You can help reach the most regional indigenous areas via our satellite broadcasting that brings 11 Christian channels to every single remote home that uses VAST!
The SUPER EXCITING thing going on in Australia right now is for the first time, all the Christian channels are literally side by side and in between the normal secular TV channels on VAST, so VAST viewers can’t miss them. Isn’t that great!
VAST is a satellite that the government uses to get the ABC, SBS, CH 7, 9 & 10 to people who live in remote, blackspot and rural locations, where a TV antenna doesn’t work, so everyone can have access to normal TV. Today, there are over 1 million people watching TV this way in Australia and the majority of them are farmers and remote aboriginal communities. Sadly, these two people groups have the highest suicide rates in our country. Terrible, right?
In 2023, Instal-Life we became broadcasters, and we did a deal with Optus who owns the VAST satellite, and then we helped all the Christian channels move onto VAST. The reason they all happily moved to VAST was because they could see the importance of reaching over 1 million people, and also, we provided the service as cheap as we could, in fact we do not make any profit on the broadcasting. We want to give the million people a chance to hear the Gospel and receive the HOPE found in Jesus!