La Promesa Foundation & The Guadalupe Radio Network
We believe that Our Lady of Guadalupe, who once brought 8 million people into the living streams of Catholicism, can once again bring light into our present darkness!
La Promesa Foundation is a non-profit organization established in May 1996 by a group of lay Catholics. The Foundation chose the name ‘La Promesa’ because in the beginning, the Incorporators made a ‘promise’ in our mission statement, requesting the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
THE PROMISE
In a covenant of love to our Lord Jesus Christ and to Our Lady of Guadalupe we committed ourselves to...
- Protect the sanctity of life from conception until natural death.
- Carry out the mission of evangelization as called for by our Baptism.
- To help build strong holy families
- To promote holy vocations.
Starting with absolutely nothing we placed our trust in the Lord and our Blessed Mother. By August of 1996 we were breaking ground for the construction of the Guadalupe Resource Center where our ministry has flourished. We provide - at no charge - a large bilingual library of materials for promoting the Truths of the Catholic Faith. In 1998, while visiting America, our beloved Saint Pope John Paul II said, “I wish to reflect on the laity in the Church’s life and mission. The new evangelization that can make the twenty-first century a springtime of the Gospel is a task for the entire People of God but will depend in a decisive way on the lay faithful being fully aware of their baptismal vocation and their responsibility for bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to their culture and society.” This plea came with such fatherly love, that we found ourselves asking, "how else could we do greater efforts of evangelization than with the Guadalupe Resource Center?"
“If you, the laity, will buy a radio station, I will give you the programming free.” - Mother Angelica
Shortly after that, Mother Angelica of the Eternal Word Television Network caught our attention by her response to the Holy Father’s invitation to the laity. She challenged her viewers with a very generous proposal. With resounding certitude Mother would shake her finger into the television camera and say, “If you, the laity, will buy a radio station, I will give you the programming free.”
With the inspiration from these two Holy Giants, La Promesa Foundation continued in “Keeping the Promise” through the development of Guadalupe Radio Network.
TIMELINE
1999 |
We began Project Millennium. The goal was to bring Catholic Radio to West Texas for our Lord’s Jubilee Year 2000. We bought our first radio station KJBC 1150 AM in Midland/Odessa on July 19, 2000. The station increased its 1,000 watts of power to 25,000 watts and changed to KLPF 1180AM. |
2003 |
We purchased seven stations across Texas and New Mexico. In some of these small markets the only radio station there is a GRN Catholic radio station. |
2004 |
We grew to nine stations with the addition of KBMD 88.5 FM in the Marble Falls/Austin area. |
2006 |
Guadalupe Radio Network went into the 4th largest radio market in the US with two stations in Dallas-Fort Worth. On October 1st, KATH 910 AM went on the air in English and KJON 850 AM with Spanish Catholic radio programming. Both stations reach a population of more than 5,000,000 people. We purchased, KWMF 1380 AM in San Antonio and Spanish Catholic Radio went on the air in November. |
2007 |
We built KJMA 89.7 FM for San Antonio and South Texas. It is the largest Catholic FM radio station in the US at 100,000 watts of power. |
2008 |
We acquired KVDG 90.9 FM as a second station in West Texas that airs Spanish Catholic programming. |
2010 |
We expanded into the Washington, DC Metropolitan area with WMET 1160 AM reaching 5,000,000 people sunrise to sunset with a 50,000 watt AM station. |
2012 |
Guadalupe Radio Network added new stations in |
2013 |
GRN brought Catholic radio into Houston, the 5th rated radio market in the US, 1430 AM KSHJ. The call letters are for the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the station reaches over 5,000,000 people with it 5,000 watts of power. |
2014 |
The 22nd station in the Guadalupe Radio Network went on the air with KPDE 91.5 FM covering San Angelo, TX |
2016 |
The GRN added 11 radio stations in Alabama and Florida. W224CK 92.7 FM, Vestavia Hills, AL W245CB 96.9, Tallahassee, FL |
2018 |
Three more stations were added to the Network in Kansas. KQSH 90.7 FM covering Dodge City Kansas. KODC 102.1 LPFM & KXGB 105.1 LPFM carry our Catholic Spanish programming. |
2019 |
KKUB 1300 AM in Brownfield, TX became the 37th radio station in the GRN and carries our Catholic Spanish programming. |
2021 |
KEES 1430 AM covering Tyler, TX on February 10, with a live station launch that included Bishop Joseph Strickland. K243CU 96.5 FM in Longview went on the air May 2021. |
2023 |
Six radio stations in the Diocese of Amarillo, TX brought the Network to 45 radiostations. Spanish: English: |
2024 |
KHFX 1140 AM is a 5,000-watt radio station that reaches a total population of 5,892,146 souls. KHFX comes with an FM Translator station located in Cleburne, TX at 101.5 FM on the dial. Call letters were changed to KCPP for Capuchin Padre Pio. |
2025 |
KSGC 100.5 LPFM covering Garden City Kansas became GRN’s 48th radio station and our fourth station in Kansas. |
The GRN now reaches a population of over 01,000,000 potential listeners. We are the only Catholic radio organization establishing both Spanish and English Catholic radio stations in the same markets. We operate solely through the generosity of our listeners following the model of Mother Angelica, Founder of Eternal Word Television Network. You can find our organization listed in the Official Catholic Directory under our parent company, La Promesa Foundation.
We are here to serve the Church and we endeavor to lead souls back to Jesus Christ through His holy Catholic Church, using the powerful means of radio and digital media!
