I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and
welcome to 3ABN Today.
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My name is CA Murray.
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And allow me once again
to thank you for sharing
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just a little of your
no doubt busy day with us,
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to thank you as always
for your love, your prayers,
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your support of this ministry
because we know and understand
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that we could not do
what we are called to do
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without your partnership.
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So when we say that
those are not just words
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from our mouth, those
are words from our heart.
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We do thank you
each and every day
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for what you do to share with us
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and lifting up the mighty
and matchless name of Jesus.
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I'm excited today
for couple of reasons
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because of my guests and because
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we're going to be
talking about another arm,
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another facet, another
segment of media ministry
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which is doing a
great, great work for the Lord
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and that is
Adventist World Radio,
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that's the term that's
been around for few years,
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but if you're new to Adventism
or new to this program,
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we're gonna walk you through
what Adventist World Radio is?
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What it has been
doing? What it is doing?
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And what it continues to
do for the cause of Christ?
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My guests, one face
you perhaps have seen here
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for many, many years because
he's been around a few years.
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So I almost say old friend
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because when you get to our age,
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you don't say old friend,
you say long time friend.
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That's right.
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Or a friend of long standing,
when you get to the point
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when you have no
hair or grey hair,
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it's just long time friend
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or good friend or
friend of long term.
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This is G. Edward
Reid. Oh! Thank you.
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Edward, good to have you here.
Glad to be seeing you today.
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And Jeffrey Wilson by your side.
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Both carry the title of
assistant to the president
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for Adventist World Radio.
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And of course, the fairly,
recently elected president
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is our good friend Duane McKey.
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That's true.
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And he's doing a
fine job, he's brought
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a lot of energy and
innovation to World Radio...
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Amen. I'm
excited about that too.
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To the station, so
we're very, very excited.
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These men will walk us through
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what Adventist
World Radio is all about
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and it is the
ministry that is doing
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great guns for the Lord.
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You hear the Hope
channels and you hear the 3ABNs
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and you hear the other
kinds of media ministries
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and you maybe want to
think that radio does not play
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as important
part as it once did.
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But let me disabuse
of you of that notion
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because they will tell us
that Adventist Radio is doing
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great things for the Lord.
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Sometimes you
don't hear about that
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but you will hear about
it today, air, we're done,
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and I'm sure you'll
be excited to hear that.
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Before we go to our music, guys,
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I want to just get a
little history from you.
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Ed, where are
you from originally?
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I was born and raised
in Northern California.
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California guy. Yeah.
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Adventist home?
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Yeah, well, I'll tell
you the Adventist World Radio
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is interesting to me because
it was radio Voice of Prophecy
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actually brought my family
into the Adventist church.
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One of my first
childhood memories
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were seeing my parents baptized
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when I was three years old.
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Praise the Lord.
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Essentially, I've
been raised an Adventist,
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but I saw my
parents become members.
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You remember that?
You got that memory.
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Oh, yes, indeed one
of my early memories,
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Klamath River,
Northern California.
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I know Klamath,
that Klamath Falls,
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Klamath area sure, sure.
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It is one thing as you well know
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to be baptized into
the Adventist church
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or an Adventist home
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and have the accoutrements
of Adventism all around you.
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When did it become personal,
one on one with you and Jesus?
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Well, I was quite
faithful as a young person.
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But I can tell you
that the year I graduated
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from high
school, I read the Bible
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clear through that summer.
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And I was about to decide
whether I want to continue
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being different
from most people,
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got worshipping on Sabbath
or go along with the crowd.
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And I read the Bible clear
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through for my first
time myself and I decided
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not only to stay an Adventist
but to become a minister.
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I already had been
accepted in college.
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Now I've been gone
to a pre-law program.
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But I put off going to
law school for 20 years
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because I've first
started in ministry.
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Wow.
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So you did
finally fulfill that law?
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Yeah, I did.
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And I did not go
into law practice
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to get away from ministry
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but I felt that
since Martin Luther,
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and John Calvin
and John Wycliffe,
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those reformers had
all been trained in the law
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that it might be valuable
to my ministry for the Lord
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and it has been.
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Oh, praise the Lord. Praise God.
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So you got your
Theo and your Lord?
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Yes.
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Yeah, that's a handy
set of degrees to have.
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In the mean time,
I went to Loma Linda
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and I got a
Master in Public Health,
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so I'm
interested in that as well.
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All right. Amen and amen.
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And you served in the
church for how many years?
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44 years. Full time, 44 years.
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And the offices, all right,
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because you left from
North American Division,
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I think when you retired?
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Yes, then went to
the General Conference
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with Adventist World Radio.
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But I was in the
North American Division
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for 21 years
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teaching
stewardship in money management.
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For a short period of
that time, three years,
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I was also the
executive secretary of ASI.
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I'm not sure
you're familiar with ASI.
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You go and get those
people at ASI, will you?
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Of course, long
as I can remember.
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Yeah, ASI is a great
friend of this ministry
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and ministry we've
carried on 3ABN for
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I don't know how many years,
almost since its inception.
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Praise the Lord.
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And we praise the Lord for that.
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And, Jeffrey, same question.
You're native of, born where?
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Oh, I was born in San
Francisco, California.
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Now, both west coast
guys. But I grew up in Arizona.
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And Ed and I was just
figuring this out this morning.
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Ed and I met 60 years ago
actually in the seventh grade
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in Tempe Seventh-day
Adventist Church School
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and we graduated 59 years ago
in 1958 and from that school.
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And then we went separate
ways but for last, oh, about,
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well, last 11 years I
guess before I retired in '10,
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you retired in the
fall of '10, I think.
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Right.
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I've retired at the
General Conference session
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in Atlanta in '10
and interestingly enough
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since then we've been
holding the same title.
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Yes.
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Not many people hold that,
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but we live about a 100 miles
apart in Eastern Tennessee,
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but we cover various
parts of the United States
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basically for
Adventist World Radio.
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And similar to Ed, my
parents came into the church
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through the media,
through Voice of Prophecy.
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They were listening to
H.M.S. Richards on the radio.
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And he announced
one day on the radio
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that he was having
evangelistic campaign,
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a tabernacle
meeting in Phoenix, Arizona,
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that was in 1938.
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And my parents
droved down there,
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drove around the building
several times, should we go in?
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Should we not go in? It
was bright lighted building.
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Finally, they decided to
go in and they were hooked.
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And so I was born
a few years later,
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but I attribute my
being as a Christian
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and the Seventh-day
Adventist to the media.
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And
interestingly enough, you know,
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H.M.S. Richards was a
brilliant committed person
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who saw media before
anyone else, I think...
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Very much so. Very much so.
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Many in the church
felt that was a sinful thing
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to get on to radio.
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And he, of course,
went at that point,
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AM radio, he
went nationwide on it.
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But for years and
years he urged the brethren
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that we needed
to be on Shortwave.
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And Shortwave is only a
hobby here in the United States,
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but in most of the
world, it's the only way.
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Yeah. Virtually only way.
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A lot of people get the
news. Get the news, very true.
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And because it
travels thousands of miles,
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many people tuned to it
because there is no legitimate
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or means of learning
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what's really
happening in the world
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from any media in
their own country.
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So they will turn to BBC News
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or something of that sort
to find out what's going on.
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And interestingly
enough where we lease time
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on major Shortwave stations,
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our engineers every year
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when they're
delivering out the programming,
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we try to get
before, after BBC News
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or just aside or
that side of BBC News.
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Good leading.
People get the bad news.
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We hope they turned it out
slightly and get the good news.
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Get the good news.
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And I want to talk
about that too because
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they say if you want
to reach a city, go AM,
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if you want to
reach your region, go FM,
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if you want to reach
your country or several,
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go Shortwave.
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That's correct.
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And I want to talk
about before we go too far,
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the difference
between Shortwave programming
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and what we normally
think of as FM-AM program
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because there was a difference,
there's a stark difference
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as far as your broadcast day.
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And I think, a lot of
people are not aware of that.
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Yes.
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It just happens that I'm
also an amateur radio operator.
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So I'm familiar with FM radio
and I got interested in that
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many years ago and have
been on the air for long time,
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not recently but I
still have all my equipment.
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But I would just tell you
that this is an amazing thing
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about the...
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If you go to Guam,
the Central Pacific
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where our flagship
shortwave station is...
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Yes.
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They have five
big curtain antennas
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that they are perfectly tuned
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and they have
100,000 watts of power.
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But you'd see, all you
see out there is ocean.
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And you just think
it's not gonna bounce
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off the water, it
goes up to the ionosphere
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and come down like rain
all over to the 10/40 Window.
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It is incredible,
absolutely amazing.
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So it goes up to the
ionosphere and comes back down,
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so that's interesting.
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It doesn't have
to be line aside.
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So FM though is line
aside, so if you're in town
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and you see our antenna
on top of the tall building,
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that's probably FM going as far
as it can be seen and covers,
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and AM is very similar,
they have a shorter wavelength
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than or shorter
reach area than FM.
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Than FM.
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But Adventist World
Radio is actually were doing
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all three and internet.
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So it's amazing
what we're covering now.
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We'll get into that in
a few minutes probably.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, having
worked at FM station
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for a period of
time, it's like an,
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make your pitch real quick,
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I just want to say this
before we go to our music
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and come back, we're
gonna sort of walk through this.
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The fact that radio
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is as pertinent a
communication tool
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as it is ever been
rather than decreasing
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because of what it
does and where can it go.
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It is as valuable
a tool for the gospel
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as that, would you not say so?
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Oh, sure. Yeah.
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The most interesting
thing is that even in America,
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especially in the
Washington D.C. area
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where we lived for 20 years,
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most people listen to the radio
while they're communicating.
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Sometimes that can be
up to two hours a day.
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Precisely. Morning and evening.
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So they get their news,
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they get their
information they want to,
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the weather and all of that.
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And any other program
if they like on the radio.
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And you can listen
to while you're working,
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or while you're
driving or whatever.
