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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 00:29 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 01:10 Hello, and welcome once again to 3ABN Today. 01:13 My name is CA Murray. 01:14 And allow me to thank you once again for sharing 01:16 just a little of your busy day with us, 01:19 to thank you as always for your love, your prayers, 01:21 your support of this ministry 01:23 as together we seek to warn the world, 01:25 to encourage the world to be ready 01:27 for the second coming of our Lord 01:28 and Savior Jesus Christ. 01:30 You will forgive me today because I'm excited, 01:32 yay, verily for a couple of reasons. 01:35 One, for the company that I am in, 01:37 and secondly, for the subject matter 01:40 that is the focus of our program today. 01:42 So if I'm a little giddy, forgive me if you will. 01:45 Because I happen to like these people a lot. 01:48 Sometimes you meet people, 01:49 and from the first time you meet them, 01:50 you kind of like them, 01:52 and you feel you've known them forever 01:53 because of a number of reasons. 01:55 First of all, these are all good Christian people. 01:56 They're good-looking people. 01:58 They're doing a great work for the Lord. 02:00 And I consider them all friends. 02:04 I've brought Duane McKey over to the host chair with me 02:08 because he brought his gang with him, 02:09 we don't have room for everybody. 02:11 I brought, okay. Good. They came. They all came. 02:14 He is the president of Adventist World Radio. 02:17 And also, what is the official TMI title 02:19 that you do with... 02:21 I'm the assistant to Elder Wilson 02:22 for Total Member Involvement as well. 02:24 Okay, okay. And in your spare time...? 02:26 Spare time... 02:27 Kind of put together... 02:29 Which you have none of really. 02:30 Yeah, that's right, right. 02:32 Put it all together, let me call it AWR 360. 02:33 All right. Praise the Lord. 02:34 Completing the circle. Yeah. 02:36 Let me say this, years ago, there was a commercial, 02:38 you may recall, that when they rolled out 02:40 the new automobiles. 02:42 They were trying to give it a new image 02:44 'cause they always thought of it 02:45 as a kind of an old man's kind of car. 02:46 Yeah. Yeah. Right. 02:48 And they said, "This is not your father's automobile." 02:49 I remember that. 02:51 You know, and so I'm thinking this is not your father's AWR. 02:52 This is kind of a new AWR. 02:54 You know, this is not your grandfather's AWR. 02:56 You've gotten some new vision and with us, wonderful team. 03:00 You've come up with some new things 03:01 we're going to talk about today. 03:03 So it's going to be an exciting program. 03:04 Let me introduce, he was saying 03:06 how wonderful a team he has, 03:08 and that's a good thing to hear. 03:10 They are perfect. 03:11 The first team member actually doubles as his wife. 03:17 Kathy McKey, good to have you here. 03:19 It's great to be here. 03:20 Just a wonderful person. Amen. 03:23 And well you got to say that. I don't... 03:25 I know I do on TV but that's okay. 03:27 Amen. 03:29 I think he really believes that. 03:30 I believe it. 03:32 You've been married how many years? 03:33 Almost 50. Can you imagine that? 03:35 Almost 50. So you got married as children? 03:36 Oh, she was just a tiny child. 03:38 Well said, you're picking up points too. 03:42 And really, relatively recent and dear friend, Sue Hinkle. 03:46 Sue, good to have you here. 03:48 Thank you. It's great to be here. 03:49 It's a privilege. Yeah, we sort of hung out. 03:50 I served under her leadership in Romania last year. 03:53 She was the team leader. Oh, yeah. I remember. 03:54 I remember that well. Amen. Praise. 03:56 And a really wonderful person. 03:57 But your position here at AWR is... 04:01 Outreach Manager. Uh-huh. 04:03 And we'll sort of dive into that 04:05 what that means in just a little bit. 04:07 And Cami Oetman, good to have you. 04:09 Oetman or Oatman? Oetman. 04:10 Oetman. So I had it right? You did. 04:12 I had the Cami part right. 04:13 Praise the Lord. And your position is...? 04:15 Vice-president for Advancement, Adventist World Radio. 04:18 Okay, so you got the gang with you. 04:20 I have them, the best. You ought to be proud. 04:21 Praise the Lord. The Lord blessed us. 04:22 Praise the Lord. 04:24 So we're going to be talk about Adventist World Radio, 04:25 some of the wonderful things that it's doing. 04:27 We were saying just backstage 04:28 before we came on set that even in these last days, 04:32 God is using radio in a marvelous 04:34 and marked way to help round out the circle, 04:37 we talked about all the electronic media, 04:38 everybody's got the iPads, iPhones, 04:41 all of these kinds of things, but radio still has 04:43 a very, very important part, doesn't it? 04:44 It does. It does. It's all apart. 04:45 Yeah, and we are reaching everything, 04:48 all digital avenues. 04:50 That's right. AWR is. And praise the Lord. 04:52 And when you think Adventist World Radio, 04:55 it should be Adventist World Radio... 04:58 because radio does a lot of things 04:59 under that umbrella of radio. 05:01 That's right, yeah. 05:02 We are expanding and expanding. 05:03 It's fun, exciting, thrilling. Yeah. 05:06 I'm going to try to stay out of the way 05:07 and let these guys run 05:09 because they've got a lot to talk about. 05:10 Cami, are you going to be 05:12 kind of railroading this, or it's my buddy here... 05:13 Well, sure. Both of us together. 05:14 Yeah, we're good. Okay. Okay. 05:16 Sure, yeah Cami's gonna share with us this exciting... 05:18 She and Sue actually were in California 05:20 flying to North to another state. 05:23 And they were on this airplane, 05:24 and it kind of gives an idea, 05:26 I think, of what the world that we live in today. 05:28 Yes. The times in which we live. 05:30 Yeah. So it's about 5 am. 05:32 And we get on a flight, and the Lord, you know, 05:35 He sets up divine appointments, doesn't He? 05:37 And I get on the flight, 05:39 and a very distinguished English gentleman 05:41 is sitting next to me. 05:43 And we exchanged, you know, pleasantries, and he said, 05:46 "Oh, yes. 05:47 I'm going to one of my homes in the Colorado Rockies." 05:50 And I said, "Oh." I said, "God has really blessed you." 05:54 And 'cause we were sharing, he looked at me, 05:56 and his whole body bristled, and he said, 05:58 "Mm, the Gods have blessed me?" 06:02 Well, right then and there, I knew we were going to have 06:04 a fascinating conversation. 06:07 Indeed. 06:08 So I prayed for the Lord's assistance, 06:11 "Lord give me the words," here we go. 06:14 So this man, he begins to tell me 06:16 how since at a young age in England, 06:18 he has been worshipping the goddess, 06:20 the goddess appears to him, we've known as an apparition, 06:24 but appears to him and has led him through life. 06:27 Step by step, he has a built a company out of nothing, 06:31 without any training of any kind, 06:33 other than this goddess telling him what to do, 06:35 has built this multimillion dollar company, 06:38 and it's in software. 06:40 And the whole reason he said is to annihilate Christians. 06:45 That caught my attention. Indeed. 06:48 He dare said so? Yes, he did. 06:50 And I said, "Really?" 