Participants: Jim Ayer
Series Code: MW
Program Code: MW000048
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00:01 They were sacrificing the animals to their heathen
00:03 Gods, they were gathering stones, burying them in 00:05 the yard and praying to the dead, but because of 00:08 the love of a son for his father all of that 00:11 has changed, stay tuned to find out how? 00:50 The rains have come here on the Serengeti Plains 00:52 and the grass is absolute lush. The animals are 00:55 loving it, from horizon to horizon there is 00:58 wildebeest everywhere, Zebras in their midst. 01:00 It's absolutely a spectacular sight. 01:05 The Serengeti Plains is undoubtedly the best 01:07 known wildlife sanctuary in the world. Unequal 01:10 for it's natural beauty and scientific value. 01:13 The Serengeti Ecosystem is geographically located 01:17 in North Western Tanzania and extends to 01:20 the Kenyan border. Serengeti is derived 01:23 from the Maasai language meaning Endless Plains. 01:39 This classic East African landscape has 01:41 broad rolling grass lands dotted with Lone 01:44 Acacia trees. The openness of this 01:46 landscape makes it a perfect home for 01:49 large herds of grazing Zebras and wildebeests, 01:51 in addition to fast running predators like 01:54 cheetahs. It's diverse geography, riverside 01:58 forest, swamps grasslands and woodlands 02:01 characterized this landscape. The 02:07 opportunities for wildlife viewing are 02:09 unparallel, if you every get a chance to visit, 02:12 don't miss it. The Serengeti is where 02:16 Africa's mystery wanders and power surrounds 02:19 you, and where the beauty of nature can be 02:22 experienced as in few other places on earth. 02:34 Hi, Hi. Well, all this is your place? Yes, yes. 02:41 Oh show me around. Your places so pretty 02:45 not much more than other areas and 02:48 villages. No, they really are, yeah, and so 02:52 all this is mud also, yeah just mud, its mud. 02:54 There is the kitchen, that's a kitchen too, 02:58 yeah. Well okay, what's the post in the center, 03:04 just decoration, oh just decoration yeah, 03:08 excellent, I was wondering about that 03:10 okay, okay. How many cows and how many 03:13 goats do you have? Six cows and 18 goats, 03:18 and how much land do you have here? 03:20 3 acres and half, 3 acres and half, yeah, 03:24 good size, yeah, good size. So it goes out 03:27 behind this one here, yeah, yeah, and out 03:31 of there. Well, this is very nice, very nice. 03:35 Paul and Simbi, thank you for inviting me to 03:39 your village today. Thank you. How many 03:41 children do you have? 18, and you're one 03:48 of those children, yeah, where are you in the 18, 03:51 are you older? Younger? Middle, in the middle 03:55 yeah. You start studying Christianity didn't you? 03:57 Why did you do that? I come to find out 04:01 Christianity is good, because you learn how to 04:06 live with the people peacefully. So there 04:09 wasn't much peace before in your life? 04:11 When I get sick, I blame God. I thought 04:16 he is the one bringing me sickness, but when I 04:21 come to understand God then I knew that 04:24 there is Satan, who can cause me problems. So, 04:28 before you were a Christian, you did blame 04:31 God for your sickness? Yeah, yeah, what God, 04:34 which God, the God who created me. 04:38 So you knew, you always knew there was a God 04:41 who created you? Yeah, but I didn't knew, 04:45 I didn't know him fully. What drove you to 04:49 start that first study or that first search 04:51 to find out more about this God that you really 04:54 didn't know? I came to know that there is a 04:59 church which is teaching the truth of the Bible. 05:07 How did you discover that? I discovered 05:10 through radio and then through listening. 05:14 to AWR. So you began listening to our radio 05:17 program, yes. How did you know where to 05:20 find that, was it by accident? No, no, not 05:23 by accident that is a certain another member 05:27 of Seventh-Day Adventist is the one introduced 05:31 me, then I came to learn many things through AWR, 05:35 and first time you heard it, did it touch 05:38 your heart or you just begin listening? Yeah, 05:41 there is one verse today I listened it touched 05:45 my heart, do you remember what it program 05:47 was, what it was taking about? About 05:49 the dead, talking about the dead, yeah. 05:52 Through the radio wave of AWR God is 05:55 reaching people around the world. We would 05:58 like to offer you an edition of Making Waves, 06:00 it's four of our episodes brought to you from 06:03 around the world. God speaking to hearts, 06:06 the hearts of the listeners of AWR 06:08 exciting stories. We hope that you'll share 06:10 those with friends and neighbors, 06:11 acquaintances, anyone you come in contact with. 06:14 Join us to make waves, it's completely free, 06:17 right now the information, go on your screen. 