(Photo courtesy ElisabethElliot.org)

International (MNN) — Elisabeth Elliot, a legend in the world of the Great Commission, has finally gone Through Gates of Splendor.

After spending some years battling failing health and dementia, she died June 15, 2015 at the age of 88. Arguably one of the most influential women in modern day Christendom, she was a prolific author, speaker, and radio host.

Her most famous book was Through Gates of Splendor and was about the martyrdom of her first husband, Jim Elliot. Their ministry was ground-breaking in Ecuador, supported by both Reach Beyond (then HCJB) and Mission Aviation Fellowship.

In an excerpt from her biography on ElisabethElliot.org, she wrote:

A year after I went to Ecuador, Jim Elliot, whom I had met at Wheaton, also entered tribal areas with the Quichua Indians. In nineteen fifty three we were married in the city of Quito and continued our work together. Jim had always hoped to have the opportunity to enter the territory of an unreached tribe. The Aucas were in that category — a fierce group whom no one had succeeded in meeting without being killed. After the discovery of their whereabouts, Jim and four other missionaries entered Auca territory. After a friendly contact with three of the tribe, they were speared to death.

Our daughter Valerie was 10 months old when Jim was killed. I continued working with the Quichua Indians when, through a remarkable providence, I met two Auca women who lived with me for one year. They were the key to my going in to live with the tribe that had killed the five missionaries. I remained there for two years.

After having worked for two years with the Aucas, I returned to the Quichua work and remained there until 1963 when Valerie and I returned to the U.S.

Since then, my life has been one of writing and speaking. It also included, in 1969, a marriage to Addison Leitch, professor of theology at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Massachusetts. He died in 1973. After his death, I had two lodgers in my home. One of them married my daughter, the other one, Lars Gren, married me. Since then we have worked together.

Her life centered around a question she often asked fans seeking her guidance and wisdom: “What does the Bible say? Do what the Bible says.”

Elliot is survived by her husband and daughter.

Reach Beyond President Wayne Pederson.

USA (MNN/RB) — A Christian media and healthcare ministry is wondering if you’ll be a part of the 100,000 strong to join their “I Refuse” campaign.

Reach Beyond (formerly HCJB Global) is launching its “I Refuse” campaign with a free download of ministry President Wayne Pederson’s new book, “Reach Beyond: Comfort, Courage, and the Cause of Christ,” for those who sign its manifesto at www.reachbeyond.org/manifesto.

This is more than a free book campaign: it’s about lost people in unreached areas of the world.

The Reach Beyond Manifesto, like the campaign, encourages Christians to leverage their time, talents, resources, and partnerships to help the unreached come to Christ.

The manifesto was developed as a way to spark a new movement of believers who are willing to earnestly use the tools God has given them to penetrate areas of the world where only 2% of the people know Jesus.

The ministry hopes to have 100,000 Christians sign the manifesto by the end of 2014. A video encouraging believers to commit to the effort is available at www.reachbeyond.org/manifesto.

“As Christians, we must refuse to fear the darkness, refuse to watch others suffer, and refuse to stand idly by as people enter eternity without Christ,” says Wayne Pederson, president and CEO of Reach Beyond. “The goal of this campaign is to reaffirm what Christ has called us to do and reinforce that with the tangible support for our brothers and sisters in the most-unreached areas of the globe, God’s grace we can bring God’s message of love to these people.”

Reach Beyond’s “I Refuse” campaign and manifesto are underscored by decades of work around the globe that is charted in the ministry’s new book. Through its media and healthcare ministries, Reach Beyond is active in more than 100 countries, where thousands have met Christ and have been trained to communicate the Gospel in their spheres of influence.

“The words you read in this book are just like yesterday and all about tomorrow,” said Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals. “Continuing the creativity started at HCJB in 1931, this is a bold new venture of creativity into the 21st century. It is doing whatever needs to be done to ‘reach beyond’ old methods and become effective in our new generation.”

In addition to sharing the ministry’s story leading up to the launch of the manifesto and how it was developed, Reach Beyond: Comfort, Courage and the Cause of Christ also provides guidance and perspective on answering God’s call. It charges Christians to earnestly seek God’s will and call, studiously read God’s Word, actively listen for God’s voice, open their eyes and see the world, and allow God to break their hearts.

