This past Thursday through Saturday, HCJB Global's FM radio station here in Quito (and the one on the coast in Guayaquil) celebrated "Mision Compartida" (Shared Mission). The idea of these three days is to to strengthen the relationship between our radio ministry with their listeners and to raise funds for the coming year's budget in order to keep our FM station on the air.
As we ask our listeners to donate to the radio ministry, we often get very unusual gifts. Nathan and I passed by the HCJB compound several times to visit daddy (who was providing technical support to the radio staff as they received donations from the 100's of visitors who came that day. And we noticed a number of unusual gifts by the donors (gifts that are received and then sold again to raise additional funds). The gifts included several chickens, three guinea pigs (which is a delicacy here in Ecuador - they aren't pets here! sorry! they went for $3.00 each), 500 baby chickens - sold at 20 cents each - we thought about buying a couple for Nathan as he seemed to love them, but he just about killed one by grabbing it by the head and throat so we decided to wait until he's a bit older! Oh and then there were strawberries! I was pleasantly surprised Saturday evening when Santi came home with a bunch of export-quality strawberries for us! YUM!
Anyways - Misión Compartida (Shared Mission) is a wonderful time when our radio staff (Santi included) is encouraged by the response from our listeners - a chance to hear about how God uses radio to work in their lives and an opportunity to see God work as funds are raised to keep FM on the air. Last I heard, approximately $140,000 was raised over the three days! What a blessing to see our listeners giving sacrificially to keep Christian radio going in Quito.
Live radio programming going on during the 3-day event. . . .
Receiving donations from a listener who came to visit the station
The tent for children - facepainting, music and games! This was a hit!
The tent where items brought in by the donors were sold to raise additional funds
The Quichua tent where more items were brought in by the indigenous community to be sold.
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Looking back on the whole thing (fainting), I tend to laugh, too. I have such a one-track mind sometimes. I really thought I was used to the altitude by now; it probably was the early morning combined with the rainy weather depression. Oh well. Live and learn.
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