We are trying to get away from how the missionaries introduced Christianity, dividing families and putting boundaries. If we teach in terms of the jumbo jet, we only reinforce that. Virtually all Tongans have been baptized, and most attend church. Programs on the nondenominational station are produced locally. Tongan churches provide daily devotions, while lay Christians prepare the other features.
Programs cover everything from health education to children's issues, interspersed with testimony.
93 FM is managed by an expatriate New Zealander, but Carter says he would like Christian radio to develop leaders within the Pacific. Radio Graceland, in Western Samoa, is on good terms with the government in part because the country's prime minister became a Christian through a crusade conducted by Rhema Christian Center in the nation's capital, Apia. The congregation's copastors, Marjorie and Richard Meredith, also own Radio Graceland, a Pentecostal station financed primarily through profits from their business ventures. Unlike Tonga's 93 FM , Radio Graceland eschews the low-profile approach. Graceland encounters opposition from some mainstream Christians who regard its Pentecostal programs as too evangelistic in orientation, Marjorie Meredith says.