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But the most amazing
thing is that in many countries
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where we reach into the most
difficult places in the world,
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people do not have a
local television station
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or satellite equipment.
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Yes.
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So their only hope
is to get something
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that will work in their
area even many without power.
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So we'll show
you how that happens
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in a few
minutes, but it's amazing.
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Radio is the primary
means of communication
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that most people
in the world have.
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I mean, I'm so
used to just turn it,
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flipping the
switch and having a light
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and what if you had no power.
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You know, many
people live that way.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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It's interesting that
I can remember as a boy
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when television came in.
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The word was that radio
would die, it didn't die.
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It became stronger yet.
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When the internet came along,
everybody said radio will die.
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Well, as you very well know,
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our radio was all
over the internet.
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Now a local radio
station can be worldwide,
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nationwide, worldwide.
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Yes.
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And I think radio has never
been stronger than it is today,
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even though, we
have the internet,
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we have
television, we have satellite,
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we have all that kind of stuff.
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But we know the
devil uses all these media.
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Oh, yes.
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God's truth must be
broadcast in all those ways,
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and as Ed says, believe it
or not for much of the world,
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Shortwave radio or
internet is the only way
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they can get any
kind of message out.
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We can get the
message out. Yeah.
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There is an intimacy with radio
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that the other
media simply do not have.
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When you pass some
of these big buildings
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where the guys are working
as hard as what not, what's on?
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Radio all day long.
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A painter comes to
your house, what's on?
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Radio.
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You know, as you well said,
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having pastored in New
York City for 30 years.
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One hour, two hour
commute, what's on?
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Radio.
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So rather than being
irrelevant, it becomes
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hyper relevant in the Atlantic.
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Yes, that's true.
Yeah. Very much so.
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We're gonna go to our music.
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I want to come
back and then question
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these erudite gentlemen
because we're gonna talk about
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what Adventist World Radio is?
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In case you do not know,
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we're gonna, what
we're gonna give you
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Adventist World Radio 101.
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When they give you their premise
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that you totally understand
what we're talking about
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and then we're
gonna ask for your support
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because this is a
medium that God is using
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to save souls
in these last days.
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Our music today comes
from Scott Michael Bennett.
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He's going to be doing
a wonderful song "Come".
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Come
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When your heart is heavy laden
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And you're feeling
like the joy is fading
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Just come
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Come
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Believing
everything I've told you
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'Cause here are arms
that long to hold you
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Just come
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Come
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And leave behind
the mask you're hiding
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Here is someone to confide in
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I know what you've done
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Come
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And tell me
everything you're hoping
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The Father loves
a heart that's open
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Just come
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I didn't die so you could try
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To save yourself
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I know who you are
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Don't try to be somebody else
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Come
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Believing
everything I've told you
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'Cause here are arms
that long to hold you
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Won't you come
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Come
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And come into the joy of living
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Knowing that
your sin's forgiven,
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Just come
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I didn't die so you could try
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To save yourself
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I know who you are
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Don't try to be somebody else
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Come
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Believing
everything I've told you
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Here are arms
that long to hold you,
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Lord, you come
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Come
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And come into the joy of living
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Knowing that your sin's forgiven
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Just come
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Just come
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Brother Bennett, well done.
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Young man with
the great testimony
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who came here some
time ago to record music
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and just somebody we like a lot.
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My guests are Ed
Reid and Jeffrey Wilson,
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they both of
Adventist World Radio
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holding the same title as
assistant to the president
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and as Elder Jeff said,
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"You know, when you
get two hoarding the same,
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you actually
get more than a 100%
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that's because of
the way Adventism works.
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Everybody gives their 100%.
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So when you get,
rather in getting 50-50,
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you get a 100-100.
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So you really get 200%.
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And that's just
the way it works.
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Let's gentlemen walk right into
what is Adventist World Radio
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and why does it exist?
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And I guess that bespeaks
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a little history
of the media also.
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Adventist World
Radio began in 1971
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and I think, it was Neal
Wilson and number of others
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who with the urging of
Elder Richards and others said,
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we've got to reach
that larger audience.
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And believe it or not,
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there are about 40
countries in the world
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in which we cannot
do regular church work.
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We can't build churches,
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we can't do
evangelistic meetings,
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we can't print or
distribute literature.
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We can't be on
any local stations
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because we're Christian.
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So we had...
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And had the Lord
in His commission,
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great commission to us
said, "Go to every nation,
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kindred, tongue, and people.
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So the church feels
we've got to reach everyone.
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Even if we can't
send, even if we can't do
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boots on the ground as
it were, we can't send.
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We send missionaries
since 1874 all over the world
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except this we now
called the 10/40 window,
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10 degrees north
to 40 degrees north,
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halfway around the
world from the United States,
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from West Africa
to the Philippines,
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two-thirds of the
world live in that window.
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And yet, and that's
where all the world religions
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have their birth place.
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Yes. Yes.
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And yet, if you count, if
you look at it only 3, 4, 5%
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are Christian in that window,
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where two-thirds
of the world lives.
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And that's why 3ABN,
that's why Hope Channel,
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that's why especially,
Adventist World Radio
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is concentrating on that window.
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We can't send missionaries in,
00:19:10.38\00:19:12.31
so we have to bring
people out sometimes under cover
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to where we have a studio
because all of our producers,
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all of our speakers are
native language speakers
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for that country.
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We're jumping a huge divide
between a heathen religion
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and Christianity.
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And so the people need
to hear a familiar voice.
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And as you know, you
can learn a language,
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but your voice is
not like a native speaker
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in that particular language.
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So we use all native speakers
00:19:44.81\00:19:47.15
and people can only
reach us by Shortwave radio,
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and Ed will show
you some of the radios
00:19:52.99\00:19:54.59
we distribute in a minute.
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We distribute
thousands of radios every year,
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not radios that you can plug in.
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Yeah.
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They don't have
a place to plug in,
00:20:01.50\00:20:02.96
and they are battery
powered but we found people
00:20:03.00\00:20:05.77
going two or
three days without rice
00:20:05.80\00:20:07.44
to afford to buy two
or three AAA batteries
00:20:07.47\00:20:10.07
to put in the radios
and we felt we can't...
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The gospel must be free.
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So we use solar powered radios,
00:20:14.11\00:20:18.01
and so we can get
the gospel to people
00:20:18.05\00:20:21.92
free from
thousands of miles away,
00:20:21.95\00:20:25.19
because we cannot
broadcast in those countries.
00:20:25.22\00:20:29.76
I mean, we have
so much of our work,
00:20:29.79\00:20:31.26
we can't discuss, we
can't tell you the country name.
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Yeah.
00:20:33.63\00:20:34.96
We certainly aren't
going to talk about people
00:20:35.00\00:20:36.56
because it would
jeopardize the work that we do.
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So you want the
gospel to be truly free.
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And I've got to slid down
in the store to get batteries
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then it's not, it
is costing me something
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and it's either
eat or batteries.
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I kind of got to go
with eat, you know, it's...
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So to make it truly free.
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We talk about 10/40 window
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and the concentration of people
groups in the 10/40 window,
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but is it not also true that
00:21:02.26\00:21:03.73
some of the most resistant
areas are in that same window
00:21:03.76\00:21:07.33
as far as being
resistant to the gospel.
00:21:07.36\00:21:09.33
Actually hostile.
Yes, yes, yes, well said.
00:21:09.36\00:21:11.73
As we speak, this is
not in the major news,
00:21:11.77\00:21:14.47
but as we speak
thousands of Christians
00:21:14.50\00:21:17.17
are being killed in
that window for their faith.
00:21:17.21\00:21:19.91
They're being martyred.
00:21:19.94\00:21:21.41
It's the time of trouble...
00:21:21.44\00:21:23.28
For them. For them right now.
00:21:23.31\00:21:25.71
It's not future, it's right now.
00:21:25.75\00:21:27.98
So we urge
people, we want to pray
00:21:28.02\00:21:31.39
that the Holy
Spirit will guide people
00:21:31.42\00:21:33.46
to tune their
radios to Voice of Hope,
00:21:33.49\00:21:36.29
to our various programming,
but at the same time,
00:21:36.32\00:21:39.39
pray that the holy angels
will protect the lives of those
00:21:39.43\00:21:43.80
who embrace Christianity
00:21:43.83\00:21:45.93
because their
lives are in danger.
00:21:45.97\00:21:47.57
One thing that's helpful
with radio over television
00:21:47.60\00:21:50.67
is if you view a
television screen
00:21:50.71\00:21:53.44
and that's a Christian
program in a hostile country,
00:21:53.48\00:21:56.61
your life may be in danger.
00:21:56.64\00:21:58.41
But we have young people doing
and others in these countries
00:21:58.45\00:22:01.25
is they have their
ear buds in their ears.
00:22:01.28\00:22:04.55
And nobody knows
whether they're listening
00:22:04.59\00:22:07.16
to a Christian
program or secular program.
00:22:07.19\00:22:11.69
So they can listen to the word
00:22:11.73\00:22:16.67
and their lives at the
moment at least can be spared.
00:22:16.70\00:22:19.90
Can be spared, yeah.
Yeah, praise the Lord.
00:22:19.93\00:22:22.34
I would add one
interesting thing
00:22:22.37\00:22:23.71
and that is what Elder Wilson
00:22:23.74\00:22:25.67
has just mentioned
is absolutely true,
00:22:25.71\00:22:27.11
but the most amazing thing
00:22:27.14\00:22:28.48
is people like to
hear in their own language,
00:22:28.51\00:22:30.55
so we're in
over a 100 languages,
00:22:30.58\00:22:32.75
the most, the major
languages of the whole world
00:22:32.78\00:22:35.58
are on Adventist World Radio.
00:22:35.62\00:22:37.29
And the interesting
thing also is that even though
00:22:37.32\00:22:39.79
people live in
these isolated countries,
00:22:39.82\00:22:41.29
the radio doesn't
stop at the border,
00:22:41.32\00:22:43.86
it goes right over the top,
you know, this is incredible.
