First of all, it’s my pleasure to announce to everyone that all three of our stations are now back up and running thru iTunes. Apple had a few technical issues on their end including an update server that crashed on them unexpectedly which caused a delay in getting two of our three streams updated. After speaking to them on the phone, it has all been sorted out and all is again well there. I know many of you enjoy iTunes for all three of our stations and now you can do that again!
In January of this year we launched our third station, The Healing Wind, and over the last 30 days it has set new records solidifying itself as the undisputed second most popular station we have just behind our flagship station, The Healing Stream.
Last month we had what we felt was a very good turn out for the Weekend of Fire conference here locally in Central, Ohio and we now look very forward to September 18, 19 & 20 for the upcoming Kingdom Rain conference. It has been an incredible 2009 here at the ministry with one notable exception, that being our giving.
Five of the last seven months have seen giving short falls to this ministry. This has created a number of immediate financial needs that threaten our current compliment of ministries that we currently freely offer to people.
One option we could look into is starting to sell advertising on our radio stations. While this sounds good on the surface, remember that the average radio spot is 60 seconds long and the normal “flow” of music that you have come to expect from our stations would be interrupted up to three times an hour if we went this route.
Another option we have is to make our stations available only by paid subscription. While this would help financially in the short term, the obvious draw back is the compromise of our mission to help facilitate the presence of God freely to the entire earth.
I’m asking The Holy Spirit to touch 3 of you reading this to sow a very special one time gift of $250 USD.
I’m also asking Him to touch 4 of you to sow a very special one time gift of $100 USD.
That is a total of 7 special people who can step forward and bring the much needed rain to the dry ground here so that the tens of thousands that enjoy us monthly can continue to do so. Otherwise we will have to make the very difficult decision of what station to cut off and what other services to scale back on.