One of the first, if not the first, audio radio broadcasts over public airwaves took place at 9 p.m. on December 24th, 1906, 100 years ago today. Radio operators along the Atlantic coast of North America, mostly U.S. Navy personnel on duty and a few amateurs, suddenly heard voice and music over their wireless sets instead of the dots and dashes they were accustomed to.

Mr. Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian-born engineer and inventor, broadcast from the tower at Brant Rock, Massachusetts using a new type alternator that produced a continuous sine wave type signal and modulated the voice and music onto the amplitude of the sine wave - what we now call AM radio.

Fessenden made some short remarks about the ocassion, played the carol “O, Holy Night” on his violin, and read a passage from the Bible. We have no direct evidence that Mr. Fessenden pursued these endeavors in radio so that the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ might be broadcast to the world, but it certainly has turned out that way!

Much of the recorded material here at Voices For Christ was originally prepared for radio broadcast, and was preserved primarily as a by-product of that preparation. We are grateful to the Lord for all of those who used and continue to use radio for the purpose of spreading the gospel, teaching the saints, and encouraging persecuted believers. We are grateful to those who have preserved some of the older ministry prepared for radio and have shared it with us so that it could be digitized and repurposed on the world wide web.

You can read more about Mr. Fessenden and some technical details behind early radio
development here.

You can read more about the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, why He came to this earth
and what it means to you here.