[Swprograms] In the World's Rural Outposts, A Shortwave Channel to God

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the World's Rural Outposts, A Shortwave Channel to
God
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 7, 2007

As dusk fell deep in a forest of mango and palm trees,
Jaime Jeremias Matsimbe sat on the rose-colored dirt
and hand-cranked a shortwave radio, looking for the
word of God.

He wound the little plastic handle round and round,
charging the radio like winding a watch, and soon a
preacher's voice boomed across a courtyard filled with
goats and turkeys. Twenty miles from the nearest paved
road, Matsimbe smiled as he listened to a Texas
preacher's sermons about Jesus and Saint Paul,
translated into a local language spoken only in the
southern African backcountry. 

Long article in today's Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601253.html?hpid=topnews






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