Radio Kahuzi is a Light in the Darkness...

YOU Can Help Us Shine His Light.

Greetings from Rich and Kathy,


Hope Amid Conflict

Even as confrontations continued throughout this week around Bukavu, a historic signing took place involving all concerned parties--including the M23. In the final days of conflict, bands of fighters were positioned around the Kabare area and near the Kavumu airport north of the city of Bukavu.


The encouraging news is that soldiers, including child soldiers are now applying for evacuation — seeking to be freed from forced service in what has been a killing field, where young neighbors were ordered to shoot their own cousins or face death themselves. Two generations of young people have been lost from the future development of the nation that is now coming around the corner.


Pray for His message of Grace and forgiveness to reach their hearts and save some....especially the young ones. They are returning home for lack of food and family.


"Where there is no vision, the people perish:"

Proverbs 29: 18


Into the Desktop Satellite Age:

AI & New Outreach

The DRC joins a growing list of African countries embracing SpaceX's satellite Internet service, Starlink. (Source: Starlink)

Richard & Kathy's Vision


Even in college, the Lord was preparing us for this ministry — moving us step by step. Now we are at a point where the hundreds of Bible transcripts, translations, and teaching charts we have prepared over the years are being aided by AI, enabling publication and distribution through many media channels reaching China, Russia, Ukraine, and even the most remote jungles and mountains.


We trust and hope that more will see that the fields are white unto harvest! We invite you to join us in this Desktop Satellite Age of mature Christian ministry at a distance — whether from afar or, as Kathy and I have done for 51 ½ years in D.R. Congo, from right here on the ground.


We are now launching outreaches from multiple country locations using smartphones, Low Orbit Satellites (Starlink), the Internet, and other means — reaching into open fields for the Gospel, biblical teaching, and education.


Pray with us for the Lord's enabling and our good success.


Click to read: D R Congo Investments


A NOTE FROM THE SMITHS

Photo: Richard presented Richard Lugano with an award

 to celebrate his service with BESI / Radio Kahuzi

What’s Next: Expanding into Maniema Province


Lord willing, Richard Lugano will help establish a Starlink-based communications network for Grace believers in Maniema Province — including Kindu and Kama — using low-earth orbit satellites to reach remote jungle and mountain communities. This revives and modernizes the satellite communications model Richard and Kathy built before the Internet age. He also hopes to launch a regional printing ministry, drawing on his experience running the thriving CyberCafe and Printing business in downtown Bukavu.


Carrying the Vision Forward

Richard and Kathy's vision for Radio Kahuzi lives on — but it cannot move forward without your prayers and support.


The ongoing war in the region has taken a devastating toll on our team. Most of our Radio Kahuzi staff has lost at least two family members — to sickness, disease, or direct conflict. Behind these numbers are real people, real grief, and real faith that refuses to quit.


The losses have been heartbreaking. We mourn with Feza, who lost her daughter, Kati and Samuel, who lost their precious baby girl.


And yet — they remain. They broadcast. They believe in the mission.


Current Need: $10,000 


We need your help to sustain Radio Kahuzi Staff and their families, including the remaining 26 children. Your giving is more than financial — it is a lifeline to a team that has chosen hope over heartbreak, and mission over mourning.


Thank you for your prayers, your encouragement, and your steadfast support of Richard & Kathy and the entire BESI / Radio Kahuzi family.


Until we see Him Face to Face in the Heavenlies,


Keep Looking UP!

Harold D. Smith, and our

BESI Board of Directors

Friends Bearing Gifts


As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,

especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Galatians 6: 10



 

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