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World Mission Radio / 97church and its message to new areas about to be entered.Venezuela is a prime example of this strategy. "The bestidentification for the Church of the Nazarene," noted WilliamPorter, who launched the work there, "is to be known as thechurch that sponsors 'La Hora Nazarena. "2. Radio has been a channel by which the gospel has reachedmany who live outside of areas of missionary activity.3. Radio has been a means of Christian nurture throughfollow-up programs such as Bible studies and correspondencecourses.World Mission Radio began when in March 25, 1945, thefirst program of "Showers of Blessing" was aired. Among the 40stations that carried the program was HCJB (Heralding ChristJesus' Blessings) of Quito, Ecuador, whose powerful shortwavetransmitters even then reached a major portion of the world.(The station presently [1985] carries Nazarene programs in sixdifferent languages over transmitters that now blanket the world.)As time passed, scores of other local stations were added. But ofgreat importance for missionary outreach, two powerfulshortwave outlets began to carry the pro-gram, namely, the FarEast Broadcasting Corporation and Trans World Radio. TheFEBC, based in Manila (Philippines), had transmitters also inKorea (Orient), Saipan (western Pacific), Seychelles (IndianOcean), and San Francisco; while TWR, headquartered in Newjersey, operated 10 large transmitters located in such strategicplaces as Swaziland (Africa), Bonaire (South America), Guam(Pacific Ocean), Sri Lanka (south of India), Argentina (SouthAmerica), Monte Carlo (Europe), and Cyprus (easternMediterranean)."Showers of Blessing," however, was reaching only theEnglish-speaking world. A great, latent potential lay in themultitude of other languages spoken throughout the world. Thefirst move in that direction came in 1954 when the first Spanishprogram, "La Hora Nazarena," was produced in Kansas City withHonorato T. Reza, head of the Spanish Department of theNazarene Publishing House, as director and speaker.Mexico was a key target for this broadcast, but religiousbroad-casting was forbidden there, so the program had to bebeamed in from border stations and HCJB. Little by little,however, ways were found to get the program on local stations,principally through commercial sponsorships, until 75 outletswere being used. Then in the late 1970s the laws were
tightened, and overnight the program was cut off. Again,gradually the roster of stations was built back up with
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