When Jane and Andrews
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went as the
Seventh-day Adventist churches
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first official missionary
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to the country of
Switzerland in 1874
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radio as we know it
today did not exist,
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but today in a split
second images and sound
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can be sent
anywhere in the globe.
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Technology and mission that
and much more coming up next
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on Global Mission Snapshots.
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Just before He
went up to heaven,
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Jesus gave us a command.
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He gave us a mission.
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Jesus said, "Go,
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go unto all the world,
telling them of His love."
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This is our mission.
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This is our Global Mission.
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Hello and welcome to
Global Mission Snapshots,
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I'm Gary Krause.
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Today's program is coming
to you from the head quarters
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church
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here in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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On today's program
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we have many exciting
things regarding mission.
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We'll be talking
about how technology
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can be a tool to assist mission.
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We will also see
path finders in action
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making a
difference in the community.
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We will also look
at what goes on behind
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a mission video shoot.
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We talk to Ricky Oliveras
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who produces the
Mission Spotlight DVD
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that is shown in
thousands of churches
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around the world each Sabbath.
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But first up
let's travel to Nepal.
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In Nepal thousands of
lives are being touched
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everyday through the ministry
of Adventist World Radio.
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Let's meet the speaker
and pastor a Nepalese man
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who is making a difference
in that part of the world.
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I'm a pastor and we work among
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the people those who
are have in darkness,
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those who are in poverty,
those who are in depression,
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those who don't see the
hope and depressed their lives.
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We need to reach them,
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but personally as
pastor I cannot reach them
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but through radio we
can reach each village,
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each home, and each person.
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Pastor Umesh Pokorel
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is the voice of
Adventist World Radio in Nepal.
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Nepal has a population
of more than 30 million
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and less than two
percent are Christians.
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At the end of
each radio broadcast
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the pastor shares
his cell phone number
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for people to call
with pray requests.
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Some days he
receives up to 70 calls
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from people asking for prayer.
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And they talk to me
and they have a problem,
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they share
especially health problem
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they want us to pray,
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and other house, family problems
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and many things
they share with us,
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and we become
friend through phone.
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We really become a
close friend through phone.
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Some of them have called
us to come and teach us more.
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Before we meet
them we their problem.
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They have
already shared with us.
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Family problems, health problem,
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financially,
everything we listen.
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We want to tell
them we are part of you
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and we care for
you, we care for you.
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And we pray and if
there is any problem,
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unresolved issues, anything,
we'll pray and God will help.
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I was tuning through my radio
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when the Voice of Hope
program caught my attention.
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I decided to call the
number at the end of the program
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and I was in
contact with the pastor
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for about six
months over the phone
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and now we are
finally meeting face to face.
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Listeners like Dhan
May are passionate about
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the difference
the radio broadcasts
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have made in their lives.
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The words have brought
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so much peace in to their hearts
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that they want to hear more.
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Pastor Umesh has
recorded close to 200 sermons
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and programmed
them in a special radio.
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When he comes
to visit the people
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who he has been in contact
with for months through phone
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he gives them a radio filled
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with hours of inspiring content.
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He will show them
how to use the new radio
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and then has a prayer with them.
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In that radio there
is a SD card we call,
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in that SD card we have sermons,
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recorded sermons all ready,
almost 200 sermons are there.
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And our program only
comes half an hour a day,
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but if they want to
listen they can listen anytime.
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If they have the recorded sermon
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in their radio, in that radio
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if their program is not coming
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on that day, they can hear it.
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And one of the listeners
what she said yesterday
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if she cannot hear our program
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she feels something is missing.
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That is her expression
but when she have this radio
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with recorded
sermon on this SD card,
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she can listen.
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People like Tidus who is
suffering from lung cancer
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or Sita whose arm
used to be parasailed
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find hope in Jesus that
can be found no where else.
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The pastor knows that the
only way to reach these people
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is by following the example
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Christ left for
us on this earth.
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Well, if you want to be
friendly with them this people,
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if you want to tell your things
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you have to
understand their culture
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and this should
accept you as their friend.
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Please pray for
the people in Nepal.
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Pray that the love of
Jesus will broadcast into homes
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through out Nepal,
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through the waves of
Adventist World Radio
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and thank you, for
supporting the mission
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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People are
receptive of the gospel,
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people are
hungry, people are living
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under the poverty, depression,
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but they need a hope.
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I'm talking to Pastor Jim Ayer
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who is wise president
at Adventist World Radio.
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Jim, thanks for joining us.
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Hey, good to be
here with you, thank you.
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Now we just saw
Adventist World Radio
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making a difference in Nepal,
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now you've been
there, what have seen there?
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Well, Nepal is
an amazing country.
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Matter of fact one
time when I was flying out,
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I was actually
reading in the newspaper
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that the day
before the engineers
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that had trouble with
the plane on the tarmac
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they couldn't fix
it, so they got out
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right on the tarmac
and sacrificed a goat
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to their Gods to
get the plain to fly.
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I was hoping, I
wouldn't in that plane.
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No, no, exactly.
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Now the speaker
the pastor there,
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what I like about is he
is speaking on the air voice
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but he also has
the personal touch.
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He does in and the
folks in Nepal are so sweet
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they respond to
just about everything,
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you know, any program
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we get out
there they respond to.
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We received one communication
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and said I never
knew in all my life
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there was any God's other than
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Hinduism and
Buddhism or any religions.