00:22:43.89\00:22:46.13
It is, it truly is.
00:22:46.16\00:22:47.53
It's really, really amazing
and they need very little
00:22:47.56\00:22:49.96
as far as equipment
to be able to listen.
00:22:50.00\00:22:52.27
So my wife and I have devotions
together every morning,
00:22:52.30\00:22:55.00
we always pray for the media.
00:22:55.04\00:22:56.37
We mention 3ABN by name,
Adventist World Radio by name
00:22:56.40\00:22:58.71
and so on 'cause
we're not in competition,
00:22:58.74\00:23:01.14
we're working together.
00:23:01.18\00:23:02.51
No, no, same work, very much so.
00:23:02.54\00:23:03.88
And so Adventist World Radio
00:23:03.91\00:23:05.25
is the General
Conference's mission arm,
00:23:05.28\00:23:07.58
the radio mission
arm to take the gospel
00:23:07.62\00:23:09.42
where the missionaries
typically cannot go,
00:23:09.45\00:23:12.05
but we're now in other
places using FM in big cities
00:23:12.09\00:23:14.86
in India and in Africa and so on
00:23:14.89\00:23:17.39
to make even more
of a concentration,
00:23:17.43\00:23:20.40
and you
recently had an interview
00:23:20.43\00:23:22.06
with elder Duane
Mckey, our new president
00:23:22.10\00:23:24.33
of Adventist World Radio.
00:23:24.37\00:23:25.77
And he's been involved
with the General Conference
00:23:25.80\00:23:27.70
as the
coordinator with Elder Wilson
00:23:27.74\00:23:30.44
under his direction of
the total member involvement,
00:23:30.47\00:23:33.01
getting
everybody to do something.
00:23:33.04\00:23:35.11
And so having
that as also part of
00:23:35.14\00:23:37.81
now Adventist World Radio,
00:23:37.85\00:23:39.18
we have some
incredible new things happening,
00:23:39.21\00:23:42.02
and we'll tell you
about those as well.
00:23:42.05\00:23:43.39
But the idea is we're taking
00:23:43.42\00:23:45.29
as you are the
gospel to all the world,
00:23:45.32\00:23:47.69
every kindred,
nation, tongue, and people.
00:23:47.72\00:23:49.19
So it is my personal opinion
that almost everybody on earth
00:23:49.22\00:23:52.36
can listen to and understand
one of those languages.
00:23:52.39\00:23:54.53
Amen, amen. Praise the Lord.
00:23:54.56\00:23:56.23
Now, walk me
through this gentlemen
00:23:56.26\00:23:58.17
because when you think of radio,
00:23:58.20\00:23:59.87
you think of, "Oh,
you can turn a radio,
00:23:59.90\00:24:01.37
you get English programs,
00:24:01.40\00:24:02.74
you get some
music and some this,
00:24:02.77\00:24:04.11
but Shortwave radio
functions are little different
00:24:04.14\00:24:06.91
because of the varied people
groups you are trying to meet,
00:24:06.94\00:24:09.51
so the broadcast
day is broken up into.
00:24:09.54\00:24:11.81
Can you walk me
through that what that is
00:24:11.85\00:24:13.31
so people can
understand the difference here
00:24:13.35\00:24:15.18
between say an FM or AM station
and a Shortwave broadcast?
00:24:15.22\00:24:19.55
Well, Ed and I...
00:24:19.59\00:24:22.19
While your title as
assistant to the president,
00:24:22.22\00:24:26.23
that's not the total title.
00:24:26.26\00:24:27.60
Our title is
assistant to the president
00:24:27.63\00:24:29.36
for planned giving.
00:24:29.40\00:24:31.10
Ed and I really
work at the other end,
00:24:31.13\00:24:32.77
we don't work at headquarters,
we work out of our homes
00:24:32.80\00:24:35.40
and we deal with
people assisting them
00:24:35.44\00:24:37.84
with wills and trusts
and this sort of thing
00:24:37.87\00:24:39.71
of supporting God's work.
00:24:39.74\00:24:41.34
And in that work, of
course, there are many people
00:24:41.38\00:24:43.35
who remember many
different ministries
00:24:43.38\00:24:45.08
including 3ABN in
the work that we do.
00:24:45.11\00:24:48.08
So we don't know a whole lot
about the technical end of it,
00:24:48.12\00:24:50.69
but we do know that we
broadcast in 100 languages
00:24:50.72\00:24:55.49
and that those languages
are focused on times of day.
00:24:55.52\00:25:00.03
For example, from Guam,
00:25:00.06\00:25:02.06
we reach the eastern
half of the 10/40 window
00:25:02.10\00:25:04.87
and our big push
out of Guam is China.
00:25:04.90\00:25:09.10
Three of our five antennas
on Guam are focused on China.
00:25:09.14\00:25:13.34
And we do about 33
languages as I understand there,
00:25:13.38\00:25:16.64
and we focus on,
believe it or not,
00:25:16.68\00:25:20.32
China is as wide
as the United States.
00:25:20.35\00:25:23.18
We have four time zones in
the continental United States,
00:25:23.22\00:25:26.96
in China, it's a one time zone,
00:25:26.99\00:25:30.79
believe it or
not, one time zone.
00:25:30.83\00:25:32.79
So we focus on the
three hours in the morning
00:25:32.83\00:25:35.66
and the three
hours in the evening,
00:25:35.70\00:25:37.53
when people are
commuting because as we said,
00:25:37.57\00:25:39.50
if you're living in a big city,
00:25:39.53\00:25:40.97
you're not watching TV,
you're stuck in traffic...
00:25:41.00\00:25:43.61
Even while riding a bike.
00:25:43.64\00:25:44.97
Even while riding a bike,
you're listening to the radio.
00:25:45.01\00:25:47.88
So we focus on the
major languages there,
00:25:47.91\00:25:50.81
believe it or not, the most,
00:25:50.85\00:25:52.95
the language that we're
getting the most response
00:25:52.98\00:25:55.02
from right now
is Mandarin Chinese
00:25:55.05\00:25:57.45
which is thrilling to us
because as you know in China,
00:25:57.49\00:26:01.82
if the church is working
at all, it's underground.
00:26:01.86\00:26:04.46
Yes.
00:26:04.49\00:26:05.83
And so many
people speaking Mandarin,
00:26:05.86\00:26:08.93
they're not hearing
it on a Sabbath morning
00:26:08.96\00:26:12.03
or a Sunday morning in church.
00:26:12.07\00:26:14.84
This is the way we can preach
not just Sabbath or Sunday,
00:26:14.87\00:26:17.81
but seven days a week.
00:26:17.84\00:26:19.37
So we concentrate
on the times of days
00:26:19.41\00:26:21.51
and the languages to fit
that to reach the most people
00:26:21.54\00:26:25.11
in the most
opportune times of the day.
00:26:25.15\00:26:27.52
Okay, you've answered
to my question perfectly.
00:26:27.55\00:26:31.52
What I was
trying to get to is that
00:26:31.55\00:26:33.69
someone in China
who speaks Mandarin,
00:26:33.72\00:26:35.92
knows that at 9
o'clock, Monday morning,
00:26:35.96\00:26:39.86
I can turn on this
thing and I'm going to hear
00:26:39.89\00:26:41.43
something for me.
00:26:41.46\00:26:43.20
Yeah.
00:26:43.23\00:26:44.57
The most amazing thing to me
is how people find out about it.
00:26:44.60\00:26:47.17
Yes.
00:26:47.20\00:26:48.54
Because, you know, when
you put the signal out there,
00:26:48.57\00:26:49.90
you're not really sure
anybody's going to listen,
00:26:49.94\00:26:51.91
but providentially,
not happenstance.
00:26:51.94\00:26:54.48
Yes.
00:26:54.51\00:26:55.84
Providentially,
people find a station
00:26:55.88\00:26:57.21
and other people
tell them about it.
00:26:57.25\00:26:59.11
And we actually
have many stories,
00:26:59.15\00:27:01.12
we'll share a few later
00:27:01.15\00:27:02.78
where somebody has
listened to the radio in a place
00:27:02.82\00:27:05.12
where they couldn't
share it with anybody,
00:27:05.15\00:27:07.06
be very, very interested.
00:27:07.09\00:27:08.42
And then they
finally can't keep it in,
00:27:08.46\00:27:10.23
tell someone
else and that person's
00:27:10.26\00:27:11.63
been listening to.
00:27:11.66\00:27:14.23
Isn't that amazing?
That is great. That is great.
00:27:14.26\00:27:16.36
That's the power of the
Lord and reach of the gospel
00:27:16.40\00:27:19.13
and, you know, the Lord,
once you join hands with Him,
00:27:19.17\00:27:21.97
your work grows
so exponentially.
00:27:22.00\00:27:24.71
Yes.
00:27:24.74\00:27:26.07
And though you're
not putting stuff out,
00:27:26.11\00:27:27.44
it's getting out there,
and people are responding
00:27:27.48\00:27:29.14
and praise the Lord for that.
00:27:29.18\00:27:30.51
So that is what I
was getting at that,
00:27:30.55\00:27:33.11
you switched languages
at different times a day
00:27:33.15\00:27:36.08
during the course of the day
00:27:36.12\00:27:37.72
and different people groups
are picking up or tuning in
00:27:37.75\00:27:40.06
during the time when
their language is being spoken.
00:27:40.09\00:27:42.12
I should say that.
00:27:42.16\00:27:43.56
We talk about Guam
which is our church,
00:27:43.59\00:27:45.76
our own station
on the Island of Guam
00:27:45.79\00:27:47.60
which is a U.S.
territory so we're safe there.
00:27:47.63\00:27:50.97
We can't be in
those countries obviously,
00:27:51.00\00:27:53.10
but for many years, the church
had a small station in Italy
00:27:53.13\00:27:57.54
and there was a plan to
build a super station in Italy
00:27:57.57\00:28:01.61
to cover the western
half of the 10/40 window.
