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Our first PBS student enrolled in July 1999, since then over 16,000 students have enrolled over the past 24 years. We currently have about 1,700 students, including some 500 in the USA, who receive free PBS lessons through the mail. We have a number of Hutterite, Mennonite and Amish families doing them, along with many who Homeschool their children. Each month we print in colour, down in our basement, the four grades of BibleTime lessons, NewLife Bible Studies and Gleaners Bible Studies. (These specialized Bible study materials can also be downloaded and used as Sunday School Lessons, Bible Class Worksheets and Home Bible Study Notes.) A faithful team of some 180 teachers (who are in assemblies across N. America) mark the lessons, adding comments and encouraging their students. Anyone interested in becoming a PBS teacher can contact us at pbs110@mts.net or call 1-204-326-2750 and we will arrange to send you information for your prayerful consideration. Certificates are awarded to those who complete the full three-year course in each grade or who reach 5 or 10 years. Students accumulate marks towards prizes that they can request. These are also sent free of charge and include Bibles, story and reference books, DVD’s, stationery and CD’s. We are a registered charitable organization called PRAIRIE BIBLE SERVICES, with a current board of 6 directors, and therefore are able to issue our own tax receipts for any gifts that we may receive directly for the work of PBS.

 

Postal Bible Studies has been the charity’s sole outreach since it was established. However, that changed in 2020 due to Covid-19. After hearing the excellent program, AnchorPoint Radio (APR) we decided to promote it across southern Manitoba, through newspaper ads and targeted VIA Magazine distributions through Canada Post. Each VIA had a label promoting either one of the four stations (sponsored by local assemblies) or the APR website. In October 2020, PBS approached Arctic Radio in northern Manitoba about the possibility of them airing APR on their three radio stations in Thompson, Flin Flon & The Pas. They began broadcasting APR on Sunday Nov. 1st at 9:00 pm. In Jan. 2021 PBS signed a one-year contract with NCI FM, a native, Manitoba-wide radio network heard via 56 transmitters located everywhere from Winnipeg to Churchill to broadcast APR each Sunday at 6:00 pm. In May 2021 PBS signed a one-year contract with an independent station in Dauphin, MB (730 CKDM) to air both programs. APR on Sundays at 6:30 pm while COMPASS POINT is broadcast daily at 5:55 pm seven days a week. Then in March 2023 Radio Caribbean Lighthouse, a mission radio station in Antigua, began airing AnchorPoint Radio on Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm across 23 Caribbean islands. In December 2023, they told us that it would also be broadcasting the same program on Sunday mornings at 5:30 am. PBS took on a new sponsorship in Jan. ’24 as CHSM in Steinbach agreed to us airing APR on Thursday evenings at 9.30 pm. It had previously been heard on a Sunday evening, but this contract hadn’t been renewed in August ’23.  (The costs of these literature and radio outreaches are being channeled through Prairie Bible Services.)

 

To date (Jan. ‘24) all have renewed their contracts with us for 2024, so we currently sponsor AnchorPoint Radio on 6 Manitoban stations.

 

Our latest updates and prayer requests

Posted on January 24, 2024

  • For someone else to work one day a week in the PBS office to help Elaine.
  • For COMPASS POINT and AnchorPoint Radio programs that are now aired on nine Manitoban radio stations.
  • For plans to contact radio stations in the three northern territories, with a view to expanding sponsorship of AnchorPoint & COMPASS POINT programs.
  • Ongoing need for more PBS teachers for ALL age groups.
  • New – For preparation and staffing needs for a Gospel Booth at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair (March 25th – 30th D.V.) For good conversations and blessing on literature distributed. PBS and radio programs will be promoted.
  • For interest on the Hutterite Colonies to continue. Currently some 455 students on 83 colonies enjoy doing PBS lessons.

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