Participants: CA Murray (Host), G. Edward Reid, Jeffrey Wilson
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY017047A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:27 Let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people 01:06 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Today. 01:08 My name is CA Murray. 01:10 And allow me once again to thank you for sharing 01:12 just a little of your no doubt busy day with us, 01:15 to thank you as always for your love, your prayers, 01:17 your support of this ministry because we know and understand 01:20 that we could not do what we are called to do 01:22 without your partnership. 01:23 So when we say that those are not just words 01:25 from our mouth, those are words from our heart. 01:28 We do thank you each and every day 01:30 for what you do to share with us 01:32 and lifting up the mighty and matchless name of Jesus. 01:34 I'm excited today for couple of reasons 01:37 because of my guests and because 01:38 we're going to be talking about another arm, 01:40 another facet, another segment of media ministry 01:44 which is doing a great, great work for the Lord 01:47 and that is Adventist World Radio, 01:50 that's the term that's been around for few years, 01:52 but if you're new to Adventism or new to this program, 01:56 we're gonna walk you through what Adventist World Radio is? 01:59 What it has been doing? What it is doing? 02:01 And what it continues to do for the cause of Christ? 02:03 My guests, one face you perhaps have seen here 02:06 for many, many years because he's been around a few years. 02:08 So I almost say old friend 02:10 because when you get to our age, 02:11 you don't say old friend, you say long time friend. 02:13 That's right. 02:15 Or a friend of long standing, when you get to the point 02:17 when you have no hair or grey hair, 02:19 it's just long time friend 02:21 or good friend or friend of long term. 02:22 This is G. Edward Reid. Oh! Thank you. 02:24 Edward, good to have you here. Glad to be seeing you today. 02:26 And Jeffrey Wilson by your side. 02:28 Both carry the title of assistant to the president 02:31 for Adventist World Radio. 02:32 And of course, the fairly, recently elected president 02:35 is our good friend Duane McKey. 02:36 That's true. 02:37 And he's doing a fine job, he's brought 02:39 a lot of energy and innovation to World Radio... 02:40 Amen. I'm excited about that too. 02:42 To the station, so we're very, very excited. 02:44 These men will walk us through 02:46 what Adventist World Radio is all about 02:48 and it is the ministry that is doing 02:50 great guns for the Lord. 02:51 You hear the Hope channels and you hear the 3ABNs 02:54 and you hear the other kinds of media ministries 02:57 and you maybe want to think that radio does not play 03:01 as important part as it once did. 03:03 But let me disabuse of you of that notion 03:06 because they will tell us that Adventist Radio is doing 03:08 great things for the Lord. 03:11 Sometimes you don't hear about that 03:12 but you will hear about it today, air, we're done, 03:14 and I'm sure you'll be excited to hear that. 03:17 Before we go to our music, guys, 03:18 I want to just get a little history from you. 03:20 Ed, where are you from originally? 03:22 I was born and raised in Northern California. 03:24 California guy. Yeah. 03:26 Adventist home? 03:27 Yeah, well, I'll tell you the Adventist World Radio 03:30 is interesting to me because it was radio Voice of Prophecy 03:33 actually brought my family into the Adventist church. 03:35 One of my first childhood memories 03:37 were seeing my parents baptized 03:38 when I was three years old. 03:39 Praise the Lord. 03:41 Essentially, I've been raised an Adventist, 03:42 but I saw my parents become members. 03:44 You remember that? You got that memory. 03:45 Oh, yes, indeed one of my early memories, 03:46 Klamath River, Northern California. 03:49 I know Klamath, that Klamath Falls, 03:50 Klamath area sure, sure. 03:53 It is one thing as you well know 03:55 to be baptized into the Adventist church 03:58 or an Adventist home 03:59 and have the accoutrements of Adventism all around you. 04:01 When did it become personal, one on one with you and Jesus? 04:04 Well, I was quite faithful as a young person. 04:08 But I can tell you that the year I graduated 04:09 from high school, I read the Bible 04:11 clear through that summer. 04:13 And I was about to decide whether I want to continue 04:15 being different from most people, 04:16 got worshipping on Sabbath or go along with the crowd. 04:19 And I read the Bible clear 04:21 through for my first time myself and I decided 04:23 not only to stay an Adventist but to become a minister. 04:26 I already had been accepted in college. 04:28 Now I've been gone to a pre-law program. 04:30 But I put off going to law school for 20 years 04:32 because I've first started in ministry. 04:33 Wow. 04:35 So you did finally fulfill that law? 04:36 Yeah, I did. 04:38 And I did not go into law practice 04:40 to get away from ministry 04:42 but I felt that since Martin Luther, 04:43 and John Calvin and John Wycliffe, 04:45 those reformers had all been trained in the law 04:46 that it might be valuable to my ministry for the Lord 04:49 and it has been. 04:50 Oh, praise the Lord. Praise God. 04:52 So you got your Theo and your Lord? 04:53 Yes. 04:54 Yeah, that's a handy set of degrees to have. 04:56 In the mean time, I went to Loma Linda 04:57 and I got a Master in Public Health, 04:59 so I'm interested in that as well. 05:00 All right. Amen and amen. 05:02 And you served in the church for how many years? 05:04 44 years. Full time, 44 years. 05:06 And the offices, all right, 05:07 because you left from North American Division, 05:09 I think when you retired? 05:10 Yes, then went to the General Conference 05:11 with Adventist World Radio. 05:13 But I was in the North American Division 05:15 for 21 years 05:16 teaching stewardship in money management. 05:18 For a short period of that time, three years, 05:20 I was also the executive secretary of ASI. 05:23 I'm not sure you're familiar with ASI. 05:25 You go and get those people at ASI, will you? 05:28 Of course, long as I can remember. 05:30 Yeah, ASI is a great friend of this ministry 05:32 and ministry we've carried on 3ABN for 05:35 I don't know how many years, almost since its inception. 05:37 Praise the Lord. 05:38 And we praise the Lord for that. 05:40 And, Jeffrey, same question. You're native of, born where? 05:42 Oh, I was born in San Francisco, California. 05:44 Now, both west coast guys. But I grew up in Arizona. 05:47 And Ed and I was just figuring this out this morning. 05:51 Ed and I met 60 years ago actually in the seventh grade 05:55 in Tempe Seventh-day Adventist Church School 05:59 and we graduated 59 years ago in 1958 and from that school. 06:03 And then we went separate ways but for last, oh, about, 06:09 well, last 11 years I guess before I retired in '10, 06:13 you retired in the fall of '10, I think. 06:14 Right. 06:16 I've retired at the General Conference session 06:17 in Atlanta in '10 and interestingly enough 06:21 since then we've been holding the same title. 06:23 Yes. 06:24 Not many people hold that, 06:26 but we live about a 100 miles apart in Eastern Tennessee, 06:30 but we cover various parts of the United States 06:33 basically for Adventist World Radio. 