CV founded as an international charity by Robert Edmiston.
1989
Philippines
Supported a church-planting program, which resulted in 106 new churches.
Ran training seminars for pastors of new churches.
Supported Kids Club, a children’s ministry with a membership of over 300,000.
Poland
Supported church planters in establishing 20+ churches for 3 years.
1990
India
Produced a series of Leadership Now radio programs that were broadcast into India.
Philippines
Partly-funded Snatched From The Dark, a full-length feature film about the power of God over the demonic realm.
Hong Kong
Distributed Bibles to over 55,000 Vietnamese people in refugee camps.
Established churches in 5 of the 12 refugee camps. Hundreds of people became Christians.
1991
India
Supported 60 evangelists to travel through 1039 villages in northern India.
Introduced over 8,000 people to Jesus.
Baptized 2,000 people. Established 445 mini churches.
Vietnam
Supported church planting, leadership training and Christian literature translation. Despite heavy persecution, the Church here continued to grow.
1992
China (Island of Palau)
Supported the construction of a shortwave radio station to broadcast to China in Mandarin.
Partnered with High Adventure radio ministries – a significant step that led us into broadcast media.
United Kingdom
Constructed a radio production studio at CV’s main office complex.
Produced Christian radio programs in multiple languages, including Mandarin.
Printed The Simple Truth, a manual designed to teach the foundations of Christianity with simple terminology.
The book was originally used to train leaders in Africa but has since been translated into many languages. It is also now available for free electronically.
Tanzania, Zaire, Burundi
Commenced a church-planting project that released 170 church planters into east and central Africa.
Developed a leadership training program.
Established 5 bible schools.
Started a mobile version of the training program.
Kenya
Trained 4000 pastors in 5 regions.
1993
Estonia
Supported the Christian Pentecostal Church in equipping the growing and emerging Church in Estonia.
Supported 2 deaf evangelists to reach the oppressed deaf community with the Gospel. Also established churches and a bible school for the deaf.
Supported a school worker to promote evangelism and discipleship in local high schools.
Supported the production and broadcast of radio programs for 3 hours every evening.
Amazon Rainforest
Supported 25 evangelists to travel into the Amazon rainforest by canoe and reach tribal communities with the Gospel.
This contact would later become a partner in our Impact a Nation projects, providing the people as missionaries for Mozambique, Angola and East Timor.
1994
Zambia
Commissioned Breaking The Chains, a video telling the story of Zambia and its recent dedication to God.
Built a shortwave radio station to broadcast to Zambia and surrounding countries.
1996
Zambia
Launched Radio Christian Voice on FM 106.2mhz. The radio station soon became a household name in Zambia and a flagship for quality content.
United Kingdom
Constructed new production facilities in West Bromwich.
Produced quality English radio programs for African affiliates.
Mozambique
Launched an Impact-a-Nation project in North Mozambique.
Supported 70 pastors from Brazil to work alongside local pastors on the church-planting project.
1997
Zambia
Built a bible college with an emphasis on church planting to train hundreds of local Christians. Also taught practical skills such as farming to help provide food and income.
Supported the top graduating students for 3 years, enabling them to focus on planting more churches.
Chile
Purchased a shortwave transmitter site formerly owned by the Chilean government.
Began broadcasting Spanish programs to Latin America.
1998
USA
Launched Voz Cristiana at production studios in Miami, broadcasting in Spanish 24 hours a day to Central America, South America, the USA and Spain. The first affiliate of Voz Cristiana went live in 1999 in Argentina and Peru. Soon after, over 400 affiliates were rebroadcasting CV programs, touching millions of lives every day.
Added a Portuguese program stream in 2001, broadcasting 18 hours a day to Brazil.
Later renamed Voz Cristiana to CVC La Voz.
2000
East Timor
Instigated an Impact-a-Nation project in East Timor.
Supported 50 pastors from Brazil to establish a church-planting project.
Installed an FM radio station.
Mozambique
Extended an existing Impact-a-Nation project to include South Mozambique and added another 30 pastors.
2001
Angola
Launched another Impact-a-Nation project.
Established 5 schools of over 2000 children.
Established 23 churches.
Established a drug rehabilitation centre.
2002
Australia
Broadcasted the Gospel in 3 languages to China, Indonesia, India and other parts of Southeast Asia.
Built production studio complex in Maroochydore as a regional base for Asia Pacific.
United Kingdom
Broadcasted Bollywood music and Gospel content on shortwave to India in Hindi from production facilities in the UK. The Voice Asia later extended to include Pakistan and Nepal.
2003
USA
Moved Voz Cristiana to a new studio facility in Miami.
2006
Brazil
Partnered with a Brazilian TV ministry to build a national broadcasting network with transmitters in 30 locations.
Germany
Purchased a powerful transmitter shortwave transmission site, enabling CV to broadcast the Gospel to Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Russia.
2007
South Africa
Moved the existing programing facility from the UK to Cape Town.
