Anderson Times
Missionary Newsletter of Dan and Barbara Anderson
serving with HCJB World Radio
May 2008
Planting Churches in Indonesia
HCJB Global's indigenous partner in Indonesia has discovered the
powerful combination of church planting and radio broadcasting. Over
the past few years, 24 Christian stations have gone on the air with the
help of the HCJB Global Technology Center. Our center's director was
recently at one of those stations and heard first-hand testimonies of
people who have come to Christ through the radio ministry. Repeatedly,
the station director said, "Radio works in Indonesia!"
The model works like this: The government grants a license for a
low-power FM station. With the help of our technology center in
Indiana, the appropriate equipment is acquired and put into operation.
Programs are aired to the largely Muslim audience, and our
solar-powered, pre-tuned SonSet® radios are distributed, giving
more people access to the programming. Families and neighborhoods are
attracted to the programming and form listener clubs. People in the
clubs put their faith in Christ, and home churches are started. People
in the churches grow in their faith and become bold witnesses. They,
then, help to initiate other "radio plants." Pray that the gospel will
advance quickly while the doors of opportunity remain open in unreached
areas of Indonesia.
[Article provided by the Technology Center News
Network]
How Far would You Go to Listen?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what must this picture from
the Central African Republic (CAR) be saying? At the very least, it's
saying that this man values Christian radio so much that he is willing
to go to great lengths to hear it, even if it means carrying a car
battery on his head! One Central African reported, "This is our only
source of news; how can we not find a way to listen?" In addition to
news and community health information, the Bible is taught on this
station in four languages and can be heard by a potential listening
audience of four million people.
(For more information visit www.icdinternational.org)
100,000-watt Radio Transmitter to Swaziland
When Dan came to Elkhart in 1986, he came to help design and build
high-power shortwave radio transmitters for Christian broadcasting over
long distances. Today eight of these powerful transmitters are in
strategic locations around the world, beaming the gospel in dozens of
languages to millions of listeners, making the message of the saving
grace of Jesus available-often for the first time-to those in remote or
restricted areas.
This summer the ninth HC100 transmitter built at the center will be
sent to Trans World Radio (TWR) in Swaziland. This transmitter and the
two HC100s already in operation there will help TWR-Swaziland continue
its vital ministry of sending the gospel in 30 languages to the vast
regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dan Works with College Students
In March, Dan rewired part of the computer network at the Technology
Center with the help of four students from LeTourneau University, Dan's
alma mater. The students used their spring break as a ministry to HCJB
Global and various other organizations. Dan and the students spent four
strenuous days plus a couple of evenings climbing in the ceilings and
pulling cables.
The new wiring improves the efficiency of our office, and the
students saved Dan many hours of work. We at HCJB Global hope that we
gave the students a vision for using their talents, whatever they may
be, for the Lord.
Family News
Barb will be completing her 11th year as librarian at Elkhart
Christian Academy. She continues as our church's Sunday School
superintendent and serves on the Elkhart Public Library board of
directors.
Jenny (23) is a senior majoring in TESOL (Teaching English to
Speakers of Other Languages) at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She
plans to attend summer school for two weeks and intern at a Christian
summer camp in the Czech Republic until classes resume in August. If
all goes according to plan, she will graduate in December.
Emily (21) has completed classes at two local colleges. She
works at a local farmers' market but is taking some time off to help
with a missions project at a radio ministry in Puerto Rico in July.
John (19) has finished his first year at Purdue University
majoring in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. He will be working for one
of the professors this summer helping with research on aquatic life in
Lake Huron.
We ask that you pray for guidance from the Lord for our children as
they mature and go out on their own.
What's It All About?
When people ask what our ministry at HCJB Global is about, several
things come to mind - Christian radio and media technology, medical
work, community development, church leadership training. However, those
things are only the outworking of what is the core of our ministry.
That core is Jesus Christ himself and the desire to have others know
him as their Lord and Savior. The ministry is all about HIM and the
hope he gives. That is the gospel as the Bible says, "For what I
received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died
for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he
was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures …."
2 Corinthians 15:3 NIV
Thank you
We want to say a big "thank you" to everyone who contributes to our
ministry at the HCJB Global Technology Center and helped us begin 2008
with our ministry account in the black. Your gifts have been a tremendous
encouragement to us in these uncertain economic times.
As the Apostle Paul wrote, "I thank my God every time I remember
you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy
because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until
now..." Philippians 1:3-5 (NIV)
