Antioch Community Church -- A United Methodist Congregation issued the following announcement on Sept. 17.
After years of silence, Radio Méthodiste Lokole (Lokole Methodist Radio) is up and running, enabling The United Methodist Church in Congo to reach millions of people in Kinshasa and surrounding areas, and intensifying the fight against COVID-19.
Relaunched in July with financial support from United Methodist Communications, the station recently purchased new equipment to meet audiovisual regulations.
Lokole, the first United Methodist radio station, was created 21 years ago, said Pierre Omadjela, field project manager for United Methodist Communications’ Global Communications Technology team.
The goals were to evangelize, educate and inform United Methodist faithful and members of other religious denominations, said Omadjela, who is the former director of communications for the Central Congo Episcopal Area.
Lokole Methodist Radio was among the first Christian radio stations in Kinshasa, the capital. On the last Friday of every month, the station hosted a prayer program to bring people closer to God and the church.
“At the beginning,” Omadjela said, “the radio was very successful. But it broke down in 2002 when the radio transmitter was damaged.”
Original source can be found here.
Source: Antioch Community Church -- A United Methodist Congregation
Alerts Sign-up