Throughout the Asia pacific region

The joys of heaven (1)

‘For our citizenship is in heaven’ Philippians 3:20 NASB

The story is told of a pastor who asked his congregation, ‘How many of you want to go to heaven?’ Everyone raised their hand except one little boy. The pastor said, ‘Son, don’t you want to go to heaven?’ He replied, ‘Yes, but I thought you were getting up a batch to go right now!’ Let’s be honest, we don’t think or talk much about heaven until a loved one dies and goes there, or we grow old and feel like we have fulfilled our assignment here on earth. Then we feel a tug pulling us heavenward. And we should. On average, we will spend about 70–80 years here, whereas we will spend eternity there. ‘We shall always be with the Lord’ (1 Thessalonians 4:17 NKJV). Here on earth, we get a mixed scorecard; sometimes, we do well, and other times not so well. But in Heaven, we will be just like Jesus. ‘For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Saviour … who will transform the body of our lowly condition into conformity with His glorious body’ (Philippians 3:20-21 NASB). C.S. Lewis wrote that in heaven, each of us will be a ‘dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine.’ All the patriarchs, prophets, and preachers in the Bible longed for heaven. Zechariah describes it in these words: ‘For they shall be like the jewels of a crown, lifted like a banner over His land. For how great is its goodness And how great its beauty!’ (Zechariah 9:16–17 NKJV). If you were to die today, would you go to Heaven? You can, by putting your trust in Jesus Christ.

SoulFood: Jer 1-3, Matt 27:1-10, Ps 55:1-11, Pro 8:17-18

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Testimonies…

Ivana a radio Listener

Ivana Kokai is a listener from the past. Previously, Ivana did not know God, but now she knows God and she attends a church called GPWC in Dili. And she always asked for prayer. Ivana was at a wedding event that I was also at and she asked for a group photo and asked...

Listening to Message of Hope Nepal

Greetings I am glad to connect with such a kind of media ministry (Message of Hope Nepal). I have started listening to this program last two years and from that day I never missed it. I am very much blessed to listen to this every morning and love to share it with my...

Youth finding Hope in The Word for Today

A Church that receives copies of The Word for Today has used them to help minister and evangelize to their youth and young people. Their pastor had provided the youth with a copy each and since receiving the devotion some of them are new believers, the TWFT was a...

Patrick from Angoram

Patrick from Papua New Guinea's East Sepik Province is encouraging all his friends and family to read The Word for Today. He says... I encourage every fellow Sepiks to buy and read this devotional The Word for Today book printed by UCB Christian radio here in Wewak....

The Impact of The Word for Today in Solomon Islands

  The following Testimonies were sent to us from Coxwain showing the impact of The Word for...
The Word for Today UCB Solomon Islands

Then and Now the 2024 Cover for The Word for Today

Grant Kennedy has amazing foresight when it comes to taking photos of people and scenery for...
Pastor from Malango

Pastor from Malango connects with UCB Solomon Islands

Connecting with people, Churches and Organisations is one of the great opportunities that we get...
The Word for Today 2024 devotion

God knows what we really need!

This is a powerful testimony of a young woman that encountered God through The Word for Today,...

About Us

The Word for Today is helping families in the Cook Islands

Renungan Hari Ini

The Word for Today

Solomon Islands Board

Dili, Timor-Leste

Smiles in Vanuatu

Honiara, Solomon Islands

Butwal, Nepal

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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 1960’s and one bloke in New Zealand with a crazy idea.

Then in 1988 another bloke with an equally crazy idea started UCB Australia…

Latest News

Interview on Vision’s 20Twenty radio show

A recent Interview with our Projects Manager - Grant Kennedy on Vision's 20Twenty show. Vision's Andrew McLennan asked Grant about the work of UCB Asia Pacific and what has been happening lately.

The Word for Today for 2024

For 2024 we are excited to have added Kiribati and Tonga to the nations where The Word for Today is available. The full list is: Cook Islands Fiji Indonesia (Renungan Hari Ini in Indonesian) Kiribati Nauru Nepal (Nepalese) Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands...

Local broadcasts in Baucau

In 2019 we were privileged to help the Radio Voz team establish a number of stand-alone low-powered radio stations in the provincial capitals of Timor-Leste. Including a station in Baucau, the second largest city. Over the past 12 months they have been upgrading the...

Cook Islands App

Good News for the Cook Islands! The new UCB Cook Islands App has arrived!. Giving Cook Islanders around the world access to Life FM's Live Stream, a variety of inspirational podcasts, The Word for Today, and the Bible in Cook Island Maori (Bibilia Tapu) or English,...

Earthquake Hits Papua New Guinea

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 has struck Papua New Guinea early this morning. Only few details were immediately available but there is no threat of a tsunami. The earthquake, which struck at 3:04 a.m. local time on Monday, was centered in Chambri Lake, about 37...

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What we do

Radio

Helping local Christian people harness the incredible power of radio to have a positive impact in their communities 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.

We broadcast our youth focussed Life fm, (Laif FM, Laef FM) in Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and soon Fiji and Nauru. You can hear what that station sounds like right now with this link or by using the “Listen Now” button at the top of our website.

But these broadcasts aren’t without challenges.  In today’s COVID crazy world we struggle to get expert technical support to our stations when they need it. It is hard enough just to ship replacement equipment when something breaks.