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But you introduced
me to Jesus Christ,
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thank you for allowing me
to taste the sweetness of God.
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I tell you it just
touches your heart so much.
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We in Nepal now,
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not only do we
broadcast by shortwave radio
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but we also have been
buying air time on, on all the--
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all the major
anyway FM networks.
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And so we're reaching
tremendous amount in Nepal now.
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Yeah, give our viewers
some sort of a worldwide view
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of Adventist
World Radio's reach.
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Well, we broadcast in over
100 major languages of the world
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that gives us the opportunity
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to blanket it about 80 percent
of the world's population.
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And doing that we
broadcast via AM, FM, shortwave,
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internet and now podcasting.
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And podcasting God has
just run with that for us.
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I mean its--
it's been exponential
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the growth in podcast.
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Now maybe a lot of your viewers
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don't even realize
what podcast is but--
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These people can
take their smart phones
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and they subscribe to a program
it downloads it automatically
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when they
connect to the internet
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and then they can
listen to it at anytime.
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We have a million
downloads a day in China alone.
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And the latest
figure have rough--
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this just a rough
figure at the moment
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because we don't
have really great stats
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but over one billion
downloads this past year.
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Wow.
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We are the largest
provider of content,
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audio content or
iTunes in the whole world now.
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Fantastic. And it's all God.
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I mean it's just and it
looks like its doubling,
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our engineers
says every six months.
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Wow.
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Now what sort of content
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do you have on
Adventist World Radio?
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Well, we do a couple of things
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but especially for
a shortwave programs
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we utilize a half hour program
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we kind of call
it a magazine format.
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First 10 minutes
might be for instance,
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in Tanzania we might broadcast
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how to take better
care of your cattle,
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because cattle are
scared, right, they--
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I have seen it where they
just soon leave their children
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to rot on the trail virtually
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to get their cattle to water.
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That's how sacred
cattle are over the family.
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And so when we broadcast
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how take better
care of your cattle
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they listen, they like that.
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And then the next
10 minutes segment
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is a family
segment, you know, how to--
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how to may be take
care of your family now.
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Once you got the
priority out of the way.
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Yeah, yeah,
exactly, exactly, exactly.
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And then the third
segment is a biblical segment.
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Okay.
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And I have seen-- I have seen
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for instance in that--
in that area in Tanzania,
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we had one lady
Seventh-day Adventist.
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She-- she was sick on her bed
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and she said God I just--
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please help me I
want to witness for You
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but I'm on this bed and
I can't get up, help me.
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She prayed that
prayer for I don't know weeks
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may be drew God
crazy and then one day
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God says turn on
your radio, turn on radio
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and then she thought
oh, and she called this guy,
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this guy climbed
up on a roof hooked up
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a big speaker on her
roof and she turn on AWR
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and she blasted
out to the village.
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I said, didn't
your neighbors get mad?
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And she says oh,
she said at first
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but they begun to
listen the program.
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Now one day there is a
Massai warrior walking by
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and all of a sudden
he stops and he listens
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and he hears about
Jesus and he kind of likes it.
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Next day brings
back some buddies
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and the next day and pretty soon
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he's got a whole
group of warriors
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they were
traveling through the village
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they're stopping every day.
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And then when
there is a whole group
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God raised her
up out of her bed,
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He healed her instantly.
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She got up, gave
them Bible studies
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and the whole
side Massai village
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I was there was
converted to Jesus Christ.
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And God is doing so
many miracles out Gary,
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I just see drops
of the latter rain
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all over the place, you know.
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Fantastic.
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Now Jim, just a
personal question.
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We work in the
same building here,
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most people don't
dress like you do right.
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What's the story?
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Well, this is my
outfit for the Making Waves
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television
program, I do kind of--
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you know,
travel around the world
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and take people on a journey
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but just happened
you caught me on a day
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when I was filming
for something else so.
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Wonderful yeah, and
viewers many of you may know Jim
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from the Making
Waves TV program.
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Jim, what's the most encouraging
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aspect of your work
with Adventist World Radio?
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What's the thing
that blesses you the most?
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That's a really
hard question to answer
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but the easy
answer is everything.
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I mean to see the
listener responses,
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to hear listener responses,
to talk these people Gary,
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it's amazing what God is doing.
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In the darkest
corners of planet earth
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He is reaching
these people by radio.
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I have seen it by no
other means a lot times,
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but they will
have a shortwave radio
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and they will be
tuning to the news
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and they accidentally
come crossed over program.
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And then they start calling
everybody else in the village
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and we'll find a
village with 50, 75 people
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they built a church
with their own money,
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their own time,
they never had a pastor
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and they're worshipping there
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and virtually it
become Seventh-day Adventist,
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you know, by God's grace.
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Fantastic, what's the greatest
need that you have with AWR?
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Well, the
greatest need basically
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as prayers and financing
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well, we are a
general confraternity entity,
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we're the mission
arm of the world church,
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we have to self fundraise
for all of our out reach
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so that's
probably the greatest need
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that way and--
and prayer because,
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you know, people wake up
any time of the day or night,
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pray for these dear
people because somebody,
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somewhere is making
a decision for Christ.
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Jim, thanks so much
for sharing with us today.
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Oh, hey thank you for having me.
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Viewers at home,
please continue to pray
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for Adventist World
Radio, pray for the speakers,
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pray for the
listeners that many people
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may come to know Jesus Christ
as a result of this ministry.
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We will be right back.
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