Upper Room devotional
broadcast in Zulu language

NASHVILLE (Tennessee) -- Snap. Crackle. Pop.


No, it is not the sound of a breakfast cereal but the beginning of the first isiZulu translation and radio broadcast of the Upper Room's daily devotional.
The broadcast is found on frequency 1170 MW on TransWorld Radio, transmitted out of Swaziland into KwaZulu Natal, one of the provinces in South Africa, via Medium Wave receiver.


For the first time, the Upper Room devotional is being broadcast in an African language. "It's plain for all to hear," said Mr Roland Rink, coordinator of the United Methodist Church's Africa Upper Room Ministries.


As at Feb 1, 2006, the devotional is heard daily at 6.57 pm Swaziland time, offering "food for the soul" to the almost 9 million Zulu-speaking people in KwaZulu Natal, an area with the largest Zulu-speaking population.


The broadcast is coordinated by Africa Upper Room Ministries and the Upper Room based in Nashville, Tennessee, in conjunction with TransWorld Radio, headquartered in South Africa with bases across the continent.


Africa Upper Room Ministries, housed at Anathoth House, is based in Eikenhof, an agricultural community south of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the African continental office of Upper Room Ministries.


-- United Methodist News Service.