The Global Village
Email Newsletter of Missionary Broadcasting, Inc. David Daniell, editor March, 2012

Quiché Baptists Start Radio Program in Nahualá

In an area of western Guatemala that historically has been very antagonistic toward the Gospel, a new weekly three-hour Baptist radio program is opening doors to witness.

IMB missionaries Roger and Vicki Grossman, along with Quiché missionaries have started a weekly three-hour radio program in the town of Nahualá, north of Lake Atitlán.

“This is an area that is very closed, but through this ministry, we are seeing doors open,” says Vicki. Quiché missionaries Luís, Marco and Jorge produce the program. Aside from Christian music, they teach what they’ve learned from Roger in the Quiché Bible Institute along with social topics such as health and the family. “They are doing an excellent job,” says Roger.

MBI is providing this radio team with an external hard drive full of radio programming in Spanish.

Baptist Station in Guatemala Needs Video Projector

Baptist radio station Campur Stereo 91.9 FM in Guatemala uses Christian movies promoted on the station as a means of outreach and to meet people hungry for the Gospel up close and personal. “We have to rent the video projector, and that limits what we can do,” says station manager Federico Coc Caal.

The JESUS video has been translated into K’ekchi’, and there are several excellent Christian videos that are explicitly evangelistic, such as “¿Con Quién Te Vas?” (With Whom Will You Go?); “La Liberación de María Magdalena” (The Liberation of Mary Magdalena); “El Hombre Dios” (The God Man); “Desafío a los Gigantes” (Facing the Giants); “A Prueba de Fuego” (Fireproof) and “Ropa Nueva para Felipe” (New Clothes for Phillip).

The station, which in December celebrated its 10th anniversary on the air, has moved into a nice concrete block building with control room, studio, office and storage area. They previously had a modest frame house. There are three Baptist congregations in the Campur area, and a total of 30 Baptist churches in the station’s coverage area.

I produced a 60-second spot congratulating the station on its 10th anniversary and Emailed it to them as an attachment. How far we’ve come since the days when there were only a few landline telephones in the whole K’ekchi’ area—and you had to shout to be heard! In the past, I would have had to put the spot on a CD and send it in the mail—hoping and praying that it gets there—about three weeks later!

This station has some very pressing equipment needs—foremost among them is a video projector. They also need a new audio mixer, a dual CD player, two microphones and a new or used laptop computer.

Thank You!

Thank you for your faithfulness and generosity. Donations are tax-deductible. Mail your check made out to MBI to:

Missionary Broadcasting, Inc.
7401 Wesley Ct.
Mobile, AL 36695

Evangelist & Wife Donate Transmission Equipment

Roger and Vicki Barnett of Kountze, TX have donated a used Studio to Transmitter Link (STL) and an RPU (Remote Programming Unit) for remote broadcasts and some coaxial cable. This will be utilized where a station’s studio is in town, and the transmitter and tower are several miles away. The RPU unit will help a station broadcast live worship services and rallies. This will not only help the outreach of those churches, but will generate much needed income for the station. I had a delightful visit with Rodney and Vicki in early March when I picked up the equipment. Rodney is an incredible evangelist!

Radio Amistad Celebrates Its 13th Anniversary!

Radio Amistad, the station with the largest listening audience around Lake Atitlán in Guatemala is celebrating 13 years of broadcasting the Gospel.

In addition to Spanish, Radio Amistad broadcasts from San Pedro La Laguna in three indigenous languages—Tzutujil, Cakchiquel and Quiché. It has an estimated audience of 10,000 listeners from 5:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. Some 30 pastors or lay ministers have programs on the station.

Radio Amistad 90.7 FM, is owned and operated by the Getsemani Baptist Church whose beloved pastor is Isaac Batz. Besides the radio station, this church has a school with 400 students (First through 12th grade) and is starting a ministry to teach local residents how to raise chickens and to plant gardens that will help keep their families healthy. Getsemani also has an excellent music education program with graded choirs.

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Baptists in Tabasco Back On the Air

Mexican Pastor Eleazar Leyva who was unjustly subjected to threats of imprisonment because of charges against his community station last year is on the air again with his radio program “Cristo es la Respuesta.” It's on 910 AM and 104.5 FM in nearby Cárdenas, Tabasco in southeast Mexico.

For about 13 years, his program was on XEXV 570AM “La Grande de Tabasco” in Comalcalco. Then, in July, 2009, he launched Radio Reflexión 89.7 FM, a duly-licensed non-profit 1KW community radio station. After Radio Reflexión's 14 months of incredible success on the air, Leyva was slapped with criminal charges by XEVX's owner, charging that Radio Reflexión was airing commercials and violating its charter.

Leyva dedicated his new program on Sunday, Feb. 5 to the memory of the late Paul Finkinbinder, revered religious broadcast pioneer known as Hermano Pablo. His five-minute radio program—started in 1960--is heard on more than 600 radio stations in Latin America. He died Jan. 27 at the age of 90. The program will continue to be produced and distributed by Carlos Rey who began hosting the program several years ago.

Recently 50 prisoners accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior after Leyva preached in the Villahermosa prison to more than 200 inmates. Baptists prepared a light meal for the prisoners, visited with them, had a great experience of camaraderie and gave away 60 New Testaments and Christian literature.

