NRB (National Religious Broadcasters) listed Radio Kahuzi as a "Member Voice" on their list of "Christian Communicators Impacting the World." We are very excited about this honor!!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Radio Kahuzi Listed as "Member Voice" with NRB!
NRB (National Religious Broadcasters) listed Radio Kahuzi as a "Member Voice" on their list of "Christian Communicators Impacting the World." We are very excited about this honor!!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Happy New Year from Radio Kahuzi!
Thank you for joining with us in partnership through your prayers and your financial giving during 2010. It has made all the difference in D R Congo and around the world.
Richard and Kathy are working on “A Year in review” report, which we will be sharing with you later. In the meantime, we will tell you about one event that took us all by surprise, which Richard shares as follows:
“The Governor asked the Directors of all the radio stations and TVs to come to his mansion for dinner at 7 PM on December 27 to discuss his first 100 days in service. Before he came into the hall, I was sitting at the far end of a long banquet table. (There was a huge buffet along the side.) The Governor entered and called for his Director in charge to rearrange the seating. He asked me to take the first seat next to him. Then he asked me to say Grace before they began eating! Normally, each one would have already begun to eat. Praying at all is quite a change for these kinds of meetings. The Governor even included in his final remarks that "we even began in prayer before eating!" So we had a very enjoyable first encounter discussing his first 100 days of service. The Governor had a long presentation in which he referred to ”Radio Kahuzi” or “Richard” quite a few times, which gives me some hope he may try to help us make the changes we need in government regulation, as that was the gist of his plan, to meet in another 100 days to see how much change he and each one of us are able to achieve as we work forward.
After the banquet, I presented him with a black box containing his Christmas and New Year cards, along with a gift of seven Galcom radios, and a Swahili Scofield Bible. He asked me to show him how the radios work and was pleased he could connect his ear-plug cord into the radio, since he always has one in his left ear for his telephone, etc. He said he may buy a fifth telephone to monitor the call-ins from journalists and directors...All his telephones were ringing during our time with him.”
As you can see, God continues to use Richard and Kathy in a very strategic time and place to further the outreach of the Gospel. We know each one of us are to be a “peculiar” people –sanctified and set apart. I am sure Richard and Kathy feel peculiar in another way…for Richard he must wonder…how in the world did I get here from growing up in a little town of Grampian, PA! It is all so mysterious how God places his people where they are to accomplish His purpose in the vast world with billions of souls wandering about. You are where you are and no less important than Richard and Kathy.
We sincerely appreciate your participation in their ministry and God’s great plan for the ages. “Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a PECULIAR PEOPLE, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:14.
“In the hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;” Titus 1:2 3.
Yes, we need you to continue to partner with us in this New Year, 2011, which begins Radio Kahuzi’s 19th year on the air! There are thousands who have yet to hear the Blessed Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us all remain faithful together in 2011. Maybe this will be the year of “His Appearing” in the heavens for us, and all who have come to faith in Christ. Pray that many precious souls will hear God’s wonderful plan of Salvation over the airwaves of Radio Kahuzi in this new year…even the Governor.
Keep Looking Up!
P.S. By God’s Grace, Believer’s Express Service, Inc. celebrates its 25th
year of ministry, March 11, 2011!
Richard and Kathy are working on “A Year in review” report, which we will be sharing with you later. In the meantime, we will tell you about one event that took us all by surprise, which Richard shares as follows:
“The Governor asked the Directors of all the radio stations and TVs to come to his mansion for dinner at 7 PM on December 27 to discuss his first 100 days in service. Before he came into the hall, I was sitting at the far end of a long banquet table. (There was a huge buffet along the side.) The Governor entered and called for his Director in charge to rearrange the seating. He asked me to take the first seat next to him. Then he asked me to say Grace before they began eating! Normally, each one would have already begun to eat. Praying at all is quite a change for these kinds of meetings. The Governor even included in his final remarks that "we even began in prayer before eating!" So we had a very enjoyable first encounter discussing his first 100 days of service. The Governor had a long presentation in which he referred to ”Radio Kahuzi” or “Richard” quite a few times, which gives me some hope he may try to help us make the changes we need in government regulation, as that was the gist of his plan, to meet in another 100 days to see how much change he and each one of us are able to achieve as we work forward.
After the banquet, I presented him with a black box containing his Christmas and New Year cards, along with a gift of seven Galcom radios, and a Swahili Scofield Bible. He asked me to show him how the radios work and was pleased he could connect his ear-plug cord into the radio, since he always has one in his left ear for his telephone, etc. He said he may buy a fifth telephone to monitor the call-ins from journalists and directors...All his telephones were ringing during our time with him.”
As you can see, God continues to use Richard and Kathy in a very strategic time and place to further the outreach of the Gospel. We know each one of us are to be a “peculiar” people –sanctified and set apart. I am sure Richard and Kathy feel peculiar in another way…for Richard he must wonder…how in the world did I get here from growing up in a little town of Grampian, PA! It is all so mysterious how God places his people where they are to accomplish His purpose in the vast world with billions of souls wandering about. You are where you are and no less important than Richard and Kathy.