06:35 And similar to Ed, my parents came into the church 06:38 through the media, through Voice of Prophecy. 06:42 They were listening to H.M.S. Richards on the radio. 06:45 And he announced one day on the radio 06:49 that he was having evangelistic campaign, 06:52 a tabernacle meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, 06:54 that was in 1938. 06:57 And my parents droved down there, 06:59 drove around the building several times, should we go in? 07:01 Should we not go in? It was bright lighted building. 07:05 Finally, they decided to go in and they were hooked. 07:08 And so I was born a few years later, 07:10 but I attribute my being as a Christian 07:15 and the Seventh-day Adventist to the media. 07:17 And interestingly enough, you know, 07:19 H.M.S. Richards was a brilliant committed person 07:23 who saw media before anyone else, I think... 07:25 Very much so. Very much so. 07:27 Many in the church felt that was a sinful thing 07:30 to get on to radio. 07:32 And he, of course, went at that point, 07:35 AM radio, he went nationwide on it. 07:38 But for years and years he urged the brethren 07:41 that we needed to be on Shortwave. 07:44 And Shortwave is only a hobby here in the United States, 07:48 but in most of the world, it's the only way. 07:50 Yeah. Virtually only way. 07:52 A lot of people get the news. Get the news, very true. 07:55 And because it travels thousands of miles, 07:59 many people tuned to it because there is no legitimate 08:03 or means of learning 08:06 what's really happening in the world 08:07 from any media in their own country. 08:09 So they will turn to BBC News 08:12 or something of that sort to find out what's going on. 08:15 And interestingly enough where we lease time 08:18 on major Shortwave stations, 08:22 our engineers every year 08:24 when they're delivering out the programming, 08:27 we try to get before, after BBC News 08:30 or just aside or that side of BBC News. 08:32 Good leading. People get the bad news. 08:35 We hope they turned it out slightly and get the good news. 08:37 Get the good news. 08:38 And I want to talk about that too because 08:40 they say if you want to reach a city, go AM, 08:43 if you want to reach your region, go FM, 08:44 if you want to reach your country or several, 08:46 go Shortwave. 08:47 That's correct. 08:48 And I want to talk about before we go too far, 08:50 the difference between Shortwave programming 08:53 and what we normally think of as FM-AM program 08:55 because there was a difference, there's a stark difference 08:57 as far as your broadcast day. 08:59 And I think, a lot of people are not aware of that. 09:00 Yes. 09:02 It just happens that I'm also an amateur radio operator. 09:04 So I'm familiar with FM radio and I got interested in that 09:06 many years ago and have been on the air for long time, 09:09 not recently but I still have all my equipment. 09:12 But I would just tell you that this is an amazing thing 09:14 about the... 09:16 If you go to Guam, the Central Pacific 09:17 where our flagship shortwave station is... 09:19 Yes. 09:21 They have five big curtain antennas 09:22 that they are perfectly tuned 09:24 and they have 100,000 watts of power. 09:27 But you'd see, all you see out there is ocean. 09:30 And you just think it's not gonna bounce 09:31 off the water, it goes up to the ionosphere 09:33 and come down like rain all over to the 10/40 Window. 09:36 It is incredible, absolutely amazing. 09:38 So it goes up to the ionosphere and comes back down, 09:40 so that's interesting. 09:42 It doesn't have to be line aside. 09:43 So FM though is line aside, so if you're in town 09:47 and you see our antenna on top of the tall building, 09:49 that's probably FM going as far as it can be seen and covers, 09:52 and AM is very similar, they have a shorter wavelength 09:55 than or shorter reach area than FM. 09:58 Than FM. 09:59 But Adventist World Radio is actually were doing 10:01 all three and internet. 10:02 So it's amazing what we're covering now. 10:04 We'll get into that in a few minutes probably. 10:06 Yeah. 10:07 Yeah, having worked at FM station 10:08 for a period of time, it's like an, 10:11 make your pitch real quick, 10:12 I just want to say this before we go to our music 10:14 and come back, we're gonna sort of walk through this. 10:16 The fact that radio 10:19 is as pertinent a communication tool 10:22 as it is ever been rather than decreasing 10:25 because of what it does and where can it go. 10:27 It is as valuable a tool for the gospel 10:29 as that, would you not say so? 10:31 Oh, sure. Yeah. 10:32 The most interesting thing is that even in America, 10:35 especially in the Washington D.C. area 10:36 where we lived for 20 years, 10:38 most people listen to the radio while they're communicating. 10:40 Sometimes that can be up to two hours a day. 10:41 Precisely. Morning and evening. 10:43 So they get their news, 10:45 they get their information they want to, 10:46 the weather and all of that. 10:47 And any other program if they like on the radio. 10:49 And you can listen to while you're working, 10:51 or while you're driving or whatever. 10:53 But the most amazing thing is that in many countries 10:55 where we reach into the most difficult places in the world, 10:58 people do not have a local television station 11:00 or satellite equipment. 11:02 Yes. 11:03 So their only hope is to get something 11:05 that will work in their area even many without power. 11:08 So we'll show you how that happens 11:09 in a few minutes, but it's amazing. 11:11 Radio is the primary means of communication 11:14 that most people in the world have. 11:16 I mean, I'm so used to just turn it, 11:17 flipping the switch and having a light 11:19 and what if you had no power. 11:20 You know, many people live that way. 11:22 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 11:23 It's interesting that I can remember as a boy 11:25 when television came in. 11:27 The word was that radio would die, it didn't die. 11:31 It became stronger yet. 11:33 When the internet came along, everybody said radio will die. 11:36 Well, as you very well know, 11:38 our radio was all over the internet. 11:39 Now a local radio station can be worldwide, 11:43 nationwide, worldwide. 11:44 Yes. 11:46 And I think radio has never been stronger than it is today, 11:49 even though, we have the internet, 11:50 we have television, we have satellite, 11:52 we have all that kind of stuff. 11:54 But we know the devil uses all these media. 11:57 Oh, yes. 11:58 God's truth must be broadcast in all those ways, 12:03 and as Ed says, believe it or not for much of the world, 12:09 Shortwave radio or internet is the only way 12:12 they can get any kind of message out. 12:14 We can get the message out. Yeah. 12:16 There is an intimacy with radio 12:17 that the other media simply do not have. 12:20 When you pass some of these big buildings 12:22 where the guys are working as hard as what not, what's on? 12:26 Radio all day long. 12:27 A painter comes to your house, what's on? 12:29 Radio. 12:31 You know, as you well said, 12:33 having pastored in New York City for 30 years. 12:35 One hour, two hour commute, what's on? 12:37 Radio. 12:38 So rather than being irrelevant, it becomes 12:42 hyper relevant in the Atlantic. 