I have with me Wayne Atwood from Quebec, 00:01:01.06\00:01:04.55 Canada. What is the religiosity element there 00:01:04.82\00:01:10.18 in Quebec as far as Adventism is concerned? 00:01:10.22\00:01:13.20 Well, that's a very good question and 00:01:14.05\00:01:16.11 what's interesting about Quebec is that 00:01:16.35\00:01:18.59 there are very few Adventists and especially 00:01:18.66\00:01:21.18 in our ministry, our target is to reach the 00:01:21.22\00:01:23.36 French Canadian Adventists which there are 00:01:23.43\00:01:25.73 even less of them only about 500 French 00:01:25.76\00:01:28.15 Canadian Adventists that live in the entire 00:01:28.18\00:01:30.15 province of Quebec and yet there are 00:01:30.26\00:01:32.18 6 million French Canadians that 00:01:32.35\00:01:34.06 live there that are Non-Adventist. 00:01:34.11\00:01:36.83 So 500 Adventist to 6 million French Canadians. 00:01:37.06\00:01:43.55 Yes, that's less than 1 out of every 10,000 00:01:43.58\00:01:46.82 and here in the United States it's about 00:01:46.85\00:01:48.39 1 in 300, so it's a huge, huge difference. 00:01:48.46\00:01:51.80 So that would be less than 5 percent of the 00:01:52.03\00:01:55.40 Adventist that we have here in North America. 00:01:55.43\00:01:57.88 Yes. So this is like the 10/40 window 00:01:58.03\00:02:00.23 but it's far above the 10/40 window. 00:02:00.28\00:02:01.94 Absolutely that's correct. 00:02:02.07\00:02:03.35 And so what are we, I know you have 00:02:03.47\00:02:06.23 formed a ministry there to help the situation. 00:02:06.28\00:02:08.80 Tell us a little bit about better living. 00:02:09.51\00:02:11.69 I'd be happy too. Yes, we've formed a 00:02:11.76\00:02:13.92 ministry that's called Better Living in 00:02:13.96\00:02:15.46 English it's mieux vivre in French and this 00:02:15.49\00:02:18.82 ministry is a media ministry. We produce 00:02:18.85\00:02:20.96 radio programs and we're just starting to 00:02:20.99\00:02:22.94 produce television programs as well and all 00:02:22.97\00:02:25.89 of our programs are designed to target 00:02:25.92\00:02:28.18 secularized people because really that's the 00:02:28.32\00:02:30.57 culture, you know, there's been, 00:02:30.60\00:02:31.88 they have been Catholic in the past, 00:02:32.21\00:02:33.68 but now they really are not practicing and 00:02:33.71\00:02:35.42 it's a very secular culture and so we're 00:02:35.45\00:02:37.87 using the right arm of the message, 00:02:37.90\00:02:39.63 the health message in order to try to reach 00:02:39.89\00:02:42.14 these people and to produce content that 00:02:42.22\00:02:44.67 will reach out to them in their own 00:02:44.76\00:02:46.51 culture and their own language. 00:02:46.54\00:02:48.06 This is audio content as well 00:02:48.19\00:02:50.10 as video and television content. 00:02:50.23\00:02:52.21 That's correct, and in fact, 00:02:52.24\00:02:53.80 we've made a little video so that some of 00:02:53.89\00:02:56.10 the other members of the team would be 00:02:56.13\00:02:57.80 able to share with you, some of the projects 00:02:57.86\00:03:00.24 that we're working on so we'll share 00:03:00.39\00:03:01.70 that with you at this time. 00:03:01.82\00:03:02.86 Better Living is all about using media to 00:03:07.78\00:03:10.38 reach the French speaking people 00:03:10.41\00:03:11.92 for Christ. Here in Quebec, 00:03:11.95\00:03:13.65 Canada and around the world. 00:03:13.75\00:03:15.58 Quebec actually has a strong religious 00:03:16.25\00:03:18.16 heritage, but many Quebecers have been 00:03:18.26\00:03:21.11 very disappointed with the control imposed 00:03:21.14\00:03:23.62 by religion in the past. Now people will 00:03:23.66\00:03:26.68 listen anything that has to do with tradition. 00:03:26.71\00:03:28.89 As a result our society has become very 00:03:29.60\00:03:32.02 secular. In fact, less than 1 out of 10,000 00:03:32.08\00:03:36.30 French Canadians is a Seventh-Day Adventist. 00:03:36.45\00:03:38.87 After realizing how few Adventists were here 00:03:39.31\00:03:42.05 in Quebec, I started asking myself the 00:03:42.08\00:03:44.51 question. What can we do to reach this 00:03:44.61\00:03:47.42 very secular people group for Christ? 00:03:47.48\00:03:49.77 We realized the health is a topic of great 00:03:50.11\00:03:52.30 interest among many Quebecers. 00:03:52.33\00:03:54.31 Health is also a key that opens doors that 00:03:54.91\00:03:57.60 would otherwise be close to the Gospel. 00:03:57.67\00:03:59.89 And using media such as; radio, 00:04:00.40\00:04:02.28 television and the Internet allows us to 00:04:02.31\00:04:04.83 enter in peoples homes in non-threatening ways. 00:04:04.86\00:04:07.61 So a combination of health and media 00:04:08.08\00:04:10.59 seem to be the right approach to reach 00:04:10.72\00:04:12.44 this particular group of people. By helping 00:04:12.47\00:04:15.23 people find well being for their bodies, 00:04:15.29\00:04:17.15 we also want them to find 00:04:17.19\00:04:18.32 well being for their souls. 00:04:18.35\00:04:19.76 Our mission is actually two fold; 00:04:21.38\00:04:23.31 first we want to produce content that 00:04:24.04\00:04:26.11 will draw secular people to Christ. 00:04:26.14\00:04:28.24 And secondly, we want to develop materials 00:04:28.82\00:04:31.06 that will enhance Church members spiritual 00:04:31.13\00:04:33.51 growth and tools that they can use to witness. 00:04:33.61\00:04:36.52 So far we've been producing a weekly 00:04:37.61\00:04:39.90 radio show on health, personal growth 00:04:39.94\00:04:42.19 and spirituality. This show airs on the 00:04:42.71\00:04:45.67 local FM radio station. [Foreign Language] 00:04:45.79\00:04:52.81 But our biggest project right now is the 00:04:53.12\00:04:54.68 production of a series of programs on 00:04:54.93\00:04:56.81 the Eight Laws of Health, also known as 00:04:56.84\00:04:59.12 the New Start Program, nothing like this 00:04:59.15\00:05:01.64 has ever been done in French before. 00:05:01.67\00:05:03.76 This production will be available as a DVD set 00:05:04.23\00:05:07.00 that church members can share with their 00:05:07.09\00:05:08.81 neighbors, their friends, and their families. 00:05:08.89\00:05:11.30 This ministry is quite an undertaking. 00:05:12.05\00:05:14.01 Our team is small and our studio space 00:05:14.24\00:05:16.48 is limited. In fact, we're using a garage 00:05:16.56\00:05:19.43 that's been transformed into a production 00:05:19.46\00:05:21.30 facility. We opted for a virtual set 00:05:21.33\00:05:24.70 because of the flexibility it gives us. 00:05:24.97\00:05:26.95 But you could also say that we're all a 00:05:27.62\00:05:29.79 bit green in this field. But with the advice 00:05:29.85\00:05:33.28 and guidance of helpful professionals and a 00:05:33.31\00:05:35.80 passion to reach the 520 million French 00:05:35.94\00:05:39.98 speaking people world wide we're 00:05:40.01\00:05:41.97 moving forward by faith. 00:05:42.12\00:05:43.75 When you work in media you don't 00:05:44.40\00:05:45.81 always see the impact of your work. 00:05:45.86\00:05:47.66 But what's been a real encouragement 00:05:48.06\00:05:49.38 to me is that regularly we receive e-mails 00:05:49.58\00:05:52.21 from listeners requesting a book or 00:05:52.30\00:05:54.07 prayers and that's when I know that 00:05:54.10\00:05:55.97 people are listening and their hearts are 00:05:56.00\00:05:57.53 touched. To me, working for Better Living is 00:05:57.63\00:06:00.91 not like working for any other business. 00:06:00.94\00:06:03.01 Here I can use my skills to win souls for Christ, 00:06:03.48\00:06:05.87 and that gives me a purpose in life. 00:06:06.11\00:06:07.84 And winning souls for Christ is what Better 00:06:08.77\00:06:11.04 Living Ministry is all about. I invite you to 00:06:11.12\00:06:14.02 visit our website at betterlivingministry.com 00:06:14.14\00:06:17.30 to see what we're doing to share 00:06:17.54\00:06:19.43 Christ in our market place. 00:06:19.53\00:06:21.52 If you want to reach the French people in 00:06:30.57\00:06:33.24 Quebec what would you recommend for 00:06:33.29\00:06:36.08 these people who I know also have 00:06:36.17\00:06:37.81 a desire to reach the French? 00:06:37.84\00:06:39.21 Well, you know something that's really 00:06:39.27\00:06:41.11 amazing is that there is lot of French 00:06:41.14\00:06:42.92 speaking people that have left the 00:06:42.95\00:06:44.41 province of Quebec over the years. 00:06:44.44\00:06:46.32 It seems like it was a place where not 00:06:46.67\00:06:48.46 much was happening for a long time 00:06:48.49\00:06:50.23 and so I think one thing the people can 00:06:50.69\00:06:52.67 really do to help us is to help us find 00:06:52.72\00:06:55.44 those people that are out there, 00:06:55.47\00:06:56.65 to help us to produce radio programming, 00:06:56.70\00:06:59.13 television programming and I believe 00:06:59.19\00:07:01.65 that if as we network together that we 00:07:01.68\00:07:04.02 can really find those people in order to go 00:07:04.05\00:07:06.85 out and reach the French speaking people 00:07:06.89\00:07:09.16 and of course our first target is Quebec but 00:07:09.19\00:07:12.04 like I said, there's five hundred twenty 00:07:12.19\00:07:13.94 million French speaking people around the 00:07:13.98\00:07:15.65 world and so we want to use these 00:07:15.68\00:07:17.76 products as well to able to reach them. 00:07:17.80\00:07:19.59 So if you know someone who speaks French, 00:07:19.78\00:07:22.60 who can help out in health and education or 00:07:22.76\00:07:25.22 evangelistic program, you'd be interest 00:07:25.31\00:07:27.10 in bringing them to Quebec? 00:07:27.18\00:07:29.02 Absolutely, and we would like to invite 00:07:29.12\00:07:30.96 you to come and see our booth as well 00:07:30.99\00:07:33.30 where the end of the 700 isle come and see 00:07:33.38\00:07:36.05 us and we will tell you more about how 00:07:36.11\00:07:37.98 you can help us. Thank you so 00:07:38.09\00:07:39.56 much and may God bless you. 00:07:39.62\00:07:40.77 And thank you for what you are doing for Quebec, 00:07:40.84\00:07:42.87 they're winning through better living. 00:07:43.17\00:07:44.55 I've with me Cameron Bierle. 00:07:49.33\00:07:51.68 Cameron Bierle is also reaching an area of 00:07:51.87\00:07:56.03 the secular part of the world but it's 00:07:56.06\00:07:58.68 actually here in the United States through 00:07:58.74\00:08:01.39 KACS Radio. Tell us what part 00:08:01.52\00:08:04.18 of the US are you in Cameron? 00:08:04.27\00:08:05.85 Well, we broadcast right on the Interstate-5 00:08:05.94\00:08:08.00 Corridor between metropolitan areas of 00:08:08.03\00:08:10.49 Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon, 00:08:10.60\00:08:12.50 and the tip of South Puget Sound. 00:08:13.31\00:08:15.39 And your station now has a listening 00:08:16.12\00:08:18.93 area of about how many? 00:08:19.02\00:08:20.40 Our population coverage right now numbers 00:08:21.11\00:08:23.26 into the 4000 range or a little more and 00:08:23.30\00:08:26.15 growing constantly. It's one of the fastest 00:08:26.28\00:08:27.94 growing population areas on South 00:08:28.01\00:08:29.53 Puget Sound of all the United States. 