Radio Kahuzi listener shares the Easter Story...

Dear Friends of BESI / Radio Kahuzi,

HOW IMPORTANT IS RADIO IN SHARING THE STORY OF JESUS and the CROSS? Christian radio becomes an instrument of intimate, private, one to one witness.

"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"  Rom. 10: 14.

The following story illustrates the uniqueness of hearing the Word of God through radio.

This week we had an interesting insight into the life of one of our Radio Kahuzi listeners when he shared how his landlord had come to his rescue. Earlier, the landlord's sons had demanded that our listener pay several month's rent in advance at a higher figure if he wanted to stay where he has rented for several years. The listener went to the landlord and told him what his sons had said, and that he would have to move out. The landlord was surprised and said, "No" and wanted him to stay because he had recently come to know the Lord and was Growing in Grace because of our listener's presence and sharing witness to him.

And here is the rest of the story....For years the landlord felt hopelessly lost because he could not get to a church, and one day he saw our listener's little red radio recharging in the sun and heard the Gospel message and became interested.

Our Radio Kahuzi listener and his wife invited their landlord to come for coffee so they could testify and explain God's plan of Salvation by Grace, plus nothing, and he could hear the radio messages in

his own heart language. Then our listener gave him his own solar radio and the landlord began listening intensely, and finally understood that he could believe and receive the Lord personally, and was born again and reassured through the programming about his decision, and began to grow Spiritually - all because of our listener's presence and fellowship. 

And, about that high rent...the landlord told our friend to only pay his rent to him or his wife, not his children, and that he wrote in his will that, as long as his wife is alive, our Radio Kahuzi listener's rent would not be raised, and he could not be forced out by his children, who had been trying to misappropriate their father's business.

The Word of God lived out in the landlord's life improved our listener's daily life economically...just as our Lord instructed. "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good onto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." Gal. 6:10

We Praise the Lord for this insight into one background story of the Holy Spirit's Ministry through Radio Kahuzi and the Galcom fix-tuned radios in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

God is asking us to be His voice to share the message of Easter one to one. With your prayers and sharing we can do it together through Radio Kahuzi.

With Love and Thanksgiving in our hearts to you all,

Kathy and Richard McDonald