Participants: Danny Shelton (Host), Brenda Walsh, Brian Hamilton, C.A. Murray, Deyvy Rodriquez, ET Everett, Greg & Jill Morikone, Jason Bradley, Jay Christian, Joel Baker, John Dinzey, Jonathan Babb, Megan Cowan, Mollie Steenson, Moses Primo, Roy & Earlenne Hunt, Shelley Quinn, Yvonne Lewis
Series Code: TL
Program Code: TL015535B
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00:07 So as we continue down from Danny's office,
00:09 it's always a treat to talk with him. 00:11 He is so encouraging and has great vision 00:13 for the work of 3ABN 00:14 and he is definitely being used by the Lord. 00:16 Amen. 00:17 And now on this side is Greg's office. 00:19 That's right. We won't stop in there. 00:21 Nothing too interesting about that. 00:23 And we have Ms. Yvonne Lewis, Dr. Yvonne Lewis. 00:26 Her office is here now. 00:27 I know you just saw her, she is over at the Uplink. 00:30 That's right. 00:31 Producing over there and working with that program. 00:33 She and Jason Bradley are in this office 00:34 and then Brian Hamilton is on this side. 00:36 But we are gonna talk to him in just a few moments 00:38 over in Accounting. 00:39 Yeah, in the Accounting Department. 00:41 But, yeah, this is a neat part of the building. 00:42 This was actually added on not oh, that long ago. 00:45 May be 10 years or so ago. 00:46 It seems like when Jim Gilley came about that time 00:48 when they added on the extra. 00:49 That's right. So tell us who is to our left. 00:50 On this side is Elisa and Barbara 00:52 and this is an important part of 3ABN. 00:54 Everything you send in, all the mail that comes in 00:56 or the donations, 00:58 all of that comes through this office 00:59 and then it's passed on, 01:01 filled on to our accounting department. 01:03 And then Elisa 01:04 is Mollie Steenson's administrative assistant. 01:07 And we all know Mollie is a busy lady, 01:08 so she needs someone 01:10 who can really step up to the plate 01:11 and who can help her. 01:12 Now we are gonna step into Mollie Steenson's office. 01:14 She is our vice president 01:16 and general manager here at 3ABN. 01:19 I love coming in this office. I do too. 01:21 Because Mollie is such a woman of God. 01:22 She has an open listening heart. 01:25 She is integral to the work that takes place here at 3ABN. 01:29 She is a woman of grace and dignity. 01:30 And, Mollie, today you are little bit hoarse. 01:34 Well, about oh, three or four weeks ago 01:38 our very dear friends 01:40 Shelley and JD Quinn had bronchitis. 01:43 And Helen and I are their dear friends 01:45 and we just share everything 01:47 obviously including bronchitis germs. 01:50 So last week Helen and I had bronchitis 01:53 and this week we are much recouped 01:55 but we still got little hoarse from it. 01:58 Now you've been with 3ABN for years 02:01 and I know that you've known Danny Shelton 02:04 since before 3ABN started, 02:05 you and Pastor Hal who works in pastoral department. 02:08 Yes, we knew Danny Shelton before there was a 3ABN 02:13 and I want you to know that man was as committed 02:16 to the Lord Jesus Christ 02:18 the first day we met him as he is today. 02:21 He hasn't changed. 02:23 He is one of the unique people 02:24 that I know are just always the same. 02:28 What you see is what you get. 02:29 What you see on the air at 3ABN 02:32 is what you would see right here at 3ABN. 02:35 Yeah, that's very true. 02:36 Yeah, we just came from his office 02:38 and he was, you know, again he is always positive, 02:40 so very optimistic about the future 02:41 and how the Lord is leading this ministry. 02:43 Hard to believe it's 31 years, isn't that, Mollie? 02:45 Thirty one years. 02:47 And, you know, back in the day when he first called-- 02:53 Hal was one of the first ones he called 02:55 after God dropped that dream and that vision into his heart. 02:59 And from the very beginning there was no doubting, 03:03 there was no questioning. 03:05 He knew if it be God it will happen. 03:07 You know, I interview people here, 03:09 I don't mean on the air interview 03:10 but I interview them 03:12 for their positions here at 3ABN 03:14 and I like to tell people when you become a part of 3ABN, 03:17 you are joining yourself to a ministry 03:20 that was brought about by God. 03:23 And I explain to them that now 31 years ago, 03:27 God dropped a dream and a vision 03:29 in a young man's heart, 03:30 and either the dream was from God or it wasn't 03:35 and here's just a little try it saying, 03:38 the proof is in the pudding. 03:40 Thirty one years later did the dream come to past? 03:43 Yes, it did. Yes, absolutely. 03:45 So to me that's proof positive 03:47 that God brought this ministry into being. 03:50 Makes us feel good, doesn't it, Greg and Jill, 03:52 to be a part of something brought about by God. 03:56 Absolutely. 03:57 Now Mollie Steenson's title 03:58 is vice president, general manager 04:01 but I can tell you that Mollie Steenson knows 04:03 probably everything that goes on here at 3ABN. 04:06 She is a lady that has worn many hats and still continues 04:08 to wear many hats even thought her title is vice president, 04:11 general manager. 04:12 I can say to you, 04:13 if I go plunge a toilet if it needed to, wouldn't you? 04:15 Oh, I've plunged many toilets around here. 04:17 I said that because I knew she had. 04:18 Yeah. 04:20 You know, either you are part of the ministry or you are not 04:23 and if ever title goes to your head, 04:26 then it's time God moved you out. 04:28 Yeah, very true. We are here to do a job. 04:30 We are not and, and accomplish something 04:32 for the kingdom of God. 04:33 We are not here to be show ponies or visuals. 04:37 You know what we are? 04:38 We are work horses around here. Yeah. 04:40 We all work together and it's a team effort. 04:41 And I have to say this too from all I've worked with her 04:43 when I was at the call center and now in production. 04:46 Her door is always open. 04:48 I can come in the chair, close the door, 04:49 just sit down right here in one of these chairs and say, 04:52 Mollie, give me some words from the Lord 04:54 and God has given her tremendous gift 04:56 of being an encourager 04:58 and I don't mean this is something against you 05:00 but as a positive. 05:02 Almost like a mother, she is very much, 05:03 almost a mother of 3ABN. 05:05 It's a tremendous talent, Mollie. 05:06 God has blessed you here at 3ABN for sure. 05:09 Well, I love these people. 05:10 These are good people here at 3ABN 05:13 and I would just like to ask you 05:15 to please pray for every one of us. 05:17 We need your prayers, we need your love 05:19 and this ministry needs financial help 05:22 to further the cause of Christ to the whole world. 05:26 Thank you, Mollie, I know that you are busy, 05:27 but thank you for letting us 05:29 stop in your office on this tour. 05:30 So we are gonna continue on down the hall 05:32 in the west wing here. 05:33 Thanks. Kind of you. 05:34 Thank you very much. 05:36 So as we continue down the hallway here 05:38 and past Mollie's office. 05:40 We go down the hall and the last office 05:42 is Pastor C.A. Murray right here 05:45 at the end of the hall. 05:47 Hello, Pastor C.A., how are you? 05:49 I just walked in without knocking, didn't I? 05:52 I knocked for him. 05:55 Good to see you pastor. 05:57 Now Danny just mentioned about going to England 06:00 and this man has just come back as well. 06:02 I know, you are tried, you just traveled recently 06:04 but the Lord is using you in mighty ways. 06:06 And I know that he is the general manager 06:09 of the Proclaimed Network 06:11 but this man also wears many hats. 06:13 I work with him closely with production. 06:16 He is Today Live, the Today producer, 06:20 live events coordinator, producer, so he's a busy man. 06:24 Absolutely. And-- 06:27 I do windows. 06:28 You do windows as in Macintosh versus Windows? 06:32 As in washing windows. 06:35 She started though that in there. 06:37 So before we get to you, 06:38 tell us about a little bit about Proclaim. 06:39 I see also that you got a lot of ships, 06:41 so are you-- you like sailing? 06:44 I do. 06:45 I don't know anything about them. 06:47 I can't swim. I just like sailing ships. 06:49 That period in history, a mystery that fascinates me 06:53 and I haven't lived on Long Island for so many years. 06:55 I got to see whaling ships and all the whaling museums. 06:58 And I don't really know how I collected the first. 07:00 Those are all rummage sales, yard sales, you know, 07:04 you go rummaging around. 07:05 I never bought anything in a store. 07:06 So it didn't cost a lot of money. 