FM RADIO PROJECT FOR KIRUMBA SEVENTHDAY ADVENTIST CHURCH MWANZA TANZANIA
BACKGROUND
The Kirumba Seventh day Adventist Church is located in The South Nyanza Conference, near Lake Victoria in Mwanza city northern Tanzania. The church was built in the year 1965. Being the first church to be built around here; it is recognized as the mother church of all the 56 churches in the city. South Nyanza Conference covers an area of 70,373sqkm with a population of 6,954,501people (2002sensus.) This conference leads all other conferences in the Tanzania Union by having 554 churches and a membership of 112,574 that is 27% of the entire membership in the Union. This is 0.2 of the population in the SNC.
This radio project will be financed and operated by Kirumba Seventh Adventist church but signal coverage is planned to reach the entire population of the South Nyanza Conference shown above.
This is not a small project. It is a big project that requires resources from GOD fearing men and women from all over the world who are called as to bring in the shiefs as faithful workmen in his field.
REASONS FOR THE FM RADIO PROJECT
In spite of being the leading conference in number of churches and membership, South Nyanza Conference is facing an uphill task of evangelizing the population around it. Among many other reasons the following are the basic reasons that compelled the church to have this mission:
Improve Church Growth
Only 1.6% of the people in the conference are Adventists. This is a challenging fact. The remaining 98.4% are living in darkness. Alongside the traditional methods of preaching i.e. public preaching evangelism, literature evangelism; radio evangelism will reach many people at the same time and at a speeder rate. This will improve church growth at a greater speed.
- Minimize cost of Evangelism
The radio could reach all the 6.9m people at the same time and at lesser cost. Money saved out of this will be used in other pressing church needs like employing more pastors to look after the new flock won through radio and other means of evangelism.
- Improve spiritual & physical health
The radio will provide lessons on food and diet, hygiene, infectious diseases in the area. This program will improve physical as well as spiritual health of believers and prospective believers.
PROJECT ESTABLISHMENT BUDGET
|
Budget item |
Cost |
Source of finance |
|
Preliminary expenses |
20,000 |
Church budget |
|
Cost of Building |
120,000 |
Church budget |
|
Cost of Equipment |
90,000 |
Donor funds |
|
Working capital |
80,400 |
Funds from operations & donors |
Cost of Building & Preliminary expenses
Construction of the building for the radio station is in progress and is being financed by the church budget as shown above. Preliminary expenses as well will be financed the church budget.
Cost of equipment
The church is appealing to all GOD fearing people from all over the world to donate and finance the cost of the radio equipment.
Working Capital Financing
The radio project is planned to be an autonomous project that will generate its own funds to meet the running costs as shown on the below analysis of cash flows during operations;
|
ACTIVITY |
INFLOW(USD) |
OUTFLOWS(USD) |
|
Commercial adverts |
28,000 |
|
|
Choir Music recordings |
17,200 |
|
|
Donor funds |
24,000 |
|
|
Program sponsorship |
26,000 |
|
|
Greeting cards programs |
23,600 |
|
|
Employment costs(salaries & wages) |
|
24,000 |
|
License fee |
|
1,000 |
|
Production cost |
|
19,600 |
|
Electricity & generator expenses |
|
12,800 |
|
Depreciation of equipment |
|
6,400 |
|
CDs ,DVDs for storage and back up |
|
9,000 |
|
Professional expenses |
|
7,600 |
|
Totals(USD) |
118,800 |
80,400 |
|
Surplus(USD) |
|
38,400 |
