This Christian ministry is dedicated to the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Spanish-speaking world through the use of radio and television programming and the development of other Christian educational materials through new and emerging formats and multimedia.

 

Purpose of Our Mission

The purpose of our mission is to declare the message of salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ as is taught in the Bible. We will teach mainly in the Spanish language from the written word of God, using mass media and other electronic technologies. Program and content development shall be primarily for use by radio and television broadcasting in the Spanish-speaking regions of the world. Other non-broadcast use shall take the form of materials for Christian education in various formats, including audio and video for home, church or classroom use. Our prayer and financial support stems mostly from the faithful commitments of individuals and churches throughout the United States.

 

Our History

Spanish Radio & TV Mission was co-founded by Pastors Dr. Alberto Ruíz and José Gándara in 1989. The ministry is headquartered in Orlando, Florida where it’s registered and incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation. We’re staffed by a small group of lay producers and editors and other Christian leaders under the leadership of our Director General and Board of Directors. We eagerly anticipate your participation as a member of our Advisory Board.

An Argentine pastor contacted Pastor Gándara in 1988 in order to acquire the necessary technology to operate an FM station. At the time, Pastor José Gándara worked for Family Radio as a broadcast engineer.  

The following year the same Argentine pastor approached Pastor José for help in programming and this marked the beginning of Spanish Radio Mission in 1989 with the program “Conociendo la Verdad” (Knowing Truth). “TV” was added to the name in 1992 when our first video production, “Exito Matrimonial” (Marriage Success) with Dr. Juan Miguel Sclafani was produced for Latin American television stations.

All programs were distributed free of charge to the broadcast stations that were in need for quality Christian productions.

Given the demand for quality Christian programs, air time was also made available to us in many occasions for a cost or free by the broadcasters.

The use of shortwave has been in decline in the years since the ministry’s founding, however, for over 2 years SRTVM broadcasted to Latin America by Radio Miami International and other high-power AM stations around the Caribbean.

Now, the ministry is using very effectively new and emerging media to help spread the seed of the Gospel. We are working with Cuban nationals to bring the Gospel and educational Christian material to Cuba. We are introducing CDs, DVD’s, books and Bibles into the island in a monthly basic. This has led to multiple contacts in various regions of the country that have been followed up by outreaches to new areas of ministry.

One such new area of ministry is helping prison’s chaplains in various Central American countries. Working directly with them, we have been providing correspondence courses and (wherever it’s allowed) CD and cassette recordings. Book narration for the blind and the illiterate has become another effective non-broadcast tool for spreading the Gospel through Christian books in audio.

Furthermore, as CD replication technologies had become more economically viable, we have begun to spread the Gospel with narrated the New Testament, other portions of the Bible, sermons and other Christian conferences.

All of these are distributed free of charge to Latin American ministries who in turn use it in their respective ministries, thus helping to advance the national missionary movement in Latin America. This is possible for your love offering.

Future avenues for ministry have concentrated mostly on reaching the Spanish-speaking populations in the United States. We have made strategic alliances with several other ministries and churches in order to produce their audio-book versions as well as translate and dub educational Christian videos.

Please prayerfully consider how you can help the ministry of SRTVM. Despite the Mission’s worldwide outreach, it still continues to be a small and intimate group of individuals working on a volunteer basis. Service opportunities abound, please share with us what burden the Lord is placing in your heart for Latinos all over the world.

 

Our Staff

Pastor Jose Gandara is the General Director, he was born in Cuba, where he studied electronics, radio production, and photography. Years later he left Cuba and went into exile in the USA. He established a new life in California next to his wife Rosalía and two children, where he would serve as a pastor in 2 churches in San Francisco Bay Area for the next 18 years. In 1981 he begins to work for the Christian network of Family Radio as a studio recording engineer. He studies the Bible in the Institute of Bible Studies at Liberty University and obtains a bachelor in Christian Education of ACMT. In 1994 he got a degree in Computer Technology Applications and started working as an instructor for the public schools in California.  In 2003 the ministry settles down in Florida where is the recording studio and production of Christian materials that are distributed in the Hispanic world. He worked with his wife for Trans World Radio. At the moment he lives with his wife and near their children and grandchildren in the area on Orlando in the center of Florida. He also works in a bilingual education program in the county of Orange.

