Participants: Gary Krause (Host), Jim Ayer, Ricky Oliveras
Series Code: GMS
Program Code: GMS000105A
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00:01 When Jane and Andrews
00:02 went as the Seventh-day Adventist churches 00:04 first official missionary 00:06 to the country of Switzerland in 1874 00:09 radio as we know it today did not exist, 00:12 but today in a split second images and sound 00:15 can be sent anywhere in the globe. 00:18 Technology and mission that and much more coming up next 00:22 on Global Mission Snapshots. 00:28 Just before He went up to heaven, 00:31 Jesus gave us a command. 00:34 He gave us a mission. 00:36 Jesus said, "Go, 00:39 go unto all the world, telling them of His love." 00:44 This is our mission. 00:46 This is our Global Mission. 00:53 Hello and welcome to Global Mission Snapshots, 00:56 I'm Gary Krause. 00:57 Today's program is coming to you from the head quarters 01:00 of the Seventh-day Adventist church 01:02 here in Silver Spring, Maryland. 01:04 On today's program 01:05 we have many exciting things regarding mission. 01:08 We'll be talking about how technology 01:10 can be a tool to assist mission. 01:13 We will also see path finders in action 01:15 making a difference in the community. 01:17 We will also look at what goes on behind 01:19 a mission video shoot. 01:21 We talk to Ricky Oliveras 01:23 who produces the Mission Spotlight DVD 01:26 that is shown in thousands of churches 01:28 around the world each Sabbath. 01:30 But first up let's travel to Nepal. 01:33 In Nepal thousands of lives are being touched 01:36 everyday through the ministry of Adventist World Radio. 01:40 Let's meet the speaker and pastor a Nepalese man 01:44 who is making a difference in that part of the world. 01:55 I'm a pastor and we work among 02:00 the people those who are have in darkness, 02:05 those who are in poverty, those who are in depression, 02:10 those who don't see the hope and depressed their lives. 02:16 We need to reach them, 02:18 but personally as pastor I cannot reach them 02:23 but through radio we can reach each village, 02:27 each home, and each person. 02:35 Pastor Umesh Pokorel 02:37 is the voice of Adventist World Radio in Nepal. 02:40 Nepal has a population of more than 30 million 02:44 and less than two percent are Christians. 02:47 At the end of each radio broadcast 02:49 the pastor shares his cell phone number 02:51 for people to call with pray requests. 02:54 Some days he receives up to 70 calls 02:56 from people asking for prayer. 02:59 And they talk to me and they have a problem, 03:02 they share especially health problem 03:05 they want us to pray, 03:07 and other house, family problems 03:10 and many things they share with us, 03:12 and we become friend through phone. 03:15 We really become a close friend through phone. 03:22 Some of them have called us to come and teach us more. 03:28 Before we meet them we their problem. 03:30 They have already shared with us. 03:32 Family problems, health problem, 03:33 financially, everything we listen. 03:35 We want to tell them we are part of you 03:38 and we care for you, we care for you. 03:41 And we pray and if there is any problem, 03:43 unresolved issues, anything, we'll pray and God will help. 03:50 I was tuning through my radio 03:51 when the Voice of Hope program caught my attention. 03:55 I decided to call the number at the end of the program 03:57 and I was in contact with the pastor 03:59 for about six months over the phone 04:02 and now we are finally meeting face to face. 04:05 Listeners like Dhan May are passionate about 04:08 the difference the radio broadcasts 04:10 have made in their lives. 04:12 The words have brought 04:13 so much peace in to their hearts 04:15 that they want to hear more. 04:16 Pastor Umesh has recorded close to 200 sermons 04:20 and programmed them in a special radio. 04:22 When he comes to visit the people 04:24 who he has been in contact with for months through phone 04:27 he gives them a radio filled 04:28 with hours of inspiring content. 04:31 He will show them how to use the new radio 04:33 and then has a prayer with them. 04:36 In that radio there is a SD card we call, 04:39 in that SD card we have sermons, 04:41 recorded sermons all ready, almost 200 sermons are there. 04:48 And our program only comes half an hour a day, 04:52 but if they want to listen they can listen anytime. 