Have you ever spent hours trying to fix something only to have a friend point out a much easier way you should have done it? Or even worse, that you didn’t solve the real problem? At SonSet Solutions, we provide solutions to help our partners, but in order to do that, we have to fully […]
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About 70% of radio transmitters fail because of bad power, which constitutes the majority of the transmitter repairs SonSet Solutions faces. The damaged transmitters can result in a station being off the air for weeks or months, crippling their outreach. One such station is Radio Lumiere in Haiti. For over 40 years, they have frequently
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Years ago, one of our SonSet Solutions technicians took a trip to help partner ministries in the Asia-Pacific Region of the world. When he arrived, there were twenty-two radio transmitters in need of repair. Oftentimes, our partner ministries do not have the expertise needed to repair and maintain the technology they use. During this trip
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I had the privilege of working with SonSet Solutions in the spring of 2022 during my sabbatical from teaching electrical engineering and computer science at John Brown University in Arkansas. I chose SonSet Solutions because I wanted to get more experience in contemporary engineering practice and appreciated that the work could directly help gospel-focused ministries around
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It was a shrinking feeling riding a narrow wooden boat down a winding river with dense jungle on either side. I saw a couple of crocodiles lying on the riverbank and heard the distant yowl of a howler monkey. The pilot of our piragua didn’t seem phased by any of this as he skillfully maneuvered
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There are 3,000,000,000 people who have seldom, if ever, heard the name of Jesus. SonSet Solutions is part of an initiative called “A Third of Us.” This is an effort by a coalition of ministries dedicated to reaching that third of our world’s population who have never heard the gospel. The International Day for the
“How will these refugees be reached with the gospel of peace and hope in Jesus Christ?” This was the question posed to our Broadcast Solutions Team by one of the leaders of ACROSS, a ministry based in South Sudan. He was not speaking of the 2.5 million refugees who had fled in 2013 when civil
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Think of serving mud water to friends who come to your door at 1:30 in the morning to mourn with you the sudden passing of a loved one. In a native culture of Peru where SonSet Solutions’ president, David Russell, recently visited, one must offer coffee to all who come to pay their respects. There
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“Lord, what am I doing here?” a Navajo woman often ponders. Jenna never planned to move back to the reservation. Since childhood, all she longed for was to move away, breaking free from the poverty and hopelessness on the “rez.” Jenna’s parents were believers in the Lord Jesus and pastored a church among the Native
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