Hey everyone!

Happy May! Hope everyone is enjoying themselves as our school has ended and public school will soon too! We're in the studio recording tonight, and we'll have a show up for you all next week -- Wednesday at 5pm!

Plenty of new stuff on the way. Take care until then!

Returning for a Second Season!

Hey guys! Winter -- and school -- have all but come to an end, and that means that Cliff and I will be returning to Mt. Washington for the summer! After some incredibly lengthy negotiations I'm happy to report that we will also return to the airwaves this month and even have our salaries doubled! Yeah!

Seeing as we won't physically be back in the Mount until May, some changes will be made to the format of the show for the first few weeks to get us back into the swing of things. So here's what the schedule should look like for April into May:

April: Four weeks of what amounts to a music hour. We'll speak briefly at the beginning and end of each episode to introduce things. We'll probably do two episodes and play them for two weeks to cover the month of April.

May: We'll take a break for the first week of May because that is final's week at the University of Kentucky, and then we'll be back for the second week of the month with the first full-blown episode of the season. Stay tuned for that!

I'll post another update again later this week announcing the times for our April shows. We'll have plenty of new stuff this year and some new music with it! Will be updating the website over this week and the next too -- I think I'm gonna be converting the season 1 audio and uploading it to Youtube... but we'll see.

Good to be back!

Some changes this week

Hey guys! Our new show this week is gonna air Sunday at 10pm instead of the usual time on Wednesday. Our guest will be Nathan Young, the Minister of Activities and Outreach at FCBMW. The Wednesday airing will be the rerun.

Also, if you're looking for something to do this Sunday afternoon, Tenth Avenue North will be holding a concert at Slugger Field. You can find out more information on their tour page.

We're taking requests for the show now -- if you ever want to hear anything played on-air, you can send it to us here or also on the Reach 95 facebook page.

See you guys around!

Utilizing Radio Ministry

If you're a faithful listener of WFBR, you've probably heard us air occasional spots by Sean Dunn known as Groundwire. These 60-second spots are usually played between music on air and are often coupled with Taking a Minute by Jason Anderson, another similarly-themed spot. Both spots are designed to give a quick and memorable message about Christ and the good news that he brings to us. You can hear and download samples of these spots on both of the websites listed above, and I think they're really great.

After rooting through the directory while we were recording Saturday, I think these would be great to play weekly in between songs on our own show. Though Groundwire in itself began in an effort to reach a secular radio audience, the message is still very encouraging to Christians and I think it can still be a great tool to us as listeners to open up a dialog with non-believers.

As that last sentence implies, though, that requires non-believers to be listening to the message on WFBR. That's where you come in! If you are familiar with The Great Commission then you know that the ball is in our court as far as advancing the gospel is concerned. We are all witnesses -- and the radio ministry is a fantastic tool to that end! Spots such as Groundwire and Taking a Minute boldly proclaim the gospel, and the powerful messages displayed in the music we play are all great ways to introduce friends to the message of Jesus -- that we aren't alone in this; that God loves us, that Jesus is even now pleading on our behalf and he has given us a way into life with Him.

If you're still stumped on how to make the radio ministry into your tool for spreading the gospel, here are a couple of tips:

• As summer approaches, if you are having any sort of pool parties or gatherings, play the radio in the background. The music alone will provide a nice atmosphere, and can give you a more natural chance to talk about Christ than springing it out of the blue.
• If you're driving around with someone, keep the car radio on and what's playing would be a natural topic of discussion as you drive.

If you know of any others, feel free to comment to this topic and we can include them! Cliff and I are going to start including Groundwire and Taking a Minute towards the end of the hour on our weekly shows (which has changed times -- now airing this Wednesday at 8!) so stay tuned for that!

Learning Curve

So I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. I never expected that I would ever be in radio, much less be able to throw on anything decent. Especially considering some of the trials we went through to get here... I mean, look at this. That looks like a pretty unlikely couple to make it to radio to me. If you're looking for context, that's where we were trying to figure out which button would let you pay a bribe to the magical radio soundboard to get it to work.

Yeah, that didn't get anywhere.

To that end I'd like to take a second to thank Joshua Hoots -- he's been helping us since the start with the software and has spent several hours with us each week to get everything recorded. If you listen to WFBR much you've probably heard Hoots on Sunday mornings, heading up the airwaves as you make your way to church from 8 to 10am. He's been a big help and we couldn't have even started to put this on without his sage wisdom.

We finished recording for the second show tonight, and I'm pretty pleased with it. Things are sounding better with each take, and we're having a lot of fun doing this. This week we've brought on Scott Slater, a soon-to-be graduate of Bullitt East who is heading into ministry. Word on the street is that he's also a big Barlow Girl fan, so we'll have to touch up on that while he's in the studio.

Beyond that, there has been a lot going on concerning the show itself. Here are some updates:

• Episode 1 Online
  Episode 1 is now online and available for download for everyone who is competent enough to use WinZip! We will keep an ongoing episode guide on the sidebar and put them up for download as the dates pass.
  
  And don't worry if you're not computer savvy, it's not hard; There are instructions with the download.



• New Timeslot & Sunday Airing!
  Our pilot went so well that we're going to have an encore airing of the Wednesday episode each week starting on Sundays at 10pm, immediately following the CMM Radio Magazine! Our Wednesday show will also be beginning from now on at 8pm (immediately following the student ministry's family nights) and will last until 10pm.



• Blog Comments Enabled
  Comments are now enabled for users who don't have google accounts, so we may start utilizing the blog to reach out and gather content from fans who would like to have a say on the air! Stay tuned for that, and feel free to reply to one of our posts if you have anything to say!