News & Views

November 12, 2026



Topics this week:

Making Better Bible Costumes

Lifelong Missionary Shares

STR Coin Bank

November STR News Articles

Note: If this newsletter is "clipped," scroll to the bottom of the document and click the link that says, "View entire message." It is in blue and underlined.

(Note: Program schedules are subject to change.)

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Lifetime Missionary's Memories



What's it like growing up as a missionary kid? We interview Adventist Frontier Mission's new training director. Airing Sunday at 5 pm, Monday at 10 am, and Wednesday at midnight on STR stations, STR apps, and online at STR.fm.

Dawn Heeg Bible Costume Designer

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Bible Costume Design



Holiday plays are coming. How do you make Bible costumes look good? Airing this Sunday at 3:30 am, Monday at 4 pm, Wednesday at 9 pm, and Thursday at 1 pm, only on STR stations, STR apps, or online at STR.fm.

STR coin bank

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Free STR Coin Bank Offer

Would you like a free Strong Tower Radio coin bank? The first listener from each STR station to report hearing the National Emergency Alert System message will receive an STR coin bank. The report must state whether the alert was understandable, what time it was heard, the date, and which station you were listening to. Please email this to Info@StrongTowerRadio.org with your shipping address and a phone or email address for follow-up. We will notify the first person to report back for each of STR’s 32 stations!

President’s Perspective

David Bolduc

Sometimes we receive listener’s requests because they heard something on one of our 32 radio stations. Recently, a listener reached out asking how to listen again to a sermon about biblical marriage. Another listener heard a song that touched the heart and wanted to know the artist. It is such a blessing to know we can reach millions of people right now with the love of God. How often we hear, "the world is bad," and it is. But thousands of honest people are out there searching for Truth. Sometimes they "stumble" onto one of our stations and keep listening!

I grew up listening to overseas mission stories in my Sabbath School classes. Each phone call or email we receive from a listener is a mission story, literally in our backyard. The Lord has entrusted STR to reach the multitudes.

Through your faithful support, STR can proclaim the Love of God as revealed in our Lord and soon-coming Savior, Jesus Christ. All He asks is that we give Him our hearts, repent of our sins, and, as we love and follow Him, He will draw us closer to Himself.

STR rebroadcasts programming from many Bible-believing ministries, like Amazing Facts, It Is Written, Voice of Prophecy, and Your Story Hour, to name a few. STR does this at absolutely no charge. Those same ministries have to pay hundreds of dollars or more each month to other Christian stations to carry their programming.

As we near the end of this year, please consider supporting STR. We are expanding our broadcast reach by purchasing seven stations in the Jackson area. We have upgraded our antennas at the new Houghton, MI station.

As we near the holidays, many families are probably looking forward to being together. As we think of reuniting with these loved ones, some of us will deeply feel the absence of those precious souls we have laid to rest. I think the enemy takes delight in bringing sadness into the Holidays. In the past 12 months, I have been to more than a dozen funerals. Praise the Lord; we have the hope of the Second Coming.

Pastor Darrel le Roux said at our STR camp meeting, "We have more years ahead of us than behind us." Like Jilane used to say, “Jesus IS Coming Soon!” Please pray for, and financially support STR as we near the end of another year. 

Pastor Mark Howard

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UP Camp Meeting Sermons

Hear Mark Howard's Michigan UP Camp Meeting sermons titled With a Loud Voice. They will air the next two Fridays at 1 pm and Saturdays at 5 pm, only on STR stations, STR apps, or online at STR.fm.

Jilane Fenner

Current Events

Tom Mejeur

Production Director

The last quarter of the year has some of our favorite Strong Tower Radio special programs.

On November 11, we aired the following:

Veteran programming - Interviews with Dr. Terry Lyndon Johnson, Michigan Circuit Court Judge Jason Elmore, Teresa Franklin, RN, and Charles Schmitt.

