You know the most exciting thing, Danny, 00:00:10.24\00:00:12.27 is how God continues to work in this ministry. 00:00:12.31\00:00:15.54 Absolutely, absolutely. 00:00:15.58\00:00:17.25 After almost 30 years, miracles still keep coming. 00:00:17.28\00:00:21.12 And you know, you told me recently that 00:00:21.15\00:00:24.25 there are bigger miracles today 00:00:24.29\00:00:25.92 than they were even 30 years ago. 00:00:25.95\00:00:27.36 It has to be. The needs are so much bigger. 00:00:27.39\00:00:29.72 Yeah. 00:00:29.76\00:00:31.09 We were starting, you know, infancy, 00:00:31.13\00:00:32.59 but whatever the need is, God supplies that need, 00:00:32.63\00:00:36.50 so whether it's small or whether it's big. 00:00:36.53\00:00:39.07 But He does it like I heard a preacher say one time, 00:00:39.10\00:00:42.74 we have Bruce Fjarli over here. 00:00:42.77\00:00:44.11 Bruce, I'll introduce you and Mollie Steenson. 00:00:44.14\00:00:46.84 I heard a preacher one time. 00:00:46.88\00:00:48.21 He was preaching and he said 00:00:48.24\00:00:49.58 they were building on huge addition 00:00:49.61\00:00:51.58 and he said, 00:00:51.61\00:00:52.95 "Folks, we have all the good news, 00:00:52.98\00:00:54.82 we got all the money we need." 00:00:54.85\00:00:56.18 And all the people were excited, 00:00:56.22\00:00:57.82 praising the Lord. 00:00:57.85\00:00:59.19 He said, "The bad news, it's still in your pockets" 00:00:59.22\00:01:01.12 And all of a sudden, they got quiet, 00:01:01.16\00:01:02.82 and he said "Boy, you got quiet now." 00:01:02.86\00:01:05.23 But no, the good news is God is in control, 00:01:05.26\00:01:08.06 but He allows us to help in the ministry. 00:01:08.10\00:01:13.20 It can be financially, maybe prayerfully, 00:01:13.23\00:01:15.70 so many ways that we can help. 00:01:15.74\00:01:17.17 Some can go and tell, 00:01:17.21\00:01:18.77 and others can support those who go and tell. 00:01:18.81\00:01:21.91 You know, Danny, 00:01:21.94\00:01:23.28 one of the things you've talked about is eating an elephant 00:01:23.31\00:01:25.68 which we only do as an illustration. 00:01:25.71\00:01:28.08 But one bite at a time. Yeah, yeah. 00:01:28.12\00:01:31.55 Sure. 00:01:31.59\00:01:32.92 And we began some projects about three years ago. 00:01:32.95\00:01:36.93 All of a sudden, 00:01:36.96\00:01:38.29 we had about 150 of our low-power stations 00:01:38.33\00:01:42.46 that were all having to be converted to digital. 00:01:42.50\00:01:46.37 Which is expensive. 00:01:46.40\00:01:47.77 About $50,000 a station average. 00:01:47.80\00:01:51.97 Now when you take 150 stations, 00:01:52.01\00:01:54.58 you just take 100 so that we only had to do 100. 00:01:54.61\00:01:57.71 That's five million dollars. I know. 00:01:57.75\00:01:59.91 We figured it's was going to take about 00:01:59.95\00:02:01.85 $7.5 million to do this. 00:02:01.88\00:02:05.49 We did not have that money. 00:02:05.52\00:02:09.09 I'll be honest with you. 00:02:09.12\00:02:10.49 I lay awake at night just wondering 00:02:10.53\00:02:12.83 how we're going to do this 00:02:12.86\00:02:14.20 'cause if we didn't do it within a certain time, 00:02:14.23\00:02:15.56 you lost them. 00:02:15.60\00:02:17.07 But you know, 00:02:17.10\00:02:18.43 God has provided that one station at a time 00:02:18.47\00:02:22.07 until we are almost finished with all those conversations. 