Please find prayer requests from our colleagues.  Our brothers and sisters in Kenya are facing a crisis. Let us remember the radio broadcasters who are faithfully airing the Word of God to comfort and encourage people in their faith during these difficult times.  In times like these it can be a comfort to know we are not alone but that we have brothers and sisters who remember us in prayer and our God who knows and understands our needs hears those prayers.  Perhaps this verse from Phil 1 v 3 expresses some of that partnership and concern: We thank our God every time we remember you.  In all our prayers for each of you, we always pray with joy because of our partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in us will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 

 God bless AbR Executive

Greetings in Jesus Name.

Pray for Kenya that the election problem be solved in the appropriate manner. So many people have died, many displaced, and there is still 

heavy animosity and hatred amongst the people on political and tribal alliance. Some Radio stations have directly put programmes on air that can 

easily incite some people. To some extend the  airwaves have been criticised by the government and live broadcasting suspended for security 

reasons. Pray for finances as most of our supporters have been affecyed by the instability. God bless you, Rop.

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY, AFRICA

At this point in time we are continuing to pray for our brothers and sisters in Kenya during this time of turmoil  in their country.

We have a number of contacts in Nairobi and pray that the Christian messages will continue to be broadcast and be an encouragement to that 

nation.

Look forward to visiting you in the near future.

Blessings

John.

MADAGASCAR - UCB, Africa

UCB Africa has established and launched a radio station in our hub in Antsohihy, Madagascar, in April of 2007 (The 500 watt transmitter was 

donated by HCJB). The station is on air for 20 hour per day, and most of the programme content is Christian, interspersed with community 

programmes with an educational emphasis. 

The languages on air are English, French and local dialects Tsimiheti and Sakalav. The station is located in a community centre, built with the 

support of UCB Africa, Radio Pulpit and a number of churches in SA. The budget of the station is carried by UCB Africa for the next two years. 

The centre hosts an auditorium, which is also used for musical recordings, theological training of pastors, elders and deacons, training of 

broadcasters in the region, meetings of government and community organizations, etc. A well equipped computer training institute is to be 

launched in the next month. Negotiations are underway to extend the broadcast operation to Nosy Be in the Indian Ocean.

Please pray for the Lord’s blessing on all involved.

Blessings, Roelf.

SOUTH AFRICA, RADIO CCFm

Many thanks for asking for our prayer requests for inclusion in the Prayer Letter.

Herewith some prayer items:

Appointment of station manager

Appointment of programme manager

General prayer for CCFm (ie. funding, staff and volunteers, programming, etc). 

Irmgard.

ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS

The ACB would like to give thanks to the Lord for the granting of a community radio license to Impact Radio in Pretoria, and the renewing of the 

licenses of CCFM and Radio Tygerberg in Cape Town.

Please pray for the licensing of new community radio stations in Johannesburg: Mid-Cities Radio in Mid-rand, and Radio Alive in the Northern 

suburbs. 

Pray also for possible new radio stations in Ladysmith KZN, Nelspruit and in the Free State province.

Pray for the granting of FM broadcast licenses to Radio Pulpit in South Africa.

We thank the Lord that it seems that ICASA, the licensing authority is more open to grant broadcast licenses to Christian groups.

Please pray that the annual ACB conference, 9-11 April in Cape Town will be effective and successful.

Dave Hotchkiss.

2K+

Feb 27-28. Adrian Barnard and Norman Brierley visit the International Olympic Committee headquarters and Olympic Museum in Lausanne, 

Switzerland to interview officials about the Olympic values and historical aspects of the Games.  Pray for safe travel and good interviews. 

We need to confirm Olympic team numbers and roles by the end of February for planning, accommodation and visa purposes.  

As I write we have 13 confirmed and expect final numbers to be between 20-25.  Continue to pray for Adrian Barnard and Ken Van Prooyen 

(from broadcast partners Sports Spectrum, USA), planning to visit Beijing 11-20 March to secure accommodation for the Olympics team of up 

to 25 journalists and reporters.  Pray they will be able to identify affordable accommodation within easy access of transport links to the main 

Games venues and media centre. 

Thank you for your continuing interest and prayers.

Adrian Barnard.

RADIO AFRICA NETWORK

Mali – pray for forthcoming meetings with key leaders and for God to open doors for new radio plants in the country.

Pray for God to reveal His will concerning radio plants in neighbouring countries.

Pray for the forthcoming Movement for National African Initiatives that we will be participating in. Pray that the media track will produce 

relationships between different media and the church so that together we can fulfil the great commission.