06:51 And so he says, you know, he says, you know, 06:54 we've been chatting and, you know. 06:56 And we were actually getting along quite well, 06:58 even though we have obvious differences, we were, 07:00 you know, really exchanging. 07:02 And, keep in mind Sue is three seats ahead, 07:04 and she can hear all of this, and she's praying 07:07 because she knows there was like 07:08 a spiritual warfare going on. 07:10 Yes. Yes. So and thank you for that. 07:12 You're welcome. This is my pal. 07:13 And so I'm talking to him, and he says, you know, 07:18 "Christians are the enemy. 07:19 That means that you are my enemy." 07:22 And he said, 07:23 "I am a soldier for the goddess." 07:27 So I turned to him and looked him right in the eyes, 07:29 and I said, "I am a soldier for the one and almighty God." 07:34 So we started talking about this, 07:36 and he said, you know, 07:39 "There is an end coming soon. 07:44 My goddess is going to be emerging from the earth." 07:46 That was interesting to me from the earth, not heaven. 07:49 "But emerging from the earth 07:50 and going to be taking over soon." 07:52 And I'm thinking to myself, 07:54 "Wow, even, you know, pagan worshippers, 07:57 devil worshippers, know that the end is coming." 08:00 Yes. Yes. And they do. 08:01 And so we're talking, and he says, you know, 08:05 "What I don't understand," as I'm sharing with him 08:07 the Bible and Jesus, and he's saying, 08:10 "What I can't understand is that 08:12 there is a glow exuding from you. 08:14 There is a light. 08:15 And there is like this core strength or something, 08:17 and I'm trying to wrap my mind around it." 08:19 And I said, "It's simple, that's Jesus." 08:22 I said, "You could have Him too." 08:25 And he said, "I don't know, Jesus... 08:27 See, the goddess has gotten rid of two of the three demons 08:30 that are chasing me for years." 08:32 And he says, "I need the goddess." 08:34 I said, "Oh, no." 08:35 I said, "You will never get rid of that third demon," 08:37 I said, "unless you fall on your knees, 08:40 and you ask God almighty to take him from you. 08:43 Just give Him a try." 08:44 And he said, you know, I said, 08:45 "I believe that we crossed paths for a reason." 08:47 I said, "Remember this day and call on Him 08:50 because there's coming a time when you're going to need too." 08:53 And he said, you know, "I just don't know 08:58 what to do with that." 08:59 And I said, "Well, I'll be praying for you." 09:01 And he just was so shocked that we, 09:03 you know, that we were having this conversation. 09:06 And he said, you know, "Really..." 09:11 He didn't know, I said to him, 09:12 you know, "The endgame really is heaven. 09:14 That's the endgame. 09:16 You know, our goal, we know as Christians 09:18 that we are going to be in Eden restored." 09:21 He said, "What? Really?" 09:22 You know, and I said, "Well, what's your end game?" 09:25 And he said, "I don't know. 09:26 I've never asked the goddess that. 09:28 I've just been doing step by step 09:30 of what she's asked me to do." 09:31 And I said, "You've got to think about that. 09:32 You've got to..." 09:34 So, yes, pray that he reads 09:36 the Great Controversy and the Ephesus 09:38 marked in there that we had already talked about. 09:41 So you left a book with him? 09:42 Actually, I know his name as we exchanged. 09:45 I know the name of his company. 09:48 So I would search that, mail him there. 09:49 Sue, what are you thinking, you're hearing this 09:50 conversation going on behind you? 09:52 What's going on in your mind? 09:53 Well, I couldn't hear 09:55 all of that was being talked about, 09:56 but I was getting bits and pieces. 09:57 And so I knew this was 09:59 a serious spiritual conversation. 10:01 And so I'm just thinking, 10:03 "I need to pray her through, 10:05 you know, for the Holy Spirit 10:06 to give her the words to speak to this man." 10:09 You know, I believe He did that. 10:11 Yeah, and I think what triggered 10:13 it is that I was telling about my job, 10:15 and how, you know, the Christianity, 10:17 and people are falling in love with Jesus all over this world, 10:19 the Holy Spirit is being poured out. 10:21 This is how I'm starting our conversation 10:22 and talking with him. 10:24 And so he's letting me know on his end, 10:26 "Well, we're getting ready. 10:28 We're planning to annihilate all of you." 10:29 And, you know, anyway, 10:31 so we know that there 10:32 is a great controversy war going on. 10:34 We know that. 10:35 And we all need to wake up and get ready and tell people, 10:38 tell the world that Jesus is coming soon. 10:40 That's right. Stand up for Him. 10:42 Be ready to stand up for Him even on a 5 am flight. 10:44 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 10:47 You know, sometimes you just get a chance 10:49 to just sort of sow the seed and just it let it there. 10:51 You know, you don't get to land that Sunday puncher, 10:54 read him to sinner's prayer, and go through to all thing, 10:55 you just plant the seed, and then the Lord will water, 10:58 takes care of the rest. 10:59 So praise the Lord, that's fantastic. 11:01 See, you know, this last fall 11:02 we had five areas in North America, 11:05 had AWR rallies. 11:08 People who know about AWR love us, 11:10 you know, we go to... 11:11 We have a 1,000 radio stations, 11:13 we go where air goes with no walls, 11:15 no borders, no limits, you heard that. 11:17 But there are a lot of people who have never heard of us. 11:19 And so we've gone around to a lot of churches, 11:21 Sue organized all that. 11:22 And, Sue, we really appreciate that. 11:24 We had fantastic experience. Oh, it was great. 11:26 And like you were saying, during one of these rallies, 11:30 Duane lifted up his hand and said, 11:32 "What do you like best about AWR?" 11:34 And what did they say? 11:36 "Everything." "Everything." 11:40 It is so exciting to be partners with you at 3ABN 11:43 because we know you do the same thing. 11:45 We have that same passion. 11:46 Oh, yes. Same excitement. 11:49 We were just in Portugal, 11:50 I know this is on down the script. 11:52 But we were just in Portugal, Kathy and I, 11:53 that's where we started, 11:55 and we're going to come back to that in a minute. 11:56 We started in Portugal in 1971, is that right? 12:01 But we'll talk about the Steelers in a minute. 12:03 But Kathy and I we're just there, 12:04 and we're talking to the young people 12:07 who are running a new radio station 12:08 they bought a number of years ago in Portugal. 12:11 Yeah, yeah. In Lisbon. 12:13 A number of years ago. 12:15 It was thrilling to talk to them, 12:16 and they said, "We have a story." 12:18 I said, "What's that?" 12:19 "Well, we bought this commercial station." 12:21 And we just thought, 12:22 "The government want us to only use, 12:24 do commercial broadcasting." 12:25 And so we got the union the union to buy it, 12:27 and we had some religious things, 12:28 we were put in here and there. 12:30 And then they said, you know, 12:32 "After a number of years, we started looking at it, 12:35 and we realized that we had not one baptism 12:39 after all the funding that church 12:41 had put into this radio station." 