00:28:01.64\00:28:04.88
And we kept getting requirements
00:28:04.91\00:28:08.12
from additional
permits, additional permits
00:28:08.15\00:28:10.49
and finally we've
realized that the government
00:28:10.52\00:28:12.79
didn't want us there.
00:28:12.82\00:28:14.16
Yeah.
00:28:14.19\00:28:15.52
Well, it was all in
God's plan because how we cover
00:28:15.56\00:28:17.29
the western half of the
10/40 window at this moment
00:28:17.33\00:28:19.79
is we lease time
out of South Africa,
00:28:19.83\00:28:23.20
out of
Madagascar, out of Austria,
00:28:23.23\00:28:26.47
Germany and the Netherlands.
00:28:26.50\00:28:29.40
And so from outside the window,
00:28:29.44\00:28:31.77
we reach into the window.
00:28:31.81\00:28:33.74
And as Ed described our antenna,
00:28:33.78\00:28:36.61
they're call curtains.
00:28:36.64\00:28:38.21
They're a size
of football field.
00:28:38.25\00:28:40.42
And so they're fairly, yeah,
they're fairly directional.
00:28:40.45\00:28:44.05
It's not like satellite at 360.
00:28:44.09\00:28:46.49
So we have to be outside
and shoot toward that Guam,
00:28:46.52\00:28:50.43
on the south end of Guam
are as we're along the coast
00:28:50.46\00:28:53.53
there right next
to the naval station,
00:28:53.56\00:28:55.53
we're focused
perfectly for China,
00:28:55.56\00:28:58.07
North Korea and Southeast Asia.
00:28:58.10\00:29:00.80
For Africa and Europe,
we're focused perfectly
00:29:00.84\00:29:03.71
to get the western
half of that window,
00:29:03.74\00:29:05.61
so we cover every square
inch of the 10/40 window,
00:29:05.64\00:29:09.74
sometimes overlapping
somewhat, but that's good too.
00:29:09.78\00:29:12.05
Oh, yes.
00:29:12.08\00:29:13.42
The whole window,
even though we can't be
00:29:13.45\00:29:15.58
in the window very much.
00:29:15.62\00:29:17.29
Well, few places we can.
00:29:17.32\00:29:19.59
And we have a little
station in Israel now
00:29:19.62\00:29:21.09
I think, don't we, Ed?
00:29:21.12\00:29:22.46
Yeah, I think so.
00:29:22.49\00:29:23.83
But most of that
geography, we can't be in it.
00:29:23.86\00:29:26.93
Well, India is in the window
00:29:26.96\00:29:28.53
and we do have a
number of F.M stations growing
00:29:28.56\00:29:31.97
and I think, we're in 10
or 13 languages in India now.
00:29:32.00\00:29:34.44
Yeah.
00:29:34.47\00:29:35.80
But lot of that other
area, the Arab countries,
00:29:35.84\00:29:37.34
we cannot get into North
Korea, of course, no way.
00:29:37.37\00:29:40.51
China, very little,
but where it's saturated
00:29:40.54\00:29:44.71
with three angels'
gospel because of where we are.
00:29:44.75\00:29:48.72
The signal goes in
but we can't go personally
00:29:48.75\00:29:51.02
at some of these places.
00:29:51.05\00:29:53.46
And it's so
exciting, and I have seen
00:29:53.49\00:29:56.26
to see what this antenna,
00:29:56.29\00:29:58.36
we say antenna, you're
thinking of one little thing
00:29:58.39\00:30:00.00
but this ain't that.
00:30:00.03\00:30:01.43
This is a massive kind of thing.
00:30:01.46\00:30:03.93
And it's really a
marvelous technology.
00:30:03.97\00:30:06.17
If you look at those antenna,
00:30:06.20\00:30:08.50
it's sobering to
see how big they are.
00:30:08.54\00:30:11.64
And the typhoon
that came through there
00:30:11.67\00:30:14.74
what was at '04 I think,
blew the roof off our academy,
00:30:14.78\00:30:18.21
destroyed many of
the buildings on Guam...
00:30:18.25\00:30:21.92
Yeah.
00:30:21.95\00:30:23.28
There are 300,
280 to 330 feet tall.
00:30:23.32\00:30:26.76
Yes.
00:30:26.79\00:30:28.12
They sit on a
concrete foundation and...
00:30:28.16\00:30:30.59
It's big as the school bus.
00:30:30.63\00:30:31.96
Yeah, and but with the guy wires
00:30:31.99\00:30:35.16
they can lean with the wind
00:30:35.20\00:30:37.83
and they stood and
withstand the horrible storms
00:30:37.87\00:30:42.04
they have there,
when even buildings don't.
00:30:42.07\00:30:44.21
Praise the Lord.
00:30:44.24\00:30:45.71
Praise God, that's
all very, very exciting.
00:30:45.74\00:30:48.94
I remember when they
were trying to do that thing
00:30:48.98\00:30:51.48
in Italy and finally
you just realize that
00:30:51.51\00:30:53.95
it wasn't gonna fly.
00:30:53.98\00:30:55.32
But you know, when
you're working with the Lord,
00:30:55.35\00:30:56.85
the Lord has many, many
ways that you think not of.
00:30:56.89\00:30:58.25
That's true. That's right.
00:30:58.29\00:30:59.62
And we get, what
we need to have done.
00:30:59.65\00:31:03.53
You have brought
a couple examples
00:31:03.56\00:31:05.26
of radios with you
and I want to get to them
00:31:05.29\00:31:07.56
before we get too
far on the program,
00:31:07.60\00:31:09.30
you walk us through
some of this stuff, yeah.
00:31:09.33\00:31:10.87
This cute
little radio is amazing
00:31:10.90\00:31:12.90
in the fact that
it has Shortwave,
00:31:12.93\00:31:17.11
AM-FM and Shortwave
00:31:17.14\00:31:18.47
but the
interesting part about it
00:31:18.51\00:31:19.84
is it can fit in your pocket.
00:31:19.87\00:31:21.21
And it has, of
course, a place for you
00:31:21.24\00:31:22.58
to plug your ear phones in.
00:31:22.61\00:31:23.95
And so while,
you're riding your bike
00:31:23.98\00:31:25.31
or whatever you can listen
to it, and it's a digital.
00:31:25.35\00:31:26.68
So it focuses
right on the signal
00:31:26.72\00:31:28.05
which is very, very good.
00:31:28.08\00:31:29.42
This is in a place
where you can have electricity
00:31:29.45\00:31:31.35
or batteries.
00:31:31.39\00:31:32.72
But there's other
one, I'm going to show you,
00:31:32.75\00:31:34.09
I'll lay that one down
here is pretty amazing.
00:31:34.12\00:31:37.73
It's quite substantial
00:31:37.76\00:31:39.56
and it also has
a digital readout
00:31:39.59\00:31:41.60
and it has a big speaker.
00:31:41.63\00:31:44.00
We have lots of
photographs of people
00:31:44.03\00:31:45.70
listening to this
radio with the whole family
00:31:45.73\00:31:47.94
or a whole group
of villagers around.
00:31:47.97\00:31:50.54
So that you can turn
it, clear up on full power
00:31:50.57\00:31:53.01
and it doesn't
distort which is amazing.
00:31:53.04\00:31:55.74
But in addition to that,
00:31:55.78\00:31:57.11
this is one of
those universal ones
00:31:57.15\00:31:58.48
that has four
different ways to power.
00:31:58.51\00:32:00.48
You can plug it in
should you be in a place
00:32:00.52\00:32:02.05
that has electricity or
you can use battery power.
00:32:02.08\00:32:04.49
But in addition, it has
a solar panel on the back
00:32:04.52\00:32:06.45
that collects the sun.
00:32:06.49\00:32:07.82
Excellent.
00:32:07.86\00:32:09.19
And if you set
it out in the sun,
00:32:09.22\00:32:10.56
it will play for
quite a long time.
00:32:10.59\00:32:11.93
Yeah and I see
something else back there.
00:32:11.96\00:32:13.29
If you live where you
have sun, you can crank it up.
00:32:13.33\00:32:14.66
You can crank.
00:32:14.70\00:32:16.03
This is got a little
servo in it that cranks up
00:32:16.06\00:32:17.67
and it charges the
battery and it's amazing.
00:32:17.70\00:32:21.54
This one has
been my favorite one,
00:32:21.57\00:32:22.94
but we've even smaller than
this that have all four on it.
00:32:22.97\00:32:25.57
And this is incredible.
00:32:25.61\00:32:26.98
We distribute
thousands of those.
00:32:27.01\00:32:28.34
You got a little
light there, yeah.
00:32:28.38\00:32:29.71
By the way, this
has a little light,
00:32:29.74\00:32:31.08
it just came on just from
my cranking that is in it.
00:32:31.11\00:32:33.72
Isn't that amazing?
00:32:33.75\00:32:35.35
But this is one that's also
and by the way AWR's purchase
00:32:35.38\00:32:38.39
thousands of these and
distribute them to people.
00:32:38.42\00:32:41.59
You might know a miracle
story and Jeff will tell you
00:32:41.62\00:32:43.66
a few stories in a few minutes,
but we've gone to places
00:32:43.69\00:32:46.39
where people already had radios.
00:32:46.43\00:32:47.76
They don't even
know that we're coming
00:32:47.80\00:32:49.13
and already
listening to the AWR.
00:32:49.16\00:32:50.50
Wow! Isn't that amazing?
00:32:50.53\00:32:51.87
Praise the Lord. How
do you get these out?
00:32:51.90\00:32:53.23
Or how does AWR get them out?
00:32:53.27\00:32:54.60
Do they select a country
00:32:54.64\00:32:56.27
and then sort
of distribute them?
00:32:56.30\00:32:57.97
How did, this is a nice little,
you know, it's not that heavy,
00:32:58.01\00:33:00.08
I'm kind of get
it right with you.