Pray for our staff who work with many enquiries for radio stations, pray that God will open the way to establish those in His priority.

Pray for the Mwanza, Tanzania radio station who are experiencing difficulties with regulators. 

IBRA, EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA

Praise God that our Eritrea partner, who’s producers had to leave their home country, now have settled well in another country and have 

been granted work permits there. This has been a long and tedious process, but God has been faithful through it all. Pray that the programs 

produced by the team will continue to be a great blessing back in their country of origin. 

Congo – Neno la Uzima in Goma is continuing to work on the establishment of an FM station. Pray that the Lord will provide all the needs to 

make this vision come true.

A church in Tabora, Tanzania has approached Habari Maalum Media with a request to partner with them to establish a Christian 

FM station in the city of Tabora. This is an area that certainly needs a great impact of the Gospel. Let us pray for all those involved in the 

planning and fundraising for this project. 

HCJB Global

Pray for partnership meetings to be held in February. Pray that God will reveal good strategies for most effectively reaching people who don’t 

yet receive adequate radio broadcasts of the Gospel.

TRANS WORLD RADIO, AFRICA

Mozambique – pray for funding to complete the fm radio project in Mocuba to broadcast in the Lomwe and Mokhuwa languages.

West Africa – OneStory programmes. Pray that these programmes that share the Gospel in chronological story format will be successfully 

produced for radio broadcasts in West Africa to reach the Fulani Mbororo-Kano-Katsuba speaking people.

Kenya – pray for many to listen to the Honey that Kills radio programmes about HIV/AIDS that have been especially produced in the 

Dholuo language. These programmes also introduce listeners to the Gospel.

Wind up radios – distributed in Mozambique, Angola, Namibia and Cote de Ivoire. Pray that listeners lives will be changed as church leaders use 

these radios as an evangelism and Bible study tool.

FEBA 

Zimbabwe – pray for the Shona broadcasts aired on ZBC that many will respond to the Gospel.

Mozambique – pray for the producers and the successful production of Yao programmes to reach people living in Southern Malawi and 

Northern Mozambique as well as parts of Tanzania.

Pray also that listeners to the Portuguese programmes will respond to the Gospel.

ACROSS The September meeting of the Christian Media Network decided that training should be offered at the next meeting. Please pray for these 

meeting which will be held in NE Africa. 



 

TANZANIA, HABARI MAALUM
Pray for the new intake of students and also for the teachers that God will prepare them all for a good year
of study.  Habari Maalum Media has selected the 8 students that will get the opportunity to study the one
year Diploma program “Media Producers Training” during 2008.
Pray for students that God will raise up effective media “missionaries” from among them.
Pray for director David Diigula who is recovering from some health problems.
 

ECAMECO
Thank God for the ECAMECO meeting that was held in Uganda in October. Radio leaders from East & Central Africa met to discuss cooperation in efforts to reach the region with the Gospel through radio. One particular decision was to meet again in March 2008 in order to jointly work out a strategy for a bigger series of children’s programs for both radio and TV.
Pray that that meeting will be fruitful and that funds can be identified. Good children’s programs are generally more expensive to produce than other programs. 
 

GHANA, THEOVISION
Praise the Lord that Theovision will receive an award at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in USA in March. The award was based on the following criteria: the ministry is performed in the midst of very difficult circumstances, has demonstrated faithfulness over a long period of time, fills a unique void, and has a reputation for being highly respected.

BURUNDI, RADIO IVYIZIGIRO

A technical ploblem occured to our network. We are doing our best to make some arrangements with other supplyiers so that our contacts may 

be restored.

God bless you! Seth GASHAKA

ACCM

Pray for the media work of ACCM.  Pray for God to open doors for the Gospel to reach areas where people are  in need of it.

AFRICA BY RADIO  

Pray for the forthcoming AbR meetings in Bamako, Mali (West Africa) from the 25-29 March, 2008 that God will give wisdom and direction 

regarding the work He wants done.

Pray for the Africa Media Trainers meetings to be held concurrently (29 March to 1 April) that God will direct those meetings and plans. 

Pray particularly for discussions to develop Francophone trainers.

Pray for that many of our fellow associates will be able to attend the meetings and that all will have journey mercies.

Please remember that all AbR meetings are open. One day will be especially set aside for interacting with associates and the remaining 

Executive meetings are open for observation by any who want to attend. The dates and venues will be announced shortly.