12:43 Because it was secular music, it was commercial, 12:46 a little bit of religious stuff in it. 12:48 Okay, so they tried to do a secular station 12:50 and just put in a little religious content? 12:51 Yup, yup, yup. 12:53 Because they thought 12:54 that's what the government wanted their enlistment. 12:55 And finally, they said, "Nah, it's not going to work. 12:57 It's not working. We're wasting our money." 12:59 And so they changed the whole format. 13:00 They came in, and they started preaching Adventist prophecy. 13:03 Wow. Amen. 13:04 Adventist Bible studies, 13:06 Adventist health message, Christian music only. 13:08 So they went into deep end. 13:10 Deep end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 13:11 And in Portugal, it's tough. It's very tough. 13:14 One baptism per pastor per year. 13:15 Wow. 13:17 In the last three years, just the radio, 20 baptisms. 13:21 Amen. Praise God. 13:22 Praise God. Yeah. 13:23 When you stand up for the Lord, 13:25 He does indeed stand up for you. 13:26 Yeah. Yeah. 13:27 He does, He does. That's right. 13:29 That kind of thinking. Yeah, praise the Lord. 13:30 And, Kathy, we were in Chattanooga? 13:31 And out visiting donors, we had a wonderful donors. 13:34 We were. 13:35 And it was amazing, 13:37 we drove up to this gentleman's house. 13:40 He's outside with his coat on and sweatshirt. 13:44 And Duane said, 13:46 "I'm the president of Adventist World Radio, 13:48 Duane Mckey, and this is my wife, Kathy." 13:50 And he said, "You know what, 13:53 I just sent you double the amount 13:55 that I normally send to you." 13:58 And he said, "The Lord and I have an agreement." 14:04 That touched my heart so much. 14:06 The Lord and I have an agreement, he said... 14:08 Now remember, he is outside with his coat on. 14:10 Yeah, yeah. And sweatshirt. 14:11 And sweatshirt. 14:13 And he said... Praise the Lord. 14:14 And he and his house is down. 14:16 He said, "When my electricity and gas bill 14:21 are down to a certain point, 14:23 then I send AWR double of what I normally do." 14:29 Isn't that amazing? 14:30 The Lord and I have an agreement. 14:32 Yeah. We have precious donors. 14:34 We have so many people sacrificing. 14:36 And this is one thing that we've really enjoyed also about 14:39 doing these rallies around North America 14:42 is when we're there, 14:44 we can take the time to go on and visit some of our donors. 14:47 And we are hearing stories like this 14:49 just over and over and over. 14:52 And it's great to get the word out 14:54 about what AWR is doing. 14:57 And also another way that we are doing that 15:00 is we have 36 field reps, or ambassadors, we call them, 15:06 all across North America and also into Canada. 15:09 And these people, our ambassadors, 15:13 are getting speaking appointments 15:15 in the local churches. 15:16 Praise the Lord. 15:18 And so they're sharing all these wonderful stories 15:20 about what God is doing, amazing things are happening. 15:24 And we're just trying to get the word out 15:27 about what God is doing. 15:28 Now some of these ambassadors 15:30 are retired ministers or the guys 15:32 who've been in the work, who just needs something to do, 15:35 and it sort of caught the vision 15:36 of what you're trying to do. 15:37 Yeah, that's right. You know, they're bored. 15:39 I mean they wanted to retire, and they said, 15:40 "This is gonna be exciting." 15:42 And they sit there for six months and say, 15:43 "I can't take this." 15:44 Right. 15:46 Very true. 15:48 But can I mention, if someone, one of our listeners, 15:52 is interested in having one of our representatives 15:55 or ambassadors come to your church, 15:57 please email me, sue@awr.org. 16:01 And we'll line someone up to come out 16:04 and visit with you at your church. 16:06 There was that story that you were just telling me, 16:08 Bob Peck, Dr. Peck told us a story 16:10 about one ambassador is going to a birthday party? 16:13 Yes, just got this in two days ago. 16:16 So there was this woman, 16:18 she was getting ready to have her 90th birthday. 16:20 And they were planning her party, 16:24 and they thought, you know, 16:26 "Instead of presents, 16:28 why don't we give all the guests that come in 16:31 an AWR donation envelope. 16:34 So as they come in the door, 16:35 all the guests, they get an envelope. 16:38 In lieu of presents, give a donation to AWR." 16:41 And the whole family thought it was wonderful. 16:44 And so that's the plan, 16:46 no gifts for the 90-year-old woman. 16:50 They'll be giving donations to AWR. 16:51 And what did the 90-year-old woman 16:53 need anyway, you know? 16:54 You know what, she's going to have gifts in heaven. 16:56 Because it's people that she... That's right. 16:58 You know. That's right. 16:59 That's right. Yeah. 17:00 What I found... 17:02 And I know you're finding this too as you travel, 17:03 and you meet your donors, one doesn't give to get. 17:07 That's right. No. 17:09 You know, you know, that's the wrong motive, 17:10 but the truth is when you give, you do get 17:13 because that's God's initiative. 17:15 That's His promise that, 17:16 "If you support My work, I'll support you." 17:18 If you lift up Christ, 17:20 Christ will take care of your needs. 17:22 And so many have found that 17:24 if I sacrifice to support a ministry of God, 17:27 the Lord takes care of my day-to-day stuff. 17:29 That's right. Yeah. 17:30 You know, it happens, and you're finding that. 17:31 I used to tell my church members 17:33 and panels or our pastors, I said, you know, 17:35 "God's scoop shovel is bigger than yours." 17:37 Precisely. 17:40 You can scoop it in, 17:41 He's going to scoop it back up with a bigger scoop shovel. 17:42 Yes, indeed, indeed. 17:44 So praise the Lord, that's great, that's great. 17:46 How do you choose the areas where you go? 17:48 Do you go by invitation only, Sue? 17:49 Or do you kind of target areas in the country? 17:51 Do you mean for the rallies? For the rallies, yeah. 17:54 We target certain areas, we like to go, 17:57 especially where we have a lot of donors 17:59 so that they can come together and see, 18:02 we can present to them even more what AWR is doing. 18:06 But we're looking at different areas 18:07 across North America, 18:09 and we'll have that up on our website hopefully soon 18:13 where our rallies will be this fall. 18:15 Duane, this seems like kind of a new record. 18:17 I don't ever remember AWR being this present before. 18:22 It seems like you're really concentrating 18:24 on casting a vision in a more public way 18:28 than perhaps ever before. 18:30 You know, one of our vice-presidents, Kent Sharpe, 18:33 who's been there seven years, he is for finances. 18:36 Actually, he's over the Philippines right now. 18:38 He's teaching cell phone evangelism, right? 18:39 We have boots on the ground, 18:41 we can't get out in the field which is exciting for us. 18:44 And he said, you know, he said, 18:46 we're looking all the stuff 18:47 we're talking about that's happening. 18:48 We're talking more about some of that, 18:50 and the cell phone evangelism, 18:51 the center for digital evangelism 18:52 in the Philippines, et cetera. 18:54 And he said, "AWR used to be 18:55 kind of a little sleepy ministry, 18:57 now all of a sudden, 18:59 it's mushroomed into something worldwide." 