12:43 Yes, that's true. Yeah. Very much so. 12:45 We're gonna go to our music. 12:46 I want to come back and then question 12:47 these erudite gentlemen because we're gonna talk about 12:50 what Adventist World Radio is? 12:52 In case you do not know, 12:53 we're gonna, what we're gonna give you 12:54 Adventist World Radio 101. 12:56 When they give you their premise 12:58 that you totally understand what we're talking about 12:59 and then we're gonna ask for your support 13:01 because this is a medium that God is using 13:03 to save souls in these last days. 13:05 Our music today comes from Scott Michael Bennett. 13:09 He's going to be doing a wonderful song "Come". 13:32 Come 13:35 When your heart is heavy laden 13:39 And you're feeling like the joy is fading 13:44 Just come 13:49 Come 13:51 Believing everything I've told you 13:55 'Cause here are arms that long to hold you 14:01 Just come 14:06 Come 14:09 And leave behind the mask you're hiding 14:13 Here is someone to confide in 14:17 I know what you've done 14:23 Come 14:26 And tell me everything you're hoping 14:30 The Father loves a heart that's open 14:35 Just come 14:40 I didn't die so you could try 14:44 To save yourself 14:48 I know who you are 14:51 Don't try to be somebody else 14:59 Come 15:01 Believing everything I've told you 15:06 'Cause here are arms that long to hold you 15:10 Won't you come 15:16 Come 15:18 And come into the joy of living 15:22 Knowing that your sin's forgiven, 15:27 Just come 15:33 I didn't die so you could try 15:36 To save yourself 15:41 I know who you are 15:44 Don't try to be somebody else 15:51 Come 15:54 Believing everything I've told you 15:59 Here are arms that long to hold you, 16:03 Lord, you come 16:09 Come 16:11 And come into the joy of living 16:16 Knowing that your sin's forgiven 16:21 Just come 16:39 Just come 16:52 Thank you. Thank you. 16:53 Brother Bennett, well done. 16:55 Young man with the great testimony 16:57 who came here some time ago to record music 16:59 and just somebody we like a lot. 17:00 My guests are Ed Reid and Jeffrey Wilson, 17:02 they both of Adventist World Radio 17:05 holding the same title as assistant to the president 17:09 and as Elder Jeff said, 17:12 "You know, when you get two hoarding the same, 17:14 you actually get more than a 100% 17:16 that's because of the way Adventism works. 17:17 Everybody gives their 100%. 17:19 So when you get, rather in getting 50-50, 17:21 you get a 100-100. 17:23 So you really get 200%. 17:24 And that's just the way it works. 17:26 Let's gentlemen walk right into what is Adventist World Radio 17:30 and why does it exist? 17:32 And I guess that bespeaks 17:34 a little history of the media also. 17:36 Adventist World Radio began in 1971 17:40 and I think, it was Neal Wilson and number of others 17:43 who with the urging of Elder Richards and others said, 17:48 we've got to reach that larger audience. 17:51 And believe it or not, 17:52 there are about 40 countries in the world 17:55 in which we cannot do regular church work. 17:59 We can't build churches, 18:00 we can't do evangelistic meetings, 18:03 we can't print or distribute literature. 18:05 We can't be on any local stations 18:07 because we're Christian. 18:09 So we had... 18:10 And had the Lord in His commission, 18:12 great commission to us said, "Go to every nation, 18:15 kindred, tongue, and people. 18:18 So the church feels we've got to reach everyone. 18:21 Even if we can't send, even if we can't do 18:24 boots on the ground as it were, we can't send. 18:27 We send missionaries since 1874 all over the world 18:31 except this we now called the 10/40 window, 18:36 10 degrees north to 40 degrees north, 18:38 halfway around the world from the United States, 18:40 from West Africa to the Philippines, 18:42 two-thirds of the world live in that window. 18:46 And yet, and that's where all the world religions 18:49 have their birth place. 18:50 Yes. Yes. 18:51 And yet, if you count, if you look at it only 3, 4, 5% 18:57 are Christian in that window, 18:58 where two-thirds of the world lives. 19:00 And that's why 3ABN, that's why Hope Channel, 19:04 that's why especially, Adventist World Radio 19:07 is concentrating on that window. 19:10 We can't send missionaries in, 19:12 so we have to bring people out sometimes under cover 19:18 to where we have a studio because all of our producers, 19:22 all of our speakers are native language speakers 19:25 for that country. 19:27 We're jumping a huge divide between a heathen religion 19:31 and Christianity. 19:33 And so the people need to hear a familiar voice. 19:36 And as you know, you can learn a language, 19:39 but your voice is not like a native speaker 19:43 in that particular language. 19:44 So we use all native speakers 19:47 and people can only reach us by Shortwave radio, 19:52 and Ed will show you some of the radios 19:54 we distribute in a minute. 19:56 We distribute thousands of radios every year, 19:58 not radios that you can plug in. 20:00 Yeah. 20:01 They don't have a place to plug in, 20:03 and they are battery powered but we found people 20:05 going two or three days without rice 20:07 to afford to buy two or three AAA batteries 20:10 to put in the radios and we felt we can't... 20:12 The gospel must be free. 20:14 So we use solar powered radios, 20:18 and so we can get the gospel to people 20:21 free from thousands of miles away, 20:25 because we cannot broadcast in those countries. 20:29 I mean, we have so much of our work, 20:31 we can't discuss, we can't tell you the country name. 20:33 Yeah. 20:35 We certainly aren't going to talk about people 20:36 because it would jeopardize the work that we do. 20:41 So you want the gospel to be truly free. 20:44 And I've got to slid down in the store to get batteries 20:47 then it's not, it is costing me something 20:49 and it's either eat or batteries. 20:51 I kind of got to go with eat, you know, it's... 20:54 So to make it truly free. 20:57 We talk about 10/40 window 20:58 and the concentration of people groups in the 10/40 window, 21:02 but is it not also true that 21:03 some of the most resistant areas are in that same window 21:07 as far as being resistant to the gospel. 21:09 Actually hostile. Yes, yes, yes, well said. 21:11 As we speak, this is not in the major news, 21:14 but as we speak thousands of Christians 21:17 are being killed in that window for their faith. 21:19 They're being martyred. 21:21 It's the time of trouble... 21:23 For them. For them right now. 21:25 It's not future, it's right now. 21:28 So we urge people, we want to pray 21:31 that the Holy Spirit will guide people 21:33 to tune their radios to Voice of Hope, 21:36 to our various programming, but at the same time, 21:39 pray that the holy angels will protect the lives of those 21:43 who embrace Christianity 21:45 because their lives are in danger. 21:47 One thing that's helpful with radio over television 21:50 is if you view a television screen 21:53 and that's a Christian program in a hostile country, 21:56 your life may be in danger. 21:58 But we have young people doing and others in these countries 22:01 is they have their ear buds in their ears. 22:04 And nobody knows whether they're listening 22:07 to a Christian program or secular program. 