This Month's Issue

Editorial by Ricardo Bacchus

I don’t think your son’s going to make it,” said the chaplain at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to my parents. “It’s not looking good.” 

On April 4, 2009, during postoperative care for ulcerative colitis, something went terribly wrong. My left lung collapsed, I stopped breathing and fell into a coma. Code blue was set in motion, as nurses hooked me to every resuscitation device available. Conventional wisdom pointed to a young man’s death, and it was the chaplain’s duty to break the heart-wrenching news to my parents. 

Story by V. Michelle Bernad

What might Ellen White, one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, say to addicts today? Cheri Peters, founder of True Step Ministries, recently edited White’s classic book Steps to Christ with what she thinks is the answer to that question. “It’s crazy that nobody has done it before,” says Peters, who aimed to update the book into modern language and added specific recovery jargon to the text.

Blog by Rob Vandeman

For 60 years WGTS 91.9 has served Washington, D.C., and shared Christ. See a timeline of their history here.

1957
WGTS is the first non-commercial radio station to start operating in the Washington, D.C., area.

1960
The station’s power increases from 10 watts to 10,000 watts, and another power increase is completed in the mid-1960s.

1966
WGTS is the first non-commercial radio station to broadcast in stereo in Washington, D.C.

1972
Don Martin, WAU alumnus and current board member, becomes the first full-time manager of the station.

1982
The station starts broadcasting 18 hours a day.

Story by WGTS Staff

On May 8, 1957, in the basement of the men’s dormitory on the campus of then Washington Missionary College, WGTS 91.9 started broadcasting on a 10-watt transmitter, covering a scant square mile in Takoma Park, Md.

The call letters—WGTS—echoed the college’s motto “Gateway to Service.”