19:01 And we are international, it was. 19:03 But we're talking about more and more 19:05 and sharing for our people 19:07 how they can help and what we can do to... 19:09 Well, the reason is simple, same reason you guys exist. 19:13 We're sick and tired of the ball in mud. 19:14 Precisely. 19:16 We want Jesus to come. Amen. 19:17 And as we look at what is happening, 19:18 just like Cami's experience with a goddess guy. 19:22 You know, Jesus is coming soon. That's right. 19:23 The devils know it. Very much aware, sure. 19:26 Let's proclaim it loud and clear all around the world. 19:30 What excites me about what you're doing, 19:31 first of all, your smiles says 19:33 that you're full of your subject, 19:34 but we always knew, as you said, AWR was there, 19:39 but we didn't get reports a lot on what was happening. 19:41 And now that you've pivoted in this idea of going 19:45 from Broadcast to Baptism, 19:46 which I love, which is what we do, 19:49 you know, we go from a preach sermon, 19:51 a dollar put in, to a splash in the pool. 19:55 And there is a logical connection. 19:57 That's right. I love that idea. 19:58 And we're hearing more, you're out, you're doing more, 20:00 and you're letting the church know 20:01 this is a very vital, 20:02 vital part of the last day message. 20:04 Amen. 20:05 I think Jesus said something about that when He said, 20:06 "Go and preach, and teach, 20:08 and baptize in all the world." 20:13 Praise the Lord. 20:14 Cami, you got something else for us? 20:15 Yes, actually, 20:17 we were so excited to meet with the Steeles. 20:19 Now this is a couple that... 20:22 Was the original couple that started with AWR, 20:25 and we have videos 20:26 so that we can show in their own words 20:28 what the original vision of AWR was 20:31 and now is again today. 20:33 It's a beautiful thing. All right. 20:36 Adventist World Radio 20:38 has been carrying the voice of hope 20:39 to the unreached people groups of the world 20:42 in their own languages. 20:45 AWR started over 45 years ago in 1971, 20:51 and the vision today 20:52 is just as strong as it was back then. 20:57 Meet the Steeles, 20:58 the first employees of Adventist World Radio. 21:02 So, Allen and Andrea, 21:04 tell me a little bit about your background. 21:06 And how did you first become interested in radio? 21:10 Well, for me, I was at a university, 21:13 I was part of the radio station on campus, 21:17 and we had a very special guest come to the campus 21:20 and talk to us. 21:22 And that was H. M. S. Richards, 21:23 the real pioneer of radio for the Adventist church. 21:27 And he gave us a vision that really caught with me, 21:32 and that was we can reach 21:33 the whole world with radio. 21:37 And he said, "You have got to do it." 21:39 And I took it personally, and ever after that, 21:43 that was my goal to get into that type of ministry 21:46 for the Lord. 21:48 The general conference decided to start 21:50 this radio project, 21:51 and you were chosen to be the first employees. 21:55 Tell me a little bit about that? 21:58 That was a very exciting time, of course. 22:02 And this was the vision that I had had 22:06 that we would somehow be able 22:08 to spread God's message around the world. 22:12 So I offered, I said, "Okay, send me, I'll go." 22:18 And the first assignment was in Lisbon, Portugal. 22:22 And as we were planning to go, they said, 22:25 "Now, we need to warn you that we only have enough money 22:29 to keep you there for a year. 22:31 Do you mind going just for a year?" 22:33 I said, "Sure, we'll do that." 22:36 Well, it turned out that the next year, 22:38 while we were there, they said, "Can you stay another year?" 22:41 We said, "Okay, we'll stay another year." 22:43 And this continued on for five years. 22:46 I think that the church leaders were delighted, 22:50 may be surprised a little bit, 22:52 when articles began to come about the results 22:56 that we were getting from the house broadcast. 22:59 And we had 20 languages, 12 hours a week was all. 23:03 And they began to make donations for it. 23:06 And fact is, after one article, 23:08 enough money came in for the next year. 23:11 And so I think that's when the church leaders said, 23:13 "Okay, this is important. 23:16 The church members want it. Let's do it." 23:18 As you're aware, 23:19 Adventist World Radio is expanding the ministry, 23:22 and we're calling it AWR 360, 23:26 From Broadcast to Baptism, we're still doing 23:30 what we've done in the past and increasing. 23:33 But now we've added this dimension trying 23:36 to reach out to the listeners that are listening 23:39 to the broadcast, connecting with them, 23:42 and getting them into a local church. 23:47 What do you think about this expansion 23:50 of the ministry of AWR? 23:52 This new vision of AWR 360 has just totally fulfilled 23:57 our dream of what might happen with this special ministry. 24:02 It's a completion of what I call the circle of love. 24:07 So you give the message, and then you follow through, 24:11 and you bring people to a family of God 24:15 that can nurture them and help them. 24:18 It seems to me that it's just the natural way 24:21 that things should have developed 24:23 and perhaps should have been done long ago 24:25 if it were possible. 24:27 So it completes... It's sort of... 24:31 It's an exciting aspect that completes 24:33 the circle of not only giving the message 24:37 but then bringing the people to God 24:40 and helping them to be part of the family of God. 24:46 And I'm sure that all over the world 24:48 where we have radio studios, 24:51 when people write to Adventist World Radio, 24:53 those messages are always sent to the country of origin 24:57 as well as being answered by AWR, 25:00 and so then they're sent a Bible study card. 25:04 And so they're able to sign up for Bible studies, 25:06 and then they work with Bible study office, 25:09 right in their own country. 25:11 So this follow through of having people actually go 25:15 and do evangelistic meetings now in the different countries 25:18 is the connection. 25:20 It's a natural thing for it to be happening. 25:22 And it's wonderful that it can be happening 25:24 in so many parts of the world. 25:26 And the people in any country, 25:29 such as the US or any place, 25:31 who are excited about Adventist World Radio, 25:34 who perhaps make contributions to help it keep running, 25:37 that's so important, 25:38 but who might like to be involved 25:40 can actually be involved in some of these things, 25:42 so they can actually meet some of the listeners, 25:44 that's one of the most beautiful things 25:47 is to meet someone 25:48 who has had their life turned around 25:51 because of what they heard on radio. 25:53 And this new vision of AWR 360 25:57 has just totally fulfilled our dream 26:00 of what might happen with this special ministry. 26:09 Wow, I love the logo. I love the logo. 26:11 You like that? 26:12 Ellen White, you know, in discussing why, 26:14 I think it's the Acts of the Apostles, 26:16 she discusses why 26:17 there is a change of passage at different churches. 26:20 And she says, "No one guy has everything." 26:22 So we changed passage that the church 26:24 gets the broad spectrum of leadership. 