07:08 Just you see a ship there so looking sort of lonely 07:10 so I gave it a home. 07:12 And this is only half of my collection the other one-- 07:14 office is a little too small so they're boxed up 07:17 waiting for a time and I suspect. 07:19 It's an incredible collection of these ships. 07:21 I love that. 07:22 Now you are general manager of 3ABN Proclaim 07:25 and tell us how long Proclaim has been, 07:27 the network has been a network 07:28 and what are your plans and goals for it? 07:30 I think Proclaim is in its one, two, three, 07:33 fifth year and time, it gets away from you. 07:36 The challenge with Proclaim is that we don't produce 07:38 specifically for Proclaim. 07:40 The other challenge we produce the civic programs for them. 07:43 Proclaim is a preaching, teaching network 07:46 so we are dependent upon preaching series 07:48 that happen here at 3ABN 07:49 or preaching and teaching series 07:51 that people send us. 07:52 A lot of material is good, 07:54 a lot of it is not broadcast quality. 07:56 So it's really tough getting the kinds of sermons 07:58 that we want. 07:59 But so far we've done good. 08:01 We've added about three or four shows just this year. 08:02 Amen. 08:04 We use our anchors, we broadcast our anchors 08:05 and other things that are done over in the worship center, 08:08 we put on Proclaim that are of a preaching, 08:09 teaching nature. 08:11 I do know that 3ABN Proclaim 08:13 is one of the more popular networks 08:15 because one time we had some technical issues. 08:16 I think it was when I was at the call center then 08:19 and wow, did we get a lot of phone calls saying, 08:21 "Where is Proclaim?" 08:23 So it's a blessing. Yeah. 08:24 You only know sometimes-- well, you know, 08:26 that you lose your water when the well runs dry. 08:29 But we didn't really know 08:31 that we had this sort of loyal group 08:32 of a lot of guys just they don't want preaching, 08:35 they don't want cooking, they don't want music, 08:37 just want this or rather they just want sermons. 08:40 And so as I was in California just last year 08:43 and this husband and wife we're sort of kidding around 08:45 and he was saying what she watched. 08:47 They have two different TVs 08:48 and he watches Proclaim exclusively 08:50 and then she watches 3ABN English 08:53 and she likes the cooking and she likes the other things 08:54 but he is not concerned about it. 08:56 He just wants the word. 08:57 So for those who are just word devotees dare I say, 09:00 that's what Proclaim is for. 09:02 It satisfies that hunger. 09:05 Well, thank you, pastor for allowing us 09:06 stop in your office. 09:07 I know that you are a busy man but this again is an office 09:09 you can always come in, close the door 09:10 and just say give me some words of wisdom. 09:12 He is a man of wisdom, a man of God 09:14 and a man of the word. 09:16 If you watch 3ABN and all you know that Pastor Murray, 09:18 when he gets in the pulpit, 09:20 the anointing of the Holy Spirit 09:21 is gonna flow through him. 09:23 So we are so blessed to have he and his wife Irma here. 09:25 Yeah, we just saw her earlier in the Latino department. 09:27 So let's continue on down the hall. 09:28 We are going where next? The Accounting Department. 09:34 So here we are at the accounting window. 09:35 I'm gonna ring the bell and LaDonna should let us in. 09:39 All right. Thank you, LaDonna. 09:41 Thank you. 09:42 We'll see if Brian and Davey are here. 09:45 I know sometimes they meet quite a bit. 09:47 Let see. 09:48 Gentlemen. Yes, come in. 09:50 Hey, Brian, hi, Davey. How are you? 09:52 How are you guys. 09:53 Just thought we come in and start to interrupt 09:55 your meeting here. 09:56 Hopefully, we will just take a few minutes. 09:57 Say, hello. 09:59 Now Brian Hamilton is our CFO of 3ABN and Davey-- 10:03 his position is rather new so, Brian, 10:04 we are gonna let you explain real quick Davey 10:07 and what you do here in accounting? 10:08 Sure. All right. 10:10 Yes, Davey is my new assistant. 10:13 He is assistant treasurer and office manager. 10:16 I've moved down to another location 10:19 and Davey is taking over the day-to-day activity 10:24 of accounting office overseeing it. 10:26 So we are happy to have Davey onboard with us. 10:29 And we hope you are happy too. 10:32 Yes, I'm very happy. Good. 10:35 Just right now we were, both were working on 10:38 year end annual tax return 10:41 that we have to complete each year. 10:43 It's a reporting kind of form, it's called the 990's. 10:48 Quite a big project about 60 pages long 10:50 but all charities have to do this. 10:52 So I have a question. 10:54 So when I hear accounting, I think money. 10:57 Now money flows freely into 3ABN, right? 11:01 Or is it a stressful position? 11:02 Tell me about the Accounting and how you feel 11:04 being in the Accounting Department 11:05 and how many years you've been here at 3ABN? 11:08 Yeah, Diane and I came about seven years ago, 11:11 just a little over seven years ago. 11:13 And before that I was in a conference work 11:17 doing treasure and accounting types of things. 11:22 We have a lot of volume of activity at 3ABN. 11:26 Lot of donations come in. 11:28 Often times small ones but big quantities, 11:31 big numbers of donors but small amounts. 11:34 So it adds a little bit of work there. 11:36 And then we have a lot of dollars go out 11:38 because the expenses of course. 11:40 Of spreading the gospel. Yeah. Yeah. 11:42 Sometimes I get a feeling like it's trickling in 11:45 and gushing going out, 11:46 you know, certain times of the month. 11:48 But the God is good to us 11:50 and every month we seem to be able 11:52 to put bear our expenses for the month 11:55 and we look forward to a new one so... 11:57 You have an incredible staff here who work with you. 11:59 Tell us briefly who works in Accounting Department? 12:01 Okay. 12:02 Well, Davey, why don't you tell me 12:04 about your crew now 12:05 that works here in Accounting? 12:07 Well, we will be quick here. 12:08 We have Karen Cordes who works with the trust and annuities 12:11 as the accountant. 12:13 We also have LaDonna who works here at the front desk 12:15 and we have Feathers who pays the bills. 12:18 We also have Dave who does a lot of our entries 12:21 and Xenia who does our payroll. 12:24 We also have a new team member who is Renise. 12:27 We are happy to have her as well. 12:28 And I think that's it. 12:30 It's a great team here at 3ABN, 12:31 it's definitely everyone working together 12:33 and thank you too, 12:34 because you are our team members as well. 12:36 You send your donations in to 3ABN or your prayer. 12:38 We appreciate that very much. 12:40 I'll tell you what, let's go down to production, 12:42 see what's going on down there. 12:44 We're coming back through the main lobby here 12:46 and why don't we go into Studio A? 12:48 Yeah, that sounds good. 12:49 Sometimes that little red lights on 12:51 and that means they are-- oh, it is on. 12:52 Oh, here's Steven he is our audio guy. 12:55 Good. Let's actually follow him. 12:57 They haven't started taping yet. 12:58 Let's follow in there and I think they are getting ready 13:00 to start a program so usually we had to be quiet. 13:02 Yeah, they are on the sets but we should be okay. 13:06 We do a lot of production in here. 13:09 This is control room A, 13:11 we do our flagship program from in here. 13:14 And remember we just saw Pastor John 13:15 and he was a busy man heading out of his office. 13:17 Well, he was actually heading on set. 13:19 So Steven here is putting the microphone on. 13:22 Again good to see you, Pastor John. 13:23 Hi, how are you? Good to see you again. 13:25 So I know this is a Latino program 13:27 but what you are getting ready to do here? 13:29 Well, we are about to interview 13:31 this lovely couple Diogenes Dominguez. 13:34 He is a musician and his wife also, 13:36 also musical evangelist in Spanish. 13:40 Well, of course piano is international. 13:42 Piano works for any language. For any language. 13:45 And so we are about to interview them about the music 13:47 they have taped during this day. 13:48 Amen. 13:49 And Steven, I know we just interrupted him 13:51 because we don't like to keep 13:52 mike wires hanging out like that. 13:53 Well, that's what Steven Danner does is that 13:55 he would mike them up, go into the control room 13:56 which you are gonna just see in a moment 13:58 and run the audio from there. 