The grant for North Korea will be used by CWS and its partners to counter significant setbacks in food production caused by a series of floods and droughts since 1995. The new digital service will air daily from the Eutelsat Hot Bird 5 at 13 degrees east, and make Christian programming available to the growing millions of new satellite viewers that only have digital receivers. Industry momentum may be such that the majority of SAT-7's viewers throughout the Middle East and North Africa will have digital receivers within two years. In the meantime, we are offering both a digital and an analog daily service. Original Arabic productions make up some 60 percent of SAT-7's broadcast schedule.
Culture shock is a fact of life for missionaries entering a foreign field for the first time.
I find it too overwhelming to buy things by the case. Linda also found mission life benefited daughter Amy, a fourth-grader, who is doing well in her studies. The chief of the village, a Nazarene, praised God for answering his prayer and bringing the team to his village. The chief was thrilled, since, before, he was the only Christian in the village. Now, with the 24 new converts, a new preaching point has been started.