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Preparing the Soil for Global Revival: Station HCJB's Radio Circle, 1949–591

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Timothy H. B. Stoneman
Timothy H. B. Stoneman
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A postdoctoral fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a fundamental shift in the character of the Christian religion—namely, a massive expansion and shift of its center of gravity southward. During this period, Christianity experienced a transformation from a predominantly Western religion to a world religion largely defined by non-Western adherents in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. From 1970 to 2005, the size of the Southern Church increased two and a half times to over 1.25 billion members. By the early twenty-first century, 60 percent of all professing Christians lived in the global South and East. The most dynamic source of church growth during this period was Independent (evangelical or Pentecostal) Protestant groups, which increased at nearly twice the rate of other Christian affiliations. The spread of evangelical Protestantism represents a truly global phenomenon and has included large populations in East and Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas.

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Church History , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 114 - 155
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35. HCJB would expand its activities in the following decade beyond broadcasting to include a receiver department (“Radio Circle”), sound bus (“Radio Rodante”), and radio Bible school (“Bible Institute of the Air”). In 1942, the WRMF opened its first U.S. office in New York to channel funds from program sponsors. In Easter 1944, the station began a regular publication, the Radio Missionary Log (later changed to Call of the Andes), which was designed to promote awareness of HCJB and raise support for the station. The postwar period witnessed the continued expansion of operations by WRMF. In 1949, HCJB's parent organization added a medical department, which would later include two hospitals. In 1953, WRMF started its first radio station outside Ecuador in partnership with the Latin American Mission—Station HOXO in Panama. In the 1960s, WRMF entered briefly into television production with HCJB–TV in Ecuador.

36. The station received most of its funds through a large number of small-sized donations. In 1943, for example, HCJB received 685 donations for a total of roughly $7,500. Gifts ranged in size from $0.25 to $350.00, with the average contribution just over $10.00 and more than half less than $5.00. The same year, gifts made up slightly more than half of all station receipts; the remaining income came from sponsored programs and retransmission of NBC broadcasts. Source: HCJB, Financial Statement, Second Quarter, 1943, cited in Blunden Buchanan, Osborne Jr., “A Study of The Pioneer Missionary Radio Station, HCJB” (master's thesis, The Kennedy School of Missions of the Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1962), 168.Google Scholar

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38. Jones attributed these two “cardinal principles” of HCJB to veteran CMA missionaries, with whom he conferred after arriving in Ecuador in 1930. Source: Jones, Clarence W., “Questions Answered by Dr. C. W. Jones”Google Scholar; and Clarence W. Jones, interview with Nancy Woolnough, 9.

39. Dr. Calisto, a former senator in Ecuador and the CMA's attorney, negotiated the station's initial contract. The CMA sponsored the first denominational broadcast on HCJB (Realidades), which it sustained for several years. Jones considered veteran CMA missionaries Larson, cousins D. S. and J. D. Clark, and Paul Young as four of the five “founding families” of HCJB. These men preached regularly on the station and provided HCJB with executive leadership over the station's first two decades.

Larson, Young, and the Clarks appear to have donated their time in the early years to HCJB, relying for their support on CMA funds. This arrangement apparently caused tensions with fellow CMA missionaries, as well as the CMA's head office in New York. By 1941, the success of HCJB's local ministries and the station's approach to indiginization had created further tensions with the CMA. Larson and D. S. Clark stopped receiving financial support from the agency in January 1946 and March 1948, respectively, thus terminating their formal relations with the organization.

Sources: Letters from D. S. Clark to A. C. Snead, 10 January 1946, and 21 May 1948, I.M. Personnel Files, D. S. Clark, Christian and Missionary Allicance Archives (hereafter CMA), Colorado Springs, Colo.; Letter from A. C. Snead to Reuben Larson and Clarence Jones, 15 December 1947, and letter from Reuben Larson to A. C. Snead, 23 January, 1948, I.M. Personnel Files, Rev. and Mrs. Reuben E. Larson, CMA; and “Memo for C” June 8, 1941, file 407, HCJB.

40. These six missionaries from Chicago included Clarence Jones, Jones's wife Katherine (described as a “studio artist”), Jones's brother Howard (acting as station manager), Eric Williams (a former CBS engineer), Williams's wife Ann, and Lillian Peterson, a pianist. Source: “Giving ‘Wings’ to the Gospel Story in South America,” undated brochure (ca. early 1931), collection 306, HCJB.

41. Clarence W. Jones, interview with Nancy Woolnough; “The Years,” file 344 (“Historical Paper—The Years, 1933–1971”), HCJB, 5; Timeline, file 321 (“New Transmitters: 1960, 1967, 1968”), HCJB; Clarence W. Jones, “Questions Answered by Dr. C. W. Jones.”