“Many of us, like the first disciples, had no idea what we were getting into when we accepted the call to follow Jesus,” said Pederson. “We believe this campaign and new book will inspire Christians who are struggling with discovering their calling, responding to God’s call, or meeting opposition every step of the way in pursuance of their call.”

What could happen if 100,000 Christians were recruited? “If we could get 100,000 more people who were more passionate about sharing Christ with their neighbors, even, then expand that to the global vision, then we could change the world. Just think what 12 men did 2,000 years ago to change the world,” says Pederson.

To participate in the “I Refuse” campaign, sign the Reach Beyond Manifesto and receive a free download of Reach Beyond: Comfort, Courage and the Cause of Christ, visit http://www.reachbeyond.org/manifesto.

(Photo courtesy Reach Beyond)

Thailand (RB) — There was no fanfare, no press conference, no invited guests, no ribbon-cutting, no decorations: just a pastor and a couple of trainers, engineers, and technicians in an improvised studio at a small church in northeastern Thailand.

At the microphone a nervous pastor prepared to go on the air for the first time on Wednesday, Feb. 26. On the other side of the studio wall were some 30 people taking a radio training course led by members of the Asia Pacific team from Reach Beyond (formerly HCJB Global) who handed them SonSet^® radios for distribution to people in local communities.

Then without warning, the class heard a voice on the radios giving a few words of greeting in Thai followed by these words, “You are listening to Good News Radio.”

As an instrumental arrangement of “Amazing Grace” began to play on the radio, the class started to realize that the voice was their pastor, and their radio station was on the air. The engineers then explained that the solar-powered radios were implanted with special chips fixed-tuned to their new station.

Despite the station’s inauspicious beginning, it marked a key milestone for Reach Beyond in the Asia Pacific Region. It was the 100th radio outlet that the mission had planted in the region in the last 10 years. Of these, 38 were established in Thailand, 53 in Indonesia, seven in Nepal and one each in Cambodia and an undisclosed country.

For the 50 to 60 believers at this small church, the station marked a beginning. Students taking training to run the station included housewives, restaurant and store owners, a teacher, teenagers, and even young children.

None of them had any experience in radio, but they have a vision and passion to use radio to share the good news of Jesus Christ with their community. This church is the only one in a district comprising some 200 villages and a population of more than 130,000. Nationwide, 85% of Thais are Buddhist and just 0.5% are evangelical.

Openness to the gospel is growing as “many mission leaders feel Thailand is poised for its greatest–or first–breakthrough of church growth,” according to Operation World. This openness was reflected during the station’s first week of broadcasts.

“A man who had previously turned away from Christianity heard the worship music on the new station,” related Ty Stakes, executive director of the Asia Pacific Region. “He asked several people where their church was. Four days later he attended the Sunday service, repented, and returned to the Lord. Broadcasting for four days, and already one soul has returned!”

“Our radio partners across the region conservatively estimate that more than 10,000 people come to Christ each year through the radio station plants,” Stakes added. “This means more than 100,000 people have come to Christ in just the last decade. We have adopted aggressive plans to expedite the number of radio stations across the region, hopefully resulting in hundreds of thousands more coming to know Jesus.”

While a lighted cross on the radio tower declares that the station is Christian, the believers know that the people they want to reach are not. The church’s radio volunteers realize they need to produce programs that are creative and relevant, showing genuine care and compassion.

“In most of these locations, ‘Christian radio’ as we understand it from a North American perspective is not appropriate,” Stakes said. “Our partners know how to walk the fine line in places where Christianity is a minority faith and how to share the love and truth of Jesus in ways that are contextually relevant. Many of the broadcasts are pre-evangelistic, and the deeper presentation of the gospel happens offline in follow-up.”

What did it take to put 100 stations on the air? Stakes pointed to relationships with multiple partners throughout the region, making it possible to overcome numerous challenges.

“In every partnership we have in Asia, I believe radio is a platform that has added to our partners’ already-established outreach strategy,” said Stakes. “This is strategic because the partner already has a passion for outreach and a proven record in ministry. Radio then becomes a huge amplifier for their message and ministry because in these countries, local FM is still the most important communication medium for information and entertainment. It can also be a great tool for development and education.”

