More Coverage for Horeb

When lightning damaged their 500 watt transmitter six months ago, the Horeb Bible Radio station in Bolivia borrowed a smaller transmitter in order to stay on the air.

New Tribes Mission is excited that a new, larger, more powerful transmitter is now on its way to the station. The new 2,000-watt transmitter has been designed and built at the HCJB World Radio Engineering Center in Elkhart, USA.

The new transmitter, with its increased power, will widen its broadcast coverage area. This week New Tribes Missionary and radio technician Bruce Johnson is returning to Bolivia with his family and the new equipment.

The damaged 500-watt transmitter will be repaired by HCJB World Radio engineers and returned to NTM for use in another part of Bolivia.

Horeb broadcasts in Spanish and several tribal languages, and the new transmitter will enable the station's continued, far-reaching impact. There have been encouraging testimonies from several tribes that show the effectiveness of the radio ministry.

HCJB World Radio has worked with various local radio partners to plant local AM and FM stations in the Bolivian cities of Santa Cruz, Tarija and Tupiza. Four stations with eight transmitters in four cities (La Paz, Caranavi, Santa Cruz and Sucre) are also affiliated with ALAS, the ministry’s Latin American satellite radio network that makes Spanish programs available to local stations 24 hours a day.