13:59 So when here we do what we do in control room Studio A? 14:01 I love Studio A. 14:02 There is a lot of production that takes place here. 14:04 As you can see Brother Johnny is on the set. 14:06 This is our Today's set 14:08 or in Spanish it would be our Hoy set. 14:10 It's our interview set. 14:12 Behind me here we have our music set. 14:14 We would move the cameras, 14:15 we would turn the lights on over there 14:18 and we would take music. 14:19 If we move the piano away, we tape 3ABN Family Worship 14:22 that airs on Friday night opening up the Sabbath. 14:25 Over here we have our kitchen set and that's exciting 14:28 because we get to taste the food 14:30 and we get to show you at home 14:31 how to make delicious, nutritious vegetarian recipes. 14:34 That's right. 14:35 We do that in English and in Spanish. 14:37 And then we have over there Urban Report 14:39 and Dr. Yvonne Lewis tapes that. 14:40 That sort of her flagship program 14:43 for Dare to Dream. 14:44 Absolutely, light goes on here is very versatile 14:46 in what we can do in Studio A. 14:49 Steven, I know he is off to the side. 14:50 We'll let you finish miking up. 14:52 Let's go on and see the control room real quick. 14:56 You know what, as we walk out of Studio A, 14:59 I think what we should do 15:00 instead of going into the control room, 15:02 let's actually go to Studio B 15:04 where there's some neat programming takes place. 15:06 These studios are actually mirror images of each other 15:10 but we obviously do different programming in Studio B. 15:13 And in Studio B a lots of the sets, 15:15 some of them are stay up like in Studio A 15:17 but a lot of them come up and come down. 15:19 We set up sets, we tape them for a week or two 15:21 and then we take it down and then we set up another set. 15:25 Now this set very permanently stays that up and this is-- 15:28 You might recognize the set. 15:29 This is we call it Cheri Peters set. 15:31 They take Celebrating Life in Recovery here. 15:33 Yeah, that's true and actually right now 15:35 we are getting set up for some special Christmas music 15:38 that's gonna be taped here. 15:39 So in a few weeks, this will be covered in snow 15:42 and some lights and things, 15:44 we'll be doing some Christmas music 15:45 that you will be hearing a very soon. 15:47 Over in this corner this morning 15:49 actually Pastor John and John were taping. 15:52 First and second John, they were taping House Calls, 15:54 or in Spanish it's Respuest as Biblical. 15:57 We call it RB's in the acronym. That's a lot easier for me. 16:00 But yeah, they were doing House Calls. 16:02 Pastor John Lomacang, Pastor John Stanton. 16:04 That's the green screen behind us which you can see. 16:06 We tape a lot of programs there as well. 16:09 Makes it very nice because it's very versatile. 16:11 We can basically tear down because there is no set. 16:13 Very easy to set something else up very quick. 16:15 The newsbreak is done in there as well. 16:17 That's true, and over in this corner 16:19 is what we call the multi set. 16:20 Now on that set, 16:22 oh, you would see may be exercise programs. 16:24 We do some Spanish programs. 16:26 There's actually new series that you just did 16:27 that you will be seeing coming up shortly. 16:29 That's true. 16:30 But a number of programs are done on the multi set. 16:33 We basically just change some walls, 16:35 put some different backgrounds up 16:36 and you probably wouldn't be able to tell 16:38 that it's the same set 16:40 because of just all the different. 16:41 We have a talented staff here 16:42 and they do many different things 16:44 to make it look different. 16:45 But this is a very busy studio. 16:47 Well, I tell you what, let's go to the control room 16:49 that I promised you would see next. 16:50 Let's go. 16:55 So again we've to walk into control room A. 16:58 Oh, wow, they are actually just starting, 16:59 so we got to be kind of quiet. 17:01 They are rolling the open, you just saw John 17:02 and the guest on the set there in the Studio A. 17:05 They are getting ready to start the program. 17:07 So what you hear right now is the open to the program 17:10 we call it. 17:11 Mrs. Dinzey here which is John's wife. 17:13 She is actually the producer. 17:14 She is running the teleprompter. 17:16 We have Robert here who is the director. 17:17 Now he is the guy that punches the buttons 17:19 that actually switches the cameras. 17:21 So he chooses which camera he wants. 17:23 You can kind of hear him off 17:24 the background counting right now. 17:26 I might just kind of hold the microphone over there 17:27 so you can kind of hear him as he counts out at the open 17:30 to Pastor Johnny on the set. 17:32 That way he knows when he is actually supposed to start. 17:34 So let's see if we can get kind of close. 17:35 I got Mark here. 17:37 He does our CG or video which is the graphics 17:40 and the camera shading. 17:41 Twelve, eleven and ten, nine, eight, 17:46 seven, six, five, going to... 17:49 four, three, two, one. 17:54 So it been kind of quiet 17:56 but you kind of see how it goes. 17:57 And then Mark here, he's gonna put up the name super 17:59 which actually is the name of Pastor Johnny. 18:01 So that's what Mark does here. He does the shading. 18:03 Now we saw Steven putting the mike on. 18:06 He's actually right behind us here in this glass, 18:08 behind me in this glass. 18:09 He is back there doing the faders 18:10 for the audio and stuff. 18:12 But it's kind of fun to be in here 18:13 behind the scenes a little bit. 18:15 Where shall we go next? 18:16 Let's head down the hall. 18:18 We have another control room which is the mirror image 18:20 of what takes place here. 18:21 That's the control room for B. 18:23 And then we want to get all the way down to engineering 18:24 and mass control and meet Moses Primo. 18:26 That's right. Let's do it. 18:30 So on our way down to master control, 18:32 there are some offices off of this hallway 18:33 one of those is Sheryl Walsh, 18:35 she is my assistant to me in production 18:37 and that lady works very hard and I appreciate her very much. 18:40 She and I are in a lot of meetings together. 18:42 She coordinates a lot of stuff 18:44 and she is our integral part of our production. 18:47 Also sharing the office with Sheryl Walsh is Kathy Dugger 18:50 and she wears many hats at 3ABN. 18:52 Does a tremendous amount of work in production 18:54 and we appreciate her a lot too. 18:56 This office here is Bobby Davis. 18:58 He is Managing Editor of 3ABN World Magazine. 19:01 He does an incredible job. He is a great writer. 19:04 He writes the newsbreaks, he does basically everything 19:07 that comes out of 3ABN that's written, 19:09 Bobby Davis has had his hand in it 19:10 and he does an incredible job. 19:11 He's been here for many years too 19:13 and he also helps us in some editing. 19:15 This door right here is actually into Studio B. 19:19 It's dark right now. 19:20 They did some program in this morning like 19:22 we said with Pastor John and John. 19:23 But that's control room B where it's just like A 19:25 where they have a switcher and the audio board etcetera 19:28 and that control rooms-- well, control room is for B. 19:32 It is, we've have editing suites 19:33 and now John Dinzey talked 19:34 before about Luis Capote and Alex 19:37 and on the new employee John, he works there. 19:39 Down the hall and around the corner 19:41 is the programming department 19:42 and that's headed up by Tim Lass. 19:44 He is the manager there. He is. 19:46 And we have Danny Pauline and Angela 19:48 and they do an incredible job 19:49 keeping track of all the details 19:51 that takes place to put all these networks on air. 19:54 Boy, that's for sure. 19:55 And just as we are coming down the hall I saw Pete Troy 19:57 and he is one of our electricians here at 3ABN. 20:00 Ducking one of these closets that has our dimmers 20:02 that do our lights, but the electricians, 20:04 we don't want to forget them 20:05 and the hard work that they do here. 20:06 Absolutely. 20:08 And we also have our housekeeping department. 20:10 Those women do an incredible job keeping this place clean. 20:14 Very important. 20:15 And now we are moving into the engineering 20:17 and the master control area. 20:19 Oh, there is Moses Primo. 20:20 I think he is gonna let us inside. 20:23 Hey, Mr. Moses. Thank you. 20:25 Boy, it's good to see you. I know that you are a busy man. 20:27 I know Danny calls you Dr. Moe. 20:30 This is the center of 3ABN. 20:33 We call the heartbeat of 3ABN, we call master control. 20:37 This is where the signal goes out, that's for sure. 20:39 Not everyone that is allowed here 20:41 but we are making a special concession for you and Jill 20:46 and the viewers to come to master control. 