Station KNLS in Anchor Point, Alaska is in its 28th year of broadcasting the gospel to about half the world. The goal to introduce people to Jesus Christ where our missionaries can not go or where we do not have enough missionaries has been our focus through the years. This is why we continue to broadcast 10 hours in Mandarin Chinese, 5 hours in Russian and 5 hours in English, a total of 20 hours each day from Alaska. The Lord has enabled us to hear from every country of the world, every province in Canada and every state in America and Mexico. The Lord has brought us so very far. Thank you for your friendship.
In addition to literally millions of people being contacted each day by shortwave radio, our website readership continues to grow each month. You can listen to our daily English broadcasts at www.knls.org. To see the latest news and pictures of the Madagascar construction and find links to all of our language websites, go to www.worldchristian.org. Our websites received a total of almost 4 million hits during 2009. Each day, over 7,000 files, on average, are being accessed and read. Check them out. Here are the addresses:
African English – africanpathways.org Arabic – yas3na.com
Chinese – smzg.org English – knls.org
Russian – knls.net Spanish and Portuguese – coming soon
Spanish programming into Cuba will be beginning in the next few weeks. Until we are able to turn on the signal in Madagascar, we will be purchasing 30 minutes of time each week from Radio Miami to provide a very strong signal into that part of the world. We are looking for a sponsor for this $120 per month broadcast opportunity.
Construction continues on the Madagascar World Voice station. In the fall of 2009, two much needed diesel-powered generators arrived after months of delay. Antenna #1 and #2 have been erected and tensioned on the towers. This will also be true of antenna #3 by the middle of September. The latest shipment containing important electrical wiring for the inside of the transmitter building has arrived in port in Madagascar and will be delivered soon to our station. We will then focus on raising the necessary funds to make the final payment and for the shipping costs for the three 100,000 watt transmitters that are already built, tested and packed in three 40 foot containers ready for shipment from Houston, Texas. The very important audio equipment to link all of our stations and enable us to send and receive programs from stringers from all over the world has been installed in our studios in Franklin, Tennessee.
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Our immediate focus is the $1 million more that is needed to complete the construction costs of Madagascar World Voice. We are getting closer to being able to cover the entire world everyday with 60 daily hours of programming from Alaska and Madagascar. Over 140 hours of Arabic programs are already ready for broadcasting. Please be prayerful that key individuals and churches will step up and help finish this project so those even in the remotest areas of the world may learn of Jesus. Soon, more people than at anytime in history will have daily access to the gospel.
Continue to pray for the African and Latin American Services, the staff they are assembling and the programming they are developing. Don’t forget our listeners in China, Russia, and those who live in the Pacific Rim countries. Ask the Lord to prepare the hearts of future listeners in Africa, South America, India, Indonesia, Europe and the Middle East. Keep in your thoughts the Malagasy people, our team of 30 Malagasy workers, and also Kevin and Nancy Chambers, who lead our work there. To God be the glory and praise. The world is waiting.
Andy Baker
(615)417-3906 abaker@worldchristian.org