06:21 For your free no obligation DVD write to 06:24 Adventist World Radio 12501 Old Columbia Pike, 06:28 Silver Spring, Maryland 20904 or call 06:32 1-866-503-3531 or log on to www.awr.org/mwdvd 06:44 be sure to request offer number 10 that 06:47 number again is 1-866-503-3531. 06:55 Here is another story of hope from Adventist 06:58 World Radio. Tong, hated his life, always 07:02 on edge. He often found himself angry 07:04 of the actions of others. I lived under 07:07 the controlled of people's words he says. 07:09 The anger and hopelessness led Tong to 07:12 wonder if anyone would miss him if he 07:14 killed himself. The classmates suggested 07:16 Tong tune in to Adventist World Radio, 07:19 listening that night Tong heard for the first 07:21 time of a God, who loved him unconditionally, 07:25 that night I got back my life he says. 07:28 Tong knows there are many others like him 07:30 in China, living in hopelessness, believing 07:33 that no one loves them. I pray they find God 07:36 soon he says. Jesus will help them 07:39 to leave the world of sin. 07:44 Adventist World Radio shares the hope of 07:47 Christ with millions of people everyday. 07:49 For more information visit Awr.org. 08:00 Right here, one of our most impressive natural 08:02 cycles plays itself in out again an again. 08:07 Tens of thousands of hoofed animals driven 08:09 by the need to survive, move constantly in 08:12 search of fresh grasslands. The most 08:15 famous and the most numerous are the 08:17 wildebeest and their annual migration is 08:19 Serengeti's biggest. Wildebeest reach 08:23 almost four feet at the shoulder and weigh 08:25 360 to 630 pounds. During the February 08:30 calving season more than 8000 wildebeest 08:32 calves are born everyday. It's in this 08:36 setting that the animals such as 08:37 cheetahs, lions, hyenas, leopards and crocodiles 08:41 find a virtuous enormous amount 08:43 of food. And wildebeests run 08:45 very high on the list of delicacies. 08:58 But they're not always cooperating when 09:00 chosen as the food of the day. People are 09:03 drawn to the Serengeti National Park and 09:05 in Ngorongoro Conservation Area to 09:07 view the magnificent wildlife. Predators 09:10 and prey in unrivaled numbers. 09:12 While the large animals are wonderful 09:14 to view it's just as amazing to observe 09:16 the smaller ones, which are important 09:18 in making such a balanced ecosystem. 09:20 One tiny resident that has a huge 09:22 impact is the dung beetle. The arrival of 09:27 the wildebeest sends the industrious little 09:29 guys into overdrive. They are seen 09:31 everywhere, rolling fresh dung 09:33 in the balls about 3 or 4 times their size, 09:36 then they push the balls backwards for 09:39 considerable distances, when they've located 09:41 suitable patch or soft soil they rapidly dig 09:44 a hole and bury the dung and themselves. 09:49 The life of every animal depends upon the 09:51 work of these beetles, returning the nutrient 09:53 rich dung back into the soil. God's tiny 09:57 but efficient recycling workers. It is easy to 10:00 imagine how different the plains would look 10:02 without them, the soil quality would suffer 10:05 and disease would spread quickly. 10:06 These humble recyclers maintain the very 10:10 essence of the short grass plains, on which 10:13 the famous migration depends. They roll away 10:16 up to 75 percent of the dung 10:19 drop in all of the Serengeti. 10:32 Tell me about the first time you listened 10:33 to the AWR program, what did you think 10:36 about it? Do you remember 10:37 what that program was, what it was talking about, 10:39 yeah about the dead, talking about the 10:40 dead, yeah. What did your family believe 10:43 about the dead before you were a Christian? 10:44 Yeah, I knew thought when someone died, 10:50 he can come back spiritually and disturb 10:57 the one who are alive. So did the family 11:01 talk with spirits or do the people in the 11:03 village talk with the dead, yeah they used 11:06 to through stones. I think they would 11:10 dugout the stone here, which my father 11:13 planted for worst being. When you say 11:17 planted the stones what does that mean 11:19 exactly? Yeah, he planted, he took that 11:23 stone in a certain area, I think it is here, 11:26 they used it to go out and kneel there 11:30 and pray to God of dark, that are people. 