MNN on Siruis Radio

I thought I would let everyone know that today (February 27) is the first day for Mission Network News to be aired on Siruis. Thanks to Family Net, MNN is now heard on channel 159 at 7:25am and 9:00am.

Greg Yoder, Anchor & Executive Director

More and more responses

I have been amazed in recent weeks at the number of people responding to Mission Network News. We used to always get comments like;
"I love this website."
"I never knew you were hear. It helps me pray."

Now the comments are more profound. Here are just a few of them;
"I love hearing your mission news each morning as I drive to work. I often share prayer requests with the biblestudy I lead at work."

"I have been using MNN for several years in my daily prayer time. It has been a wonderful tool for me. In addition, our entire missions committee and my pastor (who happens to be my husband) uses it to keep up on what is happening with our brothers and sisters around the world. It has enhanced our involvement in the missions ministry of our church and the links you provide are immeasurably valuable."

"I have MNN on my home page so that I can get Mission news everytime I sign-on."

"If I hear something interesting on MNN or missed something, I refer to this website. I have gleaned good info from MNN for mission presentations to our congregation."

It appears Chrisians really want to know what's going on in the missions world. Continue to pray that God would provide the funding to allow us to continue calling Christians to be 'doers of the word and not hearers only.'

Greg Yoder, Anchor and Executive Director

Going to National Religious Broadcasters Convention

On Friday, February 17 I am off again. This time I'm heading to Dallas, Texas for the National Religious Broadcasters Convention. I look forward to this and dread this every year. I enjoy renewing old friendships and meeting new people, but I hate the 'trade show' feel to it.

If you're not familiar with NRB that a time when about 6,000 Christians broadcasters (both television and radio) get together to try and better themselves in broadcasting. There are sessions to help you manage better, to program your station better, to play better music. There are trend sessions -- to find out the latest and greatest broadcasting trend. And, there's the awards night.

But, one of the biggest parts of this is the exhibition hall. That's where the radio and television programers, radio & television stations, radio and television equipment sales, etc get to set up booths and tell everyone how good they are. While I love talking about Mission Network News, I don't like the feel of doing it in an exhibition hall. I feel like I'm a sales person. I guess in a way I am…but it's way out of my comfort zone.

Pictured here are Brian Harcey, the manager of WLJN radio, Rochunga Pudaite the found of Bibles for the World and me. The great thing about NRB is just being able to talk to good friends. We do a lot of laughing at NRB. We also have traditions at NRB. First night there, we get together and eat ice-cream and hot buffalo wings. Why? I couldn't tell you…it's just tradition. We'll do it again this year.

This year, I have two goals. I'd like to get Mission Network News placed on two major networks. I would also like to find someone who could translate Mission Network News into Arabic.

Pray for MNN and the team. Ruth and Faith will be back at the office keeping the broadcast on the air. Chris DeCollibus and I will be in Dallas talking about MNN. We'll be accompanied by six other people who work with our sister ministries here at Cornerstone University.

Greg Yoder, Anchor & Executive Director
Mission Network News

MNN in Romania/Moldova

I just returned from a trip to Moldova and Romania. What a wonderful trip. I can't begin to tell you how exciting it is to see the birth of Christian radio in two former communist nations.

While there I was able to visit with Little Samaritan Mission. They own 12 radio stations in Moldova and 22 stations Romania. The ministry in Moldova is made up of music and programs. Their programming is made up of music, programs and news. The music is made up of both Romanian, Russian and English songs. Most of the programming is in Romanian, but it also features Russian and English programming, too. Mission Network News is featured on Radio Little Samaritan. The programming in Romania is similar.

What's exciting is the number of people who are responding. Little Samaritan's Florin Pindicblaj was on the air for an hour on Sunday evening. I eventually joined him, but during that time there were more than 5,000 people people attempt to call the radio station. We also heard that the radio station was responsible for 90-percent of the church growth at one of the churches in the area.

Because Christian radio isn't common in either nation, they're programming to a wide audience and seeing a possitive response.

Greg Yoder, Anchor & Executive Director