October 15, 2009

Dear GMI prayer partners and supporters,

Due to the initiative of our Spanish members, a worldwide day of fasting and prayer is being held on Sabbath October 17 in favor of GMI and its twelve television and three radio networks on six satellites covering every continent in ten languages and in the homes of 220 million people.

The finances needed to cover the satellite payments has been a subject of daily prayer among all our teams for several months. But now that our Spanish brethren have declared this day of fasting and prayer, it is appropriate that we join them as well.

The special reason for prayer is to plead with God for resources to cover these urgent broadcast needs. Our deadline was Monday, October 11. Last Friday night, October 9, as we were kneeling beside the bed for prayer, the phone rang with a donor offering an amount which pushed the deadline back another 10 days to October 21.

Not paying by the deadline means ten of our networks are to go off the air in South America, Europe, and Africa.

There is no doubt that God will intervene as He has in the past. But we are told in Philippians 4:19 that we must ask with thanksgiving.

During this time of crisis, we must cast our trust on God and move forward, NOT backward. GMI doesn’t have the funds to even cover 1% of its bill. But then, we have never made our decisions based on having money but rather on God’s promises. Just two days ago we went on the air across Africa with our Caribbean English network (the first 30 days for free). Within weeks we will also add our Portuguese and French networks. Two new networks will soon join them, Africans/Zulu in the South and Swahili for the East.

We feel God’s approval and special blessing upon us. We have been given opportunities worldwide to spread God’s word through the air waves and carry his love with medical aviation. In McDonald, TN GMI recently acquired a beautiful property with a large media center and three houses for volunteers with no money down because the non-Adventist owners insisted that they wanted to help us. The blessings have come mixed with severe sacrifices, but isn’t that as it should be?

I am inviting you to join us in a special day of prayer and fasting this Sabbath, October 17. God knows the amount we need. However if you wish to know yourself, you may write to me at davico@gospelministry.org as I am overseas right now. Thank you and God bless.

From the front lines of the battlefield in Africa,

Uncle David