Want to improve your outlook this coming year? Treat yourself to as many sunrises as you can. A daily dose is available. With the events of last year on our minds it may be difficult to look ahead with the same anticipation we did coming into 2001.

Last year our prediction was probably for a year much like the years before with maybe a small improvement. We were not ready to imagine what could be in some men's hearts and how they could cloud our view. We are told and believe that things will never be the same. To many that will be interpreted as more cautious and suspicious of strangers. Since we are each "strangers" to all but a few dozen people that would backfire on all of us. I would hope instead that we would see each personal contact as more important and that we would seek to improve our sphere of influence. We could help make those around us more comfortable with us and possibly earn the right to tell the reason for our promising attitude.

Every sunrise could help us remember our commitment by giving us a daily attitude adjustment. As the sun appears the dark just has to disappear. There is no room for it. I,m always amazed at how quickly it seems to clear the horizon and move up to warm the day. It's as if it bounces into the new day, reminding us to put all the enthusiasm we can into the next 24 hours. The spectacular colors and cloud shapes make me wish I could capture what I see but then make me realize that our God has given me a treat, the beauty of His creation to just enjoy. Hands off, be still and know that He is God. It helps me remember that though I exercised enough control to get out of bed, everything is under His loving control. And as I look to the east I remember Psalm 103 that reminds us God has cast our sins away ,"as far as the east is from the west". There are other illustrations here but these are thoughts that can help get your day started right. God is in control, He has forgiven you and has a plan for your day and your year. Live in the light stay close to Him and talk of His love often. 

Lee J. Martinez 

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Looking Ahead

KEY LIFE
Steve Brown
(Weekdays, 6:15 AM)
Jan. 1-31 features the
Series: When Your
Rope Breaks.

INSIGHT FOR LIVING
Chuck Swindoll
(Saturday 8:00 p.m. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.)

Weekend Program
Jan. 5 & 12 - Looking Back, Looking Forward 
Jan. 19 & 26 - Let's Just Praise the Lord - Psalms 146-150

Weekday programs feature best of messages:
Jan. 7 - 9 - The Christian Life 101 Eph 5:15-21
Jan. 10 - 14 - Ten Reasons to Give God Praise Eph. 1:3-14
Jan. 15 - 17 - Praying Like We Mean It Eph. 1:15-19
Jan. 18 - 22 - Steps That Lead to Freedom
Eph. 4:25-32
The series A minister Everyone Would Respect begins Jan. 23 with topics such as Honesty Wrapped in Humility, Threads for Mending Frayed Feelings, Passing the Faith Test, A Love Letter, Sealed With a Kiss with scriptural texts from 2 Corinthians 12 & 13

GRACE TO YOU
John MacArthur
(Weekdays, 11:00 AM)
Jan. 7-25 - Series: Brick by Brick
Jan. 28-31 - Series: The Marks of a Healthy Church

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
Dr. James Dobson
(Weekdays, 1:30 & 9:00 PM)
Jan. 1 - Words of Kindness, Source of Healing - Florence Littauer
Jan. 2 - Give Yourself a Break - Ken Davis tells us, "We're not okay."
Jan. 3 & 4 - Is Your House a Home? - Kurt and Olivia Bruner will help you light a fire to warm up your relationships.
Jan. 7 - Tipping the Scale in Your Favor - JoAnna Lund, shares how she lost 130 lbs. and kept them off.
Jan. 8 & 9 - Overweight Children - One woman talks about growing up as an overweight child.
Jan. 10 & 11 - Choose You This Day - Anne Graham Lotz takes a look at the realities of heaven and hell.
Jan. 14 & 15 - Women and Heart Disease - Jan. 16 - From Spendaholic to Cheapskate - YIKES! $100,000 in credit card debt! Mary Hunt tells how she dug her way out, offering priceless advice.
Jan. 21 - Bridging our Racial Divide - Star Parker's testimony.
Jan. 22 - In Defense of Life - Dr. Bill Maier and Carrie Earll discuss this topic.
Jan. 23 - The Pro-Life Movement: Are We Winning? - Ambassador Alan Keyes, Congressman Chris Smith and Father Frank Pavone share perspectives.
Jan. 24 & 25 - A Simple Case for Life -The Rev. Tommy Nelson with a Christian response to the horrors of abortion and how we've wiped out half a generation.
Jan 28 & 29 - A Story of Cancer and Comfort - Pastor David Jeremiah talks about his battle with cancer and how it deepened his relationship with God.
Jan 30 & 31 - Orel Hershiser: Whole-Hearted Effort - Orel Hershiser and Robert Wolgemuth, co-authors of Between the Lines, talk about the determination to live well and how God's grace helps us do that.

