rarely comes dressed in convenience.
It comes dressed like a trembling yes.
Three months later, I found myself on a plane—36 hours from everything familiar. I thought it was because a tsunami had washed away a church. I thought we were showing up to rebuild walls and hammer nails in Jesus’ name.
But God had something different in mind. Something lodged deep in my spirit. A seed. Small and quiet.
Nine Years Later
Babies grew into teenagers. The house quieted. And then—one random afternoon—my phone buzzed.
“Would you help us tell our story? Would you help people in the U.S. understand what God is doing here?”
I felt the same stirring—the same gentle nudge from years before in that Nebraska pew.
Only this time, the call wasn’t to pack a suitcase. It was to carry a story. It wasn’t to cross oceans. It was to bridge them.
So I began working behind the scenes—sharing updates, writing articles, telling stories of missionaries and leaders who are using phones like lanterns in a dark world.
What a holy surprise to realize I didn’t need to travel 36 hours by plane anymore. God simply wanted my yes. Right where I was.
The Truth About Obedience
Today, my work is to help people here see what God is doing there. I help APMedia raise awareness so that pastors in remote regions can access biblical training. So young believers can use media to disciple their own communities. So a widow, isolated in her rural home, can watch a gospel film and know she’s not forgotten.
You and I don’t have to get on a plane to be obedient.
Obedience is sometimes right here, right now—from the desk where we answer emails, from the budget we steward, from the quiet yes whispered between grocery trips and school pick-ups.
APMedia’s harvest fields are already ripe. Workers are already standing in the heat of day. But movements require senders. Ministry needs carriers of the story.
Your partnership becomes fuel in the hands of workers already on assignment. Your giving becomes hope delivered digitally into homes. Your yes becomes someone else’s miracle.
Not thousands of miles away—but right here, through the choice you make today.
A MESSAGE FROM BILL SNIDER ASIA PACIFIC FOUNDER | US RELATIONS
It’s All About the People
Scripture is filled with names—real people God chose to use. Not just the well-known ones like David, Paul, or Peter, but countless others whose stories we know only in part. Their names may be unfamiliar, but their faithfulness mattered enough to be remembered and commended.
In Romans 16:11–13, Paul offers greetings that feel deeply personal: “Greet Herodion, my fellow Jew. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord. Greet Rufus…”
In this MISSION magazine, you’ve met some of the workers that make APMedia possible. God called people who serve with heart and skill. Thank you for empowering our work through your prayers and gifts. This is a kairos moment when our service is changing lives and communities.
