No! I didn’t come up with the name RAP! That’s what a group of pastors locally is calling our dream. The dream is to one day have 15 or more radio stations that will cover the whole western half of the Island of New Guinea with the Adventist Message 24 hours per day 7 days per week.
We know the dream is too big for us. And definitely way to big for Papua mission. Yet it never hurts to dream. If God be for us who can be against us.
Here we are in my office. . . a group of mission administrators and district pastors who are wrestling with the idea of Radio. There are already amazing grants and gifts becoming available as long as we meet certain criteria. Yet even so we’ll need to raise probably $250,000 dollars or more. From my best guess only $50,000 of that will be able to be raised from people here in Papua. Keep in mind that the average Adventist in Papua makes $74 per month. 21,000 members who make $74 per month could not afford much but I believe they will give their widows mite.
We’re working on exact details and costs for an initial proposal that will allow us to get a small studio up and running for recording purposes. We need at least 1,000 hours of recorded material in the local languages of Papua.
Some have asked, “Doesn’t Adventist World Radio reach Papua?” The answer is yes but its in the wrong languages for most to understand here in Papua and its on Short Wave radio which is not used extensively in Indonesia. In fact it’s hard to find Short Wave radio’s. I’ve never seen one here in Papua and I’ve been looking.
Our Communication Director and myself are working on a written proposal to be ready by December for Radio Advent Papua. The hope is that at minimum we can have a studio built and recording by early to mid 2013 and on air with our first radio station in early 2014 and rapidly adding more thereafter. Please consider donating to this cause!!!!
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