Radio Maya in Ocosingo

Hebron helped launch a Christian radio station in Ocosingo a few years ago with a single 2000-watt FM transmitter along the hillside not far from the clinic, providing the Good News in local dialects.

This effort has been a great success, giving access to the Word, playing Godly music, and special health and medical information via a partnership with the clinic to potentially thousands.  More recently efforts have begun to reach unreached population farther from Ocosingo, with an expansion to the north.  For those who have not been there, the area is very mountainous, and there isn’t a single mountaintop anyone can access to reach all the language groups served by the station.  It takes well placed repeater stations to fill in those gaps.  To this end some land was secured near Yajalon to expand the coverage.  This map below shows the predicted coverage on the existing radio station (the lower circle) and the expanded coverage (the upper circle).

Early work to construct the tower and remote transmitter site has recently started, here as some of the brothers and sisters clearing the site where the tower will be constructed.

The ground preparation is hard work and will take some time, but this group of dedicated volunteers is making it happen.  Our support from Hebron USA is also making it happen. We recently sent funds to help purchase a new transmitter for this second location.  This is one more way Hebron USA is helping to spread God’s word.

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