“We continue waiting for the judicial process in our case to advance,” says Leyva. “The court has not notified us of any future trial date.” Leyva's lawyers have obtained a temporary injunction against the XEXV owner. But this man already has confiscated Radio Reflexión's frequency. If Leyva is declared guilty, he will file an appeal. Let's continue to pray for the brother and for future efforts to obtain another frequency.

Technical Problems Delay Launch of RK2 Radio in Suriname

Because the Suriname government changed the frequency allocation for RK2 Radio's studio to transmitter link (STL) at the last moment, the station's launch in January has been delayed until another STL set at the new frequency can be purchased.

Unlike FM transmitters, whose frequencies can be changed easily by punching in new numbers, to change an STL's frequency requires different length coils in the piece of equipment.

The sponsoring PUAS Baptist Church in Paramaribo is awaiting the purchase of a new STL (transmitter, receiver and sending and receiving antennas appropriate to the assigned frequency). The new STL frequency allocation is 220.8 mHz. The original STL was set at the factory for 950 mHz. The 200 MHz range normally is reserved for TV audio.

Another obstacle to meeting the January launch was a topographical obstruction—a small hill with tall trees--between the studio in Paramaribo and the transmitter/tower site 8 miles away in Commaweijne. Please pray for us as we seek a solution.

Volunteer Engineer to Install FM Operation at Radio Luz in Guatemala

Volunteer communications engineer Joe Christian of Eldorado, Texas has agreed to install the new FM operation at Radio Luz 840AM in San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz in the K'ekchi' region of north-central Guatemala.

Christian and David Daniell will be in Guatemala May 7-16 for the project. The FM antenna will be placed atop the existing 311-foot high AM tower on a mountain about five miles north of San Pedro Carchá.

Because the tower also is the antenna in AM broadcasting, an isolating coil will be required to eliminate interference in the FM signal. The work to be done includes installing the new 1KW stereo FM transmitter and tuning the antenna to the station's new FM frequency. He'll also trouble-shoot problems in the 2.5KW AM transmitter as well as install a mechanism to transmit cell phone calls from listeners with broadcast-quality audio.

Local K'ekchi' brethren will attach the antenna to the apex of the AM tower and secure the coaxial cable to the tower.

For Christian, who has an electrical engineering degree and has worked in electronics most of his life, working in a foreign country will be new to him. He has operated computer systems that monitored drilling parameters on oil rigs. His hobby is ham radio. “We are extremely blessed to have Joe's partipation in this project,” says Daniell, who will accompany Christian to Guatemala to coordinate, translate and drive.

Daniell and his wife, Lorna, lived in Guatemala for 12 months in 1987-88 while he helped the K'ekchi' Baptist brethren launch Radio K'ekchi' and has traveled extensively in Guatemala consulting with the eight locally-owned and operated Baptist missionary radio stations there.

Radio Luz Needs Help With Licensing Fee

Radio Luz in Guatemala is between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, they have a new 1KW FM transmitter, antenna and coaxial cable, but once it's installed they can't go on the air for lack of funds to cover the licensing fee--$550. It would be licensed as a non-profit community radio station. Can you partner with Radio Luz to meet this need? Send your check made out to Missionary Broadcasting, Inc. or simply MBI to MBI, 7401 Wesley Ct., Mobile, AL 36695. All donations are tax-deductible.

MBI Consults With Palmer Ministries About Station in Honduras

MBI and its engineers have offered advice to Jim Palmer Ministries regarding the reduction of power in the 500-watt FM transmitter of Radio Bautista 103.1 FM in Puerto Lempira, Gracias a Dios, Honduras. MBI purchased the station's equipment and coordinated its installation in 2003. It serves the Miskito area of Honduras, bordering Nicaragua.

MBI's engineers offered opinions on how to solve the problem with PM's Fully Williammson, and we urged Palmer Ministries to establish a partnership with HCJB Global Radio whereby HCJB's engineers would lend technical assistance on the scene if the participating partner covers the travel expenses of its engineers.

Pray that this problem is solved so that the station's signal will reach the outlying villages of its original coverage area. To read more about Baptist work among the Miskito people group, visit www.miskitomissions.com

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Partnering with Missionary Broadcasting

We give thanks for the incredible participation by our partners during 2011. MBI received donations ranging from $10 to $5,000 from a total of 34 donors. We were organized in 2004 by the IRS as a duly-recognized 501 c3 non-profit organization, and we take seriously the Apostle Paul's admonition to us in I Cor 4:2 “It is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.”

Furthermore, the missionary radio stations which we help are sustained by local donors who bring their Quetzales, Lempiras, pesos, Cordovas and other currencies to the stations to keep them on the air. Some sponsor special First Fruits offerings at the close of the harvest season in November.

At Radio Amistad in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala, a poor rural woman brought a live chicken to the station as her offering. A couple who was on the verge of divorce heard Pastor Isaac Batz's message on the station. As a result they reconciled and brought him a basket of corn, giving thanks that his comments had encouraged them to work out their differences.

When Radio K'ekchi' went on the air, farmers brought piles and piles of corn to finance the station's operation. They raised $3,000 that way.

Please send your donations to:

Missionary Broadcasting, Inc.
7401 Wesley Ct.
Mobile, AL 36695

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