The Tide®

Each year, The Tide® provides a wonderful way to make a global impact for Christ while hitting the links. And over the years, several community partners have come together to help make two annual golf outings a success. For 73 years, The Tide ministry has served as a multi-national Gospel organization with partners around the world as well as near its U.S. headquarters of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Since 1946, The Tide ministry has recorded and broadcast Gospel radio programming in the languages people were born to speak. Currently, The Tide ministry offers audio programming in 25 heart languages spoken by millions of people in multiple regions of Albania, Bhutan, India, Kosovo, Nepal, Nigeria, Thailand and Zimbabwe. Local partners sponsor the annual golf tournaments to help continue The Tide’s important work. “Several local organizations with historical ties have strong relationships with The Tide ministry, as we work together as a community to make a global impact,” said The

David Curry, head of Open Doors USA, penned an editorial for USA Today last month where he admonished American churches for not being more concerned about the worldwide persecution of their brothers and sisters in Christ. For instance, in May , extremists in Nigeria—where The Tide ® ( www.thetide.org ) global radio ministry has recorded and broadcast Gospel radio programming for more than 10 years—abducted 17 Christians right from their church choir practice. The believers are being ransomed, and the women could be sold into slavery, raped or worse. This was just one of many attacks on Christians in Nigeria, where 3,731 Christians were killed last year, Curry said. “If such violence had occurred in Nashville rather than Nigeria, it would dominate nightly news broadcasts and saturate social media feeds,” he wrote. “American churches would be launching fundraising campaigns for victims’ families and addressing it in their weekly gatherings. In this case, however, the American churc