June 2004

Radio Ministries in Africa

The need for a radio-recording studio in Mozambique is urgent. Partnering with Nazarene Educational Services to produce radio programs will bring about huge costs with studio rental and assistance in production. However, with the financial difficulties that the region has experienced, studio set up will be on hold until next year at the earliest. At that time, a Work & Witness team from Horizon Church of the Nazarene, Roodepoort, Guateng will be helping out with the project. World Mission Communications Africa will need to contribute close to $6,000.00 for equipment and supplies.

Lives are being changed and people are accepting Christ through World Mission Broadcast programs. Please pray for the Africa Region and for the financial help that is needed as they continue to minister through radio broadcast.

Picture on the Right: Dr. Filimao Chambo. He will be the presenter for the programs being developed and is the College Principal for Seminario Nazareno Mozambique, the Bible College of the Church of the Nazarene. Pictured above on left: Church of the Nazarene, Mozambique.

What Blesses Me About Working
With World Mission Broadcast?
By Ann Bladwin, Director, Donor Development

•The Canadian donor who funds thousands of dollars of equipment for radio broadcasts because his vision is for people to clearly hear and
get a better understanding of the Gospel.

•A district in the Northwest whose World Mission Broadcast (WMB) offering goal was set at $25,000. Imagine if all districts had and met
an offering goal of this size?

•The New York Metro District office, who took the time to call and
make sure we had the correct addresses for their non-English speaking churches so they would receive the special WMB materials we had prepared for them.

•The frantic church secretary, wanting offering promotional materials
at the last minute, who wrote in with a suggestion and gave us the
idea for what is now the WMB “Emergency Promotion Kits” posted on
our web site.

•The Asia-Pacific Regional Communications Center team who translated this year’s WMB promotional materials into Korean so they could more effectively reach into their Korean community and garner their involvement.

•Receiving news from South America that as of April 2004 – 16 million listeners had heard that region’s radio programs.

•And…I could go on and on about the countless ways God uses people
all over the world to reach the unreached through Nazarene radio, television and internet broadcasts.

•Perhaps the greatest blessing is when, sitting at a desk in Kansas City,
I receive a story from the field of a life changed like the one below:

Rev. Takis Manetas, pastor and program producer for Zontas 100% (Living 100%), a WMB television program designed for the Greek speaking community in Melbourne, Australia reports: “On one occasion a lady listener, Koula, rang up to ask something about the Bible which she could not understand. In discussion, she said that she had been watching the program Zontas 100% for a long time. Her husband, Fotis, was very much against it and he kept fighting with her not to watch it. He was getting drunk every day, he was swearing and he was abusive. But, Koula did not stop. She learned to pray to God and asked God to change her husband. Today, Koula reports, ‘We watch the program together. He stopped drinking, he is not swearing and he is not abusive!’ I asked her if it was OK to meet them. She was very happy. Now we have developed a friendship together. We study the Bible together and pray together.”

Did you know...
Peet Voges, RCC for the Africa Region

*A very young Peet wished to be a pilot one day...
*He loves pasta and hates bacon from fast food restaurants– “because it looks and tastes like the bark of a tree”.
*His dream car is a Volvo S40 T5.
*Peet was called into the ministry at age 25 – just one year after accepting the Lord.