Radio-planting partnerships with local people mean “empowering them to reach their communities using local FM radio,” explained Stakes. “In those partnerships, Reach Beyond provides broadcast equipment, training, and technical support in long-term relationships. Funding for our side comes from donations to radio-planting projects.”

“In each case, the local partner owns and operates the radio station and is self-sustaining for all operating costs from the first day. They also invest in local infrastructure (such as the location, license, and tower),” he said.

As part of its overall mission, Reach Beyond hopes to plant an additional 100 stations in Asia Pacific in the next five years–double the pace of the last decade. In Thailand alone, the mission is working with partners to add 62 community stations by 2020. Nepalese partners have a vision for another 25 to 30 stations. They have licenses in hand to start three outlets this year.

“The Asia Pacific region is home to nearly 1 billion unreached people and hundreds of unreached people groups,” said Reach Beyond President Wayne Pederson. “Our strategy puts us right in the midst of these communities and gives us the best opportunity yet to share the hope found in Jesus. The last 10 years have seen incredible progress; the next 10 years will put us even closer to reaching the unreached.”

One Latin American doctor credits Corrientes with giving her the courage to share her faith in Haiti. (Image courtesy HCJB Global)

HCJB Global President Wayne Pederson explains the goal of their Corrientes program.

“We’re putting the emphasis on mentoring and mobilizing people from Latin America that can be more effective, frankly, than Americans,” says Pederson. “[In] many parts of the world, Americans are not loved and welcomed. But Latinos can go in easily and serve Christ effectively.”

The name Corrientes, or “Currents”, reflects the flowing of the Holy Spirit and the movement of God’s people in response to the Spirit’s calling. Since its launch in 2009, Corrientes has worked with more than 20 Latino missionaries who are now serving the Lord in Asia, Africa, South America, Europe and the Middle East.

In the past, says Pederson, 70% of all Latin American missionaries returned from the field in failure because they weren’t properly prepared. Corrientes seeks to reverse the trend.

“We’re investing in young lives in Latin America that could serve Christ in other parts of the world for years and decades to come,” explains Pederson. “We are fortunate enough to get Bible school, Bible college graduates that have the basics, and we’re able to spend this year in intensive mentorship.”

For a year, students in the Corrientes program are mentored by leaders in five areas: spiritual formation, Biblical studies, bi-vocational, cross-cultural relationships, and language acquisition.

Each mentor helps students prepare for cross-cultural changes and challenges.

“There’s great passion and excitement in the Latin America church but there’s been a lack of preparation and readiness,” Pederson says. “So, we’re seeking to give them the skills they need to survive in a different culture as they present the Gospel.”

Corrientes training goes beyond equipping Latin American believers. The end goal is placement in a culture desperately needing the Gospel.

“Some will stay in Latin America, but they’ll go into the jungles or work with some of the tribes,” explains Pederson. “We’ve had people go into places like Croatia, Egypt, some of the Stan countries. These people are going into some of the least-reached places of the world, the hard-to-reach places.

“They’re going in as doctors, nurses, teachers, radio personnel, leadership training…a variety of disciplines that they’re bringing with them but with the added dimension of the mentoring they’re getting in the Corrientes program.”

Many Latin American believers are part of the program and eager to begin service around the world. A program like this would normally cost thousands of dollars, but thanks to donors, it’s free for students. Can you help it continue? Click here.

“I have a lot of experience as a health professional, but little knowledge about working within rural communities in my own country,” says a Corrientes student. “This practical and intercultural experience complemented what I have been learning and dialoguing about with my mentors at the Corrientes program.

“I have learned that when I go to the community my main task, in order to be well received and effective, is to be a learner, not a teacher, and to understand the world vision of the people I want to serve. Then, later, I can share the Gospel.”

"Prayer and miracles were very much a part of this 24-year story," says Wayne Pederson of HCJB Global.

David Maindonald seemed incredulous as he reflected on his 24-year vision to air the gospel via shortwave radio from Australia to the Asia Pacific Region.

“Yes, the story of HCJB Global-Australia is truly a story of what God has done,” he told a crowd at the dedication of the ministry’s new international broadcast site in Kununurra, adjacent to the original site that had been used to broadcast since 2003. “And we want to give Him all the glory,” he commented, referring to an Old Testament Bible verse, “See what God has done!” (Numbers 23:23, NIV).

