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United Christian Broadcasters
United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) is an international Christian broadcasting and media group, founded by Rhema Media. Through affiliates in twenty five countries, it operates radio and television stations and publishes and broadcasts Bob Gass's daily devotionals The Word for You Today and Word For You (young adults' version - from 1 February 2023, this is only available via the UCB Player app).
The group was started in New Zealand by Richard Berry, an evangelical Christian from Christchurch. In the early 1960s, Berry was inspired by Ecuadorian Christian short-wave radio station HCJB to set up a radio station in his garage. The station became a permanent operation in 1976, and in subsequent years it expanded throughout New Zealand.
The Rhema Media model was used to establish UCB affiliates in Australia, the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and beyond. In July 2010, UCB United Kingdom's UCB TV and the mobile TV and video on demand network Yamgo to launch the world's first ever live Christian mobile TV channel.
The Word For You Today is a free, daily devotional written by Bob Gass and distributed internationally by United Christian Broadcasters, as website content, as an email newsletter and as quarterly print editions. One million copies of the United Kingdom and Ireland print edition are distributed each quarter to UCB supporters.[citation needed] Other regional editions are distributed to subscribers, churches and Christian organisations in other parts of the world.
Gass started writing The Word for Today devotional readings in 1992. After positive response in the United States, he offered international rights to the devotionals to United Christian Broadcasters CEO Gareth Littler, with a first print run of 3,500 copies in 1994 being distributed to UCB supporters in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
United Christian Broadcasters is a Christian media charity that exists to offer opportunities to hear, watch or read the Bible. UCB has two national Christian radio stations (UCB 1 and UCB 2), the UCB Player app, and several publications including two daily devotionals, the UCB Word For Today and Word For You for young adults. (From 1 February 2023, Word For You is only available via the UCB Player app.) They also run UCB Prayerline, staffed by volunteers who take calls from people requesting prayer.
In 1986, UCB's founder Ian Mackie was inspired during prayer to provide a national Christian radio station. Operating out of a volunteer's spare bedroom, everything UCB owned was borrowed. In 1987, UCB did its initial broadcasts via Manx Radio in the Isle of Man, but this had limited geographical reach and only aired from 10p.m. until 2a.m. However, it did allow the station to bypass some of the UK's broadcasting laws and commence transmission earlier in the company's lifetime than would have otherwise been possible.
In 1991, a UCB member[who?] met Bob Gass, who began to write devotionals for them. A year later, he started sending copies of them to his friends and supporters in the United States, where he had lived since he was eighteen years old. Gass offered UCB his devotional readings to encourage Christians to support UCB.
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United Christian Broadcasters
United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) is an international Christian broadcasting and media group, founded by Rhema Media. Through affiliates in twenty five countries, it operates radio and television stations and publishes and broadcasts Bob Gass's daily devotionals The Word for You Today and Word For You (young adults' version - from 1 February 2023, this is only available via the UCB Player app).
The group was started in New Zealand by Richard Berry, an evangelical Christian from Christchurch. In the early 1960s, Berry was inspired by Ecuadorian Christian short-wave radio station HCJB to set up a radio station in his garage. The station became a permanent operation in 1976, and in subsequent years it expanded throughout New Zealand.
The Rhema Media model was used to establish UCB affiliates in Australia, the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and beyond. In July 2010, UCB United Kingdom's UCB TV and the mobile TV and video on demand network Yamgo to launch the world's first ever live Christian mobile TV channel.
The Word For You Today is a free, daily devotional written by Bob Gass and distributed internationally by United Christian Broadcasters, as website content, as an email newsletter and as quarterly print editions. One million copies of the United Kingdom and Ireland print edition are distributed each quarter to UCB supporters.[citation needed] Other regional editions are distributed to subscribers, churches and Christian organisations in other parts of the world.
Gass started writing The Word for Today devotional readings in 1992. After positive response in the United States, he offered international rights to the devotionals to United Christian Broadcasters CEO Gareth Littler, with a first print run of 3,500 copies in 1994 being distributed to UCB supporters in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
United Christian Broadcasters is a Christian media charity that exists to offer opportunities to hear, watch or read the Bible. UCB has two national Christian radio stations (UCB 1 and UCB 2), the UCB Player app, and several publications including two daily devotionals, the UCB Word For Today and Word For You for young adults. (From 1 February 2023, Word For You is only available via the UCB Player app.) They also run UCB Prayerline, staffed by volunteers who take calls from people requesting prayer.
In 1986, UCB's founder Ian Mackie was inspired during prayer to provide a national Christian radio station. Operating out of a volunteer's spare bedroom, everything UCB owned was borrowed. In 1987, UCB did its initial broadcasts via Manx Radio in the Isle of Man, but this had limited geographical reach and only aired from 10p.m. until 2a.m. However, it did allow the station to bypass some of the UK's broadcasting laws and commence transmission earlier in the company's lifetime than would have otherwise been possible.
In 1991, a UCB member[who?] met Bob Gass, who began to write devotionals for them. A year later, he started sending copies of them to his friends and supporters in the United States, where he had lived since he was eighteen years old. Gass offered UCB his devotional readings to encourage Christians to support UCB.