MEDIA RELEASE

July 09, 2007

Veteran Christian Broadcaster joins Family-Help Group

Cathy Jenke, a well-known name in the Christian broadcasting arena has left Rhema Broadcasting Group after more than 20 years, to join leading family-help group, Focus on the Family (NZ).

Jenke comes with a wealth of media and research experience, including producing &researching for radio & television news-based programmes and co-hosting NZ’s leading Christian radio breakfast show.

Her role will be keeping Focus on the Family (NZ) at the forefront of family issues in the media, as well as to keep families well resourced in terms of the best help practices and resources for issues that are effecting them today.

Focus on the Family’s Executive Director, Tim Sisarich, also a former broadcaster, says it is an exciting and bold move for Focus on the Family.

“It is a sign of the times, that a family-help group would need to employ a full-time media and research person. There is so much going on that has major effects on parents & families - the ground is constantly shifting”

Mr. Sisarich believes that most parents are doing their very best in bringing up their children, but also recognise that they don’t have all the answers.

He says, “Now that we have someone as experienced in family research as Cathy Jenke, Focus on the Family’s online resource Centre will be a place to find those answers.”

Focus on the Family has been nurturing and helping families around the world for 30 years, and has been working locally since 1999.

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