Christian Vision

Christian Vision is a non-profit charitable company founded in the United Kingdom on biblical principles by Bob Edmiston in December 1988.

The company has its head office in West Bromwich, England, just 10km from the city of Birmingham. Christian Vision has other facilities in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, East Timor, India and Australia.

Christian Vision is committed to bringing people into a relationship with Jesus and has developed a number of global strategies to achieve this, including "Touch a Billion" – using Christian broadcasting to introduce listeners to Jesus and "Impact a Nation" – a series of Mission projects which aim to improve the spiritual climate of a Nation.

More information about us and what we do can be found at www.christianvision.com

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Trans World Radio

Trans World Radio is an international Christian broadcasting ministry that has been proclaiming the Good News of God's unfailing love for five decades. From humble beginnings in Tangier, Morocco, TWR has become the most far-reaching Christian radio network in the world. Each week, TWR broadcasts Gospel programmes in more than 180 languages and dialects from 13 super-power transmitting sites, via more than 2,300 local stations, and by satellite to listeners in over 160 countries. An international staff of around 1,000 co-operate with Christian broadcasters, programme producers, mission agencies, local churches, and individuals.

The European region of Trans World Radio includes the Middle East, North Africa, Russia, the CIS, and Central Asia as well as Europe. To serve this vast and diverse region, TWR has 6 offices sprinkled across the region. The 87 staff members are almost as diverse as the region they serve! Nationalities include American, Australian, Austrian, British, Canadian, Dutch, Egyptian, French, German, Hungarian, Jordanian, Moroccan, Palestinian, Russian, Slovak, South African, Swedish, Swiss, and Turkish. The staff works closely with 29 Partner organizations in 29 countries to reach the European region with the living, liberating message of the Gospel.

For more information, please click online at: www.twr.org

EO International

EO and the Public Broadcasting System in The Netherlands are under pressure.

EO also moves from Channel 2 to Channel 1, which means that we are going to cooperate with KRO (Roman Catholic) and NRCV (Christian). The profile of the channel will become more important than the broadcaster's profile, which makes it more difficult for a public broadcaster to characterize herself. Question is if a broadcaster is still identifiable (like EO's mission).

At this moment EO cooperates with TROS (a neutral broadcaster) with regard to the daily programme on current affairs. One of the results of the move to the first channel is that this cooperation will end and we wil be part of the new (daily) programme on current affairs Netwerk.

Another change is the centralisation of programme acquisitions. At this moment every public broadcaster has its own acquisition department. In the (very near) future there will be only one acquistion department for all public broadcasters. Fortunately EO will have a special position as we are focusing on positive, Christian programmes and we can't expect others/non-christians to buy programmes on our behalf without knowing what to look for.

It is obvious that EO and the other public broadcasters are facing difficult times. The once so famous public broadcasting system of the Netherlands will undergo a lot of drastic changes. Within 5 or 10 years it will be totally different from what it used to be for many, many years.

For further information visit www.eo.nl  

International Media Ministries

International Media Ministries, (IMM) based in Madrid, Spain, is a producer and facilitator for media ministry resources, meeting the needs of missionaries and national Churches worldwide. Through programming, media development, engineering, and media training, IMM is enabling people to influence their own countries for Christ.

John Merrell, IMM Executive Director said, "Madrid is a great media resource centre.  Now that we are located in the Spanish language world, our connection with Latin and South America is more active.  We continue to focus on the things that IMM has become known for over its rich 21 year history - training students, consulting with developing nations, providing engineering help, and producing programmes in partnership with a wide variety of broadcasters. All of this - to establish a global witness of Christ through media."

IMM is a part of the Assemblies of God World Missions programme.  Their contact email is:info@imm.edu or visit www.imm.edu

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ERF Switzerland

ERF Switzerland is the largest Christian radio and TV organisation in Switzerland with a focus on faith and society. The purpose of ERF Switzerland is to address the claims of the Gospel in Radio and TV. These programmes should assist people to discover faith and to live a life according to scripture. The radio and TV programmes of ERF are supplied to local and international stations.

In Switzerland approximately 20 stations request radio programmes from ERF on a regular basis. Short clips, reports and the coverage of current events form parts of the range of programmes.

ERF together with its partner ALPHAVISION has produced since 1995 a weekly TV programme FENSTER ZUM SONNTAG on the national Swiss Television SF2.

In 2005 ERF started the first Christian Radio, Life Channel, in the German speaking part of Switzerland. This broadcasts a wide range of different programmes regarding current events and daily topics. The broadcasts are arranged with programmes true-to-life and cover Short clips, portraits and talk-programmes as well as music and programmes with a counselling focus. The target audience are people from the age of 30 years upwards. But also programmes for children and young people are produced by Life Channel.

All programmes produced according to journalistic rules have the one common objective to discuss issues of faith in public.

Broadcasting for 43 years

ERF was founded in 1959 in Wetzlar (near Frankfurt) Germany, as a German speaking organisation. ERF Switzerland was founded in 1973. Together with its international partner organisation TWR (Trans World Radio 9 broadcasts ERF programmes in over 200 languages worldwide.

Moreover, ERF Switzerland supports the humanitarian aid projects “Afrika soll leben” (Africa challenge). ERF is confessionally and politically neutral. The supporting constituency is made up of members of the state church and a large variety of evangelical churches. The necessary funding for the operation of the media work approximately 5 Million Swiss Franks are made up from donations and legacies.

Established and attractive

Swiss local radio broadcasters and the national TV channel SF2 appreciate the programmes from ERF. Although the local radio broadcasters were initially sceptic towards religious programmes, today they gladly accept the professionally produced programmes in their broadcast schedule. About 500 programmes are being aired on local stations annually. It seems that the staff of ERF (36 employees and a lot of freelancers) is able to produce Christian programmes which are of interest and attract a broad selection of the Swiss population.

For further information:

ERF Switzerland, Verena Birchler, P.O. Box 383, CH-8330 Pfäffikon/ZH, SwitzerlandTel.: +41 44 953 35 35; Fax: +41 44 953 35 01; Email: vbirchler@erf.ch