04:57 If they have the recorded sermon 04:59 in their radio, in that radio 05:00 if their program is not coming 05:03 on that day, they can hear it. 05:05 And one of the listeners what she said yesterday 05:08 if she cannot hear our program 05:10 she feels something is missing. 05:13 That is her expression but when she have this radio 05:17 with recorded sermon on this SD card, 05:19 she can listen. 05:22 People like Tidus who is suffering from lung cancer 05:25 or Sita whose arm used to be parasailed 05:29 find hope in Jesus that can be found no where else. 05:33 The pastor knows that the only way to reach these people 05:36 is by following the example 05:38 Christ left for us on this earth. 05:40 Well, if you want to be friendly with them this people, 05:44 if you want to tell your things 05:45 you have to understand their culture 05:47 and this should accept you as their friend. 05:52 Please pray for the people in Nepal. 05:55 Pray that the love of Jesus will broadcast into homes 05:58 through out Nepal, 05:59 through the waves of Adventist World Radio 06:02 and thank you, for supporting the mission 06:05 of the Seventh-day Adventist church. 06:08 People are receptive of the gospel, 06:10 people are hungry, people are living 06:12 under the poverty, depression, 06:14 but they need a hope. 06:18 I'm talking to Pastor Jim Ayer 06:20 who is wise president at Adventist World Radio. 06:23 Jim, thanks for joining us. 06:24 Hey, good to be here with you, thank you. 06:26 Now we just saw Adventist World Radio 06:28 making a difference in Nepal, 06:29 now you've been there, what have seen there? 06:31 Well, Nepal is an amazing country. 06:33 Matter of fact one time when I was flying out, 06:35 I was actually reading in the newspaper 06:37 that the day before the engineers 06:39 that had trouble with the plane on the tarmac 06:41 they couldn't fix it, so they got out 06:43 right on the tarmac and sacrificed a goat 06:45 to their Gods to get the plain to fly. 06:47 I was hoping, I wouldn't in that plane. 06:49 No, no, exactly. 06:50 Now the speaker the pastor there, 06:53 what I like about is he is speaking on the air voice 06:56 but he also has the personal touch. 06:58 He does in and the folks in Nepal are so sweet 07:01 they respond to just about everything, 07:03 you know, any program 07:05 we get out there they respond to. 07:07 We received one communication 07:09 and said I never knew in all my life 07:11 there was any God's other than 07:13 Hinduism and Buddhism or any religions. 07:16 But you introduced me to Jesus Christ, 07:18 thank you for allowing me to taste the sweetness of God. 07:21 I tell you it just touches your heart so much. 07:23 We in Nepal now, 07:25 not only do we broadcast by shortwave radio 07:27 but we also have been buying air time on, on all the-- 07:32 all the major anyway FM networks. 07:35 And so we're reaching tremendous amount in Nepal now. 07:37 Yeah, give our viewers some sort of a worldwide view 07:41 of Adventist World Radio's reach. 07:44 Well, we broadcast in over 100 major languages of the world 07:48 that gives us the opportunity 07:49 to blanket it about 80 percent of the world's population. 07:52 And doing that we broadcast via AM, FM, shortwave, 07:56 internet and now podcasting. 07:59 And podcasting God has just run with that for us. 08:02 I mean its-- it's been exponential 08:05 the growth in podcast. 08:06 Now maybe a lot of your viewers 08:08 don't even realize what podcast is but-- 08:11 These people can take their smart phones 08:13 and they subscribe to a program it downloads it automatically 08:16 when they connect to the internet 08:17 and then they can listen to it at anytime. 08:20 We have a million downloads a day in China alone. 08:24 And the latest figure have rough-- 08:26 this just a rough figure at the moment 08:28 because we don't have really great stats 08:30 but over one billion downloads this past year. 08:33 Wow. 08:34 We are the largest provider of content, 08:37 audio content or iTunes in the whole world now. 08:39 Fantastic. And it's all God. 08:41 I mean it's just and it looks like its doubling, 08:43 our engineers says every six months. 08:45 Wow. 08:46 Now what sort of content 08:48 do you have on Adventist World Radio? 08:50 Well, we do a couple of things 08:51 but especially for a shortwave programs 08:53 we utilize a half hour program 08:55 we kind of call it a magazine format. 08:58 First 10 minutes might be for instance, 09:01 in Tanzania we might broadcast 09:04 how to take better care of your cattle, 09:05 because cattle are scared, right, they-- 09:08 I have seen it where they just soon leave their children 09:11 to rot on the trail virtually 09:14 to get their cattle to water. 