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Winnipeg, Man.
Buller resigns from MB Communications


Burton Buller has resigned as executive director of MB Comunications/Family Life Network, effective December 31. Buller has held this position since 1994. He has accepted the position of director with Mennonite Media in Harrisonburg, Va.

Delbert Enns, associate director of MBC/FLN for four-and-a-half years, has been appointed executive director.

Board chair Alf Poetker said, “We have greatly appreciated the leadership, vision, and extraordinary effort that Burton has given to this ministry. During his time here, the expansion of the coverage of the radio ministry has seen unprecedented growth, both domestically and internationally.”

MBC/Family Life Network produces 10 radio programs in seven languages. In 1995, the Spanish program “Encuentro” premiered. Demand for the program soared and currently airs (often daily or twice daily) on more than 450 stations from New York to Argentina.

In Russia, one program produced in Moscow has been expanded to three Russian and two Ukrainian programs heard across 11 time zones by more than 200 million people.

An Arabic program “The Good News” was launched two years ago, reaching Australia and 17 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

A year ago, “GodTalk” premiered at the invitation of a secular Winnipeg radio station.

Buller, the founder of two video/film production companies, has experience in print, film, television, radio and still photography. Between July 1999 and June 2000, he will share responsibilities with MBC/Family Life Network and Mennonite Media. The two agencies have cooperated in joint ventures at various times during the past 30 years and are now exploring ways to cooperate more closely.

Enns, son of missionary parents in Paraguay, has a long history in media and ministry. At age 12, he repaired and ran audio/visual equipment in his father’s evangelistic crusades. As a teenager, he helped run a media resource library and ran film deliveries on his motorcycle. After university studies in Winnipeg, he began a ministry that developed into a Spanish MB church. He has 18 years of experience in photographic and optical equipment service and was founder of Precision Camera. In 1989 he returned to Paraguay to direct Obedira, an MB ministry, including a radio station, television production centre, multi-track recording studio and family counselling centre.

Poetker said he is pleased that Delbert is assuming the leadership of MBC/Family Life Network. “His extensive international background, his years of experience as associate director and his commitment to team building will provide a seamless transition of leadership.”

Enns, 40, is fluent in English, Spanish and German and holds degrees in religious studies and sociology and has studied electronics. He and his wife Marianne have three children, David, Tania and Mark.

MBC/Family Life Network release.

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