Participants: Jim Ayer
Series Code: MW
Program Code: MW000046
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00:01 Today's adventure is about transform lives,
00:03 the lives of an entire village. Stay tune. 00:55 So far here in Addis Ababa, there is one thing 00:57 that I see that is distinguish is that's traffic lights. 01:01 Even if they were here people traveling was used 01:03 to it because everybody kind of mills in and joins 01:06 in and waves and points and kind of move back 01:09 and forth and they seem like they make it all work, 01:11 it's like this mechanical symphony or some kind. 01:16 Addis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia founded 01:19 by Emperor Menelik in 1887. The federal democratic 01:24 republic of Ethiopia is a landlocked country situated 01:28 in the Horn of Africa border by Sudan, Kenya, 01:32 Somalia, Djibouti, and is of 1993 to the North by Eritrea. 01:53 It's kind a fun to be here to see the little burls 01:55 carrying big sacks of grain that the lumber market 01:59 is right here as we pass by where the people 02:02 tan in hides right long side the street. 02:06 All the different vendors, mango, is that good mangoes. 02:10 There is just a little of everything, 02:11 I saw fellow carrying his six foot door on top 02:14 of this head. I don't know where he is headed 02:16 with that, but lot of things are carried on 02:19 the head, here it is the easiest way of 02:20 transportation many times because many folks 02:23 don't have vehicles. Then the streets are so crowded 02:25 they can actually walk faster anyway. 02:27 It's just an exciting mix to see everything happening 02:31 in the one time in a short states. 02:35 Addis Ababa meaning new flower. 02:37 It's a sprawling city located at the heart of 02:39 Ethiopia. The rolling hills and agreeable climate 02:42 is a perfect location for the political, economical, 02:46 and social centre of Ethiopia. With the population 02:54 of 2.8 million the city inhabitants make up a small 02:58 portion of the 73 million people who live in Ethiopia. 03:01 Communications can be difficult because 83 03:06 languages are spoken in Ethiopia. But the use of 03:09 English and Hark and Qwarenya by most people 03:12 has made communications easier. 03:18 Here is the beginning of the future of Addis Ababa 03:21 was threaten by the lack of firewood for the rapidly 03:23 growing population. The introduction of fast growing 03:27 eucalyptus tree save the developing capital. 03:29 Anthropologist called Ethiopia the cradle of 03:34 civilization. The discovery of a skeleton later 03:38 named Lucy is said to be the missing link and was 03:42 found in the far region of Ethiopia. Some studies 03:45 claimed that the dispersion of human beings 03:47 can be traced back to this region. However, 03:51 according to Genesis 1:1, we find that God created 03:55 all things in the beginning God created the heavens 03:58 and the earth. So we can conclude that the Lucy 04:01 account does not fit the biblical record of creation. 04:22 You know so many times the news media portraits 04:23 the ugly sight of Ethiopia, but this is the beautiful 04:27 part things that the news media never shows you, 04:29 gorgeous vistas lust grass, cattle out grazing, 04:35 beautiful sunshine, warm weather, just right 04:38 the wind is blowing little bit with a little breeze. 04:41 There is horses running around, 04:43 I mean it is beautiful. Well, we have been on the dirt 04:55 road for a while now and man it's dirty, 04:57 it's bumpy, it's tiring, but we've got a lot of great 05:00 listener stories I understand in a 05:02 village some more ahead. I hope we get there 05:04 soon, but I am excited about the stories. 06:23 What you see here today is an example of making 06:25 way of Adventist World Radio touching hearts 06:28 around the world even in this remote village. 06:32 It's started with one fellow listening to a radio, 06:35 who began sharing with others. And he is here today 06:37 and we're going to talk with him for a minute. 06:39 Join us. Hello brother. How are you today? 06:48 Thus I understand that 6 years ago you started 06:51 listening the Adventist World Radio. 06:52 Tell me about that? What happened in your life? 07:06 It happened 6 years ago. I was searching 07:09 to radio dial for something interest to listen, 07:12 and I discovered that Adventist World 07:14 Radio message. I continue listening and compared it to 07:17 the Bible. After sometime I began to understand 07:21 the truth and decided to follow Jesus. 07:23 But you spent 6 years listening to it, 07:26 but you didn't believe it first. You continued to study. 07:31 I was listening and studying, but I had a problem 07:34 with my family and other relatives. The objective to 07:38 my interest in the truth from the AWR messages, 07:42 but I still decide to follow Jesus. 07:45 So what happened at that time? What change because 07:49 you share with me something about your brother? 07:55 After listening to the radio, 07:57 I recognized the truth. And after that I started 08:00 to follow Jesus and there was a great change 08:03 in my life. I was compelled to share a message 08:06 with my brothers, sisters, and all my relatives. 