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TWR’s long history of ministry in the Americas dates back to 1964 when our major broadcasting site was established on the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Today, in addition to the Bonaire station, we air Christian content on hundreds of local stations throughout Latin America, ministering to individuals across the region!
Updates from the Americas
Dec 12, 2022,
TWR seeks a home in Colombia
Many people work from home these days. For Estella Ferrucho, there’s no other choice.
Ferrucho is director...
Jul 26, 2022,
Summer of Impact 2022: Denali, Media Services Broadcast Content Creator Intern
Denali is serving as a summer intern in our Cary office from the Indiana/Kentucky area. She is a rising...
Jul 21, 2022,
Summer of Impact 2022: Machaela, Finance Intern, Cary Team
Machaela Murrell, from Durham, North Carolina, is serving in Cary, North Carolina, this summer as an intern...
Jul 13, 2022,
It Was Hard to Get Mad at This Leader
When TWR veteran missionary Dick Olson passed away in Cary, North Carolina, on July 2, 2022, we turned to...
Jul 8, 2022,
Summer of Impact 2022: Alex, Marketing and Communications Intern
Born in Maine, Alex Tan grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is studying graphic design and criminal...
Jul 6, 2022,
Discipling Latin America
A native and resident of Montevideo, Uruguay, Esteban Larrosa became vice president for Latin America and...
Jul 5, 2022,
Summer of Impact 2022: Daniel, Data Management Intern
For Daniel Crompton, from Raleigh, North Carolina, the mission field is familiar. Now the Lord has called...
Jun 23, 2022,
Losing Everything, Yet Gaining More: Tom and Elly Streeter Celebrate 50th TWR Anniversary
Tom and Elly Streeter met as single missionaries serving with TWR in Monaco. The 50 years that have passed...
May 27, 2022,
How TWR Invests in Unreached People
Sunday, June 5, is International Day For the Unreached, calling attention to the 1 in 3 people on the...
Apr 28, 2022,
Growing Disciples in the Smokies: Every Man A Warrior conference encourages leaders to press on
Men gathered for the Every Man A Warrior (EMAW) “Expert Builders” conference April 1-2, which took place at...
Sep 22, 2021,
Island Sunshine Brings Renewable Energy to TWR Bonaire
The tiny island country of Bonaire is a stunning place. Located just 50 miles north of the coast of...
Aug 15, 2021,
TWR Partner in Haiti On-Air After Huge Quake
Located in one of the cities hardest hit by Saturday’s deadly earthquake, the newest radio station of TWR’s...
Aug 12, 2021,
Unmasking the Gospel in 2021: Rosie, Journalism Intern
Rosie only had to travel a few miles from her home in Apex, North Carolina to get involved in TWR’s global...
Aug 7, 2021,
Unmasking the Gospel in 2021: Esther, TWR Women of Hope Intern
Esther has always had a passion to share Christ with the unreached. This summer, she is overjoyed to...
Aug 5, 2021,
Unmasking the Gospel in 2021: Caleb, Engineering Intern
Caleb has recently felt God’s call to serve those without access to the gospel. He did so this summer on...
Aug 3, 2021,
Unmasking the Gospel in 2021: Abigail, Legal Research Assistant
After serving as an Audio Production intern in 2019, Abigail graduated her undergraduate and began...
Jul 29, 2021,
Unmasking the Gospel in 2021: Rachael, Finance Intern
When Rachael learned about TWR’s mission to make God’s love known to every corner of the earth, she knew it...
Jul 16, 2021,
As Protests Flare, Cuba Needs Abundant Prayer
As protests continue and a crisis of unrest flares up in Cuba, TWR teams in Cuba and the Caribbean island...
Jul 15, 2021,
Unmasking the Gospel in 2021: Corrie, TWR MOTION Video Intern
Missions is nothing new to Corrie. She grew up as a missionary kid and never planned to follow in her...
Jul 13, 2021,
Unmasking the Gospel in 2021: Sam, Engineering Intern
What type of internship comes to mind when you think of engineering? Missions? Sam Toenies didn’t think so...
Jul 6, 2021,
Unmasking the Gospel in 2021: Savannah, Visual Media Intern
TWR has been a part of Savannah’s life since before she could walk, and she is overjoyed to finally have...