Others urged him to abandon what was called in 1989 his “far-fetched” vision, foreseeing obstacles in acquiring radio licenses and land for the site. When potential donors were approached with the idea, they predicted problems finding staff and money for the project.

“That wasn’t easy to handle,” related Maindonald, who led the mission’s Australia office for nearly two decades. Among the 100 attendees at the April 21 event, braving 100 degree (Fahrenheit) heat and biting insects, was HCJB Global President Wayne Pederson, who deemed as a miracle the station’s presence on the shortwave frequencies. The facilities broadcast the gospel in 26 languages from Kununurra near the northern tip of Western Australia.

“It’s reaching some of the most populous and least-reached places of the world–going into Japan, China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia,” Pederson said later in an audio report.

Excerpts from listeners’ letters were featured in a brochure distributed at the ceremony. One listener had written from India’s Gujarat state, “We do not have a church. Radio programs are a blessing for us to know about Jesus. We listen to Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, and Punjabi programs. The reception is good. Pray that my family and I and would accept Jesus, too.”

A listener in Indonesia wrote, “Your station is totally different from any other I’ve ever known. It brings peace, joy, and hope–things that have been lost in my life for quite a long time.”

Pederson outlined some of the trials encountered along the way. “Through many years of overcoming regulations, federal permissions, local clearances, financial challenges, and power line difficulties, this station is now a reality,” he said. Then he coupled those comments with explanations of bargains obtained to broadcast from the site.

“The curtain antenna came from Croatia. It was brand new but it was intended by the communists to send propaganda all across the former Soviet Union. The towers were bought from the Australian Army for 5 cents on the dollar. Those are scrap metal prices! The transmitters are the refurbished transmitters from Radio Station HCJB in Ecuador, now being repurposed to reach this part of the world.”

Also attending the ceremony were HCJB Global Asia Pacific Executive Director Ty Stakes, Australian Member of Parliament Barry Haase and Meg Shedley, who turns 90 this year. Back in 1997 when the Australian government still wasn’t issuing international broadcast licenses, she and her husband, Don, donated a 200-acre farm in Kununurra in faith that it could serve as an international shortwave site.

“This site has so many advantages,” John Stanley had said of the site at that time. An engineer who helped to staff the mission’s shortwave site in Ecuador decades ago, Stanley serves as an international broadcasting consultant.

“Assuming that a license can be obtained, it would be difficult to see it as anything other than God’s provision,” Stanley had concluded. After the towers were procured, staff members and countless volunteers began erecting them on the donated land that was also used to raise sugarcane. The applications for broadcast licenses were turned down three times however, according to Maindonald. Then an unexpected answer came on April 18, 2001.

“The laws of Australia were changed, and we were given not one but four international broadcasting licenses, and we had to be on air within two years,” he recounted. “Suddenly the dream of international broadcasting came alive again.”

An HC100 (100,000-watt) shortwave transmitter that had been shipped from Ecuador to the U.S. was in turn shipped to Australia just as U.S. dockworkers went on strike. In late 2002 it arrived in Australia, where station staff needed every bit of time to get it operational in time for the deadline. Negotiations with authorities resulted in more than $100,000 in duty and taxes being waived. The shortwave station went on the air on Jan. 5, 2003, with five hours of programming to the South Pacific. A month later the South Asia broadcasts to India began.

Although well-suited to shortwave broadcasting, the original site was too small for expansion. “It was always intended to be temporary,” according to Dale Stagg, Australian director and CEO. “Basically, when the licenses were granted we had a two-year timeframe to get on the air so we had to get up and running as best we could and look to future development beyond that time. The new site is part of a 1,200-acre parcel of land leased from the state government about a mile from the original site.” The Shedley property is now used for staff housing.

In 2005 a high-quality curtain antenna was purchased from a radio station in Croatia for a quarter of its market value and erected three years later. In 2006 a second HC100 was shipped to Australia. The 21-year lease from the Western Australia government for the 1,200-acre site was also signed in 2006. In 2011 the high-tension power line was installed along with a donated parabolic antenna from Ecuador.

In 2012 one of the existing transmitters was relocated to the new transmitter building, and broadcasts began at the new site in July 2012. In March 2013 broadcasts commenced using both 100-kw transmitters.

