Romania, Moldova Christian Radio Station Receives 'Overwhelming' Support
A local Christian radio station in Romania and Moldova is beginning to receive financial help from Christian listeners, many of which sacrificed their own comfort to keep the station on air.
A local Christian radio station in Romania and Moldova is beginning to receive financial help from Christian listeners, many of which sacrificed their own comfort to keep the station on air.
Little Samaritan Mission (LSM) – a ministry working in the Republic of Moldova, Siberia, and Romania – has been struggling for the past 11 years financially to operate their Christian radio station. But now LSM announced that these countries are beginning to support their local radio stations, according to Mission Network News (MNN).
"For 11 years I prayed that one day the people in Moldova and the people in Romania, the listeners, would help to support our radio stations,” said Little Samaritan's founder, Florin Pindicblaj, to MNN. “We launched the sharathon. This was the first time in the history of the country and the response was overwhelming."
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Pindicblaj said that Romania and Moldova, two poor nations in Eastern Europe, were able to raise about $17,000 (USD) in three evenings, with many supporters sacrificing their own comfort to keep the radio station running including listeners donating money they planned to use for heating their homes and for food.
"The director [of an orphanage] called and said, 'we'll give you a small amount,'” said Pindicblaj to MNN. “But the children said, 'Why so small?' The children decided that, 'We are not going to eat meat until the first of January, save the money and send it to the mission.’"
The money raised by LSM thus far will support the radio station through the end of December, its founder noted, and the money that will be raised in the United States through the first of January will be invested in further opening three more radio stations, according to MNN.
The Little Samaritan Mission has 85 full-time workers in the Republic of Moldova, Siberia, and Romania. Over 30 state orphanages depend on LSM to provide clothing, shoes, medicine, coal for heating, food items, hot water heaters, mattresses, and electrical generators. Printing and distributing Christian literature to orphans poverty-stricken families, and adults eager to study God's Word has earned the Little Samaritan Mission an identity as an organization actively meeting the material needs of the children and the poor but also proclaiming God's Word.