 

Jim Muehling is the Secretary Director of the Mission. He is a native Californian and works as a Math Teacher in High School. He is a Deacon and the director of the Single Group at his church, Bethel Baptist Church in Fremont, California. During the summer vacation months from his job as a teacher he minister in international missions to Europe and Latin America.

Margaret Ching is a Secretary Director of the Mission. She is very active at her church. She plays the piano and teaches at the Christian School of Bethel Baptist Church in Fremont, California.  She love to learn Spanish, and she is good at it.

Estimados Hermanos y Hermanas:

En este pasado año 2007 varios de nuestros más fieles Socios de la Fe partieron para reunirse con nuestro Señor.  Cuando ellos llegaron ante el gran trono de Dios, me imagino que una larga línea de hispanos los esperaban para agradecerle la parte que  jugaron para que ellos recibieran el precioso regalo de la vida eterna. (Apocalipsis 6:9-11)

Dios en su inmensa misericordia le ha dado a la humanidad a través de Jesucristo el  regalo de la vida eterna. Estos Socios de la Fe fueron un medio muy importante que Dios usó para que muchos hispanos pudieran recibir la vida eterna. El legado que ellos han dejado sigue haciendo frutos ahora aun cuando ya no estan más con nosotros. (Juan 3:16)

No que ellos fuesen misioneros en los países hispanos  o en las comunidades de latinos en muchas partes del mundo. Ellos eran simplemente cristianos que amaban al Señor. Ellos que vivieron  en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y tal vez nunca habían viajado por los lugares exóticos del mundo - posiblemente algunos no hablaban ni entendian el español- pero se interesaron mucho en seguir el mandamiento del Señor de predicar el evangelio a toda criatura. Ellos al igual que ustedes se hicieron el compromiso de ayudar a la obra misionera a través de la Misión Hispana de Radio y Televisión. (Mateo 28:19-20)

Por las oraciones y el apoyo financiero, que muchas veces vino del sacrificio abnegado que hicieron en sus finanzas para poder contribuir;  este alcance evangelístico y de educación Cristiana trae hoy al mundo hispano la esperanza de una relación eterna de amistad con Dios a través de su hijo Jesucristo. Hoy muchos gozan de esa relación gracias al sacrificio de muchos de nuestros actuales Socios de la Fe que al igual que ellos lo hicieron cuando estaban con nosotros lo hacen también ahora. (Hechos 4:32)

Por 18 años SRTVM ha conducido de manera  sistemática el alcance misionero a través de la radio, la televisión, la prensa y en los últimos 3 años  por la Internet y los nuevos medios masivos de difusión. (Juan 8:32)

No ha sido una tarea fácil teniendo en consideración los limitados recursos de SRTVM. Hemos tenido muchas dificultades, pero con la fe y la confianza que hacemos la obra de Dios se ha ido avanzando cada día más y más.

Con un nuevo año de servicio por delante se nos presentan nuevas oportunidades que nos retan a servir al Señor con más ahínco.

Los nuevos planes se concentran en el alcance masivo de latinos y de incorporarlos a la familia de la fe en las Iglesias cristianas en sus localidades. Comenzando en los estados Unidos y continuando en el resto del mundo.

Gracias por su amor al ministerio de SRTVM y a nosotros. Por todo el apoyo en oraciones y financiero y por el aliciente que recibimos de ustedes cuando trabajamos para el Señor. (Hebreos 13:7-8)

¡Bendiciones y Feliz Año 2008!

 

Pastor José y Rosalía Gándara