“India, one of our priority countries, has a population of over 1.2 billion people,” Stagg said. “Sixty percent of India’s population does not even have access to FM, so shortwave for India is still a crucial means of communication.”

“A third HC100 coming in a few months will be digital, enabling us to reach a whole new audience with the clear, digital sounds of shortwave,” added Pederson. “[Our Australian partners] are dedicated people, and they've done a great job. You should see this impressive facility.”

“Our broadcast site gives us great access to the Asia Pacific Region,” Stagg recounted. “Our region contains more than 4 billion people and many of the world’s unreached people groups.”

Even though the station is on-air, something's missing.

"The need is for more and more teachers and radio personnel that can produce programs," states Pederson.

Your prayers are needed to keep this project going.

"Continue to pray that God would supply the people and the financial resources to get the job done," Pederson requests.

You can help HCJB be the hands and feet of Jesus by clicking here.

Three months ago, HCJB partner radio stations in Fiji and Samoa were devastated by Cyclone Evan, a storm that few people in the West ever heard about. Fiji, home to nearly 900,000 people, consists of more than 300 islands 1,300 miles northeast of New Zealand. The storm first appeared on Dec. 9 as a weak tropical depression about 400 miles from Fiji, but quickly gained strength. Within two days it packed enough punch to become a hurricane, and the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center named it Tropical Cyclone Evan.

President of HCJB Global Wayne Pederson says, "Thousands were left homeless there; they were without food, without power, without water. These were category four winds — 170 miles per hour."

The damage was widespread, too, affecting the partner station's work. "The storm destroyed the broadcast towers, computer programming equipment, and transmitters, resulting in more than $30,000 in damage. The station that reaches the large Hindu and Buddhist population is still off the air."

The programming of Radio Naya Jiwan (a Hindi station), covering the greater Suva area, has a stronger evangelistic focus as less that 2% of Fiji's Indian population is Christian. This station is the only source of Christian broadcasting most of the Indian immigrants can access.

HCJB Global is raising funds to put the station back on the air. "We want to come alongside of them and give them the finances to fix the transmitters, repair the towers, replace the computers that were destroyed and get this radio station on the air because right now this whole area is left without any other Christian witness," says Pederson.

"Especially during a time of devastation where people are turning to radio for help," continues Pederson, it's particularly vital "that we get this station back on the air. Our best estimate is that it will take about $30,000."

Your gifts will help restore Radio Naya Jiwan and the others ravaged by this storm. Click here to donate.

President of HCJB Global Wayne Pederson tells MNN that the ministry is partnering with Christians on the ground to plant community radio stations. "We've worked with a local church planter there. We put in 50 radio stations. He has planted 1,600 churches in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world."

Pederson says these aren't huge mega churches. "These are house churches of 30-35 people. But the fact is, as a result of this partnership, we have 1,600 groups of believers throughout Indonesia gathering and worshiping Christ and reaching out to others who need to know Christ."

Indonesia has been known for Muslim/Christian conflict over the years. Pederson says many Muslims within the country would like to implement Sharia law, which would make overt Christian radio almost impossible.

That's why HCJB has helped start community radio stations. "We talk about health and nutrition and how to have a better marriage; and we talk about culture, news and agriculture. So, the stations are well received in their community."

These stations also talk about Jesus, who is well received in the Muslim culture. "We're finding the Muslims are listening. Muslim clerics are listening. There's a whole movement inside Islam that people are following Jesus as the Son of God, the Savior of the world, and presenting Jesus in the mosques even as the way to salvation."

Pederson is reminded of John chapter 3: Where the Spirit or the wind of the Spirit blows, you don't know where it's going, but you can't stop it.

There's still one nagging question that remains, says Pederson. "How long will the enemies of the Gospel allow this to go on? We don't know. There is concern by our partners in Indonesia, Wycliffe and others, that the door may be closing. [That's] all the more reason to be more aggressive in planting radio stations today."

HCJB Global can put a radio station on the air for about $30,000. Your support is needed to help them take advantage of doors that are open now but may be closed in the months ahead. If you'd like to support a station, click here.

President of HCJB Global Wayne Pederson says, "In the last three years, we've been on the road to planting 100 radio stations all across Thailand. We have 20 up and running, and 80 more to go. Our goal is to plant one radio station a month, and that'll get us to 100 radio stations by 2020."

