TBN Reaching Brazil through Partnership With Two Powerful Television Affiliates

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Jul 28, 2014, 07:30 ET

LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Christian television is alive and expanding dramatically throughout the South American nation of Brazil, thanks to Boas Novas and Rede Gospel, a pair of powerful national affiliates of the global Trinity Broadcasting Family of Networks.

It all began in 1995 when TBN founders Dr. Paul and Jan Crouch made a trip to Brazil, where they met up with Brazilian pastor Samuel Camâra, who two years earlier had launched a small Christian station name Boas Novas in the heart of Brazil's capital, Sao Paulo.

"Boas Novas is Portuguese for 'good news,'" explained TBN Vice President Matthew Crouch, "and Pastor Samuel shared the vision he had of reaching the entire nation of Brazil with the good news of Jesus Christ through Christian television. His vision had hit a snag, however, because the station was in need of everything, from a new transmitter for the original station, to a studio and equipment for a second station he was establishing in Manaus, a major city in northern Brazil."

Mr. Crouch said that there was a divine plan behind that meeting with his parents, because several years earlier Dr. Crouch and TBN had provided the needed equipment and resources for another television project in Brazil that had not been successful. "But that initial failure was destined to turn into a great victory," explained Mr. Crouch, "because the equipment and resources TBN had already invested in Christian television in Brazil were ready and waiting for Boas Novas — including, miraculously, an existing television studio in the city of Manaus!"

Nearly twenty years later this TBN affiliate has grown into the largest Christian television network in Brazil, reaching some 220 cities — and a potential audience of over 45 million Brazilian viewers — via satellite and over-the-air broadcast with a broad range of impacting faith-and-family programming, including Praise the Lord and many other popular TBN music and ministry shows dubbed into Portuguese.

But Boas Novas isn't the only TBN affiliate broadcasting the good news throughout Brazil. In 2012 TBN began partnering with a second powerful network, Rede Gospel — Portuguese for the "Gospel Television Network" — providing the equipment and resources to help Rede Gospel make the crucial switch from analog to full digital broadcast. Today, with TBN's partnership, Rede Gospel reaches over 41 million potential viewers with life-changing Christian programming via over-the-air, cable, and satellite broadcast.

Matthew Crouch noted that Brazil is one of the richest spiritual harvest fields in the Western Hemisphere. "With the World Cup just completed and the Summer Olympics coming up in 2016, Brazil is a progressive nation on the move," said Mr. Crouch. "It's exactly the kind of nation my parents had in mind when they launched TBN over forty years ago — a nation that needs Jesus."

He added that through Boas Novas and Rede Gospel, "TBN is helping to meet Brazil's need for spiritual renewal, just as we are through nearly 30 networks and affiliates broadcasting the gospel 24 hours a day on every inhabited continent.That's the TBN vision — to use the continuing miracle of television to reach the world for Christ."

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