I'm standing here at
the memorial for Tula,
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near the "Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier."
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Tula was vital in the
role that they played,
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beating the German,
defeating the Germans.
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They produced missiles,
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they produced
Kalashnikov weapons,
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they trained military men all,
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from all over the country.
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But you know that isn't
all that Tula is known for
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and the Tula does.
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I think you'll
be surprised today
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to find an exciting story.
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Tula is spreading the
gospel all over Russia.
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It is such a wonderful thing,
it isn't just about death,
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but it's about
eternal life in Jesus Christ.
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I'm standing here
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at the "Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier."
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The inscription reads,
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"Your name is
unknown, your deeds are known."
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One Russian city
has long been known
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as the centre of
weapons manufacturing.
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In 1712, Tula was
visited by Peter the Great,
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who commissioned
the Demidov blacksmiths
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to build the first
arms factory in Russia.
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Several decades later,
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Tula was turned by the Demidovs
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into the greatest ironworking
centre of Eastern Europe.
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During the Great Patriotic War,
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as many Russians
refer to World War II,
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the city was
important in the production
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of a vast array of weaponry.
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Tula became the
target of a German offensive
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to break Soviet
resistance from Moscow
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between October 24
and December 5, 1941.
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The heavily fortified
city held out however,
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the Second Panzer
Army was stopped near Tula.
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The city secured
the southern flank
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during the
Soviet defence of Moscow
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and the
subsequent counter-offensive.
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Tula was awarded the
title, "Hero City" in 1976.
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She is
absolutely colossal in size
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that she towers
over the entire city,
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over 96 meters high,
that's over 300 feet.
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She is beautiful
and she was built
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to commemorate World
War II and the victory.
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Well, it isn't publicly known
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all weapons
manufactured in Tula,
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it is known for the manufacturer
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of the various missiles.
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But it is most famously known
for the Kalashnikov rifles.
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Avtomat Kalashnikov designed
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one of the most
famous weapons in 1947.
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It's known
worldwide as the AK-47.
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There are now some 100 million
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AK-47s in circulation.
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It's pretty
amazing to me that here
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we're in the middle
of the city that produces
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maybe nuclear weapons,
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I'm not sure but definitely
missiles of many kinds
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I'm told, Kalashnikov
machine guns, well weaponry.
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It's a training
centre for the military
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for the vast Russian armies
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and we've a studio
here, how did that happened.
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Well that's an
interesting story,
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actually it's a
miracle of God really.
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That happened about the time
communism was falling apart.
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And first of all,
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the church wanted
to establish a school,
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but the city of
Tula wouldn't hear up
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having a
Christian school in a city
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that is the pride
of their military.
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And so they gave
a piece of property
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way up north in the
little tiny village of Zaoksky.
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But at that time
they also decided
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they wanted to see if
they can get on the radio.
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And they had a church here
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and they decided to
start doing some recordings
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I believe in the church.
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It started right in the church.
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Yes, it started
and it was kind of
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a secret operation there
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and those tapes of
course would be sent
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to Adventist World Radio
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and we would broadcast
it on the shortwave network.
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So tapes would go
out of the country
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and then you
broadcast back into the country.
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Back into the country,
Because it was illegal.
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It was illegal, it
couldn't be any broadcast
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on local radio at that time.
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And so it was kind of
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a undercover operation at first.
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foreign language
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Back in Stalin's day,
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he wanted to
communicate with his people.
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But he didn't want to
give them radio receivers
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where they would, might
listen to some broadcast
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from the western world.
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And so he wired
homes, and businesses,
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and hotels, and street corners,
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and they put
speakers on these corners
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and they would just
put a volume button,
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no on and off button,
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just a volume button, you know.
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And that's so they couldn't
turn it all the way off.
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Yeah, probably not.
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And then the
leadership of the country
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could tell the
people whatever they wanted,
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whether it was
informational kinds of things,
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or propaganda
or whatever it was.
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foreign language
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Now, I don't know
a lot of the details
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about the
formation of this station.
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But there is a man
here one of our producers,
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very Russian looking
person, his name is Nikolai.
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And Russian name.
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Yeah, that's right and he
has worked here for 18 years
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and he could tell us a lot
more details about this all.
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I've got to meet him.
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Yeah let's go, let's go
talk to him as well, yeah.
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Nikolai, Ben tells
me that you are really
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the patriarch of this ministry.
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You've been here a long time.
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Share with me, why do
they call you the patriarch?
