“If I had $5 million, I could really widen our net in terms of how we serve the church,” Harris said.īut a Goliath-sized obstacle stands in the school’s way.
With a windfall from the sale of its license, the school could help provide training for many of them in its denomination. draw 65 people or fewer to services, according to the Faith Communities Today study - the need for part-time pastors will continue to grow. As the number of small churches rises - half the churches in the U.S.
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Last year, a company called WCO Spectrum offered Christian College more than $5.5 million for the license - an offer that could transform the future of the college. Thanks to 2019 changes in FCC regulations that allow schools to sell their licenses off to commercial companies, Christian College of Georgia now finds itself with a license that is worth millions. Harris said his school, which was founded in the 1940s, currently gets $55,000 a year - or half of its annual income - from a lease of its EBS license, which the FCC identifies as WND620, to T-Mobile. “Anyone else could have done the same thing.” “I just applied for it and got it,” he said.
Since the license was free, Harris thought there was nothing to lose. The school could also lease some of its excess bandwidth to a cellphone provider to make a few extra bucks to support the mission. Such a license, he thought, would allow the school, which provides remote education for part-term clergy in the Disciples of Christ denomination, to expand its ministry. In the 1990s, Harris learned that schools like his could apply for Educational Broadband Service licenses to allow them to broadcast educational programs. (RNS) - The best decision Bob Harris, president of Christian College of Georgia, ever made for his school was to apply for an obscure Federal Communications Commission license.
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