26:26 You are an evangelism guy, you know, 26:28 and so you bring to the stew your own particular flavor, 26:34 and to me, it's apropos for this particular time. 26:37 This is what we need at this time. 26:38 The marriage of ministry that exists 26:42 because it's ministry, 26:43 but also with the evangelism salt in there. 26:46 So you got a broadcast entity 26:48 which has been going on for years, 26:49 but now you've given it increased emphasis on let's see 26:53 some results 'cause you're there. 26:55 Let's just push it and highlight it 26:57 because the results are there. 26:58 Absolutely. And that's what we're about. 26:59 You know, we're not... 27:01 We're keeping what we have done, 27:02 we're adding to it, we had more radio stations 27:05 now than ever before this last year. 27:06 We have more shortwave broadcasts than ever before. 27:09 So we keep pushing that, 27:10 but we just want to complete the circle and do more. 27:12 It's like Lonny Duncan, he is an engineer, 27:15 who met H. M. S. Richards Sr. back in '57 27:18 I think it was and... 27:20 He sent him a letter, and he says, 27:21 he was a young engineer, and then he says, 27:22 "We want to broadcast around the world, 27:24 how can you help us?" 27:25 And finally, that developed into AWR 27:26 in 1971 in Portugal with Elder Wilson. 27:29 But Lonny told me when we talked about 27:31 Broadcast to Baptism, he said, 27:33 "That was the original intent 27:35 always to connect people with Jesus." 27:37 Okay, so you just connected the circle there, 27:39 trying to get back to your roots. 27:40 That's right. That's right. Back to the roots. 27:42 By the way, the shirts. 27:43 The shirts, Cami, what's that... 27:45 Kind of like our shirts show. 27:47 We lift up the trumpets and we connect the dots. 27:49 I just... Just like H. M. S. Richards... 27:52 Yes. 27:53 "We'll lift up the trumpets, loud, let it ring." 27:55 And that's what we're doing with AWR. 27:56 All around the world, we hear that where we go, 27:58 lift up the trumpet... 27:59 That's the theme song of AWR. 28:00 Amen and amen. 28:02 Well done, well done. 28:03 People actually identify Adventism with that song. 28:05 So they know that, 28:06 "Oh, I want to hear that broadcast." 28:08 So yeah. 28:09 And one of the new ways that we're branching out 28:12 is this incredible thing called 28:14 AWR 360 cell phone evangelism. 28:17 It is super special. 28:19 And the way that God brought 28:23 that these ideas all together, 28:24 and how it's meshed 28:26 is just such a beautiful miracle. 28:29 It actually began one year ago. 28:31 And yeah, and I want the two that were there 28:36 to explain exactly how that happened. 28:39 When Kathy and I were in Zambia, 28:41 we're getting ready to bring European evangelism, 28:44 100 European evangelisms. 28:45 We mentioned this before, you know, 28:46 we're going to a 1,000 meetings and let's talk all at one time. 28:49 We're also going down to Livingstone 28:50 with lot of meetings down there as well, 28:52 and we're broadcasting the whole area, 28:53 preparing for that right now. 28:55 And so Kathy and I, 28:56 we were going to go to Livingstone. 28:58 That's right. And we couldn't get a hotel. 29:00 Duane checked and on the web, and they were full. 29:05 And so, but he said, 29:07 "There is one hotel that has some rooms, 29:12 Taita Falcon Lodge." 29:14 And so, I said, "Well, we've never been there. 29:17 We don't know what it's like, but we need a bed tonight, 29:21 so, I mean, we better book it. 29:24 So he did. 29:26 And when we got down to Livingstone, 29:29 we had somebody meet us, 29:32 and we started off of the black top onto this... 29:37 Well, honey, we talked where we want to go 29:39 and the guy says, "I know where that is, 29:41 but I sense that's a long way out there. 29:44 It's an hour on this horrible road." 29:46 Yes. Terrible. 29:51 Anyway, so we got there and there's pitch black. 29:54 So we don't know what we've gotten ourselves into. 29:58 But anyway, the manager, Antoinette, 30:02 was out by the road to meet us. 30:07 And she showed us our cabin, well, cabin is thatch. 30:12 And then she took us, 30:14 we had ordered dinner that night. 30:18 And in the next morning, 30:20 Antoinette and her husband took us back into Livingstone 30:25 to make plans for next year's meeting. 30:28 They are this year's meetings I guess I should say. 30:31 And we had great meetings with the pastor 30:35 and the leadership there. 30:37 And made arrangements for another hotel 30:41 for our big groups that we're taking. 30:44 And then, the next day, we're getting ready to leave. 30:50 Now Antoinette and her husband are Afrikaans people, 30:53 they're Dutch people. 30:54 They go to the Dutch reform church. 30:56 And we don't baptize many of them, 30:58 they're tough, very, very tough. 30:59 And so they're usually not very religious, you know, 31:02 and so, and they're very professional. 31:04 And you never see them managing hotels. 31:07 So this is a lot unusual for us. 31:09 That's right, and so, the next morning, 31:13 we're getting ready to leave. 31:14 And it's just Duane, and myself, 31:17 and Bob Peck there. 31:19 The other couple that had been there 31:21 the previous morning for breakfast, 31:23 they had already gone. 31:25 So we have packed our bags, and the pastor 31:29 has come to pick us up, and I said, 31:32 "Duane, I want to go and say, 31:35 "Thank you so much 31:36 to Antoinette for their hospitality." 31:39 And so I went there, 31:42 and Antoinette said, you know... 31:44 Was she sitting at the bar, smoking... 31:47 And with her Bible, and she said, "You know what, 31:52 you know, she said... 31:54 I told my husband, 31:58 we were brought up wrong." 32:00 And I thought, "Woah!" 32:03 Anyway, she started to tell me 32:05 that this person she has been studying Revelation, 32:11 she's been studying prophecy. 32:13 And I thought, "How did that happen?" 32:16 So she said, you know, "Every Saturday morning, 32:19 one of my relatives would send out texts, messages, 32:24 and I would get it, and I start asking questions." 32:28 And this relative said, "I'm going to put you in touch 32:33 with Neville Neveling." 32:35 And so, "Wow, Neville Neveling," 32:38 I said, "Well, I want that information 32:41 so that we can get in touch with Neville Neveling." 32:44 And she goes on to tell how she has been 32:47 doing Bible studies, prophecy Bible studies, 32:51 through Neville Neveling. 32:54 And so she gives us his information, 32:57 Duane calls Neville. 32:59 This is so exciting. 33:01 I called him, and this is right after 33:03 you were in Romania. Okay. 33:05 Okay, so he had a camp meeting for these Afrikaans people. 33:09 He's been taking the cell phone, 33:10 and he does Sabbath school and church on the cell phone 33:13 with all these Afrikaans Adventist farmers 33:15 all across Southern Africa. 33:16 Now Neville is a lay person? 33:18 He is a lay person. Uh-huh. 33:19 He has a lodge and stuff and does theme park stuff. 33:22 But he is also Afrikaans, 33:24 and he does this the cell phone, 33:26 Bible studies in cell phone, Sabbath school, and church, 33:29 switched off the cell phone with using Whatsapp. 33:31 And he sends these messages and people respond. 