00:33:00.11\00:33:01.44
That's right,
we'd distribute them
00:33:01.48\00:33:02.81
specifically in
places where our signal...
00:33:02.84\00:33:05.21
Well, we know the signals there,
00:33:05.25\00:33:06.58
but people don't have
the means to have a radio.
00:33:06.61\00:33:08.85
Elder Chow, our former
president, for example,
00:33:08.88\00:33:11.55
went into some
back country in Mexico
00:33:11.59\00:33:14.66
and distributed
about 6,000 of those
00:33:14.69\00:33:17.23
and they've
distributed throughout Africa
00:33:17.26\00:33:20.96
and as Ed said,
00:33:21.00\00:33:23.93
we've also have
stories of village chiefs
00:33:23.97\00:33:27.57
who reported that a man in white
00:33:27.60\00:33:30.51
came to the village
and handed him a radio.
00:33:30.54\00:33:32.71
Oh, wow!
00:33:32.74\00:33:34.08
And told him how to
tune to Voice of Hope.
00:33:34.11\00:33:37.35
Well, if you're a
villager in a village
00:33:37.38\00:33:39.45
and your chief asked
you to come to his house
00:33:39.48\00:33:41.62
to listen to a
radio, would you go?
00:33:41.65\00:33:43.39
Of course, you go. I think so.
00:33:43.42\00:33:45.52
And after listening for a while,
00:33:45.55\00:33:46.89
they learned that the
seventh day was a Sabbath
00:33:46.92\00:33:49.76
and so we've discovered that,
00:33:49.79\00:33:51.89
for example, in
Madagascar about 28 villages
00:33:51.93\00:33:55.33
where the people come
together every Sabbath
00:33:55.36\00:33:58.53
and listen to the radio
and that's their church.
00:33:58.57\00:34:00.70
Wow!
00:34:00.74\00:34:02.07
Praise the Lord.
00:34:02.10\00:34:03.44
This one is kind of my friend.
00:34:03.47\00:34:04.81
I like this because at
first, I like the crank,
00:34:04.84\00:34:06.17
you know, I'm kind
of who do not just sit,
00:34:06.21\00:34:08.74
I'm just kind of
crank all day, you know.
00:34:08.78\00:34:10.11
Get your exercise.
00:34:10.15\00:34:11.51
Get that light on it.
00:34:11.55\00:34:12.88
What is the full charge?
00:34:12.91\00:34:14.25
How much
cranking you have to set
00:34:14.28\00:34:15.62
to get maybe an
hour out of this?
00:34:15.65\00:34:16.99
I think probably
about 15 minutes.
00:34:17.02\00:34:18.35
Yeah. But it's not too long.
00:34:18.39\00:34:19.72
People learn what it
is, how long it takes.
00:34:19.75\00:34:21.86
Actually we have
sometimes church school groups
00:34:21.89\00:34:24.83
or pathfinder groups
or Sabbath school groups
00:34:24.86\00:34:28.23
will take on a project
of sponsoring half a dozen
00:34:28.26\00:34:32.57
or a dozen of these
radios and they run about $40
00:34:32.60\00:34:36.60
that includes sending in
and all that comes with it.
00:34:36.64\00:34:40.14
It comes with ear phones too...
00:34:40.18\00:34:41.64
Ear phones, yeah.
00:34:41.68\00:34:43.01
Various, the plug
in if you have power.
00:34:43.04\00:34:45.08
Yeah. That little addition.
00:34:45.11\00:34:46.92
I'm sorry, I didn't
mean to cut you off,
00:34:46.95\00:34:48.28
it's just, it's
just very, very wise.
00:34:48.32\00:34:50.32
You can be
discreet, you can listen,
00:34:50.35\00:34:52.15
and not put yourself
in a kind of jeopardy.
00:34:52.19\00:34:53.86
You know, by sort
of blasting this thing,
00:34:53.89\00:34:55.49
that's a very wise to watch.
00:34:55.52\00:34:58.16
When I was here
about six years ago, 2011
00:34:58.19\00:35:01.00
and we talked about this,
I demonstrated a little radio
00:35:01.03\00:35:03.16
similar to that one and
there was a family watching
00:35:03.20\00:35:05.83
and they had a very
nice vintage guitar,
00:35:05.87\00:35:09.40
"Gibson Vintage guitar".
00:35:09.44\00:35:10.77
They called me and they said.
00:35:10.81\00:35:12.17
Well, funny thing
happened, they called the office
00:35:12.21\00:35:14.21
and the young lady
answered the phone said,
00:35:14.24\00:35:16.41
they said "We have a
guitar, we'd like to donate"
00:35:16.44\00:35:18.45
and that she said "Well I
don't think we take guitars."
00:35:18.48\00:35:24.15
They want to talk to me
and so this is Sharon and Vic
00:35:24.19\00:35:26.55
and Sharon Thelon and
lives in Western Idaho.
00:35:26.59\00:35:30.43
So I had a speaking
point at Walla Walla,
00:35:30.46\00:35:32.16
and I went out to see
them when I was out there
00:35:32.19\00:35:34.36
and they donated a 1935
00:35:34.40\00:35:37.97
Super 400 Gibson
Guitar, archtop guitar.
00:35:38.00\00:35:40.64
It turned out.
00:35:40.67\00:35:42.24
We had it appraised
in Nashville, Tennessee
00:35:42.27\00:35:44.57
by Gibson
Company official $16,500.
00:35:44.61\00:35:48.51
He said "It should be
worth. We sold it for 20,000.
00:35:48.54\00:35:50.61
Oh, wow.
00:35:50.65\00:35:51.98
But his question to me was
00:35:52.01\00:35:53.35
"I wonder, how
many these little radios
00:35:53.38\00:35:54.72
my guitar would pay for?
00:35:54.75\00:35:56.58
I don't want this thing
to get burned up in my house
00:35:56.62\00:35:58.32
when Jesus comes back."
00:35:58.35\00:35:59.69
All right. Isn't that amazing?
00:35:59.72\00:36:01.52
That is
amazing. What a blessing.
00:36:01.56\00:36:03.63
So many, many people and
Jeff found people like that too.
00:36:03.66\00:36:06.90
I'll share one
other little thing,
00:36:06.93\00:36:08.26
these are the little ambassadors
00:36:08.30\00:36:09.83
and this thing has
a way to control it
00:36:09.86\00:36:12.13
and it has in it
the entire Bible,
00:36:12.17\00:36:14.24
King James Version's Bible,
Bible studies and sermons.
00:36:14.27\00:36:17.51
How many hours?
00:36:17.54\00:36:18.87
Hundred and
sixty hours. Oh, wow.
00:36:18.91\00:36:20.24
Hundred and sixty
hours of material,
00:36:20.28\00:36:22.01
but it doesn't have batteries.
00:36:22.04\00:36:23.38
It just has a solar thing
00:36:23.41\00:36:24.75
that's actually
laid out in the sun
00:36:24.78\00:36:26.11
and you can listen to
it as you walk around.
00:36:26.15\00:36:27.48
It has a strong signal too.
00:36:27.52\00:36:28.85
I mean, you can listen to it,
00:36:28.88\00:36:30.22
You don't even
need your ear phones.
00:36:30.25\00:36:31.59
We would distribute those
in some of the air remote areas
00:36:31.62\00:36:33.66
where we know our
signal isn't getting.
00:36:33.69\00:36:36.66
So people can listen
without listening to this radio.
00:36:36.69\00:36:38.33
This is self-contained.
00:36:38.36\00:36:40.73
And just recently,
we've bought 160 of these
00:36:40.76\00:36:42.73
some of them in
the Arabic language
00:36:42.76\00:36:44.23
and some in different
languages from refugees,
00:36:44.27\00:36:47.64
from, in a
refugee camp in France
00:36:47.67\00:36:49.34
who have been Kurdish refugees
that they have these now.
00:36:49.37\00:36:52.41
Wow. Wow.
00:36:52.44\00:36:53.78
You know, you forgive
me, if I gush a little.
00:36:53.81\00:36:55.84
Sometimes I'm so
proud of my church
00:36:55.88\00:36:58.28
and the
intelligentsia in the church.
00:36:58.31\00:37:00.95
People are sitting and thinking,
00:37:00.98\00:37:02.32
how can we get the
gospel into this place?
00:37:02.35\00:37:05.45
And get it in such a way
that we lift these people up,
00:37:05.49\00:37:08.56
we don't jeopardize their lives,
00:37:08.59\00:37:09.92
we don't
jeopardize their living.
00:37:09.96\00:37:11.29
We just give them Jesus
and someone who sat down
00:37:11.33\00:37:13.70
and said "Okay,
we're gonna do this,
00:37:13.73\00:37:15.26
we're not gonna do that,
we're gonna do this, this way,
00:37:15.30\00:37:17.27
we're not gonna do
that and it's working,
00:37:17.30\00:37:19.53
you know, things are happening.
00:37:19.57\00:37:20.90
Yes. Amazing.
00:37:20.94\00:37:22.27
But we're not the largest church
00:37:22.30\00:37:23.64
in the world, but we
have the largest mission
00:37:23.67\00:37:26.51
of any church.
00:37:26.54\00:37:27.88
Yes. Yes.
00:37:27.91\00:37:29.24
We cannot say "Well,
this group take that area,
00:37:29.28\00:37:31.48
this group take that area."
00:37:31.51\00:37:32.85
Because we have the
three angels' message
00:37:32.88\00:37:36.12
that the Book of Revelation
says must go to every nation,
00:37:36.15\00:37:39.12
kindred, tongue and
people, that's as flying,
00:37:39.15\00:37:41.76
flying in the midst of heaven.
00:37:41.79\00:37:43.39
This thing is not
three people on bicycles.
00:37:43.43\00:37:46.03
It's not even
three people in cars.