We sincerely appreciate your participation in their ministry and God’s great plan for the ages. “Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a PECULIAR PEOPLE, zealous of good works.” Titus 2:14.
“In the hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;” Titus 1:2 3.
Yes, we need you to continue to partner with us in this New Year, 2011, which begins Radio Kahuzi’s 19th year on the air! There are thousands who have yet to hear the Blessed Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us all remain faithful together in 2011. Maybe this will be the year of “His Appearing” in the heavens for us, and all who have come to faith in Christ. Pray that many precious souls will hear God’s wonderful plan of Salvation over the airwaves of Radio Kahuzi in this new year…even the Governor.
Keep Looking Up!
P.S. By God’s Grace, Believer’s Express Service, Inc. celebrates its 25th
year of ministry, March 11, 2011!
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Happy 38th Wedding Anniversary!
United in marriage Dec. 16, 1972
All dressed up for the Prom(spent one year in Florida)
Kathy at home in KayembeBut God....had a special ministry for these two and caused their lives to intersect in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And, of course, there is so much more to their story. Hopefully, one day it will all be written down.
For now, we all want to say a big Happy Anniversary! We wish we could be there with you to sit down with a good cup of coffee and reminisce, but there is so much to do, both there and here. So, we will wait until we all join hands and raise them together, crying out with the angels, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain before the foundations of the world.
With all our love and prayers,
Barb, Smitty and the BESI Board
For now, we all want to say a big Happy Anniversary! We wish we could be there with you to sit down with a good cup of coffee and reminisce, but there is so much to do, both there and here. So, we will wait until we all join hands and raise them together, crying out with the angels, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain before the foundations of the world.
With all our love and prayers,
Barb, Smitty and the BESI Board
Friday, October 15, 2010
Expanding Our Programming to 14 Dialects / Languages
A carton of CDs of Dr. Charles Stanley's "In Touch" messages in seven languages (Swahili, African French, Kikongo, Kinyarwandan, Luganda, Masaai, and Mandarin) arrived at our door yesterday. This brings our total dialects / languages to fourteen.We began broadcasting the program in African French at 11:00 a.m. alternating days with Kikongo. We will begin broadcasting Swahili in the afternoon at 3:30 p.m., alternating with Kinyarwanda each day of the week.
We need to study how and when to introduce Luganda (possibly at 7:30 p.m.), which is spoken in the North on the border with Uganda; and Masaai of Kenya and Mandarin (used by the Chinese working in DRC), which are not languages of the DRC. We will present CDs and tracts in Mandarin to the UN Medical team here, which are Chinese.
We do thank "In Touch" and REJOICE that we did not have to pay the $200 customs requested in Kinshasa, and that the programs will now be effectively used in our outreach to most of the Eastern D R Congo in FM and SW broadcasts.
Thank you for all your love and prayers for us!! Praise the Lord we can still give out the Word through Radio Kahuzi, churches, and personal testimonies!May we continue to be FAITHFUL! And, our LORD is FAITHFUL and keeps us going. It is HIS FAITHFULNESS that keeps us!
Keep Looking Up! In His Love,
Richard & Kathy McDonald
Richard & Kathy McDonald
Another Thousand Radios!
Galcom continues to be a wonderful partner in ministry and recently offered us another 1,000 radios without charge, except for the shipping.400 SW worth $8,000;
600 FMs worth $12,000, total value $20,000.
Can you imagine! This will bring our total to 16,500 with a total value of $330,000 through the generosity of Galcom International!
A New Way to Listen to Radio Kahuzi
One of my friends told me that her grandson just loves to listen to Radio Kahuzi. She came by one day to ask me if I could give her another radio as her grandson needed two radios.
I had already given him one of the Galcom FMs and now he wanted a little red short wave radio. I asked her why he needed two radios.
She told me that when he rides his bike he has the little radio hooked onto his handlebars, but now he needed two, so that he could have stereo quality while he rides his bike!
Just another way to listen to Radio Kahuzi! He has grown into a fine young man and still loves to listen to Radio Kahuzi.
Aunt Kathy's Grace Notes
People are so hungry to hear the Word of God. it's as though a whole generation of people have been skipped over in time, since the wars in Congo.Bible Schools and some means of Christian teaching fell off during the wars as the population was scattered about. Now, there's so much need for folks to hear the Word, to uplift their thoughts and Spirits, and to think on "things above," instead of just the terrible things that go on, over and over again!
A house is being built next door to us; and as they started the construction, of
course, I gave a couple Galcom radios to the "serious" men, the ones in charge. And then, as some of the bricklayers and cement mixers showed that they were serious about hearing the Word, we gave them a radio!
Now, during the day, the sermons and Christian music can be heard around the neighborhood as the men work on the houses being constructed!
