northpoint March 2020
North New South Wales Conference News
The Breakfast Show Re-Launch By Maddy Voinea - Communications Director, NNSW Conference Over the last few years, the NNSW Conference has been producing a breakfast show which is broadcast on Faith FM radio. It began as a prerecorded show and in early 2018 the Breakfast Show went live and is now on air each morning from 7am to 9am. In 2019 the executive committee decided to discontinue the show as they endeavoured to find the best use of evangelistic funds. However the show is still on air and that’s largely due to our listeners. The response received from listeners over the past months in the form of emails, messages, and phone calls has been phenomenal. That has meant that the conference has been able to keep the show going while working on creating a strategy to make it viable in the long term. The team is committed to do everything possible to keep the breakfast show on air. This is not an easy task. Remember that this is one of many really fantastic ministries happening in our region, and in a world where you can’t do everything, it can be
challenging to choose which are most important. The Breakfast Show costs $120,000 each year to stay on air. This covers staff, and some equipment. We don’t pay rent or utilities - all that is provided by the Adventist church in NNSW. Our site broadcast costs are covered by Christian churches all around Australia through the Faith FM network. So apart from all that, the creation of the show itself costs $120,000 each year. In the world of professional broadcast radio, this is incredibly cheap. Some commercial shows cost in the millions of dollars to produce. So for us to be able to do this as a ministry is incredible. The potential for reach on the Faith FM network is nationwide with over 170 broadcast sites across Australia and the network is growing each year. Our goal is to make the Breakfast show a permanent feature of Australian Christian radio and we want millions of Australians to hear the Word of God through the breakfast show. But we can only do this with your support. We need to fundraise $120,000 to keep this show on air in 2020. Many of you have already supported us in the past and this is the reason this ministry is even possible. (continued on page 2)