00:37:46.06\00:37:49.03
They're flying in
the midst of heaven
00:37:49.06\00:37:50.53
and that's where
our signals are going
00:37:50.57\00:37:52.33
television, radio, internet.
00:37:52.37\00:37:54.14
They're all flying
in the midst of heaven
00:37:54.17\00:37:57.31
and in the very,
violent, hostile world
00:37:57.34\00:38:01.54
in which we live today.
00:38:01.58\00:38:02.91
It's a reality even
though we don't suffer
00:38:02.94\00:38:04.61
that directly ourselves.
00:38:04.65\00:38:07.82
This is the only
way we can get to
00:38:07.85\00:38:10.89
perhaps the majority.
00:38:10.92\00:38:12.52
Perhaps more
than 50% of the world
00:38:12.55\00:38:14.42
can only be reached by air.
00:38:14.46\00:38:16.22
Yeah Yeah.
00:38:16.26\00:38:17.59
You know, by the media.
00:38:17.63\00:38:18.96
And I think that, that point
00:38:18.99\00:38:20.33
and we're going to
come to you shortly,
00:38:20.36\00:38:21.70
you're getting ready to whip out
00:38:21.73\00:38:23.06
some miracle stuff for
me, I'm glad to get it,
00:38:23.10\00:38:24.77
to emphasize that
there are things are so
00:38:24.80\00:38:29.40
and I have to say
this in relative terms,
00:38:29.44\00:38:31.51
relatively
tranquil here in the States
00:38:31.54\00:38:33.91
that we can
scarcely imagine let alone,
00:38:33.94\00:38:36.85
really step into the
idea that there are people
00:38:36.88\00:38:38.71
who are
suffering for their faith.
00:38:38.75\00:38:40.08
Oh, yeah, that's right.
00:38:40.12\00:38:41.45
And that to be
found with one of these.
00:38:41.48\00:38:42.82
Yeah.
00:38:42.85\00:38:44.19
Or to be
discovered with one of these
00:38:44.22\00:38:45.55
could cost you your
freedom, your life, your job,
00:38:45.59\00:38:46.92
your vocation,
or even, even more,
00:38:46.96\00:38:48.49
that's, that's
the reality is it not?
00:38:48.52\00:38:50.19
We can tell you a
little miracle story
00:38:50.23\00:38:51.66
about North Korea.
00:38:51.69\00:38:53.03
If you buy a
Shortwave radio in North Korea,
00:38:53.06\00:38:54.40
it only has one frequency
00:38:54.43\00:38:56.10
and it's stuck on that
frequency, you can only listen
00:38:56.13\00:38:58.13
to the
propaganda from North Korea.
00:38:58.17\00:38:59.50
Yes.
00:38:59.53\00:39:00.87
Jeffrey has a story
that can tell you about
00:39:00.90\00:39:02.24
how we do something up there.
00:39:02.27\00:39:03.61
Well, there's a
balloon warfare going on
00:39:03.64\00:39:07.34
in the Korea's South and North.
00:39:07.38\00:39:09.78
The North sends
propaganda South by balloon,
00:39:09.81\00:39:12.75
the South sends
propaganda North by balloon.
00:39:12.78\00:39:15.25
Do you think in which
way the wind is blowing?
00:39:15.28\00:39:16.62
We send radios and
Christian literature
00:39:16.65\00:39:20.56
and food and clothing
00:39:20.59\00:39:22.12
and even hard
currency by balloon...
00:39:22.16\00:39:24.56
Are you kidding? Into the North.
00:39:24.59\00:39:25.93
Wow!
00:39:25.96\00:39:27.30
We don't talk a lot about
that because it could endanger.
00:39:27.33\00:39:29.13
Oh, yeah.
00:39:29.16\00:39:30.50
Our folk go to the 38th parallel
00:39:30.53\00:39:32.50
on a dark moonless
night or an overcast day
00:39:32.53\00:39:35.04
when the wind is
blowing gently to the North
00:39:35.07\00:39:37.61
and they launch these radios
and other material in balloons.
00:39:37.64\00:39:42.54
Some balloons are this size,
they can put a steps to Christ
00:39:42.58\00:39:44.98
or a piece of
literature to in it.
00:39:45.01\00:39:46.92
Some are 8 feet
tall in this size
00:39:46.95\00:39:50.49
and they can put
clothing and food and radios.
00:39:50.52\00:39:52.69
Wow!
00:39:52.72\00:39:54.06
Folks slip into the
mountains wear them,
00:39:54.09\00:39:55.92
they come down in
the forest at night,
00:39:55.96\00:39:58.69
it's a death sentence if
they're caught with this,
00:39:58.73\00:40:01.13
but if you were
starving and your neighbor said
00:40:01.16\00:40:02.83
"I found some food."
00:40:02.86\00:40:04.23
Where'd you get that
radio you're listening?"
00:40:04.27\00:40:06.03
I found it in a balloon.
00:40:06.07\00:40:07.74
You'd go and
you'd go look for one.
00:40:07.77\00:40:10.67
Yeah. I would. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:10.71\00:40:12.37
So that's how we get it
00:40:12.41\00:40:13.74
into any place like North Korea.
00:40:13.78\00:40:17.05
Sometimes our
folk prolong the...
00:40:17.08\00:40:18.81
Did God bless them to do.
00:40:18.85\00:40:20.28
Prolong the bay and
launch them off of boats.
00:40:20.32\00:40:21.98
Yeah.
00:40:22.02\00:40:23.35
They can be shot out sometimes,
but we got to get it in.
00:40:23.39\00:40:25.99
There are 38 million of
God's people in North Korea
00:40:26.02\00:40:28.99
that have to get
the gospel some way.
00:40:29.02\00:40:31.89
So the radios again as Ed said
they are mechanical preacher
00:40:31.93\00:40:36.30
if you will, going
where a live preacher
00:40:36.33\00:40:40.47
on pain of death
at this moment cannot.
00:40:40.50\00:40:41.87
Right.
00:40:41.90\00:40:43.24
Now this is something
00:40:43.27\00:40:44.61
and I want to get to
those miracle stories,
00:40:44.64\00:40:45.97
I'd like to talk
more in just a moment.
00:40:46.01\00:40:47.34
This is something I did
not know about, but this is,
00:40:47.38\00:40:49.58
this is frontline evangelism.
00:40:49.61\00:40:53.08
This is, you know,
they're sending radios
00:40:53.11\00:40:55.72
by balloon into North Korea.
00:40:55.75\00:41:01.72
You know, sometimes
you're so proud of God,
00:41:01.76\00:41:03.09
you don't know what to do.
00:41:03.12\00:41:04.46
You know it's just...
00:41:04.49\00:41:06.06
Would you say it's
a miracle on any day?
00:41:06.09\00:41:07.50
Sometimes you're
just proud of the Lord.
00:41:07.53\00:41:09.23
We hear so much
about North Korea.
00:41:09.26\00:41:10.80
We hear about the testing
and this and that you know.
00:41:10.83\00:41:13.34
Well, God's people
are sending the gospel
00:41:13.37\00:41:16.44
in to North Korea via radio
00:41:16.47\00:41:19.54
along with food
and other staples
00:41:19.57\00:41:21.84
that they otherwise would
not have, that's something
00:41:21.88\00:41:25.65
that ought to be at
the top of your prayer list
00:41:25.68\00:41:27.22
or certainly among
the most important things
00:41:27.25\00:41:28.98
that you are praying about
00:41:29.02\00:41:30.35
because this is
a group of people
00:41:30.39\00:41:31.85
who are not going to
get the gospel any other way
00:41:31.89\00:41:34.52
than those of good faith
00:41:34.56\00:41:35.89
who try to do that
and forgive me for...
00:41:35.92\00:41:37.26
As Ed mentioned the radios
that are sold in North Korea
00:41:37.29\00:41:41.33
only accept the
government channel,
00:41:41.36\00:41:43.10
not the international channels.
00:41:43.13\00:41:44.47
Yeah.
00:41:44.50\00:41:45.83
The ones we send up by balloon,
00:41:45.87\00:41:47.20
we've already pre-tuned them
to the AWR station out of Guam.
00:41:47.24\00:41:51.67
And we also include
a radio log in there.
00:41:51.71\00:41:54.38
So they know when the
various programs are on.
00:41:54.41\00:41:56.85
Yes.
00:41:56.88\00:41:58.21
And so it's a marvelous tool.
00:41:58.25\00:42:02.88
Oh, it is. Yes.
It's a marvelous tool.
00:42:02.92\00:42:04.99
I want to add one other thing
because we have some stories
00:42:05.02\00:42:07.19
and some letters we want
to share with you as well
00:42:07.22\00:42:08.86
in the last few
minutes but, you know,
00:42:08.89\00:42:11.76
that we're told that in
the last moments of time
00:42:11.79\00:42:13.90
that will go rapidly.
00:42:13.93\00:42:15.26
Yes, yes, yes.
00:42:15.30\00:42:16.63
So here's what we're doing
now in addition to Shortwave,
00:42:16.67\00:42:18.90
AM-FM, and the
little ambassadors
00:42:18.93\00:42:20.67
and so on, we're
using the internet
00:42:20.70\00:42:22.10
like I'm sure you guys are.
00:42:22.14\00:42:24.07
But for the last seven
years, we've been on internet
00:42:24.11\00:42:28.64
and we have a
company now "Mediator"
00:42:28.68\00:42:30.01
that's taken the 30
minute radio programs
00:42:30.05\00:42:32.08
and translated them digitally,
00:42:32.11\00:42:33.95
so they can be
put on the internet.
00:42:33.98\00:42:35.55
So if you go to AWR.org,
it will ask the question,
00:42:35.58\00:42:37.95
which language do you prefer?
00:42:37.99\00:42:39.32
And you can choose
one of 100 languages
00:42:39.35\00:42:41.19
and download 30 minute programs
00:42:41.22\00:42:43.32
to listen to on
your iPhone or iPad
00:42:43.36\00:42:45.49
or your whatever your device is.
