“But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” Joshua 24:15

As part of a new effort to engage and connect with people across the globe, HCJB Global recently launched an initiative called “Me and My Household”. Our hope with this new program is to encourage and bless households and then use this platform to partner with them in sharing the message of Jesus to households everywhere! So we`re challenging households of America to pray for their families, to reach out to their communities and to join us in reaching out to the world. Here`s how it works:

1. We have to be praying for our own households if we`re to reach others. So we created a website where anyone can send a free prayer e-card that Christians can use to send a prayer to their immediate and extended families. Check it out at: http://www.hcjbglobal.org/myprayer

2. As people pray for their households and serve in their communities, they will be ready to pray for households around the world. HCJB Global is broadcasting into households of the Arab world with a message of hope via satellite, shortwave and the Internet. What these families hear isn`t an outside message beamed in. Mush of the programming is from local voices with a passion to reach their own people. They can`t share openly about Christ, but through radio programs they can speak boldly about the hope God has given them. For only a $1 a year you can help an Arab household receive the Gospel.  Visit the Onehousehold Website!

We`re already hearing from radio stations in the U.S. that are excited about helping listeners pray for their families, pray and reach out to households in their communities, and reach households of the world. Millions of households can be reached in the next five years through your help!

We all want to see our households serving the Lord! Will you take HCJB Global`s challenge to pray for your household and the households of the world? Send your prayer to your household and encourage their hearts today!

Name: Steven

Station:: KAMB

You never know the impact that a young preacher may have on a young person’s life.

My home church in Venice, California had an exuberant young Youth Pastor who loved the kids of the church. He and his wife lead the Vacation Bible School, lead the Choir, planned and supervised our young people’s outings - he was a great “role model.”

You never know what impact you may have on a person’s life. But, that preacher and his wife poured their lives into ours and we were blessed for it.

Since that example of servanthood and love - I have graduated from Christian College and seminary. I have been active in my local church for over 46 years. In fact, now, I am the academic dean of a small Christian college in central California.

Do people have an impact - sure they do and at times you just want to say thanks. Ron and Barb you were my youth pastor - thank you so much for having an impact upon my life.

Name: Emily

Station:: HCJB Global

Susie was adopted as a baby, and because of this she has never had the traditional idea of family. She has questioned God because of feeling abandoned and unloved, yet has come to acknowledge Him as her father; She knows that no matter what the world says, she is the apple of his eye. Susie met many friends through growing up attending First Presbyterian Church in Colorado Springs, one of whom was June Gardner, who greatly influenced Susie’s life. Susie cared for June during the last months and moments of June’s life, and their incredible relationship and faith in God brought one of the nurses at the care facility where June was living to Christ. Susie continues to attend First Presbyterian Church and has invited this nurse’s two children to come to church with her every week because the nurse has to work all day on Sundays. For almost a year now, these children have been attending church with Susie. She welcomes their curiosity in Christ and engages their questions. She also attends church with other friends and nearly every week after church they share a meal together or play games. There are 6 of them: one is 91, one is 65, one is 64, one is 24, one is 14, and one is 10, and they are recruiting more to join their body! Because of her faithfulness and trust in God, Susie has obeyed Him, acknowledging her wounds and creating a church family out of it. God has used his child, Susie, to help create a beautiful picture of the eclectic, motley crew that is the Church. That is true family.