22:11 So they can listen to the word 22:16 and their lives at the moment at least can be spared. 22:19 Can be spared, yeah. Yeah, praise the Lord. 22:22 I would add one interesting thing 22:23 and that is what Elder Wilson 22:25 has just mentioned is absolutely true, 22:27 but the most amazing thing 22:28 is people like to hear in their own language, 22:30 so we're in over a 100 languages, 22:32 the most, the major languages of the whole world 22:35 are on Adventist World Radio. 22:37 And the interesting thing also is that even though 22:39 people live in these isolated countries, 22:41 the radio doesn't stop at the border, 22:43 it goes right over the top, you know, this is incredible. 22:46 It is, it truly is. 22:47 It's really, really amazing and they need very little 22:50 as far as equipment to be able to listen. 22:52 So my wife and I have devotions together every morning, 22:55 we always pray for the media. 22:56 We mention 3ABN by name, Adventist World Radio by name 22:58 and so on 'cause we're not in competition, 23:01 we're working together. 23:02 No, no, same work, very much so. 23:03 And so Adventist World Radio 23:05 is the General Conference's mission arm, 23:07 the radio mission arm to take the gospel 23:09 where the missionaries typically cannot go, 23:12 but we're now in other places using FM in big cities 23:14 in India and in Africa and so on 23:17 to make even more of a concentration, 23:20 and you recently had an interview 23:22 with elder Duane Mckey, our new president 23:24 of Adventist World Radio. 23:25 And he's been involved with the General Conference 23:27 as the coordinator with Elder Wilson 23:30 under his direction of the total member involvement, 23:33 getting everybody to do something. 23:35 And so having that as also part of 23:37 now Adventist World Radio, 23:39 we have some incredible new things happening, 23:42 and we'll tell you about those as well. 23:43 But the idea is we're taking 23:45 as you are the gospel to all the world, 23:47 every kindred, nation, tongue, and people. 23:49 So it is my personal opinion that almost everybody on earth 23:52 can listen to and understand one of those languages. 23:54 Amen, amen. Praise the Lord. 23:56 Now, walk me through this gentlemen 23:58 because when you think of radio, 23:59 you think of, "Oh, you can turn a radio, 24:01 you get English programs, 24:02 you get some music and some this, 24:04 but Shortwave radio functions are little different 24:06 because of the varied people groups you are trying to meet, 24:09 so the broadcast day is broken up into. 24:11 Can you walk me through that what that is 24:13 so people can understand the difference here 24:15 between say an FM or AM station and a Shortwave broadcast? 24:19 Well, Ed and I... 24:22 While your title as assistant to the president, 24:26 that's not the total title. 24:27 Our title is assistant to the president 24:29 for planned giving. 24:31 Ed and I really work at the other end, 24:32 we don't work at headquarters, we work out of our homes 24:35 and we deal with people assisting them 24:37 with wills and trusts and this sort of thing 24:39 of supporting God's work. 24:41 And in that work, of course, there are many people 24:43 who remember many different ministries 24:45 including 3ABN in the work that we do. 24:48 So we don't know a whole lot about the technical end of it, 24:50 but we do know that we broadcast in 100 languages 24:55 and that those languages are focused on times of day. 25:00 For example, from Guam, 25:02 we reach the eastern half of the 10/40 window 25:04 and our big push out of Guam is China. 25:09 Three of our five antennas on Guam are focused on China. 25:13 And we do about 33 languages as I understand there, 25:16 and we focus on, believe it or not, 25:20 China is as wide as the United States. 25:23 We have four time zones in the continental United States, 25:26 in China, it's a one time zone, 25:30 believe it or not, one time zone. 25:32 So we focus on the three hours in the morning 25:35 and the three hours in the evening, 25:37 when people are commuting because as we said, 25:39 if you're living in a big city, 25:41 you're not watching TV, you're stuck in traffic... 25:43 Even while riding a bike. 25:45 Even while riding a bike, you're listening to the radio. 25:47 So we focus on the major languages there, 25:50 believe it or not, the most, 25:52 the language that we're getting the most response 25:55 from right now is Mandarin Chinese 25:57 which is thrilling to us because as you know in China, 26:01 if the church is working at all, it's underground. 26:04 Yes. 26:05 And so many people speaking Mandarin, 26:08 they're not hearing it on a Sabbath morning 26:12 or a Sunday morning in church. 26:14 This is the way we can preach not just Sabbath or Sunday, 26:17 but seven days a week. 26:19 So we concentrate on the times of days 26:21 and the languages to fit that to reach the most people 26:25 in the most opportune times of the day. 26:27 Okay, you've answered to my question perfectly. 26:31 What I was trying to get to is that 26:33 someone in China who speaks Mandarin, 26:35 knows that at 9 o'clock, Monday morning, 26:39 I can turn on this thing and I'm going to hear 26:41 something for me. 26:43 Yeah. 26:44 The most amazing thing to me is how people find out about it. 26:47 Yes. 26:48 Because, you know, when you put the signal out there, 26:49 you're not really sure anybody's going to listen, 26:51 but providentially, not happenstance. 26:54 Yes. 26:55 Providentially, people find a station 26:57 and other people tell them about it. 26:59 And we actually have many stories, 27:01 we'll share a few later 27:02 where somebody has listened to the radio in a place 27:05 where they couldn't share it with anybody, 27:07 be very, very interested. 27:08 And then they finally can't keep it in, 27:10 tell someone else and that person's 27:11 been listening to. 27:14 Isn't that amazing? That is great. That is great. 27:16 That's the power of the Lord and reach of the gospel 27:19 and, you know, the Lord, once you join hands with Him, 27:22 your work grows so exponentially. 27:24 Yes. 27:26 And though you're not putting stuff out, 27:27 it's getting out there, and people are responding 27:29 and praise the Lord for that. 27:30 So that is what I was getting at that, 27:33 you switched languages at different times a day 27:36 during the course of the day 27:37 and different people groups are picking up or tuning in 27:40 during the time when their language is being spoken. 27:42 I should say that. 27:43 We talk about Guam which is our church, 27:45 our own station on the Island of Guam 27:47 which is a U.S. territory so we're safe there. 27:51 We can't be in those countries obviously, 27:53 but for many years, the church had a small station in Italy 27:57 and there was a plan to build a super station in Italy 28:01 to cover the western half of the 10/40 window. 28:04 And we kept getting requirements 28:08 from additional permits, additional permits 28:10 and finally we've realized that the government 28:12 didn't want us there. 28:14 Yeah. 28:15 Well, it was all in God's plan because how we cover 28:17 the western half of the 10/40 window at this moment 28:19 is we lease time out of South Africa, 28:23 out of Madagascar, out of Austria, 28:26 Germany and the Netherlands. 