HCJB Global trains nationals not only to put the stations on the air, but how run them. That, coupled with 8,000 churches, could be the springboard for evangelism. Pederson says one program specifically is making a difference already. "One of our most popular programs is a program that teaches English as a second language. And we're seeing the spotlight program being used by Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam because there's such a hunger to learn English. So we're using that as an entrée to the Gospel."

It costs about $30,000 to get these stations built and sent. They're built in Indiana at HCJB Global's Technology Center. "They produce the antennas there, and they're shipped over to the country. The transmitters are carried in in suitcases (as luggage), so that's how we get them easily into the country."

Planting radio stations is a key part of their church-planting initiative. "Church planters understand that when people listen to the radio, they become interested in following Christ. They ask, 'Where can I meet other believers, or where can I find a church?'"

With less than 1% of the population Christian, believers are praying thatthe initiative continues to succeed.

Your support today can help establish a radio station in Thailand. Click here to help.

Orellana, now a pastor and seminary rector, once served as a chaplain at HCJB Global Hospital Vozandes-Quito (HVQ). He would lead Bible studies for the staff, he would conduct chapel services in the waiting areas, and pray with patients and their relatives.

During the last five years, he authored commentaries on the gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke. They were both part of the Biblia do Estudio Mundo Hispano, which is now available in bookstores. He was one of 57 Latin American theologians who contributed to the study Bible.

Orellana says that the greatest value of the study Bible is its basis in a Latino perspective. He said, "It was published in the U.S. but with a Latin American mindset, with learned authors from Latin America."

David Sills, a former missionary to Ecuador with the Southern Baptist denomination, said, "The best commendation I could give to Joselito's writing in the commentary and in the notes he provided for the study Bible is that his work is purely Latino, not a translation of other scholars."

"I'd like to see the study Bible used as a core resource for pastors throughout Latin America who are highly literate but have never had the opportunity for theological education," Sills added.

When Orellana was being interviewed by Duval Rueda on Radio Station HCJB in Quito, he said that there were three different categories of Bibles. There is the paraphrased version, the dynamic translation using a dynamic equivalence of translated words, and the literal translation from the original languages.

The new study Bible is between dynamic and literal, according to Orellana. In the study Bible, he offers readers study helps such as color coding to indicate whether comments and notes come from translation, cultural context investigations, or other study areas.

Orellana stays busy with a range of things such as preaching at Iglesia Bautista Universitaria, to seminary work where he presently is the rector.

"If I ever wrote a book about this, I would call it 'How God Gave the African Bible College a Television Station and Let Me Go Along for the Ride,'" Heck said.

Working with Heck on the Malawi project were engineer Dwight Lind, TV pro Patrick McGuire, and broadcasting specialist Ken Van Prooyen. Equipment hassles and Africa's unique broadcasting standards pushed them all to work right up to the government's Aug. 16 on-air deadline. But as always, God provided.

"He totally brought it all together."

Heck and his team found strength to complete this demanding project in Isaiah 46:10.

"God is speaking in those verses, and He says, 'I will accomplish My will because I know the end from the beginning,'" paraphrased Heck. "That was a real encouragement to us as we ran into problems, but He also knows the end from the beginning of His purpose for the African Bible College's new television ministries."

With the station now up and running, communications students will start putting together broadcasts and Christian programming. Heck said that with no prior knowledge of editing footage or putting together a TV program, students are basically starting from scratch.

"It's a developing picture for them," explained Heck. "They have no experience, so they're on a learning curve.

"That will be the big challenge: learning how to use this tool and asking God to creatively guide them."

Pray for students undertaking this challenge. Pray that God is honored and His Gospel is furthered through their productions.

While Malawi is an English-speaking nation and a portion of TV programming can be made up of popular English shows and music videos, the government requires 60% of the station's programs to be "Made in Malawi." Heck says this is a great opportunity to reach communities for Christ as the station becomes another outlet for people to see and hear the story of Christ.

"Some of the programming that they've received is for children," Heck stated. "I think that it will be an excellent way to help children visualize the stories of the Bible."

In addition to Malawi, ABC operates campuses and accompanying broadcast facilities in Liberia and Uganda. In all three African nations, national staff, and HCJB Global engineers collaborated on setting up initial broadcast facilities.