00:08:29.62\00:08:31.68 And you have some desires to grow it even further. 00:08:31.95\00:08:35.25 We're so excited about that, yes, 00:08:35.77\00:08:36.78 we just had approval by the FCC of a 00:08:36.88\00:08:39.96 new tower site and of a brand new 00:08:39.99\00:08:42.09 license for our network and phase one 00:08:42.13\00:08:44.75 of that, the first new license should be done 00:08:44.78\00:08:47.10 possibly this fall with all the transmitter 00:08:47.25\00:08:49.36 being donated and the equipment we just 00:08:49.39\00:08:51.45 got to get that antenna built and erected 00:08:51.48\00:08:53.38 and then the other phase we're going to 00:08:53.77\00:08:55.64 move to a new tower site for the parent 00:08:55.67\00:08:57.48 station that will extend our coverage into 00:08:57.55\00:09:00.21 the edge of Seattle and give us a total 00:09:00.24\00:09:02.24 population coverage of almost two million people. 00:09:02.31\00:09:05.50 Two million from Seattle to Portland, 00:09:05.77\00:09:07.85 now you're telling me about a survey that 00:09:07.95\00:09:09.83 was done about the religiosity 00:09:09.90\00:09:11.89 element there in Washington. 00:09:11.92\00:09:13.96 Three university professors conducted a 00:09:13.99\00:09:15.60 research project over several years 00:09:15.69\00:09:17.83 and they ended up titling that research 00:09:17.87\00:09:20.10 project the "Non- Zone" because they 00:09:20.13\00:09:22.92 discovered the population around South 00:09:22.97\00:09:25.06 Puget Sound where we broadcast in a 00:09:25.09\00:09:26.87 mission field to have the highest percentage 00:09:26.90\00:09:29.92 of population in anywhere in the United 00:09:29.97\00:09:31.80 States of people who say they 00:09:31.83\00:09:33.77 have no religion at all. 00:09:33.87\00:09:35.04 And as a result they are open to almost 00:09:35.68\00:09:37.60 anything spiritual. Many of these people 00:09:37.63\00:09:40.32 don't have anti-spiritual, they're just open 00:09:40.35\00:09:42.04 to everything and so we really want to make 00:09:42.09\00:09:44.33 sure that we have the true spiritual 00:09:44.39\00:09:46.42 element available for them to right option. 00:09:46.46\00:09:49.09 That's absolutely right. In fact, we 00:09:49.12\00:09:50.37 Adventists were mentioned in that 00:09:50.50\00:09:51.89 research project as one of the fastest 00:09:51.92\00:09:54.34 growing Christian denomination in that same 00:09:54.40\00:09:56.66 area and the statistic works out too for 00:09:56.74\00:09:59.82 every one of us Adventists, in South West 00:09:59.95\00:10:02.43 Washington there's over 1600 people 00:10:02.46\00:10:06.04 who've never even yet heard a 00:10:06.08\00:10:07.59 presentation of the gospel. 00:10:07.62\00:10:09.02 The gospel anywhere, well, 00:10:09.29\00:10:10.84 you have a little video. 00:10:10.88\00:10:12.03 Yes, we do. Yes, we guess about 00:10:12.42\00:10:13.39 KACS, let's show that this time. 00:10:13.40\00:10:15.40 Well, thank you so much for your call Daisy. 00:10:17.14\00:10:18.88 Let's pray for your husband Shawn today 00:10:18.91\00:10:21.53 too with you. Father, we thank you for 00:10:21.64\00:10:23.70 this call that we can be here and be a 00:10:23.76\00:10:25.39 source of encouragement for her in husband's 00:10:25.55\00:10:27.57 absence. We thank you for your providence 00:10:27.65\00:10:29.93 and care of over Shawn, as he serves you 00:10:29.96\00:10:31.64 as a Chaplin there for starting that study 00:10:31.70\00:10:33.82 group to share with more of the men 00:10:33.85\00:10:35.63 and women in service. The hope there is 00:10:35.66\00:10:37.85 in Christ the providence and protection 00:10:37.88\00:10:39.67 there is in the certainty of eternal life 00:10:39.70\00:10:42.21 beyond the pale of this Earth and Lord we 00:10:42.24\00:10:44.48 thank you for even using those moments 00:10:44.51\00:10:46.32 of horrible destruction and tragedy to 00:10:46.35\00:10:48.64 turn hearts toward you and be there 00:10:48.73\00:10:50.64 in the midst of all that he's going through. 00:10:50.95\00:10:52.95 Hi, my name is Kerry O'Connor, 00:10:53.52\00:10:55.11 chairman of KACS Radio, 90.5 FM. 00:10:55.23\00:10:58.52 In this video I would like to show you 00:10:59.09\00:11:00.49 something about the radio station where 00:11:00.62\00:11:02.61 it's been in the past, how it's touched 00:11:02.66\00:11:04.73 lives in the past and with our planned 00:11:04.78\00:11:06.95 expansions where it can go in the future? 00:11:06.98\00:11:09.73 I think the key to KACS' success is 00:11:10.50\00:11:14.17 finding that niche that nobody else was 00:11:14.55\00:11:16.38 able to fill in that area, and creating an 00:11:16.50\00:11:20.14 environment where our listeners tune in. 00:11:20.21\00:11:22.31 They recognize that difference and find 00:11:22.81\00:11:25.50 a place where they can feel like they're 00:11:25.53\00:11:26.81 at home, sharing time with friends and 00:11:26.84\00:11:28.97 family, and feel like they're part of 00:11:29.06\00:11:31.01 something much bigger than just themselves. 00:11:31.07\00:11:33.14 I've gotten calls from truck drivers on 00:11:33.62\00:11:37.00 the road, they're passing through and they 00:11:37.05\00:11:40.42 know the area and so they know when to 00:11:40.47\00:11:42.54 tune in and how far their signal reaches 00:11:42.60\00:11:45.39 and they're just blessed by the music and 00:11:45.94\00:11:49.65 the information that we share and give. 00:11:49.68\00:11:53.26 Here at KACS, we've found by market 00:11:53.54\00:11:56.72 research and even university level studies 00:11:56.79\00:12:00.19 that were done that this portion of the 00:12:00.22\00:12:02.91 country right here in South West Washington 00:12:03.02\00:12:05.40 has the highest population in America of 00:12:05.61\00:12:09.26 people who say they've never even 00:12:09.35\00:12:10.82 been exposed to Christianity, 00:12:11.32\00:12:13.85 let alone come to know Jesus. 00:12:14.05\00:12:15.59 We get some of the stories of the people 00:12:15.76\00:12:17.25 that had changed lives because of the 00:12:17.30\00:12:19.24 ministry of the music or teaching on the 00:12:19.28\00:12:21.54 station. People that have of threaten to 00:12:21.62\00:12:24.95 commit suicide but they just at the right 00:12:24.98\00:12:26.85 time heard the right song that stay their 00:12:26.88\00:12:28.85 hand and now they've either they're still 00:12:28.88\00:12:32.03 living and thriving in their lives but also 00:12:32.08\00:12:34.85 marriages restored and depression overcome 00:12:34.89\00:12:38.26 and those types of things that really keep 00:12:38.31\00:12:40.23 us going as a ministry and then keep us 00:12:40.26\00:12:42.42 encourage that this is a real 00:12:42.49\00:12:43.95 worth while venture case. 00:12:44.37\00:12:45.69 KACS has been very affective in the 00:12:47.04\00:12:48.78 mentoring program, getting mentors doing 00:12:48.81\00:12:51.50 one-to-one with our kids, and once they're 00:12:51.55\00:12:53.69 mentored on a one- to-one basis they as 00:12:53.77\00:12:56.14 soon as it rate drops dramatically. 00:12:56.19\00:12:58.49 I don't know exactly what the stats are 00:12:58.95\00:13:00.76 on that but it's somewhere in the 00:13:00.79\00:13:01.78 neighborhood between 70 and 80 percent 00:13:01.81\00:13:03.60 of those kids never come back because 00:13:03.68\00:13:06.68 they've received that kind of one-to-one 00:13:06.71\00:13:08.50 encouragement through a mentor. We first 00:13:08.53\00:13:11.20 heard about the program here at KACS. 00:13:11.23\00:13:13.77 As the station has reached into the 00:13:16.23\00:13:17.68 community over the years, we have had people 00:13:17.71\00:13:20.33 who live on the edge of that signal, 00:13:20.45\00:13:22.20 talk to us about how much more they 00:13:22.71\00:13:24.24 like to have that beyond just to drive 00:13:24.27\00:13:26.10 home but in their own homes. Not long 00:13:26.15\00:13:28.51 ago we were able to complete a power 00:13:28.54\00:13:30.14 increase that increased signal into the capital 00:13:30.19\00:13:32.42 city. We had an opportunity to apply for 00:13:32.45\00:13:35.76 other license as the government opened 00:13:35.79\00:13:37.90 that window for new signals. 00:13:37.96\00:13:40.56 And now we've been putting the applications 00:13:40.89\00:13:43.27 through the FCC and we've made that first 00:13:43.35\00:13:45.46 hurtle, the FCC has given its approval to build 00:13:45.49\00:13:47.83 a whole new station to repeat the KACS 00:13:47.86\00:13:50.07 signal to at the Willapa Harbor 00:13:50.15\00:13:52.11 area, Pacific County so. 00:13:52.14\00:13:53.42 It surprises people to find out that the 00:13:53.45\00:13:55.39 missions statement for radio KACS is very, 00:13:55.43\00:13:58.16 very simple and it comes down to just a few 00:13:58.21\00:14:00.72 words to clearly broadcast Jesus 00:14:00.76\00:14:03.52 Christ as the way of salvation. 00:14:03.55\00:14:05.27 The TV audience by definition often is 00:14:09.30\00:14:11.70 the vegetative mind. Radio is the more 00:14:11.73\00:14:14.50 active individual who's on the move and 00:14:14.56\00:14:17.13 more inquiring and it's very inexpensive as 00:14:17.24\00:14:21.39 a result, of course, no offense to those 00:14:21.42\00:14:23.13 of you watching right now because I know 00:14:23.17\00:14:25.97 you are inquiring otherwise you'd be on 00:14:26.03\00:14:27.90 another channel but nonetheless tell us 00:14:27.97\00:14:31.30 have you been able to reach professionals? 00:14:31.33\00:14:32.92 Absolutely, around the South Puget Sound 00:14:33.26\00:14:35.67 on the Shelton side of the Sound. There was 00:14:35.70\00:14:38.50 a man who began listening in and just 00:14:38.53\00:14:40.19 stumbled across the station one day, 00:14:40.22\00:14:41.92 he ran a law office in Shelton which is 00:14:41.96\00:14:44.43 just across the water from Seattle, 00:14:44.46\00:14:46.13 and overtime through the messages and 00:14:46.71\00:14:48.70 music he heard, gave his heart to Christ and 00:14:48.73\00:14:50.90 I was privileged to attained by his invitation 00:14:50.93\00:14:53.81 his baptism at a local church and it all 00:14:53.85\00:14:56.38 was a result of the station's ministry. 00:14:56.47\00:14:58.13 And there was many other I know that you're 00:14:58.17\00:14:59.89 reaching, please come by and talk to 00:14:59.92\00:15:02.70 Cameron afterwards there are 00:15:02.84\00:15:03.99 wonderful stories of how practical Christianity 00:15:04.02\00:15:06.84 is being spread through the airwaves in 00:15:06.89\00:15:08.50 Washington and we appreciate what 00:15:08.53\00:15:10.94 you're doing there in the Seattle area. 00:15:10.97\00:15:13.67 Next we have Jeff Reich and Mike McCaffrey 00:15:14.44\00:15:17.37 with us. Jeff Reich also has a media ministry 00:15:17.78\00:15:22.78 and his media ministry extends pretty much 00:15:23.11\00:15:27.14 in multiple places throughout the world. 00:15:27.35\00:15:28.96 Give us a little bit of an overview of 00:15:29.11\00:15:31.13 the layman's ministry foundation. 