"What is the Meaning of Thanksgiving?" with Pastor Jay Gallimore. Then, two Abraham Lincoln story Marathons from Your Story Hour and Youth with a Mission: this marathon totaled around 30 hours of Thanksgiving programs and music.

STR Today interviews John Holbrook: and in another interview, we learn of the closure crisis affecting private colleges, many of which are Christian colleges.

STR Feature interview with Little Light Studio’s Scotty Meyer about Disney’s new animated story portraying a girl with witchcraft powers. “Security in the Place of Worship” is an interview with the Michigan State Police regarding this year’s attacks on churches.

In Memoriam: We interviewed Pastor Steven Bohr at the Michigan Conference Camp Meeting. This is one of the last programs I was privileged to record with the late Jilane Fenner.

It has been my pleasure to work closely with Jilane for my entire eleven years at STR. She taught me how to conduct interviews. We did a lot of brainstorming for programming. I went to her when I had a mental block or needed inspiration. We worked closely on newsletters, reports, bulletin inserts, posters, car magnets, yard signs, and billboards.

Jilane would ask me to start articles, and then edit them, condensing them until they were more readable. I could trust her so much that I sometimes saw my piece in print before I saw the final draft! I was actually writing a report that I expected to hand off to her when I received the news of her death. I miss my colleague and friend in many, and in unexpected ways.

Many of you knew of Jilane Fenner. Some of you knew her in person. Please keep the STR staff and volunteers in prayer as we navigate the depths of this loss and work to keep Jilane’s vision of sharing the gospel on Michigan’s airwaves alive in her absence. 

Handcrafted thank-you gift sent from a listener

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Letters from listeners

STR enjoys your comments. Submit them to: Tom@StrongTowerRadio.org

Recent Comments:

I love STR. I have it going in my bathroom, my kitchen, my car… 

 -DB, Grand Haven, per phone inquiry

Inquiring about WIHC (Newberry). We love the station and have been missing it. There are at least 3 new members here because of Strong Tower Radio. We love the fact that the US can broadcast strictly one denomination, and we're glad STR is SDA, because that's not allowed in Canada.

-BH, Canada, 97.9 per phone inquiry

We have been supporting STR for quite a while now and are so excited at the prospect of getting it in our area.

-MK, Munising, STR.fm, per phone inquiry

Kam Ferguson teaching his STR Camp Meeting Seminar

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STR Events Calendar

Be a part of STR by joining us in person at one or more of the following events: 

11/14 11:00 am David @ Marion SDA Church

11/21 11:00 am David @ Gladwin SDA Church

11/21 11:25 am Kam @ Bellville SDA Church (part of STRQ full program)

12/05 11:00 am Kam @ Warren SDA Church

12/12 11:00 am Kam @ Muskegon SDA Church

01/09 11:00 am Kam @ Gladwin SDA Church

01/23 10:45 am Kam @ Midland SDA Church

01/30 11:15 am Kam @ Riverside SDA Church

02/13 09:00 am Kam @ Marshall SDA Church

02/13 11:00 am Kam @ Jackson SDA Church

02/13 02:00 pm Kam @ Bunker Hill SDA Church

02/20 11:15 am Kam @ South Haven SDA Church

"David" is David Bolduc - Founder and President

"Kam" is Kam Ferguson - Development Director

"Tom" is Tom Mejeur - Production & Marketing Director

"CAS" is the abbreviation for Camp Au Sable

"SDA" is the abbreviation for Seventh-day Adventist

"STR" is the abbreviation for Strong Tower Radio

Jacob and Emily Gibbs

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Sermons on STR

STR's Fresh Manna sermons are streaming at StrongTowerRadio.org, STR.fm, and STR's local stations, Monday through Friday, at 2 am and 11 am.