Constructed studios and training facilities for affiliate stations around Africa.
The affiliate station network continues to expand today.
2008
Zambia
Moved Radio Christian Voice to a new studio premises in the heart of Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia. The new studios facilitated the inclusion of a local languages program stream.
Singapore, Indonesia, India
Opened strategic country offices to help provide relevant program content and localized follow-up response.
2009
Ukraine
Launched the One Hope project, aimed at helping and mentoring children in state orphanages in Ukraine. This project has since been instrumental in launching a national organisation called Ukraine Without Orphans.
2010
Ukraine
Constructed the CIS regional office and studios in Kiev with a focus on using the Internet to broadcast the Gospel.
Launched Zazazu.tv, a site offering video blogs and live program streaming for Russian-speaking youth.
Launched Proactive.fm, an Internet radio station.
Australia
Closed the Darwin shortwave site to focus on using the Internet as a broadcasting platform.
Myanmar, Indonesia
Launched Impact-a-Nation projects in Myanmar and Indonesia.
Trained and released 120 nationals to establish churches.
2011
South Africa
Produced Home, an evangelistic feature film for the deaf. 2,500 people dedicated their lives to Christ after watching the film. It was then released in Zimbabwe.
Australia
Launched yesHEis as an international website to mobilise Christians to share their faith online.
Middle East
Established a production team to pioneer Sharek Online, the Arabic equivalent of yesHEis.
Established I.M.S., an Internet mission school to train and resource believers to evangelize online.
2014
Globally
Rebranded CV and yesHEis to reunite offices and teams around the world.
Expanded the yesHEis initiative across key languages and countries.
China
Opened a country office in Beijing and launched yesHEis in China.
2015
Germany, Brazil, Philippines, Taiwan, Korea
Launched yesHEis franchises in the local languages.
USA
Opened a regional office in Dallas and launched yesHEis in the North America.
2016
Globally
Transitioned yesHEis to an app-only strategy.
Added a fresh emphasis on encouraging Christians to share the Gospel with their friends.
Expanded online direct-evangelism strategies.
Reached 1 million Gospel presentations online as part of the #goeverywhere global evangelism campaign.
Australia, Venezuela, Ukraine
Launched the NPI brand as a primary Impact-a-Nation activity.
Ukraine
Campaigned for government legislation changes for orphans as part of our One Hope project in CIS.
Middle East
Sent outreach pioneers to serve and minister to refugees in Europe.
Supported the construction of a shortwave radio station to broadcast to China in Mandarin.
Partnered with High Adventure radio ministries – a significant step that led us into broadcast media.
United Kingdom
Constructed a radio production studio at CV’s main office complex.
Produced Christian radio programs in multiple languages, including Mandarin.
Printed The Simple Truth, a manual designed to teach the foundations of Christianity with simple terminology.
The book was originally used to train leaders in Africa but has since been translated into many languages. It is also now available for free electronically.
Tanzania, Zaire, Burundi
Commenced a church-planting project that released 170 church planters into east and central Africa.
Built a bible college with an emphasis on church planting to train hundreds of local Christians. Also taught practical skills such as farming to help provide food and income.
Supported the top graduating students for 3 years, enabling them to focus on planting more churches.
Chile
Purchased a shortwave transmitter site formerly owned by the Chilean government.
Began broadcasting Spanish programs to Latin America.
Launched Voz Cristiana at production studios in Miami, broadcasting in Spanish 24 hours a day to Central America, South America, the USA and Spain. The first affiliate of Voz Cristiana went live in 1999 in Argentina and Peru. Soon after, over 400 affiliates were rebroadcasting CV programs, touching millions of lives every day.
Added a Portuguese program stream in 2001, broadcasting 18 hours a day to Brazil.
Broadcasted the Gospel in 3 languages to China, Indonesia, India and other parts of Southeast Asia.
Built production studio complex in Maroochydore as a regional base for Asia Pacific.
United Kingdom
Broadcasted Bollywood music and Gospel content on shortwave to India in Hindi from production facilities in the UK. The Voice Asia later extended to include Pakistan and Nepal.
Moved Radio Christian Voice to a new studio premises in the heart of Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia. The new studios facilitated the inclusion of a local languages program stream.
Singapore, Indonesia, India
Opened strategic country offices to help provide relevant program content and localized follow-up response.
Launched the One Hope project, aimed at helping and mentoring children in state orphanages in Ukraine. This project has since been instrumental in launching a national organisation called Ukraine Without Orphans.
Produced Home, an evangelistic feature film for the deaf. 2,500 people dedicated their lives to Christ after watching the film. It was then released in Zimbabwe.
Australia
Launched yesHEis as an international website to mobilise Christians to share their faith online.
Middle East
Established a production team to pioneer Sharek Online, the Arabic equivalent of yesHEis.
Established I.M.S., an Internet mission school to train and resource believers to evangelize online.