33:34 And he does Sabbath school and church. 33:35 And so he ends up getting invited to go 33:38 and preach in Georgia when we're in Romania. 33:41 And he's flying home on the airplane, 33:43 and he's looking at his cell phone. 33:45 And he's thinking about the sermons 33:47 he just preached, he thought, 33:48 "I can do evangelism with a cell phone." 33:50 Amen. 33:51 And so that's what is happening now. 33:53 He's starting to send out with a cell phone. 33:55 He puts them in six-minute clips, 33:57 he does the whole sermon, he sends it to all his people, 33:59 they respond. 34:01 First, he had a hundreds, then he had a thousand, 34:03 then he had 3,000. 34:05 When we talked to him, he had 3,000 people everyday. 34:08 He's pulling his hair out 34:09 where he doesn't have a whole lot left. 34:11 But he's pulling his hair what he does tell, you know, 34:13 all these people, and now it has developed. 34:15 He's got 14 other people working with him. 34:18 They had 10,000 to 12,000 people 34:20 around the world on every continent. 34:23 Wow. Well, except one. 34:25 Except one. 34:26 Antarctica, the penguins don't have phones there. 34:28 Yeah. Yeah, what can you say. 34:31 What's amazing about this is that anybody can do it. 34:34 I'm actually headed there next week to... 34:35 We pour on some of the stories and talk with these people. 34:38 For example, there was a very introverted, 34:40 shy man in the church there. 34:42 And he, for 15 years, he sat there on the pew 34:46 and didn't really talk or engage in anyway. 34:50 He heard about this cell phone evangelism, 34:52 and he's like, "I can do that." 34:55 And the pastor was like, "Huh!" 34:58 Like this man has never spoken up ever. 35:01 And everybody around was like, "Really?" 35:03 And he's like, "I can do that." 35:05 This man has started 35:08 cell phone evangelism on his Whatsapp, 35:10 and he has already eight to nine people ready to go, 35:13 and that's just within a few months. 35:14 Wow. 35:16 For baptism, like this is incredible. 35:18 There's also another young lady. 35:20 She was born with a kidney defect, 35:23 and her legs have been amputated, 35:25 and she's lost her sight. 35:27 That girl's winning souls through her cell phone. 35:31 She can do cell phone evangelism. 35:33 There's no excuse for anybody else, of any age, 35:37 or of any challenges, you can do cell phone... 35:39 And it's reaching thousands. 35:41 And we're finding new platforms 35:42 where we can reach even more at once 35:45 when you send out the prophecy sermons. 35:48 Sue, you played this on your cell phone 35:50 that audio testimony last night as we were driving, 35:55 from this guy in South Africa 35:56 who just started using the cell phone. 35:58 And what was... 36:00 Can you tell us about the guy? 36:02 Amazing. Wasn't it on your's? 36:04 Yeah. On Cami's. Okay. 36:06 Yeah. No worries. Okay. 36:08 His name is Marius, and he is a brother of Gideon 36:12 who is one of the main leaders with Neville on getting 36:14 the cell phone evangelism out there in the world 36:17 and take teaming here with AWR. 36:19 They are now partners with us for this. 36:21 And his brother, he was driving on down the road, 36:24 he's like, you know, 36:27 "I was born in a Seventh-day Adventist Church, 36:29 I've been, you know, 36:31 even teaching Sabbath school, 36:32 you know, off and on, here and there, 36:34 but I just really haven't done much for the Lord. 36:36 I need to do more for the Lord." 36:38 And so he heard about this cell phone evangelism 36:41 that his brother was doing, 36:44 starting getting the texts, 36:45 seeing, and hearing, and listening, 36:47 and being convicted all over again from so he says, 36:49 "You know what, 36:50 I'm feeling deeply impressed to do this myself." 36:54 This man does this, and in the last few months, 36:58 he has, guess how many? 37:00 Eleven hundred people now. Amen. 37:04 Learning all about Daniel to Revelation... 37:07 I mean just... It is wonderful. 37:09 Another beautiful thing that brought tears to my eyes 37:12 when I first heard it is that 37:14 he also added his son to the cell phone list. 37:16 And his son had not been in church for about a decade. 37:18 Amen. Yes. 37:20 And his son, everyday he says, 37:22 "So, son, what do you think of, you know, such and such." 37:25 And he says, "Well, I haven't listened to it." 37:26 "You listen to it, and then I'm going to call you back, 37:29 and you can let me know." 37:30 And so this actually worked. 37:33 That son is now reconnected and he has been re-baptized. 37:38 Amen. Amen. 37:40 Yes, you know, the Holy Spirit can use any of these tools, 37:44 and He's just giving us so many tools here 37:47 in the end time. 37:48 The Lord is just saying, "Here, take this, take this." 37:51 And we can spread the gospel in all these ways. 37:54 They're in church... Praise the Lord. 37:55 Can I just say something once? 37:57 We didn't mention that Antoinette 38:00 is getting baptized. 38:02 Yes, we're going to go and film that. 38:04 In two weeks, she's getting baptized. 38:06 Praise God. Yes. 38:07 You know, what is great about this cell phone evangelism, 38:10 in particular, is so many of our church members 38:14 want to help finish the work. 38:16 And this is just such a simple way they can do that. 38:20 I received a call from this gentleman in Texas. 38:23 He is 85 years old. 38:25 He heard about the cell phone evangelism. 38:28 He just goes, "I can do that. 38:29 I want to do that." Amen. 38:32 You know what, how do you do that? 38:34 I bet the audience wants to know that. 38:35 You know, they want to know how... 38:37 I would if I was watching this, "How do you do that?" 38:39 Do we have any training videos? We do. 38:41 We actually have an awesome training video 38:45 by Neville himself on how to do cell phone evangelism. 38:49 It is on awr.org as well as we are branching out 38:52 into YouTube evangelism as well. 38:54 And our partner in this is a guy by the name of... 38:59 Greg Sereda. 39:00 Greg and he has Bible Flock Box. 39:02 And Mark Fox. And Mark Fox. 39:04 Both of them. 39:05 And they are top YouTube evangelists. 39:08 Well, Greg Sereda, I think has had 39:10 53 million people watch his YouTube. 39:12 He's in Poland. 39:14 He is the top Adventist. Tremendous story. 39:15 I won't tell the whole story, we don't have time. 39:16 Incredible story. 39:18 But he is partnering with us, 39:19 and he does training on how to do YouTube evangelism. 39:23 So we're putting out as many tools as possible 39:25 for the laymen to get involved 39:27 'cause we're told that laymen finish the work. 39:28 But here in Pretoria... Go ahead. 39:30 No, go ahead. No, no, no. 39:31 In Pretoria, they wanted to do something in this one church. 39:34 There was a big Dutch reformed church, 39:36 our church bought it. 39:37 So we hade the whole complex there. 39:39 And so we were talking with them about social media. 39:41 And they said, 39:43 "We wanted to be on the social media studio." 39:45 And so we thought, "We'll first buy one," 39:46 and then they said, 39:48 "No, we can build a brand new one here on our ground." 