08:11 And what happened when you began sharing 08:12 and tell us some little more of that story? 08:18 I shared the AWR message with many others 08:21 and they accept the truth. They began asking me 08:24 for the location of the Church building, 08:27 but I don't know where to find a Church, 08:29 so I did not know where to tell them to go. 08:33 But your brother accepted them. 08:34 He began listening Adventist World Radio too. 08:39 My brother ordinary oppose me, he didn't want me 08:41 to follow the truth. But finally, God reached him and 08:46 he decided to listen to the radio. 08:49 Then he also gave his heart to Jesus. 08:52 Can you introduce me to your brother 08:53 that we might talk a little bit? Yes, he can. 09:00 Well, let's go. Here the radio wave of AWR God 09:09 is reaching people around the world. 09:12 We would like to opt you an addition of making waves. 09:15 It's four of our episode brought you from around 09:17 the world. God speaking to hearts, 09:20 the hearts of the listeners of AWR exciting stories. 09:23 We hope that you will share those with friends 09:25 and neighbors, appointers anyone you come in 09:27 contract with. Join us to make waves it's completely 09:30 free. Right now the information is on your 09:35 screen. For your friend, no obligation DVD, 09:37 write to Adventist World Radio, 12501 Old Columbia 09:42 Pike Silver Spring, Maryland 20904 or call 09:46 1-866-503-3531 or log on to www.awr.org/MWDVD. 09:58 Be sure to request offer #10 that number 10:01 again is 1-866-503-3531. 10:08 Here is another story of hope from Adventist 10:11 World Radio. Zana pressed her ear tightly against 10:15 the radio speaker. The volume must be as low 10:17 as possible, so her parents wouldn't hear. 10:20 They would be so ashamed to find her listening 10:22 to Adventist World Radio. Christianity was looked 10:26 down upon in the Middle Eastern country and 10:29 conversion from Islam would be totally unacceptable. 10:32 Yet, she couldn't stop listening. Zana cherish the 10:36 programs, messages of love and forgiveness. 10:39 She even bought a Bible, which she read late at night 10:43 after her parents were asleep. Everyday she prayed 10:47 that God would give her the strength to be 10:49 a Christian and to tell her family and friends 10:52 about Jesus. Adventist World Radio shares the 10:58 hope of Christ with millions of people everyday in their 11:02 own languages. For more information visit 11:05 www.awr.org. Cow pie is not what you usually think 11:14 of is a great commodity, but in many countries it's 11:16 very useful. You see they gathered it altogether 11:18 compressed it with hay, put little against the building 11:23 to let it dry and it becomes fuel. 11:25 A very important commodity to cook all their food, 11:29 very little wood fuel around that they can actually 11:32 utilize, so it becomes very important. 11:36 I rather not though. Over 80 percent of Ethiopia's 11:43 population lives in rural areas, 11:45 where agriculture and the herding of cattle and 11:48 goats fill their daily lives. They have very closely 11:53 knit family units and most children remain with 11:56 their parents until marriage. Everyone including 12:00 children as young as 4 years old are given the huge 12:03 responsibility to tend and herd the family's livestock. 12:08 The overwhelming majority in the Islands are poor 12:10 farming households. They grow their own subsistence 12:13 grain. The grass is grown as far as for cattle and 12:17 is also used as a component in a Dobie construction. 12:22 Most of their energy is focused upon where the next 12:24 meal will come from. So in comparison education 12:28 has little importance. With everyone tending to the 12:32 land and animals it's no surprise that only 38 12:34 percent of the population is literate because 12:39 all the children help the families, 12:40 only 50 percent of them attend primary school. 12:44 The older children are expected to carry much 12:47 of the burden, which means only 12 percent 12:49 of them ever have the opportunity to attend 12:52 secondary schools. If every child under 12:55 16 was forced to attend school almost half of the 12:58 country's entire population would be attending classes. 13:15 It's good to meet you. I was talking 13:16 with your brother. Tell me your story. 13:23 I understand that you hated what your brother 13:26 was doing originally listening to AWR? 13:31 My brother had heard the message from the radio 13:34 and came to me and asked me to go with him to Church. 13:38 But at that time I was serving another religion 13:41 and I completely hated this idea and refused. 13:46 You said your brother was crazy. 13:47 You want nothing to do with. 13:50 I was angry because I thought my brother 13:52 was going to disturb the tradition of our religion, 13:55 so I thought we should dismiss him from our 13:58 religion, but eventually I accepted a message 14:01 I heard from AWR and I accepted Jesus Christ 14:04 and was Baptized and now I am also encouraging 14:09 others to accept Jesus. They God worked on your 14:12 heart and changed you. My brother cannot read or 14:17 understand the Bible, so I began to study the Bible 14:20 and listen to the radio with him then I was convinced 14:24 so I took my brother and my family to the Church. 