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JANUARY 12, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL XXXVII • NO 40
Connecting Christ, Community And Music BY CATHY MOLITORIS
une your radio dial to FM 90.3, and you’ll connect with a community. That’s where you’ll find WJTL, a contemporary Christian station that’s been bringing “Christ, community and music” to listeners since the 1980s. “We want to be a touchstone for the community,” said Fred McNaughton, president and CEO. “ We want to offer wholesome, family-oriented music and events that can impact people’s lives.” WJTL is located at the Junction Center, 1875 Junction Road, Manheim, a spacious, state-of-the-art facility with room for community events and concerts, but the station had humble beginnings. “We started in 1984, in a chicken house across from Lancaster Bible College,” McNaughton recalled, noting that challenges in the early days included running wiring along beams covered in petrified chicken poop and dodging low-hanging rafters while working. The station was owned then
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by Joy Broadcasting, a company that operated stations across the country. “They named their stations for their locations, so ‘JTL’ was ‘Joy to Lancaster,’” McNaughton said. When Joy Broadcasting wanted to sell the station in 1990, Tim Landis, who founded the nonprofit Creative Ministries, mounted a campaign to save the station. Creative Ministries purchased WJTL in 1991 and continues to operate it today. After a stint in a building behind Friendly’s on Oregon Pike in Lancaster, WJTL moved to its current location in 2011. No matter where it called home, however, WJTL has remained singularly focused on its mission. “We are totally funded by our listeners. When people are touched by what we impart and what we do here, they support us, so it’s really a true partnership,” McNaughton stated. “Our listeners are the ones programming the station.” While the core of WJTL is contemporary Christian music, the station also offers a variety of specialty programming. The Kids Cookie See WJTL pg 3
Vice president of operations Stacey Gagne (left) and president and CEO Fred McNaughton in the WJTL studio
FFM Receives Servants Inc. Comes To Lancaster Christmas Blessing Around 2000, Trent Davis, Faith Friendship Ministries (FFM), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, recently received a Christmas blessing in the form of a donation of 35 new beds - both mattresses and foundations - for some of its residents. The donation came from Todd and Gregg Lehman, owners of Interiors Home, in partnership with Serta/Simmons, and the beds have a total value of $17,500. Interiors Home has been a supporter of FFM for many years.
founder and CEO of Servants Inc., took a mission trip to Guatemala. The trip changed the direction of his life. “(Trent) felt a call to continue relationships and give others opportunity to have that experience,” said Keith Cotton, director of outreach with Servants. Cotton noted that Davis coordinated mission trips and worked with missionaries in Guatemala under a program he called SARF (Serving At Risk Families), which also included home repair and construction work.
See Christmas Blessing pg 2
See Servants Inc. pg 3
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Servants Inc., a ministry that provides home repairs, has opened an office in Lancaster County.
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