39:50 So we're partnering with him, 39:51 he says for $200,000, we can build this. 39:54 And there's a builder in the church, he says, 39:56 "I can fund all the rest. 39:57 I'll build this studio for you." 39:59 So that, in China for example, in China, WeChat is everyplace. 40:05 It's an app on the phone. 40:06 When you go to the store, you buy groceries, 40:08 you take your phone, you use your app, 40:09 and you buy your groceries with your app, 40:11 don't use cash. 40:13 Everybody, a billion people have WeChat. 40:16 It's also popular in Southern Africa. 40:19 WeChat, it's like Whatsapp. 40:21 It's just an app. 40:23 But the neat thing about WeChat is, get this, 40:27 you can broadcast 24x7 on radio on WeChat. 40:32 So we can set up a studio, we're going to do in China too, 40:35 but there, you have to health messages. 40:37 We can set up a Bible Adventist studio 40:40 in Pretoria, South Africa, 40:43 broadcast all over China the Adventist message. 40:48 And you know what? There's no restrictions. 40:52 Praise the Lord. 40:54 Now what do we do with all these people 40:56 that were broadcast it too, like cell phone evangelism. 40:59 There are so many people that are hearing this messages, 41:01 and they have questions, 41:02 and, you know, Neville, bless his heart, 41:04 he's been responding 41:05 to every single one of us as much as possible. 41:07 But this has just born a new idea 41:11 that is called AWR 360, digital centers for evangelism. 41:17 I think the people who try to contact you, 41:18 if you can't have them through the internet, 41:21 through the general conference. 41:22 They go to the general conference 41:24 and type in they want the answers. 41:25 They want to sign for Bible studies, 41:26 oftentimes you have something, 41:28 you ought to share about... 41:30 Yeah. About what we're... 41:32 About us. Yes. 41:33 And how that's going to work. That's right. 41:35 So, you know, the thing is that Adventist World 41:39 has done an incredible job for 40 years 41:41 and broadcasting around the world. 41:43 And during the past few months, 41:45 our focus has enlarged, 41:47 beyond broadcasting in almost 100 languages. 41:50 And when we do this, 41:51 the problem is is that a lot of times 41:54 there hasn't been a follow up. 41:55 You know, at different, you know, websites, 41:58 and that's throughout all of Adventism, 42:00 you know, in all of the different ministries, 42:02 you know, you get the Facebook chats, 42:03 the whatever, and people are asking questions, 42:06 and maybe it takes a few hours, a few days, if ever, 42:09 for a response, right? 42:11 So that is the problem. 42:12 And our objective for these centers 42:14 for digital evangelism 42:17 is to lead every digital relationship 42:19 to baptism and church planting. 42:21 So we've also expanded our distribution channels 42:24 to all media platforms, 42:25 and in this partnership with total member involvement, 42:28 we believe in connecting the dots, 42:30 that is to say helping the church to lead 42:32 each personal interaction from engagement to membership. 42:35 So the problem is hopefully going to be solved here 42:39 because with these centers for digital evangelism, 42:41 we're going to have about a 100, 150... 42:44 50 to 150, we'll start off with first. 42:46 Voluntary missionaries. Yeah. 42:48 And in Manila, it's like a call center. 42:51 That's a call center in Manila. 42:52 This is not only our problem. 42:54 It's a problem in the world. Yes. 42:55 I got a call here from Chris Smith. 42:57 He is the expert 42:58 on social media advertising on Facebook. 43:01 He has a book called the Conversion Code. 43:03 And he says, "Leads," you know, they get, 43:06 "are meaningless as someone does not work them 43:10 and follow up with them to systemized, strategic, 43:15 in a repeatable way." 43:17 He says, actually, he says, 43:19 what happens is we spend millions of dollars 43:21 to get entrants and leads in the commercial world. 43:25 But then, he said, 43:27 "We don't spend that amount of money 43:28 again to bring them around, you see, 43:31 to bring them around, to covert them, 43:33 you've lost your money." 43:35 And we did the same thing. 43:36 We got tons of interest, but where do they go? 43:39 Where do they go? How can we help them? 43:40 And so that's the idea to build 43:43 a digital center of evangelism... 43:46 And Manila, if you go by the Mall of Asia... 43:48 Oh, yes. You know, you've been there. 43:50 Yes. It's the largest mall in Asia. 43:51 Huge mall. Huge mall. 43:53 And if you look and this reclaim land 43:55 next door to the Mall Asia are these huge buildings. 43:58 Those are all call centers. 44:01 When you call up Hilton, when you call up AT&T, 44:03 you need help, bang. 44:05 Yeah, you said, "Hey, where you at?" 44:07 "Yeah, we're in Manila." 44:10 So we are thinking, "Okay, we can do that too. 44:13 We can get 50, 100, and 150, 44:16 young-adults from around the world 44:17 who speak all kinds of different languages 44:19 who will be at our center for digital evangelism 44:23 for Adventist World Radio. 44:24 And we can help the whole church then, 44:26 connect, and connect them to Bible studies, 44:28 connect them back with the church, 44:30 and then eventually to baptism. 44:32 Powerful. Powerful. It is powerful. 44:34 Who would have thought that Adventist World Radio 44:38 would be involved in this new kind of venture 44:41 and receiving immediate results for, 44:46 you know, for your labor. 44:47 That's exciting stuff. 44:49 It is because God gave it to us. 44:50 That's right. God lined it all up. 44:52 And these people are telling, 44:53 commercial people are telling us, 44:55 "If you don't get back to person within 10 minutes, 44:58 you know, they're gone." 44:59 But when you go on the Hilton website, 45:01 or when you go on back country website, 45:04 or, you know, you're looking at their materials and stuff 45:06 they want to buy a safari suit or whatever, you know, 45:10 or a jacket for the rain. 45:11 All of a sudden, a young lady's voice 45:13 or picture pops up 45:15 or a young man's picture pops up, 45:16 you want to chat now, can I help you? 45:20 Really, really exciting. 45:21 That's what the world is about. Yeah. 45:22 And so we need to get into that 45:24 so that we can connect with these digital interest 45:26 and move them into prayer, 45:27 move them into Bible studies, move them into relationships, 45:30 and move them into a relationship 45:32 with the church and then baptism. 45:34 Praise the Lord. That's what I love about it. 45:35 Because it's not just answering the Bible question, 45:38 it's actually developing a relationship, 45:40 an ongoing relationship 45:41 that these voluntary missionaries 45:43 will have for a year. 45:45 And, you know, thinking of different ways 45:48 to like sum it up for each missionary 45:51 at the end of each year 45:52 is potentially having photos of each of all these people 45:57 that they have been baptized through their work 45:59 with cell phone evangelism and putting a book together, 46:01 and wouldn't that be amazing to see the lives 46:03 you impacted? 46:05 Wow. Oh, incredible... 46:06 We're asking ASI to partner with us, and actually, 46:08 they're meeting tomorrow. 46:09 They're talking about helping us out 46:11 with one of the offerings. 46:12 And plus, we have to ask, you know, 46:14 we need a vice president. 