Hope Channel Ethiopia: A Journey of Faith and Broadcasting

Nov 25, 2025 0

Hope Channel is a Christian lifestyle television network, and a subsidiary company of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

The network operates globally, with more than 80 Hope Channels worldwide, each providing programs contextualized to the language and culture of their audience.

Focusing on balanced, Christian living, Hope Channel programs cover topics such as mind, body, spirit, family, and community.

Hope Channel is available on DirecTV channel 368 in the United States, cable, satellite, multiple channels are available via Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Chromecast devices, Hope Channel app available at App Store for Apple users and at Google Play for Android users, via FaithStream and online at www.HopeTV.org.

The Genesis of Hope Channel Ethiopia

Hope Channel Ethiopia began in 2016 with weekly 30-minute broadcasts in Amharic language on a private television station.

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This initiative was driven by the passion and support of church members from the Addis Ababa Gospel Outreach Coordinating Committee.

The programs primarily featured sermons and Bible discussions.

Expansion and Growth

In 2017, the service gained attention from the church union.

Two producers and two camera operators were hired.

For three years, we broadcast on Elshadai Television, expanding to one-hour programs in Amharic and Oromiffa.

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Reaching New Heights: 24/7 Broadcasting

In January 2020, we inaugurated our own studio within the Kebena SDA Church compound.

Now you have a multifaceted ministry here. You have a church in Hawassa. You have built a beautiful church building here in Addis Ababa. And you also have a television ministry called Presence.

Referring to the presence of God. And so a few moments ago when we prayed together in your auditorium, I was praying that God would fill the place with his presence. And I didn’t even know that was the name of your TV channel. But it goes 24 hours a day. And because of that, you have become very well known here in Ethiopia.

When people hear that you’re are coming, many come to to hear the word of the Lord.

And so God has raised you up as a prophet, but you really started your ministry just by putting some videos up on YouTube.

And you were telling me that you went into a internet cafe back before there was internet available all over the place.

You just went into an internet cafe.

Thank you for asking me my humble beginning. Yeah. I appreciate it. You know, 10, 10 years ago I was graduating from University of Adi Ababa. When I was in the, in the university, I was a Christian students fellowship leader. I, I used to serve in the fellowship. Then God called me to serve him. So I didn’t go to any office or I didn’t find any job, but I was praying and fasting two years. Then God show me a v a vision with the vision was like I saw in the dream. I saw a big stadium and full of people. And the people who were in the stadium, they were crying and worshiping God and they were watching a video.

So I was eager to see that video. Yes. So I saw a dream about my ministry before I start my ministry. Then I go, only when I wake up from the bed, I prayed and I go to straight to the Internet cafe and ask them to open me a YouTube account. Then they open me, they sign me to a YouTube account, and they give me the password. Then I was a singer, so I had the songs. Then I upload on the YouTube some of my songs, and people were so blessed, and they ask me more and more. Then I start to upload my old sermons, my preg, my songs. Then after it become like boom. So now we have like 340,000 subscribers on TV and hundred million views on YouTube.

And I think that is so beautiful because you were willing to serve the Lord looking for any way that you could serve, and you just go open a YouTube channel. They give you the password. And now over 314,000 subscribers, over 100 million views, people all over the world, the, the Ethiopian dra dra Yes. Who are all over the world are, are watching and hearing the, the word of the Lord.

On the YouTube channel. And I was watching one of the videos of one of the, the Crusades that you did in Hosana. Yes. And it looked like there were thousands of people there. Yeah. Hosana, the, the more Christian dominating country, which is in thousand part of Ethiopia. So God in the mid nineties spokes to me about hosana, go to Hosana because I have history in God hosana. That’s not my birthplace, or that’s not my, I was raised, but one time, like seven years ago, I went to Hosana for singing. And at that night I was praying, God use me or kill me because I was so give up on ministry. I start my ministry, but the ministry was not going like what I was expecting. So I cried all the night and I said, make it or break it. Kill me or use me. Then I slept. When I woke up from my bed, I, I prayed and I, I go to the, the crusading, Hona I was invited. So when I start to sing, God opens my spiritual eyes and ears, and I saw so many visions. Then after, after that day onwards, I become like a prophet, prophet, prophetic ministry starts in my life, you know? So I have to pay back for God. I want, I want to thank God in that place. So the spirit of God told me, go to Hosana and thank me. Then when I go to Hosana, maybe 1 million people was gathered. So many miracles happened. Wow. So many gets the Muslims, the Orthodox. It’s so amazing what God is doing here in Ethiopia. God is raising this church up, and I believe that God is making you a voice, not just to Ethiopia, not just to Africa, but to the whole world. And so you serve God as a pastor. I think you have also been used by God as an evangelist, but God has given you this gift as a, a prophet.

Impact and Reach

God is speaking and working in this case mightly. So so many people is coming to Jesus. We see so many revivals in a world like Asbury University, like, you know, in a different corner of the world. So Jesus is coming soon. We are preaching that. Come Jesus.

If someone is looking for your YouTube channel mm-hmm. , how do they find it? Presence TV Channel Worldwide.

Testimonials

Name	Location	Comment
አሰፋ ተስፋዬ	አዲስ አበባ	The programs help us grow in faith and bring us closer to God.
Sarah Johnson	Washington, DC	As an Ethiopian living abroad, this channel helps me stay connected to my faith and culture. The bilingual content is perfect!
ዳዊት አበበ	ባህር ዳር	The health programs are very beneficial to my family. I thank God for this ministry.
[Name]	[Location]	The youth programs are engaging and help our children learn about God in a fun, modern way.