IN TOUCH
Charles Stanley
(Weekdays 2:00 and
9:30 PM)
Jan 3 & 4 - Our God Is Able
Jan 7 & 8 - The Source Of Peace
Jan 9 - Our Peace: God's Will
Jan 10 & 11 - Why We Lose Our Peace
Jan 14 & 15 - How to Protect Our Peace
Jan 16 & 17 - Peace With One Another
Jan 18 - Peace With Ourselves
Jan 21 & 22 - How to Build A Life Message
Jan 23 - Living A Consistent Life
Jan 24 & 25 - Walking Away From God
Jan 28 & 29 - Life's Trials Explained
Jan 30 & 31 - Stopping Short Of God's Plan

BACK TO THE BIBLE
Dr. Woodrow Kroll
(Weekdays, 8:00 p.m.)
Jan. 2 - Is Jesus Really God?
Jan. 3 - Is Any Prophet As Good As Jesus?
Jan. 4 - How Can I Become a Child of God?
Jan. 7 - Can God Become Man?
Jan. 8 - Can Jesus Change Our Identity?
Jan. 9 - Is It Ethical to Share Jesus with a Friend?
Jan. 10 - How Do I Know What's Right?
Jan. 11 - Does Today's Church Need Cleaning Up?
Jan. 14 - 23 - The series The Encouraging Word is presented with Dr. Tony Beckett. Dr. Kroll begins the series Asking the Right Questions on Jan. 24.

MOODY CHURCH HOUR
Dr. Erwin Lutzer
(Sunday, 4:00 p.m.)
Series I Believe in the Church is featured during January. 

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WAYNE PEDERSON - New President of NRB

WAYNE PEDERSON has been heard on WCIF since we began broadcasting in 1980. He has also been a part of the Sharathon team for WCIF.

After 34 years with Northwestern College Radio, Wayne Pederson has accepted the position of President of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB). His appointment is effective January 2002. "It has been my calling and my joy these 34 years to serve the ministry of Northwestern Radio. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a radio announcer. When God called me into ministry I thought the dream of radio was gone, but God has graciously used my interests and gifts to serve Him in Christian radio," Wayne says. "I never thought I'd leave Northwestern. It has been our career, our ministry, our family and our passion."

After hours of prayer and discussion, Wayne and his wife, Norma, see the Lord leading them in this new direction. "It opens incredible opportunities to shape and impact ministry, the church and our culture," he says. "It will be a huge challenge to refocus on the next generation of Christian media. But I sense God's call and know that the enablement He has provided over the last five years (as executive vice president) will go with me in this new calling."

Founded in 1944, National Religious Broadcasters represents 1300 evangelical Christian radio and television stations, program producers, multimedia developers, and related organizations around the world. Members are responsible for much of the world's Christian radio and television. WCIF is a member of the NRB organization.

Wayne Pederson's program New Dimensions will continue to air on WCIF Sunday - Friday at 9:00 a.m.

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Happy Birthday

Each month we list our broadcasters that have birthdays that month. We encourage you to remember these friends and their ministry with special prayer on that day.

February 7 Dr. Joseph Stowell Moody Presents Sunday, 5:25 p.m. Moody Bible Institute 820 N. LaSalle Street Chicago, IL 60610

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THANKS FOR YOUR LETTERS!
 

MICCO - The enclosed check completes the pledge made last spring. I consider my contribution a very good investment. Eternity will show the return realized. I really appreciate your news reports as they report news that the secular media won,t mention. . . Thanks for being there.

TITUSVILLE- May the Lord Jesus bless all of you for being Godly care givers and for reaching so many of God's people. We pray, faith, hope, and love will come to many.

SATELLITE BEACH - I thank you for your ministry to the saved and the unsaved. You all are doing a wonderful job. I am sorry for the commitment to fluctuate so much. My employment has made a new turn. I have been born again for 34 years and feel so strong that the Lord loves me more now than ever. I am in great need of prayer with my health, work and family. I will catch up on my commitment. Thank you.

FT. PIERCE - Please find enclosed my personal check as a love gift to your ministry. I am so thankful that I can get your station here in St. Lucie County (Ft. Pierce) as my husband put up a high antenna that brings it in so clearly. PTL! Your thanksgiving praise music ministered to me so beautifully as I was alone for a couple of hours and since my husband died this past year, it was just what I needed to feed my spirit! Thank you all for this special outreach you have here for "such a time as this"! God bless you as you continue with obedience, strength, and peace.

