Alaska, America's last frontier.
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The land of vast beauty and
endless miles of open wilderness
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Airplanes are the
life blood of Alaska.
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Only aviation can
connect communities,
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where there are no
roads with violent weather
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and extreme terrains make this
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the most
dangerous skies in America.
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Adventist World Aviation
has two outpost positioned
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in north and south Alaska.
Hauling critical supplies,
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rescue personnel, and the Gospel
message to remote villages
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all across the Alaskan region
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Without aviation these Alaskan
villages would be unreachable.
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This is Adventist
World Aviation OFF THE GRID
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On today's episode of
"Off The Grid" we venture
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to the far corner of North
America, to Kotzebue Alaska,
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where AWA has an outpost
run by Jim and Linda Kincaid.
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Here above the article
circle, Jim and Linda use
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their talents of aviation to
spread the gospel and minister
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to the local Native
American people in their region.
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Many people might
think, Alaska is not in need
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of mission projects; but
due to Alaska's unique climate,
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landscape and overall
size, mission aviation
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is a necessary tool
to spread God's Word.
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The areas in the world
where mission aviation is most
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essential is in the areas of the
world, that are not developed
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with roads and infrastructure.
Here in Alaska we are located
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approximately 500 miles from the
nearest end of the road system,
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upon which you can travel
to any place in north America.
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So that's 500 miles of beautiful
pristine but very remote country
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There are approximately
225 native villages scattered
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across Alaska, of which only
about half a dozen are connected
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to the road system, to the
rest of the world, so to speak.
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Aircrafts are absolutely
essential to traveling to or
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from these places
and providing support.
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The highway system and
road infrastructure of Alaska
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is limited to the eastern and
southern portions of the state.
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Most of Alaska
cannot be driven to.
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Most of Alaska is
accessible only by airplane.
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There is a road system
that covers the large towns of
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Anchorage, Fairbanks, and in
between connected to the highway
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that travels down to the
lower 48, but the majority
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of the state is able to
get there only by flying.
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So we felt like this was a skill
that we could provide service
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to allow people to get
back and forth from their camps
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and to their villages that there
is no other way to get there.
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For many people living in
Alaska the conventional mode of
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transportation is aviation.
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Jim and Linda do not
just provide aviation support
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to the north western Alaskans;
they offer so much more.
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Both are involved in
evangelism on a weekly basis.
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Almost every Sabbath they
hold church right next door
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to their home in Kotzebue.
They sing; preach the word;
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and fellowship with
their friends and neighbors.
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After church is
over, Jim and Linda's day
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is only half way through.
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After lunch, they immediately
head to the airplane hanger.
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On weekends several times a
month we go to remote villages
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and help hold worship services
to support the Christians
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who live there.
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Many remote villages do
not have any permanent pastors
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or Bible workers.
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The villages are so remote, that
unless they have a missionary
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living in the village, there
is no Adventist presence at all.
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Jim and Linda have made it their
mission to have regular Sabbath
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visits with a few of these
villages that surround them.
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We will continue to help
the couple of out lying villages
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that have missionaries in
them and have church members,
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so we will be going and
meeting with those people
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every month or so.
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After they pack the plane with
Bibles, a guitar, and a meal;
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they take flight toward those in
need of Christian companionship.
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Today, the Kincaid's are flying
to the village of Selawik.
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There is a small Adventist
congregation here and they
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eagerly await
the plane's arrival.
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Rural Alaska is characterized
by over 280 isolated villages
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scattered across an area more
than twice the size of Texas.
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Nearly all villages are
accessible by air and water only
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making evangelism
especially challenging.
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The need for the gospel is very
great in these remote villages,
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and without aviation, it
would be all but impossible.
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There is no road between
here and any other village.
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Only trails, snow
machine trails and airplanes.
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Selawik is located at the
mouth of the Selawik River,
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about 70 miles
southeast of Kotzebue.
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There are 147
families residing in an area
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of only 3.4 square miles.
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About 1,000 people live
here, yet there is no one here
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to reach these people
with the gospel message.
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The village is
completely isolated from
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any other villages or cities.