00:02:22.10\00:02:27.08 Praise the Lord. Amen. 00:02:27.11\00:02:28.98 And we still have to operate it. 00:02:29.01\00:02:30.61 It takes us about $1.2 million every single month 00:02:30.65\00:02:35.72 from those who give $50 a month, $100 a month, 00:02:35.75\00:02:39.69 whatever they give to keep the lights on as we say, 00:02:39.72\00:02:42.56 which means literally keeping us on the air. 00:02:42.59\00:02:47.40 So what we do on some of these projects 00:02:47.43\00:02:49.96 has to be over and above, Danny, 00:02:50.00\00:02:52.20 what people normally give. 00:02:52.23\00:02:53.57 We don't just shift that which we give to a project 00:02:53.60\00:02:57.11 if we're giving $100 a month, then if we're doing a project, 00:02:57.14\00:03:00.78 we want to be a part of that, Bruce, 00:03:00.81\00:03:02.71 we have to do something over and above 00:03:02.74\00:03:04.75 what we are normally giving. 00:03:04.78\00:03:06.48 So we saw that take place, and we're praising God today. 00:03:06.51\00:03:09.95 Amen. 00:03:09.98\00:03:11.32 We're saying, "Lord, our faith is sometimes so small 00:03:11.35\00:03:14.46 but you are so gracious 00:03:14.49\00:03:16.49 that you have filled these needs." 00:03:16.52\00:03:19.93 Now there was another thing we needed to do 00:03:19.96\00:03:22.33 and that was to go tapeless. 00:03:22.36\00:03:24.00 Tapeless conversion. 00:03:24.03\00:03:25.37 Now that has firstly been completed. 00:03:25.40\00:03:27.17 All the money has been spent. 00:03:27.20\00:03:29.04 There's a little bit of the work 00:03:29.07\00:03:30.41 that's still being done 00:03:30.44\00:03:31.77 'cause it takes a little time so that project... 00:03:31.81\00:03:34.28 And that was an expensive, something like $2 million. 00:03:34.31\00:03:38.35 And so that has been done. 00:03:38.38\00:03:40.78 In addition, all of a sudden, 00:03:40.82\00:03:43.65 one day just before the end of the year, 00:03:43.69\00:03:45.95 a little over a year ago, 00:03:45.99\00:03:47.76 Moses calls me and he says we have an opportunity 00:03:47.79\00:03:51.46 to buy some high-definition cameras. 00:03:51.49\00:03:55.06 Now we are not high-definition yet, 00:03:55.10\00:03:57.57 but we had a chance to buy these cameras, Danny, 00:03:57.60\00:04:00.24 at an unbelievably low price. 00:04:00.27\00:04:04.31 And he said, "What should we do? 00:04:04.34\00:04:06.17 We've got to let them know within..." 00:04:06.21\00:04:07.68 And he just gave me like 20 minutes. 00:04:07.71\00:04:10.31 And we prayed and we said, "Let's do it," 00:04:10.35\00:04:14.35 and we bought those cameras. 00:04:14.38\00:04:16.89 Now we're going to be moving, 00:04:16.92\00:04:19.15 and we'll tell you about that in a few moments, 00:04:19.19\00:04:21.39 towards high-definition. 00:04:21.42\00:04:22.89 What was one of the other projects, Mollie? 00:04:22.92\00:04:25.09 We needed to complete the control room 00:04:25.13\00:04:28.06 at our worship center. 00:04:28.10\00:04:29.43 All right. 00:04:29.46\00:04:30.80 And the other one was a storage building. 00:04:30.83\00:04:32.70 The storage building. These were five major projects. 00:04:32.73\00:04:36.37 And it was two or three years ago 00:04:36.40\00:04:38.07 at the board meeting that you went over these. 00:04:38.11\00:04:40.18 Five major projects that we have to complete. 00:04:40.21\00:04:42.98 Right. 00:04:43.01\00:04:44.35 And so we're looking back, this is a praise to God. 00:04:44.38\00:04:47.02 If we just thank God and you for your support 00:04:47.05\00:04:50.12 because that building is finished. 00:04:50.15\00:04:52.92 The storage building is done. 00:04:52.95\00:04:54.29 Beautiful building, completely climate-controlled, 00:04:54.32\00:04:57.96 beautiful storage situation, 00:04:57.99\00:05:00.06 we do all of our shipping out of there now, 00:05:00.10\00:05:02.66 and all of our inventory, and so forth. 