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45. According to Clarence Jones's account, Charles Fuller initially picked up HCJB in the United States in 1940 after the station increased its power to 10,000 watts. Upon hearing the station, Fuller allegedly decided upon HCJB as the first overseas outlet for his network broadcast, the Old-Fashioned Revival Hour. When Jones agreed to carry Fuller's programs, it was apparently for free; Fuller refused to accept Jones's offer unless he paid for the time. Fuller's purchase of airtime—the first use of sponsored American programming on missionary radio—thus appears to have developed spontaneously without planning aforethought. Source: Jones, Clarence W., “Radio Broadcasting—Share the Cost,” Oral History, February 1977, file 407, HCJBGoogle Scholar; also in Robert Frederick Swenson, “An Oral History of Dr. Clarence W. Jones.”

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57. Letter from Henry Hungerpiller to H. M. Voss.

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59. In May 1955, one-third of HCJB's programs were in Spanish and 40 percent were in English. Source: HCJB, Publicity Release #6, May 6, 1955, file 353, HCJB.

60. Ibid.

61. By 1968, HCJB's Spanish programs solicited over 30,000 letters a year. Romero, Enrique, “Annual Report of the Spanish Division,” Departmental Reports of the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, Inc., Annual Members' Meeting,1968,HCJB.Google Scholar

62. These included “Southern Cross Salute” (Pacific Area), “Morning in the Mountains” (North and South America), “Quito Calling” (Europe), “Caribbean Call” (Caribbean), and “Ecuadoran Echoes” (North America). By 1962, staff programs made up more than 60 percent of the station's broadcast hours in English and received over 18,000 letters annually from listeners.

Sources: “HCJB Program Schedule (English),” July to December 1955, and “HCJB International Progam Schedule,” May–August 1964, both in folder 1, box 14, collection 349, BGCA; Osborne Blunden Buchanan, Jr., “A Study of The Pioneer Missionary Radio Station, HCJB,” 131–37.

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64. In 1963, the station carried forty-one weekly “share-the-cost” programs in English and five in Spanish. Three-quarters of the sustaining programs originated from the United States, while the remainder came from Canada, New Zealand, and England. Sources: Radio Station HCJB, “Share-the-Cost Program,” March 1963, file 309, HCJB; and Osborne Blunden Buchanan, Jr., “A Study of The Pioneer Missionary Radio Station, HCJB,” 137.

65. Denominations which paid for regular broadcasts on HCJB included the Assemblies of God, Free Methodist, Lutheran, Christian Reformed, and Mennonite orders. Roughly one-quarter of HCJB's sponsored programs in 1961 came from individual congregations. The longest-standing church broadcast on HCJB was from Calvary Baptist Church in New York City.

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66. The addition of sponsored programming enabled HCJB to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the first time in 1956.

67. This figure includes some duplication, since sets were occasionally moved from one location to another. At the same time, the figure dramatically underrepresents the number of total listeners, since sets often served more than one family as well as multiple members of the same family. Source: Anonymous, “Radio Circle Story.”Google Scholar

68. Untitled document, Radio Circle set inventory, undated (ca. September 1954), file 396, HCJB.

69. Letter from Mrs. Kermit Beougher to Rev. A. G. Thiessen, 13 May 1958, folder 34, box 32, collection 86, BGCA.

70. Untitled document, Radio Circle set inventory, undated (ca. September 1954).

71. Ibid.

72. Letter from Kermit Beougher to Abe Thiessen, 19 May 1958, folder 34, box 32, collection 86, BGCA.

73. Anonymous, “Radio Circle Story.”Google Scholar

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78. Letter from Helen A. Cedar to A. C. Snead.

79. Letter from Henry C. Miller to George C. Constance, 12 February 1958, “1956-JP Ecuador—Chairman,” I.M. Field Files, CMA.

80. Anonymous, “Radio Circle Story.”Google Scholar

81. By 1950, Ecuador had more than 50 government and commercial radio stations. By 1957, Guyaquil alone had 26 long-wave stations. Source: Clark, Robert, “Report to Panamerican Christian Network on All Ecuador Network,” The Echo 3:10 (10 1, 1957), HCJB, 2.Google Scholar

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86. Jones, Clarence W., “A Global Planning Project for Missionary Radio Stations,” undated (ca. November 1945)Google Scholar, folder 165, box 1, collection 349, BGCA.

87. Ibid.

88. “Ecuador” [publicity facts], file 396, HCJB.

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94. Letter from Kermit Beougher to Abe Thiessen.

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