00:15:31.16\00:15:32.88 It's been really exciting hearing all the 00:15:32.91\00:15:33.98 different media moments just at the last 00:15:34.06\00:15:36.09 couple minutes and different members and 00:15:36.13\00:15:38.00 what they're doing. In 1996, we were 00:15:38.03\00:15:40.58 convicted about starting television ministry 00:15:40.62\00:15:43.36 up in the back woods of North Idaho, 00:15:43.45\00:15:45.24 and we built a television studio back there 00:15:45.65\00:15:47.49 and at that time we started teaming up 00:15:47.52\00:15:48.95 with 3ABN, and we started programming in 00:15:49.00\00:15:51.71 early 1997 with 3ABN and at that time we 00:15:51.74\00:15:56.02 never imagined what would happen but 00:15:56.05\00:15:57.86 today we're on 13 different international 00:15:57.89\00:16:00.31 networks and we like for instance in India. 00:16:00.34\00:16:03.91 We pioneered television ministry work in 00:16:03.94\00:16:05.84 India and we're on JAYA television which the 00:16:05.90\00:16:08.33 only Christian program on totally Hindu 00:16:08.36\00:16:11.79 network. It's a worldwide Hindu network 00:16:11.83\00:16:13.44 there and we are doing cross-cultural 00:16:13.47\00:16:15.81 ministry on television, but as the ministry 00:16:15.88\00:16:19.91 kept growing we needed to have people that 00:16:19.95\00:16:22.49 would help us in the studio and two years 00:16:22.52\00:16:25.01 ago we had kind of a major set back we're 00:16:25.04\00:16:27.74 in five different languages doing all this 00:16:27.87\00:16:29.38 production and our studio manager left, 00:16:29.41\00:16:32.05 and that was in September, two years 00:16:32.73\00:16:34.59 ago and so we were like praying and trying 00:16:34.65\00:16:36.58 to decide you know what is the Lord going 00:16:36.61\00:16:38.50 to do and so we decided that we would try 00:16:38.53\00:16:40.05 to contact some of the universities, 00:16:40.08\00:16:41.73 try to tap into some young people's resources 00:16:41.89\00:16:44.58 you know with the talent that we have in 00:16:44.67\00:16:46.27 doing media production so we were in contact 00:16:46.30\00:16:48.60 with AUP and PUC and Southern college, 00:16:48.63\00:16:52.15 all the way to Avondale even to Romania 00:16:52.60\00:16:54.42 looking for young people and the story was 00:16:54.50\00:16:57.06 the same over and over. These people, well, 00:16:57.09\00:16:59.23 these young people called me up and we'd 00:16:59.26\00:17:00.45 be on chat or something, and it's oh, Jeff, 00:17:00.51\00:17:02.67 I'm really excited about coming and working 00:17:02.70\00:17:04.36 at your ministry. Now where is this studio 00:17:04.39\00:17:06.48 located? And I would say, you know, 00:17:06.51\00:17:08.63 it's in the wilderness, backwards of North 00:17:08.66\00:17:11.08 Idaho and they would say oh, really well, 00:17:11.15\00:17:13.62 how big is the youth group there? 00:17:13.69\00:17:14.95 And I would bloat, and then they would say 00:17:15.46\00:17:19.62 well, where is this studio out again. 00:17:19.74\00:17:22.57 I'd explain we're way out in the wilderness 00:17:22.61\00:17:24.56 in the woods of North Idaho, and they say, well, 00:17:24.67\00:17:26.66 what do you do out there? And I said, 00:17:26.74\00:17:28.51 well, we ski and we camp and we work. 00:17:28.58\00:17:31.61 And then they asked a really tough question. 00:17:32.57\00:17:34.63 Is there a taco bell close by and I would 00:17:34.78\00:17:38.33 have to tell them well taco bell is in Spokane, 00:17:38.36\00:17:40.36 Washington, now we're 20 minutes away 00:17:40.39\00:17:42.29 and pretty much it all came to a dead end 00:17:42.76\00:17:44.86 road and finally one day I was talking to a 00:17:44.94\00:17:47.63 lady Nancy who works at Amazing Facts. 00:17:47.66\00:17:50.71 She's a graphic designer and working with 00:17:50.74\00:17:53.13 Doug Batchelor and I told her as we were 00:17:53.20\00:17:55.46 talking, I said you know we really need a 00:17:55.51\00:17:56.76 studio manager. We had gone on for 5 00:17:56.85\00:17:58.88 months now and we were rerunning programs 00:17:58.94\00:18:01.45 on 3ABN. We are getting behind on other 00:18:01.50\00:18:03.28 production and she said I met a young guy 00:18:03.31\00:18:05.95 that is just become an Adventist, 00:18:06.40\00:18:08.20 his name is Michael McCaffrey and he is 00:18:08.23\00:18:10.74 kind of looking to get involved with the 00:18:10.77\00:18:12.02 ministry kind of like what you're involved with 00:18:12.08\00:18:13.90 way out in the woods. And so I got in 00:18:13.93\00:18:16.55 touch with this, this guy right here 00:18:16.61\00:18:18.23 Michael McCaffrey and as I got to know him, 00:18:18.34\00:18:21.42 his story was just amazing, you know, 00:18:21.45\00:18:23.30 he's a brand new Adventist, Mike, why don't 00:18:23.65\00:18:26.15 you go ahead and share a little bit 00:18:26.18\00:18:27.67 of how you became an Adventist. 00:18:27.75\00:18:29.08 Well, it all started for me about 5 years ago 00:18:30.47\00:18:32.30 in my journey and I had gone through an 00:18:32.43\00:18:34.76 experience where I was deceived and it 00:18:34.90\00:18:37.45 lead me to a place where I was really 00:18:37.48\00:18:39.00 wanting to call out to God, and wanting 00:18:39.45\00:18:40.81 God in my life and so at that point, 00:18:41.04\00:18:43.40 I really got down on my knees and prayed for 00:18:43.43\00:18:45.18 the first time for God to come into my life, 00:18:45.21\00:18:47.52 and I remember praying specifically that I 00:18:48.25\00:18:51.52 wanted to know the truth and I didn't 00:18:51.55\00:18:52.99 want to be deceived anymore and so that 00:18:53.02\00:18:55.17 was important to me because the experience 00:18:55.20\00:18:56.79 that I've gone through and in hindsight I look 00:18:56.82\00:18:58.51 back and I realized that God has really given 00:18:58.67\00:19:00.27 me a love for the truth as a result of 00:19:00.39\00:19:02.11 that experience and so when I cracked 00:19:02.29\00:19:04.55 open the Bible for the first time I flipped 00:19:04.70\00:19:06.69 open to a page and there was big letters it 00:19:06.72\00:19:08.38 said that New Testament and I remember 00:19:08.47\00:19:10.35 thinking oh, yeah, there is an Old Testament 00:19:10.38\00:19:12.39 and a New Testament. So my knowledge of 00:19:12.42\00:19:14.77 scripture was really I didn't really know a 00:19:14.80\00:19:17.65 whole lot at that point and so God took me 00:19:17.68\00:19:19.75 from there and my interest in studying 00:19:19.86\00:19:22.56 the scripture continued and I continued to 00:19:22.61\00:19:24.15 study the Bible and I continued to study 00:19:24.18\00:19:26.58 Catholicism because I was raised Catholic, 00:19:26.64\00:19:28.34 so I just wanted to know more about what 00:19:28.37\00:19:30.21 the Catholic church teaches and so I 00:19:30.24\00:19:32.33 continued in my journey and began to 00:19:32.36\00:19:34.90 realize that if I was going to continue on 00:19:34.93\00:19:38.52 my journey with the Bible and to continued to 00:19:38.61\00:19:42.32 follow scripture I would have to apart 00:19:42.35\00:19:43.64 with Catholicism and if I was going to continue 00:19:43.67\00:19:45.96 with Catholicism then I will have to apart 00:19:46.01\00:19:47.65 with the Bible, so I was really kind of at 00:19:47.68\00:19:49.19 this fork in the road, so I continued to follow 00:19:49.36\00:19:53.06 the Bible and I left Catholicism and really 00:19:53.11\00:19:56.40 continued to study scripture at that point 00:19:56.56\00:19:58.33 and that continued for about a year and then 00:19:58.74\00:20:01.38 I had got into studying prophecy and I was 00:20:01.84\00:20:03.99 asking more questions about the state of 00:20:04.39\00:20:06.37 the dead and what happens when we die 00:20:06.40\00:20:09.05 and I was really fascinated with the 00:20:09.15\00:20:13.89 supernatural things and prophecy and all 00:20:13.92\00:20:15.82 the different signs and symbols and so I 00:20:15.85\00:20:18.41 studied prophecy for probably about 10 00:20:18.51\00:20:20.45 or 11 months just like hours everyday and 00:20:20.48\00:20:22.68 I got, I read all kinds of different things. 00:20:22.71\00:20:24.59 I could get my hands on and I read about 00:20:24.62\00:20:26.82 the anti-Christ and the mark of the beast 00:20:26.87\00:20:29.06 and rapture and the tribulation, 00:20:29.12\00:20:30.54 the two witnesses. Mike, where 00:20:30.60\00:20:31.58 were you living at this time 00:20:31.62\00:20:32.59 Rebuilding of temple in Jerusalem. 00:20:32.60\00:20:33.57 I was in Los Angeles at this time. 00:20:33.66\00:20:36.60 What we doing at that time our curiosity, 00:20:36.82\00:20:38.45 while you're doing all this studying. 00:20:38.48\00:20:39.71 I was working in the film industry and I 00:20:40.17\00:20:43.56 was doing editing and video production. 00:20:43.72\00:20:45.55 Some interesting tidbit. So I was studying 00:20:45.70\00:20:50.23 all these things and what I realized after 00:20:50.29\00:20:52.10 10 or 11 months was that the only positive 00:20:52.13\00:20:53.98 conclusion that I could make was that I 00:20:54.02\00:20:55.45 couldn't make any positive conclusions 00:20:55.48\00:20:57.19 because I studied all these things and 00:20:57.98\00:21:00.45 here's this message it's called the book 00:21:00.48\00:21:01.94 of Revelation. God has a message that he's 00:21:02.03\00:21:04.03 trying to reveal, it's not call the book of 00:21:04.06\00:21:06.21 mystery or the book of confusion for a 00:21:06.26\00:21:07.97 reason and so I just wanted to 00:21:08.00\00:21:09.38 understand what God wanted me to know. 00:21:09.41\00:21:11.76 So how did you resolve this confusion then? 00:21:11.80\00:21:13.94 Well, there was a lot of things that made 00:21:14.78\00:21:16.74 sense and made logical sense that I could 00:21:16.78\00:21:19.36 believe if I wanted to, but I couldn't make 00:21:19.52\00:21:21.49 sense, I didn't know that I knew the truth 00:21:21.52\00:21:23.59 and so I was just shortly after that I 00:21:23.72\00:21:26.56 really prayed and I've given it to God and 00:21:26.59\00:21:27.99 I said, God I don't understand it and I don't 00:21:28.02\00:21:30.26 get it I guess I am just going to have to 00:21:30.34\00:21:31.63 look at prophecy as a spectator and it 00:21:31.71\00:21:33.19 was just kind see what happens and it was 00:21:33.25\00:21:35.92 shortly after that, that he showed me 00:21:35.95\00:21:37.34 the principle and the key that changed 00:21:37.54\00:21:38.98 everything about prophecy and that is 00:21:39.11\00:21:41.36 Second Peter 1:20, knowing this verse 00:21:41.39\00:21:43.42 that no prophecy of the scripture is of any 00:21:43.45\00:21:45.64 private interpretation. So it's not your job 00:21:45.67\00:21:48.23 to interpret Bible prophecy or my job, 00:21:48.34\00:21:50.72 it's the Bible is as own expository and so I 00:21:50.79\00:21:53.57 went back to scripture and discovered how 00:21:53.69\00:21:55.46 amazing it was that the symbols in the 00:21:55.52\00:21:57.57 book of Revelation are actually defined by 00:21:57.60\00:21:59.67 prophets in the Old Testament and in 00:21:59.92\00:22:01.61 another places in the scripture. So I began 00:22:01.64\00:22:03.82 to take the symbols and put them together 00:22:03.87\00:22:06.02 and this whole new picture of Bible prophecy 00:22:06.45\00:22:08.37 unfolded before me that was unlike 00:22:08.41\00:22:09.78 anything I had ever seen before. 