Our partners have also been led by the Spirit in their giving and praying.  Because they have had a heart to cooperate with God, we have seen Him do the impossible again and again and again.

George got "T-boned" as he was driving to work.  He was hit by a pizza delivery man.  Our pickup was considered totaled.  Praise the Lord that George sustained very minor injury.  The process of filling out paper work and getting another vehicle has been time consuming though.

Antenna maintenance was the big item on our agenda for the month of June.  We praise the Lord for good weather as the rigging team was able to go through our complete field of antenna curtains and complete a very detailed assessment and repairs before the storm season settled in.  Sure enough July started right out with heavy rains.

Jim & Doris McIntyre have been serving with TWR Guam for 17 years.  At the end of June Doris found victory in the Lord as she went home to be with Him after battling cancer for quite a number of years.  Though we feel the loss of Doris in our midst, we rejoice with her that she is home with Him and is pain free, rejoicing even more now than she did here.  Please pray for Jim and their children Josh and Shelley as they deal with Doris' passing.

We have had quite a transition of staff in just the last couple months.  Sterling and Gwen Ottun began their furlough.  Dave & Carol Butler have moved to Guam to join our staff.  Jim McIntyre will be going back to the states to be with family and to also begin a 6-month furlough.  We welcome Joel Harp as a short term missionary too.

One reason I continue to stay excited about shortwave broadcasts is that coverage area of a broadcast covers such a large area (or as we would call a "footprint").  I always rejoice when I hear how our Lord uses a broadcast intended for a specific area to impact someone's life where we would not expect it to. Here is one example from a Burmese listener in Cambodia:

I am TWR-Myanmar listener.  I contacted TWR-Myanmar once in 2007 January and you sent 4 kinds of biblical literatures to me.  I want to request you to continue distributing biblical literatures and copies of a variety of TWR-Myanmar radio programs to me.  As I received extraordinary benefits for my spiritual living from those biblical literatures, I am requesting you to send these copies of TWR-Myanmar radio programs and biblical literatures by helping me on your part.      (Pastor "U" - Cambodia)

Shortwave radio has been used by TWR to deliver the gospel to the world since its earliest days.  This high-power medium can be sent over oceans and continents, delivering the Word of God to entire countries and regions with only a few transmitters and towers.  Much of the world is still reachable by shortwave.  But along with its great range comes a sacrifice in audio quality.  Listeners who find shortwave sounding a bit rough may seek out other media, such as FM, that sound better but have shorter range in areas where Christian programming cannot effectively reach local stations.

Taking advantage of new technologies, TWR wants to combine FM-quality sound with shortwave's great reach by using the new mode of digital shortwave.  Developed by an international consortium called Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM), DRM signals are a pleasure to hear.  The improved quality can increase listenership, and in many situations DRM can overcome man-made interference around city centers that has hindered gospel broadcasts in the past.  Not only will DRM enable us to broadcast higher-quality audio, but also text messages, simple video images and program guides to be displayed on the digital screens of receivers equipped to receive them.  DRM operation is also more energy efficient, allowing TWR to be greater stewards of the gifts God provides through his people.

The previous two paragraphs from TWR's website explain why we are upgrading one of our transmitters.  We need prayers and financial help for this task to be completed.  If you are led to send a donation for this project, please send it to TWR with "Project 729, DRM" on the memo line of the check.  You may also give on-line at https://www.twr.org/projekt/729.  This technology is not only expected to benefit listeners in China in the near future, but also those in India and Indonesia.  Other countries will transition to this technology later.iv>
       In His Love and Grace,