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I was invited recently to participate in a daily radio program from 10 am to 12 noon. It is a Christian radio station that belongs to a mega-church of more than 25,000 members. It is believed that this radio station, VIDA-AM, reaches nearly 100,000 people in the country. Senior pastor Eduardo Canas has been very kind to allow our WCG radio program to be aired on this radio station.

Radio Broadcast

Recently I told the station’s manager that we were not able to continue paying for our daily five-minute program and therefore we were canceling it. So the proposal they presented to me last week was that if I could help them during a daily two-hour variety section, they would give us our daily five minutes free. Not only are they giving us our daily program without charge, but they are also inviting me to present a section called Alimento para el Alma (Food for the Soul), which is three-minute commentary on spiritual subjects that plays three or four times during the two hours of the variety program. I am also welcome to participate with opinions and comments on news or subjects that come up during the program.

Prayer Postcard

A member of the Watford congregation, Margaret Channon, decided to put her photographic and artistic talents to evangelical use by making postcards offering to pray for people.  The idea is to put them in mailboxes in the area near Garston Community Church where the Watford congregation meets.  This is a follow-up from Margaret. 

 “I handed out a few of those postcards on Saturday. I must have accidentally given one young man two stuck together. A little while later a car pulled up across the road, out he jumped, dashed over to me and handed two prayers for his family, and dashed back. At the prayer meeting after service we prayed for him and his family. I have given some more cards to Irene Wilson to hand out next Saturday. She said that she would put some stamps on them to show we care. We will see what happens next.”

New Banner outside the Cardiff Church

When the Pastoral Council of Cardiff was discussing a possible use of some of the mission fund for Cardiff with the congregation, we decided to begin with a banner announcing services.  We wanted it to say a lot, but realised we needed to keep it brief in order that people could take it in easily.  We wanted to convey the message that all were welcome in the form of an invitation but we wanted also to emphasise the concepts of Christian worship and fellowship, and we needed to tell people when and where – in a way it could be read from a reasonable distance.  Gary Glenister had the brainwave of arranging the words to give the two main messages using a common beginning.  Welcome to Worship, and Welcome Christian Fellowship.  We researched the web and local area to ensure we were not infringing or innocently duplicating anyone else’s branding, and whilst there are two other ‘Christian Fellowships’ in the Cardiff area, they were each clearly independent of one another, and they both prefixed this part of their name by the area they were serving.  Two weeks after we put up our banner we were encouraged by a visit from a member of the neighbouring Rhiwbina Baptist Church who stayed during our service and said she may pop in occasionally as our service time suits her schedule in playing taxi to her children on a Saturday.  This is our first simple attempt to make our presence known in the area, but it is reasonably effective and was well within the budget for our congregation’s mission fund.