 Months later, the station was sold off to a religious group, the Maranatha Ministries Foundation, who had the FCC change the callsign to WGYJ on March 2, 1988.The new callsign was said to stand for "We Give You Jesus".The Maranatha Ministries Foundation, licensee of WGYJ in Atmore, Alabama, applied for an expanded band frequency at 1620 kHz in June 1997 and this station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on October 6, 1997.