On Nov 9, we were honored to participate in the first Gala at Kentucky Christian University which is our local Christian university and new business partner. Alan Robertson, of the Duck Dynasty Robertson family, was the guest speaker for the evening. He and his wife Lisa were engaging, friendly, and so nice to speak with. The event coordinator, as well as the president of the university and various students, spoke early on. The KCU Worship Collective played during dinner. Such a great event that we look forward to attending again next year!
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November 15th was the Jeremy Camp Deeper Waters Tour in Charleston, WV with special guests Andrew Ripp and Rachael Lampa. We got to love on some of our donors with a surprise appearance from Jeremy himself! We had a couple listeners (the two women in the picture with Zac, me and Derek) stop by our table with slices of pie for our team members!
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November 15-16 was a listener/supporter/donor hosted vendor craft fair, in which she always does a raffle to raise money for our station. It was a two day event with roughly 30+ vendors in attendance. She is always such a blessing to our station and to others to do whatever it takes to share the gospel of Jesus!
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For the 16th year, 88.3 WCQR partnered with Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee to provide Thanksgiving meals to local families in a campaign called Project Thanksgiving. The Project Thanksgiving goal for 2024 was to feed 7,000 families. On November 7th, 2024, WCQR dedicated an entire day of broadcasting to creating awareness about food insecurities in the area and encouraging listeners to sponsor a Thanksgiving meal at the cost of just $25. Later in November, Project Thanksgiving met exceeded its goal!
Similar to a normal fundraiser, we have several volunteers and donors join us in the phone room for the day. Pictured to the right are Amy Elkins (left) and Mike Loudermilk (right), who are both long-time volunteers and donors. We appreciate them for their dedication to our mission and minsitry!
Want to watch Amanda pack a Project Thanksgiving Box? Click Here for
Doug from WJHL stopped by to film in the studio.
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Coffee Stops! Christian and Amanda, Michael, and Casey went to The Coffee Company in Elizabethton for a Coffee Stop on Friday November 1st. Then on Friday, November 15th, the entire team engaged with listeners at The Fox’s Den Boardgame Cafe Fun was had, coffee was consumed, and babies were held! We love coffee stops because they allow us to casually converse with our WCQR family.
These were some comments on one of our Facebook posts about the Coffee Stops.
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The most exciting thing that happened on our social media was because of an exciting thing in our WCQR family: Adam and his wife Katie welcomed sweet baby Nora into the world on Saturday, November 16th!
Two of the 250+ comments from the social media post about baby Nora:
We invited our social media followers to wish Amanda a Happy Birthday on November 27th. Here are several of the nearly 150 comments.
Here is a cool God Moment story from Adam:
The nurse midwife that is working today saw Katie at her last appointment this past Friday. Katie really liked her and when she came in today, I could see why. Then, she told how she was driving in today and heard Rhonda talking about Nora coming and asking people to pray. Well, she prayed for us not knowing she would be meeting Nora and that she already met Katie. It was really sweet. She said her mom listens all the time and encouraged her to take the 30-day challenge back in Jan and she hasn’t changed the station since.
We’ve been blessed with the ability to create and deliver experiences on our app as well. We recently began to receive and respond to messages that listeners send on our app. It could be anything from a song request, to appreciation for what one of the on-air hosts said, prayer requests, or just a “thank you.”
Here are a few of the encouraging messages we received in November from our listeners.
A message from a follower on Facebook:
And another follower sent us a couple dad jokes for Christian. Here’s one:
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On Wednesday, Nov 6, a small homeschool group came for a Radio Station field trip. The kids got to see Rhonda and Adam in action, ask questions about how the station works, hear some of their favorite songs, and Christian and Amanda even put a couple kids on air with their best Dad Joke!
Another home school group came for a visit on Wednesday, November 20th. Abigail, Karen, Caleb, and Eli. Abigail got to record with Rhonda during the Morning Show!
Josh and Casey set up a booth at a local concert called Mountain Aid . It was a benefit concert for Samaritan’s Purse and was filled with a great lineup including Jason Crabb, Jason Lovins Band, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Sean of the South, Point of Grace, and Steven Curtis Chapman. It was great to see so many artists offer their music in support of such a good cause in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Many of our listeners were there in support.
Our dear friend and donor Marc St. Louis stopped by to visit a week or so after he was in a car accident. He wanted to wish us a Happy Thanksgiving and to ask for prayer for healing.
Silas and his family stopped by the station one day after Project Thanksgiving. Silas wanted to give his money to buy Thanksgiving meals for local families. He even wrote them a sweet note.
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On Sunday, November 3, we attended the Matthew West concert in Eden, NC. Jackie Howard and Joseph Hammerly enjoyed meeting people and getting more connected to the Spirit FM family in one of our further reaching areas.
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On Wednesday, November 6, Spirit FM hosted the annual Holiday Movie, Jack Frost. With the support of Action Personal and Blue Eagle Credit, we collected unwrapped toys for the Community Christmas Store in Roanoke. Even though it was in the 80s outside, we had a festive atmosphere inside!
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Recently, we had a listener comment on our “Gratitude Check-In” Facebook post, where she shared about her father’s heart surgery. Our social media director, Stephanie made contact with the listener and sent her a Spirit FM care gift along with our prayers. We truly are blessed to get the opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus with just a simple act of kindness and love.
This was a message on FB sent from a story.
