World Radio Missionary Fellowship, Inc. dba Reach Beyond

Our vision is "To partner with Christians in media and healthcare to bring the voice and hands of Jesus to the unreached people of the world." Reach Beyond exists so that people worldwide come to Christ, become His disciples and serve Him as active, vital parts of the body of Christ. We place priority on multiplying the resources God has given us by creating sustainable and reproducible ministry and empowering others to do the same. Our priorities are: people groups that have not heard, people groups which have limited access to the Gospel, and people whom we can mobilize to serve Christ.
We accomplish our mission by coming alongside local believers as partners to mobilize them to use radio and emerging technologies, healthcare outreaches and clean-water projects to bring physical and spiritual health to their communities. We currently have regional ministry in Asia Pacific, Europe/Eurasia, Latin America, North Africa/Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Each region works with partners in their area, especially those who are working to touch unreached people groups.

Despite centuries of Christian outreach, there are still countless places in the world where the gospel message has never been heard and countless more people who are unengaged with the Good News. And yet 65% of the world does not allow “religious workers” to enter or work in their country. Many regions (85% of Asia, for example) remain closed to traditional missionary activity even by its own citizens. Yet even in countries where missionaries are permitted to work, individuals are limited by time and distance and energy and finances. Much evangelism and discipleship can be accomplished through the printed word, but the United Nations estimates that the world illiteracy rate is almost 20%, and 40% to 50% in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Reach Beyond knows that community FM radio stations, operated by local believers, is one answer to this problem of reaching those who least access to the gospel. Although FM radio stations abound in the United States, many regions in the world do not have ready access to local radio, especially not to radio run by believers who include Christian messages in their broadcasting. These believers have passion and desire – what they seldom have is the capacity to purchase the necessary equipment or the technological expertise to begin and operate a radio station or the trained staff to produce programs and broadcast them. Indigenous believers could seldom hope to possess that amount of money without help from outside partners.
Reach Beyond is also dedicated to walking alongside global partners as they initiate medical outreaches, clean-water projects, and programs to train rural healthcare educators and counselors in their communities – ministries that speak to spiritual, emotional and physical needs and provide opportunities for sharing the Good News in hard-to-reach places. To assist our indigenous partners, we:
* Conduct training of village healthcare workers who can serve their communities on a regular basis, encouraging them in best-practice health principles.
* Supply medical partners with Reach Beyond medical personnel or interns to assist them in their ongoing or mobile caravan outreaches.
* Facilitate the installation of wells or spring-capture projects to provide clean, safe water to communities in need.
* Provide water system-maintenance training and WASH (Water And Sanitation Hygiene) teaching with partners

HCJB Global (now Reach Beyond) started the world’s first missionary radio station in Quito, Ecuador in 1931, and as an organization we have been continuously broadcasting throughout the world since that time. In the late 1980s, we began a focus on planting and developing community FM radio stations – partnering worldwide with local believers who recognize the great impact that radio can have in sharing the gospel in their communities, so we have nearly 30 years of experience in this specific project’s strategy.
Reach Beyond has been involved in healthcare outreach since 1955 in Ecuador. Our community development outreaches (clean-water projects, mobile medical/dental caravans, village sanitation and hygiene training) began decades ago, and many of the staff involved in our healthcare projects around the world have either transferred to another region after years of service in Ecuador or have spent time training alongside our Latin American team. Each of them is well-qualified in their own profession.
Our annual budgets and fundraising strategies are concentrated on these two main strategies for accomplishing our ministry, and we also focus our global partnerships with like-minded Christian organizations and our indigenous partnerships around the world on those who also have a priority to minister to those least-reached and unengaged places.

As an example of the progress Reach Beyond is making in fulfilling our passion for eternal impact, in 2013, our engineers were able to mobilize local partners in Asia Pacific to launch 19 community FM radio stations. So far in 2014, our medical caravan staff in Ecuador have been involved in over 40 community development outreaches in the remote areas of the country. These are two simple signs that Reach Beyond continues to move forward in its vision "To partner with Christians in media and healthcare to bring the voice and hands of Jesus to the unreached people of the world."
We constantly refine our strategies in each situation because what may work in one country may not work in another. One of the most important parts of our partnerships is that Reach Beyond does not provide our partners with radio program content nor dictate what healthcare outreaches should be undertaken. Nor do we provide funds to our partners for operating expenses. We come alongside partners to lend our experience and expertise in helping them determine the most effective way to be the voice and hands of Jesus in their own cultural setting.