11:35 How big were these stones that you 11:37 planted here? Not so big, did locate 11:41 one too many tablets, yeah, not so big, 11:51 but he said that when I received the word 11:55 of God in my heart, I throw it away. 11:57 Good, yeah, good Amen. Do you just go 12:02 out and find the stone, some or is there a 12:04 special stone. You're not supposed to look 12:07 backward when you're carrying it, you just 12:10 go straight. Go straight forward and 12:12 you don't talk to anybody on the way. 12:14 And then the dead, when you go out 12:17 and talk to the stone, the dead are supposed 12:19 to meet you on that spot. Yeah it is, 12:20 they say that they respond, and your father 12:23 used to do all of that. Yeah, a long time, 12:25 did the spirits of the dead appear to him? 12:28 They never appear, just kind of in 12:45 your mind. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay. 12:47 But now that, you heard that program 12:49 on the dead and all of a sudden you've started 12:52 comparing the Bible and realizing this was 12:55 not true. Yeah, I found it 12:58 through the Bible, that's not true. 13:10 Elephants are the largest land animals 13:11 now living. They typically live for 13:14 50 to 70 years, but the oldest recorded 13:17 elephant lived for 82 years. Healthy adults 13:21 have no natural predators, although 13:23 lions may take calves or weak individuals. 13:25 They are however increasingly threatened 13:28 by human intrusion and poaching. 13:30 Once numbering in the millions, the African 13:34 Elephant population has dwindled to just over 13:36 500,000 thousand individuals according 13:38 to a March, 2007 estimate. Their brains 13:42 are larger than those of any other 13:44 land animal, and although the largest 13:46 whales have body masses 20 fold 13:49 those of a typical elephant. Whale's brains 13:51 are barely twice the mass. 13:53 They have an exceptional sense of 13:55 hearing and smell. The hearing receptors 13:58 reside not only in the ears, but also in 14:00 their trunks, which were sensitive to vibrations 14:03 and even more amazing they can hear with 14:05 their feet, which have special receptors 14:08 for low frequency sound. They are 14:11 famous for their trumpet calls which 14:12 were made when the animals blows through 14:14 it's nostrils. Elephants also make rumbling 14:17 growls when greeting each other. 14:22 Some of the elephants like the big bulls 14:24 weigh 6.5 tones. They've got monstrous 14:27 tusks, I'm told that the tusk here are 14:29 larger than many other locations. 14:31 That means they need a lot of minerals. 14:33 The road right in front of me here 14:35 closes every night at 6 O'clock, why, 14:38 because it basically becomes an elephant 14:40 walk. What are the elephants doing, 14:42 well they're digging in areas like this. 14:44 I don't know if you can see all of the 14:46 tusk marks. They call them elephant caves, 14:49 they're digging out dirt. They're actually 14:51 eating dirt, moms and dads your children 14:53 are eating dirt, you know why in this 14:55 case because they need minerals, 14:56 they need minerals to provide for those 14:58 massive tusk, those huge bodies. 15:00 It's an interesting diet if you think about it. 15:03 God is so incredible, he gives them enough 15:05 intelligence to search and to dig and find 15:08 the pockets of minerals that they need. 15:14 The social lives of male and female 15:15 elephants are very different. Females spend 15:18 their entire lives entitling of family 15:20 groups, made up of mothers, daughters, 15:22 sisters and aunts. When a group gets too big, 15:25 a few of the older daughters will break off 15:27 and form their own small group. 15:29 The life of the adult male is very different, 15:33 as he gets older he begins to spend more 15:36 time at the edge of the herd, gradually 15:38 going off on his own for hours or days at a 15:40 time. Eventually days become weeks and 15:44 sometime around the age of 14, 15:46 the mature male or bull sets out on 15:48 his own for good. While males live 15:51 primarily solitary lives. They will occasionally 15:54 form loose associations with other males. 16:10 The males spend much more time than the 16:12 females fighting for dominance with 16:13 each other, only the most dominant 16:16 males will be permitted to breed with cycling 16:18 females. The less dominant must wait 16:21 their turn. It is usually the older bulls 16:23 40 to 50-years-old that do most of the breeding. 16:33 The dominance battles between males can 16:34 look very fierce, but typically they inflict 16:37 very little injury. Most of the bouts are in the 16:42 form of aggressive displays and bluffs. 