In the World's Rural Outposts, A Shortwave Channel to God
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 7, 2007

As dusk fell deep in a forest of mango and palm trees, Jaime Jeremias
Matsimbe sat on the rose-colored dirt and hand-cranked a shortwave
radio, looking for the word of God.

He wound the little plastic handle round and round, charging the radio
like winding a watch, and soon a preacher's voice boomed across a
courtyard filled with goats and turkeys. Twenty miles from the nearest
paved road, Matsimbe smiled as he listened to a Texas preacher's
sermons about Jesus and Saint Paul, translated into a local language
spoken only in the southern African backcountry.

Long article in today's Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

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