For many people around the world, a minute is all it takes to change them forever – for better or worse. World Mission Broadcast is in the minute business. Countering the hopelessness many experience every minute, we use over 1.9 million minutes every year to reach beyond borders and over barriers to transmit hope to 74 countries in 31 languages.

I’ve seen first hand what can happen in a minute. A few years ago, I participated in a prison ministry in Florencia Varela, Argentina. One of the radio stations, which broadcast our Spanish programs, began working with the prison after an inmate contacted them. The interesting thing is that there is no scientific reason that the signal should reach this prison. It lies an additional 50 miles beyond their reach. The inmate had the radio positioned in such a way that he picked up the signal for just one minute…and that is all it took.

Today, that inmate is working with the radio station and more than half of the prison is now following Christ. I saw the dramatic difference between a cell block following Christ and those that didn’t. Cell blocks that now are clean and have Scripture painted down the hallways versus those strewn with trash and human waste with inmates crying out in profanity.

A small radio sits at the end of the cell block tuned into that radio station. An engineer has investigated and there is no humanly answer to why, only in that spot, they can listen to that frequency.

Broadcast media and technologies are causing unprecedented things to happen as we reach people in places we never before thought possible. These “powerful God-tools” (2 Cor. 10:3-6, The Message) are helping us penetrate places closed off to the
Gospel and share the light of Jesus in those dark corners.

Your partnership with World Mission Broadcast makes those minutes happen – minutes that change lives. The cost to produce, distribute, and transmit one minute is just $4. How many life-changing minutes could you, your friends, or your group sponsor?

There’s power in a minute.
Help change a life.

Brian Utter
World Mission Broadcast

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Neme awoke early the next morning and went to see the pastor of the Chuave Church of the Nazarene.  Pastor Jerry Wadia prayed with Neme.  That following Sunday morning, Neme, his wife, and three children all came to the church.  The entire family came and joined the family of God through the WMB Krai Bilong Ol Meri program.

Neme and his family attended baptism classes.  Last year they were baptized and became members of the Chuave Church of the Nazarene.

Neme and Pastor Wadia were invited to the dedication of a home built for the radio ministries director on the Melanesia Nazarene Bible College campus.  During the dedication, Neme shared how the Lord spoke to him through the ministry of WMB and Krai Bilong Ol Meri.

WMB’s radio ministry continues to make an impact throughout the villages of Papua New Guinea. Eight people heard Krai Bilong Ol Meri in the mountains of East Kambia and repented of their sins.  They are attending the Church of the Nazarene in Kambia.

A listener named Leo heard Krai Bilong Ol Meri and Kirapim Gutpela Sindaun “Starting a Good Life”.  He repented of his sins and is attending a new Church of the Nazarene in Markam Valley of the Morobe Province.

Krai Bilong Ol Meri, and Kirapim Gutpela Sindaun air on nine radio stations, while  Krais I Laikim Olgeta Pikinini “Christ Loves All Kids” airs on six radio stations throughout Papua New Guinea.

- Daniel Eka, World Mission Broadcast Asia-Pacific

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Bengali Radio

Rev. Tushar Manna leads the team that produces World Mission Broadcast’s Swarger Shidi “Ladder to Heaven”, a 15-minute Bengali-language radio program that airs every Thursday morning at 7 a.m. on two short-wave channels (25 and 41) in East India. Listeners include Bengali speakers throughout India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The ministry team follows up with listeners by writing letters, calling listeners and visiting different areas where they’re invited to share more. They’re also training new believers to continue follow-up in their localities.

“There are 207 million Bengali-speaking people,” said Manna. “It is our desire that our Nazarene Bengali radio program will touch them and they will come to know Christ in their lives.”

Since the ministry began, the team has produced and broadcast more than 900 episodes; 52 of those were this year. This past year, 90 people have come to know the Lord through this program; 50 of those were involved in follow-up discipleship (mostly from Malda, Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri and Koch Behar districts of West Bengal).  

Manna conducted one “Listeners Get-Together” for 40 listeners in Malda District last year. All come from unreached villages and non-Christian backgrounds, and have responded well to the music and messages in the program. The team continues to follow up with listeners there, including a program for 100 schoolchildren.

“They are much more interested to know more about Christ and they had many questions,” said Manna. “We talked to them many things to arouse their interest and answered their questions. They requested us to broadcast the program everyday.”

