I cannot tell you the joy I get when I hear stories from the Islands about the unexpected ways the Lord uses our people.

Here's a story from the Solomon Islands 
that shows the Lord's favor on our workers. 

Charles Barkley Ratu, is one of our leaders at Gud Nius Redio in Honiara. He told me the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health had organized a radio production workshop to train its people in how to make professional quality health programs for radio.

They had planned to use senior journalists from the government's media department to do the training. 
Then, after organizing the training they learned that the government's senior training officer would not be available.

What do do? 
Well, Steve Alufurai heard about the problem. 
(Steve is also a leader of our Gud Nius ministry. He filmed and produced the Scripture Vibration music DVD that is so popular in the Islands and does much of the governments video production work.) Steve volunteered Gud Nius Redio 
to do the training for the Ministry of Health 
Andrew Tahisi is in charge of program production and is also on the leadership team. So the Ministry of Health invited Andrew to lead the training in audio production and radio editing.

harlie said the government staff were very surprised to get their training from the Christian radio station. (I'm not surprised they were surprised - most of our people are part-time volunteers without any previous radio experience!) 

The Ministry of Health must have been 
very pleased with the training. 
They appointed Andrew to take charge 
of all their future radio training and 
production of health radio programs! 

We praise the Lord for the gifted people 
He has brought into our ministry in the Islands. 

As Charlie said in his email, "This is God showing His super abundant blessing to be made manifested into its Ministry and we can see the trend of more opportunities that are on the way as we remain faithful to the gifts and talents he's given us." 

Amen Charlie! As I read your email I thought of Proverbs 3:1-7 (read it in the panel on right). It tells us why God is able to grant us favor and use us in unexpected ways like this. 


Graham A Carter 
Chief Executive of UCB Pacific Partners 
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