14:28 Once you believe that AWR was a true message? 14:31 What did you do next? After accepting the truth 14:38 that I heard on AWR, I decided to become an Adventist. 14:42 I started having many problems. When I went to visit 14:45 my family I was persecuted, and was even put in prison 14:49 for two days. But I still follow Jesus Christ because 14:53 I believe his truth. Did you share this 14:56 truth with anyone else? So many people accepted 15:01 the truth after I shared the message with them. 15:04 Have other people accepted the truth? 15:10 Even while I was in prison many accepted. 15:14 I've even talked to the governor of my land about 15:16 serious considering religion and that it is an honest, 15:20 faith, and is the truth. After that many people 15:24 listened to my witnessing and many of them 15:27 are accepting Christ. So, because of his testimony 15:30 many more people are looking the soon coming 15:32 of Jesus Christ. Yes, I am excited 15:36 that they are waiting for the second coming of Christ. 15:39 Amen, well, I understand you talk about prison 15:41 that someone else here today, I want to talk to too 15:43 that spent quite bit of time in prison. 15:46 So let's go visit him, right now, shall we. 15:47 So thank you brother. I got to grab that hand. 15:51 And thank you for sharing. Running water is almost 16:08 non-existent. Many villages have a central well 16:11 where people gather daily to fill any container 16:14 they can find to meet their daily needs. 16:17 Irrigation of crops if done at all is done by hands. 16:53 Eating from individual plates strikes Ethiopians 16:56 as bizarre and wasteful. Food is always shared 16:59 on a single plate without any eating utensils. 17:05 The national staple and base of almost every meal 17:07 is injera. It is spread out like large thin pancake 17:12 bread, slightly bitter. It goes well with a ray 17:16 of spicy foods. The large thin pancake is made 17:20 of teff flour. Teff is an intriguing grain, ancient, 17:24 minute in size and packed with nutrition. 17:27 It is believed to have originated in Ethiopia between 17:31 4000 and 1000 BC. It is grown primarily as a cereal 17:36 crop, where it is ground into flour, 17:38 fermented for three days then made into injera. 17:44 According to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church 17:47 Wednesday's and Friday's are the traditional 17:49 fasting days when no animal products are supposed 17:53 to be eaten. Hello Alamu, it's good to see you. 18:04 I understand you were in prison. 18:05 You were that bad of man. 18:10 Because of many problems in my life I went to prison. 18:13 While in prison, I was very restricted and could 18:16 not go anywhere. But he looks like a nice man. 18:18 He has got a smile. How did he end up in prison? 18:24 The devil has many ways of tempting people into 18:26 making bad decisions. Mine was drinking alcohol. 18:30 Oh, so because of alcohol some of the reason 18:32 you ended up in prison. One reason was because 18:38 I use alcohol, but the main reason was because 18:41 I was not the very wise person. 18:44 But you are not in prison and I saw you earlier 18:46 today in the village carrying a Bible. 18:49 What happened tell me that story? 18:54 When I was in prison we used to listen to many 18:56 radio stations. One day, while I was looking for 18:59 the news I found AWR program and was 19:02 interested in what I heard. So you were tuning to the 19:06 news or something else and you accidentally 19:08 came across the AWR. Yes, I knew when I was 19:15 listening to AWR that was the word of God. 19:19 They spoke about the God and the Christian life. 19:22 I continued listening and after I got out of prison 19:26 I decide I wanted a Christian life. 19:29 I went home and search for the Church, 19:31 but there was no Church around. 19:33 God reached right down through that prison 19:36 and spoke to you through the radio. Is that correct? 19:43 Yes, you are right. God spoke to me through 19:45 the radio. And I was willing to accept the truth. 19:50 After coming back home, I asked so many people 19:52 if there was a Church, but there was none to be 19:55 found. Then I heard there was an evangelist around. 20:00 I found him and joined him and he began teaching 20:03 me the Bible. From then I've studied with him. 20:07 Now my home is whatever we study the Bible. 20:10 Did you share your faith with anybody else? 20:15 It has been a short time since I became a Christian, 20:19 but yes, I've shared with many people. 20:22 You just making waves, I love it. Now I understand 20:26 that you shared also with many family members. 20:31 All of my family has accepted the truth 20:34 and we worship together. 20:36 But the group here has grown so big. 20:38 There was no Church, but I understand there 20:40 is a lady here who got touched her heart. 20:43 Brother I want to thank you so much. 20:45 It's good to meet you. I am glad that you are out 20:46 of prison and you are on your way to heaven. 