MICRONESIA 2014 - Kultivate Kolonia

Kolonia, Pohnpei

Saturday, January 11, 2014

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Kultivate Kolonia

Earlier last year I was praying to the LORD as to what my role was as a missionary here in Pohnpei. In a vision two words appeared: Kultivate (I know that it is correctly spelled with a "C") and Kolonia. I felt in my spirit that my focus was to be here in Kolonia town and would have to do with both worship and youth ministry. The way in which this vision is coming to pass is completely different than what I had originally thought. I was thinking that it would have to do with the House of Prayer and a future youth center in Kolonia. Now I see that God is using our interaction at Paradise Radio 89.5 as a fulfillment of this vision.

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Last night my dad and I were able to go on air and literally sing over Pohnpei. We did a live worship set singing in both English and Pohnpeian and after receiving words of knowledge about our listening audience we prayed for them and for Pohnpei. Paradise Radio is not a Christian radio station, and before the New Year played all secular music. This past week I put together a playlist of all modern and relevant Christian music in genres such as Christian rock, Christian reggae, Christian rap, Christian hip-hop and worship music. We had had originally thought that the Christian music would be played on Paradise Radio for only one day a week, as Saturday evenings has been when we have been on air. Yet Ryan has introduced the Christian music into the rotation of what is played on air every day. Now when we we listen in to 89.5, every other song glorifies God. Even our original worship that my dad and I have written and recorded is being aired every day.

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God has given us a much broader audience than I could ever have imagined here in Pohnpei. And I am so glad to be a part of cultivating a harvest of souls here in Kolonia.

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Jonas Young