This Week's Sermons:

11/12 Steve Schefka - The Cup of Gold

11/13 Malcolm Douglas - The Unsung Servant

Next Week Non-Thanksgiving Sermon:

11/16 David Austin - What We Really Need Is

Thanksgiving Sermons:

11/17 Garhett Morgan - Thankful For What

11/18 Sean Reed - Oh Give Thanks to the Lord

11/19 Jacob Gibbs - To Have Thankful Eyes

11/20 Chris Holland - Thanksgiving in the Midst of Crisis

11/23 Malcom Douglas - Thankful

11/24 Sean Reed - With a Grateful Heart

11/25 Giancarlo de Miranda - In Everything Give Thanks

11/26 Steven Conway - The Truth on Thankfulness

11/27 Chris Holland - Thankful for One Another

STR Sabbath Sermons: Saturdays at 11 am

11/14 Shane Anderson - Finding Freedom Behind the Curtain

STR Ministry News 62 percent "unmoved"

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Sixty-Two Percent Unmoved?

Happy Thanksgiving, Readers! I praise God for sustaining Strong Tower Radio this year through His many zealous, faithful people! We live in an information age, and I now share some information that should stand out to you.

*Strong Tower Radio's monthly operating costs average $77,000 for 32 stations at full power. *Some stations are not at full power due to equipment failures, partial or total. Kam Ferguson, Development Director

*After being at reduced power for several months, WIHC, 97.9 FM, near Newberry, MI has been off-air for over 2 weeks due to a failed component that requires $3,000 to replace. A $1,000 matching grant has been offered for a 2x1 match that expires this Nov. 24. When $2,000 is raised, another $1,000 matches to fund the purchase.

*The Grand Haven station, WMPA, 93.1 FM, operates at reduced power due to a weakened, unrepairable transmitter. A new unit costs $25K; praise God, $15K has been given to date!

*While payroll is current, cash sits near zero.

*We've been informed in writing that future off-schedule payroll tax payments will incur fines. There is no margin for delaying payrolls going forward.

*Just under 1/3 of STR support comes from monthly donors at this time.

*Over 100 STR listeners have given their lives to Jesus & embraced His everlasting gospel!

Dear Reader, do you find this newsletter merely interesting, or does it activate you? Consider one more piece of information: 62% of this newsletter’s readers have not yet donated to support STR. Will you add donations with your prayers for more STR listeners and transformed lives?!

The living God of the universe changes lives through His everlasting gospel. Strong Tower Radio is life-changing radio, broadcasting this full gospel 24/7/365! To each person supporting this ministry with your prayers and finances, thank you! To those who have not yet begun, now is the day of salvation. Activate your financial support of STR, through which the Holy Spirit continues to transform lives!

Kam Ferguson

Development Director

How to Make Your Investment Donations…

For a credit card charge or a bank account withdrawal go to our secure website, www.StrongTowerRadio.org, or call 231-468-2087.

Donations via check or money order: mail to STR, PO Box 567, Cadillac, MI 49601

Thank you for listening to, supporting, and praying for Strong Tower Radio,

"Where God's Character IS Proclaimed!"

The new Strong Tower Radio Spring Arbor station group coverage area.

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Ways to Support STR

You can donate to Strong Tower Radio in several ways, each with its own impact.

The fastest and most effective ways to donate include giving directly via a mailed check, calling in a donation, or donating on our website at StrongTowerRadio.org. These allow you to designate the specific station you want to fund.

Another way is to give a gift to the Michigan Radio Ministry Fund via a tithe envelope or your church's Adventist Giving online  https://adventistgiving.org/donate/ANFFFF

STR now accepts PayPal.

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PayPal:

Another Way to Give



PayPal is an easy and popular way to make payments, transfer money, and give to Strong Tower Radio. We have now arranged to accept PayPal for donations.

Go to:

1) STR.fm,

2) StrongTowerRadio.org/donate,

3) https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HUSEG6XLACE2E,

4) or your PayPal account. Designate West Central Michigan Media Ministries (our legal name for doing business as Strong Tower Radio).

You may give, as with other methods, once, or automatically. You choose. Thank you for your prayers and your financial support of Strong Tower Radio.

Strong Tower Radio giving QR code

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STR Giving



You can give to Strong Tower Radio by accessing the giving page with your smartphone. Point, click, and give!