20:49 Thank you very much. 20:50 Now I know you've been at 3ABN for many years. 20:52 Clarence Larson started out. 20:53 You heard Danny talk about the three-phase power 20:55 over at the Uplink. 20:57 Moses, you've been here for many years, how long? 20:59 Yeah, almost 24 years and with me I have my family 21:04 starting with my beautiful wife Adima. 21:07 She is a good help at the home but also at the 3ABN. 21:13 She has done a wonderful job 21:14 by doing the GC session helping in the booth. 21:18 Also I have my daughter Catherina. 21:21 She is a camera person here part-time 21:24 and she goes to college. 21:26 And my son Moses Jr. 21:29 he is the marketing manager for 3ABN. 21:32 I have Daniel also that he sometimes, 21:36 he helps doing odds and so... 21:39 Benjamin Primo is my last one and he is only seven 21:44 but I'm already training him to be a future engineer. 21:47 So I know that engineering is a very busy department. 21:50 I've worked with you quite a bit with production. 21:51 You help us sort our equipment, cameras etcetera many things. 21:54 But tell us about engineering, 21:56 your staff that you have here at master control. 21:58 I know the viewers will be interested in that. 22:00 Yes, we have about six engineers in our department 22:04 and the three technicians 22:07 that do the master control operation. 22:10 There are six engineers that are now here 22:13 but I want to introduce the first one is Cindy Clark, 22:17 she is our assistant 22:19 and she takes cares of all of us 22:21 making sure that we do our duties. 22:23 And then Dan Peek. 22:25 How long have you been here, Dan? 22:27 Fourteen years. Fourteen years. 22:29 Dan is-- we call downlink station's field engineer 22:34 and he also help in the studios when he is here. 22:38 And then we have Rendell on the IT department. 22:41 Rendell, how long have you been here? 22:42 Yeah, coming up on seven years. 22:44 Seven years, 22:45 Rendell is in the IT department with Frank. 22:48 Frank unfortunately is not here today 22:50 but Frank and Rendell are in the IT department. 22:54 And then we have somebody new with us Jeremy. 22:58 How long have you been here, Jeremy? 23:00 Abut six or seven months. 23:01 Yeah, Jeremy left us and then he came back. 23:04 I'm glad that he heard the voice of God 23:08 calling him in to come back. 23:10 And actually all of these people 23:13 are behind the engineer department 23:15 of moving all the technology forward 23:19 and they are all God sent people. 23:22 But especially in the last few months, 23:25 God sent Jeremy to help us to push this IPTV box 23:31 which is the My SDA box 23:33 and he has been a tremendous help 23:35 with My SDA TV box programming 23:39 and helping that you get it done. 23:42 Eric has been-- how long with 3ABN? 23:45 Almost, almost two years. Yeah, two years. 23:49 Eric has a wife that he works in the call center also 23:52 and he is an engineer. 23:54 He's double duty. 23:55 He works as an engineer and also helping 23:58 with some of the programming and some of the maintenance. 24:02 But also he does help in master control 24:05 when they need somebody to relieve 24:07 because he has the knowledge here in master control 24:09 and he came from master control operation also. 24:13 And then we have John Parsley. 24:16 John, how long have you been with 3ABN? 24:18 Well, I started nine and half years ago, 24:20 worked for two and half years, took a break to help a guy 24:23 that had cancer and came back in 2010. 24:27 So total about seven and half years altogether. 24:30 That's wonderful, we appreciate master control operators 24:33 because if it wasn't for them we wouldn't know 24:37 that we are on the air or off the air. 24:39 So they keep track of all the channels 24:41 that are on the air. 24:43 And, Dave, how long have you been with 3ABN? 24:45 A year in November. One year? 24:47 One year. 24:49 Dave also is master control operator 24:51 and we have Jeff Poling. 24:53 Jeff is amazing, I don't know, probably more than 10 years 24:57 that he has been here 24:58 and his whole family is also committed 25:00 that we have his wife, all the children that-- 25:03 some have worked here, some they left for college. 25:06 But the Poling is a part of the 3ABN also. 25:09 So there are six engineers, the last one 25:12 is one that didn't want to stop working, John Bevin. 25:16 He is also an ITRF and all the file transfer work 25:23 that we have to do here at the 3ABN. 25:27 John, how long have you been working for 3ABN? 25:30 Think I started in 2003, so I'm not good at math. 25:34 Seven and two is twelve. 25:36 So that's just a good number to be here. 25:43 We appreciate all the work that you do 25:45 and sometimes the many hours at night. 25:47 After midnight when we call you and we have emergency. 25:51 Like I said this is master control. 25:54 And, Greg, you want me to tell-- 25:57 Well, this is really a neat place 25:58 because when people come in for tour, 25:59 there is that big glass window like you said. 26:01 Usually when a tourist comes 26:02 they don't get to walk into master control. 26:04 When you look here, you see all these impressive monitors 26:07 and, see what's it that eight networks I think. 26:09 Eight channels, yes. 26:11 Channels that come from master control. 26:12 This is a busy place. 26:14 So like you said, you can get a call at any hour of the night 26:16 if there is some technical difficulty 26:18 etcetera goes on here. 26:19 Yeah, besides the monitors, there is a lot of technology 26:22 behind these monitors here. 26:24 You will see the racks and all the wiring, 26:28 all of that is connected and these holding these 26:31 eight channels to be broadcasting 24 hours a day. 26:34 Amen. That's right. 26:35 But here in this room we only put the monitors 26:39 that are the results of what is, 26:41 were going on behind those racks. 26:43 I see. 26:44 And the operators can actually keep eye on it 26:46 and make sure that there is no problem 26:49 and the files are being played back at 24/7. 26:53 On the left side we have the DVD duplication. 26:57 Jim, we are-- Jim, can you come here please. 27:03 He is a busy man. I know the call center. 27:05 Yeah, as I forgot to call Jim. 27:08 How long have you been with 3ABN, Jim? 27:10 Oh, I lose track at time when you haven't planned. 27:12 You know, it goes. 27:14 I don't know. 27:16 I have been here first as a full time volunteer 27:19 some time about 12 years or little better. 27:22 Good, now, Jim, he does all the duplication. 27:24 Now he also was a master control operator one time 27:28 and now he is on fulltime in duplication. 27:31 You know, praise the Lord for engineers 27:33 because if they were up to me or something like this, man, 27:35 this place would be a mess. 27:37 So praise the Lord for you, Mr. Moses 27:38 and your team that's around you. 27:39 You know, we talked about 27:41 Danny answering emails early in the morning, 27:42 I've had Moses answer emails 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. 27:45 This man is a hard working man but it's all for the Lord 27:48 and for His honor and for His glory. 27:49 I just want to tell the viewers also that these channels, 27:52 they are playing back here 27:54 are going to the satellite in Pennsylvania 27:58 and they are shooting onto the G19 satellite 28:02 and it goes to Israel and we guess repeated 28:06 for nine satellites delivering all around the world. 28:09 So what you see here is going all around the world 28:12 and going to the other point, the extreme point of the earth 28:16 which is Australia and it takes about 22 seconds to get there. 28:20 It's amazing. 28:21 Besides that we are also doing the internet delivery from here 28:26 and we just started doing the IPTV box 28:30 which is My SDA box. 28:33 With this box you get not only the eight 3ABN channels 28:38 but you got all the Seventh-day Adventist channels, 28:40 the radio channels. 28:42 And it is a box that would be growing 28:45 to much more than just a TV. 28:48 Absolutely. 28:49 Isn't amazing how technology has changed. 28:50 You know, my parents 28:52 had one of those massive dishes back in the day. 28:53 I don't know if it was nine, ten, eleven feet. 28:56 Yeah, it was about 12 foot dish. 28:58 Huge things and now we are down to-- 29:00 You can get 3ABN 29:02 if you have high speed internet on one of these. 29:04 It's definitely amazing how the gospel 29:05 is going around the world in amazing ways. 29:09 And very soon we will have also a smaller versions 29:13 than this that you can give it away. 29:14 It's called dongle, it just connects 29:16 to the HDMI input of your TV set 29:19 and literally it's about this size that, 29:23 you know, you can buy and give it away as a ministry. 