00:05:02.70\00:05:05.70 So that has been done. 00:05:05.73\00:05:07.50 Now we're halfway through what needs to be done 00:05:07.54\00:05:11.04 on converting the worship center control room. 00:05:11.07\00:05:15.88 We need... 00:05:15.91\00:05:17.25 That's about a million-dollar project. 00:05:17.28\00:05:18.65 We need about $500,000 more to finish that. 00:05:18.68\00:05:23.05 We have some of the equipment, Danny. 00:05:23.08\00:05:24.82 We have a board. 00:05:24.85\00:05:29.26 It's high-definition. 00:05:29.29\00:05:31.39 I mean it is state of the art. 00:05:31.43\00:05:34.20 It's actually too big to put in the truck they said, 00:05:34.23\00:05:37.57 but it's just right for the control room there. 00:05:37.60\00:05:41.34 And then we've got several other components 00:05:41.37\00:05:43.87 that we're going to do. 00:05:43.91\00:05:45.24 Yeah, those were cameras. We have the cameras. 00:05:45.27\00:05:47.41 We need some more lenses for those cameras, 00:05:47.44\00:05:50.21 High-Def lenses. 00:05:50.25\00:05:51.58 So that's about another half a million dollars 00:05:51.61\00:05:53.92 that we need to finish up that control room. 00:05:53.95\00:05:57.89 Now when we do production now, and I'm talking too much, 00:05:57.92\00:06:01.69 Danny, so bump in here. 00:06:01.72\00:06:03.06 Go ahead. 00:06:03.09\00:06:04.43 But when we do a production now, 00:06:04.46\00:06:06.06 we have to bring our truck up and hook it up there 00:06:06.09\00:06:09.96 in order to do production in the worship center 00:06:10.00\00:06:14.07 or to tape into the Kids Time programs 00:06:14.10\00:06:17.04 or anything that happens in the Kids studio there. 00:06:17.07\00:06:21.94 We want to be able to take and do taping there 00:06:21.98\00:06:26.55 while the truck is on the road 00:06:26.58\00:06:28.78 because right now we can't, right? 00:06:28.82\00:06:30.95 Absolutely. 00:06:30.99\00:06:32.32 And so how can we raise 00:06:32.35\00:06:35.92 the expectations of our people 00:06:35.96\00:06:38.99 so that we can actually meet those demands, Danny. 00:06:39.03\00:06:44.07 Well, I think going to the Lord and prayer, 00:06:44.10\00:06:46.47 getting on our knees, 00:06:46.50\00:06:47.84 we had a prayer here before we start, 00:06:47.87\00:06:49.64 and just asking you to do the same thing. 00:06:49.67\00:06:52.01 You pray and ask the Holy Spirit 00:06:52.04\00:06:53.58 what He would have you to do. 00:06:53.61\00:06:55.21 And some of you say, 00:06:55.24\00:06:56.58 "You know, I can't do anything." 00:06:56.61\00:06:57.95 Well, then don't do anything. 00:06:57.98\00:06:59.85 I'm sure that God has got you doing something somewhere. 00:06:59.88\00:07:02.68 So wherever the Holy Spirit is impressing you... 00:07:02.72\00:07:05.25 But some of you maybe just like us. 00:07:05.29\00:07:07.36 3ABN's been around for almost 30 years 00:07:07.39\00:07:09.82 so we just take it for granted. 00:07:09.86\00:07:11.89 SIU University has been down here 00:07:11.93\00:07:13.70 ever since I've been a kid. 00:07:13.73\00:07:15.06 Southern Illinois, 00:07:15.10\00:07:16.43 I don't think about supporting it 00:07:16.46\00:07:17.80 'cause it's always going to be there, 00:07:17.83\00:07:19.20 when I'm dead and gone, it'll be there. 00:07:19.23\00:07:20.57 But 3ABN's not that way because we're not part of the, 00:07:20.60\00:07:24.71 you know, physically the Adventist Church 00:07:24.74\00:07:27.34 or legally we're an independent self-supporting ministry. 00:07:27.38\00:07:31.31 So the only way we survive is by those 00:07:31.35\00:07:34.58 the Lord impresses to donate. 00:07:34.62\00:07:36.65 So this is something we're no longer... 