00:42:45.53\00:42:47.70
Device is, sure.
00:42:47.73\00:42:49.06
And would you like to know
00:42:49.10\00:42:50.43
how many are
being downloaded now?
00:42:50.47\00:42:51.80
So far in 2017, half
of the year 800 million,
00:42:51.83\00:42:55.20
30 minute programs
have been downloaded.
00:42:55.24\00:42:57.21
That's 57, 30 minute programs
are downloaded every second.
00:42:57.24\00:43:00.41
Every second. Wow!
00:43:00.44\00:43:01.78
Five million a day
and the main languages
00:43:01.81\00:43:04.01
are those
languages of India, China
00:43:04.05\00:43:06.38
and the Arabic
speaking countries.
00:43:06.41\00:43:08.35
It's just amazing. Praise God.
00:43:08.38\00:43:09.75
You've got a consumer base.
00:43:09.78\00:43:11.15
You got somebody's
that's listening to that, yeah.
00:43:11.19\00:43:12.59
I mean, when you put a
radio signal out there,
00:43:12.62\00:43:14.26
you have no
idea who's listening,
00:43:14.29\00:43:15.62
but when you
download off the internet,
00:43:15.66\00:43:16.99
you can count them.
00:43:17.03\00:43:18.36
You can count them. Yes, sir.
00:43:18.39\00:43:19.73
We get one 150,000,
125,000 letters a year
00:43:19.76\00:43:23.43
from those listening.
00:43:23.47\00:43:25.10
But any time somebody
touches that computer key
00:43:25.13\00:43:28.90
and says "I want Arabic,
I want Mandarin, Chinese,
00:43:28.94\00:43:31.57
I want English"
whatever, it counts it.
00:43:31.61\00:43:34.41
Yes. It counts it.
00:43:34.44\00:43:36.04
And that's what it is
talking about 800 million
00:43:36.08\00:43:38.91
so far this year, it's just.
00:43:38.95\00:43:40.28
Yeah.
00:43:40.32\00:43:41.65
It's thrilling to us because
we all want to see Jesus come.
00:43:41.68\00:43:44.35
Amen, amen.
00:43:44.39\00:43:45.72
And by seeing
these kind of numbers,
00:43:45.75\00:43:47.26
we know that the
gospel is getting out there.
00:43:47.29\00:43:49.76
God is not waiting for the world
00:43:49.79\00:43:51.13
to get worse before He comes.
00:43:51.16\00:43:52.63
He's waiting for all
of his children to hear.
00:43:52.66\00:43:54.83
Amen. And amen. To hear.
00:43:54.86\00:43:56.56
And radio is a
way for them to hear.
00:43:56.60\00:43:58.50
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:43:58.53\00:44:00.17
All right we're ready for some
of those miracle stories, man.
00:44:00.20\00:44:02.40
Well, Jeff is
gonna tell you story.
00:44:02.44\00:44:04.11
I was gonna tell you
about a couple of these...
00:44:04.14\00:44:06.51
Letters, yeah.
Letters that we get.
00:44:06.54\00:44:09.11
By the way, it's interesting,
I've been listening to,
00:44:09.14\00:44:11.21
you know, radio
and TV most of my life,
00:44:11.25\00:44:12.88
but I don't think
I've ever written to one.
00:44:12.91\00:44:14.82
That means for
everybody that sends a letter,
00:44:14.85\00:44:17.42
there's probably 50 or
more that out there listening.
00:44:17.45\00:44:18.79
Precisely.
00:44:18.82\00:44:20.16
But the ones we hear like
this "I'm over 70 years old now,
00:44:20.19\00:44:22.56
and I thought, I've seen it
all until I found Voice of Hope,
00:44:22.59\00:44:24.49
that's Adventist World
Radio's program four years ago.
00:44:24.53\00:44:26.83
I was a communist, an
atheist, but now I worship God.
00:44:26.86\00:44:29.76
Voice of Hope
has taught me a lot
00:44:29.80\00:44:31.13
and brought me
fresh life lessons to me.
00:44:31.17\00:44:33.10
I want to discover the
love and mystery of God.
00:44:33.13\00:44:35.44
I want to serve Him."
00:44:35.47\00:44:36.81
And then he says,
"The Voice of Hope
00:44:36.84\00:44:38.17
is a good
spiritual teacher to me."
00:44:38.21\00:44:39.54
Amen.
00:44:39.57\00:44:40.91
There's another one,
"Several months ago,"
00:44:40.94\00:44:42.28
that was from China by the way.
00:44:42.31\00:44:43.65
"Several months ago, I
bought a Shortwave radio
00:44:43.68\00:44:45.55
and tuned to Voice of Hope.
00:44:45.58\00:44:46.92
Even though the
signals are poor,
00:44:46.95\00:44:48.38
the messages are clear and loud.
00:44:48.42\00:44:50.32
My spiritual
thirst has been quenched."
00:44:50.35\00:44:52.29
And another one said,
00:44:52.32\00:44:53.66
"I've accepted
Christ as my savior.
00:44:53.69\00:44:55.16
There is no church in my
area, so AWR is my church."
00:44:55.19\00:44:58.49
Can you imagine being in a place
00:44:58.53\00:44:59.86
where there is no church?
00:44:59.89\00:45:01.23
Yeah. This is incredible. Yeah.
00:45:01.26\00:45:02.60
There's more I can tell you,
00:45:02.63\00:45:03.97
but I'm not going to let
Jeff tell you a story too.
00:45:04.00\00:45:06.90
Karina was born into a
very wealthy home in Argentina,
00:45:06.94\00:45:11.91
but she had a
maid, she had chauffeur
00:45:11.94\00:45:15.08
to take her
wherever she need to go.
00:45:15.11\00:45:16.64
But after her father died
00:45:16.68\00:45:18.15
the family's wealth
changed dramatically.
00:45:18.18\00:45:22.48
A few years
later, she found out that
00:45:22.52\00:45:24.39
her mother was
not really her mother.
00:45:24.42\00:45:26.65
She was a child of one
of the maids in the family.
00:45:26.69\00:45:30.69
And then when she was about 11,
00:45:30.73\00:45:32.73
her stepfather
tried to abuse her.
00:45:32.76\00:45:36.93
And interestingly
enough rather than her mother
00:45:36.97\00:45:39.53
throwing this no good man
out, she threw her daughter out.
00:45:39.57\00:45:45.84
The mother was
involved in satanic worship,
00:45:45.87\00:45:50.45
something called Reubenism.
00:45:50.48\00:45:53.01
And this girl,
went, 11 year old girl
00:45:53.05\00:45:55.32
went to live in
a Reubenist temple.
00:45:55.35\00:45:58.59
And you can
imagine what went on there.
00:45:58.62\00:46:01.09
She sold her soul to the devil.
00:46:01.12\00:46:04.79
And the devil then
began encouraging her
00:46:04.83\00:46:07.06
to take her own life
and she resisted that.
00:46:07.10\00:46:11.13
She finally got married.
00:46:11.17\00:46:12.50
She thought things would change.
00:46:12.53\00:46:14.07
She had several miscarriages.
00:46:14.10\00:46:16.71
Finally, she had a
little boy and a little girl.
00:46:16.74\00:46:19.51
And still the
devil was after her
00:46:19.54\00:46:23.51
and he tried to get
her to kill her children.
00:46:23.55\00:46:27.42
And she said, I
won't kill my children,
00:46:27.45\00:46:29.12
I might kill
myself but not my children
00:46:29.15\00:46:31.09
but it kept, kept at her
00:46:31.12\00:46:33.82
and finally said
"This is painless,
00:46:33.86\00:46:36.49
just put the children to sleep,
00:46:36.52\00:46:38.63
close all the doors and windows,
00:46:38.66\00:46:40.13
open the oven door,
00:46:40.16\00:46:41.50
turn on the gas and go to sleep
and you will never wake up."
00:46:41.53\00:46:45.60
And she thought my
pain will be over, you know,
00:46:45.63\00:46:49.44
all of this
harassment from the devil.
00:46:49.47\00:46:51.57
Yeah. And the
horrible life she had lived.
00:46:51.61\00:46:54.78
She did that.
00:46:54.81\00:46:56.14
She put the children to
sleep, she turned on the gas
00:46:56.18\00:47:00.22
and then she thought
"I'll turn on my radio
00:47:00.25\00:47:04.12
for a little diversion."
00:47:04.15\00:47:06.49
At that moment a
Seventh-day Adventist Voice
00:47:06.52\00:47:10.36
of Hope pastor was
preaching a sermon on God,
00:47:10.39\00:47:14.40
and giving one's
life to the Lord.
00:47:14.43\00:47:16.83
Wow!
00:47:16.87\00:47:18.20
She turned off the gas
00:47:18.23\00:47:19.57
to listen to the
rest of the program
00:47:19.60\00:47:22.97
and gave her heart to the Lord.
00:47:23.00\00:47:24.47
Praise the Lord.
Isn't that amazing?
00:47:24.51\00:47:25.84
Praise the Lord.
00:47:25.87\00:47:27.21
I mean that can't
be happenstance...
00:47:27.24\00:47:28.58
Yeah.
00:47:28.61\00:47:29.94
That at that very moment...
00:47:29.98\00:47:31.31
Right. There was a program.
00:47:31.35\00:47:32.68
Agreed.
00:47:32.71\00:47:34.05
We need these programs
00:47:34.08\00:47:35.42
because the Lord
has different moments
00:47:35.45\00:47:36.79
with different people
that he needs to get a message
00:47:36.82\00:47:38.95
instantly to them.
00:47:38.99\00:47:40.46
There's not time
to jump in your car
00:47:40.49\00:47:41.92
maybe and drive over
there for Bible study,
00:47:41.96\00:47:44.89
but they can be led
to tune to a program
00:47:44.93\00:47:48.46
that is just what
they needed at that moment.
00:47:48.50\00:47:51.03
Praise the Lord.
