Radio
Maria visits NB NK Rotary
Polly Barga, a volunteer with Radio Maria visited the NB
NK Rotary Club to share the Radio Maria mission with Rotarians.
“Radio Maria is an intercessor, a teacher, a comforter, a guide, a
family and a Christian voice in your home,” an excerpt from the Radio Maria
brochure. Radio Maria, Inc. is a
Catholic programming radio station that began in
Italy
in 1983. The worldwide Radio Maria
family is in 60 countries, and came to the
US
in 2000. The studio in Minster and
the studio in
Springfield
are the two
Ohio
locations. The primary studio for
the
US
is located in
Alexandria
,
Louisiana
. The Anna tower reaches from
Bellefontaine almost to
Fort
Recovery
, north to
Lima
and south to
Sidney
.
All of the stations in the
US
broadcast the same programming at the same time, with a few local programs
thrown in. St. Augustine Pastor
Father Rick Nieberding of Minster hosts a program each Monday.
Radio Maria also broadcasts the Mass Celebrations of local Catholic
parishes. The programming offers
Catholic teaching, prayer, intercessory prayer worship, music and also a great
deal of human development content as well.
“The human development, which is a big part of Radio Maria is not
specifically Catholic,” said Barga. The
station broadcasts programming twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.
“What we’re struggling to do is to increase our
output, said Barga. In order to do
that, we need support from our listeners.
We’re trying to get the word out to local parishes and service clubs
and get more listeners.” Radio
Maria operates solely on listener contributions.
Radio Maria can be found at 88.7 on the FM radio dial and online at www.radiomaria.us
. The Minster station (Anna tower)
began four years ago and Fr. Rick will celebrate Mass at
St. Augustine
in Minster this weekend in honor of the anniversary.
This upcoming fall, Radio Maria will hold a pancake breakfast
fundraiser. “Arms21 is a program
where a listener can commit to giving $21.00 per month to the radio
station,” said Barga. “Seventy-seven
Arms21 commitments would sustain our operations for one year.
There is no commercial advertising on Radio Maria.”
Hosting Rotarian:
Stan
Kuenning
