HeartLine  -  September 2011

 
Is It Really Worth It? - Members of the Masaki Village would tell you, ‘YES!’

“World Mission Broadcast is far-reaching in its scope. This tool is able to do what no other ministry can. It reaches beyond borders where there are barriers to keep the message out. We need your help to reach the unreachable by supporting this evangelism tool. Make a difference in the world today!”

Louie E. Bustle, Director of Global Mission

Nazarene broadcasters are often asked whether it is really worth putting so much effort into old media like radio. Yet, it is never hard to come up with the answer of “YES!”
 
It is true that technology has advanced tremendously, and yet radio remains a great ministry tool throughout the world, especially in Africa. Radio ministry is difficult and costly work that begins with planning and funding─but when powerful, life-changing testimonies are received, we know we are still doing the right thing.
 
For the last six years World Mission Broadcast (WMB) has worked in partnership with Radio Usima Tanzania (RUT). We air a youth program known as Tafakari Ya Siku (Daily Meditation) in the Kiswalhili (Swahili) language. WMB’s African radio team has received many prayer requests, testimonies, and comments from faithful listeners whose lives have been changed by the Lord through this radio program. One of those listeners is David. 
 
David Munga is a resident of Masaki Village in Dodoma, Tanzania. One day his family (two brothers and a relative) were struck and killed by lightning on a rainy afternoon, leaving him alone. Great fear haunted him! His other relatives isolated themselves from him because of the Sukuma tribe’s taboos and cultural restrictions. Among these people, it is believed that people who are struck by lightning are evil; and no one should associate with them, lest that person get infected with the bad omen.
 
One Saturday afternoon David heard a voice from his small, old radio receiver saying, “There is One who cares and loves those who are unlovable and lonely…the Lord Jesus. He is inviting those who are afraid and weary and is offering them rest and safety that the community can’t offer.”
 
“I knew this was an offer to me; and that afternoon, I gave my all to Jesus,” said David. After weeks of communication and visitation with Pastor Ronic, David joined the Iringa Road Church of the Nazarene where he has been a member for four months. Brother Munga and many others don’t have the means to communicate their gratitude to the Church of the Nazarene for making it possible for the Word of God to reach and change their lives through radio. These villagers do not have cell phones or mail service to communicate their appreciation, but according to David, they say “…We always thank God for things like radio and the people who use them to reach disadvantaged villagers like us. We can’t read the Bible on our own. It is likely the only way we would receive the Good News is by hearing.”
 
WMB’s radio team members, local churches, and pastors are grateful witnesses of radio’s continued viability to provide powerful, life-changing work in the lives of African listeners.

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District Presidents, WMB is one of the ministries NMI continues to receive an offering for, and WMB needs your help. This year the offering is currently down 3.08% from last year at this time. The story of David Munga is a true story and should be shared throughout your district. It shows how the giving of the local church to WMB results in a life reached and made new in Jesus Christ. Nothing ministers quite like WMB does, but your support is necessary to keep WMB programs on the air, sharing the Good News around the world. As the offering falls, so does the ministry’s ability to fund programs like the one David Munga heard on that Saturday afternoon.
 
Thank you, DPs, for helping WMB programs stay on the air by sending the story above to all the local presidents on your district and by including a feature on WMB in your newsletters. News and stories can be found on broadcast.nazarene.org or www.facebook.com/WMBroadcast.

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