We are missionaries with the HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Indiana. Dan served in Quito, Ecuador for six years supporting the shortwave broadcast operation. Barbara was a teacher at the Alliance Academy, a school for missionary children. We now serve in Elkhart, helping to design and build broadcast equipment for international Christian radio partners.

The HCJB Global Technology Center is helping to establish Christian radio stations in Russia, Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Far East, and the South Pacific. Dan’s specialty is computer engineering which he has used in service for the Lord over 30 years.

Following is a history of Dan and Barb's ministry with HCJB Global Voice written by Dan:

I was a summer missionary with HCJB in Quito, Ecuador in 1972 working at the radio station most of the time, but I also spent two weeks in Shell at an HCJB hospital on the edge of the jungle. That summer was one of the worst summers I ever had because the summer missionary program had some problems, and I was ill part of the time. Thankfully, I was staying with Dave and Anne Cliff, a medical physician, so there was a doctor close by. When the Cliffs saw my name on a list for people coming to Ecuador full-time in 1977, they thought that it must be another Dan Anderson returning because the one they knew would never come back. However, the Lord had other plans and led me back to HCJB while I was in seminary in 1976.

My home church was very supportive and even wanted to send in financial support before I had been accepted with the mission. I was accepted in June of 1976 and had enough support to begin language school in Texas at RGBI (Rio Grande Bible Institute) in January of 1977. Since I had taken Spanish in high school and college, I was able to skip the first semester at RGBI so that I could arrive on the field in July of 1977.

My principle assignment for my first term in Ecuador was designing and building PACS (Program Automatic Control System), a radio automationa system working with up to six programs on ten transmitters at a time. I worked mostly on PACS for the next four years. Since I was single and had a driver's license, I helped with an evangelism trip and took tourists around the country on weekends for the mission.

After a one year-furlough during 1981-82 I returned to make some upgrades to PACS and work on various engineering control and computer projects.

The most important event in my time with HCJB occurred in 1983 when I married Barbara Gordon who was a teacher at the Alliance Academy, a missionary school. Before we were married someone asked what I would do if she were not accepted as a missionary with HCJB, and I told them that was easy -- resign. Thankfully, after a brief "orientation" with the personnel director, Barb was accepted as a career missionary and we were given permission to marry (my friends in the States still can't believe that I had to have permission to get married). Since she was already on the field and we were going to get married in July, the personnel director decided that he would choose July 1, 1983 as the date she began her service with HCJB. Thus, there is a 6-year difference in our times of service with the mission.

In 1984 we left the Ecuador field to join the team at the HCJB World Radio headquarters in Miami, FL. After a 6-month furlough, we began our ministry with headquarters in 1985. I worked doing computer programming work for the next year and a half. Although I could do data-processing type computer programming, my real desire was to get back to engineering.

In 1986 the engineering director asked if I would be willing to move to Elkhart, Indiana to help build high-power shortwave transmitters, and I enthusiastically accepted his offer. Within a few months, we packed up our house and moved to Elkhart in November of 1986 where we have been ever since.

My first assignment in Elkhart at the HCJB Global Technology Center was to design and build the control system for the HC100 shortwave transmitters. As time went on my assignment broadened to include maintaining the computers and computer network. Currently I am the information systems manager in Elkhart and the manager for software development projects.

Barb and I are very involved in our local church where Barb is the Sunday School Superintendent, and I am the Senior High boys' Sunday School teacher.

The summer of 2002, we took a group of 6 adults and 17 teenagers (including 3 of our own) from our local church on a trip to Ecuador with YouthWorld to give them a first-hand look at HCJB and the mission field. Unlike my first summer in Ecuador, this trip was great and one of the most memorable.

One of the recent highlights of my missionary career was to assist in the installation of the first Christian shortwave radio station in the Central African Republic. This station can cover most of the country with a signal and has a potential audience of several million since many people in the C.A.R. listen to shortwave radio. Partnering with other ministries to help others reach their own people is something I love to do.

We have three children, Jenny (22), Emily (20), and John (18) who are all following the Lord. Barb is using her school experience again and is the librarian for a local Christian school in Elkhart.

The Lord gave me the desire to serve in missions when I was 10 years old at a church camp. He also gave me technical abilities, and HCJB Global has provided the opportunity for me to use those abilities for His glory while helping to spread the Good News of salvation in Christ. My desire has been and continues to be that I will use what God has given me for his glory.