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foreign language
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This happened a long time ago.
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This happened in 1990,
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Brother Butyl
Kolkov met me at church
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and invited me to work
with Voice of the Hope.
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During this mission it
was around summer time in 1990
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and what's interesting
is that Peter later said,
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I didn't believe
that you would come to us.
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I'm sure he said this because
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I was not attending
church during that time.
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foreign language
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You now, this is not unusual
for Adventist World Radio
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for producers to actually become
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believers by
reading the scripts.
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I'm one of the
people who came to Christ
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because of the radio.
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I first came to church
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because of the
Spirit of the God calling me
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and my heart led to believe
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after
apprehending the word of God.
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Would it be appropriate to say,
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because you've been
involved in the work of AWR
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since the
beginning here in Russia.
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Is it appropriate to say that,
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AWR has made a
huge impact in Russia?
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foreing language
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I travelled alone
down Central Russia
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and made an appraisal.
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Ten percent of the residents
knew about Voice of the Hope.
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And were
listening to out station.
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According to the letters
and comments that we get,
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we believe that
the first 10 percent
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of the people are
listening and still know
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about the Voice of
the Hope. Thank God.
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We calculated 10
million potential listeners
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and what's interesting is
that the Voice of the Hope
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was leading in all
radio stations in Russia.
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foreign language
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You're saying we're the leaders
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in radio broadcasting.
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Our radio station was
leading in all of Russia.
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We had the most listeners,
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we had the most
interesting programming
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and we received
the most letters.
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foreign language
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We've the small profile
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compared to
Orthodox and Baptist.
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But with little power
we managed to accomplish
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this graceful thing.
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foreign language
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Is that the case still today?
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During the small matter of time
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when we didn't have the radio,
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people were
still sending letters
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about our programming.
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Later we came back
and people were happy
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to begin listening to
our station once again.
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foreign language
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For decades Tula has
been a huge military city,
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but by the power of God,
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it is now reaching
all the former USSR
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with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Stay tune, we'll be right back
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for the rest of story.
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Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Kalu Ram was a
poor field laborer
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near Gujarat in India.
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Finding his work tedious,
Kalu, purchased a small radio
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to relieve the boredom.
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One day he came across a program
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talking about Jesus, it
was from Adventist World Radio.
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After listening for few days,
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Kalu, looked for a pastor
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who could tell
him more about Christ.
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Soon convinced of
the Christian truth,
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Kalu, was baptized and
became an outreach leader
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in his hometown and
the surrounding area.
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Witnessing in
predominantly Hindu towns
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is not always safe
and Kalu was once attacked
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when approaching
a town to preach.
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However through
the efforts of Kalu,
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and the
volunteers he has trained,
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nearly 1000 people
have accepted Christ.
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Adventist World Radio
shares the Hope of Christ
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with millions
of people everyday.
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For more
information visit awr.org.
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As you can see AWR, is
frontline mission radio.
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Our first priority is to travel
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where missionaries cannot go.
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We broadcast
thousands of hours each day
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in 70 major
languages of the world.
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AWR has the capability
and capacity of blanketing
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almost 80% of the
world's population.
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Not only do we
broadcast via shortwave radio,
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but our signal
is on over 1000 FM
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and AM stations
around the world as well.
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Our podcast
subscribers, internet users,
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satellite downlinks
are growing rapidly,
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evidence by the hundred thousand
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plus emails and letters
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and phone calls we
receive each and every year.
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Yes, AWR is your mission radio,
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no walls and no border,
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for AWR that means change lives
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and change
heart's around the world,
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because God is
using the airwaves of AWR
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to reach people everywhere.
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Nikolai, you've
seen this ministry grow.
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Can you share a little bit
of how you've seen it grow?
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Everything started
from having very little.
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We started getting
together at Butyl Kolkov's house
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and there we established
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the first radio
programming station.
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His house is located
not far from Voice of Hope.
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And now how many
people are at the studio?
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There are lot of
people working in the studio,
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but the radio programming
has only three people.
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foreign language
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We had a small
group of co-workers,
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so we had to
understand each other quickly.
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Our very first
recording was very interesting,
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I came and sat
down at Sirakov radio,
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after I started
reading the text,
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I looked underneath my hands
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and they were forming a puddle
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because of the stress.
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foreign language
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We were also stressed over
the first incoming letters.
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foreign language
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We didn't
expect to receive much,
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but when we opened the box
out came hundreds of letters
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just from the first
radio programming that we had.