As a result of the radio ministry, 18 house churches have been planted among the Rajbanshi and Poliya people.

While the people of West Bengal were having their Centennial celebrations, Manna took the opportunity to visit some of the listeners in North Bengal last October. He conducted three follow-up meetings for the listeners and met another 20 listeners in the small groups during the trip. One hundred ten listeners attended the follow-up meetings.

“They were excited to see me and hear the gospel,” he said. “I had good interaction with them. They have requested me to broadcast the radio program every day. They also want me to visit them again with music CDs, books, calendar etc.”

From October 4-14, Manna visited another people group called Aguri in the Burdwan District. This people group is completely unreached; so far there are no known Christians in this people group, but several listen to the radio program.

“God is using Nazarene Bengali Radio program all over West Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam, Sikkim, and Tripura and in many other parts of India, Nepal and Bangladesh,” said Manna. “We are thankful to all the prayer partners and donors. I am thankful to World Mission Broadcast, all our district leaders, pastors, and all our church members for helping me in the Nazarene Bengali radio ministry.”

—Simone Finney, Regional Communications Coordinator, Eurasia Region

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Lynne, Brian & Jacob Utter

Brian comes to us with a background in commercial broadcast and from his most recent assignment as the South America regional communications coordinator.  In that role, he successfully created and launched a number of radio and television programs that now reach far beyond the borders of South America. 

One program, Mujer Valiosa “The Valued Woman” has been widely received, not only in South America, but also in the United States and in many Hispanic communities around the world including Israel where there is a large Hispanic community.

WMB South America currently produces four radio programs in both Spanish and Portuguese, which reach nearly 50 million people monthly in more than 30 countries.  Mujer Valiosa TV, currently in production for its third season, reaches a potential television audience of more than 150 million in 20 countries and was recently added for Internet broadcast at CBNEspanol.tv.  Pre-production is underway on Toby TV, a children’s television program in conjunction with Sunday School Discipleship Ministries.

Pray for Brian, Lynne, and their son Jacob as they make the adjustment to this new assignment.  Welcome!

— Dave Anderson, Director, World Mission Broadcast

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Juan Carlos sits in his damp prison cell, pulling pieces of loose paint from the walls. He contemplates his regrets of bad choices.  The anxiety he feels from the separation of his family and the children’s birthdays he will miss plunge him into a deep sense of loneliness.

Amira masks her pain behind a shroud.  She is not allowed to work.  She is not allowed to study.  She wants more than anything to do more, to be more.  She wonders if this is all there is, or whether she was meant for something else.

Lev works 14 hours a day at the factory.  It is the same factory where his grandfather worked, his father works, and his seven younger brothers will work.  His family lives in a two-bedroom apartment provided by the government.  He dreams of a day when he could actually live, rather than just exist.

For one reason or another, people like Juan Carlos, Amira, and Lev are out of our grasp.  We try our hardest to reach out to them, but because of a geographical boundary or a physical obstruction, traditional means are ineffective. 

For this reason, World Mission Broadcast exists - to reach beyond borders and barriers to share the light of Jesus in the dark corners of this world.

We exist so that Juan Carlos can scan the dial on the radio in his cell and find a voice of friendship and encouragement in the midst of his loneliness.

We exist so that Amira can watch a television program and learn how much she matters, to her family, to her community, to God.

We exist so that Lev can stop by an Internet café on his way home from work to listen to a podcast and chat with a friend opening him up to a whole new world.

We exist because you make it possible for us to exist.  Without your faithful giving to World Mission Broadcast, people like Juan Carlos, Amira, and Lev might not have the opportunity to know Jesus.  Thank you for helping us reach beyond borders and barriers to share the light of Jesus in the dark corners of this world.

If you would like to be involved beyond borders and barriers with WMB, you can contribute on-line. 

Log onto http://www.worldmissionbroadcast.org/contribute.aspx. 

Gifts can also be made through your local Church of the Nazarene or sent directly to:

World Mission Broadcast
Church of the Nazarene Global Ministries Center
17001 Prairie Star Parkway
Lenexa, KS 66220

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Welcome to Nazareneblogs.org/worldmissionbroadcast. In this blog we want to share with you about the amazing things the Lord is doing in World Mission Broadcast, literally around our world.  Through communications, we can break through borders and barriers to reach the lost and give them hope in Jesus Christ.

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