1. Spotlight on Wholistic Health
2. New Blogs from TWR Missionaries
3. TWR-Brazil Celebrates 40th Anniversary
4. Sabitri's Story

Health conditions plaguing millions of the world’s poor often make it difficult for them to be concerned about spiritual development. To assist with this great need, TWR has developed broadcasts that address basic health and sanitation needs to reach suffering people and assist health care workers with God’s message of unconditional love and forgiveness.

Learn how we are helping the HIV-infected in China, and how one Angolan woman found true healing.

Do you know how many AIDS orphans are in Africa? Find out this and other interesting facts and figures. Also, read what listeners are saying about these programs, and then see how you can get involved.

Visit www.twr.org and check out the homepage main feature section to discover more.

TWR is pleased to announce the arrival of two new missionary blogs to our TWR.org Web site! Now you can track TWR missionary Brad Swanson as he reports on the happenings in and around TWR’s station on the island of Bonaire. TWR-Bonaire broadcasts gospel music and Bible teaching programs to Latin America and the Caribbean in the Spanish, English, Portuguese, Baniwa and Macuxi languages.

Also, follow the Cox family as they blog about their adventures as TWR missionaries in Benin, West Africa. Get to know Paul and Donna Cox, along with their three children, Nehemiah, Micah Joy and Miriam, personally as they share their journey of joy.

To learn more, visit http://www.twr.org/news/latest_news.

TWR-Brazil Celebrates 40th Anniversary

A festive mood prevailed this month at a celebration of TWR-Brazil’s 40^th anniversary of the Americas region’s largest partner ministry. TWR President Lauren Libby was the guest of honor and was joined by 150 other attendees in the city of São Paulo.

“It was inspiring to see and hear how God is using TWR to reach people for Christ throughout Latin America,” says TWR President Lauren Libby. “We have such a dedicated group of folks who are making a lasting difference for the Kingdom.”

Today, TWR-Brazil’s outreach touches many of the country’s 190 million Portuguese- speaking people. Programs are aired 24 hours a day via satellite to local AM and FM stations, by shortwave transmitters in South Brazil and from Bonaire. TWR-Brazil also provides programming to reach remotely situated Ticuna Indians in South America with the gospel. For several years, TWR-Brazil has been helping the Ticunas produce their own evangelistic programs. Broadcasts are aired from local FM stations into strategic Amazon zones where Ticunas live.

TWR-Brazil is also expanding airtime on station 1540 AM in São Paulo, which had previously aired programming for three hours each day. The station is increasing power to 50,000 watts, and it will be on the air 11 hours a day (from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.). “This will give TWR the opportunity to reach millions of people in this massive city,” says TWR-Americas International Director Tim Klingbeil. 

Sabitri is a Nepalese woman who listens to TWR’s Women of Hope broadcast. Here’s her incredible testimony.

My name is Sabitri. I was brought up in a Hindu family in Nepal. My father used to work as a priest in a Hindu temple. I used to help him with some work in the temple. My father is very religious person and made me religious too. My mother used to worship stones and statues every day. Every day, she kept me with her for two hours and taught me about Hinduism. When I was twelve years old, I was married to a 20-year-old man. My husband’s family earned their living by agriculture, but still they were very rich. When I was married, I didn't even know the meaning of marriage. After a few days, I felt alright, but then my husband’s family started to show their true character.

My mother-in-law always bullied me, scolded me and, if she was unsatisfied with my work, she would punish me by not letting me have any food. One day when I was alone, my father-in-law tried to rape me. Due to their torture, I fell into a depression. My husband too seemed to think of me as just a childbearing machine. Every one was against me and I felt mentally tortured. I gave birth to a girl, and for that they tortured me even more.

One day my husband, mother-in-law and sister-in-law tried to kill me by fire, but I escaped and, carrying my daughter barefooted, I ran away to my mother’s house. Looking at my situation, I felt depressed and sometimes I wanted to die. To get out this depression, I would listen to the radio. One day I heard a beautiful and peaceful song, with a program afterward. I came to find this program was TWR's Women of Hope. That night in my bed, I thought about Christianity until I fell asleep. In my dream, I saw somebody giving me a book with a black cover. When I awoke, I wondered what book it was, but nobody knew. I started listening to your program regularly. From it, I got your address and phone number, and immediately I called your program host and told her everything about my life. I also told her about the book with the black cover. She said the book was the Holy Bible. She encouraged me to go to a nearby church.

These days, my life has been transformed, and I have come out of my depression. I go to church regularly and participate in every program. Women of Hope has helped me so much in my life. I had no hope, but from this program, darkness left my life and I am full of new hope. Now, I have rented a room and live there with my daughter, who is going to school. I work as housemaid, washing dishes and clothes. God has given me joy as well as freedom.

I hope your program will reach the heart of every person who is in need of comfort. I would like to thank Lord Jesus, as well as the Women of Hope program team.

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