HCJB Global is more than one country’s efforts to reach out. We are a global movement of organizations focused on being the Voice and Hands of Jesus. Take a minute to explore the many countries involved in media and healthcare ministry.
Australia
CEO: Dale Stagg Address: PO Box 291, Kilsyth, Victoria 3137. Telephone: +613-8720-8000 Fax: +613-8720-8020 E-mail: office@hcjb.org.au Website: www.hcjb.org.au Began: 1950
Responsibilities: Operates the International Broadcast Facility at Kununurra, West Australia, from which we broadcast shortwave radio programs to countries in the Asia Pacific region. We have studios in Melbourne that are currently used to produce English programs, and we also represent the ministry nationwide.
Brazil
Director: Edson Bruno Zilse Address: Caixa Postal 16050, CEP 81611-970 Curitiba, PR Telephone/fax: +55-41-376-3553 E-mail: hcjb@hcjb.com.br Website: www.hcjb.com.br Began: 1976
Responsibilities: Represents the ministry of HCJB Global-Canada, raises prayer and financial support for projects and missionaries, develops ministry partnerships to facilitate radio planting in Canada, offers training and technical support for ministry partners in Canada.
Responsibilities: Registered German association "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Radio HCJB e.V."Represents the ministry of HCJB Global in Germany and Austria, raising prayers and financial support for projects, missionaries and ministries, produces programs by the new German Language Service "Vozandes Media" in Quito, Ecuador and Lowgerman programs by "SW-Radio", Germany. Broadcasts German programs to South America and Europe via shortwave, (DRM), satellite radio, internet and phonecast, cultivates listeners contacts, supports different language services and makes media infrastructure available to them, makes technical development, runs working visitor (volunteers) projects in Quito, provides radio training.
New Zealand
Executive Director: Bob Arend Finance Officer: Cami Arend Media Trainer: James Totton Missionary/Donor Relations: Margaret Thatcher
Responsibilities: Raises prayer and financial support, representing the ministry in New Zealand and helps provide training and technical support for the Asia Pacific Region. The New Zealand office is also the home of Wandering Sheep Productions (WSP). WSP is an evangelistic ministry of HCJB Global New Zealand that seeks to engage our generation through entertaining and thought provoking content. Its emphasis is on creating interactive and relationship based tools for sharing the Gospel and growing committed followers and broadcasts from Auckland, New Zealand. As part of this evangelistic effort, Wandering Sheep Productions have developed the First Fruits Internship Program, a yearlong digital missions experience that offers training and field work in all facets of audio, video, and social media production, while at the same time offering a foundation in Biblical ministry that relevantly and intentionally goes after the lost sheep of today’s world. Its goal is to motivate and train the next generation of missionaries to use the digital methods and tools of the new millennium.
Responsibilities: Represents the ministry of HCJB Global Voice across German-speaking Switzerland, raises prayer and financial support for projects and missionaries, acts as sending agency for missionaries, offers various services for the mission’s five regions.
United Kingdom
Director: Colin Lowther Address: The Media Centre 131 Grattan Rd., Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 2HS, England Telephone: +44-1274-721-810 Fax: +44-1274-514-960 E-mail: info@hcjb.org.uk Website: www.hcjb.org.uk Began: 1950
Responsibilities: Involved with program production, training and representation for the wider work of HCJB Global. Rather than focus on the traditional world of Christian radio, the U.K. team has a passion to reach those outside the church who listen to secular radio stations. To achieve this the office uses the name, Whistling Frog Productions, placing creative radio material on local commercial stations, providing resources to religious broadcasters already working in the radio industry, and offering quality training to aspiring Christian broadcasters wanting to enter the profession. HCJB Global-UK also runs Audiopot, an online library of creative Christian audio clips that is available to radio stations, schoolteachers and church workers. (www.audiopot.org).