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foreign language
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Now was this, they are
all during Communist time
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or had it changed already.
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foreign language
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No, this was the
period of the Soviet Union.
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This was the fall of Gorbachev.
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We were finally
able to have free radio,
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but we still had
problems with understanding.
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People getting in our way.
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These were organizations
that put us into tight spots.
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foreign language
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Our programming
was around 20 minutes.
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We divided it into two sections.
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Peter read the
first spiritual part
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and the other half
I spoke in relation
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with the teens and kids.
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But they were all debates
relating to spiritual terms.
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foreign language
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foreign language
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In the
beginning, I was the speaker
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and a principal of the school.
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It was fairly easy,
because I was able to plan
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and organize things to
make them workout smoothly.
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It was interesting,
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because we had to do
this on a mimeograph machine.
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Then we wrote everything by hand
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and finally typed
it up on a computer
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and kept the printed text.
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foreign language
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The text was
later pasted on a poster
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and I personally delivered them
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on public
transportation in a huge bag.
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So those first
letters that you received,
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when you began to broadcast,
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where those people already
interested in learning more?
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foreign language
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We feel the
difference within a year.
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We're absent for a while
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and while we were gone
00:16:03.16\00:16:04.40
the letters stopped coming in.
00:16:04.40\00:16:06.30
People were
writings us letters asking us
00:16:06.30\00:16:08.20
where we went and
why we disappeared.
00:16:08.20\00:16:10.46
As soon as we came back
on air for Radio Russia,
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we started getting
our flow of letters back,
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couple of hundred a month.
00:16:15.46\00:16:17.80
Tell me today, we're on
1500 stations across Russia.
00:16:17.80\00:16:23.60
What kind of
response you're receiving
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and how do you
process those responses?
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foreign language
00:16:28.43\00:16:34.60
Now letters are coming in
from a different direction.
00:16:38.10\00:16:40.50
They are now
flowing in from prisons.
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They've a different
situation and are left with only
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the connection
through the radio.
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Listening to our
radio station daily,
00:16:46.66\00:16:48.76
they sent us
question's relating to a topic
00:16:48.76\00:16:50.86
that were discussed.
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A lot of them are
now members of our school
00:16:52.43\00:16:54.70
and now giving
addresses to their family,
00:16:54.70\00:16:56.70
so we can write to them.
00:16:56.70\00:16:57.86
foreign language
00:16:57.86\00:17:03.20
Here is another story of
hope from Adventist World Radio.
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Egor and Fatlana,
00:17:07.76\00:17:09.43
unlike some other
Russians have seen nothing,
00:17:09.43\00:17:12.13
but hard times since
the fall of Communism.
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The agriculture industry,
00:17:15.16\00:17:16.73
so vital to their
rural town has plummeted,
00:17:16.73\00:17:19.73
leaving the area in poverty.
00:17:19.73\00:17:22.43
Watching their
dejected neighbours
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fall to alcohol abuse,
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they were concerned
about the influence,
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such a hopeless society
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would have on
their five children.
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So they search for a positive
influence for their family.
00:17:31.63\00:17:35.53
They founded in
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00:17:38.63\00:17:40.96
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You were telling earlier on
the questions over the years
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that you are used to
answer have now changed.
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foreign language
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Yes, today, letters
have different meaning.
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foreign language
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We started
receiving more letters
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from areas that did
not have simple situations
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and they only have
00:19:37.83\00:19:38.80
the connection
through the radio.
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They listen to our station
00:19:41.50\00:19:43.43
and then they
send the questions.
00:19:43.43\00:19:46.53
And they started learning.
00:19:46.53\00:19:48.50
Now they gave us
addresses to their families,
00:19:48.50\00:19:51.53
so now we can write to them.
00:19:51.53\00:19:53.36
foreign language
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Operation Barbarossa,
it was the largest land
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battle in the
history of the world.
00:20:09.50\00:20:11.56
Twenty seven million
soldiers lost their life.
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Many of them on
these very fields,
00:20:14.83\00:20:16.66
they call it
the fields of blood.
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Here is the memorial to
many of those fallen soldiers
00:20:18.86\00:20:21.36
from just this
little village alone.
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But can you
imagine 27 million men
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gave their lives in battle.
00:20:26.70\00:20:29.56
Operation Barbarossa
opened up the Eastern Front,
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which ultimately became
the biggest theatre of war
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in world history.
00:20:35.60\00:20:37.70
It was notorious for
unprecedented ferocity,
00:20:37.70\00:20:40.90
destruction and
immense loss of life.
