FEBC NZ

Filipino Broadcast

Voice of Friendship NZ is delighted that in October 2008 Jen Mita began broadcasting in Taglish from the Masterton Access Radio station.

The programs feature a mixture of Filipino music, Bible teaching, advice for life and other items of interest to the Filipino community.

As of February the programs have been recorded and are now posted on this website as podcasts which can be accessed from the Main Menu (left hand column) by clicking the Pinoy Ako button.

In May Jen started using the Suitcase Studio in the National Office to modify the programs so they could be broadcast from other stations on other days. At present the programs can be picked up

We hope this will be the beginning of a growing range of broadcasts in the heart languages of various people groups living in NZ.

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Cambodian Broadcasting

Somaly is a young program producer, broadcaster and listener liaison worker with FEB Cambodia.  She is well qualified and could work elsewhere for much more money but she is dedicated to spreading the Gospel message through FEB.

As of March 2009 New Zealand pledged to help FEB Cambodia by paying Somaly's wages for six months.

In September 2008 the Russian Government ordered FEBC Russian Ministries to either broadcast 24 hours per day, seven days a week from their St Petersburg and Moscow stations or go off air. Stepping out in faith to meet the new regulations has caused a huge budget shortfall as only 16 hours of transmissions per day had been planned for the two stations.

Rudi Wiens, Director of FEBC RM, shared this urgent need with the FEB family around the world. Christians from many countries have responded already and about 60% of the quarter of a million dollar shortfall has been pledged. However the needs are still great and urgent.

Saipan

Marpi on Saipan in the Mariana Islands was developed as a shortwave site for FEB in the early ’80s.

The four transmitters on site broadcast to Russia, China and many other parts of South East Asia.

Today, FEBC Saipan broadcasts 136.5 hours of Christian programming each week in 20 languages.

Signals reach the vast and remote geographic areas of China, Russia, South East Asia and Indonesia right through to parts of the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

The majority of Hmong people live in Asia (China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar) and are avid listeners to the FEB broadcasts for them.

Over the years it has been documented from one Asian country alone that a large number of Hmong (250,000-350,000) have become Christians as a direct result of the FEB broadcasts from Manila.

It is estimated that close to one million Hmong listen on a daily basis to these broadcasts, 7 days a week in 3 of their languages.

The Hmong programs are aimed demographically and thematically. Some deal with relationships from a Biblical point of view. Others focus on agricultural development or health issues. Other programs are designed to encourage these people through the persecution they face, to increase their knowledge of the Christian faith and help them live their daily lives as good citizens.

Communities of Hmong in other countries are also able to hear broadcasts on the FEB Hmong website.

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Portable Missionaries

Portable Missionaries (PMs) was a term coined in the early 1950s when staff members from FEB Philippines designed and constructed transistor radios to be given to people in remote areas.

The “box that can talk” brought the Good News to remote people groups in their own languages.

Thanks to Portable Missionary radios people in many remote areas of the world are able to listen to international broadcasts.

In many of the areas where PMs are distributed the people cannot read or write so radio is a key means of communication.

Suitcase Studio

Each Suitcase Studio costs NZ $13,000 – a lot less than the cost of setting up a conventional broadcasting studio, but a Suitcase Studio can do everything a full-sized studio can do: record and play back, dub, burn to CD, upload recordings on to the internet and download material from the Internet. Suitcase studios are also easy to transport to and set up in disaster areas.

Thanks to this marvellous piece of equipment, the Good News of God’s love is being shared among even more people than before.

With your help, Reaching the Unreached will become a lot more achievable.