16:44 Ordinarily the smaller, younger and less 16:47 confident animals will back off before any 16:50 real damage can be done. However, during 16:53 the breeding season the battles can get 16:55 extremely aggressive and an elephant is 16:57 occasionally injured. During this season, 17:03 a bull will fight with almost any other male 17:05 it encounters, and it will spent most of 17:08 its time hovering around the female 17:09 herds, trying to find a receptive mate. 17:19 Before I made it here to the Serengeti 17:21 I never thought about it being so beautiful 17:23 and so lush in many places. Makes me 17:26 think of the Garden of Eden, how God 17:29 in the cool of the day walked hand in hand 17:31 with Adam and Eve, and God caused all the 17:34 animal creation to come before Adam, and 17:37 Adam made every single one. Apparently a name 17:40 that would signifying what type of animal, 17:42 what type of characteristics. I can't 17:45 even begin to imagine what that must have 17:47 been like, but Adam perfect from the hand 17:49 of the creator had such intellect, such 17:52 incredible wisdom. As I look around and 17:55 see the beauty that's still here, see the 17:59 animals themselves and think about the mind 18:01 of God watch must the mind of God be 18:03 like to create a giant cat, a wonderful cat, 18:06 so majestic and beautiful. To parrots 18:10 and buffalo and, well the list just goes 18:13 on and on and you've got to think, the mind 18:16 of God has to be absolutely infinite, and 18:19 loving, because he created 18:21 it all for you and for me. 18:24 I can't wait to get to heaven. 18:27 The Bible says the lion will lay down 18:30 with the lamb. Just imagine no more sin, 18:33 which means complete harmony among the 18:35 creation. I'll be able to snuggle with 18:38 the lions, maybe ride a giraffe or run with 18:40 the zebras. When exploring the great 18:43 wilds of Tanzania, it is easy to become 18:46 enthralled with the beauty and glory of the 18:48 creation, but even more exciting is the joy of 18:51 meeting listeners whose lives have been 18:53 dramatically affected by the God of creation. 18:56 It never seizes to amaze me how the Lord 18:59 speaks to each and every person in ways 19:02 that call, draw and eventually 19:04 win them to his comforting side. 19:09 When I was baptized then I used to listen to 19:12 AWR everyday. I was trying to find a way 19:16 how I can convince my father, because I know 19:19 that when my father is convinced, then the 19:21 whole family will be convinced, because the 19:24 father comes everybody yeah, everybody would 19:26 follow. Then because my father is usually 19:30 to sit there during the evening time, 19:33 I just turn to AWR and then come to sit 19:37 and I'll be here like see we're sitting 19:39 now here. You would bring your radio and 19:41 turned up so he had to listen. Yeah, yeah 19:42 so that he can hear. Sometimes when he's or 19:46 has done something, I used to explain 19:49 it to him. So, you liked it when your son 19:53 brought the radio out, so you could 19:54 listen to the radio. He said yes. 20:03 What it did mean to you then as you listen 20:05 to radio programs, how did affect your heart? 20:08 I really enjoy hearing the prayers and 20:12 the word of God when I heard the 20:14 prayers it touched my heart. I'm able to 20:17 read a little bit. So reading the Bible 20:20 also helped me find it through. When I 20:23 heard Adventist world radio I knew 20:26 this were the true people of God. 20:29 Tell me, what changes now, what has changed 20:32 in the whole family now that you've accepted 20:35 Christ, now that your lives are 20:37 changed how are they different? 20:38 Our entire family is changed. We are no 20:44 longer serving the spirit and now we are 20:48 all at peace. We used to sacrifice sheep for 20:51 the God whenever we thought we need 20:53 to satisfy his spirit but no longer. 20:56 So you sacrifice goat. Yes, yes, yes. 20:59 Sacrifice. And who did you sacrifice to, 21:02 what to the Gods or what were the sacrifices for? 21:08 They were two kind of sacrifices, one to the 21:15 spirit, the other to the red God. We will 21:19 slaughter the animal, eat some of the meat 21:22 and then take the rest of the meat to our 21:25 dead family members grave. So, the family 21:28 all the way from the fathers or maybe 21:30 generations here used to sacrifice put 21:34 in the stones in the ground and talk to the 21:36 dead, but now Jesus Christ has completely 21:39 changed your lives. Now, you said you had 21:42 a radio, I don't see any power lines or anyway 21:45 to what do you do for radio, what 21:47 your radio look like? We used batteries, 21:50 batteries, do you a radio that I might 21:53 see if your radio here handy, the one 21:55 I was using, yeah I have it. 21:58 Can I bring it, yeah it sounds good? 22:03 As you can see AWR is frontline 22:05 mission radio. Our first priority is to 22:08 travel where missionaries cannot go. 22:10 We broadcast thousands of hours each day in 22:14 70 major languages of the world. AWR has 22:18 the capability and capacity of blanketing 22:20 almost 80 percent of the world's population. 22:22 Not only do we broadcast via short wave radio, 22:26 but our signal is on over 1000 FM and 22:29 AM stations around the world as well. 22:31 Our podcast subscribers, Internet users, 22:35 satellite downlinks are growing rapidly. 