CallCall LetterLetter P.O. Box 820, Nome, Alaska 99762 Phone 907-443-2213 Fax 907-443-2344 e-mail: [email protected] web page: www.kicy.org January, 2004

Manager’s Mic KICY ll of us who serve at KICY wish Ato thank you for your prayers and financial support over the past year. With our debt behind us, 2004 is bright with promises of new ways we can reach out and touch our listeners for the Lord in western Alaska and the Russian Far East. Andrei has been working on Dennis Weidler developing a contact in Anadyr, the capital of Dennis Weidler, Ted Haney, Sister Olson, Ralph Fondell, Chukotka, who would be willing to James Engwall and Dave Oseland burn the mortgage. host a CareForce style prayer request program in the Russian Language. The Debt Has Been Paid. We were really looking for someone hrist paid the debt for all our God continues to bless our unique, who lived and worked in our Russian Csins. That is the daily message international, multi cultural radio coverage area. We both believe we at KICY. Now, we can add to that broadcasting service. are very close and we’ll let you know one more debt which has been paid Our prayer supporters continue to more next month. in full. petition for our spiritual safety and We are fully staffed and are using A little over 4 years ago, Arctic well being. this opportunity to present even Broadcasting had accumulated a Our financial supporters have more local and regional athletic total indebtedness of over $600,000. allowed KICY to regain the influ- events. High School sports really Since KYKD in Bethel and KCFA ence it had years ago. unite villages and bonds our listeners in Anchorage had both been sold, Freedom from debt gives us oppor- to us. Also coming up in fewer than that left the burden of repayment tunities to dream of what lies ahead 60 days is the 2004 Iditarod. Over squarely on the shoulders of KICY. for 2004. 100 mushers have signed up to In September of this year, the final compete. The pickup truck we were payment was made to Church A Prayer of Praise. able to purchase locally came with an Growth & Evangelism allowing We are within a few thousand Amateur radio installed. That will KICY to finish 2003 with no debt. dollars of meeting our goal to send help greatly with communications. In that same four year period, we 1,000 solar powered radios to Also, only one western Alaska raised $400,000 to build the 50,000 Russia. village remains without a pastor, watt directional system, and raised Words cannot express our most something ECCAK Field Director another $150,000 to rebuild all the sincere thanks. You are all a Rodney Sawyer is focused on. broadcast studios and extensively blessing through your support of Thank God for him and his commit- remodel the living quarters for our Radios for Russia. ment to village pastors. volunteer staff. A Prayer Request. For each of our staff members.

Greg ‘Bo’ Bowman

Tanzi Barefoot

Posing in the Studio with test certificates. Mitchell Nash

KICY Staff Earn Amateur Matthew Lundgren Radio Licenses. everal of the KICY staff mem- December 2, the trio finally sat down Sarah Luther Sbers have been studying for with three local volunteer examiners their Amateur Radio Technician and took the 35 questions of Element Neil Peterson FCC license for over a year. In 2. All three passed. that time many folks joined the Today, Jamie Saghafi, KL1OC, Neil April A.J. Pugh study group and just as many Peterson, KL1OD and Dennis departed. Weidler, KL1OE are fully licensed Finally, the three remaining Amateur RadioTechnicians. There is Greg Pugh candidates replaced their book- even talk of studying for the Morse based study time with on-line test Code portion and continuing on to Brenda Ratzlaff taking. After several weeks, we take the General Exam. discovered we were taking the We all hope it doesn’t take a year to Greg Ratzlaff sample tests from the wrong pool get to the next level, but we are of questions. Another setback. determined! Then, on Tuesday evening, Jamie Saghafi Salmon Fundraising Dinners Andrei Sarazov Planned in 2004. Ellen Sarazov f you would like a KICY staff January 30th. Imember to travel to your church The second dinner is scheduled for Candace Weidler and bake a Salmon dinner...just let Saturday, February 8th at Glen Ellyn, us know. We’ll even fly in the Illinois. Dennis Weidler Norton Sound Silver Salmon and And dinner number three will be bake it Nome style. held in Tucson, Arizona on April So far in 2004, three Salmon 23rd. Frances Whitmore Dinners have been scheduled. The If you would like to host a KICY first will be held at Excelsior Salmon Dinner Fundraising Event, Julie Yoder Covenant Church in Excelsior, give us a call, toll-free at 1-800-478- Minnesota on Friday evening, 5429. Capital KICY Now Licensed for Campaign 50,000 Watts, Fulltime. Update. n Tuesday afternoon, Decem- on the air for years. Recently, this hanks to all who contributed to Ober 16th, we received word frequency was purchased and Tour Capital Campaign. 2003 was from our FCC Attorneys in Wash- closed to allow a station at 840 kHz a year of miracles. In one year we ington, DC that KICY had been to be built in Concord, California. raised nearly $100,000! granted authority to broadcast at As soon as the sale was consum- Thanks to your generosity, KICY 50,000 watts, 24 hours a day, seven mated, Alan Anway in Clearwater, now has a reliable, 4 wheel drive days a week. This is also on a single Florida, submitted our application pickup truck. And, it came with an broadcast tower so it is not a direc- to go to 50,000 watts all the time. Amateur radio already installed. Today tional signal but radiates from On December 16th it happened. we also have three licensed Amateur Nome in all directions, equally. KICY shares 850 kHz with KOA operators! We can add this to our long list of in Denver, Colorado, but there The last $7,000 in our Capital God-granted miracles at KICY. were no objections. Campaign drive will be for 1,000 Since April of 2001, when we were This is a significant improvement Radios for Russia! authorized for 50,000 watts into in coverage, especially during the Russia and 50,000 watts daytime, nighttime hours when ‘skywave’ $100,000 we still had to reduce power to allows our signal to travel much 10,000 watts during ‘nighttime’ further than during daylight hours. hours. In the winter this was every With our new power, we feel all of $90,000 hour except from Noon to 5 PM! Alaska and parts of the Yukon are We were forced into this nighttime within our nighttime coverage area. power reduction to protect a station There has been much prayer $80,000 in Anchorage at 840 kHz. As it about this. God has blessed KICY turns out, this station had not been again. We are also confident that the Lord, through our supporters, $70,000 will provide the resources we need Memorials to pay for the increased power costs. In November and December $60,000 we received memorials in the PLEASE NOTE! name of: -December Income- $50,000 Doris Anderson $32,227.07 Tom Dotomain Includes Sales & Programs but Merton Denelsbeck not designated funds. $40,000 Kathy Erickson -December Budget- Melvin Miller $26,860.00 Harold Swanberg This is a make or break time of $30,000 Angeline Oman year. Thank you for making Leslie Baroas 2003 financially sound. Sylvia Dove $20,000 Jennie Jackson Arctic Broadcasting Jeff Hoglund Association is an affiliated corporation Thank you for remembering a $10,000 loved one through a gift to our of the Evangelical mission. Covenant Church. Non Profit Rate U S Postage PAID Permit #88 Fairbanks, Alaska AM-850 & ICY 100.3 FM P.O. Box 820

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