The Power of a Minute

Life can change in a minute. 9:02am, April 19, 1995…9:03am, September 11, 2001, at 9:03am…minutes locked in infamy that changed lives forever.

For many people around the world, a minute is all it takes to change them forever – for better or worse. World Mission Broadcast is in the minute business. Countering the hopelessness many experience every minute, we use over 1.9 million minutes every year to reach beyond borders and over barriers to transmit hope to 74 countries in 31 languages.

I’ve seen firsthand what can happen in a minute. A few years ago, I participated in a prison ministry in Florencia Varela, Argentina. One of the radio stations that broadcast our Spanish programs began working with the prison after an inmate contacted them. The interesting thing is that there is no scientific reason that the signal should reach this prison. It lies an additional 50 miles beyond their reach. The inmate had the radio positioned in such a way that he picked up the signal for just one minute…and that is all it took.

Today, that inmate is working with the radio station and more than half of the prison is now following Christ. I saw the dramatic difference between a cellblock following Christ and those that didn’t. Cellblocks that now are clean and have Scripture painted down the hallways versus those strewn with trash and human waste with inmates crying out in profanity.

A small radio sits at the end of the cellblock tuned into that radio station. An engineer has investigated, and there is no human answer to why, only in that spot, they can listen to that frequency.

Broadcast media and technologies are causing unprecedented things to happen as we reach people in places we never before thought possible. These “powerful God-tools” (2 Cor. 10:3-6, The Message) are helping us penetrate places closed off to the Gospel and share the light of Jesus in those dark corners.

Your partnership with World Mission Broadcast makes those minutes happen – minutes that change lives. The cost to produce, distribute, and transmit one minute is just $4. How many life-changing minutes could you, your friends, or your group sponsor?

There’s power in a minute.
Help change a life.

---Brian Utter, World Mission Broadcast