Rev. Herman Hoeksema was our first full-time radio pastor. He served in this capacity for many years during which time and into the sixties, we expanded our witness from Pennsylvania to California, from North Dakota to Texas, and over two short-wave stations in Curacao, West Indies and Monte Carlo, Monaco. At one time our program was broadcast over 14 stations in the U.S.
Our current radio pastor is the Rev. Carl Haak, minister of the Georgetown Protestant Reformed Church. As we move into 2006, the number of stations that we broadcast on stands at 17, including stations in Ireland and the Philippines. Our program does not currently make use of shortwave radio.
The Radio Committee would like to expand our witness. The extent of our radio coverage depends 100% on the contributions given for this Kingdom work. We are looking to other churches or individuals to sponsor a station of their choosing. We will supply the program and help you in your evangelical outreach. Individual contributions are always welcome as well. Please continue to remember this important work in your prayers.
The Reformed Witness Hour is committed to the proclamation of God's Truth from the viewpoint of Romans 11:36," For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." We believe that man was created to serve and glorify the one true God revealed in the Bible. Man's great problem is that, fallen in Adam, he will not and cannot do so. This brings upon man the just wrath of the Holy God. It is only through God's Son, Jesus Christ, and God's grace in Him, that we are able to know and glorify God. The Bible, which is the inspired Word of God, reveals Jesus Christ and God's grace in Him to us. Through the proclamation of His Word, God is pleased to gather His people to Himself in the way of repentance and faith.
Our first radio pastor, Rev. Herman Hoeksema, in the very first broadcast of our program explained it this way. His words remain the confession of the Reformed Witness Hour today:
"The supreme and, in a sense, the only task of the Church is to preach the Word of God. But if there is a Word of God to be proclaimed by the Church, it must needs be a Word which God Himself speaks, and Which He speaks concerning Himself. And if God speaks concerning Himself, the basic and all-pervading note of that speech must inevitably be: I am God! Unless the Church proclaims this truth in all its implications, in all its purity and without compromise, she cannot preach, she has nothing to say. Unless she proclaims this truth, not as one of the tenets of her faith but as the truth of all truths, not occasionally but always, she forfeits the right and lacks the power to say anything at all about man, the world, Christ, salvation, life and death, sin and grace. We hope to make this the theme of our radio broadcasts, whatever may be the particular subject of discussion, whether we speak of Him directly or of man, of Christ and salvation, of the Church and the world, of sin and grace, of life and death. God is God!"