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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 [...]

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(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 [...]

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News from UCB Canada

It’s been three months since UCB’s launch here in Chatham-Kent and everything on this end is going very well. This is thanks in no small part to the great team of volunteers who help the paid staff bring Christian radio to your homes. I’d like to begin the year by introducing them to you.
Beth Germs, Orv [...]

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Hello from Los Angeles

Tis the new year! We are enroute to the UK  where I’ll begin my new job next week, leaving a NZ summer and heading to the northern winter is a bit crazy(!) but hey, who needs 25 degrees, beaches, barbeques, & warm nights? Right?
I’m sitting in the foyer of the hotel writng this [...]

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(A final look at the construction of our new offices just in time for Christmas.  This is a dream come true for us as we expand our operations and move to take Contemporary Christian Music to this young nation.  80 million people whose average age is 22. )
Hello, my Brothers (and Sisters),
We have finished our [...]

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Hello fellow UCB bloggers,
One of our newest sites for the Vision Radio Network is the one at Margaret River 1611 Am in Aussie.  Thought you might like to see a couple of photos. The photos are of myself and pastors Jack and Ray Hough from Surfside COC Margaret River and Trish, a local supporter.
The [...]

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(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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Write this date down, Monday October 8th 2007,  the official launch date of UCB UK’s TWO (yes 2) digital radio channels across most of the UK on DAB. It’s been 21 years in the making, 21 years in the praying and  on Monday the 8th  it will officially become a reality.
For UCBi President and Chairman [...]

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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 [...]

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Hello rockers ……Radio Pulpit  CEO  (and UCB Africa CEO) Rudi Petersen and his exec team  of Karel Vehoef, and Ernest Langer  hosted the UCB Africa training conference at Shekinah on the South African high velt.
The weather was absolutely stunning with beautiful clear days curtained in the evening with the most stunning sunsets.  Delegates came from Mozambique, [...]

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