Powerful, powerful.
00:47:51.07\00:47:54.20
I want to mention...
00:47:54.24\00:47:55.57
Oh! Yes. Just
little graphic there.
00:47:55.60\00:47:58.51
I think, they have it
out in the studio, anyway,
00:47:58.54\00:48:01.41
there it is.
00:48:01.44\00:48:02.78
This is the new thing
for Adventist World Radio.
00:48:02.81\00:48:04.98
Now, we've been
broadcasting for 46 years,
00:48:05.01\00:48:07.15
but with Duane
McKey now leading out,
00:48:07.18\00:48:08.88
we have a new evangelism
focus which is called "AWR360
00:48:08.92\00:48:13.15
Broadcast to Baptism".
00:48:13.19\00:48:14.89
The idea is we're not
just entertaining people,
00:48:14.92\00:48:16.66
we're bringing them to Christ.
00:48:16.69\00:48:18.03
Yeah. And that's a big deal.
00:48:18.06\00:48:19.39
So we're gonna add an
international Bible School.
00:48:19.43\00:48:21.30
So anybody that tunes
in to this programming
00:48:21.33\00:48:23.70
can find a place
where they can get
00:48:23.73\00:48:25.40
Bible study lesson and so on.
00:48:25.43\00:48:27.04
And can be in touch
with local people that,
00:48:27.07\00:48:29.04
you know, are
concerned with their salvation
00:48:29.07\00:48:31.51
and can give them Bible studies
00:48:31.54\00:48:34.28
because you well
know that all of the work
00:48:34.31\00:48:36.64
that we do in the media,
00:48:36.68\00:48:38.18
somebody there has to be a
personal contact somewhere.
00:48:38.21\00:48:40.55
Yes. And that's
what brings them in.
00:48:40.58\00:48:42.32
So it's a new thing but
we're very happy for that,
00:48:42.35\00:48:44.72
and the Lord is
really, really blessing.
00:48:44.75\00:48:46.89
And more than that now you know,
00:48:46.92\00:48:49.42
that people
probably have called 3ABN
00:48:49.46\00:48:50.96
and said "Would you advertise
something at my local church?
00:48:50.99\00:48:53.56
Well, that can happen when
you have international program.
00:48:53.60\00:48:56.13
But when we do our FMs,
00:48:56.16\00:48:57.53
now we're having
local programming there,
00:48:57.57\00:48:59.53
and we say there's going
to be an evangelistic meeting
00:48:59.57\00:49:01.77
at a certain place and
AWR staff actually comes,
00:49:01.80\00:49:04.91
the speakers to come
there and do the programs.
00:49:04.94\00:49:07.41
So in the
Philippines, right now this,
00:49:07.44\00:49:09.01
in the next
month we're gonna have
00:49:09.04\00:49:10.38
a whole series of
evangelistic meetings
00:49:10.41\00:49:12.31
that have been advertised
on AWR in the Philippines.
00:49:12.35\00:49:15.82
So this is the kind of
thing that's happening now.
00:49:15.85\00:49:17.75
More evangelistic
thrust than ever before.
00:49:17.79\00:49:20.16
Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:20.19\00:49:21.52
I'm very, very
excited about this,
00:49:21.56\00:49:22.89
and Duane and I've had
several discussions on this,
00:49:22.92\00:49:26.29
this idea of not just, okay,
we're just gonna broadcast,
00:49:26.33\00:49:28.93
broadcast, broadcast.
00:49:28.96\00:49:30.30
We want to move people
00:49:30.33\00:49:31.67
from broadcast to
baptism in the church.
00:49:31.70\00:49:33.77
We want to see the
continuum from what we send out
00:49:33.80\00:49:37.14
to what comes in.
00:49:37.17\00:49:38.51
And we want to track
that, and we want to know that
00:49:38.54\00:49:40.11
we're having concrete
results in the lives of people
00:49:40.14\00:49:43.91
who are
consumable we have to offer.
00:49:43.95\00:49:45.41
I think that's a great thing.
00:49:45.45\00:49:46.85
There's one other unique
thing I'm just thinking about
00:49:46.88\00:49:49.22
and that is,
there's a lot of people
00:49:49.25\00:49:50.69
who are displaced worldwide
00:49:50.72\00:49:52.12
from where they
were normally before.
00:49:52.15\00:49:53.49
Yes.
00:49:53.52\00:49:54.86
When we were in Washington D.C.
00:49:54.89\00:49:56.22
and we were living next
to some people from Turkey
00:49:56.26\00:49:57.79
and their native
language was Arabic
00:49:57.83\00:49:59.26
that they could
speak the Turkish language,
00:49:59.29\00:50:00.66
you know, the version of it.
00:50:00.70\00:50:02.33
So you can contact
Adventist World Radio
00:50:02.36\00:50:04.97
and get this little
paper like this is real cute
00:50:05.00\00:50:07.17
just a little
half sheet of paper.
00:50:07.20\00:50:08.80
And it says on here,
"I've found something
00:50:08.84\00:50:10.51
that's really blessed my family.
00:50:10.54\00:50:11.87
Would you like to encourage
you to listen as well?"
00:50:11.91\00:50:14.44
So they can listen
on the internet by...
00:50:14.48\00:50:16.58
You get this in their language.
00:50:16.61\00:50:18.81
For example, if I
lived next door to people
00:50:18.85\00:50:20.98
who spoke Spanish and I didn't,
00:50:21.02\00:50:22.52
I would say get
one of these in Spanish
00:50:22.55\00:50:24.09
and hand it to
them as they read this,
00:50:24.12\00:50:25.45
and that will give them the way
00:50:25.49\00:50:26.82
they can get on
Adventist World Radio
00:50:26.86\00:50:28.19
and listen in
their own language.
00:50:28.22\00:50:29.56
Excellent.
00:50:29.59\00:50:30.93
I'm talking about
even in the United States
00:50:30.96\00:50:32.29
because we have lots of people
there for many, many languages
00:50:32.33\00:50:34.20
and in almost every
one of those languages
00:50:34.23\00:50:35.56
we have Adventist World Radio.
00:50:35.60\00:50:36.93
Yes. You can actually
share with your neighbors.
00:50:36.97\00:50:38.70
Get this, you can
go online to AWR.org
00:50:38.73\00:50:42.94
and you can click on
the language you want
00:50:42.97\00:50:46.07
and you can hit
print on your own computer
00:50:46.11\00:50:49.04
and print off
this little half sheet
00:50:49.08\00:50:51.01
and give it you
to your hairdresser
00:50:51.05\00:50:52.91
who maybe speaks Arabic
00:50:52.95\00:50:54.32
or your barber
who speaks Spanish.
00:50:54.35\00:50:56.95
Yes.
00:50:56.99\00:50:58.32
And as Ed says many of
these are displaced people.
00:50:58.35\00:51:00.76
They would love to hear
a language from back home.
00:51:00.79\00:51:03.93
And our program is going
to be spoken in a language
00:51:03.96\00:51:08.03
of someone from their country.
00:51:08.06\00:51:09.83
So it's affective
tool for displaced people
00:51:09.86\00:51:13.10
as Ed says right here
in the United States who,
00:51:13.13\00:51:16.17
for whom maybe
they don't speak English
00:51:16.20\00:51:19.01
or they speak
English very poorly
00:51:19.04\00:51:20.88
or they just would like to
hear a voice from back home.
00:51:20.91\00:51:23.55
Yeah, even if you
did, you want to hear
00:51:23.58\00:51:24.91
something little
familiar one, for sure.
00:51:24.95\00:51:26.28
And they're hearing
a voice from back home
00:51:26.31\00:51:27.65
but that voice
is a Christian voice
00:51:27.68\00:51:29.62
at this time,
teaching them about Jesus.
00:51:29.65\00:51:31.59
Yes, Yes, you
know, you don't think,
00:51:31.62\00:51:32.99
there are large
numbers of people
00:51:33.02\00:51:34.36
who have been forced
to leave their homeland.
00:51:34.39\00:51:35.82
Absolutely.
00:51:35.86\00:51:37.19
A lot of in the
States, they're all over,
00:51:37.23\00:51:38.56
all over the world
00:51:38.59\00:51:39.93
and they would like to
get something comforting
00:51:39.96\00:51:41.30
from their home.
00:51:41.33\00:51:42.66
Now I want to do this.
00:51:42.70\00:51:44.03
We need to go to
our contact information.
00:51:44.07\00:51:45.40
If you've heard something
that has sort of tantalized you
00:51:45.43\00:51:48.07
or that has
encouraged you and inspired you,
00:51:48.10\00:51:50.34
and you want to give support
to Adventist World Radio,
00:51:50.37\00:51:52.97
you have seen during
the last several moments,
00:51:53.01\00:51:54.88
the wonderful
things that they're doing,
00:51:54.91\00:51:57.05
the kinds of areas
that they're going into
00:51:57.08\00:51:58.98
that really no other ministry
can go into like they are.
00:51:59.01\00:52:02.68
Should you want to
support this ministry,
00:52:02.72\00:52:04.82
to pray for
them, to contact them,
00:52:04.85\00:52:07.06
here's how you
can do precisely that.
00:52:07.09\00:52:09.59
If you'd like to learn
more about Adventist World Radio
00:52:13.13\00:52:16.23
or would like to
support their ministry,
00:52:16.26\00:52:18.07
you can do so by writing
to Adventist World Radio,
00:52:18.10\00:52:21.94
12501, Old Columbia Pike,
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904.
00:52:21.97\00:52:28.44
That's 12501, Old Columbia Pike,
00:52:28.48\00:52:32.21
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904.
00:52:32.25\00:52:36.12
You can call
them at 301-680-6304
00:52:36.15\00:52:40.29
or 800-337-4297.
00:52:40.32\00:52:44.63
You can also visit
them online at AWR.org.
00:52:44.66\00:52:48.80
That's AWR.org.
00:52:48.83\00:52:51.93