46:16 And so we looked around, and we have asked, listen, 46:18 what's that guy's name who worked at ASI? 46:21 You mean Kyle. Kyle Allen. 46:23 I forgot his name. 46:25 He's a Secretary-Treasurer in the NAD for ASI. 46:28 NAD is going to kill me, but we have called him. 46:32 We have called him to be our vice-president 46:35 there at Adventist World Radio, and he has these connections, 46:38 and he'll work with this digital center. 46:40 He has the connections with ASI. 46:43 Another thing, we have one problem, 46:45 not these two young ladies here, 46:47 but some of the rest of us have a problem, 46:49 and that is we are aging. 46:51 And so we need to get more... No, not you. 46:55 We need more people who are younger, 46:58 the guys, to get excited, 47:00 about finishing the work around the world 47:01 and connecting them through Adventist World Radio. 47:04 You know, we all struggle with that, but he is young, 47:07 like Cami and Sue, and we have this 47:10 whole young team that will be working. 47:11 He is also heavily involved with GYC. 47:14 So we're very, very excited to have Kyle with us 47:18 as our vice-president. 47:19 Absolutely. Praise the Lord. 47:21 I am so excited about this 47:23 brand new infusion of energy and ideas, 47:27 and how they flow into direct front line evangelism, 47:31 takes it kind off the couch, 47:33 puts it kind of into stream of things. 47:34 And that's exciting stuff. That really is. 47:37 We truly are boots on the ground in ministry. 47:39 Boots on the ground. 47:40 Yeah, you know, I just got a phone call 47:42 the other day from a... 47:44 We have several stations run by churches 47:46 in the country of Spain. 47:48 And actually, they have a difficult time but anyway, 47:52 they are working... 47:53 I think we have about 20 of them 47:55 in the country itself in Spain. 47:56 And they are doing wonderful work. 47:58 They got a call, the leader of this group 48:00 got a call from a Pentecostal pastor. 48:04 Wow. 48:05 And he says, "I love, I was just listening again 48:07 to your presentation on Adventist World Radio. 48:10 I was listening to it on the trumpets." 48:13 And then he says to me, "All of the trumpets, 48:14 well, that's about the change of the Sabbath and everything, 48:17 you know, this is pretty..." 48:18 And he says, "I love it, I love it. 48:20 I'm going to preach it to my church on Sunday." 48:23 Wow! 48:25 Then he says, "Do you know? 48:27 I'm already a Seventh-day Adventist." 48:30 Praise the Lord. Amen. 48:31 He says, "I haven't told my church, 48:33 but I listen to the sermon during the week. 48:35 I make my sermon up to preach on Sunday. 48:37 I preach the same sermon on Sunday morning there." 48:40 He is a closet Adventist. 48:43 So praise the Lord, that's exciting. 48:46 And then we have also from Spain. 48:48 We have these islands that are Spanish owned 48:50 that are next to North Africa around the Morocco 48:53 and those countries there, you know. 48:55 We have six radio stations, we're broadcasting into... 48:59 And we're getting wonderful stories back 49:02 from people who'll secretly listen to our radio stations 49:05 in North Africa. 49:07 And it's very difficult to reach areas. 49:09 Praise the Lord. Good stuff. 49:11 God is good. Yeah. 49:12 Then we're doing GodPod. Do you know? 49:14 We've been doing this for a long time. 49:16 We're increasing that we just found out 49:18 that we've been paying $48 to them, 49:20 we got the price down to $18. 49:22 Now we can get them for $10, made in China. 49:26 One of the guys working in North Africa, and the area, 49:31 he said, "I would like to have a 100,000 of those." 49:34 Wow! 49:36 Hey, man, I got to ask you because when last we talked, 49:38 and I don't know it's taken place yet, 49:40 some of the evangelism was going to be 49:41 taking place in Japan. 49:43 You were taking some Japanese pastors 49:44 out to sort of get their feet wet. 49:46 We took them to Mindoro, they preached, 49:48 they got excited, 49:49 life-changing experience, you cannot believe it. 49:52 Unbelievable, they left with tears in their eyes. 49:56 And they have never done that before in their lives. 49:58 They had never done an evangelistic meeting overseas, 50:02 they had never done evangelism. 50:04 Sue, you talked to a conference president, 50:06 and you asked him, 50:08 "Have you done evangelism before?" 50:10 Yes, this conference president... 50:12 From Japan, Tokyo. 50:13 Had never held an evangelistic meeting 50:15 before ever. 50:17 And in his entire life, he had attended one. 50:20 Oh, boy. 50:22 When he was what? Twelve years old. 50:23 Something like that, when he was young. 50:24 And he told me, "We just don't do evangelism like that." 50:28 And so you asked him. 50:30 And I said, "Oh, so what do you do?" 50:31 And he goes, "Well, we have weekend events, you know, 50:34 on health topics or family things, topics." 50:38 And I said, "Oh, so how is that working out for you?" 50:42 And he said, "It isn't." 50:43 And he said, "In all of last year, 50:46 we had 250 baptisms, 240 baptisms, 50:51 and they had 250 members die, so actually it was..." 50:56 Oh, boy, net loss. A net loss. 50:58 And so this really impacted them, 51:01 and even just this last week, I received a message 51:05 via Facebook from one of our speakers 51:08 that went from Japan to Mindoro, 51:11 and she said, "I just want to tell you again, 51:13 this has changed my life." 51:15 Amen. Praise the Lord. 51:17 Right now, we're broadcasting from Peter Landless, 51:19 he gave us his health message 51:21 which we're broadcasting health messages 51:23 all across Tokyo, the largest city in the world. 51:26 And then they'll be driven to health seminars 51:28 to the churches, and then they'll be invited, 51:29 then bridge seminars to come to prophecy seminars 51:33 in the churches. 51:35 In the month of May, 51:36 there will be a 167 meetings in Japan, 51:43 the first time in the history of that country 51:45 supported by Adventist World Radio. 51:47 That's exciting. Isn't that thrilling? 51:48 Praise God. That's thrilling. 51:49 That's total member involvement in AWR to get... 51:51 You know, I knew this was going to be happen. 51:52 We are down to the nether end of this program 51:54 so fast somebody here is talking a lot, 51:58 for which we praise the Lord. 52:00 But I want to get your contact information 52:01 now before our time runs out. 52:03 Because if you want to support their work, 52:05 if you want to know more about their work, 52:07 if you want to have them come in maybe 52:09 breathe some life into your congregation, 52:11 here's the contact information for Adventist World Radio. 52:16 If you would like to find out more about 52:18 Adventist World Radio or their various projects, 52:22 or if you'd like to support them 52:23 by getting involved in spreading 52:25 the gospels through radio, 52:26 please visit their website, awr.org. 52:30 Their website again is awr.org. 52:34 You may also reach them by email at cami@awr.org 52:39 or call them at area code (301) 680-6304. 52:45 If you prefer, you may write to them at AWR, 52:49 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Maryland 20904. |
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