28:29 And so from outside the window, 28:31 we reach into the window. 28:33 And as Ed described our antenna, 28:36 they're call curtains. 28:38 They're a size of football field. 28:40 And so they're fairly, yeah, they're fairly directional. 28:44 It's not like satellite at 360. 28:46 So we have to be outside and shoot toward that Guam, 28:50 on the south end of Guam are as we're along the coast 28:53 there right next to the naval station, 28:55 we're focused perfectly for China, 28:58 North Korea and Southeast Asia. 29:00 For Africa and Europe, we're focused perfectly 29:03 to get the western half of that window, 29:05 so we cover every square inch of the 10/40 window, 29:09 sometimes overlapping somewhat, but that's good too. 29:12 Oh, yes. 29:13 The whole window, even though we can't be 29:15 in the window very much. 29:17 Well, few places we can. 29:19 And we have a little station in Israel now 29:21 I think, don't we, Ed? 29:22 Yeah, I think so. 29:23 But most of that geography, we can't be in it. 29:26 Well, India is in the window 29:28 and we do have a number of F.M stations growing 29:32 and I think, we're in 10 or 13 languages in India now. 29:34 Yeah. 29:35 But lot of that other area, the Arab countries, 29:37 we cannot get into North Korea, of course, no way. 29:40 China, very little, but where it's saturated 29:44 with three angels' gospel because of where we are. 29:48 The signal goes in but we can't go personally 29:51 at some of these places. 29:53 And it's so exciting, and I have seen 29:56 to see what this antenna, 29:58 we say antenna, you're thinking of one little thing 30:00 but this ain't that. 30:01 This is a massive kind of thing. 30:03 And it's really a marvelous technology. 30:06 If you look at those antenna, 30:08 it's sobering to see how big they are. 30:11 And the typhoon that came through there 30:14 what was at '04 I think, blew the roof off our academy, 30:18 destroyed many of the buildings on Guam... 30:21 Yeah. 30:23 There are 300, 280 to 330 feet tall. 30:26 Yes. 30:28 They sit on a concrete foundation and... 30:30 It's big as the school bus. 30:31 Yeah, and but with the guy wires 30:35 they can lean with the wind 30:37 and they stood and withstand the horrible storms 30:42 they have there, when even buildings don't. 30:44 Praise the Lord. 30:45 Praise God, that's all very, very exciting. 30:48 I remember when they were trying to do that thing 30:51 in Italy and finally you just realize that 30:53 it wasn't gonna fly. 30:55 But you know, when you're working with the Lord, 30:56 the Lord has many, many ways that you think not of. 30:58 That's true. That's right. 30:59 And we get, what we need to have done. 31:03 You have brought a couple examples 31:05 of radios with you and I want to get to them 31:07 before we get too far on the program, 31:09 you walk us through some of this stuff, yeah. 31:10 This cute little radio is amazing 31:12 in the fact that it has Shortwave, 31:17 AM-FM and Shortwave 31:18 but the interesting part about it 31:19 is it can fit in your pocket. 31:21 And it has, of course, a place for you 31:22 to plug your ear phones in. 31:23 And so while, you're riding your bike 31:25 or whatever you can listen to it, and it's a digital. 31:26 So it focuses right on the signal 31:28 which is very, very good. 31:29 This is in a place where you can have electricity 31:31 or batteries. 31:32 But there's other one, I'm going to show you, 31:34 I'll lay that one down here is pretty amazing. 31:37 It's quite substantial 31:39 and it also has a digital readout 31:41 and it has a big speaker. 31:44 We have lots of photographs of people 31:45 listening to this radio with the whole family 31:47 or a whole group of villagers around. 31:50 So that you can turn it, clear up on full power 31:53 and it doesn't distort which is amazing. 31:55 But in addition to that, 31:57 this is one of those universal ones 31:58 that has four different ways to power. 32:00 You can plug it in should you be in a place 32:02 that has electricity or you can use battery power. 32:04 But in addition, it has a solar panel on the back 32:06 that collects the sun. 32:07 Excellent. 32:09 And if you set it out in the sun, 32:10 it will play for quite a long time. 32:11 Yeah and I see something else back there. 32:13 If you live where you have sun, you can crank it up. 32:14 You can crank. 32:16 This is got a little servo in it that cranks up 32:17 and it charges the battery and it's amazing. 32:21 This one has been my favorite one, 32:22 but we've even smaller than this that have all four on it. 32:25 And this is incredible. 32:27 We distribute thousands of those. 32:28 You got a little light there, yeah. 32:29 By the way, this has a little light, 32:31 it just came on just from my cranking that is in it. 32:33 Isn't that amazing? 32:35 But this is one that's also and by the way AWR's purchase 32:38 thousands of these and distribute them to people. 32:41 You might know a miracle story and Jeff will tell you 32:43 a few stories in a few minutes, but we've gone to places 32:46 where people already had radios. 32:47 They don't even know that we're coming 32:49 and already listening to the AWR. 32:50 Wow! Isn't that amazing? 32:51 Praise the Lord. How do you get these out? 32:53 Or how does AWR get them out? 32:54 Do they select a country 32:56 and then sort of distribute them? 32:58 How did, this is a nice little, you know, it's not that heavy, 33:00 I'm kind of get it right with you. 33:01 That's right, we'd distribute them 33:02 specifically in places where our signal... 33:05 Well, we know the signals there, 33:06 but people don't have the means to have a radio. 33:08 Elder Chow, our former president, for example, 33:11 went into some back country in Mexico 33:14 and distributed about 6,000 of those 33:17 and they've distributed throughout Africa 33:21 and as Ed said, 33:23 we've also have stories of village chiefs 33:27 who reported that a man in white 33:30 came to the village and handed him a radio. 33:32 Oh, wow! 33:34 And told him how to tune to Voice of Hope. 33:37 Well, if you're a villager in a village 33:39 and your chief asked you to come to his house 33:41 to listen to a radio, would you go? 33:43 Of course, you go. I think so. 33:45 And after listening for a while, 33:46 they learned that the seventh day was a Sabbath 33:49 and so we've discovered that, 33:51 for example, in Madagascar about 28 villages 33:55 where the people come together every Sabbath 33:58 and listen to the radio and that's their church. 34:00 Wow! 34:02 Praise the Lord. 34:03 This one is kind of my friend. 34:04 I like this because at first, I like the crank, 34:06 you know, I'm kind of who do not just sit, 34:08 I'm just kind of crank all day, you know. 34:10 Get your exercise. 34:11 Get that light on it. 34:12 What is the full charge? 34:14 How much cranking you have to set 34:15 to get maybe an hour out of this? 34:17 I think probably about 15 minutes. 34:18 Yeah. But it's not too long. 34:19 People learn what it is, how long it takes. 34:21 Actually we have sometimes church school groups 34:24 or pathfinder groups or Sabbath school groups 34:28 will take on a project of sponsoring half a dozen 34:32 or a dozen of these radios and they run about $40 34:36 that includes sending in and all that comes with it. 34:40 It comes with ear phones too... 34:41 Ear phones, yeah. 34:43 Various, the plug in if you have power. 