22:37 Evidenced by the 100,000 plus emails, 22:40 letters and phone calls we receive 22:43 each and every year. Yes, AWR is your 22:46 mission radio. No walls and no borders 22:49 for AWR that means changed lives and 22:51 changed hearts around the world because 22:53 God is using the airways of 22:56 AWR to reach people everywhere. 23:03 Here is another story of hope from Adventist 23:06 World Radio. In the summer of 2003, 23:09 50 volunteers set out on bicycles across 23:12 the Karnataka, Goa region of India. 23:14 Their mission was to invite town's people 23:17 from around the region to one of 50 23:19 different locations where they could 23:21 listen to Adventist world radio. Many people 23:24 in the Karnataka, Goa region do not 23:26 own radios and those that do often 23:29 have never heard of Adventist world radio. 23:32 The goal of the project was to established 23:34 listener clubs that would meet them 23:36 regularly to listen to the programs hopefully 23:39 leading the people to Christ. To date over 23:42 2500 people have been baptized 23:45 through the listeners clubs. 23:50 Adventist world radio shares the hope of 23:53 Christ with millions of people everyday 23:55 in their own languages, for 23:58 more information visit AWR.org. 24:05 This is your radio, this is my radio. Wow, 24:07 it's a big radio. Yeah it is big. 24:09 How many batteries does that take, 24:11 four, four, four big batteries yeah. 24:13 Where is, where is AWR on the dial and 24:16 you got it already set there. Yeah. 24:18 I do like this, but sometimes it's around 24:28 here and here, but now it's not there, 24:31 it's middle of the day, yeah, we don't 24:34 broadcast in the middle of the day. 24:35 Everybody is out farming and taking care 24:38 of their animals. Alright, well thank you 24:41 for showing me that. If you had never 24:44 heard AWR what would your life be like now, 24:48 if your father had never heard AWR, 24:50 if you haven't been able to sit our here 24:51 and play the radio and hear those radio waves, 24:54 what would your life be like? I would go on 24:58 doing ungodly things. So there are others 25:02 listening AWR and the group is growing 25:04 and getting larger, more people 25:05 believing, my mother also listen the 25:09 and my sister now they're all baptized. 25:12 So with just a family it's a whole church, 25:15 there's enough people for a church, yeah. 25:18 So you're starting to make waves, 25:19 you heard the radio waves and now 25:21 you're making waves of the Holy Spirit 25:22 into other lives, yeah, yeah, yeah, alright. 25:25 Thank you very much, thanks you too, 25:27 thank you, thanks to you. You've got 25:30 a good son Paul here, he's a good son. 25:32 he says, he can, but his eyes got problem, 25:42 but maybe you can find glasses for me 25:46 so that I can read well, that's his problem, 25:50 he can't read his Bible, yeah. The scripture 25:57 says therefore if anyone is in Christ, 26:00 he is a new creation, the old has gone, 26:04 the new has come. Today we saw the 26:08 story of two individuals who are a brand new 26:11 creation in Jesus Christ. They have new 26:14 life, no more sacrifices to the dead, no more 26:19 stones buried so they can talk to the 26:21 spirits but instead happiness and joy 26:24 and peace of mind, because 26:27 they have found Jesus Christ. 26:29 We have a wonderful example of a father 26:32 and son relationship in this story. 26:35 In this case the son became a follower of 26:39 Jesus first and then made it possible for 26:42 his father to hear the radio broadcast and 26:46 that attracted him to become a follower 26:48 of Jesus Christ as he put it, the word of 26:51 God to come into his heart. We also 26:54 have some new information here, 26:56 Paul who is the son in our story today 27:00 is now assisting us in the production of AWR 27:04 programs for the Maasai language and 27:07 so we're very happy to welcome Paul as 27:10 one of our producers for AWR in the 27:14 Maasai language. Adventist world radio 27:17 is going to continue to share this gospel 27:20 of the Kingdom with the Maasai people 27:22 and other people around the world, 27:25 and I know you will want to be a part 27:28 of this ministry as well. If you'd like to 27:31 partner with us and let the world know 27:33 that Jesus Christ is coming soon. 27:35 Give us a call 1-866-503-3531 27:39 or you can write us at 12501 27:42 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, 27:44 Maryland - 20904 or log on to our 27:48 website www.awr.org. Thank you for watching 27:53 and please join us again for another 27:55 exciting gospel adventure, because 27:57 around the world AWR is Making Waves. |
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