HCJB
From Missiopedia
Contents |
[edit] About HCJB Global:
World Radio Missionary Fellowship, Inc., commonly known as HCJB Global as of Jan. 1, 2007, is a nonprofit, noncommercial, interdenominational organization. The media ministries are known as HCJB Global Voice while the healthcare ministries are known as HCJB Global Hands. The world’s first missionary broadcast organization, it has been touching lives around the globe since Dec. 25, 1931. Together with its local partners, HCJB Global now has ministries in more than 300 cities in more than 100 countries and broadcasts the gospel in more than 120 languages and dialects.
Vision: To see people everywhere transformed in Christ, engaged in the growing church and empowered to ignite reproducing ministries that bring His light to their communities.
Mission: Empowering dynamic media and healthcare ministries that declare and demonstrate Jesus Christ.
[edit] Core Values
• Biblical faith • People • Passionate discipleship • Integrity • Servant leadership • Innovation • Celebration • Effective service • Partnership
[edit] Founding
In 1927 Clarence and Katherine Jones felt called by God to go to Latin America and start a pioneer missionary radio station. Clarence traveled to Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and Cuba in 1928, looking for a suitable location, but was unable to get the necessary government permits to start a station. Two years later, back in Chicago, Clarence met several missionaries from Ecuador: Reuben and Grace Larson and John and Ruth Clark, who were with the Christian & Missionary Alliance, as well as Paul and Bernice Young with the Bible Society. These missionaries encouraged Clarence to come to Ecuador to start a missionary radio station.
Reuben and another C&MA missionary, D.S. Clark, along with Luís Calisto, an Ecuadorian lawyer, helped procure the initial contract with the Ecuadorian government in August 1930. The station’s inaugural broadcast occurred in Quito at 4 p.m. Christmas Day, 1931, making it Ecuador’s first radio station and the first missionary radio station in the world.
[edit] International Ministries
HCJB Global’s ministries take place in five key regions: Asia Pacific, Euro-Asia, Latin America, North Africa/Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Together with more than 300 local partners worldwide, the ministry works in more than 100 countries and broadcast the gospel in more than 120 languages and dialects. Radio ministries include international shortwave, local stations, satellite program delivery and the Internet. Radio and television program production, training, healthcare and publishing are also vital ministries in the Latin America region.
[edit] Leadership Development
Christian Center of Communications: The CCC is a three year program of higher education designed for Spanish-speaking students. Became a branch campus of Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minn., in October 2001. Also became accredited through CONESUP, Ecuador’s accrediting agency for higher education institutions, in May 2003. The program integrates communications and technical courses with biblical knowledge and hands-on experience in radio, television and written communication. Began in 1984.
Apoyo: A cooperative pastoral training ministry of HCJB Global and Leadership Resources International, Apoyo began in 1992. Staff members include missionaries from HCJB Global, Leadership Resources and personnel on loan from other missions. They come from Argentina, Australia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela and the U.S. Training National Trainers (TNT), launched in 2001, is a strategic three-year program that equips national pastors to train other emerging national church leaders for the ministry.
[edit] HCJB Global Hands
The goal of the staff of HCJB Global Hands is to grow in the grace and knowledge of God and to communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ to chosen people groups so that individuals are transformed and become an active, reproducing part of the body of Christ. The department seeks to integrate education and discipleship into all levels of the ministry in order to instill a personal vision of communicating the gospel through Christ-centered healthcare.
Healthcare ministries range from primary to tertiary care; preventive to curative care; community-based to institution-based care. Focus is on integrated patient care, medical education and unmet community needs. The Amigos healthcare newsletter is published quarterly, recounting stories and events in the lives of patients and staff. Subscriptions are free.
[edit] HCJB Global Voice
International Radio Development: Responsible for language research and development, coordination of international broadcast sites, special projects and research, and consulting for the regions.
Radio Planting and Development: This is a ministry to establish and develop Christian radio ministries around the world, usually in cooperation with local partners. The mission provides any or all of the following: equipment, technical and programming support and training. Each location has its own local governing powers, programmers and follow up strategy. Began in 1991.
HCJB Global Technology Center: In Elkhart, Ind., staff members provide technical equipment and consulting to HCJB Global and other evangelical broadcasters as part of the World by Radio goal. Technical equipment includes high- and low-power shortwave transmitters, FM transmitters, broadcast antennas, radio automation systems and studio equipment. Ongoing support is provided to radio ministries that HCJB Global has helped start in nearly 100 countries. The center pioneered the “radio planting” concept with a 10-watt, suitcase-sized FM transmitter in 1991. Staff developed a station automation system called Wings (completed in 1995). In 2005 the first production units were delivered with a digital broadcasting platform called DRM.