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Four wheelers are
the conventional mode of
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transportation here in Selawik.
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Jim and Linda are picked up from
the air strip and given a ride
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to the church building.
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They wined through the town
on the wooden board walk made
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especially for these ATV's.
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Since the village is small,
everyone sees Jim and Linda
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as they make their
way towards the church.
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We have a little church
here, Seventh-day Adventist
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We don't have any pastor at
this time, but every Sabbath
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we try to meet in the church
and spend some time there.
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We read the
Bible, or watch DVDs.
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Jim and Linda hope to
bring strength and encouragement
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to the believers of Selawik.
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The small congregation
soaks up every minute
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of Jim and Linda's visit.
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They crave spiritual leadership
and are always blessed
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from the Kincaid's
visit on Sabbath afternoons.
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So we help to provide
them a focus and a reason
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to get together and to augment
the worship service with music
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and preaching. And praising God.
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It is good, there is nobody
to teach us and preach things
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that we need to know.
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We learn a lot of things
from the pastor from the Bible.
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... that we'll be awake to what
is happening and awake to the
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spirit of Jesus in our hearts,
so that we'll be ready when the
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time comes. Amen, Amen
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We appreciate it very much.
I am glad they are coming more
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often, not that we don't
have anybody in the church.
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It is real good for Jim and
Linda to spend time with us,
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that way we can be all
closer to each other and deepen
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our knowledge, to know
more about Jesus and be closer
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to Jesus every day
because time is getting close.
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As the Sabbath draws to an
end, it's time for the Kincaid's
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to return home. They had a very
pleasant visit with the Selawik
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congregation and had an
opportunity to encourage
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and spiritually rejuvenate
these fellow believers.
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This is kind of a weird place
to live, if you look at the map
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and we are way off in the
far northwest corner and people
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would say, why are
you living up there?
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I guess one of the reasons is...
we lived in Alaska for 35 years
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It was time for us to do
something a little different
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from what we had been doing
we had a real love for Alaska.
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Didn't want to leave, so we
looked for a place that we knew
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had needs that we could
provide a skill that we had.
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And yet, on the other
hand, I don't feel like,
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I am doing
anything special out here.
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I like the people and
it's where we definitely feel
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God has lead us to be.
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So it is not
something I view as look at me,
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I'm up here doing this wonderful
thing at this odd place.
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It is just where God has
placed us, we want to continue
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to do the very best
we can to serve Him here.
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Jim and Linda feel blessed
to be able to use their skills
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in aviation to carry out
the Lord's work in their region.
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Although it makes for a
long day, Jim and Linda feel
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great fulfillment
in the work they do.
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Alaska is a
vastly different area
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from the rest of North America.
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While it is considered
part of the United States,
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It still has many challenges and
obstacles that make it unique
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from the rest of the lower 48.
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Because of it's enormous
size, and vast wildness,
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Alaska is often
difficult to live in.
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Villages are hard to reach;
and therefore Alaskans' often go
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without many of the comforts,
that we take for granted.
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Things like
churches, pastors, news papers,
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or even radio stations
are a luxury in rural Alaska.
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You know, we have all the
technology, we have satellite
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we have all of the stuff
that North Americans have,
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but we still have the
logistics and the problems
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and the challenges
that you would face
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in a third world
country. And so because of that
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the Adventist World
Aviation is a very needed part.
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In Alaska, only a few of
the larger southern cities have
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radio stations for
people to listen to.
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However, there is a project
in Dillingham that is making
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efforts to provide
Christian Radio stations
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to all remote
and rural villages.
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Warren Downs is one of
the leaders in this movement
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to spread the gospel message.
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Adventist World Aviation
partners have discovered that
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flying in pastors
isn't the only way to reach
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remote villages in Alaska.
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Village that was once unreached
because of it's remote location,
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can now be given the
good news of the Gospel simply
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by bringing
Christian radio programming.
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You've just seen me setting
up a radio station kit for a
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low power FM radio
station. All we need now is
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an extension cord to
plug in and have power
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and we can have a
station operating.
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Here is where the power
supply goes in, here is where
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the Ethernet for your
internet connection goes in.