PALM BAY - Here is an extra gift in response to your end of year request. The music and ministry of WCIF are a real blessing to us. May the love and gospel of Christ continue to be proclaimed.

MELBOURNE - Enjoy WCIF and thank God for it. It is my only station I listen to on radio.

COCOA BEACH - Thank you for your airing of the Moody Church Hour, Songs in the Night and The Sounds of Majesty programs. Your precious and Godly service to me has sustained one, infirmed lamb; and the Lord uses these vital broadcasts to strengthen and enable His Spirit to flow through my life in some small service to others. Small, I say, but yet, mighty because God is in it! I thank you dear ones for your labors in Christ; and pray that it may all abound to His glory , and to your account.

UNKNOWN -First of all I would like to thank you for serving the Lord. At first I would switch and listen to your station some and then music - now I have grown to all I listen to is your station. I share what I hear with others. I pray for more people to hear your station as I pray for them to have a deeper walk with our Lord. From coming back to the Lord I shed my old ways and now my heart is Christ First. 

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Memorial Gift

A gift has been given to the ministry of WCIF
 
 

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Ed Hurt - a Tribute

One of God's miracles when WCIF was in its inception stages was the provision of an engineer Ed Hurt. Ed and his wife Maxine both have given many hours of volunteer service over the years to WCIF. Our prayers are with Maxine in the loss of Ed, but we rejoice in the life he lived and many things he did to further the Kingdom of God.

Edward P. Hurt was born August 2, 1915 in Picabo, Idaho. His family started radio broadcasting in Jerome, Idaho in 1924. In 1930 they moved to Nampa, Idaho where they set up the radio station KFXD, using all homemade equipment and two 70-foot wooden towers transported from Jerome. KFXD was the 46th licensed station in the United States.

During his career in the broadcasting field in Idaho, Ed had several firsts. He built the first FM station in Idaho and the first television station in Idaho. He built the first directional radio antenna system in Idaho. He built the first remote control radio station system. Ed also developed the first program automation system used in the United States. He was also involved with some of the first stereo, multiplex and facsimile systems in the United States. Ed was also an avid amateur radio operator. He helped install the first TV station in Korea.

After selling KFXD, Ed and Maxine moved to Quincy, Illinois where Ed worked at Gates Radio Company (now part of Harris Corporation) for six years. During this time he serviced broadcast equipment in every state as well as Canada and Mexico.

The next period of Ed's life in broadcasting centered on the microwave and cable television systems in California. Ed and Maxine lived in several locations in California during this period including Morro Bay, Santa Barbara, San Juan Bautista and San Ramon. Ed was involved in CATV systems extending from Los Angeles to San Francisco and as far east as Elko, Nevada.

After his career in cable television, Ed worked with one of the premier broadcast engineering companies. During this time he was able to support missionary broadcast systems when he helped develop two radio stations for Far East Broadcasting Company. He helped install these in the Philippines and in Korea. Ed built much of these state of the art systems in his garage prior to being shipped overseas.

On moving to Palm Bay, Florida, Ed continued his involvement in broadcasting. He became involved with the initial construction of WCIF helping with the entire construction from transmitter and antenna to studio. Ed remained the WCIF engineer for several years after its construction.

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WCIF Day Sponsors

January 2 - John and Nancy Blake in honor of their thirtieth wedding anniversary
Janaury 7 - Reverend and Mrs. Glen Matthews in honor of their granddaughter Brianna on her sixth birthday
Janaury 10 - Curt and Linda Smith in memory of his mother Dorothy Smith on her birthday
Janaury 18 - Curt and Linda Smith in honor of her mother Jean Parrotto on her birthday
January 19 - James Stusse in honor of his wife Barbara on her birthday
Janaury 20 - Anonymous, in honor of their fortieth wedding anniversary
January 21- Darrell and Anita Claborn in honor of their wedding anniversary
January 28 - In memory of Ruth Greene on the occasion of her birthday from her family
January 31 - Dr. Dennis Saller in honor of his wife Vickie on her birthday 

Our thanks to our Day Sponsors who have underwritten the cost of a broadcast day on WCIF. If you or your church would like information about being a Day Sponsor please call WCIF at 725-9243 or 1-877-725-9243. 

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Pastor of the Week

A program featuring pastors of local churches heard weekdays at 5:30 p.m.

November 5- 9
Pastor Ron Parker
Community Alliance Church, Port St. John

November 12 - 16
Pastor Mark Balmer
Calvary Chapel
Melbourne

November 26 - 30
Pastor C. Ross Rowland
Oceanside Evangelical Free Church, Satellite Beach

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