09:15 That's how sacred cattle are over the family. 09:18 And so when we broadcast 09:20 how take better care of your cattle 09:22 they listen, they like that. 09:24 And then the next 10 minutes segment 09:26 is a family segment, you know, how to-- 09:28 how to may be take care of your family now. 09:30 Once you got the priority out of the way. 09:32 Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly. 09:34 And then the third segment is a biblical segment. 09:37 Okay. 09:38 And I have seen-- I have seen 09:40 for instance in that-- in that area in Tanzania, 09:43 we had one lady Seventh-day Adventist. 09:45 She-- she was sick on her bed 09:47 and she said God I just-- 09:49 please help me I want to witness for You 09:51 but I'm on this bed and I can't get up, help me. 09:54 She prayed that prayer for I don't know weeks 09:56 may be drew God crazy and then one day 09:58 God says turn on your radio, turn on radio 10:02 and then she thought oh, and she called this guy, 10:04 this guy climbed up on a roof hooked up 10:07 a big speaker on her roof and she turn on AWR 10:10 and she blasted out to the village. 10:13 I said, didn't your neighbors get mad? 10:15 And she says oh, she said at first 10:17 but they begun to listen the program. 10:19 Now one day there is a Massai warrior walking by 10:22 and all of a sudden he stops and he listens 10:24 and he hears about Jesus and he kind of likes it. 10:26 Next day brings back some buddies 10:28 and the next day and pretty soon 10:30 he's got a whole group of warriors 10:32 they were traveling through the village 10:33 they're stopping every day. 10:35 And then when there is a whole group 10:37 God raised her up out of her bed, 10:39 He healed her instantly. 10:40 She got up, gave them Bible studies 10:42 and the whole side Massai village 10:43 I was there was converted to Jesus Christ. 10:46 And God is doing so many miracles out Gary, 10:49 I just see drops of the latter rain 10:52 all over the place, you know. 10:53 Fantastic. 10:54 Now Jim, just a personal question. 10:56 We work in the same building here, 10:58 most people don't dress like you do right. 11:00 What's the story? 11:02 Well, this is my outfit for the Making Waves 11:04 television program, I do kind of-- 11:06 you know, travel around the world 11:07 and take people on a journey 11:08 but just happened you caught me on a day 11:10 when I was filming for something else so. 11:12 Wonderful yeah, and viewers many of you may know Jim 11:15 from the Making Waves TV program. 11:17 Jim, what's the most encouraging 11:21 aspect of your work with Adventist World Radio? 11:24 What's the thing that blesses you the most? 11:26 That's a really hard question to answer 11:28 but the easy answer is everything. 11:30 I mean to see the listener responses, 11:32 to hear listener responses, to talk these people Gary, 11:36 it's amazing what God is doing. 11:38 In the darkest corners of planet earth 11:40 He is reaching these people by radio. 11:43 I have seen it by no other means a lot times, 11:45 but they will have a shortwave radio 11:47 and they will be tuning to the news 11:49 and they accidentally come crossed over program. 11:51 And then they start calling everybody else in the village 11:54 and we'll find a village with 50, 75 people 11:57 they built a church with their own money, 11:59 their own time, they never had a pastor 12:01 and they're worshipping there 12:03 and virtually it become Seventh-day Adventist, 12:05 you know, by God's grace. 12:06 Fantastic, what's the greatest need that you have with AWR? 12:11 Well, the greatest need basically 12:13 as prayers and financing 12:14 well, we are a general confraternity entity, 12:16 we're the mission arm of the world church, 12:19 we have to self fundraise for all of our out reach 12:21 so that's probably the greatest need 12:23 that way and-- and prayer because, 12:24 you know, people wake up any time of the day or night, 12:27 pray for these dear people because somebody, 12:29 somewhere is making a decision for Christ. 12:31 Jim, thanks so much for sharing with us today. 12:33 Oh, hey thank you for having me. 12:35 Viewers at home, please continue to pray 12:37 for Adventist World Radio, pray for the speakers, 12:40 pray for the listeners that many people 12:43 may come to know Jesus Christ as a result of this ministry. 12:47 We will be right back. |
Revised 2015-02-05