00:20:40.90\00:20:44.20
More people fought and
died on the Eastern Front
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than all the theatres
of World War II combined.
00:20:46.66\00:20:50.20
With over 30 million
dead, many of them civilians,
00:20:50.20\00:20:54.06
the Eastern
Front has been called
00:20:54.06\00:20:55.33
the war of extermination.
00:20:55.33\00:20:57.76
It resulted in the destruction
00:20:57.76\00:20:59.26
of the Third Reich and
the partition of Germany
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and the rise of the Soviet Union
00:21:01.76\00:21:03.76
as a military and
industrial superpower.
00:21:03.76\00:21:07.90
The total
estimated human loss of life
00:21:07.90\00:21:10.10
caused by World War II
was roughly 72 million people,
00:21:10.10\00:21:14.73
making it the deadliest
and most destructive war
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in human history.
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The civilian toll
was over 45 million.
00:21:18.93\00:21:22.50
The Soviet
victory owed a great deal
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to the ability
of the war industry
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to outperform
the German economy,
00:21:26.20\00:21:28.36
despite the enormous
loss of population and land.
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As the world has
become industrialised,
00:21:37.46\00:21:39.70
so too has the ability
to cause death and war.
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Beginning
around 100 A.D. to now,
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it is conservatively estimated
00:21:46.60\00:21:48.53
that there have been
over 375 million deaths
00:21:48.53\00:21:52.06
from major conflicts.
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This does not include
00:21:53.73\00:21:54.83
the thousands of minor
conflicts throughout history.
00:21:54.83\00:21:57.73
Nor does it include the
satanic fits of genocide
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that terrorise cultures
and nations since that time.
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In the words of
Christ, there should be wars
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and rumours of wars,
but the end is not yet.
00:22:06.80\00:22:10.16
Can anyone doubt
that these words have been
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and are been fulfilled
00:22:12.60\00:22:13.90
through the
grotesquery illative sin.
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As one writer so aptly put it,
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"I can hear the footsteps
of an approaching God."
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No matter where we turn
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the footsteps
are getting louder,
00:22:24.93\00:22:27.23
the steady thread of
events is ever join us
00:22:27.23\00:22:29.83
to the ultimate climax
of time and then eternity.
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"That moment when
time, as we know it ceases
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and every eye shall see Him."
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Our Lord and
Savoir is calling you
00:22:39.36\00:22:41.53
and calling me just as He
is calling our radio listeners
00:22:41.53\00:22:45.10
around the world to be
ready for that great day.
00:22:45.10\00:22:48.43
Tell me in the production
of programs that you're doing,
00:22:53.33\00:22:58.30
what kind of subjects
are you producing now.
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What, has it been a
change in terms of peoples'
00:23:03.06\00:23:06.06
interest over the years.
00:23:06.06\00:23:08.23
What do you find
is the most effective
00:23:08.23\00:23:10.63
to reach the hearts
of the Russian people?
00:23:10.63\00:23:13.46
foreign language
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At first people were
asking questions like God,
00:23:19.56\00:23:23.06
why is He here?
00:23:23.06\00:23:25.36
Where did He come from?
00:23:25.36\00:23:27.30
Tell us what the Bible says?
00:23:27.30\00:23:30.13
Who wrote the Bible?
00:23:30.13\00:23:32.10
These are
simple questions given,
00:23:32.10\00:23:34.50
but now they became
deeper and harder to explain,
00:23:34.50\00:23:37.36
they're asking
high educated questions.
00:23:37.36\00:23:40.00
They started
asking about the books
00:23:40.00\00:23:41.96
and where they came from,
00:23:41.96\00:23:44.36
asking about the life
and the biography of authors,
00:23:44.36\00:23:48.63
just tough questions like these,
00:23:48.63\00:23:50.63
even we sometimes will
have to hand those questions
00:23:50.63\00:23:53.16
over to our biblical college.
00:23:53.16\00:23:54.80
foreign language
00:23:54.80\00:23:56.66
We've a special radio
program that is named,
00:23:56.66\00:23:58.73
"Biblical Dictionary".
00:23:58.73\00:24:00.20
We collect their questions,
the ones asked the most,
00:24:00.20\00:24:03.16
and the most
difficult ones to understand.
00:24:03.16\00:24:06.10
foreign language
00:24:06.10\00:24:11.63
We later then answer
them, we've a little slogan
00:24:11.63\00:24:15.00
and it says,
"This is interesting,"
00:24:15.00\00:24:17.80
and our other slogan
says, "Guess the biblical text."
