“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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It was 1994 when senior design engineer, Mike Axman, returned from Burkina Faso where SonSet Solutions has helped establish multiple Christian FM stations. He approached our director with the critical need for durable, fixed-tuned, solar-powered radio receivers to provide clear reception for their listeners. Without reliable receivers, these radio stations would be ineffective in reaching
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The year 2023 was a very difficult time for the country of Burkina Faso as militant religious groups caused the displacement of over two million people. However, God had a plan. During 2023, our partner Radio Évangile Développement (RED) received 960 of our SonSet® radio receivers, to which they added 340 from a previous shipment for
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The radio tower, located in Tuba City, Arizona, was in desperate need of repair. Across Nations first went on the air with KTBA in 1980 to reach the Hopi and western Navajo people. But as Tim Zook, from SonSet Solutions, was checking the coverage of the station in 2022, he noticed a problem with the
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In 2004, a forum of African Christian broadcasters met in Burkina Faso to find out how they could work together to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ across their continent. As a result of this meeting, Africa by Radio (AbR) was born. AbR is “committed to seeing that every man, woman and child in Africa
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