Trans World Radio

Way back, kind of Cold War era, there was a couple of big ministries that popped up because missionaries couldn't go in behind the iron curtain, couldn't go behind the bamboo curtain, but radio crosses borders.

So ministries like Far East Broadcasting, Transworld Radio, and HCJB started these super high-powered shortwave stations to go into countries where missionaries couldn't go.

And they've been around for, I don't know, 50, 60, 80 years now, I think some of them.

Oh, okay.

So we got to make sure we find that pastor or a missionary working with an unreached people group that we know that, that, philosophically theologically doctrinally we're like yeah this guy's solid and then we're like here's the tools you do the preaching now that's the the main part but then we don't want them like just chained to the desk and only doing preaching because a lot of the people we're working with they're running a medical clinic or a school or a pastor's training so we don't want them just you know 24 hours a day eight days a week sitting behind the mic they got other work to do so then we try to help them find other resources so one of the main ones is the good old-fashioned through the bible jay vernon mcgee five years of through the bible cop on

the bible bus

yeah and so back to transworld radio transworld radio has now um had people translate this i think they're up around 150 160 languages maybe 200 i don't want to get crazy if i'm i don't want to speak in exaggerating but they've done over well over 100 languages translating the 26 minute radio show into and not just translating, but contextualizing that that program into all the different sorts of languages.

So we say, OK, if you got Jay Vernon in your kind of marketplace language, you know, if we're working in Tanzania, you got Swahili.

And others will just be noise to them.

If someone is driving on the radio and they hear Transworld Radio, if they're already born again and they hear the gospel being preached and they're already saved, or if they are not saved, but they're under conviction of sin by the Holy Spirit, Eclectic is the theological term.

If they're knowing that that's God speaking to them, they're hearing God.

If they're only hearing the evangelist, they're hearing the messenger.

For families moving abroad, navigating these differing freedoms can be a challenge.

Before becoming missionaries with Transworld Radio, Mike Lambert and his wife homeschooled in Illinois.

There, the rules were straightforward.

Just notify the government when the kids are switching to homeschooling.

It was yet another busy week this week in the world of broadcasting, and K-LOVE Incorporated, the Christian broadcaster, is making news.

K-LOVE is partnering with Trans World Radio, which is a Christian broadcaster which has been operating on the shortwave bands for many, many years.

K-LOVE will provide programming to Trans World Radio in multiple languages for many countries.

K-LOVE is doing this to provide Christian programming to countries that normally don't have Christian programming available to them.

In other news, the radio station cited a radio station owner whose translators were not broadcasting the signal of their main radio station.

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Um, anywho's, K-Love is, has announced a partnership with Trans World Radio to bring K-Love to over 90 countries.

Yeah.

Nice.

Um, our main customer is still BBC World Service.

Um, next to that, we do transmissions for Adventists World Radio, Trans World Radio.

Since, um, TWR closed their station in Guam, they also came to us.

Mm-hmm.

Over 6,000 have been arrested, mostly teens.

Anna Mosimi with Far FM, a Transworld Radio partner, says the riots no longer have a single cause, as youth with all kinds of anger and agendas have joined the unrest.

Christians in France are meeting young people with gospel hope.

Pray people choose Christ's peace.