00:22:09.81\00:22:11.16 And so you just did this on your own 00:22:11.89\00:22:13.38 personal study, looking at those symbols 00:22:13.50\00:22:15.50 and having the Bible interpret itself 00:22:15.53\00:22:17.38 and where did that lead you? 00:22:17.41\00:22:18.56 Well, that lead me into the 3 angels 00:22:19.42\00:22:21.79 messages and I saw that the Sabbath 00:22:21.82\00:22:24.50 might have something to do with the 3 angels 00:22:24.54\00:22:26.14 message and the mark of the beast and so 00:22:26.17\00:22:28.00 I began studying that and it led me into 00:22:28.05\00:22:32.28 keeping the Sabbath and then eventually 00:22:32.31\00:22:33.93 I had started studying the abomination 00:22:34.02\00:22:36.66 of desolation and country living and that 00:22:36.69\00:22:39.11 kind of led me at a place in L.A where I 00:22:39.14\00:22:41.38 was thinking about relocating and if I was 00:22:41.50\00:22:44.83 going to do that how would I leave the city 00:22:44.86\00:22:47.08 and I didn't have any money to go and 00:22:47.11\00:22:49.25 buy a place or to build the house or anything, so. 00:22:49.33\00:22:52.50 What are your changes of moving to the 00:22:52.82\00:22:54.25 country some place and still be 00:22:54.38\00:22:55.65 involved with television production? 00:22:55.86\00:22:57.24 Yeah, moving to the country and 00:22:57.32\00:22:58.82 continuing what I wanted to do in film 00:22:58.89\00:23:00.48 and TV seemed like kind of productive. 00:23:00.51\00:23:02.46 So but I knew that I wanted to work for 00:23:02.59\00:23:04.32 God and I would ask God to hire me as I 00:23:04.39\00:23:07.05 was looking for work at that point and I said, 00:23:07.08\00:23:08.85 God I want to work for you and so through 00:23:08.88\00:23:11.98 Nancy he put me in touch and with Jeff and 00:23:12.04\00:23:14.61 said, that she had a friend in Northern Idaho 00:23:14.64\00:23:16.40 who had a studio out there and was 00:23:16.53\00:23:18.36 looking for somebody to come work for him. 00:23:18.47\00:23:19.74 And how knew Nancy because after you 00:23:19.77\00:23:22.26 came across your own interpretation of 00:23:22.29\00:23:24.64 prophecy you thought it might be private 00:23:24.73\00:23:27.04 until you saw Doug Batchelor and then 00:23:27.16\00:23:29.20 you realize there was others that 00:23:29.32\00:23:30.45 believe the same way you did. 00:23:30.56\00:23:31.69 Yes, I remember seeing this guy he was 00:23:31.87\00:23:34.54 talking about the anti-Christ and all these 00:23:34.70\00:23:36.72 un-politically correct things on television 00:23:36.77\00:23:38.99 to a large group of people and I was 00:23:39.17\00:23:40.29 thinking wow! What's this all about and that 00:23:40.32\00:23:42.90 was kind of my introduction to the 00:23:43.04\00:23:44.89 Adventist church, there was a Christian 00:23:44.92\00:23:46.46 denomination out there. 00:23:46.60\00:23:47.57 They actually believe these things. 00:23:47.58\00:23:48.94 The amazing thing was his lease was 00:23:48.98\00:23:50.74 running out in February. He flew up to our place, 00:23:50.77\00:23:53.36 checked out the ministry and decided to 00:23:53.55\00:23:55.31 come up. By the way when his lease was 00:23:55.34\00:23:57.13 running out, he moved up and then within 00:23:57.17\00:23:59.52 two weeks I had him overseas if you see 00:23:59.58\00:24:01.03 in some of our mission videos, 00:24:01.06\00:24:02.42 it's hard to find a camera man, that can 00:24:03.08\00:24:05.27 keep up with us while we're doing some 00:24:05.45\00:24:06.55 of these overseas trips. Anyhow how many 00:24:06.58\00:24:08.81 of you have seen the movie "Fireproof" 00:24:08.84\00:24:10.16 you've seen that. If you buy it now you 00:24:10.89\00:24:12.55 will find it so, so bundled with another short 00:24:12.58\00:24:15.02 film award wining short film called the 00:24:15.08\00:24:16.45 "Cabin 6" and Mike is the producer of that 00:24:16.50\00:24:19.08 and he produced that when you 00:24:19.49\00:24:20.97 first became a Christian right Mike. 00:24:21.40\00:24:22.86 Yeah, it was right about that time 00:24:23.56\00:24:24.53 if you buy it from vision video. 00:24:24.54\00:24:25.72 Anyhow compare by our booth if you want 00:24:25.87\00:24:27.35 to see some of Mike's production if you 00:24:27.38\00:24:28.88 probably already seen it, if you've been 00:24:28.91\00:24:29.88 watching 3ABN and we also have his whole 00:24:29.89\00:24:32.75 story on a DVD there it's really 00:24:32.78\00:24:34.52 an interesting story to watch. 00:24:34.56\00:24:36.13 Thank you very much. Thank you. 00:24:36.91\00:24:37.88 Good afternoon again, on behalf of ASI. 00:24:46.75\00:24:49.68 It is my honor and privilege to bring to the 00:24:49.98\00:24:53.18 platform, the founder of 3ABN, 00:24:53.31\00:24:56.30 Danny Shelton and the current President Jim 00:24:56.36\00:24:58.62 Gilley. You may know if you watch GC 00:24:58.65\00:25:01.80 proceeding or if you're following 3ABN 00:25:01.89\00:25:04.15 history that we are now celebrating the 00:25:04.19\00:25:06.73 25th Anniversary of the founding of 3ABN, 00:25:06.86\00:25:10.65 so we want to acknowledge them, 00:25:11.43\00:25:13.46 can we get them some applause. We want to 00:25:13.55\00:25:16.72 do today is to get a founder's prospective. 00:25:16.75\00:25:19.00 You all watch 3ABN. You've seen it and 00:25:19.88\00:25:23.22 you probably heard a lot of things around 00:25:23.32\00:25:24.82 the circuit that aren't true, and I'd like to 00:25:24.87\00:25:28.30 turn it over to the President Jim Gilley who 00:25:29.27\00:25:32.74 will introduce Danny and well, let him 00:25:32.77\00:25:35.70 give us the founder's prospective 00:25:35.85\00:25:38.05 of the last 25 years of 3ABN. 00:25:38.50\00:25:40.84 You know, to introduce Danny Shelton that's 00:25:41.51\00:25:44.35 a quite a thing because probably the two faces, 00:25:44.41\00:25:49.81 and the three faces that are best known in 00:25:49.87\00:25:52.82 all of Adventism, are Danny Shelton, 00:25:52.90\00:25:55.38 Mark Finley and Doug Batchelor and these 00:25:55.44\00:25:58.55 are recognizable faces, aren't they? 00:25:58.58\00:26:00.74 But I tell you it's been a fantastic joy 00:26:01.23\00:26:03.64 Camille and I are beginning our fourth year 00:26:04.17\00:26:06.24 at 3ABN and just a few weeks and what a 00:26:06.85\00:26:10.93 joy it has been. The greatest joy in our 00:26:10.97\00:26:14.30 ministry in our lives and Danny, I think it 00:26:14.36\00:26:18.01 began at 3ABN in a real way at ASI session 00:26:18.07\00:26:23.34 back in Montana, is that correct? 00:26:23.49\00:26:25.39 That's where 3ABN was really catapulted 00:26:25.82\00:26:29.02 and to growing and growth. I just want 00:26:29.60\00:26:34.00 to say special thank you to everyone of you, 00:26:34.03\00:26:36.48 all of you ASI members those who 00:26:36.51\00:26:38.89 watching on television, through radio, 00:26:38.92\00:26:41.04 the Internet for your love and prayers 00:26:41.29\00:26:43.02 and support of 3ABN. Our goal from the 00:26:43.10\00:26:46.27 beginning the Lord impressed us in 1984 00:26:46.34\00:26:49.45 to built a television station that would reach 00:26:49.49\00:26:51.52 the world with an undiluted 3 Angels 00:26:51.63\00:26:53.38 messages. One would counteract the 00:26:53.41\00:26:55.49 counterfeit as most of you know we don't, 00:26:55.52\00:26:57.94 I don't have any skills, I didn't have an 00:26:58.41\00:27:01.00 education, didn't have the money, 00:27:01.03\00:27:02.46 didn't have any thing that I really needed, 00:27:02.49\00:27:03.89 but I want to give God that I all the honor 00:27:03.96\00:27:06.17 and glory and praise for everything good 00:27:06.20\00:27:08.77 that's happen. I take the credit for the 00:27:08.91\00:27:11.32 bad things because there was good and 00:27:11.40\00:27:13.05 bad everywhere you go but we will take 00:27:13.24\00:27:14.95 the credit for the bad but without our 00:27:14.98\00:27:17.94 heavenly father this couldn't happen but it 00:27:17.97\00:27:19.72 let's us know when we heard Pastor Finley 00:27:19.75\00:27:21.72 sermon today about when that tremendous 00:27:21.76\00:27:24.73 sermon to give us the vision that you know 00:27:24.82\00:27:27.06 where the time. We heard Elder Wilson's 00:27:27.12\00:27:28.82 sermon. We've heard from Elder Dan Jackson. 00:27:29.37\00:27:32.22 We see the vision of these leaders to take 00:27:32.27\00:27:35.91 this undiluted 3 Angels messages into all the 00:27:35.97\00:27:38.35 world and in 1985 I was invited to go to ASI, 00:27:38.38\00:27:43.80 actually we a convention in Big sky, Montana. 00:27:45.57\00:27:48.10 I had never, hardly been out of Southern Illinois. 00:27:48.15\00:27:50.57 I was invited to go, didn't have the money 00:27:50.93\00:27:52.79 to go so some people said, we'll pay 00:27:52.82\00:27:54.37 you where to go, Dale McBride said, 00:27:54.40\00:27:57.30 we will pay you where to go. I went out, 00:27:57.33\00:27:59.28 I had no plans, didn't know why I was there 00:27:59.31\00:28:01.59 but people said, well, you want to be on 00:28:01.62\00:28:03.49 the program or anything because I 00:28:03.52\00:28:05.06 actually I had a dream and that's all we 00:28:05.09\00:28:06.83 were building a shell of a building had some 00:28:06.86\00:28:08.74 property, nothing else and I remember 00:28:08.84\00:28:11.14 going out there and a lady named Rosella 00:28:11.17\00:28:13.55 McLaughlin kept taken me around, introducing 00:28:13.64\00:28:16.18 me to people to May Chung, Ellesworth McKee, 00:28:16.30\00:28:18.35 a number of people who eventually came 00:28:18.40\00:28:20.83 on the board began to be financial supporters, 00:28:20.86\00:28:23.28 prayer warriors, many of you and that's 00:28:23.31\00:28:26.17 what really caught the vision but I was 00:28:26.27\00:28:28.18 not supposed to speak, I had not idea 00:28:28.21\00:28:30.06 that going that I would ever speak and I 00:28:30.14\00:28:33.23 remember people kept saying well, 00:28:33.27\00:28:34.58 we want to hear about this television station 00:28:34.69\00:28:36.85 and someone said, well, he won't be able 00:28:37.09\00:28:39.78 to speak this year because of programs 00:28:39.81\00:28:41.94 planned and I understand that we've 00:28:41.97\00:28:43.41 planned programs at 3ABN. We have them 00:28:43.47\00:28:45.45 here at ASI and so that was fine with us. 00:28:45.49\00:28:49.34 We were there, didn't know what to do, 00:28:49.37\00:28:51.01 and Friday afternoon in Big Sky, Montana 00:28:51.46\00:28:54.01 some of you, were any of you there, 00:28:54.04\00:28:55.47 Big Sky back that far, okay, maybe a few 00:28:55.79\00:28:58.73 of you back that many years ago, 00:28:58.88\00:29:00.86 and so in Big Sky Friday afternoon it was 00:29:01.33\00:29:03.77 an open day for, we were 7500 feet up 00:29:03.80\00:29:07.70 into the mountains and we were supposed 00:29:07.85\00:29:10.15 to do rides and look over the beautiful area. 00:29:10.18\00:29:12.95 We have free time and that morning about 00:29:12.98\00:29:15.36 11 o'clock in morning, the best I can 00:29:15.47\00:29:17.52 remember began to cloud up and rain 00:29:17.57\00:29:19.70 tremendously and I remember I was setting 00:29:19.74\00:29:22.21 in a meeting and someone, I looked over 00:29:22.26\00:29:25.43 the side and I had made Henry Martin and 00:29:25.46\00:29:27.96 I saw he was motioning like this and 00:29:27.99\00:29:30.66 so I looked around and I knew he didn't 00:29:30.72\00:29:33.82 know me, I said it couldn't be me but it 00:29:33.85\00:29:35.44 looks like he's looking at me, President Phil 00:29:35.47\00:29:37.63 Winstead was there. They both were 00:29:37.74\00:29:39.66 motioning and so I continued to norm, 00:29:39.76\00:29:43.61 I kind of went like this. They still went like 00:29:43.66\00:29:46.89 this, yes, so I thought well, what I'll do 00:29:46.95\00:29:48.95 is I'll get up, I'll walk towards them, 00:29:48.98\00:29:51.02 if they don't say anything I will just keep 00:29:51.05\00:29:52.86 going like I have go to bathroom or something. 