MONTEGO BAY, St James

APPROXIMATELY three years since it commenced broadcasting to the Montego Bay population, the community-based MORE FM has been making a mark on the media landscape across several western Jamaica communities with a wide range of programmes.

The station — which operates from the once-volatile community of Glendevon, on the outskirts of Montego Bay — continues to increase its programme offerings to listeners, and recently added what the station’s management dubbed ‘Gospel Wednesdays’, featuring bishops, pastors and religious die-hards from different denominations in St James.

Gospel Wednesdays, which has become a signature programme of the station, is the most loved and most popular programme on MORE FM, according to the station’s management.

MORE FM broadcasts on the frequency of 91.7MHz.

“We are very pleased with the development and growth of this station,” said Dr Shaun Jones, the chairman of Global Community Broadcasting Network, operators of the station. “We are satisfied with the overwhelming support from our listeners and the business community of Montego Bay towards MORE FM. In fact, it is the belief of the board of directors that without God as the driver of this station, everything our listeners are now enjoying on MORE FM would be impossible.”

Added Dr Jones: “We intend to continue to grow the station, not for hype, but for the enrichment of the lives of everyone who comes in contact with it, and this is why we are hell-bent on providing more religious programmes with top-flight prayer warriors who have been bringing divine spiritual intervention into the lives of people through the anointing of God. We are not into the hype and over-inflated ego business, we just want to do the simple things that please our listeners and the business community which have been unwavering in their support.”

The value of prayer and intercession cannot be underestimated and as such, on October 1, the station will be increasing its offerings on ‘Gospel Wednesdays’, when Pastor Mark Clarke — one of Jamaica’s leading prayer warriors, who is said to have been healing and bringing deliverance to the lives of hundreds of people in western Jamaica over the last three years — takes to the airwaves.

Pastor Clarke is the head of the Cottage Road-based Byways and Hedges Deliverance Ministries, which has seen tremendous growth in its membership since it was established on July 12, 2011.

“Our mission is to restore God’s kingdom on Earth by destroying the kingdom of darkness, so our ministry focuses on spiritual warfare where we educate people on how to identify the devices of the enemy and how to defeat witchcraft and be delivered and stay delivered,” Pastor Clarke said.

“So on Wednesday, October 1, I will be taking the spiritual warfare from the confines of our church building to the airwaves of MORE FM, reaching individuals who we have not been reached before.

In the meantime, as the fan base of the station grows, prominent Montego Bay businessman and former Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay Gerard Mitchell has given MORE FM high praises for its programme offerings.

According to him, the programmes are refreshing, enlightening and deal adequately with the issues of Montego Bay. “In fact, as a young station I can safely say it is digging deeply into the listenership of most of the larger radio stations,” Mitchell argued.

Programmes aired on MORE FM include Sunny Side Up with host Patrick Williams, which can be heard from Mondays to Friday — except Wednesdays — from 6:00 am to 10:00 am; Gospel Wednesdays with Bishop Deloris Lawrence; Word of Truth, hosted by Evangelist Mark Samuels; More Community Health Talk; Retro Thursdays; and Cop Alert.

— Mark Cummings