29:27 Amen. Thank you, Mr. Moses. 29:29 For your work and your dedication 29:31 and your heart for the cause of God. 29:32 Yeah, we appreciate you. 29:34 All right, we are gonna go upstairs to 3ABN 29:36 and see what's happening upstairs 29:37 in pastoral, marketing, many other places upstairs. 29:42 Now if you need exercise at 3ABN, 29:43 you just run up and down these stairs one or two times 29:45 and you gonna get some exercise. 29:47 It's true. I've done that a few times. 29:49 Makes the circulation good. 29:51 We came out of master control, came down the hall 29:53 and now we're on the second floor 29:54 here in the 3ABN production building. 29:56 This is CQ's office. 29:57 We call her CQ, Chrystique Neibauer. 30:00 She is our print and web director 30:02 and she and her team do an incredible job 30:04 with all the print everything and layout and design, 30:07 everything that goes out from here 30:08 and they are very creative in what they do. 30:10 Down the hall, around the corner 30:11 is Shelley Quinn's office 30:13 and she is 3ABN program development manager 30:16 and she works and coordinates all the program 30:18 and all the new programs that come out of here out of 3ABN. 30:21 We have a conference room off to my right 30:23 where we have a lot of meetings, 30:24 production has their meetings there as well. 30:25 A number of different departments do. 30:27 And we get to eat lunch. 30:28 We always have to eat so that's a good thing too. 30:30 Some of the crew eats there. 30:31 This side is part of our publishing department. 30:34 We have Janelle and Spetia 30:36 and they are both working there. 30:37 Spetia takes a lot of the picture that you see 30:39 and Janelle does a lot of layout and design. 30:41 That's true. 30:42 And Mrs. Idalia Dinzey's office is here. 30:45 We just saw her downstairs in the control room 30:46 so she is not there. 30:48 This is post production or editing. 30:49 We have Ralph, Christine, Joseph. 30:53 They put in long hours fixing programs. 30:55 Once we've recorded them in the studios, 30:56 it could be put in and open or close in 30:58 or may be a graphic or fixing a little mistake like that. 31:01 They put a lot of hours in and appreciate very much 31:03 what they do. 31:05 Wow, what is it? 31:06 We are entering marketing department. 31:07 Now we see we are so full for office space 31:10 that we've even put people in the hallway here. 31:12 We have Jennifer and Donna, both work here. 31:14 They're both part of our 3ABN marketing team. 31:17 Couple stairs, here we have Grace Yost. 31:19 We are entering more of the pastoral department. 31:21 She works with lot of the prisoners. 31:23 She does. The prisoners who write in. 31:25 Who have needs, who have question, 31:26 she sends them Bibles and that's an exciting thing. 31:29 And I know that Dr. Yvonne Lewis 31:31 has some Dare to Dream works in here. 31:32 They will be doing some editing in this room off to my left. 31:35 This is Moses Primo, Jr. office. 31:37 We just talked to Moses Primo Sr. downstairs. 31:39 Moses Primo, Jr. is in charge of marketing. 31:42 So he handles all of that. 31:43 The cables contracts and getting 3ABN 31:45 in different avenues. 31:47 That's right, yeah, he is the marketing manager. 31:48 As we continue on down this hall, 31:49 we are heading toward the pastoral department. 31:52 I'm sure number of you have called in 31:54 to the pastoral department, 31:55 may be question or prayer request. 31:57 Pastoral department is a incredible department. 31:58 We have Dr. Senez. 31:59 He takes calls in both Spanish and in English. 32:03 And then we have Mitch behind two offices in there. 32:06 And if you have a prayer need, if you need a prayer, 32:09 if you are struggling, if you have a Bible question, 32:11 any of those things they handle here 32:13 in the 3ABN pastoral department. 32:15 We have JD on this side. He is the manager. 32:17 That's right, the pastoral department 32:19 that his office is right here. 32:20 Joe O'Brien is on this side. 32:22 He is taking prayer calls as well. 32:23 We've Pastor Hal Steenson down at the end here 32:25 and he always handles the prayer requests 32:28 and the prayer needs that come in. 32:30 For the prayer warriors. And that is exciting. 32:32 He sends them out twice a week 32:33 and that, you can, you can join, 32:35 you can sign up, you can be part of that 32:37 and pray over the needs of people who come in. 32:40 Absolutely, you know, 3ABN is a neat ministry 32:42 and we again thank you for your prayers 32:44 and support of this ministry. 32:46 I think the next place we should go 32:48 is may be on our way to the call center. 32:50 Yes, so let's head back down the stairs 32:52 and we're gonna go outside the back 32:54 and pull the entrance store and you can meet us there. 33:03 We are coming outside the 3ABN employee entrance actually. 33:06 We are gonna head on over to the call center, 33:08 but on the way just want to talk about our generator 33:11 that if we lose power here, 33:13 it kicks in and gives master control 33:16 which is very important 33:17 it's power and electricity to run. 33:19 So you can keep getting the feed from 3ABN, 33:21 that's important. 33:22 That's true. 33:24 We've got a big tower here that is by us, 33:26 we've got a microwave I know that's on that. 33:28 They get sometime signal I think from the Uplink 33:30 or the Worship Center. 33:32 And on my right is the Boss Auditorium 33:35 which is donated years ago. 33:37 The money was by the Boss sisters. 33:40 And we did a lot of production out of that 33:44 before we built the Worship Center, 33:45 the 3ABN Worship Center. 33:47 We are walking now on gravel. 33:48 This is part of our parking lot for employees to park. 33:51 And right now we are standing 33:52 in front of the 3ABN Donation Center. 33:55 And Bruce and Tammy Chance head up our 3ABN donation 33:58 and at home if you have any items-- 34:01 People donate all kinds of things. 34:03 I know, jewelry, dishes. 34:05 Some people have donated some old antique dolls 34:07 or some antique furniture etcetera. 34:09 This is-- 34:11 Bruce and Tammy do a great work here 34:12 and I know that Bethany also comes 34:15 and does a lot of work on putting things up online 34:18 for people to purchase. 34:19 A lot goes on this building and its fun. 34:20 At camp meeting time, they open this up 34:22 and they usually have a little sale out of here 34:23 like the spring camp meeting etceteras, this is neat. 34:26 It is absolutely and we have picnic people out here. 34:30 Employees can come and they can eat 34:32 and that's a wonderful thing as well. 34:33 And right now-- I think we've got some-- 34:35 Eating some lunch right now, actually they're. 34:36 Yeah, that's free. 34:37 And now we are gonna take a look at the 3ABN Call Center. 34:43 We're coming in now to the 3ABN Call Center 34:45 and this is an exciting place to see. 34:48 All that takes place in this building. 34:50 The fun thing about the call center 34:51 is that this is where all the calls come in 34:54 after the switch board which is at the main building, 34:56 but this is where the calls come in 34:58 for questions and free offers. 35:01 You know what, I think Jonathan Babb, 35:03 he is the call center manager, so let's go talk to him 35:05 because I don't want to provide all the answers. 35:07 But the call center has a special place in my heart 35:09 because I worked here. 35:11 Oh, I think may be ten years or so 35:12 and this is a really fun place. 35:14 I enjoyed my time here but this is Jonathan Babb. 35:17 How are you, sir? Good. 35:18 Tell us quickly what happens here in the call center? 35:21 At the call center we take all the phone calls 35:24 that come in for orders and for satellite calls 35:27 or general questions. 35:28 They all come in here. 35:30 We try to answer them the best we can. 35:32 Absolutely. 35:33 And right now we are working on the fun project called-- 35:35 I know you are working with it too. 35:36 "The Blessing is on the Go!" Absolutely. 35:39 And we are excited about that project. 35:40 And you have someone specific who works here, 35:42 who works with the certificates and everything, right? 35:45 Yes, Barney. 35:46 She works on the certificates, 35:48 making sure that they get printed 35:49 and the correct names are on there 35:51 and they get shipped out to the people. 35:53 Amen. 35:55 I know that the call center has been busier 35:56 because of this project, even in the shipping part 35:59 which we will get to and see in just a moment. 