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And here is where the antenna
connects, or disconnects.
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In the villages we are rather
limited. There is an AM radio
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station that is located
right here in Dillingham
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It's high enough power
that it does reach the villages.
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That's the only
regular listening option.
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There is nothing in
Christian radio close by here.
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Now if you go further east of
here, there is a Christian radio
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station in King Salmon
and actually right here
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in Dillingham
there is a translator.
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But out in the small villages,
there really is nothing
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out there. And so when we
have been able to put 3ABN radio
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in the small villages,
and you have to understand,
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these villages maybe sometimes
half a mile deep, and maybe
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at the most a mile long. I mean
that's stretching it sometimes.
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So we are not really talking
a very large geographical area.
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Beyond the perimeter of
these villages there is nothing
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out there, there is no houses,
nothing, so we are talking about
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a very small area, and a
low power FM station seems to be
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really the ideal
means to put Christian radio
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in the villages.
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As you go out, into more bush
villages, you don't have any
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any other stations, maybe if
you are lucky if you can pick up
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an AM station in the
middle of the night from Japan,
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or somewhere around the world.
So don't have a lot of selection
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There certainly is a lot
of negative media coming out.
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If you do get a radio
station, most likely it is
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not a Christian
one, that are available.
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We want to provide something
positive, that will help people
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to understand the love of Christ
for them, and have something
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that will draw them away from
the negative things that the
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world with the devil
has put out there to try to
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lead people away from Christ.
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I contacted Three Angels
Broadcasting Network, 3ABN
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Who was interested in helping us
with this. They already have a
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system that lets you stream
3ABN radio over the internet.
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So it does work with internet
and if you plug in the internet
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Ethernet cable here into
your router, it will connect
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and go that route. But more
recently we have been working
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on a modification that will
allow it to operate entirely
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off line with a preloaded cache,
basically. A small SD card,
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like you stick in your camera.
You can put a whole bunch of
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media files on that.
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We actually have two radio
systems that are in operation
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one is a stand alone
system, that's the one
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Linda is referring to.
We also have another system
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that is pre-recorded material.
It randomly chooses and picks,
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depending on the play list,
whether it is sermons, or songs,
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or stories, or
that type of thing.
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This is not the only project
like this, there are other
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efforts along the same
lines. One of them in particular
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has had feedback from a
man, who was interested.
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At first he listened to
the radio and he was angry
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about what he heard, because it
went against what he understood
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about the Sabbath, but he looked
up the text in the Bible and
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he found that it corresponded
to the truth and he found
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it matched the Bible. So he was
challenged to study for himself.
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He found that the radio
was something that he enjoyed
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and was inspired, and
led to the truth by it.
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I believe that could
happen for many other people.
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My vision for this, and I
know it sounds far fetched,
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but I would like to
have one of these stations
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in every village of Alaska.
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Currently we've been
saving about $500 a kit.
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The cost is actually going down
for making them as we figure out
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technology and new technology
keeps getting less expensive
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and more powerful, but there is
also the cost of deploying them,
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and that is still an expense.
Getting them out to the field
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is probably... the
airplane flight, which could run
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couple of hundred dollars,
so I think that the funding
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will come when
the timing is right,
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when the people are
there ready to host it.
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I am sure God
will make it possible.
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So far we've had very positive
response from the people.
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Every time the radio station
goes off the air they call us up
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and they say, hey can you
get this radio station back on
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we really, really miss it. So
we are really positively blessed
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by the reports that
are coming back from this.
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Adventist World Aviation's goal
is to help bring this project
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to a reality.
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By partnering with the radio
project. AWA can help spread
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the message of the gospel
by bringing aviation support
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and deliver these
radios to the remote villages.
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AWA's commitment is to
provide air support to any radio
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that needs to be transported
and installed with this project.
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One town that has
been affected by the radio
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is the town of Manokotak.
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This village was
given a radio to be hosted
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in Edward and Rhonda's home.
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It's been a blessing to have
Adventist World Aviation come in
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and bring new
supplies, the Word and of course
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Seventh-day Adventists. We are
always blessed to have a pastor
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from Dillingham come in, we wish
we could have him more here.
