Greetings in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ—the name that is above every name. 

This past two months have been very busy for Kristi and myself but God has blessed us.  In January, we made an unexpected trip to Mississippi when Kristi’s grandmother fell very ill.  She passed away on January 21^st, and we returned to North Carolina a few days later to continue working on getting the paperwork about our purchasing WCOK Radio ready to file with the FCC.  I am happy to report that all the papers have been filed with the FCC this week, and we expect to have WCOK Radio by the end of March and will begin broadcasting soon after.  This will be a great addition to our ministry.  I feel that we can reach many people in the mountains of North Carolina. 

Several pastors have already expressed interest in coming on board with us and having a radio broadcast on WCOK.  If you are interested in a broadcast on WCOK Radio, I will be happy to talk with you about that in the next few weeks.  I know that God is going to bless our operations in the mountain and will continue to bless our operations in Dobson. 

The ministries here continue to do great.  God continues to bless our radio station and is also blessing the internet radio station.  We set another record in January for PreachingtheGospel.org.  It had over 36,000 hits to the website.  It is continuing to get preaching out around the world.  I am amazed at what God is doing with this station. 

One prayer request I have is that God will expand our radio broadcast ministry—my daily and weekly broadcasts—that we can expand them to other stations.  We continue to reach many people with my radio broadcasts.  I have been able to get out many CDs that I feel have been a help to people and many of those have been to radio listeners.   Just is past month, we have mailed out several copies of a message I preached on doubting your salvation. 

Please continue to keep us in your prayers.  Our personal support continues to be about 18 percent.  Please pray that this will go up and that more churches will take us on in these days.

May God bless you,

Ricky Cothren