00:29:52.93\00:29:54.93 So you know I don't want to be but I'm sure 00:29:54.96\00:29:57.96 they're not talking to me but they seem like they 00:29:57.99\00:30:00.08 are so when I went there I will never forget 00:30:00.11\00:30:02.35 Henry Martin said to me well, you know, 00:30:02.38\00:30:04.37 we were supposed to be free time this afternoon 00:30:04.40\00:30:06.24 for everybody to go out and have free time, 00:30:06.27\00:30:09.09 but with this rain and this storm I've got 200 00:30:09.12\00:30:12.65 or 300 people on my hands I don't know what 00:30:12.68\00:30:14.41 to do with, could we impose those words 00:30:14.44\00:30:17.08 Henry used, could we impose on you to tell your 00:30:17.11\00:30:19.68 story of what God is doing and raising 00:30:19.71\00:30:22.30 a television network that will give the 3 Angels 00:30:22.33\00:30:25.98 messages into the world. And so that little talk 00:30:26.01\00:30:30.60 I listened to it only recently in the last couple 00:30:31.43\00:30:33.74 of years Dan Houghton recorded it. 00:30:33.77\00:30:35.83 Dan and his family were there. They recorded 00:30:36.50\00:30:39.16 a little talk and I listened to it a couple 00:30:39.19\00:30:41.57 of years ago and I said to myself, listening 00:30:41.60\00:30:44.39 to all over, knowing it was only a dream that 00:30:44.42\00:30:47.65 I had if I had been in a crowd I wouldn't have 00:30:47.68\00:30:49.49 supported me. So listening to how I talked and 00:30:49.52\00:30:53.29 what I said, so it had to been the Holy Spirit. 00:30:53.32\00:30:55.67 There is no doubt about it, but God has a plan and 00:30:55.70\00:30:58.81 he said go into all the world and I encourage 00:30:58.84\00:31:01.51 that we just continue to go forward, no matter what, 00:31:01.54\00:31:04.52 the gospel is very simple, we make it difficult it's 00:31:04.55\00:31:07.61 all about stop and go. The Lord says go and the devil 00:31:07.64\00:31:10.45 says stop and if we can understand that it's all 00:31:10.48\00:31:12.74 about come and go. We come to the foot of 00:31:12.77\00:31:14.74 the cross and go and tell what he's done for us, 00:31:14.77\00:31:17.54 and just want to thank the folks all of you here 00:31:17.57\00:31:20.76 especially ASI because at that meeting I able 00:31:20.79\00:31:23.93 to do that talk, Dan Houghton made many, 00:31:23.96\00:31:26.09 many copies, people began to ask they were 00:31:26.12\00:31:28.60 mailing them. We sent them around the country, 00:31:28.63\00:31:30.48 donations began to come in, people caught the 00:31:30.51\00:31:33.57 vision of Three Angels Broadcasting Network and 00:31:33.60\00:31:36.34 I want to credit ASI where it's due norm 00:31:36.37\00:31:39.65 because of the tremendous support. 00:31:39.68\00:31:41.33 They've loved this from the beginning. 00:31:42.07\00:31:43.52 They put us on the programs, allowed us to. 00:31:43.55\00:31:45.86 You guys have paid us back ten fold because 00:31:45.89\00:31:48.72 what you do when you come here to these 00:31:48.75\00:31:50.40 conventions is worth 100 of 00:31:50.43\00:31:53.21 thousands dollars every year. 00:31:53.24\00:31:54.44 It's a real partnership in the, 00:31:56.32\00:31:58.03 Danny we've seen God do great things. 00:31:58.85\00:32:00.72 You struck out by faith and we've seen 11 00:32:01.42\00:32:04.44 satellites around the world, 120 or 130 stations 00:32:04.47\00:32:08.24 here in America, low power stations which are 00:32:08.27\00:32:11.72 actually some of our most fruitful outlets for 00:32:11.75\00:32:14.70 baptisms unbelievable success there. 00:32:14.73\00:32:18.16 But what you really envision 00:32:18.70\00:32:19.97 for the future for 3ABN. 00:32:20.00\00:32:21.54 Well, I will also want to mention we have over 00:32:22.22\00:32:23.85 a hundred radio stations and affiliates. 00:32:23.88\00:32:25.94 We are on dish network, we have stations 00:32:26.46\00:32:28.01 in the Philippines, New Guinea largest facility, 00:32:28.04\00:32:31.18 protestant facility in ex-Soviet Union. 00:32:31.21\00:32:33.33 Again we gave the God the credit for all of that 00:32:33.36\00:32:36.04 because from starting from nothing but 00:32:36.71\00:32:38.35 it's been you the people of God who caught the 00:32:38.38\00:32:40.43 vision and supported3ABN through all of this, but 00:32:40.46\00:32:43.41 all I see is I do it like we did in the beginning. 00:32:43.44\00:32:46.72 People said, how you gonna do this, I said, 00:32:46.75\00:32:48.55 I don't know, a guy told me once just go for it, 00:32:48.58\00:32:50.91 do it like you eat an elephant one bite at a time, 00:32:50.94\00:32:53.70 yeah, now I would like to use a vegetarian example, 00:32:53.73\00:32:56.02 but I don't know how to do that. 00:32:56.05\00:32:57.21 So we're talking it one step at a time but I know 00:32:57.77\00:33:00.32 this that when God commissions you to do 00:33:00.35\00:33:02.89 something he will supply your every need. 00:33:02.92\00:33:05.41 So there is no doubt about it. It is not about us. 00:33:06.00\00:33:07.87 God blesses us in spite of us. He has me, 00:33:07.90\00:33:10.50 he has you, he has all of us here. 00:33:10.53\00:33:12.75 He blesses us in spite of us but I see this working 00:33:13.25\00:33:16.44 together and I see what I think is a new moment 00:33:16.47\00:33:19.68 of the Holy Spirit that I really believe that 00:33:19.71\00:33:23.29 we're on the verge of this latter rain experience. 00:33:23.32\00:33:25.77 It's going to bring Jesus back to planet earth 00:33:25.80\00:33:28.52 and I'm so thankful to have a church and to 00:33:28.55\00:33:30.87 have organizations like ASI that we can partner 00:33:30.90\00:33:33.97 with and join hands. There was no competition. 00:33:34.00\00:33:36.69 People ask me well, what about all these years, 00:33:36.72\00:33:38.84 Hope channels up, and we got all these other 00:33:38.87\00:33:40.80 TV station. I said the more the merrier. 00:33:40.83\00:33:42.49 There is enough God has enough pies in 00:33:43.23\00:33:45.12 refrigerator right to supply the financial needs 00:33:45.15\00:33:48.25 as long as we go forward and do what God's 00:33:48.28\00:33:50.98 impressed us to do. So we want to encourage 00:33:51.01\00:33:53.23 each and every one of you, God impressing you 00:33:53.26\00:33:55.32 to do something big for him. 00:33:55.35\00:33:56.64 Go forward by faith and he'll bless you. 00:33:56.67\00:33:59.73 God bless you. Thank you, Danny. 00:34:00.49\00:34:01.81 I have with me this afternoon Adrian 00:34:03.21\00:34:05.18 Bocaneanu, did I get that about right Adrian. 00:34:05.78\00:34:07.87 Not too good on Romanian today. 00:34:08.94\00:34:10.19 Adrian is the Director for the Romanian, 00:34:10.22\00:34:13.77 Hope TV. Adrian how many people are there 00:34:13.80\00:34:17.08 in the country of Romania that need 00:34:17.11\00:34:18.90 to hear the good news of gospel? 00:34:18.93\00:34:20.44 Twenty one million and many other Romanians 00:34:21.07\00:34:24.24 living and working in other countries in Europe, 00:34:24.90\00:34:26.87 especially Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Belgium. 00:34:26.90\00:34:30.38 So what you're doing is you're reaching out 00:34:31.34\00:34:32.95 to these people who need to hear the good 00:34:32.98\00:34:34.90 news of Jesus Christ and in what ways are you 00:34:34.93\00:34:37.45 reaching out to them? It just TV or what other? 00:34:37.48\00:34:41.26 First of all, 18 years ago we started with radio 00:34:41.29\00:34:44.38 and this time the church owns 40 radio stations 00:34:44.41\00:34:48.39 and we also own time on other 10 stations. 00:34:48.42\00:34:51.41 But 3 years ago we also start with television. 00:34:52.03\00:34:54.68 So 3 years ago you also start on TV. 00:34:55.33\00:34:56.92 How many of the homes in the country of Romania 00:34:56.95\00:35:00.74 are you reaching into? 00:35:00.77\00:35:02.09 Out of an estimated 6 million homes 00:35:02.93\00:35:04.89 with the TV set. We reach almost half of them. 00:35:04.92\00:35:07.80 So almost 3 million homes with the TV. 00:35:08.30\00:35:10.52 Praise the Lord, isn't that wonderful? The 00:35:11.10\00:35:12.75 God is using Hope TV in the country of Romania 00:35:13.42\00:35:17.16 to reach at least be available in about 00:35:17.19\00:35:20.09 half of the homes. Yes. That is so exciting to see 00:35:20.12\00:35:23.13 what God is doing there. Besides the Internet. 00:35:23.16\00:35:25.19 Besides the Internet. Yes. So that would be basically 00:35:26.37\00:35:30.02 almost all the homes and almost everybody 00:35:30.05\00:35:32.11 has some access to the Internet at this point. 00:35:32.14\00:35:34.14 Well, so tell me about what kind of programming 00:35:35.01\00:35:38.22 does the Hope channel in Romania have? 00:35:38.25\00:35:41.04 Well, we also support different events into 00:35:41.86\00:35:44.41 church like, let's talk event which was hosted by 00:35:44.44\00:35:48.93 our studio in Bucharest we specific television 00:35:48.96\00:35:53.68 programs we of course we have health, 00:35:53.71\00:35:56.68 we have education, we have family, 00:35:56.71\00:35:58.68 we have many Bible based programs and we have 00:35:58.71\00:36:03.51 many live programs where people can call 00:36:03.54\00:36:06.92 in and ask questions and receive answers 00:36:06.95\00:36:10.07 while they are watching. 00:36:11.32\00:36:12.91 Now that's a just a little bit different model then 00:36:13.68\00:36:15.90 most of the programs here that we see on TV 00:36:15.93\00:36:18.62 in United States. Live call in programs on TV 00:36:18.65\00:36:23.05 in Romania, how does that go over? 00:36:23.08\00:36:24.68 Very nice, I could say they're the back bone 00:36:25.18\00:36:27.83 program of our station is the weekly 1 hour 00:36:27.86\00:36:31.54 and half program of Bible questions and answers. 00:36:31.57\00:36:35.00 And most of the people coming to the church 00:36:35.03\00:36:37.80 they will show I mean they will mark that as 00:36:37.83\00:36:41.23 being the key program determining them to 00:36:41.26\00:36:44.00 understand the Bible through 00:36:44.03\00:36:45.37 into make a decision. Amen. And so thousands 00:36:45.40\00:36:48.85 of people across the country of Romania are 00:36:48.88\00:36:50.99 watching these programs and receiving benefit 00:36:51.02\00:36:53.40 and getting answers to their questions, 00:36:53.43\00:36:55.60 and most a lot of these programs are produced 00:36:55.63\00:36:57.83 live right there in your own studio. Yes, yes. 00:36:57.86\00:37:00.35 That is so exciting now I know that you are not 00:37:00.85\00:37:02.52 reaching just Romania, tell me outside of the, 00:37:02.55\00:37:05.96 you know, just the country of Romania, 00:37:05.99\00:37:08.03 some of the outreach going on in other areas? 