780 miles, a 22-hour journey to northern Mozambique spread over 2-days — and that’s just the beginning of the latest road trip for Feba’s Development Engineer for Africa, Graham Kimber. When he prepares for a trip, he coordinates several stops around to Feba-supported radio projects, agreeing on the work to be done and making lists of supplies to bring along. 
producer in a Mozambique studio
Did we say that he has a LONG list of important improvements to be done? Graham says: “I'll meet up with Bob Bartz and Custodio [Feba Mozambique]. Together we'll be continuing the planning of a new radio station (Radio Wimbe). After a few days I'll be driving to another of Feba's studios to carry out a studio upgrade. Then on to the next destination on the list, where I'll be helping a partner to install a new antenna for Radio Nuru. Finally, I'll be calling in [another town] to meet a couple who want to install a radio station there. They have already started the building, so it's possible they can be on-air later this year.”
Engineering help is vital to local work
Paul and Karen Zimmerman, partners with AIM (Africa Inland Mission), have been praying that their radio signal would be expanded to reach more of the Mwane people group in northern Mozambique. They recently emailed us this news: “A new antenna has been purchased for the radio tower so that Radio Nuru’s transmission can reach [a village] where another team mate works. There are thousands of Mwanis living in that town! Now comes the second stage of increasing the height of the tower and building solid braces for this dipole antenna … pray about this. The Feba engineer from Malawi who originally installed our equipment has promised to come again to help!” Graham will indeed be there soon to install this antenna. 
Radio Nuru
And Graham is certainly not alone in providing technical assistance to these remote stations. The Zimmermans report: “Thanks to Andy [a newly arrived AIM worker], we now have two generators that run well. He was able to fix the older model, yet he says he isn’t a mechanic – too modest! All the other radio equipment is functioning great. We even received back the broken hand-held recorder with which we do ‘on-the-street’ interviews, and it is now in working order, so we have one for each of our journalists [Mwane-speaking radio producers].”
Questions for Radio Nuru from listeners
As you read these comments, you can see that Radio Nuru’s local presenters need prayer for wisdom.
- ”Between the Prophet and Jesus, who was sent by God and who was sent by man?”
- “I am very happy that I am here (working in this town) to listen to Radio Nuru”
- “What existed before man? How was the world at that time?”
- “What is death? Why do we have to die?”
- “Why doesn’t the church help those who are being held at the police station?”
- “What does “Christ” mean?”
- “How can I avoid sin?”
- “My heart gets so happy to hear what is said on Radio Nuru.”
- “Radio Nuru, I ask you to please be on the air from morning until the middle of the night.”
- “People get married in the church, but after one year, they divorce. Is this sin?”
- “I want to know what it means to be “faithful” or to lack being faithful.”
- “When my child is sick, do I send him to the hospital or to the witchdoctor?”
- “Radio Nuru gives me strength to farm in my garden when we are out working in the fields.”
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