The Word of God is being given out from the rooftops!
Reaching Hutu Rebels with Helpfrom Swedish UN Commander
Greetings from Bukavu!
Kathy and I are so thankful to be able to keep on keeping on, here in the D R Congo. Thank YOU to each one for continuing to help make this ministry possible.
We ask you to join us in prayer for an urgent need to purchase a building and property for the future stability of Radio Kahuzi.
Our Board of Directors agreed in our last board meeting to come before the Lord to ask Him for a sum "above and beyond all that we could ever ask or think.": $250,000. That sum could be raised with 250 partners sharing $1,000.
The board feels that it is imperative that we seek another property where we can grow into the future. Pray with us, please.
Otherwise, life here in Bukavu and the radio ministry continues to hum along "normally," for Africa.
However, outside of our gates life continues to be much harder for some villages in the mountains and the bush that are still having attacks by armed bandits and the Hutu rebels from Rwanda. When they need supplies, they go into the Congolese villages and loot and burn houses, and harm the women.
A few days ago I went by the MONUSCO HQ, just up the street from our broadcast studio. An old friend from Finland who had trained the Congolese police ten years ago had returned after five years absence. he now heads up a group of Peace Keepers north of Bukavu. He introduced me to the Swedish Commander of a five-man Peace Keeper team in the mountains of Kilembwe. He asked me to follow up with him on installing our FM repeaters at Kilembwe and other sites. he is frustrated with the fact that their efforts to communicate with the Hutu leave them still unreached with the message to help them find, choose and receive their peaceful return to their homeland.
A few weeks ago, he had just found a group of young Hutu military who would have been
four years old when they came across the border in 1994; and when asked why they were not opting for their return, they said they were uninformed of any options or program that would allow, let alone, guarantee their safe return to Rwanda. They have now been repatriated peacefully!So, he sees our SW and FM broadcasts would be a wonderful help, since the Hutu and other warring groups do listen to Radio Kahuzi. Praise the LORD! Pray for our follow through with both messages of reconciliation!
Pray that this pillaging and violence to women and children will somehow end and that they will receive Reconciliation, will go back to Rwanda where they can start over living "normally" once again. Now, they live in the mountain jungle and forests--not much hope for them except with the Lord's intervention into their lives--and possibly by the LORD's Wisdom and Grace, through Radio Kahuzi.
Many have gone back to Rwanda and have gotten their lives back together again. These are the same folks that left Rwanda in 1994 during the genocide. They fled over here to Congo Refugee camps where they were ministered to through Radio Kahuzi until the War of 1996, when they were chased into the jungle by the invading forces from Rwanda--so it's been a while!Thank you for all your love and prayers for us!! These aren't easy days in the Congo, but seems like the whole world is going down fast. Praise the Lord we can still give out the Word through Radio Kahuzi!
Monday, July 5, 2010
A Day of Mourning
The Radio Kahuzi Staff and the BESI Board of Directors join the Congolese people in a Day of Mourning for the victims of the tanker explosion.
Richard reported, "Yes, we saw the burned truck and body bags on French TV news; and the helicopters have been flying over our station this afternoon, helping some victims get to hospitals here. There will be need to medically evacuate many to better hospitals specializing on burns.
"It is a real tragedy for many families and that whole area--as people would have been there from many villages for the out-door market.
"Remember the families who lost loved ones and those who will have years of medical follow-up for those who recover!
"May the Lord Minister in Grace and Mercy to those touched; May He come soon!
"Love, Richard & Kathy
"P.S Sange is close to where I had my retinas torn in 1983."
Richard reported, "Yes, we saw the burned truck and body bags on French TV news; and the helicopters have been flying over our station this afternoon, helping some victims get to hospitals here. There will be need to medically evacuate many to better hospitals specializing on burns.
"It is a real tragedy for many families and that whole area--as people would have been there from many villages for the out-door market.
"Remember the families who lost loved ones and those who will have years of medical follow-up for those who recover!
"May the Lord Minister in Grace and Mercy to those touched; May He come soon!
"Love, Richard & Kathy
"P.S Sange is close to where I had my retinas torn in 1983."
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Happy 4th of July!
Happy Birthday, America and BESI / Radio Kahuzi!
Nineteen years ago on July 4, 1991 the permit for our radio ministry was signed into law after many long hours, days and months of work on the technical papers required for the very first non-government radio station in Zaire, (previously known as the Belgian Congo) now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The permit was signed by both the Minister of State for Information and Press and the Minister of State for Agriculture. Their letters agreed to the technical papers proposing several of each: FM, medium wave, and shortwave broadcasting transmitters for Christian programming, as well as for agricultural and other rural-development broadcasting, including health, hygiene, and nutrition. They classified it as a Program of Priority Public Investments, allowing customs exemptions for importations of equipment.
God Bless America and God bless Central Africa.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
DR Congo Tanker fire kills 200 Near Bukavu
http://news.malaysia.msn.com/top-stories/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4195945
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