Dear Friends of BESI / Radio Kahuzi,
January, the "in-between month," can sometimes be a time of sadness for what's coming in the new year. sadness because Christmas is over, and Hope for the months ahead.
Kathy and I would like to share with you from our Reflections and Praise to the Lord for His Super-Abounding Grace to us over these past 28 years of broadcasting and 35 years since establishing BESI.
We praise the Lord for your wonderful fellowship in ministry, as we celebrate the end of another year of service with our Radio Clubs and journalists, as we continue in lockdown mode in Bukavu.
You have helped us with our Kahuzi Radio Clubs near the Panzi Hospital to celebrate the ten widows who maintain the gardens and the feeding program for malnourished children and adults and the Kazaroho Health Center.
Thank you for your prayers and Coming Along-Side in this the most difficult year thus far in our experience. We Praise the Lord that tomorrow we will also be able to finally pay our 2020 Redevance tax to the Ministry of Communications and Media, to finally complete that critical obligation for the past year.
Thank you sincerely, as our hearts swell in joy and relief for your Love of our Lord and His Service.
This picture, taken last week, is a wonderful reminder to us of the Lord's Working in Mysterious Ways to accomplish His ministry of radio through two debutants in remote Africa.
Some thirty years ago, a Peace Corps Director told us that a Congressman was secretly passing through the Orchid Hotel about this time in 1990. We "button-holed" Congressman Solarz of NY, with the U.S. Ambassador below this antelope concerning our pursuit of a broadcasting permit from Mr. Mobutu, the then President of Zaire.
The American Ambassador was very non-plussed, but the Congressman's response was more than positive. Someday in Heaven, we will know the rest of that story! But the Director of the American Cultural Center later shared that Congressman Solarz continued to send him faxes to press for a response from the President of Zaire on our behalf.
In July 1991, the Ambassador and the Director said goodbye to President Mobutu and Zaire, and on the evening news we saw them present him with an American Fishing Eagle statue. Later, we received our Presidential Recognition by Decree signed in April 1991 and our broadcasting permit signed July 4, 1991.
We praise the Lord for an impossible dream come true, and that we live every day-because the Lord continues to come-along-side, for whatever His reasons are!
We continue to be amazed at His Supernatural Grace to us two novices with such "impossible dreams."
May the Lord continue to fill your years with Joy and Vision and renew your strength in 2021!
"For we are laborers together with God:...For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."
I Corinthians 3: 9 - 11
Keep Looking UP!
We are looking for His Soon Appearing in the Heavenlies!!
Richard and Kathy McDonald
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