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There is no doubt
about it, villagers long for
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more frequent visits
from their regional pastors.
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However they are still
appreciative and soak in
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the programming they receive
by way of Christian media.
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There is a need
for Adventism here.
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Our family is the only
Adventist family in Manokotak
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Our dream is for people to
find out more of the truth.
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Because if they are
not listening to you,
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they are listening to them.
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The radio station, it
will probably talk to them.
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Edward and Rhonda have
made it a personal goal to share
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this media with anyone in
their village that will listen.
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This radio project is
a collaborative effort.
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The radios are built,
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but they must be
deployed to the rural villages.
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Not only that, they
must also receive maintenance
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about twice a year. This is
only made possible with aviation
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Today, we are going to fly with
AWA partner, Eric to the village
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of Koliganek to
check on one of the radios
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that was installed there.
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I have a small airline Shannon's
Air Taxi, that I started in 96.
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Eric's business
is a charter company,
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but he also uses his
business for ministry.
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Whenever he has a trip to
a village with a radio in it,
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he offers to transport
radios, or do the maintenance
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while he is there.
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I prayed to God, if got a Navaho
I would use it, for business
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and when ever I could, I
would use it to help out.
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in God's cause,
where ever He needed it.
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Eric has lived in Alaska all his
life and therefore has a strong
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passion to help the Native
Americans whenever he can.
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As Eric Loads up his plane,
he heads towards Koliganek.
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He travels down the
run way with his plane
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full of passengers and supplies.
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Eric knows the value of aviation
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To Alaskans, aviation
isn't a luxury, but a necessity.
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The journey between
Dillingham and Koliganek,
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is over flat arctic tundra.
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There are no
roads anywhere in sight.
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Eric has been an intricate
player in getting the radios
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installed in Koliganek.
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He too wants to help
whenever he can and therefore
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has been
instrumental in this project.
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About 56 miles north east of
Dillingham pastor Downs asked
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if we could put radio stations
anywhere else, so I called
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Koliganek, the people of
Koliganek village and he said
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that we could put one in the
Counsel building, than we put it
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up in an afternoon, and I
switch out the computers when...
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After so many months, I switch
it out to a new hard drive.
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Today, Eric is going to be
doing some general maintenance
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on the radio in Koliganek.
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After he drops off his
passengers, he will ride
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into town and check on
the radio that is located
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in the community building.
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Koliganek is a very small
town of roughly 200 people
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and 50 households.
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They have no local TV, newspaper
or radio stations here.
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So having a Christian radio
here is a very powerful tool.
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The radio antenna
is attached to the roof
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of the Community
Building in the center of town.
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It's low power, it has
six months of material on it.
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It is a hard drive
and it transmits basically
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from one end of the
village, to the other end.
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This is the central
part of the village.
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It just plays on it's own,
we put it on there, turn it on
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and after... It is
time to change it now.
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And I just come switch out
the computer. It only takes me
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about 20 minutes, half an hour.
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The radios are
very low maintenance.
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They are simple to set up and
can be left to play on their own
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for months at a time. The
contents can be easily updated,
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and requires very little work.
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They are the perfect solution
for these rural villages.
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Eric looks over the radio system
and checks all the connections.
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He wants to make sure
that everything is in order
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and it is transmitting
without any problems.
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Radio Stations are a very simple
solution for a very complex need
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Everyone involved in the project
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realizes the
impact these radios have.
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Whenever I want to switch it out
I just have to shut this off,
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unplug it, put the new one
in, turn it on and, that's it
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start playing.
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A local village member expresses
just how much he enjoys having
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the radio here in the village.
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Lot's of good variety,
Story Hour, preaching, music,
00:24:09.38\00:24:16.55
Bible history, lot of good music
there is even native music,
00:24:16.58\00:24:20.29
lot of good hymns.
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Do you like having
it here in the village?
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Oh yeah, the only other station
is AM650 in Anchorage and that
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is the news, talk shows.
That is real good and clear.
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We don't have TV,
no satellite, nothing,
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so I am sure glad it is here.
