(“Voice of Hope”; Spanish Voice of Prophecy). A syndicated weekly Spanish broadcast with a Bible correspondence school, video production, and music and daily radio programs, all under the same name. The weekly program can be heard in most of the Spanish-speaking countries over more than 400 radio stations, including Adventist World Radio-Latin America. Its main offices are in Thousand Oaks, California, with 32 branch locations in Spanish-speaking countries. Even though it is sponsored by the General Conference as one of the components of the Adventist Media Center, its financial support comes primarily from direct contributions.
The weekly broadcast began in 1942 as a subsidiary of the Voice of Prophecy, with speaker Braulio Perez Marcio, a Spanish evangelist and writer who throughout three decades of broadcasting became one of the most outstanding, trusted, and loved preachers for both Seventh-day Adventist and non-Seventh-day Adventist listening audiences.
First to air the weekly broadcasts were the former KOWL in Santa Monica, California, and CMQ in Havana, Cuba. Beginning in 1943, the program could be heard across Latin America, primarily over the former Pan American Broadcasting Company. A former vice president of Peru called it “the father of Spanish Christian radio programs.”
Since 1971 Dr. Milton Peverini has led La Voz (first as associate speaker and later as director-speaker) into becoming a corporation independent of the Voice of Prophecy. He also has led in the producing of many new programs, videos, and books, and in assisting with evangelistic campaigns in North, Central, and South America.
The La Voz Correspondence School, through its full spectrum of courses on doctrines, family, health, and youth counseling, has graduated more than 1 million students. Since 1953 thousands of church members serving as carteros misioneros (“missionary mail carriers”) have been key participants, using these courses for promoting both the radio program and the gospel.