This week I learned that my very good friend and former colleague Mark Swallow launched his radio ministry into three more radio stations in Arizona and Nebraska. This is in addition to his existing radio shows in Boston and San Francisco. Mark started the radio ministry “GOD IS” in 2017 and recently added “DEFINITION,” - he now teaches the Bible coast to coast in the United States. If ever there was a time for Christian radio it is now. I rejoice and celebrate this wonderful opportunity and provision from God.
When it comes to English speaking Christian radio in Hong Kong, I feel unsettled. Many of you know radio producer Rev. Dr. Judy Chan will retire this summer and thus the HKCC radio committee have been meeting to discuss the future of this ministry. Currently there are daily programs which include Thought for the Week, Reflections, Minutes that Matter and the weekly church service broadcasts. We do not know the future of this ministry, nor the direction it will take, there are personnel and financial needs. That being said, if we have learned anything in the past few months, it is that there is much of the future we do not know.
I am reminded of the words of James:
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” James 4:13-17
Our life, our future, our health, our ministries, our church, our city is in the mighty hands of the living and loving God. May His will be done in us and through us.
Blessings, Pastor Michele