36:01 But we have here-- who is your assistant? 36:03 Tell us who we have here in the call center? 36:05 My assistant here is Marilyn Durant 36:07 and she helps very much 36:08 in handling most of the day to day stuff 36:10 that goes on here. 36:11 We have Sandy Smith, she is a CSR. 36:14 We have Elaine, 36:16 she works on lot of the school fund raiser stuff 36:18 working with the schools on that. 36:20 And then we have Carolyn 36:23 and we have Bethany who is not here currently. 36:27 We have Kathy and then we have Barney 36:31 of course who works in satellite 36:32 and with The Blessing is on the Go. 36:33 And we have Rocio who works in the Latino department. 36:37 So wonderful group of women 36:38 and, you know, each one has a heart for God 36:40 and a heart for the people, for you who call in. 36:43 And it's an incredible place to work. 36:44 Thank you, Jonathan, for what you do 36:47 for your management here at the call center 36:49 and for each one of the people who work here as well. 36:51 Absolutely. 36:52 And I want to just say hello here to 36:54 Sandy Smith here real quick. 36:56 I worked with her for a number of years. 36:58 And tell me, Sandy, how many years you've been here 37:00 at 3ABN in the call center, right? 37:02 Right. It will be 16 in November. 37:05 Sixteen years, 37:06 that's a lot of years dedication to the Lord's work. 37:08 And, Sandy, I know I always appreciate working with you 37:10 and of course this entire team here 37:12 that is at the call center. 37:14 I want to-- Carolyn might be on the phone 37:15 I think may be right now, 37:17 but Carolyn I know has also been here a while. 37:18 A number of people at the call center 37:20 have been here a long time. 37:21 Again, it is a fun place to work. 37:23 Now right behind me, you can see 37:24 the 3ABN call center print shop 37:27 if you want to call that 37:29 and a lot of neat things happen there. 37:30 We print lot of the coloring books, 37:32 free items that go out to essay the 3ABN camp meetings, 37:36 it could be the ASI, GYC, even the GC session 37:39 that we just went through. 37:40 Could be some marketing material. 37:42 I know they also mail out the 3ABN world magazine 37:45 internationally. 37:47 We have a number of subscribers internationally 37:49 that also sent from the little 3ABN print shop. 37:52 I had a chance to work there too 37:53 for a few years and that's a lot of fun as well. 37:55 I tell you what, let's go back and see 37:57 the shipping department, that's a lot of fun too. 37:59 We are entering here, the shipping and receiving area 38:01 here at the call center 38:03 and on my left here is the computer 38:04 for FedEx, UPS, USPS, 38:07 special packages to be mailed out. 38:09 That's right. 38:10 To my right is the US postage meter, 38:11 we send out a lot of envelops and letters 38:13 that all gets postage put on it 38:15 right through this machine here. 38:17 This is a fun area because this is where 38:18 if you order books, DVDs, CDs, 38:21 The Blessing is on the Go certificate 38:22 is shipped from here in the evangelist tool, 38:25 that all comes from here in the call center. 38:27 There is a lot goes on. 38:28 I know Jonathan said about 300 orders as average 38:31 go out of here each day. 38:33 And we have Pam and Abbey 38:35 and they are both filling orders. 38:36 Right now they are looking at the fulfillment sheet 38:39 seeing what was ordered 38:40 and giving it shipped out to you in the mail. 38:42 So over here it's almost like our own 3ABN store. 38:45 You have all the products and some of the DVD sets 38:47 and all of that that they have over here 38:50 that they can pull from 38:51 and they can pack from and ship out. 38:53 Now I know the goal is, usually the order is placed, 38:55 let's say on Monday, 38:56 let's say you call in and order, 38:58 it's usually the goal is to ship it out the next day. 39:00 It doesn't always happen depends on what's here 39:02 but that's usually the goal has become 39:04 much more automated through the years 39:05 with the fulfillment sheets barcode, 39:07 you scan it, the label is automatically populated 39:10 with the addressed etcetera. 39:11 This is a fun place to work. 39:13 We also want to go to receiving next 39:15 which is where Jason and Yonick work 39:17 and they put a lot of hard effort 39:19 into delivering the mail and receiving the stuff 39:21 that comes into the call center. 39:23 Let's go over there and take a look. 39:27 We are walking through the shipping and receiving area 39:30 where again Yonick and Jason work hard 39:32 on receiving stuff into 3ABN. 39:34 It could be pallets of books or shipping material. 39:38 But we are walking now into the 3ABN warehouse 39:42 which was built about two years ago. 39:43 This is a huge blessing to 3ABN, 39:46 to the call center because we can store pallets of books 39:49 right next door attached actually to the call center 39:53 and this has been a massive a blessing for us. 39:56 I believe it's about hundred and some feet by 80 feet 39:58 and I think the ceilings were about 18 feet high 40:01 so we have room for racks, we can bring forklift in here, 40:04 stack pallets on the racks. 40:05 This is a blessing. 40:07 Plus at the back, you can see, 40:08 we have a production truck parked. 40:09 So it serves many different functions. 40:11 You know, and I want to say that's true 40:13 because I'm now in production. 40:14 This is a huge blessing for our crew, 40:16 our road crew especially 40:17 because they can bring the trucks in here 40:19 and to work on them, store them in here, 40:20 keeps them out of the sunshine. 40:22 So this is a real blessing. That's right. 40:23 This has been a quick peak at the 3ABN Call Center 40:26 and right now we want to go back to Danny. 40:29 All right. Thank you, Greg and Jill. 40:31 Wasn't that fun? That's exciting. 40:32 I got an easy job. 40:34 I get to kind of stay in my truck here 40:35 and drive you around. 40:37 I like this a lot. 40:38 So now we are gonna head over to the sound center, 40:40 that's where we make the music for all of our CDs 40:43 and do that type of production. 40:45 This is all the rest of it, 40:46 you've been seeing in television studios 40:49 but now we are actually gonna go over here. 40:51 And as we drive through, it's again, 40:52 it's a pretty little place. 40:54 We bought 70 acres here for $50,000. 40:58 Seventy-- yeah, you heard that right, 40:59 70 acres for $50,000 41:02 and we have got tremendous use of it. 41:05 So God is good. 41:06 He has provided us area cheaply. 41:08 You can see behind us, we have a number of people 41:10 who come here, some of the workers, 41:12 volunteer they bring their campers 41:13 or the motor homes. 41:15 They can stay here. 41:16 And then over here as we are heading, 41:17 you see all of the dishes they're sending signals 41:20 to different satellites 41:21 going literally around the world, 41:23 all the uplink dishes 41:24 and some of the receiving dishes. 41:26 So all of that we call it our little dish barn. 41:29 Now we are coming to one of my favorite places 41:31 is the sound center but, you know what, 41:33 I'm gonna make a little turn, 41:34 I'm gonna take you to a beautiful spot. 41:36 Don't tell anybody it's our secret. 41:38 It's a little road through some woods here 41:40 and it just-- I mean, this time of year 41:42 absolutely it's beautiful, 41:44 but I'll take you to little facilities, 41:46 then we will come back to the sound center. 41:48 What we are going through, 41:49 isn't this a beautiful little pathway, 41:52 little woods acreage, 41:53 we have around probably 30 acres of this woods 41:56 and little rolling hills. 41:57 And we are gonna go over and see-- 41:59 We actually have a carpenter shop 42:00 and auto mechanic shop, equipment shop 42:03 because when you have a ministry this large 42:06 and you have this much property, 42:07 you got to keep the yards moat, 42:09 you got to keep any type of building that we're doing. 42:12 We have our own dozers. 42:13 We found that cheaper over the years 42:15 to own our own equipment, 42:17 then we can get work done whenever we needed. 42:19 We got people like Dave Turner 42:21 who can get on any equipment and operate it. 42:23 I don't care if it's dozers, 42:25 I don't care if it's dirt movers, 42:27 I don't care if it's graders, bobcats. 42:29 You know, Dave he can do it. 42:31 But what a privilege to have people like Dave 42:35 and all the rest of the folks that you've seen 42:37 who have given their life to ministry here. 42:39 Dave says, "I'm not a preacher." 