A Local Life FM station

How far away are we from getting our own local Life FM station on the FM band?

That is a great question and unfortunately one we don’t actually have the answer to.

Over two years ago we applied for an FM licence with the intention of quickly getting two stations on-air, one in Suva and one in Nadi. Since that time we have met with ministers, phoned, emailed and generally inquired at every opportunity, but so far no licence has been forthcoming. Our aim is still to be able to provide trusted Christian media to EVERY Fijian, we are just aiming to start with 2 stations and build from there.

What’s the hold up?

As best we understand it, the Fiji government is going through a major review of spectrum management. That’s radio, TV, WiFi, UHF, VHF, and generally everything that uses the electromagnetic spectrum. This is a limited resource that has to be carefully managed, both now and into the future.

Unfortunately UCB Fiji’s application for a broadcast FM licence has been caught up in this complicated review.

What can we do?

Most importantly we can pray!

Please pray for the granting of our licence, as well as our team, and for our preparedness for when we are granted our licence. Pray too for our government as they grapple with the wider issues of frequency allocations.

We actually have the playout system, transmitter, and antenna here in Fiji just waiting to be installed. We don’t yet have a licence or a suitable site, so that’s another prayer need. We need to find a suitable site, one that will give us good coverage while not costing ‘an arm and a leg’ in rental.

There is a lot we can be doing.

We need supporters. Right now we need a team of people committed to praying for our ministry. Plus once Life FM is on air locally we will need announcers, support staff, volunteers and a place to call ‘home’ to our broadcast operations. That will take money to achieve, so we also need to be building our team of donors and financial supporters.

We are very grateful to Outfitters Fiji for their generosity in allowing us to work from their facility. We are also grateful to each one of our growing-number of supporters for their prayers, words of encouragement and gifts that have enabled us to get this far.

So keep coming back to our website to check on progress!

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Faith Turns Lemons Into Something Sweeter

Article Provided by Vision Christian Media

A small-time crime in the US state of Virginia has prompted a heartfelt community response and a message of Christian faith and forgiveness.

The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) reports during the northern summer 10-year-old Rebecca Caldwell and her 8-year-old brother Joshua were selling lemonade in front of their home in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, when a customer stopped to buy a drink — or so it seemed. “He seemed super nice,” Joshua recalled, but he changed his mind when the man grabbed the jar containing the A$60 the kids had collected, and ran off.

The entire family was upset, but chose to focus on prayer and forgiveness. “We prayed for the man who stole our money because I wanted him to become a Christian,” Joshua said. Rebecca told CBN News: “I think it’s better to forgive than always be mad at the guy. Otherwise, you’ll keep thinking back on that day and stay angry.”

The local community rallied behind the Caldwell kids and organised a special lemonade event that raised nearly A$10,000 in donations. Their father Ryan said: “Immediately there was just so much support coming out of this. We’re blessed by this whole thing. Something bad happened in that moment, but ever since then, it’s been blessing after blessing.”

As their story spread from the community to national news, the Caldwells used their platform to share the Gospel. “We’ve talked a lot about forgiveness in our interviews. Some people have asked why we choose to forgive,” said mother Annetta, reading from a heartfelt note they had taped to the lemonade stand. The note pointed visitors toward the cross, as a sign of the family’s faith.

“If God can do it through a lemonade stand, He can do anything. He can do the impossible. We just want people to know that God forgave us, and we want to forgive other people. If we hold onto bitterness, it hurts us more than it hurts them. So, we wanted people to realise that it’s more important to forgive,” Annetta explained.

Rebecca and Joshua plan to use some of the funds raised for their oldest sister’s missionary trip to Asia. CBN News concludes that the Caldwells’ story is a powerful reminder that “when life hands you lemons, with faith and love, you can turn them into something far sweeter.”

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