Floodwaters in Nigeria Make Two-Million Homeless and Worsen Food Shortage

The Tide continues to provide God’s hope to Nigerians

Chambersburg, Pa. ─ Suffering continues in northern Nigeria as the floodwaters surge from the release of two dams two weeks ago. The waters swept away cattle, crops, and homes, leaving two-million Nigerians homeless. The people of this overpopulated, impoverished country now face the reality of even more severe hunger and malnutrition than they have already experienced for most of their lives.   It is too late in the season for farmers to replant their crops, and with workers making less than $1 a day, options for food are limited.  Citizens of “the village of Gudinchin are now cut off from the rest of Jigawa, an island in the midst of murky, fast-moving water ripe with unprocessed sewage. Besides swimming, the only way across comes from two, low-riding wooden canoes donated by the government” describes one reporter.

In this time of absolute economical and physical devastation for the people of Nigeria, The Tide organization seeks to provide God’s comfort and the promises of the gospel to those who do not have the resources to hear God’s Word.  The Tide, a 64-year old ministry, produces and broadcasts life-changing radio programs to areas around the globe that are unreached by the Gospel. The Tide will provide radios to those who are suffering, that they may take comfort in Jesus’ promise of salvation.  While northern Nigeria remains predominantly Muslim, the “Radios for Nigeria” project hopes to provide Christian truth and encouragement to as many unsaved people as they can reach.

The Tide’s newest project, “Radios for Nigeria,” provides radios and media devices to broadcast the heart language radio programs produced and aired in the languages of Hausa, one of Nigeria’s official Muslim languages, Igbo, Yoruba, and Efik, which is spoken by two million Nigerians.

“It is our hope that Nigerians begin to understand the opportunities they have to change their country. Our prayer is that our broadcasts, and the literature and tapes that we distribute there in Nigeria, will help to strengthen and build hope among the Nigerians by allowing them access to the gospel that they may never have had the resources to experience,” states Don Shenk, executive director of The Tide.

In one village, over 3,000 listened to radios and media players provided by The Tide and 500 have been saved. For more information about The Tide , “Radios for Nigeria” and ways in which you can help, please visit www.gospeltide.org .

The Tide has reached thousands of lost people through their radio programs produced in indigenous languages throughout South Asia, India, Africa, and parts of Europe.  In many villages in which The Tide ministers, whole families and towns gather daily around a single radio to listen to the Word of God.

The Tide has spent the last 64 years reaching the unsaved in regions across the world through radio broadcasts and church plants that feature pastors preaching in each country’s own language. The Tide also supplies radios to villages in India and Africa, so that residents can listen to programs together and move toward a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

The Gospel Tide Broadcasting Association was founded in 1946 by the Rev. Charlie Byers.  Today, the ministry produces one-minute short-feature radio broadcasts, Global Updates, that air on 332 radio stations across the United States, with stories of how people are coming to Christ with the help of The Tide ministry. The Tide ministry also includes effective discipleship activities including literature distribution, Bible correspondence courses, seekers conferences, discipleship seminars and the radio distribution project.  The combination of ministry elements has proven to be extremely effective in changing lives throughout India, Africa and Europe, and planting churches where believers are nurtured in their faith and through which whole communities can be drawn into the Kingdom of God.

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To schedule interviews with Don Shenk Executive Director of The Tide, contact Jazmin Hamilton at JHamilton@HamiltonStrategies.com , 610-584-1096 or Deborah Hamilton at dhamilton@hamiltonstrategies.com, 215-815-7716.

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