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FEBC put its first local station on the air in the Philippines in 1948, followed immediately by the establishment of short wave stations. Also during this period we began the "PM" program - the free distribution of battery-operated radio sets within the Philippines. These excerpts include the surprised reactions of people who are hearing an international Christian radio station for the first time in many foreign countries, the very moving expressions of Asians to the disaster of World War II, and the good response to the Christian message in the Philippines.

A program produced specifically for the Burmese Shan of Myanmar brought an unexpectedly large response. The producer of the program went through letters received in 1997 and 1998 to translate several hundred of the most unusual comments.

FEBC operates Radio KRUSA (Family) as a local station in Phnom Penh, in addition to short wave broadcasts from the Philippines. Listeners rarely write letters, but they do go out of their way to visit the station in the capital. The staff also visits the country side to interact with listeners. From time to time the staff summarizes these encounters in a country still healing from the horrors of the Killing Fields of Pol Pot.

Each month FEBC's Hong Kong office translates in depth several of the most significant listener responses into English according to a selected theme such as "Patients Suffering from Depression," "Believers' Views/Problems on Courtship and Marriage," "Response to Liangyou web site," or "Spiritual Revival among the Second Generation of Christians." The collection currently contains translations for every month since 1995, and represents a historic chronicling of life in the Christian church in China from the Chinese Christian's point of view.

FEBC began broadcasting to the hill country of South East Asia in the 1950's. Hmong listeners responded to the Christian message almost immediately, in response to Laotian broadcasts. Later, a Hmong convert became an extremely effective broadcaster in his own Hmong dialect, resulting in several hundred thousands of believers in Laos, Vietnam, China, Myanmar and Thailand. The responses in this collection chronicle the amazing "Hmong Revival" from 1994 to the present, and include many accounts of persecution and confrontation with evil spirits.

FEBC provides broadcasts by local stations in many cities and towns, in addition to short wave broadcasts for this vast island nation. Broadcasts are in more than a dozen languages. Many of these translated responses show the appreciation Christian listeners have for the encouragement radio brings to them in places largely isolated from organized Christian influence.

FEBC is well-known in Korea for its influential AM and FM stations throughout the country, including powerful 250kw HLAZ on Jeju Island. Many of the responses come from Christians people who appreciate the daily Bible teaching broadcasts, as well as those who are coming to understand the gospel of Christ for the first time. Responses also come from FEBC-Korea's webcasting.

FEBC owns/operates, and buys time on local stations in Russia and adjoining CIS countries, in addition to broadcasting on short wave to the vast areas. Its website is also well-visited. The responses reflect the deep concern Russians have for religion in a country still suffering from the enduring effects of communism.

FEBC-Thailand produces broadcasts for release on local stations throughout Thailand. The broadcasts are designed to reach out to lonely and hurting people, and as the response show, are quite effective. Responses from listeners affected by the great tsunami are included.

The Vietnamese Department of FEBC produces broadcasts for release on FEBC's short wave sites, in addition to a highly successful webcasting operation which is accessed regularly by Vietnamese living in Vietnam and in diaspora around the world. The Department regularly translates many responses.