00:24:17.80\00:24:22.03
This is very interesting
00:24:22.03\00:24:23.73
and the majority of our letters
00:24:23.73\00:24:25.06
come from these games.
00:24:25.06\00:24:28.50
The letters will come
in asking more questions
00:24:28.50\00:24:31.30
and before you know it,
00:24:31.30\00:24:32.36
they're part of our so
called biblical home study.
00:24:32.36\00:24:34.90
foreign language
00:24:34.90\00:24:37.83
Do you still find
people changing from unbelief,
00:24:37.83\00:24:43.16
atheism to Christianity?
00:24:43.16\00:24:46.00
Is that still happening today?
00:24:46.00\00:24:47.93
foreign language
00:24:47.93\00:24:53.26
Atheism was always around,
from the beginning of time,
00:24:55.80\00:25:01.03
for that reason people
switch from atheism constantly.
00:25:01.03\00:25:04.06
foreign language
00:25:04.06\00:25:07.83
What in your
experience do you find
00:25:07.83\00:25:10.10
is sort of the key thing that
causes people to consider God
00:25:10.10\00:25:16.53
and to make that change
from unbelief to belief?
00:25:16.53\00:25:21.23
foreign language
00:25:21.23\00:25:28.83
Every person soul
contains Christianity.
00:25:28.83\00:25:32.10
Our radio station pushes people
00:25:32.10\00:25:33.53
to make decisions in their life.
00:25:33.53\00:25:36.53
Our job isn't to
make people Christian,
00:25:36.53\00:25:38.56
but to give them
that little push.
00:25:38.56\00:25:40.83
To show them the next
step towards Christianity.
00:25:40.83\00:25:45.26
foreign language
00:25:45.26\00:25:51.26
Nikolai, I like to
ask you one more question
00:25:54.50\00:25:56.96
and that's, is this been a
rewarding position for you.
00:25:56.96\00:26:03.13
foreign language
00:26:03.13\00:26:06.70
I'm doing something I love
00:26:06.70\00:26:08.33
and I know that is
important for people
00:26:08.33\00:26:10.60
and because of that
people come to church
00:26:10.60\00:26:12.70
and open
themselves up in front of God.
00:26:12.70\00:26:14.56
Man I'm so glad you
introduced me to Nikolai.
00:26:18.03\00:26:20.33
Nikolai thank you so very much,
00:26:20.33\00:26:21.96
keep up all the good work.
It's good to see you again.
00:26:21.96\00:26:25.50
The apostle Paul told the people
00:26:28.80\00:26:30.63
that he was working with,
00:26:30.63\00:26:32.40
that he was
telling them good news,
00:26:32.40\00:26:35.03
so that they could
turn from worthless things
00:26:35.03\00:26:37.70
to the living God.
00:26:37.70\00:26:39.93
That's our mission,
00:26:39.93\00:26:41.30
that's what we're doing
here with the Voice of Hope
00:26:41.30\00:26:44.46
and I'd like to
invite you listeners
00:26:44.46\00:26:47.26
to pray for the people
00:26:47.26\00:26:48.93
who are searching
for something to believe.
00:26:48.93\00:26:52.23
Pray for the people who
are studying the Bible lessons
00:26:52.23\00:26:55.80
and trying to understand,
00:26:55.80\00:26:57.33
what direction they
should have for their lives.
00:26:57.33\00:27:00.86
And pray for the
studio personnel,
00:27:00.86\00:27:03.90
the people like Nikolai
00:27:03.90\00:27:05.60
who are preparing the programs
00:27:05.60\00:27:08.00
and people like Elia
who are answering questions
00:27:08.00\00:27:11.53
and working with
the Bible lessons.
00:27:11.53\00:27:14.10
And keep in touch
with Adventist World Radio
00:27:14.10\00:27:17.53
as we trace the miracle
00:27:17.53\00:27:19.23
of changed lives
around the world.
00:27:19.23\00:27:22.70
As you've seen God is
touching parts in life
00:27:22.70\00:27:25.60
everywhere in the
world for Jesus Christ.
00:27:25.60\00:27:28.20
If you're going to partner
00:27:28.20\00:27:29.16
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00:27:29.16\00:27:30.76
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00:27:30.76\00:27:36.26
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00:27:36.26\00:27:38.70
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00:27:38.70\00:27:41.50
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00:27:41.50\00:27:46.76
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