Christian Radio in

Malawi

ABC Radio - Africa Bible College, Lilongwe - 88.3 FM
TWR Malawi (Trans World Radio)
- TWR Malawi Programme schedule
TWR Africa

1995

In partnership with African Bible College, HCJB World Radio helped plant a Christian radio station in Lilongwe, Malawi, in 1995. The station airs programs in Chichewa and English. (see ABC Radio)

16 December 2000

The Christian community in Blantyre announced the opening of Trans World Christian community radio. The new radio station, Trans World Radio Blantyre FM, comes 15 years after TWR established a recording studio in the capital, Lilongwe.

2001

Staff members from the HCJB World Radio Engineering Center in Elkhart, Indiana, installed FM transmitters at stations in the Malawian cities of Blantyre and Mzuzu.

2004

TWR Malawi FM Network

following originally from http://www.ad2000.org/re00913.htm

Lives Changed Through Yao Programs

Anton Meyer, Feba Radio's Yao language coordinator in Blantyre, Malawi, tells the story of what happened on a recording trip to the Mangochi region near Lake Malawi. The largest group of Malawi's million or more Yao people live in this area. The Yao are mainly Muslim and also live in Mozambique and Tanzania.

"My wife, Lucy, our Yao producer, Amos Phiri, and I were in Mangochi gathering interviews for Yao programs," Meyer relates. "Amos had received a letter from Steven Gama, a listener who told him how much the Yao programs meant to him. He had become a Christian through listening, and Amos had set up an interview with him.

"Like most Malawians, Steven has a happy personality and a ready smile. He told me he'd led the life of a gambler and won a lot of money playing cards. 'This life is behind me now,' he said. 'I got to know the Lord Jesus Christ when I tuned in to the Yao radio programs. It was the Friday Scripture programs that changed my life. As I am talking to you now, I know for sure that I am saved!'

"It was a great thrill to met Steven, who thinks his wife is also close to accepting Jesus into her life. But the Lord had greater blessings in store," Meyer says. "Steven brought along his friend, Leonard Thadzi, who had also been listening to the Yao programs. Now he needed someone to help him meet 'this Jesus I have heard about.'"

Leonard's radio was wrecked when the motorbike he was riding was hit by a car. But he continues to listen on a friend's radio. He said he had lived a "bad life," but then he heard the programs and said, "One day I was listening to a program which spoke of the death of Jesus. This was what made me change."

"I explained the way of salvation to Leonard," Meyer says, "and Amos interpreted for him into Yao. Leonard decided to accept Jesus and prayed as we helped him. Both he and Steven now attend the same church and worship the Lord together.

"While this was happening, lots of children gathered round Lucy who was holding up a radio tuned in to a Yao broadcast. The parents soon came to see what the commotion was about and heard the program as well. Amos was quick to take the opportunity and taped an interview with one of the mothers.

"We marvel at the things the Lord does-that day He had chosen us to be there and see Him at work."

above originally from http://www.ad2000.org/re00913.htm