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Open Day – Celebrating 50 Years of GBM’s Radio Work

The radio team have been busy preparing for the Open Day taking place on Saturday 21 June at the Mission Centre in Abingdon.

There will be a live (in-house) radio station ‘on-air’ from 10.00 am to 3.15 pm. Programming is to include live and pre-recorded interviews with past members of the radio team as we look back at the last 50 years of GBM’s radio work. If you’re visiting for the day, you’ll be able to keep up with the radio broadcast via an audio and video relay around the various venues. Other GBM missionaries currently in the UK will also be interviewed during the course of the day.

Broadcast schedule for the day (as it currently stands):

10.00-11.00
Presenter: Derek French.
Studio guests to include Philip Grist
(author of O Earth! Hear see below)

11.00-12.00
Presenter: Ian Flanders
An hour focusing on the French speaking world.
Studio guests to include Fiona Steward.

12.00-13.00
Presenter: Andrew Cook
Studio guests to include Matt Gamston and Aries Liboro.

13.00-13.45
Presenter: Derek French.
Studio guests to include Steve Wood and John Appleby.

13.45-14.30
Presenter: Ian Flanders
Studio guests to include Nicola Edkins and Nathan Javed.

14.30-15.15
Presenter: Andrew Cook

50 Years of Radio Display

Ian Flanders is working on a display that will give an overview of GBM's involvement in the radio work from its early beginnings in India through to the current day.  It will feature many photos of the various workers who have been engaged in this task and reminds us that radio has been, and remains, an important tool in modern mission.

50 Years of Radio Booklet – O Earth! Hear

A booklet marking 50 years of GBM’s radio has been written and compiled by former GBM worker, Philip Grist. He says:

“The title is actually taken from a caption that we put on our headed note paper, kind of a motto that John Appleby thought of based on the Authorised Version rendering of Jeremiah 22: 29, ‘O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.’  We thought it would be may be a good title because that’s what Radio is doing, wanting the earth to hear the Word of the Lord and then it’s got a subtitle, ‘50 years of GBM Radio’.

The book tells the Radio story over the past 50 years from the rather primitive days in India and all the problems that we faced in those days, to the more sophisticated days of the 21st century.  We’ve gone right through the whole of the story covering every era of the radio ministry to the present time.”

The booklet will be on sale at the Open Day at £2 per copy.

To order copies by post, please contact the radio team here.

New Audio Links

Each month new audio material is being added to the Programme List page. We’re aiming to keep in step with our series currently on air. (See below)

Currently Airing

Espérance Aujourd’hui (Short Wave)

• Fear

Forthcoming series

• The biblical image of clothing

Serving Today (Short Wave)

• Disasters
• Series on James

Forthcoming series

• Christ in the prophets

Sound Words (Short Wave)

• The life of David

Forthcoming series

• Series on 2 Peter

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