May 20, 2021,
Partners or Staff? TWR Workers Are Both
Service with TWR looks a lot more like partnership than ordinary employment. Support-raising missionaries,...
Apr 22, 2021,
Speaking Hope to the World in More Than 300 Languages
Now more than ever, it’s essential to reach people around the world for Jesus in their heart languages....
Mar 26, 2021,
Exiled Mexican Believers Keep Gospel Legacy Alive
Mexico is a nation whose population is described as overwhelmingly Christian, but stories about forced...
Mar 18, 2021,
Luis Palau’s Legacy Lives on Through TWR
As people around the world mourn the passing of Luis Palau, the evangelist's legacy is thriving in TWR's...
Feb 11, 2021,
Through Radio, TWR Ministers to Persecuted Listeners
The words of Makhset, a Central Asian pastor who was forced out of his homeland, is one of many reasons TWR...
Oct 8, 2020,
Q&A: A Burden to Reach the Unreached
About 2,000 years ago, Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission to “go and make disciples of all...
Aug 19, 2020,
Spreading Hope Amid a Pandemic: Seth, Journalism Intern
Job 42:2 tells us that God can do all things, and that nothing can stand in the way of what he has planned....
Aug 12, 2020,
Spreading Hope Amid a Pandemic: Leanne, Marketing and Communications Intern
Growing up in Malaysia and raised in a Christian home, Leanne Tan always knew she would attend a university...
Jul 29, 2020,
Spreading Hope Amid a Pandemic: Matthew, Data Management Intern
Doing God’s work typically conjures up images of going to faraway places to preach the gospel to...
Jul 15, 2020,
Spreading Hope Amid a Pandemic: Lydia, Human Resources Intern
While many summer internships and jobs have either been called off or postponed due to the pandemic, TWR...
Jul 1, 2020,
Spreading Hope Amid a Pandemic: Alyx Vissing, Social Media and Communications Intern
Since the beginning, TWR has been all about overcoming barriers. If you have spoken with Alyx Vissing, you...
Jun 16, 2020,
Spreading Hope Amid a Pandemic: Catherine, Data Management Intern
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about numerous changes. From wearing face masks in public to working from...
May 29, 2020,
My Journey into Missions
"Wasn’t missions all about preaching and teaching and church planting? I did not have a seminary degree,...
Apr 12, 2020,
The Dawn Will Come: Easter in the Days of Coronavirus
Pondering the events of Holy Week is timely, of course, with Easter season upon us. Perhaps you, too, are...
Mar 27, 2020,
The Impact of a Coin
Secularism as an ideology pushes the narrative for the sharing of the gospel of Jesus Christ to be...
Jan 12, 2020,
Remembering Betty Jane Freed, Wife of TWR’s Founder
Betty Jane Freed, a North Carolina native who played an essential supporting role in the pioneering career...
Join the Ministry in the Americas
TWR Bolivia has produced a new radio program for children who speak the indigenous Quechua language. Each episode tells them...
Spanish-speaking women in the Americas face many physical, emotional and spiritual problems. Divorce, illness, abortion and...
“Every night I listen to your TWR program Messages of Faith and Hope. I pray a lot for the ministry that God has placed on this...
The Caribbean island of Cuba has many faiths, representing a widely varying culture. Though Christianity is the dominant faith,...
Reaching children and youth with the Gospel is one of the five main initiatives of Trans World Radio’s Global Strategic Plan.
You can help reach families living in areas of deep poverty across Haiti, without reliable electricity, where many people can’t...
For half a century, TWR has been a voice of hope throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Hundreds of FM stations carry more...
Jesus said gospel seed doesn't grow well in thorny ground. Ever since the 1959 revolution, every student in Cuba has been...
Rural communities and indigenous peoples in the northeast of Colombia face an uncertain future. Violence caused by armed...
The Wayana and Trio are two tribes in Suriname that were led to the Lord by missionaries Ivan and Doris Schoen beginning in the...
Radio Trans Mundial is TWR's Spanish ministry in the United States and is committed to bringing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to...
As TWR’s only foreign-language ministry on US soil, the US Spanish ministry is dedicated to reaching Hispanics living right...
