About Us
Hi there, We are
United Christian Broadcasters Asia Pacific
But you can call us UCB. We’re part of the global family of United Christian Broadcasters International Ltd. that traces its roots back to the 60’s and one bloke in New Zealand with a crazy idea.
Then in 1988 another bloke with an equally crazy idea started UCB Australia…
What we do
Radio
Helping local Christian people harness the incredible power of radio to have a positive impact in their communites is the mainstay of our ministry.
Radio gets behind closed doors to bring the light, hope and encouragement of the Gospel message to people right where they are.
The Word for Today
A brand new 200 page, 12 month edition is now available in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Timor-Leste.
Contact your local UCB team – hover over Projects in the menu above.
A quarterly edition is also available in Nepal as well as Australia and NZ. The Word for Today is loved all around the world for its simple Biblical truths and relevant teaching.
We are thrilled to be able to introduce this powerful printed devotional throughout the Asia Pacific region.
Online & Social
Today, in most nations nearly everyone has a mobile phone or tablet that they use to access social media sites. They might not have running water or elecricity but they do have Facebook!
So if we are to reach them with ‘Christian media’, guess where we have to be.
Read today’s devotion now…
A Better Tomorrow
‘...To bestow…beauty instead of ashes...’ Isaiah 61:3 NIV The Chinese have an interesting symbol for the word ‘crisis’; it indicates both danger and opportunity. When the stakes are high and the outcome in doubt, purpose can emerge from pain like beauty from ashes....
Stations on air
Photos taken
Current Projects
Since
Changing Lives For Good
You are enabling God to do great things in the lives of people all across the Asia Pacific region.
Here are just three examples of the impact you are having:
James
I am from Eastern Part of Nepal called Khotang. Currently I am doing ministry at Kathmandu. I am very much thankful to Message of Hope for providing The Word for Today. I got to know about this from one of my Facebook friends. Since that day I am a regular listener of daily devotion of “The Word for Today“. I am very much blessed by this post, which is very short and sweet to understand and share to others friends. From this devotion post, I learned so many new things, which became very useful for my ministry. Similarly, the weekly quiz has developed my reading habit of Bible. I am very much thankful to Message of Hope Nepal.
The Word for Today reader
Nepal
Mrs A
…you have no idea, how much impact God has wrought in my life through those anointed messages.
Those messages are sent straight from the throne room of the Almighty down to his chosen. I truly owe it to you all and I believe nothing in this physical world could match the wealth of heaven that is distributed every day through the programs that are aired.
I count myself most privileged person to reap its benefits just by tuning every morning. My daily routine was dependant on those power packed messages.
Laif FM listener & The Word for Today reader
Papua New Guinea
Debby
Over Christmas, we had a big Franklin Graham event and 50,000 attended. At this event they showed our video which we made in three days about former addicts who had been set free by Jesus. Many were touched and encouraged by it.
When we put our same video online, it got 700,000 views. I learned that you don’t have to be a specialist. You can be a mom and learn how to use these tools and you can make media and send messages out to share the Gospel with people all over the world. We post one new little video each day. On my website, most of our videos get 200,000 views.
Medialight course graduate
Thailand
Our Team
Ian Worby
CEO
The big cheese or ‘sir’! He’s the ideas man, dreaming big, coming up with “what if we…” and gathering the right people around him to make it happen.
Grant Kennedy
Projects Manager
Actually he’s more like: photographer, designer, administrator, builder, plumber, maker of things unheard of and fixer of things broken.
Steve Monro
Broadcast Development Manager
Fancy title, but really he’s a tech whizz/geek who knows how to make the radio, studio, computers and stuff work really well.
Rudy Oei
Liaison Officer
Part technician, part Mr Fixit, but
all nice guy. And it really helps he’s fluent in Indonesian when it comes to communicating with our Timor-Leste team
Latest News
Remembering and honouring Bob Gass
The Word for Today author, Bob Gass, passed away peacefully this month and is now with his Lord and Saviour. Our prayers and love are with Debby and the whole Gass family, praying that our God of all comfort fills their hearts with love and peace. Bob and Debby have...
1/4 way into 2019
Papua New Guinea Our team in PNG have just completed a week long Laifaton (on air appeal). And we are really, really proud of the whole team! They made banners, put up posters and arranged with the local Christian bookshops to accept donations on their behalf, plus...
Christmas 2018
PNG Trip Roly and Grant's trip to PNG was very successful. They were able to get the station in Lae (PNG’s second largest city) back on air with a new 150Watt transmitter and folded dipole aerial. The extra expense was definitely worth it as the coverage and...
If I had to sum up everything we do in a few words I would say…
We preach the Word and make disciples.
How? We use media.