From the Manager  by Lee Martinez

Letters  from our listeners.

LOOKING AHEAD  to this month's programs

MEMORIAL GIFTS

PASTOR OF THE WEEK   heard weekdays at 5:30 pm

WCIF Day Sponsors  - those who underwrite the cost of an entire broadcast day.

MISSIONARY CAMPAIGN SENDS FIX-TUNED RADIOS TO RADIO ALPHA
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Olympics are over, the winners decided and we who enjoy sports have
been treated to the cream of the crop in compe- tition.  Each one of the
events brought out phenom-enal and varied talents.  You could tell each
person had honed their skills in specific areas.  Did you notice that no
one tried to enter everything?  Skaters may have watched the bobsledding
but they didn't compete with them.  Snowboarders did great on their own
course but none of them attempted cross-country.  Each event required
unique talents.
There was one thing common to each sport. It was their timing.  Each had to
be precise in what they did.  It didn't matter if the event was a team or
individual effort, the timing had to be perfect or talent alone could not
carry them.  Everything had to be synchronized and everyone involved had to
know when to make their moves.  It was timing for skaters and skiers,
sledders or snowboarders.  One way or another the clock was always
ticking.  A missed mark was a missed opportunity.
During the games one of the funniest commercials had to do with bad
timing.  A man who runs through the toll booth before he releases his
coins, the boy friend who waited too long to tell his girl he loved
her.  Big mistake!
We are at a point that requires critical timing.  Our once a year SHARATHON
is days away.  We have managed with the Lord's grace to keep this time to a
minimum, raising our annual budget with one fundraising campaign.   I
should say you have made this possible.  We have gathered the talented,
gifted messengers surrounded them with inspirational music and constant
prayer.  You have provided us with the opportunity to disseminate their
timely messages to those for whom it was intended. You have become as
important as any other member of the "team".  Your financial gifts and
commitment to pray for WCIF are now the critical part.  You  provide the
timing.  It's time to step up and help us make a success of our
twenty-third year of broadcasting.  From the beginning in 1980 we have
counted on God's willing people to make it happen.
Would you determine in your heart to be in touch with WCIF during the three
days March 11 - 13 Monday - Wednesday and pledge to help us in the coming
year?  Our volunteers will make the call a pleasant experience and as you
listen to the SHARATHON we promise to do our best to keep things enjoyable
and honoring to God.  We have probably never been in more need of your
help.  Would you help us recover and move triumphantly in to our new
year?  It's time.
                                        Lee J. Martinez

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ANONYMOUS - God Bless this wonderful Christian station which adds
inspiration to my life.  In thankfulness  & humility - please keep on
broadcasting Christian Love.

MELBOURNE - Thank you for WCIF.  Enclosed please find my gift for this
year.  God Bless you all.

PALM BAY -   Thanks very much for your lovely calendar.  May God Bless your
ministry richly.  Enclosed is a check  to help carry on the work of the Lord.

COCOA - I want to thank you for many years of listening pleasure.  I am
moving out of the area so will no longer be able to hear WCIF  Keep up the
good work.  I'm sure you are a blessing to many.  God Bless & keep you.

PALM BAY - You will find enclosed the final portion of my last year's
pledge.   I really enjoy WCIF.  I play this station day and night.  The
only time it's off is when I am going out.  God bless you all.  I am
looking forward to the Sharathon in March.  God's willing.

MELBOURNE  - Praise the Lord our God for your ministry.  Your programs
aired daily transform lives and because of that you are creating a
community of believers.  Since we came here more than a year ago, WCIF is
my FM station.  I firmly believe that our God is using you (WCIF Family) as
a source of Spiritual Strength.

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KEY LIFE (weekdays. 6:15 a.m.)  Steve Brown continues his series "When Your
Rope Breaks" through March 21.  Easter Specials are planned for March 25 - 29.

INSIGHT FOR LIVING (weekdays 8:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.)
The series Practical Christianity concludes March 5.  The Darkness and the
Dawn begins March 6.