When Auca warriors of the Ecuadorian jungle murdered the five missionaries who were reaching out to them in 1956, it had a...
The inhabitants of Puerto Fronciere, Paraguay, live in a vulnerable socioeconomic situation and lack spiritual leaders. They...
TWR has a major hub of Spanish program production in Venezuela, but the economic collapse in recent years has made ministry...
TWR has been broadcasting from the island of Bonaire for almost 60 years. This small Caribbean island is situated about 50...
TWR operates eight FM stations in Bolivia and distributes programming over 120 stations throughout the country. In addition to...
Chris felt an irresistible call to help men everywhere have a deep and intimate walk with God. Because other men invested in...
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The Avellas are far from strangers to TWR. Karen, the daughter of TWR missionaries Dave and Flo Carlson, grew up in Monaco and...
Dan Blosser has served with TWR since 1977, first in Guam and then in Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, Dan met and married Rose...
The Blossers have been with TWR since 1979, serving on Guam, Sri Lanka and Swaziland. They are now working for the Human...
After six years as a teacher and two and a half years in Christian higher education, Jennifer joined TWR’s Mobilization...
The Butlers began their service with TWR in 1987 on Bonaire. They have also served in Cary, N.C.; Swaziland; Singapore; and...
Shaun and Dianne have been involved in missions for many years before moving to Texas in 2006. They have been on staff with The...
The Chicks followed God’s call to TWR in 1980, starting their overseas service in 1983 on the island of Guam. In 1997, they...
The Coopers’ service with TWR began in February 1971 and included 22 years on the island of Bonaire and 14 years in Europe...
Peggy Corcoran has been with TWR since 1984, serving in Sri Lanka, Bonaire and Miami, Fla., prior to moving to TWR's Cary...
Wayne Craig joined the Every Man a Warrior ministry of TWR in 2020. Wayne loves to disciple and walk beside men as they learn...
Sandi Dalton Goodrich is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute class of 15' with a degree in...
Bill and Lois Early entered the world of radio missions in 1986. They served on Bonaire for 14 years doing English programming....
Jonas and Salome have been serving with TWR on Bonaire since January of 2015. Jonas started out in the capacity of Broadcast...
As Director of Church Partnerships, Wayne’s primary responsibility is to develop and implement Trans World Radio’s US church...
Kelly Gilbert, a graduate of Cedarville University, majored in Broadcasting and Digital Media. Kelly served as a Media Content...
Bob Glendening led his first Every Man A Warrior discipleship group in 2017. Four years later, by God’s grace, EMAW expanded to...
The Gows started with TWR in 1969. They have served in Bonaire, Sri Lanka, Monte-Carlo, Chatham, N.J., and Cary,...
Ron and Carol are serving with the ministry of TWR (also known as Trans World Radio). TWR is a global media ministry...
Paul and Kathy joined TWR via a teen missions trip to Russia, where God called them into a ministry reaching those not easily...
Brandon has always had a passion for storytelling, be it through Christian musical theater, competitive speech and debate, or...
The Heaths began their exciting missionary career with TWR in February 1982. Serving 15 years on Bonaire, almost three years in...
Jason and Adina Helmholdt found TWR through an online search with the keyword missionary. God brought them on a journey...
In every location they have served with TWR, the Hills have always been engaged in helping people to hear the good news of...
Roger and Carolyn Hixon have served over thirty-five years with Trans World Radio. The Hixons were accepted on staff with TWR...
A North Carolina native, Elisa Keefe is among the 2-4% of Christians who are saved after the age of 30 (42, to be exact). She...
Alex and Fran served at TWR’s radio facilities on the island of Guam in the mid 1980’s. Fran was involved with Bible...
Alan serves as the US Director of Mobilization and Human Resources. See additional information below...
After serving for over 11 years as a mission pastor in a local church in southwest Florida, Brad relocated to North Carolina...
Lee’s parents joined TWR in 1963, and Lee and Lonna met while working as short-term missionaries with TWR in Guam. They...
John is a seasoned journalist who is excited to transition from a 40-year career of reporting news in daily newspapers to...