42:41 You know, may not be a singer 42:43 but I know he has lot of talents 42:45 but I'll use my gifts and talents for the Lord 42:47 in doing what he does in so do the other folks here. 42:50 But I'm just taking up, 42:51 it's pretty little drive through the woods. 42:53 And what you are seeing right here 42:54 is actually our carpenter shop. 42:56 We build our sets. 42:57 They are built right here in this little building 43:00 and then over here we got Don, Don Houston, 43:04 he is in charge of our auto mechanics. 43:07 We've so many vehicles and so much equipment, 43:10 we can't afford to send them to places 43:12 so Don has been with us a number of years here. 43:14 So he kind of in charge of this 43:16 and he is in charge of the mowing and all as well. 43:19 So I'm going through here and you will see 43:21 a number of pieces of equipment. 43:24 We have little bobcats, 43:25 we have a number of tractors and mowers. 43:28 We have forklifts back also over here. 43:32 Little dump trucks and graders 43:35 for grading the roads around here. 43:37 Here's couple tractors over here, farm tractors. 43:40 And again here's another little pond 43:42 and it's just beautiful rolling hills around here. 43:45 And again we bought this whole, there are 70 acres here, 43:49 then we bought next door another I think it's 70 acres 43:52 what we are on right now. 43:54 So I think we have like 140 acres right here. 43:58 And we bought it for not much more money than the other. 44:01 May be it's $75,000 or $100,000 we bought it years later. 44:05 But now we are getting ready to come back 44:07 so I'm gonna take you back up here 44:09 and we are getting ready to go into the sound center 44:12 and bears it with E.T. Everett. 44:13 And what a blessing that she has been 44:16 and I always wanted to build, 44:19 always wanted to build a recording studio. 44:21 I had one before 3ABN started little one in my house, 44:24 but it seemed like we never got a chance 44:26 because we were doing television. 44:29 Then about 15 or 16 years ago, I think around 2000, 44:32 I took a walk back here one day 44:35 and it was during lunch time and I saw this spot 44:38 and it's just like the Lord finally said to me, 44:40 "Okay, this is the time 44:41 and this is the place you can build, 44:43 build the sound center." 44:45 Because we were going to Nashville, 44:47 we produce all kinds of music for the network, 44:49 for our own CDs and it cost a lot of money 44:52 traveling back and forth and renting the studios. 44:55 So the Lord provided funds, we built our own sound center 44:59 and now we have produced numerous projects here, 45:03 too many to name. 45:04 Some of the recent ones that we have done 45:06 the "Hallelujah, We're Home at Last" 45:08 we did a lot of it here, 45:09 some of it we did in another studio. 45:11 We've done the Pillars Projects that you see 45:14 "Pillars of Our Faith," Pillars hymns. 45:17 We've done the kid CDs, the "Love Rules." 45:20 We've done it almost entirely here. 45:22 "It's A Beautiful World" is the new, newest CD 45:26 and we've done personal ones 45:28 with other ministries had come here, 45:31 Reggie and Ladye Love and Mark Trammell, 45:34 Steve Darmody, Jennifer LaMountain 45:36 we've had them all here. 45:37 And so we are just now pulling up 45:39 and this is our beautiful little way out by itself 45:42 where it's calm and quiet. 45:43 You can get relaxed to our sound center. 45:45 So I'm gonna go in this time 45:48 and we will talk to E.T. Everett 45:50 and get a little tour. 45:56 Okay, I'm coming in to one of my favorite places 45:59 of course is the sound center 46:01 and it's where a lot of music is made. 46:03 I think hey, E.T., are you here? 46:05 Can you come here? 46:06 Okay, E.T. Everett, she runs the sound center for us. 46:10 She is the brains and the talent 46:11 behind all of the good music. 46:14 We borrowed her microphone. 46:16 Being in the sound center 46:17 we needed an extra mike so here we have one. 46:20 So come over here just a little bit closer to me, 46:22 see how that works. 46:24 Okay. Okay. 46:25 So when do we build this center? 46:27 2000. 2000, so-- 46:29 We started actually little before that. 46:31 Yeah, 15, 15 years ago. No, 16 years ago. 46:34 And how long you've been running this thing? 46:37 I've been in here since 2000. 46:40 Yeah and I guess helping to design it. 46:42 A year before. Get it all going a year before. 46:45 And how did you end up being here 46:46 because I know you are piano teacher 46:48 and you were working 46:50 and you lived quite a few miles from here. 46:52 What got you to change? 46:53 Well, I have to ask you that, because we were in Oregon 46:56 and you were sitting in a window sale on Sabbath eve 47:01 and we were talking about something totally different 47:04 eating fruit soup which I'd never had. 47:07 Okay, all right. And you said, "That's it." 47:10 That's the words you said and you said, 47:12 "Holy Spirit just impressed me 47:14 and now it's the time to build a studio 47:15 and He will take care of it but you have to run it." 47:18 Oh, wow. 47:19 And I looked at you and I said, 47:21 "I don't know how to build a studio." 47:22 You said, "I'm just telling you what dropped on my spirit. 47:25 You need to pray about it." 47:26 That was the end of the conversation. 47:27 You said nothing else. 47:29 We went through Sabbath services, 47:31 Sabbath afternoon we were supposed to leave 47:33 on Sunday and some way you connived around 47:36 and got us tickets and we flew overnight 47:39 and got back in the area about 4 am on Sunday morning 47:44 and on Sunday evening I run into a man 47:47 who looked at me in the face and I did not know him 47:49 and he said, "God has given you favor 47:52 with the man that reaches the world 47:54 and he needs you to say yes." 47:56 Wow. Wow. 47:58 And that's all it took and I called you 48:01 and said, yes, and we went from there. 48:04 Yeah. And here it is. 48:05 Who are some of the folk that we've been working with here 48:08 that record here and do CDs? 48:10 We have recorded with some, some wonderful people 48:13 back from, go back to Alison Speer-- 48:15 Well, Danny Shelton and Melody Firestone 48:17 and we go back to Alison Speer and Mark Trammell 48:21 and then Mark Trammell Trio 48:23 and then recently Jim Brady Trio 48:25 and we worked with Lari Goss. 48:27 We are working with Lanny Wolfe right now. 48:28 We've worked with Steve Darmody. 48:30 We've worked with Wonda Beerman, 48:32 and Nadica Paris and the list just goes on 48:36 and then Reggie and Ladye Love and then of course 48:38 we had a lot of the most talented players 48:41 from Nashville, come up from Nashville. 48:43 String Machine with Carl. 48:46 Chris Wilkinson and Larry Blackstone and-- 48:48 I mean, just, you know, 48:49 just numbers and numbers of people. 48:52 Well, almost too many projects, 48:54 too numerous to come to our forefront right now. 48:57 Well and also some local people that have come in here 48:59 that I think sometimes, they've been as most to me, 49:03 the most tendered 49:04 because it's been like a dream come true for them 49:06 to get to come and do something 49:08 that's been their hope to do 49:10 and so it's just been our-- it's been a great ride. 49:12 Well, it's a wonderful little facility it's out here. 49:14 Of course we have a-- It's not little. 49:16 Well, yeah, it is not too little. 49:18 You and Dave live here. Yes, we live. 49:19 So I figured the best way to keep her I said, 49:22 this sound center is gonna be so busy 49:24 and lot of times you got to record till 10, 11 at night. 49:27 So if we put her in here leaving here 49:29 then she will be right here 49:31 and Moe have to drive back and forth. 49:32 Bobby knocks on the door, 49:34 E.T., you need to come listen to this. 49:35 E.T., you need to do that. 49:36 Bobby Bradley our engineer from Nashville, 49:38 he has worked here all these years 49:40 and he works all week, and drives home weekend, 49:42 still comes back. 49:43 So he has his own little apartment here 49:45 and little room like hotel room 49:48 and we've been doing this for a long time. 49:49 E.T., I want to thank you for what you've done 49:51 and the work that you do with the people 49:53 because you are not, you are not just-- 49:55 you are musician, a great musician 49:57 but it's a ministry to you 49:59 and you minister to a lot of those folk 50:01 who have come here to record 50:02 who are in the business of ministering to others. 