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January Elections Give Long-Suffering Nigerians Hope for a New Era

The Tide Ministry Issues a Call for Prayer as Nigeria Moves Toward Next Election

Chambersburg, Pa. ─ Nigerians this week are hopeful as they learned that on January 22^nd they will be able to vote on a new president. After years of a poor economy and devastating crime rates, Nigerians pray that God selects the best person to lead there country away from the violence and devastation it has long known. Citizens are concerned that only fourteen days are being allotted for voter registration, and urge all individuals with hopes for a national revival to register and vote for a candidate who will lead the country into an era of freedom, democracy, and peace.

The Gospel Tide Ministry is issuing a call for prayer that the presidential primaries taking place this month and the January elections may be non-violent and that through this process, a God fearing individual will be selected to take charge of their nation’s political affairs. Nigerians have endured moral corruption and lawlessness evidenced by recent kidnappings, shootings by government officials, and the tragic bombings which took place on the country’s 50^th anniversary of freedom.   The people of Nigeria are in desperate need of God’s hope, and guidance in their government.

 The Tide , a 64-year old 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 by producing and broadcasting life-changing radio programs to areas around the globe that are unreached by the Gospel. The Tide provides radios to bring God’s truth to those who are suffering, and those who are living in corruption that they may learn and take comfort in Jesus’ promise of salvation.  The “Radios for Nigeria” project hopes to provide Christian truth and encouragement to as many unsaved people as they can reach, both in the Christianized south of Nigeria and the Muslim north.

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 Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, which is Nigeria’s official Muslim language, and Efik, which is spoken by over two-million Nigerians.

 
“With this upcoming election, we, and our listeners in Nigeria, ask for your prayers that God chooses a virtuous president to lead their country, and that the election process is free of violence.   Our prayer is that our broadcasts, and the literature and tapes that we distribute 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.  With an extravagant crime rate, Nigeria is inhabited by gangs, murderers, rapists and drug users—these are the people that Jesus wanted to reach the most. It is our hope that both civilians and leaders in Nigeria begin to understand the opportunities they have to change their country, and their lives,” states Don Shenk, executive director of The Tide.

In one village, over 3,000 civilians listened to radios and media players provided by The Tide and 500 were 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, and Africa. 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.

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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 215-815-7716.

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 features 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 South Asia, 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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