A listener shared their victory story and testimony with us; proclaiming that our Lord is the true deliverer and redeemer.
When we go through our donor list and make calls, we offer to pray with people. Mike had an opportunity to pray for Cathy and she commented on one ouf our Facebook posts. She shared how God is working in her life with some financial struggles.
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Wendy & her husband took the Joy van out to Martinsville, Virginia to set up the table for an Energize Ministries event. Beautiful day and beautiful scenery as we sat out under the stars listening to music and moments of inspiration.
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Wendy visited the Civitan Club of Asheboro. She talked about the Butterfly Hugs® program and the people at the club even made butterflies.
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attended an event hosted by
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The Hoppers at Hopewell Baptist Church in Monroe to benefit Western North Carolina.
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Trish and Wendy went to Cornerstone Church in Statesville to set up a table with Southbound. It was an amazing benefit concert for Western North Carolina. They raised $15,500 ! There were several Joy FM fans and pictures with the group.
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Almost 1100 people filled up this event eagerly anticipating The Collingsworth Christmas Tour and they did not disappoint. If you weren’t in the Christmas Spirit, this event would have catapulted you right into the thick of it.
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Brendan went out and about the community, distributing the station’s devotional books to local coffee shops The first one was Books and Brew in East Bend. The owner was a good friend of our beloved Wanda Taylor.
Brendan’s next stop was in “The Cove” at Creations Coffee to drop off devotionals. They have super friendly staff and one of the baristas looked familiar. They love coffee and even more love Jesus!
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From Wendy: “One listener called in on one of John’s onair requests about “Pets in Clothes” and her comment was she loves the inspirational music and conversations and plus she sent us pictures of her dog in clothes.”
Our donors sending us hope and encouragement!
We received a visit from the Selby’s. They gave us a gift card to treat us to Starbucks.
“Thank you to our Joy FM team for my sweet birthday card, messages and stickers. It was a sweet surprise in the mail. Love this team!” -Amanda, WCQR, a sister radio station.
Joy FM is going global! Check out the messages below from listeners around the world:
Aruba:
I have been listening from Denton, NC. Now relocated to Aruba and listening to JOY FM. Love the style of music and radio host. I used to listen to KLove.
Australia:
Yemen:
“Hello Joy FM great team. I am a South Sudanese who started listening to you from 2008 while in Sudan and I am currently listening from Yemen. I love the hymns and preaching you always present. I hope to donate something soon to support your mission.
Thank you and may God bless You all.”
Hello Dear broadcaster in Joy Network Office , Winston - Salem NC How are you ? I i hope you are enjoying work day - I am very exciting to writing this email message just to let you know about me as your listener from Melbourne city.
A Day Sponsor wrote this at the top of her form:
Thank you, I am so blessed that my mom came to live with me last June and we started listening to Joy FM. God is good, all the time! I love that we have this time together at the end of her life and get to be filled with Joy FM daily.
Joy FM encourages the sick yet they still encourage us!
Example of Proverbs 27:17, “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”
Good Morning dear ones! I’ve been in the Hospital for a few days and Been listening to Joy FM on my phone while here!! What a blessing and comfort you all have been to me !!!! I also have Joy FM in my car and home. Thank You with all my heart for ALL the beautiful , comforting , and Inspirational Music!!! My Love and Prayers are with you L.R., Johnson City, Tennessee
This was discovered on the JoyFM prayer wall:
Thanksgiving to Joy FM for your continued dedication, faith, great attitude, refreshing and enduring messages through both music, prayers, and antidotes. Thank you for your tireless love - keeping the lamp shining and bright! My prayers for you all - may we always keep our eyes upon Jesus, even in the valleys. God continue to bless you all.
WPER had a Meet & Greet with Jeremy Camp for some of our donors and business partners before the concert!
A Facebook post from our sweet friend Val on her mission trip to South America. Received this message from our business partner, Christa at Seek & Find Thrift.
“I came to the WPER station on October 3rd to drop off some food and snacks for the fall fundraiser. While I was there, I met Montpelier Mike for the first time, and heard his testimony/personal challenge while I was driving to the station. I asked Mike to keep my daughter Jessica in prayer because she struggles with drug addiction. He said he was going to pray with the WPER team for her. On October 6th she started going to church but I didn’t know that until she called me on November 3rd and said that she got saved! When she got saved, the lady praying for her said “the addiction was over with!” This lady didn’t know anything about Jessica! Although Jessica still feels the struggle of letting go of the addiction, she said it is getting better. Every day she can feel it breaking off! I’ve also been fasting for her so I can feel the break also and it’s almost there! Thank you Jesus!
I just want to express my gratitude to Mike and the WPER team for praying for my daughter Jessica Michelle!”
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Card from a donor/volunteer!
Email from a listener: “We became grandparents again! Joe is 7lbs, 11 oz. He is such a blessing to our little family! I love listening to this station. I listen morning, noon, and night. Thank you for all you do, this station is a huge blessing to so many people!”
Encouragement card from a local church
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We were able to be out in the community with existin, and potentially new, listeners at the Shannon Airport Harvest Festival!
Inspirations Homeschool joined us for a tour of the station!
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3,152 Walk FM engagement
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95,013 Joy FM engagement
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4,019 podcast downloads
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15,402 Spirit FM engagement 329 141 last month: 3,391 last month: 2,392 overall total: 36,005 overall total: 16,452 overall total: 4,373 overall total: 21,331 2,920