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Before leaving, Eric tunes the
radio to listen and make sure
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the signal is strong. The
radio is working optimally,
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and spreading the
gospel to all those around.
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AWA is very happy to help and
be a part of this radio project.
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Ultimately AWA's primary
goal is to spread the gospel,
00:25:04.05\00:25:08.40
and these radios
are the perfect tools
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to accomplish
this in rural Alaska.
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Another Radio was installed
in the village of Togiak
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Togiak is 65 nautical
miles from Dillingham.
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Here, missionary Chad
keeps a close eye on the radio.
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The radio has become a
helpful and beneficial tool
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to Chad's ministry.
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Chad can now reach people in
church as well as in their homes
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Well, what we have... We don't
have radio stations like we have
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down in the lower 48.
Which pretty much the case
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in the main body
of the United States
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We can't just flick a
switch, or put on a preprogram,
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regular station of
K-Love or anything like that.
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We actually have to
install our own connections here
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satellite or Am, FM transmitters
here. That's what these are here
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We have two
stations, both are the same,
00:26:07.66\00:26:11.20
but if one channel is bad
the other one will be clear,
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that is why we have two here.
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So to get to know more
about the Adventist culture,
00:26:17.47\00:26:21.22
what we do, who we
are as a denomination
00:26:21.25\00:26:26.23
they love getting to
know that aspect through 3ABN.
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That is what we use out here.
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As a collaborative effort with
those already working on this
00:26:33.27\00:26:37.85
radio project, Adventist
World Aviation is excited about
00:26:37.88\00:26:42.37
delivering future
radios to remote villages
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all throughout Alaska.
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There are 15
villages in our immediate area
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that are serviced by the
hospital in this hub village
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of Dillingham. We would like
to place radios in each one of
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these villages, because
it is a good way to reach out
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in an area where we
don't have a presence.
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Currently there are only a
handful of radios in place.
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The dream and goal of the
AWA partners, are to expand this
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number to over 200
radios, one in every village.
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We have great expectations,
that this will become a real
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blessing in this region anyway.
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This is sort of a team
effort it's no one person's
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star of the show type of thing.
It is a team effort and we
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really do appreciate all
the support that Adventist World
00:27:35.77\00:27:40.06
Aviation and the direction
that they are able to give.
00:27:40.09\00:27:42.74
I see a need for Adventist World
Aviation around Dillingham area,
00:27:42.77\00:27:46.16
Bristol Bay area, the rural
area. There is no roads between
00:27:46.19\00:27:53.42
villages, there is no roads
between anywhere except on water
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So, yeah it's very much a need.
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We really appreciate
the work that AWA is doing.
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Making this a possibility,
making this a reality.
00:28:06.79\00:28:11.68
It has really enhanced our
ministry in this area here.
00:28:11.71\00:28:15.06
What you have been
watching is areas that
00:28:19.81\00:28:24.07
Adventist World Aviation
goes into. We go into areas that
00:28:24.10\00:28:29.00
you can't reach by conventional
means, whether it's in Guyana
00:28:29.03\00:28:32.39
whether it's in Alaska,
whether it's in the Philippines.
00:28:32.42\00:28:34.72
We go into areas
that can't be reached.
00:28:34.75\00:28:38.17
We reach the unreachable.
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The average person
doesn't recognize that there are
00:28:40.33\00:28:43.61
2 billion people in this world
00:28:43.64\00:28:45.70
that have never
heard of Jesus Christ.
00:28:45.73\00:28:47.69
Of those 2 billion people
800 million of them can only be
00:28:47.72\00:28:52.11
reached by means like aviation.
We are able to reach people that
00:28:52.14\00:28:55.82
would normally, under normal
circumstances just not be able
00:28:55.85\00:28:59.17
to be reached. And as a
result we are able to share
00:28:59.20\00:29:02.33
the love of Jesus Christ.
00:29:02.36\00:29:03.94
Pray for us! We need your
prayers more than anything else.
00:29:03.97\00:29:06.39
For more information
contact your local station.
00:29:06.42\00:29:09.54
Thanks for watching!
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Ask about
Adventist World Aviation!
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