Coincidence?

Hi all,

A couple of weeks ago our local radio team went to the city of Ambato, Ecuador for the day. HCJB, la Voz de los Andes, has a transmitter in Ambato that repeats our FM programs in Quito. For years we have heard testimonies from our listeners in Ambato, but we rarely have the opportunity to connect directly with them unless they come to Quito. So we decided to go there for a day of "live" programming, and inviting our listeners to join us.

When the day arrived, our advance team headed south at 4:30 a.m. to set up for the transmission that began at 8:00 a.m. But, they soon learned that our transmitter in Ambato was "Off the Air"! How could that be? We had been planning this for weeks. Our listeners were expecting us. Now they could not even hear us! How would they know to come?

A lightening strike had taken out the power feeding the mountain where our transmitter is located. Coincidence? I don't believe in looking for "evil one" behind every tree, but I also don't believe a lot in coincidence... especially in this situation.

I immediately started receiving phone calls from our engineers as they began to strategize how to get power to our transmitter. Portable generators? Meanwhile, the president of the local pastors association quickly began to call pastors to pray. And pray they did. They prayed for 3 hours until the power company was finally able to restore power at around 11:00 a.m.

But our listeners were not deterred. Even though they could not hear us at first, they came anyway. Many of them expressed their gratitude to our staff, sharing how they had been touched by our ministry. Several wanted to give to our annual fund raiser "Mision Compartida". Others signed the hand-written Bible that HCJB Global and the Ecuadorian Bible Society have been sponsoring for the last two years. Our producers probably came away more blessed than anyone by this encounter with our listeners.

Thanks for praying for our producers and the ministry they are having in the lives of our listeners. Pray that they will continually communicate God's Word to our audience, not only in Ecuador, but in all of Latin America.

If you want to listen to our FM station click on the following link:

http://www.radiohcjb.org/copyrightnewfm.php

Doug