34:45 Yeah. That little addition. 34:46 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, 34:48 it's just, it's just very, very wise. 34:50 You can be discreet, you can listen, 34:52 and not put yourself in a kind of jeopardy. 34:53 You know, by sort of blasting this thing, 34:55 that's a very wise to watch. 34:58 When I was here about six years ago, 2011 35:01 and we talked about this, I demonstrated a little radio 35:03 similar to that one and there was a family watching 35:05 and they had a very nice vintage guitar, 35:09 "Gibson Vintage guitar". 35:10 They called me and they said. 35:12 Well, funny thing happened, they called the office 35:14 and the young lady answered the phone said, 35:16 they said "We have a guitar, we'd like to donate" 35:18 and that she said "Well I don't think we take guitars." 35:24 They want to talk to me and so this is Sharon and Vic 35:26 and Sharon Thelon and lives in Western Idaho. 35:30 So I had a speaking point at Walla Walla, 35:32 and I went out to see them when I was out there 35:34 and they donated a 1935 35:38 Super 400 Gibson Guitar, archtop guitar. 35:40 It turned out. 35:42 We had it appraised in Nashville, Tennessee 35:44 by Gibson Company official $16,500. 35:48 He said "It should be worth. We sold it for 20,000. 35:50 Oh, wow. 35:52 But his question to me was 35:53 "I wonder, how many these little radios 35:54 my guitar would pay for? 35:56 I don't want this thing to get burned up in my house 35:58 when Jesus comes back." 35:59 All right. Isn't that amazing? 36:01 That is amazing. What a blessing. 36:03 So many, many people and Jeff found people like that too. 36:06 I'll share one other little thing, 36:08 these are the little ambassadors 36:09 and this thing has a way to control it 36:12 and it has in it the entire Bible, 36:14 King James Version's Bible, Bible studies and sermons. 36:17 How many hours? 36:18 Hundred and sixty hours. Oh, wow. 36:20 Hundred and sixty hours of material, 36:22 but it doesn't have batteries. 36:23 It just has a solar thing 36:24 that's actually laid out in the sun 36:26 and you can listen to it as you walk around. 36:27 It has a strong signal too. 36:28 I mean, you can listen to it, 36:30 You don't even need your ear phones. 36:31 We would distribute those in some of the air remote areas 36:33 where we know our signal isn't getting. 36:36 So people can listen without listening to this radio. 36:38 This is self-contained. 36:40 And just recently, we've bought 160 of these 36:42 some of them in the Arabic language 36:44 and some in different languages from refugees, 36:47 from, in a refugee camp in France 36:49 who have been Kurdish refugees that they have these now. 36:52 Wow. Wow. 36:53 You know, you forgive me, if I gush a little. 36:55 Sometimes I'm so proud of my church 36:58 and the intelligentsia in the church. 37:00 People are sitting and thinking, 37:02 how can we get the gospel into this place? 37:05 And get it in such a way that we lift these people up, 37:08 we don't jeopardize their lives, 37:09 we don't jeopardize their living. 37:11 We just give them Jesus and someone who sat down 37:13 and said "Okay, we're gonna do this, 37:15 we're not gonna do that, we're gonna do this, this way, 37:17 we're not gonna do that and it's working, 37:19 you know, things are happening. 37:20 Yes. Amazing. 37:22 But we're not the largest church 37:23 in the world, but we have the largest mission 37:26 of any church. 37:27 Yes. Yes. 37:29 We cannot say "Well, this group take that area, 37:31 this group take that area." 37:32 Because we have the three angels' message 37:36 that the Book of Revelation says must go to every nation, 37:39 kindred, tongue and people, that's as flying, 37:41 flying in the midst of heaven. 37:43 This thing is not three people on bicycles. 37:46 It's not even three people in cars. 37:49 They're flying in the midst of heaven 37:50 and that's where our signals are going 37:52 television, radio, internet. 37:54 They're all flying in the midst of heaven 37:57 and in the very, violent, hostile world 38:01 in which we live today. 38:02 It's a reality even though we don't suffer 38:04 that directly ourselves. 38:07 This is the only way we can get to 38:10 perhaps the majority. 38:12 Perhaps more than 50% of the world 38:14 can only be reached by air. 38:16 Yeah Yeah. 38:17 You know, by the media. 38:18 And I think that, that point 38:20 and we're going to come to you shortly, 38:21 you're getting ready to whip out 38:23 some miracle stuff for me, I'm glad to get it, 38:24 to emphasize that there are things are so 38:29 and I have to say this in relative terms, 38:31 relatively tranquil here in the States 38:33 that we can scarcely imagine let alone, 38:36 really step into the idea that there are people 38:38 who are suffering for their faith. 38:40 Oh, yeah, that's right. 38:41 And that to be found with one of these. 38:42 Yeah. 38:44 Or to be discovered with one of these 38:45 could cost you your freedom, your life, your job, 38:46 your vocation, or even, even more, 38:48 that's, that's the reality is it not? 38:50 We can tell you a little miracle story 38:51 about North Korea. 38:53 If you buy a Shortwave radio in North Korea, 38:54 it only has one frequency 38:56 and it's stuck on that frequency, you can only listen 38:58 to the propaganda from North Korea. 38:59 Yes. 39:00 Jeffrey has a story that can tell you about 39:02 how we do something up there. 39:03 Well, there's a balloon warfare going on 39:07 in the Korea's South and North. 39:09 The North sends propaganda South by balloon, 39:12 the South sends propaganda North by balloon. 39:15 Do you think in which way the wind is blowing? 39:16 We send radios and Christian literature 39:20 and food and clothing 39:22 and even hard currency by balloon... 39:24 Are you kidding? Into the North. 39:25 Wow! 39:27 We don't talk a lot about that because it could endanger. 39:29 Oh, yeah. 39:30 Our folk go to the 38th parallel 39:32 on a dark moonless night or an overcast day 39:35 when the wind is blowing gently to the North 39:37 and they launch these radios and other material in balloons. 39:42 Some balloons are this size, they can put a steps to Christ 39:45 or a piece of literature to in it. 39:46 Some are 8 feet tall in this size 39:50 and they can put clothing and food and radios. 39:52 Wow! 39:54 Folks slip into the mountains wear them, 39:55 they come down in the forest at night, 39:58 it's a death sentence if they're caught with this, 40:01 but if you were starving and your neighbor said 40:02 "I found some food." 40:04 Where'd you get that radio you're listening?" 40:06 I found it in a balloon. 40:07 You'd go and you'd go look for one. 40:10 Yeah. I would. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 40:12 So that's how we get it 40:13 into any place like North Korea. 40:17 Sometimes our folk prolong the... 40:18 Did God bless them to do. 40:20 Prolong the bay and launch them off of boats. 40:22 Yeah. 40:23 They can be shot out sometimes, but we got to get it in. 40:26 There are 38 million of God's people in North Korea 40:29 that have to get the gospel some way. 40:31 So the radios again as Ed said they are mechanical preacher 40:36 if you will, going where a live preacher 40:40 on pain of death at this moment cannot. 