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Sensing an urgent need to reach people closer to home, Trans World Radio (TWR) has launched a new broadcasting initiative in North America - a first after nearly 45 years of ministry overseas.
This venture includes a radio partnership with the American Bible Society (ABS), non-English broadcasting opportunities, and Internet programming through several innovative companies.
Since its genesis this fall, the initiative has shown no signs of slowing down. TWR plans to join with local churches, Christian broadcasters, and other groups in a region where millions of people do not speak English as their primary language.
Glenn Sink, director of Ministry Development for TWR-North America said, "We want to partner with churches, missionary agencies, seminaries, radio stations, denominational groups-- all those who are serious about reaching others with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
On January 1, 1999, TWR will join efforts with the New York City-based Bible Society and Faith Comes by Hearing of Albuquerque to begin the "1999 Year of the Bible" broadcast. This TWR-produced five-minute daily radio program consists of Bible readings in a dramatized format and will help listeners grown closer to God. The broadcast will be heard on Christian and secular radio stations across the country and also will be available on the Focus on the Family Satellite Network.
The "Year of the Bible" radio program augments a nationwide cooperative effort to encourage everyone to read the New Testament for just five minutes a day. If people do this every day during 1999, they will have covered the entire New Testament in one year. According to the ABS, more than 90 percent of all own at least one Bible, but surveys indicate fewer than half of them actually read it. (PR Newswire Dec. 2 ) 
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