20:48 I think a lady is here. Let's go talk with her now about 20:51 what happened with this massive group of people. 21:00 As you can see AWR is frontline mission radio. 21:04 Our first priority is to travel where missionaries 21:06 cannot go. We broadcast thousands of hours 21:10 each day in 70 major languages in the world. 21:13 AWR has the capability and capacity of blanketing 21:17 almost 80 percent of the world's population. 21:20 Not only to re-broadcast via short wave radio, 21:24 but our signal is on over 1000 FM and AM stations 21:27 around the world as well. Our broadcast subscribers, 21:31 internet users, satellite downlinks are 21:33 growing rapidly, evidenced by the hundred thousand 21:37 plus e-mails, letters, and phone calls we receive 21:40 each and every year. Yes, AWR is your mission radio. 21:45 No walls and no border for AWR that means 21:48 change lives and change hearts around the world 21:50 because God is using the airways of AWR 21:54 to reach people everywhere. 22:00 Here is another story of hope from Adventist 22:03 World Radio. My name is Benjamin Schoun 22:06 and I am the president of Adventist World Radio. 22:09 Everyday listeners around the America tune 22:11 into Clinica Abierta quite possibly our most popular 22:15 program. It's a live Spanish language program 22:18 featuring real doctors answering listener phone 22:22 calls and e-mails. The goal is to provide simple, 22:25 practical, medical principles to people who often don't 22:29 live close to a hospital or can't afford to see 22:32 a physician. Listener response has been 22:34 tremendous. Each program receives far more 22:37 questions then we can answer in one broadcast. 22:40 It's part of our effort to meet the physical 22:42 as well as the spiritual needs of our listeners. 22:48 Adventist World Radio shares the hope of Christ 22:51 with millions of people everyday in their own 22:54 languages. For more information 22:56 visit: www.awr.org. Are you sinking? 23:11 I understand because of you all of these people 23:15 now have a Church. Tell me how that happened? 23:24 I was following another religion before, 23:25 but then one day a guests came to my house 23:28 with their pastor and they began sharing with me 23:31 about God. I told them I was also religious 23:34 and that I know God. They continued to tell me 23:37 the truth from the Bible and then you should 23:39 accept and follow all of God's truth. 23:42 Not just some other. I asked them to continue 23:45 sharing with me all these truths. And after they told 23:48 me I accepted them and gave my heart to Jesus. 23:52 Eventually, I heard there were some people they 23:55 had become Christians by listening to Adventist 23:57 World Radio program, and I knew they didn't 24:00 have a Church so I gave them my house 24:02 to worship in. You gave them your entire home, 24:07 just turned over your home to other people. 24:12 I was so happy when I heard the truth that I wanted 24:14 others to hear them also. So, I gave my home entirely 24:18 for others to worship and spread the message 24:21 of Jesus. Would you mind taking me and showing me, 24:24 which home is yours and which is Church now. 24:28 Yes, I can show you. Then we do that right now? 24:33 Yes, we can. Let's go, let's check it out. 24:45 Imagine the power of God to speak to a human heart. 24:49 When the person hears God's voice they respond this 24:52 is the truth. I want to share this message with 24:55 everyone and so it happens they tell another person 24:58 and still another. Those people in turn do the 25:02 same thing in rapidly on entire villages looking 25:05 for the soon coming of Jesus Christ. 25:07 That's really making waves. 25:20 We are broadcasting by short-wave radio. 25:26 This is Adventist World Radio in action. 25:28 In fact, this is the gospel commission in action. 25:33 One person hears a radio program and here something 25:36 that catches his attention, believes that's biblical 25:39 and from God and he decides to share first with 25:43 his family and then with others. 25:44 And when several of them begin to believe together 25:47 they want to come together and study and worship. 25:51 And so they decide to form a Church. 25:53 All of these beautiful people are the result of that 25:56 one effort. Jesus wants us to do this over 26:00 and over and over again until people in the entire 26:04 world have heard the gospel message, 26:07 so Jesus can come. That's AWR mission, 26:11 that's what we want to keep doing over and over 26:14 again and you can help us fulfill that mission. 26:18 It's so nice to have been able to meet these people. 26:28 As you can tell AWR is an exciting ministry making 26:31 waves around the world. If you would like to partner 26:33 with this ministry give us a call: 1-866-503-3531, 26:38 or write us at 12501 Old Columbia Pike Silver Spring, 26:43 Maryland 20904 or log on your computer 26:47 www.awr.org, and thank you for watching. 26:52 Please join us again for another exciting gospel 26:54 adventure because around the 26:55 world AWR is making waves. |
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