Please pray for our ministry and our local teams.  We need God’s wisdom and provision as we seek to serve the beautiful people throughout the Asia Pacific region with the best Christian radio. And ‘the best’ is what they deserve!

The Word for Today

In 2020, thanks to your donations, we were able to launch a special 200 page, 12 month edition of The Word for Today in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa and Timor-Leste.

We did it all again in 2021 and added Nauru and an Indonesian language edition called Renungan Hari Ini.  And we’ve continued to do it every year since.

And not to forget our team in Nepal have been faithfully producing the Nepali edition for many years.

If you are in one the nations listed above and you’d like a copy of the current edition, contact your local UCB team – you’ll find their contact details when you choose the nation from the Projects in the menu above. Or use our contact form and well pass it on.

The Word for Today is loved around the world for its simple Biblical truths and relevant teaching. A quarterly edition is also available in Australia (from Vision Christian Media) and NZ (from Rhema Media).

Online in Taro, Solomon Islands

Online & Social

Even in the remotest island nearly everyone has a mobile phone. And while their village might not have running water or grid electricity, they do have YouTube and Facebook!

So if we are to reach people with ‘Christian media’, guess where we have to be.

Thanks to support from people like you we are able to build websites, develop a mobile App and help our local team develop Social Media strategies so they can effectively interact with their community.

Our App is free and customised for each nation. It has a custom radio stream and relevant content for that nation’s people including The Word for Today, the Bible in local languages, podcasts and a lot more. 

Ideally we would like a Telecommunications partner so local people can use our app unmetered (without having to use paid data). Something we’d love you to join us in prayer about.

Stations on air

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Current Projects

Established

Latest News

Inspiration

Reaching people in Pukapuka

Reaching people in Pukapuka

The Island of Pukapuka is part of the Cook Islands and 1700km north of the main island of Rarotonga. Here they are receiving copies of The Word for Today for the very first time. (the 2021 edition) They were very excited to read and appreciated God words. Thanks to...

Prime Minister – Manasseh Sogavare

From Munda, Solomon Islands. The annual Lagoon Festival started a few years ago as the Wickham Festival. It was named after Alick Wickham, a half-caste Solomon lad from Munda who entered and won an Australian swimming competition using the Roviana crawl swimming...

Christian Radio in Butwal

Last week our Message of Hope Nepal team travelled to Butwal, near the Indian border, to renew Radio Chhimeki's broadcasts. Radio Chhimeki has been on air for many years but recently has been struggling to maintain it's broadcasts. So they have partnered up with...

New Hauswin in PNG

Our team in Papua New Guinea just celebrated the opening of a new hauswin (a building [haus] open to the wind) on their compound. The new building was generously paid for by Mrs Sumanop in memory of her late husband Francis. Francis served as Laif FM's Board Chairman...

SUCCESS!

All copies of The Word for Today have successfully arrived and are safely in the hands of our teams in the various countries! Thank you for praying for this important ministry. We printed a total of 17,000 copies for 2021. They were all shipped from Sydney, Australia...

Great Support of Radio Voz

Our team in Timor-Leste have been counting their blessings (and donations). Even with COVID-19 playing havoc with their plans, the team knew their listeners would continue to support the ministry as they broadcast Radio Voz over the airwaves.  The generous support...

Wonderful ministry in Timor-Leste

Pastor Elienae writes: "During the 17 years of Radio Voz ministry in Timor-Leste, this year 2020 has been one of the most fruitful of our radio ministry in this beloved country. Because of the COVID-19 situation, we intensified our ministry on air, specially praying...

New buildings in Wewak

Today the widow of UCB PNG's former Chairman Mr Francis Sumanop visited our Kreer Heights centre with a carpenter and a very generous offer to rebuild two windhouses. The existing Windhouse is in a very bad state of repair and the team in PNG were making plans to...

A Fathers Heart

A Fathers Heart

  Despite having 21 years to prepare a father of the bride speech for my daughter wedding last week - it’s hard as a father to keep reminding yourself that “your little girl” isn’t that little anymore - she has grown up into a beautiful women. There are many...

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Cheerful Giving

Cheerful Giving

  A mother wanted to teach her daughter a moral lesson.  She gave the little girl $0.50 and a $5.00 note for church. “Put whichever one you want in the collection plate and keep the other for yourself,” she told the girl. When they were leaving church, the mother...

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God’s Plan For Families

God’s Plan For Families

  Nothing is more vital for our children than having both a mum and a dad by their side. As parents, we have a God-given purpose that cannot be taken lightly – to lead our children to Jesus Christ. We need to embrace this responsibility with passion and...

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ANZAC Day

ANZAC Day

What is the significance of this day? ANZAC Day remembers the sacrifice that so many people have made through the call of service for their country. The Australian and New Zealand armed forces commonly known as ANZAC's have served in both WW1 and WW2 as well as other...

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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

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

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

Steve Monro

Broadcast Development Manager

Fancy title, but really he’s a top bloke and tech whizz/geek who knows how to make the radio, studio, computers and stuff work really well.

Rudy Oei

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 teams in Indonesia and Timor-Leste

Henry Peterson

Henry Peterson

Digital Content Specialist

Another fancy title, but if you want to talk websites and social media then this is your guy, also samoan muscles available for hire.

If I had to define ‘Trusted Christian Media’ and sum up what we do in a few words I would say…

We preach the Word and make disciples.

How? We use media.

Ian Worby
CEO