During the past year the HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart,
Indiana has been able to provide technical assistance to Christian
ministries in 47 countries. These include: Albania, American Samoa,
Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman
Islands, Central African Republic....
Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Guam, Haiti,
Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia.....
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Mozambique, New
Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea.....
Puerto Rico, Russia, Saipan, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland,
Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom.....
United States, Western Samoa, and four countries which we are not
able to identify due to security reasons.
Twenty years ago HCJB Global was reaching out to the world via
shortwave radio from Quito, Ecuador. New technologies and partnerships
with other Christian organizations now allow us to help local believers
reach their own people with the message of salvation in Jesus Christ.
The technology has changed, but the message has not.
What is the point of what are we doing at HCJB Global? The new
president of our mission, Wayne Pederson, summarizes our ministry:
"HCJB Global is using the mass media, healthcare and leadership
development to reach people who have never heard, to reach people
groups with limited access to the gospel and to mobilize those who can
serve. But global evangelism is the 'point of the
arrow' for HCJB Global."
"When we provide emergency response, our goal is to introduce people
to Jesus. When we provide clean water, it's to point recipients to
Jesus, the Living Water. When we provide healing help through our
hospitals and clinics, it's to introduce patients to the Great
Physician. And in our broadcasting operations, it's to communicate the
good news about the one who came to demonstrate God's love and the gift
of eternal life to our needy world."
We recently received the following message from one of our partners
in Burkina Faso:
"I really appreciate all HCJB does to put radio in the hands of the
national church here. We now have 4 stations in Burkina all using the
FM250 and reaching people everyday with His word! I can imagine that
sometimes what you do there makes it hard to envision the end results
here, but God is using you here.
Thanks again,
Eric Eshbaugh
Africa Regional Media Consultant
Mission Protestante CMA
Bobo-Dioulasso BURKINA FASO West Africa"
Your financial and prayer
partnership with us keeps ministries like this one broadcasting the
Good News. Thank you!
Last week, we received a report about the hardships that some of our
partner stations endure to keep the Christian message on the air. This
information concerns a station that ministers to the people in the area
of northern Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and
Sudan:
The station operator reported on Saturday, December 6, that with the
threat of the Lord's Resistance Army (not a Christian organization but
a rebel group known for brutality), the station was totally dismantled
and the parts and pieces were stored in a secure area hidden from the
rebels. Apparently a large percentage of the townspeople fled into the
bush. Our contact said that Dungu was spared a lot of property damage.
For now, the LRA has moved on to other locations.
It is unclear when it will be safe for folks to return to Dungu and
get the station operational again. Let us pray for these Christian
brothers and sisters who endure hardship and pray that we will be as
faithful as they are when hardship comes to us.
