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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (ANS) -- Internet program streaming by HCJB Global Voice's partner in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is offering online users the station's French, Creole and English programming to help listeners keep abreast of developments after a 7.0-magnitude quake struck the Caribbean island on Jan. 12.

This was revealed in a story written by Ralph Kurtenbach for HCJB Global News Update (www.hcjb.org).

In it he said that World Gospel Mission (WGM) engineer Paul Shingledecker resurrected Radio Lumière's (Radio Light) streaming after working with a local Internet service provider and shifting to a different tower.

Tim Rickel, WGM's vice president of communication, said the new tower "is not as reliable as what they had, but you should be able to get the programming intermittently on thewww.radiolumiere.org site."

"A Jan. 22 program, monitored in Ecuador, was hosted by a male announcer. It streamed consistently for 45 minutes with a strong signal," wrote Kurtenbach.

"With announcers using a makeshift tent studio beside Radio Lumière's only slightly damaged AM station, ambient sound added local color to the morning show-a pastors' discussion around the microphones. Planes landed nearby during the show as the host and his guests talked, prayed and laughed together.

"Relief flights loaded with reporters, rescue crews, health workers, international aid staff and supplies have clogged the Haitian capital's besieged airport for more than a week after the quake devastated Port-au-Prince."

Kurtenbach went on to say that the temblor struck while engineer Alan Good from the HCJB Global Technology Center in Elkhart, Ind., and three others were at the ministry's FM station, Stereo 92, to make repairs and hold radio training. All four escaped injury, but three of Radio Lumière's employees were killed by the quake elsewhere in the city.

Radio Lumière's program schedule "is constructed in such a way as to keep a balance between the spiritual and the physical," according to the station's website.