40:41 Right. 40:43 Now this is something 40:44 and I want to get to those miracle stories, 40:46 I'd like to talk more in just a moment. 40:47 This is something I did not know about, but this is, 40:49 this is frontline evangelism. 40:53 This is, you know, they're sending radios 40:55 by balloon into North Korea. 41:01 You know, sometimes you're so proud of God, 41:03 you don't know what to do. 41:04 You know it's just... 41:06 Would you say it's a miracle on any day? 41:07 Sometimes you're just proud of the Lord. 41:09 We hear so much about North Korea. 41:10 We hear about the testing and this and that you know. 41:13 Well, God's people are sending the gospel 41:16 in to North Korea via radio 41:19 along with food and other staples 41:21 that they otherwise would not have, that's something 41:25 that ought to be at the top of your prayer list 41:27 or certainly among the most important things 41:29 that you are praying about 41:30 because this is a group of people 41:31 who are not going to get the gospel any other way 41:34 than those of good faith 41:35 who try to do that and forgive me for... 41:37 As Ed mentioned the radios that are sold in North Korea 41:41 only accept the government channel, 41:43 not the international channels. 41:44 Yeah. 41:45 The ones we send up by balloon, 41:47 we've already pre-tuned them to the AWR station out of Guam. 41:51 And we also include a radio log in there. 41:54 So they know when the various programs are on. 41:56 Yes. 41:58 And so it's a marvelous tool. 42:02 Oh, it is. Yes. It's a marvelous tool. 42:05 I want to add one other thing because we have some stories 42:07 and some letters we want to share with you as well 42:08 in the last few minutes but, you know, 42:11 that we're told that in the last moments of time 42:13 that will go rapidly. 42:15 Yes, yes, yes. 42:16 So here's what we're doing now in addition to Shortwave, 42:18 AM-FM, and the little ambassadors 42:20 and so on, we're using the internet 42:22 like I'm sure you guys are. 42:24 But for the last seven years, we've been on internet 42:28 and we have a company now "Mediator" 42:30 that's taken the 30 minute radio programs 42:32 and translated them digitally, 42:33 so they can be put on the internet. 42:35 So if you go to AWR.org, it will ask the question, 42:37 which language do you prefer? 42:39 And you can choose one of 100 languages 42:41 and download 30 minute programs 42:43 to listen to on your iPhone or iPad 42:45 or your whatever your device is. 42:47 Device is, sure. 42:49 And would you like to know 42:50 how many are being downloaded now? 42:51 So far in 2017, half of the year 800 million, 42:55 30 minute programs have been downloaded. 42:57 That's 57, 30 minute programs are downloaded every second. 43:00 Every second. Wow! 43:01 Five million a day and the main languages 43:04 are those languages of India, China 43:06 and the Arabic speaking countries. 43:08 It's just amazing. Praise God. 43:09 You've got a consumer base. 43:11 You got somebody's that's listening to that, yeah. 43:12 I mean, when you put a radio signal out there, 43:14 you have no idea who's listening, 43:15 but when you download off the internet, 43:17 you can count them. 43:18 You can count them. Yes, sir. 43:19 We get one 150,000, 125,000 letters a year 43:23 from those listening. 43:25 But any time somebody touches that computer key 43:28 and says "I want Arabic, I want Mandarin, Chinese, 43:31 I want English" whatever, it counts it. 43:34 Yes. It counts it. 43:36 And that's what it is talking about 800 million 43:38 so far this year, it's just. 43:40 Yeah. 43:41 It's thrilling to us because we all want to see Jesus come. 43:44 Amen, amen. 43:45 And by seeing these kind of numbers, 43:47 we know that the gospel is getting out there. 43:49 God is not waiting for the world 43:51 to get worse before He comes. 43:52 He's waiting for all of his children to hear. 43:54 Amen. And amen. To hear. 43:56 And radio is a way for them to hear. 43:58 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 44:00 All right we're ready for some of those miracle stories, man. 44:02 Well, Jeff is gonna tell you story. 44:04 I was gonna tell you about a couple of these... 44:06 Letters, yeah. Letters that we get. 44:09 By the way, it's interesting, I've been listening to, 44:11 you know, radio and TV most of my life, 44:12 but I don't think I've ever written to one. 44:14 That means for everybody that sends a letter, 44:17 there's probably 50 or more that out there listening. 44:18 Precisely. 44:20 But the ones we hear like this "I'm over 70 years old now, 44:22 and I thought, I've seen it all until I found Voice of Hope, 44:24 that's Adventist World Radio's program four years ago. 44:26 I was a communist, an atheist, but now I worship God. 44:29 Voice of Hope has taught me a lot 44:31 and brought me fresh life lessons to me. 44:33 I want to discover the love and mystery of God. 44:35 I want to serve Him." 44:36 And then he says, "The Voice of Hope 44:38 is a good spiritual teacher to me." 44:39 Amen. 44:40 There's another one, "Several months ago," 44:42 that was from China by the way. 44:43 "Several months ago, I bought a Shortwave radio 44:45 and tuned to Voice of Hope. 44:46 Even though the signals are poor, 44:48 the messages are clear and loud. 44:50 My spiritual thirst has been quenched." 44:52 And another one said, 44:53 "I've accepted Christ as my savior. 44:55 There is no church in my area, so AWR is my church." 44:58 Can you imagine being in a place 44:59 where there is no church? 45:01 Yeah. This is incredible. Yeah. 45:02 There's more I can tell you, 45:04 but I'm not going to let Jeff tell you a story too. 45:06 Karina was born into a very wealthy home in Argentina, 45:11 but she had a maid, she had chauffeur 45:15 to take her wherever she need to go. 45:16 But after her father died 45:18 the family's wealth changed dramatically. 45:22 A few years later, she found out that 45:24 her mother was not really her mother. 45:26 She was a child of one of the maids in the family. 45:30 And then when she was about 11, 45:32 her stepfather tried to abuse her. 45:36 And interestingly enough rather than her mother 45:39 throwing this no good man out, she threw her daughter out. 45:45 The mother was involved in satanic worship, 45:50 something called Reubenism. 45:53 And this girl, went, 11 year old girl 45:55 went to live in a Reubenist temple. 45:58 And you can imagine what went on there. 46:01 She sold her soul to the devil. 46:04 And the devil then began encouraging her 46:07 to take her own life and she resisted that. 46:11 She finally got married. 46:12 She thought things would change. 46:14 She had several miscarriages. 46:16 Finally, she had a little boy and a little girl. 46:19 And still the devil was after her 46:23 and he tried to get her to kill her children. 46:27 And she said, I won't kill my children, 46:29 I might kill myself but not my children 46:31 but it kept, kept at her 46:33 and finally said "This is painless, 46:36 just put the children to sleep, 46:38 close all the doors and windows, 46:40 open the oven door, 46:41 turn on the gas and go to sleep and you will never wake up." 46:45 And she thought my pain will be over, you know, 46:49 all of this harassment from the devil. 