Travel back through our timeline of milestone events!
Today
The team at FBH International continues working hard to find new and innovative ways to use digital media to reach people around the world with the gospel message.
May 2024
The YouTube gospel campaign passes 1-million people reached with the message of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.
March 2022
FBH International begins a new campaign to share the gospel via 15 and 60-second videos, produced in house and then distributed by purchasing advertising slots on the YouTube video platform.
March 2020
The HopeStreamRadio continuous stream skyrocketed from 70 to 650 daily listeners. The majority of the new visitors were from Italy, who were at the time under one of the more strict lockdowns. The HopeStreamRadio website traffic also increased, now averaging just over 2,500 visitors each week. That would climb to almost 3,000 weekly visitors by 2024.
July 2018
Stephen March joins the team at FBH International as the operations manager. 
Stephen would work alongside Ron Hughes until November 2019, when he would take over as the executive director of FBH upon Ron’s retirement.
February 2015
FBH International launches HopeStreamRadio, an internet radio station covering a wide variety of topics from a Christian perspective. The initiative included a 24-hour live stream, as well as a website where listeners could hear the messages on demand. The programming featured Bible studies, devotional messages, mission reports, as well as interviews and testimonies from believers throughout the world. 
By the end of 2019, there would be over 15,000 programs available on the HopeStreamRadio website.
January 2007
FBH suspends its domestic English-language ministry. Due to a combination of the rising costs of airtime in Canada, and the increase in the number of secular radio stations moving away from “religious” programming in their schedules, the difficult decision to suspend production and distribution of the English radio program was made. Going forward, the focus of the English ministry would shift to an online distribution format, allowing the programs to be made available world-wide, at all times.
July 2005
FBH begins producing the “Champions of Faith” audio program in Arabic, for listeners in the Middle East and North Africa. The program would continue to run through the end of 2009. This would be the start of FBH International’s partnership with ArabWorldMedia.
March 2004
The ministry of Family Bible Hour begins operating as FBH International. The new name preserved the link to our roots using the initials, but also reflects the growth of the work beyond the radio program, 
as well as the world-wide reach of the material being produced.
December 1998
FBH Website receives its 10,000th visitor. New content in video and audio format is uploaded weekly.
July 1995
FBH launched its first web site, complete with an internet broadcast available 24 hours a day.
October 1994
FBH entered the digital age with a computer-based production package called “SADiE.” Other than some experimental set-ups at the CBC, we were the first broadcasting enterprise to use this new product in Canada.
June 1994
The FBH program is launched in Ukraine, being translated and broadcast 
through our partners, FEBC, out of Chernivtsi.
August 1993
Ron Hughes returned from Ecuador to start his new role as the executive director of Family Bible Hour. 
Arnot would remain with FBH for a few years, serving on the board and helping Ron familiarize himself with the ministry and his duties.
January 1988
The office and studio facilities of FBH are moved from the McIntee home to a suite of offices in a commercial building in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario
March 1983
FBH is available for the first time in Arabic, and is being transmitted into the Middle East and North Africa from the TWR network located in Monte Carlo.
February 1981
The FBH program is translated into Russian, and heard in the Soviet Union for the first time. Because evangelism was illegal in the country, the program was broadcast using 250,000 watt transmitters operated by our partners, the Far East Broadcasting Company, which were located in the Philippines and South Korea.
January 1980
The FBH program begins to be sent to Trans-World Radio for translation and broadcast into several languages and countries. Over the next year, the messages would be available in Bengali, Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, Telegu, and Turkish. Over the years, the Telegu broadcast in India generated more letter response than any other language.
October 1976
Our first broadcasts into Europe and Great Britain were aired from a super-station in Monte Carlo.
September 1964
FBH starts a publications division, beginning with a Sunday School Paper called “Youth Talk”, a curriculum developed specifically for the brethren assemblies. This publication continued until 1973, when Ernie Sprunt, the paper’s editor, went to be with the Lord.
January 1963
Family Bible Hour was incorporated in the province of Ontario, under the charter directors: Ken Beesley, Alex Peat, Somers Peat, Renwick Fletcher, Herb Radford, John Funk, and Arnot McIntee.
September 1961
FBH begins using other regular speakers to assist Don Moffatt and Arnott in the broadcast. Over the years, many faithful volunteers would prepare and record the weekly gospel message.
April 1958
FBH builds its first studio, a professionally-equipped recording suite in the basement of Arnot McIntee’s home. Arnot also became the primary speaker for the radio program at this time. Around 4 years later, the St. Catharines Standard would write an article about the “studio” and the work being done.
March 1958
Our first foreign outreach began, through a partnership with Howard Budd, who was proclaiming the gospel over the radio in Japan.
January 1956
The ministry was renamed “Family Bible Hour”, and the base of operations moved to Ontario. Arnot McIntee became the program host, while Don Moffatt continued recording messages, and serving on the board of representatives.
October 1951
On October 14, 1951, Don Moffatt went on the air with the “Newfoundland Gospel Hour” on CJON in St. John’s. This was the first broadcast of what would later become FBH International.