In the summer months, churches across the United States welcome children to Vacation Bible School (VBS), a program that runs deeper than just a week of activities. VBS has been instrumental in teaching countless young hearts the things of God. This year, three churches in various parts of the country utilized one of three SonSet […]
Barriers to effective ministry come in all shapes and sizes. One of our goals at SonSet Solutions is to help address the barriers faced by ministries around the world through technology-based solutions. These barriers exist not only with our ministry partners but also within SonSet Solutions itself. David Palmer, one of our engineers, has experienced
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How does a long-established ministry stay relevant when its focus is on reaching youth? Since its inception in 1991, Radio Kahuzi, based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has valued youth-led initiatives to increase opportunities for all youth to hear about the Lord Jesus. They have focused on engaging, educating, and empowering the next generation
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“Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to offer hope to the world’s 114 million refugees in 135 countries.” Despite the abundance of technical and political challenges, Don McLaughlin of High Adventure Gospel Communications Ministry (HAGCM) has accepted the clarion call by establishing a number of strategically placed radio stations in Uganda, Kenya,
“Will you take my phone too? It’s almost dead. I’ll watch your goats for you.” “It’s a deal. I’ll leave first thing tomorrow morning.” Up before dawn, Zahara (of the nomadic Samburu tribe, recognized by their colorful beaded collars) sets out across the north Kenyan desert – creating an umber cloud of dust in her
Fourteen years ago, a magnitude 7 earthquake devastated Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The country’s recovery efforts were thwarted repeatedly by tropical storms, hurricanes, and more devastating earthquakes. Today, Haiti is under siege by gangs. Radio Lumiere, headquartered in the capital of Port-au-Prince, has been spreading the gospel to Haiti for over
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Honduran mountains surrounded him. Poverty bore down on him. Living in an adobe hut with no electricity, no running water, no furniture except for two mattresses, he had the village drunk as his father. His prospects as an adult were limited: picking coffee, 100 pounds a day to earn about 7 USD. For 12–year-old Daniel,
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“Your ground is no good! You will never grow anything there. Go away!” the local people told David, a Tanzanian farmer, now a church planter. Despite their opposition, “he cleared the land, tilled the soil, planted, and his crops grew!” As a result, his respect in the village grew too. And when he planted a
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Things don’t always turn out how we plan them. Sometimes the unexpected happens. When this occurs, do we panic, or turn to God and pray for his help in finding the solution? One of our recent radio shipments to Peru had some unforeseeable things happen, which gave us the opportunity to turn to God for
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Who does a radio station on the island of Guam call when they need custom-made parts? Why, of course, their friends at SonSet Solutions! Ten years ago, engineer Larry McGuire helped manufacture and install ten high-power switches for switching multiple transmitters to various antennas. After 10 years in the harsh sun on Guam, the exposed
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