00:37:08.06\00:37:10.48 Well, actually the first person who has been 00:37:10.51\00:37:13.98 baptized as you know as a result of watching 00:37:14.01\00:37:16.63 our program was not the Romania proper. 00:37:16.66\00:37:19.37 It was in the neighboring Republic of Moldova, 00:37:19.40\00:37:21.86 in a less then 1 year of the starting the programs 00:37:21.89\00:37:25.25 this lady Ludmila was baptized in Moldova and 00:37:25.28\00:37:29.20 soon after that she was already a Sabbath 00:37:29.23\00:37:31.75 school teacher. Praise the Lord, 00:37:31.78\00:37:34.41 then the first person was baptized in Romania 00:37:34.44\00:37:37.58 soon after that his mother was also baptized and 00:37:40.07\00:37:42.95 now he is working as a lay evangelist working 00:37:42.98\00:37:46.96 in different companies and groups and teaching other 00:37:46.99\00:37:50.99 people what he was taught. You mentioned, 00:37:51.02\00:37:54.71 I should also speak on some of the first converts. 00:37:54.74\00:37:59.64 Actually 2 years ago I gave here I mean in 00:37:59.67\00:38:02.89 another location but also at ASI convention 00:38:02.92\00:38:06.94 I gave a report on the first baptisms among those 00:38:07.42\00:38:10.84 were a couple in the Southern part of Romania 00:38:10.87\00:38:13.63 when they got baptized, they brought with them 00:38:13.66\00:38:16.23 two other persons who they prepared to be 00:38:16.26\00:38:19.77 baptized while they were baptized. 00:38:19.80\00:38:22.56 Now I think you some slides on this. 00:38:23.21\00:38:25.24 We want to just flip those graphics right now. 00:38:25.27\00:38:27.03 Yeah, so the first baptisms. 00:38:27.06\00:38:28.70 And let just take a look. 00:38:29.54\00:38:30.51 In that, this is a part of the group which was 00:38:31.37\00:38:34.52 raised by this couple in a village in the Southern 00:38:34.55\00:38:37.96 part of Romania where you're not having 00:38:37.99\00:38:40.61 Adventist. Soon after that they began having 00:38:40.64\00:38:45.29 meeting in a private home and then 00:38:45.32\00:38:47.92 began building a church. Praise the Lord. 00:38:47.95\00:38:51.12 Yeah. And now we have a new church in that place 00:38:51.75\00:38:54.78 where you will see it immediately. 00:38:55.42\00:38:56.54 A new church in that place most of the people 00:38:57.26\00:39:00.46 have been baptized as a result of watching 00:39:00.49\00:39:03.23 our station. So about 10 or 12 baptized members, 00:39:03.26\00:39:07.30 praise the Lord, so this is the church and they, 00:39:07.33\00:39:09.45 every Sabbath they have 30, they have 40, 00:39:10.28\00:39:12.46 45 people attending the meetings in new church. 00:39:12.49\00:39:16.32 It's so exciting to see how God uses even simple 00:39:17.13\00:39:20.96 means to begin a work in an area where there 00:39:20.99\00:39:24.41 was no work before. That's exciting and I 00:39:24.44\00:39:26.46 know that's not the end of the story. 00:39:26.49\00:39:28.06 Share with us another story of someone who 00:39:28.09\00:39:30.21 has been impacted by the Hope TV in Romania. 00:39:30.24\00:39:34.19 So many Romanians work and live outside of Romania, 00:39:34.22\00:39:37.45 and I share a story about people from Italy. 00:39:37.48\00:39:40.76 In the Southern Italy, in the city of Napoli, 00:39:40.79\00:39:44.48 there is a family attending for about 1 year in 00:39:45.73\00:39:49.18 other Christian denomination and so they 00:39:49.21\00:39:51.91 decided to be baptized. On the day of their 00:39:51.94\00:39:54.86 baptism they drove to the church but they 00:39:54.89\00:39:59.04 couldn't find the church. They have been attending 00:39:59.07\00:40:01.95 that church for almost 1 year and now 00:40:01.98\00:40:03.98 they can't find it. So. So, they've been to this 00:40:04.01\00:40:06.99 church before. Yes, of course. 00:40:07.02\00:40:08.80 And they know where it was. 00:40:08.83\00:40:09.80 Of course, for 1 year. And they were trying 00:40:09.81\00:40:10.90 to find the church, and they can't find it. 00:40:10.93\00:40:12.80 They can't find it, 2 or 3 hours of. You know, 00:40:12.83\00:40:15.73 so they returned home very disappointed but 00:40:15.76\00:40:18.47 at same time thinking there should be something 00:40:18.50\00:40:21.20 about it, so they began praying to learn what 00:40:21.23\00:40:25.35 was the reason, in the mean time they continued 00:40:25.38\00:40:28.10 to read the Bible and their attention was drawn 00:40:28.13\00:40:30.65 to the truth of the Sabbath and the other truth 00:40:30.68\00:40:33.64 which were not taught in that denomination, Amen, 00:40:33.67\00:40:36.45 and soon after that they stumbled upon 00:40:36.48\00:40:38.91 Esperanza TV and they got the response 00:40:38.94\00:40:41.93 to their prayers. Now they attend the church 00:40:41.96\00:40:44.69 and they are getting ready to be baptized. 00:40:44.72\00:40:46.80 About the same time in the city of Rome, 00:40:46.83\00:40:49.32 there is a family who have attended for 14 years 00:40:49.35\00:40:52.41 meeting of the Jehovah witnesses but they 00:40:52.44\00:40:55.20 continue to read the Bible and they come 00:40:55.23\00:40:57.24 to conviction that Sabbath, I mean that Jesus 00:40:57.27\00:41:00.87 is God in the true sense of the word. 00:41:01.58\00:41:04.30 Just like the Bible says. Yeah, sure, 00:41:04.33\00:41:05.73 so they began attending another Christian 00:41:06.44\00:41:08.61 denomination which teaches the full deity of Christ 00:41:08.64\00:41:13.13 but in that church they were discussing 00:41:13.78\00:41:16.26 questions on the Sabbath. The elders of the church 00:41:16.29\00:41:20.05 gave some soothing answers but they were not 00:41:20.08\00:41:24.38 happy about that, about that time while they 00:41:24.41\00:41:28.45 were praying for more truth. 00:41:28.48\00:41:30.48 They bought a TV dish to catch some Romanian 00:41:31.40\00:41:34.35 programs, so on that the husband is on the roof 00:41:34.38\00:41:38.10 of the house trying to catch a Romanian program. 00:41:38.13\00:41:41.95 And the first program they catch is Esperanza 00:41:41.98\00:41:44.91 TV they watch and they were amazed, 00:41:44.94\00:41:49.31 these are answers to their prayers, Amen, 00:41:49.34\00:41:52.75 and now they attend the church and maybe 00:41:52.78\00:41:55.35 at this time they're already baptized. 00:41:55.38\00:41:57.43 Praise the Lord. What a blessing to know 00:41:57.46\00:41:59.57 how God is using media around the world 00:41:59.60\00:42:01.68 to accomplish his work. How can the people 00:42:01.71\00:42:04.37 here today help with what's 00:42:04.40\00:42:06.28 happening at channel in Romania. 00:42:06.31\00:42:08.15 Well, they have already helped us because 00:42:08.18\00:42:09.53 ASI from North America has been very influential 00:42:09.56\00:42:14.45 in the establishment and the right direction for 00:42:14.48\00:42:17.98 the ASI chapter in Romania and they 00:42:18.01\00:42:21.09 are some of our best supporters and 00:42:21.12\00:42:23.88 contributors, so they're already done their part 00:42:23.91\00:42:28.94 but in a few months from now we will be 00:42:28.97\00:42:31.80 organizing a met type event for the whole 00:42:31.83\00:42:34.93 territory of Romania and the other places both 00:42:34.96\00:42:37.97 in Romanian and Hungarian. 00:42:38.00\00:42:39.56 And so your prayers are very important, 00:42:40.52\00:42:42.49 very preciously to us. Thank you so much, 00:42:42.52\00:42:44.82 Adrian for joining us today and sharing 00:42:44.85\00:42:46.61 what's happening in Romanian Hope TV. 00:42:46.64\00:42:48.84 Thank you very much. 00:42:48.87\00:42:49.84 I have with me this afternoon, 00:42:50.64\00:42:51.83 Mike and Diana Halverson and they are with 00:42:52.42\00:42:55.18 Cross to Crown radio which is a ministry that 00:42:55.21\00:42:59.09 they have been working in for a number of years 00:42:59.12\00:43:01.38 at this point but Mike what you do for a living? 00:43:02.22\00:43:04.41 My wife and I are general contractors, 00:43:05.23\00:43:07.08 and that was our living and that's been 00:43:07.62\00:43:10.10 our living for about since 1980. 00:43:10.13\00:43:12.21 Now general contractor in radio, somehow 00:43:13.17\00:43:16.42 I don't see the connection yet but I'm sure 00:43:16.45\00:43:18.44 we'll see that in a minute. How God get you 00:43:18.47\00:43:21.35 on to radio, so how did you get 00:43:21.55\00:43:23.76 interested in mission work, Mike? 00:43:23.79\00:43:25.36 Well, in 1997, my dad invited me to go to 00:43:26.27\00:43:32.72 Nicaragua. Nicaragua has had a civil war 00:43:32.75\00:43:36.68 and it tore up the country, my dad started missions 00:43:37.67\00:43:41.28 there in 1970 and at that time the war had tore 00:43:41.31\00:43:46.43 everything apart and he invited us to go 00:43:46.46\00:43:48.85 in along with 30, I think it was about 32 people 00:43:48.88\00:43:52.77 there and with doctors and nurses and 00:43:52.80\00:43:55.69 I was fortunate to be one of them 00:43:55.72\00:43:57.64 and started there. Okay, Diana how did 00:43:57.67\00:44:00.95 that kind of get transferred into 00:44:00.98\00:44:03.42 an interest in radio? Well, we were living there, 00:44:03.45\00:44:07.53 our family was living in the jungle at that time 00:44:07.56\00:44:09.45 with our sons and while we were there was 00:44:09.48\00:44:12.09 group of Indians came to us they took them 00:44:12.12\00:44:14.13 they said days trying to find us. They said that 00:44:14.16\00:44:16.29 God had been to their village. 00:44:16.32\00:44:17.76 Didn't know who they were? 00:44:17.79\00:44:19.04 They thought that God didn't know 00:44:20.31\00:44:21.73 where their village was? That's exactly right. 00:44:21.76\00:44:24.63 They thought he'd never been there 00:44:24.66\00:44:25.63 and did know who they were? 00:44:25.64\00:44:26.61 Wow! So they wanted to know if, 00:44:28.28\00:44:30.62 since we were missionaries if we talked to God 00:44:30.65\00:44:32.87 and invite him to come see where they live 00:44:32.90\00:44:35.27 because they are having problems with witchcraft, 00:44:35.30\00:44:36.81 lot of sickness and they had heard there was God, 00:44:36.84\00:44:40.45 they was bigger and they wanted 00:44:40.73\00:44:41.92 to know if we could just talk to him. 00:44:41.95\00:44:43.10 So as God began to talk to you, 00:44:44.15\00:44:46.18 he gave you an idea and what was that idea? 00:44:47.64\00:44:49.14 I said, Mike, let's start a radio station. 00:44:49.85\00:44:52.38 Now Mike, just a minute. I know that you're a 00:44:52.41\00:44:54.27 builder and that would come easy to you to 00:44:54.30\00:44:56.24 start a radio station but why was it a problem 00:44:56.27\00:44:59.12 not just to go this why could you go to this 00:44:59.15\00:45:01.63 village where these people are from? 00:45:01.66\00:45:02.73 Well, you know a radio station costs money, 00:45:03.39\00:45:06.47 I mean takes a lot of money to build a radio station 00:45:06.50\00:45:09.12 and we are talking about something very remote 00:45:09.15\00:45:11.45 way out in the jungle of Nicaragua. 