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Posted in UCB Africa, UCB News on May 13th, 2008
In the wake of our previous report dated 1 April 2008 we are delighted to announce the following news received from the Omwiwa Yesu Management Committee in Gurue, Mozambique:
The local community radio station extended an invitation to the committee to increase the broadcasting times of three days per week to six days per week for [...]
Posted in UCB Africa on Apr 29th, 2008
This past weekend I was one of the fortunate who was able to attend the Mighty Men conference on the Shalom farm near Greytown. Many have asked me about it, and you may be one of these, or you may be someone who I thought would be interested to hear about the experience.
A few weeks [...]
Posted in UCB Africa on Apr 1st, 2008
Gurue Radio ministries, Mozambique launched their Christian radio production on air in November 2007. Now there are 3X30 minute Christian programmes on air per week – the first of its kind. Feedback is that their programmes have received the most written reaction of all programmes, in the form of letters to the station manager. The [...]
Posted in UCB Africa, UCB News on Mar 6th, 2008
(Surisa Nel, Communication Manager and Lucky Mbiko, Programme Manager of Radio Pulpit with the PanSALB Award)
Radio Pulpit received the PANSALB (Pan South African Language Board) for multilingualism and nation building of the decade in electronic media this weekend.
PANSALB was established through an Act of parliament mainly to promote multilingualism in South Africa and to develop [...]
Posted in UCB Africa on Dec 23rd, 2007
This community radio station has applied for a name change (originally Radio Isis) and is financially supported by some of Radio Pulpit’s listeners, through UCB Africa. These finances are used to produce Christian programmes, with the result that they are now broadcasting no less than 8 Christian programmes per month. The abovementioned financial assistance also makes [...]
Posted in Events, UCB Africa on Dec 15th, 2007
Radio Pulpit is a Christian radio station for the people of South Africa. Apart from our vision to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to everybody in our country in the language of their home we are also aware of the realities of today’s life. We have identified social issues that we tackle head on, [...]
Posted in UCB Africa, UCB News on Dec 14th, 2007
(picture of downtown Gurue, a community we broadcast to)
Hi everyone,
The good news is that after a struggle of more than a year (due to distances, red tape, African time etc) the first broadcasts were launched in November 2007 on the airwaves of the Gurue Community station. Our partner/affiliate in Gurue is now buying 1 ½ [...]
Posted in Prayer, UCB Africa on Oct 27th, 2007
This is a photo of the World champion rugby team (South Africa) praying after their win in France last week….
What an example to the rugby world, and to us! The guy praying is Bakkies Botha, a ‘ lock’ who grew up in the wrong side of town, who committed his life to the Lord last [...]
Posted in UCB Africa, UCB News on Oct 23rd, 2007
At last we are able to send you an update of all things that are happening here at Love Botswana! It has been very busy these last few months! We hope you enjoy reading about news from us. There are so many ways to help the work here at LBOM. Through your giving, coming to [...]
Posted in The Word For (You) Today, UCB Africa on Oct 5th, 2007
Hello rockers…you may have heard that UCB Nigeria is more than a dream….already The Word for You Today is distributed across the country….and earlier this year a licence was approved for a commercial FM signal. It is hoped to be on-air by April of next year.
Here’s a photo taken on Rudi Petersen’s $10 Kodak camera!. [...]
Posted in The Word For (You) Today, UCB Africa, UCB News on Sep 27th, 2007
Hello rockers….have a look at the photo!…The Akingbolas are the colourful couple chatting with UCB President Hal Short at the recent UCB Africa regional conference in South Africa. Erastus and Antonia found the Word For Today in England and felt a calling to bring it to Nigeria. So they did…personally funding the project… From a [...]