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Merl has served in the Cary, NC office of TWR since January of 2008. He graduated in 1971 from N.C. State University with a...
Neal Manning is part of the Global IT team working from the Cary, N.C. office. He is a husband and father of four.
David began his tenure with TWR in 1995. He currently serves as the director of Marketing & Communications at TWR’s Cary, N.C.,...
Tim and Glenda McElhaney began the journey with TWR in 1984, moving to the island of Bonaire. Tim served as a tower rigger and...
Larry has been serving with TWR since 1967. He married Virginia in 1969, and they served first in Bonaire, then served for 2...
Jim and his wife, Doris, joined TWR in 1990. After raising support, the McIntyres left for their first term of service at KTWR...
Having worked with TWR partners, Cru and Jesus Film Project, Marcia trained nationals in how to develop Bible stories, and to...
Bill has been serving with us since 1958, which means he’s been a part of the TWR family longer than Alaska and Hawaii have...
Denny and Susie Milgate and their two daughters, Tyeise and Samantha, moved to Bonaire in 1966 when the construction had just...
Joe Miller has served with TWR as an engineer and transmitter operator since 1966. His wife, Edna, whom he met on the field,...
Andy and Kathy Napier are working out of the TWR office in Cary, N.C. where Andy hosts and produces Footsteps--a daily...
Dick and Jeanne Olson are veteran missionaries with Trans World Radio. They have served faithfully since May of 1961. They were...
Sterling first arrived on Guam at age 21 (2004) on a short-term assignment with Trans World Radio (TWR) on recommendation of...
Mark was born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada as the second child of 4 to two loving parents. He was shown to Christ at an early age...
Dave and Mari joined TWR in 2009. Dave serves as a Global Broadcast Engineer, working on large projects with a global reach,...
David comes alongside and equips churches and organizations to develop a disciple-making culture and raise up an army of...
Dan joined TWR in 1992 and has served in Monaco, Bratislava and now in the U.S. He has held various roles in TWR and is...
Arnold (Arnie) and Dawn Sue Remtema are missionaries with TWR (Trans World Radio) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Arnie is...
John and Sue Roessner had been with TWR since September 1976, serving in Guam; Chatham, N.J., and Cary, N.C. John has held...
Ted and Sally were called to missions in 1983 after both of their daughters were in college. They served 10 years on Bonaire...
George and Kathy Ross are both from New Hampshire. Both accepted Christ as their Savior as adults. They were introduced to TWR...
The Roswells' service began in 1966 on Bonaire with Chuck operating and maintaining transmitters, safety and first aid, EMI...
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Bob worked in Swaziland and at TWR’s headquarters in the early 1990s. He has also worked in the Netherlands for the...
Tom is the son of pioneer missionary parents who were called to serve indigenous people groups in the jungles of Suriname,...
Randy and Rose went to Bonaire in October 1994 and returned to the U.S. in 1995. In January 1996, they began serving at TWR...
Tim brings over 40 years global IT experience to the TWR organization as a volunteer. Tim is recently retired from NTT as the...
After serving two years in Paraguay, the Stobbes were accepted as missionaries with TWR. They have been serving since 1989 at...
The Streeters have been with TWR since 1972, serving in Monaco, the Netherlands and North Carolina. Tom has served as a studio...
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Partnering with Christian radio stations across the USA to encourage them to use their great platform, John Summerville loves...
Brad Swanson first came to TWR Bonaire as a summer intern in 1975. He returned as a short term missionary in in 1976, and was...
Malise is blessed to be born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana – her daddy's homeland – and living in her mother's native...
I have felt an irresistible call to help men everywhere have a deep and intimate walk with God. "He has sent me to bind up the...
The Thorps began service with TWR in 1987 in Sri Lanka. They have also served in Bonaire, Singapore and Guam. Currently...
The Turoczis have been with TWR since 1969, serving in Monaco, Guam and the United States. They have served in program...
Back in 1981 while attending college in SoCal, a “chance” encounter with a friend led me to the campus radio station. Little...
Tom Watkins presently serves as Director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships. He and his team engage with ministries in...
Gary began service with TWR on Bonaire in 1976. In 1978 Gary moved to Guam and worked at KTWR. Winnie married Gary in 1979...
