February 2024 Prayer Letter
Thank you for your continued prayers for the Caribbean Radio Lighthouse on the island of Antigua. We’ve gone through a lot of changes recently! Bro. Augustine Erskine, one of our Antiguan staff members, retired after 38 years of faithful service at CRL! Bro. Erskine was our production and traffic manager, making sure that all our programs and scheduling were ready and in order each day. He has been an invaluable rock for CRL– working with many missionaries over the years. When others asked him how he could have stayed so long, he always replied, “I’m serving the Lord. If it was for man, I would have been gone, long time.” Please pray as we are trying to hire another local staff member since Bro. Erskine’s retirement, and we’re also praying for another missionary to join the team at CRL. In the meantime, our former intern, Joed Martin, is helping on the weekends and during his school breaks.
In our previous prayer letters, we’ve asked you to pray about an electrical issue with our new generator. After working with technicians, we believe it is set up in the best possible way for our AM tower and transmitter. I believe we’ve done all that we can, and now we’re just trusting the Lord to protect the transmitter.
We also asked you to pray for funds to replace a broken generator transfer switch and the phone system at CRL. All of the funds have been raised! The phone system has been installed, and the transfer switch is scheduled to arrive in March!
Besides the regular, daily activities of keeping the radio station broadcasting 24/7, we’ve had a few extra activities. Over Christmas and New Year’s, we had the MTT Mission team staying in our ministry apartments while ministering at various churches and special needs homes around Antigua. In January, we received a pallet of 60,000 Bible tracts from Bible Tracts, Inc. to distribute to our listeners on Antigua and nearby islands. And in February, we had a preschool tour the radio station, where we presented the Gospel and encouraged the visitors to listen to CRL.
In January, one of our listeners called and told us that she was having trouble listening to CRL on her radio. My wife and I did a house visit and retuned her radio. When she heard CRL, she began clapping and rejoicing saying she wouldn’t touch that radio anymore because CRL is her number one station and she didn’t want to lose it again!
Although we don’t get to meet many of our listeners, and we don’t know how many people listen, we do know lives are being changed and instructed in the Word of God each day. Thank you for your part in spreading the Gospel through the Eastern Caribbean islands!
For the Lighthouse Staff,
Nathan P. Owens