I saw the following article on a Baptist missions site.

David* never imagined he'd use ghosts as a way to share the Gospel.

A Christian worker in Cambodia, David was surveying floating villages on Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, and was in need of a boat and driver. Andrew,* whom David had led to Christ 18 months earlier, agreed to take the job.

It was on one of these survey trips to the village of Kbal Taol that David met Tim*. The two began to talk of spiritual things, and David gave Tim a Bible. After several more visits, Tim invited David and Andrew to dinner in his home. Before they arrived, Andrew gave David some advice.

"The way you talk about God is good, but it would be better to start differently," Andrew said.

"How should I start?" David asked.

"You need to talk about ghosts," he replied.

"Ghosts? Why ghosts?"

"Because the people here are afraid of ghosts," Andrew said. "They need to know that this Creator God is more powerful than ghosts."

Until 2008, no one in this village had ever heard the story of Jesus. But that changed the night David and Andrew arrived at Tim's house for dinner.

Tim had invited a few neighbors to join them, including Andrew's father, who lived next door. After dinner, the talk turned to spiritual things. Tim had begun reading the Bible David gave him and had many questions.

"Tim and I had been talking for about three hours, and the other men were falling asleep," David said. "Then about 9 o'clock Andrew pulled me aside."

"Now is the time to talk about ghosts," Andrew told him.

So David began a discussion about ghosts by sharing the story of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke 16. He explained that ghosts are not spirits of the dead but rather fallen angels and evil spirits sent out from Satan.

"The men woke up," David laughed. "[Now] they were paying close attention."

At midnight, however, the visitors left to get some sleep before their early morning fishing trip. But Tim still had questions.

Finally, Tim asked David, "Now, tell me how someone can become a child of God."