00:45:11.96\00:45:13.92 How long to take to get to this little village? 00:45:13.95\00:45:15.34 Well, to this particular village Diana's talking 00:45:15.37\00:45:18.27 about it took 9 hours by Dugout Canoe. 00:45:18.30\00:45:21.10 Oh, I see, little problem Big problem, so radio 00:45:21.82\00:45:25.04 seem to be a good answer but yet I hear 00:45:25.07\00:45:27.45 you resisting to radio what did God have to 00:45:27.48\00:45:29.35 do before you kind a get on board with this? 00:45:29.38\00:45:31.70 Well, you know, my ignorance came real 00:45:31.73\00:45:35.76 evident there. I said, you know it's going 00:45:35.79\00:45:39.63 to take at least $10,000 to start this 00:45:39.66\00:45:42.70 radio station. And I thought. 00:45:42.73\00:45:45.41 And that was good beginning anyway, 00:45:45.44\00:45:46.41 wasn't it? Well, I told Diana. 00:45:46.42\00:45:47.51 We don't have $10,000 to start a radio station. 00:45:48.55\00:45:51.16 He was just mowing the yard and said don't even 00:45:52.74\00:45:54.40 bother me. It's not going to happen and my 00:45:54.43\00:45:56.18 phone rang and I checked and there was a 00:45:56.21\00:45:58.89 message saying that this, to come by the 00:45:58.92\00:46:01.39 doctor's office. Give them a call like that, 00:46:01.42\00:46:02.97 I had never been there before so I called and 00:46:03.00\00:46:05.62 they showed me how to get there and I showed up 00:46:05.65\00:46:07.60 and before I left my husband said, 00:46:08.92\00:46:10.48 yeah right it's going to be $10,000, 00:46:10.51\00:46:12.15 anyway I went there and they hand me 00:46:13.06\00:46:14.80 an awful lot, said it was for the radio station 00:46:14.83\00:46:16.43 and you'd not started it, we had no budget 00:46:16.46\00:46:18.75 for it and I am like wow! This must be an answer 00:46:18.78\00:46:21.32 to prayer and I opened it and I about cried, 00:46:21.35\00:46:25.01 I was there, what was it for? $10,000 dollars, 00:46:25.04\00:46:27.60 praise the Lord, somebody that had know idea 00:46:27.63\00:46:29.11 we even needed it and I when back I told her 00:46:29.14\00:46:32.09 I said this is a miracle and she said, 00:46:32.12\00:46:35.38 well first I wrote for $3500 but God told me 00:46:35.41\00:46:37.54 to change it to $10,000, Amen, 00:46:37.57\00:46:39.58 so I went home and Mike said yeah 00:46:40.21\00:46:41.51 what was it $10,000 I said, Yeah. 00:46:41.54\00:46:43.53 It's exciting to see how God works so you're not 00:46:46.78\00:46:48.77 radio people but God is working on you to start 00:46:48.80\00:46:51.01 a radio station. Mike, did you run into any 00:46:51.04\00:46:53.90 difficulties as you're doing that? 00:46:53.93\00:46:55.27 One difficulty right after another, 00:46:55.30\00:46:58.38 you can't just praying a tower into the country, 00:46:59.07\00:47:01.74 you can't just walk through customs and 00:47:01.77\00:47:06.45 think it's gonna to work. It was a huge challenge 00:47:06.48\00:47:09.92 and then not having the knowledge to put 00:47:10.61\00:47:13.45 a radio station together was unreal. 00:47:13.48\00:47:15.22 But God strengthen your faith thought that, 00:47:16.29\00:47:18.06 didn't he? Oh, you know what he is still 00:47:18.09\00:47:23.07 strengthening my faith day by day 00:47:23.10\00:47:24.69 and I'm trusting him to keep, 00:47:25.42\00:47:27.21 keep me there because I still don't know 00:47:28.78\00:47:31.10 a whole lot but I know a little bit and 00:47:31.80\00:47:34.40 he makes up the rest. So right now in the 00:47:34.43\00:47:37.98 jungles of Nicaragua where takes a full day of travel 00:47:38.01\00:47:41.78 to go to the nearest place where you can get 00:47:42.53\00:47:44.00 fuel and returned with fuel. 00:47:44.03\00:47:46.12 There is a radio station, there is no electricity, 00:47:46.69\00:47:49.12 no running water, there is a radio station 00:47:49.15\00:47:50.53 there operating on what kind of power, Mike? 00:47:50.56\00:47:53.91 Well, to start with it was a 20 KW diesel of 00:47:54.46\00:47:57.97 generator which took a lot of fuel but now the 00:47:58.00\00:48:01.73 miracle happened this last fall. Somebody name 00:48:01.76\00:48:04.80 Norman called and said I have some solar panels 00:48:04.83\00:48:10.33 you might be interested in, and those solar panels 00:48:10.36\00:48:14.36 are now upon that radio station putting out 00:48:14.39\00:48:17.00 approximately 50 amps which is the power 00:48:17.03\00:48:20.85 that we need to run this radio station. 00:48:20.88\00:48:22.96 Amen, can you say Hallelujah to that, Amen! 00:48:22.99\00:48:26.19 Well, so we have an operating radio station, 00:48:26.22\00:48:28.07 lets just run a few of those photos there as 00:48:28.10\00:48:30.18 we're talking about this, and you can see some 00:48:31.37\00:48:34.33 of the children there in the villages. 00:48:34.36\00:48:35.92 These are Miskito Indian children and they don't 00:48:35.95\00:48:39.09 even speak English. So Diana, 00:48:39.12\00:48:41.44 what is your burden for the women there? 00:48:41.47\00:48:43.53 Tell me how the radio's been ministering 00:48:43.56\00:48:45.11 to these women? Well, my passion to 00:48:45.14\00:48:47.05 began with even before the radio was the women, 00:48:47.08\00:48:49.24 because they're really having a hard time there, 00:48:49.68\00:48:51.93 the women my age approximately they 00:48:51.96\00:48:54.28 can't read, they don't know Spanish like the 00:48:54.31\00:48:57.16 younger kids and the men do so they'd never 00:48:57.19\00:49:00.38 read the Bible. They don't understand it. 00:49:00.41\00:49:02.34 When somebody tries to read it to them in Spanish, 00:49:02.37\00:49:03.97 but on the radio station we have found the Bible 00:49:04.58\00:49:07.53 in Miskito only the New Testament, Amen, 00:49:07.56\00:49:09.97 and when we play that I can walk through 00:49:10.54\00:49:12.52 the village and I can see women hurdling around 00:49:12.55\00:49:15.07 these little radios just hurdling big groups 00:49:15.10\00:49:17.89 of them just trying to listen because 00:49:17.92\00:49:19.32 this is a Bible that they can understand. 00:49:19.35\00:49:21.22 Here is a picture. Let pause that one 00:49:21.25\00:49:22.56 right there. You see that on the screen 00:49:22.59\00:49:24.28 that's a little radio. Mike hold that radio 00:49:24.31\00:49:26.80 up so the folks and see an example of that. 00:49:26.83\00:49:28.44 There is a Galcom radio, it set on our frequency 00:49:29.14\00:49:31.48 and this is what they receive. They have, 00:49:32.53\00:49:34.16 we have a captive audience with this radio. 00:49:35.00\00:49:37.00 Amen. Isn't God good? Now, I know that all 00:49:37.79\00:49:42.39 the villagers in the jungle we can walk to all 00:49:42.42\00:49:44.67 of those villages because I've been there 00:49:44.70\00:49:46.31 and I understand the difficulty in getting 00:49:46.34\00:49:48.04 to some of these places. So how do we get 00:49:48.07\00:49:50.07 these radios into these villages? 00:49:50.10\00:49:51.57 Diana, what do you have? I have a parachute. 00:49:52.74\00:49:54.86 A parachute. And what we do with that? 00:49:54.89\00:49:57.57 We tie it to the radio. We tie it to the radio, 00:49:57.60\00:50:00.23 and how do you get the parachute over village? 00:50:00.26\00:50:03.56 Well, there is a little medical airplane that 00:50:04.15\00:50:06.70 said that he would be happy to just keep 00:50:06.73\00:50:08.43 this stocked in his plane and every time he flies 00:50:08.46\00:50:10.22 over the small villages he will drop them out. 00:50:10.25\00:50:12.62 Amen. Isn't God good? So what would, 00:50:13.37\00:50:19.02 if someone was interested in getting some radios 00:50:19.05\00:50:21.36 into some of these villages. 00:50:21.39\00:50:22.48 What does it take to get, you know, 00:50:22.51\00:50:24.47 a radio on a parachute and attend to a village? 00:50:24.50\00:50:26.87 Less than a dollar. Less than a dollar. 00:50:27.88\00:50:29.36 Praise the Lord, Amen, there is hundreds 00:50:29.62\00:50:31.98 of these little villages down along the rivers 00:50:32.01\00:50:33.83 and in the remote jungle areas of 00:50:33.86\00:50:36.11 Northern Nicaragua and also in the 00:50:36.14\00:50:38.97 Southern Honduras. How far out does 00:50:39.00\00:50:41.05 this radio station reach anyway. 00:50:41.08\00:50:42.54 Approximately 100 miles we're getting reports 00:50:43.07\00:50:46.15 back. Little hand written notes come back into us, 00:50:46.18\00:50:49.08 day by day they filter into us. 00:50:49.11\00:50:51.58 So you must have a lot of power 00:50:52.24\00:50:53.36 to get out of 100 miles. We have a big some 00:50:53.39\00:50:55.92 of probably 500 watts. Now, wait a minute. 00:50:55.95\00:50:58.56 500 watts does not go a hundred miles. 00:50:58.59\00:51:00.43 It does in Nicaragua. It does when the angels 00:51:01.32\00:51:03.63 push it out there, right. Iisn't it exciting to see 00:51:03.66\00:51:07.36 how God is working through our simple affords, 00:51:07.39\00:51:09.97 so not trained radio people but God put 00:51:10.96\00:51:13.16 a burden on your heart. What would you say 00:51:13.19\00:51:14.41 to somebody today if God was encouraging 00:51:14.44\00:51:17.28 them to get involved in something that 00:51:17.31\00:51:18.80 was challenging for them? I say go for it. 00:51:18.83\00:51:21.36 I say if God can use me he can use you. 00:51:21.82\00:51:24.95 And if it something you don't understand part 00:51:26.05\00:51:27.91 of ASI is a lot of different people, 00:51:27.94\00:51:30.03 with a lot of different talents and a lot of 00:51:30.06\00:51:31.85 networking and if it weren't for all the networking 00:51:31.88\00:51:34.43 we would not able to be doing what we're doing 00:51:34.46\00:51:36.47 now because God knew to keep us all humble 00:51:36.50\00:51:39.02 we need to work with each other. 00:51:39.05\00:51:40.30 Now I know that you got to have programming 00:51:41.31\00:51:43.93 and there is not programming in the Miskito 00:51:43.96\00:51:46.11 language beside you found a Bible you can 00:51:46.14\00:51:47.69 play on the air. So how you creating programming 00:51:47.72\00:51:50.30 in the Miskito language? The Symbian software 00:51:50.33\00:51:53.80 is what we started with and if any 00:51:53.83\00:51:56.43 broadcasters are, I'm sure there is a lot 00:51:56.46\00:51:58.88 out there but Symbian software is what we 00:51:58.91\00:52:01.91 use and it's pre-recorded but we also have equipment 00:52:01.94\00:52:06.12 to record in the studio. So you're creating 00:52:06.15\00:52:08.32 programs in your studio there in the jungles? 00:52:08.35\00:52:10.92 Right, right, in their language. 00:52:10.95\00:52:12.48 So who creates those programs? 00:52:12.95\00:52:14.01 Well, the local Pastors have come to us 00:52:14.04\00:52:15.71 and they said, we want to work on your radio. 