46:51 Yeah. And the horrible life she had lived. 46:54 She did that. 46:56 She put the children to sleep, she turned on the gas 47:00 and then she thought "I'll turn on my radio 47:04 for a little diversion." 47:06 At that moment a Seventh-day Adventist Voice 47:10 of Hope pastor was preaching a sermon on God, 47:14 and giving one's life to the Lord. 47:16 Wow! 47:18 She turned off the gas 47:19 to listen to the rest of the program 47:23 and gave her heart to the Lord. 47:24 Praise the Lord. Isn't that amazing? 47:25 Praise the Lord. 47:27 I mean that can't be happenstance... 47:28 Yeah. 47:29 That at that very moment... 47:31 Right. There was a program. 47:32 Agreed. 47:34 We need these programs 47:35 because the Lord has different moments 47:36 with different people that he needs to get a message 47:38 instantly to them. 47:40 There's not time to jump in your car 47:41 maybe and drive over there for Bible study, 47:44 but they can be led to tune to a program 47:48 that is just what they needed at that moment. 47:51 Praise the Lord. Powerful, powerful. 47:54 I want to mention... 47:55 Oh! Yes. Just little graphic there. 47:58 I think, they have it out in the studio, anyway, 48:01 there it is. 48:02 This is the new thing for Adventist World Radio. 48:05 Now, we've been broadcasting for 46 years, 48:07 but with Duane McKey now leading out, 48:08 we have a new evangelism focus which is called "AWR360 48:13 Broadcast to Baptism". 48:14 The idea is we're not just entertaining people, 48:16 we're bringing them to Christ. 48:18 Yeah. And that's a big deal. 48:19 So we're gonna add an international Bible School. 48:21 So anybody that tunes in to this programming 48:23 can find a place where they can get 48:25 Bible study lesson and so on. 48:27 And can be in touch with local people that, 48:29 you know, are concerned with their salvation 48:31 and can give them Bible studies 48:34 because you well know that all of the work 48:36 that we do in the media, 48:38 somebody there has to be a personal contact somewhere. 48:40 Yes. And that's what brings them in. 48:42 So it's a new thing but we're very happy for that, 48:44 and the Lord is really, really blessing. 48:46 And more than that now you know, 48:49 that people probably have called 3ABN 48:50 and said "Would you advertise something at my local church? 48:53 Well, that can happen when you have international program. 48:56 But when we do our FMs, 48:57 now we're having local programming there, 48:59 and we say there's going to be an evangelistic meeting 49:01 at a certain place and AWR staff actually comes, 49:04 the speakers to come there and do the programs. 49:07 So in the Philippines, right now this, 49:09 in the next month we're gonna have 49:10 a whole series of evangelistic meetings 49:12 that have been advertised on AWR in the Philippines. 49:15 So this is the kind of thing that's happening now. 49:17 More evangelistic thrust than ever before. 49:20 Yeah. Yeah. 49:21 I'm very, very excited about this, 49:22 and Duane and I've had several discussions on this, 49:26 this idea of not just, okay, we're just gonna broadcast, 49:28 broadcast, broadcast. 49:30 We want to move people 49:31 from broadcast to baptism in the church. 49:33 We want to see the continuum from what we send out 49:37 to what comes in. 49:38 And we want to track that, and we want to know that 49:40 we're having concrete results in the lives of people 49:43 who are consumable we have to offer. 49:45 I think that's a great thing. 49:46 There's one other unique thing I'm just thinking about 49:49 and that is, there's a lot of people 49:50 who are displaced worldwide 49:52 from where they were normally before. 49:53 Yes. 49:54 When we were in Washington D.C. 49:56 and we were living next to some people from Turkey 49:57 and their native language was Arabic 49:59 that they could speak the Turkish language, 50:00 you know, the version of it. 50:02 So you can contact Adventist World Radio 50:05 and get this little paper like this is real cute 50:07 just a little half sheet of paper. 50:08 And it says on here, "I've found something 50:10 that's really blessed my family. 50:11 Would you like to encourage you to listen as well?" 50:14 So they can listen on the internet by... 50:16 You get this in their language. 50:18 For example, if I lived next door to people 50:21 who spoke Spanish and I didn't, 50:22 I would say get one of these in Spanish 50:24 and hand it to them as they read this, 50:25 and that will give them the way 50:26 they can get on Adventist World Radio 50:28 and listen in their own language. 50:29 Excellent. 50:30 I'm talking about even in the United States 50:32 because we have lots of people there for many, many languages 50:34 and in almost every one of those languages 50:35 we have Adventist World Radio. 50:36 Yes. You can actually share with your neighbors. 50:38 Get this, you can go online to AWR.org 50:42 and you can click on the language you want 50:46 and you can hit print on your own computer 50:49 and print off this little half sheet 50:51 and give it you to your hairdresser 50:52 who maybe speaks Arabic 50:54 or your barber who speaks Spanish. 50:56 Yes. 50:58 And as Ed says many of these are displaced people. 51:00 They would love to hear a language from back home. 51:03 And our program is going to be spoken in a language 51:08 of someone from their country. 51:09 So it's affective tool for displaced people 51:13 as Ed says right here in the United States who, 51:16 for whom maybe they don't speak English 51:19 or they speak English very poorly 51:20 or they just would like to hear a voice from back home. 51:23 Yeah, even if you did, you want to hear 51:24 something little familiar one, for sure. 51:26 And they're hearing a voice from back home 51:27 but that voice is a Christian voice 51:29 at this time, teaching them about Jesus. 51:31 Yes, Yes, you know, you don't think, 51:33 there are large numbers of people 51:34 who have been forced to leave their homeland. 51:35 Absolutely. 51:37 A lot of in the States, they're all over, 51:38 all over the world 51:39 and they would like to get something comforting 51:41 from their home. 51:42 Now I want to do this. 51:44 We need to go to our contact information. 51:45 If you've heard something that has sort of tantalized you 51:48 or that has encouraged you and inspired you, 51:50 and you want to give support to Adventist World Radio, 51:53 you have seen during the last several moments, 51:54 the wonderful things that they're doing, 51:57 the kinds of areas that they're going into 51:59 that really no other ministry can go into like they are. 52:02 Should you want to support this ministry, 52:04 to pray for them, to contact them, 52:07 here's how you can do precisely that. 52:13 If you'd like to learn more about Adventist World Radio 52:16 or would like to support their ministry, 52:18 you can do so by writing to Adventist World Radio, 52:21 12501, Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Maryland 20904. 52:28 That's 12501, Old Columbia Pike, 52:32 Silver Spring, Maryland 20904. 52:36 You can call them at 301-680-6304 52:40 or 800-337-4297. 52:44 You can also visit them online at AWR.org. 52:48 That's AWR.org. |
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