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY (weekdays, 1:30 & 9:00 p.m.) Dr. James Dobson
March 1 - Laughter in the Walls - the late Bob Benson draws spiritual
wisdom from ordinary family events.
March 4 - A Call to Social Action - Tom Minnery shares a biblical vision
for believers to live their faith in order to shape their culture.
March 6 & 7 - Teaching Children to Read - Phyllis Schlafly talks about a
unique system designed to teach children to read and write well.
March 14 & 15 - Guy Doud, former Teacher of the Year, recalls his
difficult school years and how caring teachers made a difference.
March  18 - 20 - How Moving Impacts Women - author Susan Miller offers
encouragment and advice  to women about relocating.
March 21 - The Woman of Noble Character - daughter of Tony Evans, Priscilla
Evans Shirer presents an encouraging word of how God has fashioned women
from the inside out.
March 22- Being Light in the Darkness - Chuck Colson discusses the
transforming power of the gospel and the purpose of the church.
March 26 & 27 - Islam and the Western World
March 28 - A Brush with Death - testimony of Joshua Youseff who tells of a
young man who ignored God's will and then found it in a near tragedy.
March 29 - Finding Jesus in the Old Testament - Stan Kellner, a Messianic
Jew, reveals several Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in Jesus.

GRACE TO YOU
(weekdays, 11:00 a.m.)  John MacArthur
Series:  Spiritual Warfare continues through March 8.  The Qualities of
True Love is a four part series that will air March 14 - 25.  The Series
Easter Through the Eyes of God will feature the topics Looking at the Cross
from God's Perspective.  Resurrection: The Key to Everything  will air
March 26 - 29.

IN TOUCH
(Weekdays 2:00 & 9:30 p.m.)   Dr. Charles Stanley
1 - The Final Judgment - Find out how believers will be judged when Christ
returns.
4 - 8 Wisdom's Way
March 4 - Wisdom for Good Health       March 5 - 6 -  How To Deal With
Temptation Wisely                 March 7 - 8 - Wisdom For The Trials Of
Life March 13 - 14 - Walking Through the Darkness With God
March 15 - Standing In The Storm        March 18 - 19 - When We Feel
Helpless        March 20 - 21 - Following Christ March 22 - Our Great Salvation
Series:  The Cross:  Your Hope
March 25 - The Message  Of The Cross
March 26- What Really Happened At The Cross
March 27 - 28 - After Death, What Then?
March 29 - The Resurrection:  The Promise And The Preview

BACK TO THE BIBLE
March 4 - 8 - Asking the Right Questions
March 18 - 22 - Seeing the Father Through the Cross
March 25 - 29 - The 12 Voices of Easter
A gift has been given to the ministry of WCIF

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Heard weekdays at 5:30 p.m. on WCIF

March 4 - 8
Pastor Jim Johnson
First Baptist Church, Indialantic

March 18 - 21
Pastor Jim Bartholomew
Vineyard Christian Fellowship
Melbourne

March 25 - 29 - Pastor Dan Hendley
Covenant Presbyterian Church
Palm Bay
 
 

March 3 - Jim and Susie Wickell in honor of their thirty-ninth wedding
anniversary

March 11 - Bill and Sarah Schultz in honor of their granddaughter Sophia
Elizabeth Neupauer on her first birthday

March 24 - Dudley and Sue Garner in honor of their grandson Tyler Garner on
his fifth birthday

March 26 - Nancy Platt in honor of her mother Inez Platt and in memory of
Dad Judge Platt on the date of their wedding and his birthday

March  28 - Anonymous

March 29 - George Roberts, thanking God for allowing him to reach his 65th
birthday "To God be the Glory!"

Our thanks to our Day Sponsors who have underwritten the cost of a
broadcast day on WCIF.  If you, your church or business would like
information about being a Day Sponsor call WCIF at 725-9243 or 1-877 - 725-
9243 (for those outside the local calling area).
 

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Last year as part of our SHARATHON outreach we were able to supply solar
powered radios so those who had no other means of hearing the Gospel could
be reached.  We received confirmation that our 220 radios were a portion of
one thousand units that were given to qualified individuals and families in
South Africa.

Station Manager Jan Otto writes, "The majority of our listeners and
potential listeners are very poor and live in a mix of urban, semi-urban,
rural and farming settlements.  A large majority of the people in our
broadcast area are illiterate.  Radio is therefore the most effective way
by which they can be reached effectively with the Good News.

Fix-tuned radios were and will be provided  to:
(a) people who cannot afford a radio and/or batteries;
(b) people who cannot operate a radio due to a lack of electricity;
(c) people who are in prisons and
(d) people who are institutions where there are shut-ins."

The radios were distributed in December.  The delay was because radios
cannot be assembled until they are paid for.  Then there is the delays
of  overseas shipment and distribution.  Pray for thousands who can now
gather around these radios and hear the Gospel in their own language from a
local outlet of Christian radio.  Radio has the potential of reaching every
person in the world with the Good News.