00:52:15.74\00:52:17.39 Oh, praise the Lord. And yeah, but we like 00:52:18.15\00:52:19.81 all you know it's only be Adventist message 00:52:19.84\00:52:21.65 but we'll let you read the Bible verses and 00:52:21.68\00:52:24.21 we let you have some prayers and the 00:52:24.24\00:52:26.13 Catholic priest said but I want more and 00:52:26.16\00:52:28.47 I said well, take this Steps to Christ in 00:52:28.50\00:52:30.65 Miskito home, go over it and you can have 00:52:30.68\00:52:33.55 that program so now the Catholic priest 00:52:33.58\00:52:35.28 is the on that does the devotions everyday 00:52:35.31\00:52:37.74 through Steps to Christ. 00:52:37.77\00:52:39.02 You know the interesting thing is, 00:52:41.66\00:52:43.31 God has ways to get things done that we can't 00:52:44.74\00:52:47.18 even imagine. True that. Amen. So if God is working 00:52:47.21\00:52:51.37 on your heart today, maybe you know one 00:52:51.40\00:52:53.54 of the needs of this ministry is that they 00:52:53.57\00:52:56.19 need someone down that help them run this 00:52:56.22\00:52:57.90 radio station. Maybe there's somebody here 00:52:57.93\00:53:00.06 today that's feeling a burden to go to work 00:53:00.09\00:53:01.63 for God and maybe the jungles of Nicaragua 00:53:01.66\00:53:04.27 calling to you. So if God is speaking to you 00:53:04.30\00:53:07.21 stop by and see, Mike and Diana at their booth 00:53:07.24\00:53:08.95 and let them know that you're a willing helper. 00:53:08.98\00:53:11.39 Booth 1009 I'm looking forward to talking to you. 00:53:12.19\00:53:14.52 Thank you so much for coming Mike and Diana. 00:53:15.64\00:53:17.43 Good afternoon. Good afternoon. How are you? 00:53:20.92\00:53:22.98 I am doing wonderful. We're talking, 00:53:23.39\00:53:24.78 talking about media today. 00:53:24.81\00:53:26.20 Don is here from what ministry? 00:53:26.82\00:53:29.07 Well, I'm from Amazing Facts. 00:53:29.96\00:53:31.46 Well, now Amazing Facts is deeply involved 00:53:32.42\00:53:34.83 in ministry but today we want to talk 00:53:34.86\00:53:36.30 a little bit specifically about their involvement 00:53:36.33\00:53:39.73 in what happening on the Internet 00:53:39.76\00:53:41.41 in the world wide web? Yes, the world wide web, 00:53:41.44\00:53:43.72 we have over 20 different websites and 00:53:43.75\00:53:47.06 it's growing everyday, you know, 00:53:47.09\00:53:48.56 a couple of years ago there was a conflict 00:53:48.59\00:53:50.77 in a certain part of the Former Soviet Union 00:53:50.80\00:53:53.33 and the first thing they did was to attack 00:53:53.36\00:53:55.32 all the websites on the Internet because 00:53:55.35\00:53:57.28 so many people are going there for information. 00:53:57.31\00:53:59.17 So tell me a little bit what's an example 00:54:00.54\00:54:02.80 of website that Amazing Facts manages that 00:54:02.83\00:54:05.90 is of interest to the general population 00:54:05.93\00:54:07.99 of our world today? Well, you can put one 00:54:08.02\00:54:10.36 of those up on the screen, the first one is 00:54:10.39\00:54:11.85 like our flagship website that gives all kinds 00:54:11.88\00:54:15.53 of information. It gives resources, it catalogs 00:54:15.56\00:54:19.02 almost all the sermons and all the lessons, 00:54:19.05\00:54:21.42 that go all the way back to the founding 00:54:21.45\00:54:23.36 of amazing facts with Joe Crews, and they are 00:54:23.39\00:54:25.61 all there free of charge, so on that first 00:54:25.64\00:54:28.19 website you can access just about anything, 00:54:28.22\00:54:31.46 and you know the interesting thing is if you 00:54:31.49\00:54:32.99 have a friend that wants to take Bible studies 00:54:33.02\00:54:35.25 or wants to learn more about a certain Bible 00:54:35.28\00:54:36.93 doctrine, you can go right there on the 00:54:36.96\00:54:38.65 website or you can send a link by your 00:54:38.68\00:54:40.48 e-mail and they can look right at it right 00:54:40.51\00:54:42.54 then and there. So you have a website that's 00:54:42.57\00:54:45.45 our regular website then we have specific 00:54:45.48\00:54:47.29 ones like for instance one that you just saw deals 00:54:47.32\00:54:50.00 with Sabbath truth. Sabbathtruth.com and 00:54:50.03\00:54:53.40 again you have questions about the Sabbath. 00:54:53.43\00:54:56.02 What is the Sabbath, why should we keep it, 00:54:56.05\00:54:57.78 what are the objections that I might have 00:54:58.45\00:54:59.85 or maybe someone you're studying with they 00:54:59.88\00:55:01.65 say well look I don't know if I believe what 00:55:01.68\00:55:04.69 your saying and I have this question you could 00:55:04.72\00:55:06.74 pull up a DVD or a video and you could send 00:55:06.77\00:55:09.16 that link to your friend that you can 00:55:09.19\00:55:10.89 watch it with them. You know, actually 00:55:10.92\00:55:12.49 that happened to me I was doing Bible studies 00:55:12.52\00:55:14.02 with an individual and came to a topic that he 00:55:14.05\00:55:17.26 didn't see eye to eye with me on. 00:55:17.29\00:55:19.42 And so I went to the website of Amazing Facts 00:55:20.02\00:55:22.85 and I said I've got to get some more information 00:55:22.88\00:55:24.88 here for myself. And so I used it just like you 00:55:24.91\00:55:27.78 are saying that's so exciting that those 00:55:27.81\00:55:29.19 are available. What's the most used website? 00:55:29.22\00:55:31.50 Kind of hard to say the most use website but 00:55:31.53\00:55:34.95 I know that from that last year to this year 00:55:36.12\00:55:37.93 we've had 4.5 million hits or visits to our website 00:55:37.96\00:55:42.47 and many times the most asked questions are about 00:55:42.50\00:55:45.63 two things; number 1, Daniel 7 and 666, 00:55:45.66\00:55:48.93 everybody seems to be interested in that, 00:55:48.96\00:55:50.61 all kinds of people are interested in that. 00:55:51.23\00:55:52.71 Number 2, the Sabbath and number 3, health. 00:55:52.74\00:55:55.69 People are interested in those things, 00:55:56.30\00:55:57.51 they come to the websites because of those things 00:55:57.54\00:55:59.20 and they want answers and you know it's 00:55:59.23\00:56:02.41 exciting to see how people are using these 00:56:02.44\00:56:05.22 websites in their own personal witness but 00:56:05.25\00:56:07.43 it also exciting to see what happens when they 00:56:07.46\00:56:09.21 come even to our ministry. I give you one example, 00:56:09.24\00:56:12.42 recently in a small training class that I do in the 00:56:14.12\00:56:16.53 school there at Amazing Facts called AFCOE to Go. 00:56:16.56\00:56:18.52 There were four people that showed up and 00:56:19.05\00:56:21.48 it was obvious to me that they maybe have 00:56:21.51\00:56:24.40 heard the Adventist message but they hadn't 00:56:24.43\00:56:25.79 heard all of, and it looked like they had a little 00:56:25.82\00:56:28.04 bit you know they were decked out, 00:56:28.07\00:56:29.55 not decked in if you know what I mean, 00:56:29.58\00:56:31.29 and they were there and I could just see man, 00:56:31.32\00:56:34.98 God has brought these people and there 00:56:35.01\00:56:36.50 was the conviction of the spirit in them 00:56:36.53\00:56:37.65 and then one of the my, I finally ask him 00:56:37.68\00:56:39.76 I said so how long have you been in the 00:56:39.79\00:56:41.97 Seventh-Day Adventist? They said well, 00:56:42.00\00:56:43.22 I am not I just, I just came on the Internet 00:56:43.25\00:56:45.78 and I believe this, this and this, 00:56:45.81\00:56:47.70 and I realized this was the first time they 00:56:47.73\00:56:49.02 had met a Seventh-Day Adventist. 00:56:49.05\00:56:50.44 So it terrified me because it was me they 00:56:50.47\00:56:51.94 have met. But then secondly, 00:56:51.97\00:56:55.11 I just realized the Spirit was moving in their life 00:56:55.14\00:56:57.39 you know and all of that have been done 00:56:57.42\00:56:59.39 through like I like to call the website the air 00:57:00.20\00:57:02.29 force of the ministry. The air force in other words 00:57:02.32\00:57:05.25 aerial. One of the interesting websites 00:57:05.28\00:57:07.80 we now put up is our flagship website, 00:57:07.83\00:57:10.63 the amazing facts web site where you can get 00:57:10.66\00:57:12.17 all these resources, has recently been 00:57:12.20\00:57:14.23 translated into Chinese and there was a 00:57:14.26\00:57:17.71 business man in some part of the China. 00:57:18.55\00:57:20.17 He went to that website and he was looking 00:57:20.20\00:57:22.02 at all the resources and all the materials and 00:57:22.05\00:57:23.02 he said this is great but he couldn't find 00:57:23.63\00:57:25.51 a Seventh-Day Adventist in China. 00:57:25.54\00:57:26.84 So what he did? So he said, man I've got it, 00:57:28.06\00:57:29.95 I need to go to America, so he came and he 00:57:30.65\00:57:32.65 flew to America and he came and he knocked 00:57:32.68\00:57:34.84 on the door of the church and he met, 00:57:34.87\00:57:36.90 I think it was Mike Thomson one of the Pastors 00:57:37.47\00:57:38.75 there and said look I've been at your website. 00:57:38.78\00:57:40.90 I believe you know about the scriptures 00:57:40.93\00:57:43.20 and I believe about salvation, I believe about 00:57:43.23\00:57:45.13 the second coming, I believe about the sanctuary, 00:57:45.16\00:57:46.89 I believe about the state of the death, 00:57:46.92\00:57:48.02 I believe about the spirit of prophecy, 00:57:48.05\00:57:49.26 by the way is Ellen White here and can I talk 00:57:49.29\00:57:51.88 to her and I believe about the remnant 00:57:51.91\00:57:54.45 church and it was obvious that the Lord have 00:57:54.48\00:57:56.85 been working in their life and that said, 00:57:56.88\00:57:58.14 he said look I came from one reason, 00:57:58.17\00:57:59.43 I need to get baptized, Amen, yeah, 00:57:59.46\00:58:02.08 flew all the way over he got baptized 00:58:02.11\00:58:03.80 and now he flew back. Oh, praise the Lord. So 00:58:03.83\00:58:06.60 that's what we call long distance baptism, right? 00:58:07.88\00:58:10.18 Yes, I mean praise the Lord. 00:58:10.84\00:58:11.89 It's so exciting to see how God is working with 00:58:13.36\00:58:14.83 these things, you know, these folks today Don, 00:58:14.86\00:58:18.10 they're gonna go to home tonight. 00:58:18.13\00:58:19.30 Unfortunately ASI is going to be over and 00:58:19.77\00:58:21.45 they're going go to home. What kind they 00:58:21.48\00:58:23.10 do when they go home? Well, if you have an 00:58:23.13\00:58:27.79 Internet device we can always be with you. 00:58:27.82\00:58:29.24 How many folks have internet device? 00:58:29.27\00:58:30.46 Raise your hand. Okay, be tell the truth now. 00:58:31.20\00:58:33.30 Yeah. How many be have two? 00:58:33.33\00:58:34.93 Yeah, that's what I thought. 00:58:34.96\00:58:37.37 About 79 percent of Americans access the web 00:58:37.40\00:58:40.44 and 88 percent of that, 79 percent are going 00:58:40.47\00:58:43.08 there for information, and so if that's true with 00:58:43.11\00:58:45.30 you then it's probably to with your friends 00:58:45.33\00:58:47.13 or even your enemies or those who want to 00:58:47.16\00:58:48.75 reach and we were just talking that you know 00:58:48.78\00:58:51.18 if we have a million Adventists in North 00:58:51.21\00:58:52.94 American division and 500,000 of them decided 00:58:52.97\00:58:55.52 to send how many it was a 20 emails a week. 00:58:55.55\00:58:57.61 If you don't how to do that, ask your children. 00:58:57.97\00:58:59.47