50:04 You take time to minister them. 50:06 Everybody needs somebody to minister to you. 50:08 Well, I'm-- 50:10 I thank you 50:11 because I would have never had the opportunity 50:13 and it's like not only do we-- 50:16 we've always looked at this a tithe, 50:18 you know, giving back into other ministries 50:20 and didn't realize for a long time 50:21 it wasn't just giving back into them with a product, 50:25 with opportunity 50:26 or a place to come a Christian environment, 50:28 a place to come, 50:29 but it's also giving back to them spiritually 50:32 to help them just to be refreshed and to grow 50:34 and it's a-- it's been-- 50:36 somebody said, I bet you thought, 50:38 you know, the scripture it says 50:39 "God can do exceeding abundantly 50:40 more than ever you can think, dream or imagine. 50:43 Your dream came true." 50:44 I said, I would have never been able to dream this. 50:45 Yeah. Absolutely. This was better than that. 50:47 I agree with you 100 percent. It's too much fun. 50:50 Way too much fun. Absolutely. 50:52 And I want to thank all of you because without what you do, 50:55 we couldn't be doing what we are doing. 50:56 The music ministry like the Pillars Project 51:00 as I had mentioned earlier 51:01 or "Hallelujah, We're Home at Last" 51:03 letting people know and giving them 51:05 that vision right in front of them. 51:07 DVD or CD that every song on the second coming of Christ 51:11 and I mean, we have to be focused 51:13 and 3ABN is trying to put tools out there 51:16 that help us focus. 51:17 Not only all the bad, ugly things around is 51:20 but Jesus Christ and His loveliness 51:22 and His plan for fallen man that not one should perish 51:25 but all should have everlasting lives. 51:28 And to give an end times message 51:29 for an end times people, it takes all of it, 51:32 music, the ministry, the teaching, 51:34 the preaching, all of it. 51:35 E.T., and so each of us and we've been showing you 51:38 a number of different departments here. 51:40 We haven't shown you everything but we've given you enough 51:43 that may be I'm hoping the folks will say, 51:45 "I want to come and see everything else there." 51:46 Yes, and they should come. 51:47 Yeah, at 3ABN and meet the folk one on one. 51:51 Those of you that can't, can't, again I'm always saying 51:54 at least at camp meeting and June, 51:55 if you can come that would be great 51:57 or in the fall, I think we do it 51:58 around the end of September first October each year, 52:01 we like for you to come. 52:03 But right now, I just want to again thank you 52:04 and Bobby Bradley also over here. 52:06 Oh, thank you all for believing what we are doing here 52:09 and supporting this ministry. 52:11 Well, we are gonna head back 52:12 over to the administration building 52:14 and see what's in store for you there. 52:21 You know, 31 years ago when Danny shared this dream 52:25 that God had placed in your heart 52:27 we had no idea, 52:29 all that God was going to do here in 20 years ago 52:31 when I came to this ministry to be a part of it, Danny, 52:35 still no idea the extent of what God was going to do. 52:39 But as you've seen, God has done marvelous 52:42 and mighty miraculous things 52:44 and what we know is without you, 52:47 you know, we couldn't have accomplished this. 52:49 But there is a group of people behind us and without them, 52:52 we couldn't have accomplished today. 52:54 That we praise God for our viewers, 52:57 for our listeners, for our 3ABN family 52:59 and for the 3ABN working family here. 53:02 Oh, I think it's fun today, 53:04 we've been able to literally go places 53:07 we've never gone before and with our drone, 53:09 with our little cameras up above flying around, 53:12 it's really been neat to watch everything 53:14 but go to all the different departments. 53:16 We usually don't take the time to do it 53:18 but we thought, Yvonne, 53:19 that people should see the size of 3ABN, 53:22 the ministry that they support. 53:23 It's their ministry. 53:25 For instance you came here what, five years ago. 53:27 Did you have any idea that 3ABN, their whole mission? 53:31 I really didn't. I really didn't. 53:33 And in fact, Pastor C.A. Murray and his wife 53:36 picked me up from the airport 53:37 and I had fallen asleep in the back seat. 53:39 And when I got on the ground, 53:42 I was stirred and I woke up and I said, "Where are we?" 53:45 Because I felt the presence of God 53:47 on these grounds. 53:48 We are standing on holy ground. 53:50 Amen. 53:51 And I just feel that this ministry 53:53 God has blessed over these 31 years 53:55 has just been amazing, amazing 53:58 and we praise the Lord for our 3ABN family, 54:01 we praise the Lord for your vision, 54:03 for the fact that you were obedient to the vision. 54:06 Well, you now, right now 54:07 I can't imagine life without 3ABN 54:09 because I was only 33 when I started the idea 54:12 and of course now you can add 31 to that, 54:14 you get 64 pretty easy, 54:17 but I've never been more excited 54:18 about what God is doing than I'm right now 54:21 to see what was happening around the world 54:24 that we are able, 54:25 we are living in the end times of earth's history. 54:27 We no longer have to look at prophecy 54:29 well, when this happens and that happens. 54:31 Brian, you are pastor, you are CFO but you are pastor, 54:34 we are living in some great times, don't we? 54:35 Yes, we are. 54:37 Some very interesting times when we think about prophecy. 54:41 Diane and I came here about seven years ago, 54:45 just little over seven years ago 54:47 and, you know, I've been involved 54:48 in the financial side of things. 54:50 I just want to thank our viewers 54:52 for the study consistent support financially 54:56 that you have been to us. 55:00 The gospel is given free but the delivery does cost. 55:05 Yeah. It does at every unit. Yes. 55:08 And I could say for the-- although standing behind us, 55:12 they are happy every day, it's every time it's pay day 55:15 and I may be grown a little bit sort of but they are happy. 55:19 And that's only been possible because of you. 55:21 For 31 years you stood behind this ministry 55:24 and we just want to say thank you for that. 55:27 Absolutely. 55:28 Hey, Shelley, I know you always have 55:30 something good to say 55:32 and I know, I think now what's on your mind. 55:33 Let's see if I'm right. 55:35 Well, JD and I came here 11 years ago 55:38 and it's been amazing what God has done 55:40 but you haven't seen anything yet. 55:42 It is absolutely my belief that these past 31 years 55:46 all God's been doing is getting the infrastructure in place 55:50 for the "GO" Evangelistic Team and I'm so excited to see 55:54 what God is going to and already in my own heart 55:58 He is changing me. 55:59 He is really giving me a tender place in my heart 56:02 for every lost soul and I know He's gonna do the same for you 56:06 and the "GO" Evangelistic Team 56:08 is going to help finish this work. 56:10 This is a movement of God 56:12 and I feel like 3ABN is being rebirth. 56:16 I'm just truly, truly excited. And how can people join? 56:19 You can join, just go to our website 56:22 and you just click on the, you will see the go-- 56:25 blessing is on the "GO" Evangelistic Team, 56:28 you just go on there, 56:29 you can join using a credit card, PayPal. 56:32 Mail us at our regular address. 56:33 I'm sure the address is on the screen, 56:35 PO Box 220, West Frankfort, Illinois, 62896. 56:39 Or call 618-627-4651 and someone will register you 56:44 to be part of this "GO" Evangelistic Team. 56:48 Well, I can't believe that our time is all gone. 56:50 And again thank you so much for taking this tour with us 56:53 around the 3ABN facilities 56:55 and all the different properties 56:56 that God has placed here for a reason 56:59 in this closing moments of earth's history. 57:01 Our vision is the same. 57:02 I may look a lot older because I'm a lot older 57:04 and some of the rest of you are too so don't laugh. 57:07 Everybody here is-- 57:08 many of them been here 20-25 years 57:10 but our vision is the same, 57:11 to take an untied partner with you, 57:13 to take an undiluted Three Angels' Messages, 57:16 one that would counteract the counterfeit 57:19 So thank you again for your love 57:20 and your prayers and financial support. 57:22 I want to thank all of you, all of our workers here 57:25 who joined, many are volunteers, 57:27 some are fulltime, some are part-time 57:28 but together we can take this gospel to the world. 57:32 Our time is all gone for today until we see you next time, 57:35 may the Lord richly bless you 57:36 abundantly more than you could ever ask or think. |
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