March 2004

Inaugural Issue

Welcome to the first edition of the Transmission e-newsletter. Transmission will now be distributed via E-mail on a bi-monthly basis. As always, Transmission will bring important information from the regions and share the many blessings that God is providing through Nazarene radio, television and internet broadcasts.

SOUTH AMERICAN RADIO - EXPLODING!

Radio broadcast in the South America Region has truly exploded in the last 6 months! From 1.6 million listeners in October 2003, to 13.7 million listeners in March 2004, God is blessing the work of the South America Communications team. Brian Utter, Regional Broadcast Coordinator shares, “God has truly blessed our faithfulness to Him and we constantly seek the direction of His Holy Spirit in everything we do.”

The direction seems to be “fast forward” with programs now airing on 420 radio stations in South America, Central America, Mexico, US, Cuba, Spain and soon, Equatorial Guinea in Africa. An additional 48 stations will be added soon in the country of Paraguay. With so many listeners, they will soon need to hire someone just to handle the follow-up to the hundreds of emails received monthly. By the end of this year, the goal is to have more than 1,000 stations airing these programs. With nine months left to achieve that goal, we can only imagine what wonders God has in store for this ministry!

World Mission Broadcast Fast Facts

As of March 2004, World Mission Broadcast is reaching hte unreached in:

Yet to Reach:

*This figure counts any WMB program broadcast on multiple stations throughout a region.
**Based on 192 countries per Worldatlas.com
***Based on 2796 primary language groups per Internet Public Library - www.ipl.org

GOD IS RIGHT THERE TO MEET US
By Rick Guilfoil

As the Producer of World Mission Video Magazine I view a lot of videos from around the world. Many of them are moving stories of lives changed. Each quarter I celebrate what God is doing through Nazarene World Mission. Every now and then I watch a segment that challenges me as a person…one of which was Ana’s Hope.

Ana’s Hope is a video that profiles a young mother and her family in the Mexico-Central America Region. Ana’s life was changed through a World Mission Broadcast radio program. In this segment one of our video crews went to Ana’s house to interview her - a house mostly made of dirt. The inside was small & dark. She listens to our broadcasts on a radio alarm clock (the clock part doesn’t even work and flies were crawling all over it). As Ana began to share with our crew how God had changed her life, you could tell what she experienced was something real and significant.

While in the editing process, one phrase of her testimony impacted me more than any sentence I can remember hearing. As Ana shared, “I decided right here, right now, I am leaving worldly things behind,” all I could think was “What worldly things?! In my culture you have nothing.” POW! Her statement hit me right between the eyes. My video editor and I looked at each other with half hearted grins. “Worldly things?” we asked each other. And then it hit us both. She had figured out what we take for granted. Ana had come to the end of herself. HERSELF. That is the key. There is an end to all of us. When we get to the end of ourselves God is right there to meet us, ready to meet every need we shall ever have.