00:07:36.69\00:07:38.92 We're not considered an institution 00:07:38.95\00:07:40.89 after 25 years are here, 00:07:40.92\00:07:42.56 people think you're an institution, 00:07:42.59\00:07:44.43 whatever you call it, but we still have needs. 00:07:44.46\00:07:46.76 But we've always said from the beginning, 00:07:46.80\00:07:48.23 we never want to beg for funds. 00:07:48.26\00:07:50.33 We won't borrow money, beg for money, 00:07:50.37\00:07:52.57 we don't want to do those things. 00:07:52.60\00:07:54.30 And so the Lord has always blessed, 00:07:54.34\00:07:56.10 but He's done it through His people. 00:07:56.14\00:07:59.27 And so today, we're here. 00:07:59.31\00:08:00.64 I wanted to talk to Bruce for just a minute. 00:08:00.68\00:08:02.81 Bruce Fjarli, you and, of course, 00:08:02.84\00:08:04.18 your dad was on the board for years, 00:08:04.21\00:08:05.55 your family, your mother, Joy, 00:08:05.58\00:08:06.92 and they had been great supporters, 00:08:06.95\00:08:08.35 and you've been on the board for some years. 00:08:08.38\00:08:10.99 And I thought I'd maybe ask you, 00:08:11.02\00:08:12.65 your family has supported financially, not only 3ABN, 00:08:12.69\00:08:15.62 but building churches 00:08:15.66\00:08:16.99 around the world with Maranatha. 00:08:17.03\00:08:19.23 And about from a giving aspect, 00:08:19.26\00:08:21.60 tell us what it does for your own life 00:08:21.63\00:08:24.07 when you give and support the Lord's work. 00:08:24.10\00:08:26.53 I never miss the money I gave to 3ABN. 00:08:26.57\00:08:29.27 Wow. 00:08:29.30\00:08:30.94 I never miss the money I gave to the Lord's work. 00:08:30.97\00:08:34.31 And the reason we like to give to 3ABN and the Maranatha 00:08:34.34\00:08:39.78 is because it's the best bang for the buck that we can find. 00:08:39.81\00:08:43.15 Wow. 00:08:43.18\00:08:44.65 You guys don't run a flamboyant ship here. 00:08:44.69\00:08:47.46 You're not making foolish things happen, 00:08:47.49\00:08:52.63 and squandering the money around. 00:08:52.66\00:08:54.13 You find projects that need to be done 00:08:54.16\00:08:57.53 to further the gospel around the world. 00:08:57.57\00:08:59.60 And we like watching that and helping with that. 00:08:59.63\00:09:03.84 And I would encourage the people at home 00:09:03.87\00:09:06.74 to continue to give to 3ABN 00:09:06.78\00:09:08.41 because they're not under the umbrella 00:09:08.44\00:09:10.38 of a large organization, 00:09:10.41\00:09:12.41 it's a self-supporting ministry, 00:09:12.45\00:09:14.28 and we're the ones that get the blessing for helping 3ABN. 00:09:14.32\00:09:18.85 God says, "Lay up your treasures in heaven, 00:09:18.89\00:09:21.89 not here on earth, 00:09:21.92\00:09:23.89 where moth and rust can corrode and they go away." 00:09:23.93\00:09:28.26 We don't need the money. 00:09:28.30\00:09:30.00 God needs our giving spirit to help with this ministry. 00:09:30.03\00:09:34.74 It's great we're going HD. 00:09:34.77\00:09:36.20 That'll give us the opportunities 00:09:36.24\00:09:37.91 to get on the cable stations. 00:09:37.94\00:09:40.01 And I would, again, encourage everyone to give, 00:09:40.04\00:09:44.45 and remember, it's a continual thing, 00:09:44.48\00:09:47.18 it's not just a onetime offering. 00:09:47.22\00:09:48.78 But it's a great place to do something for Jesus, 00:09:48.82\00:09:52.75 do something for your salvation, 00:09:52.79\00:09:54.42 not that you can buy it, 00:09:54.46\00:09:56.22 but He will bless you 00:09:56.26\00:09:58.66 abundantly more than you can ever ask or think. 00:09:58.69\00:10:00.93 All right. Praise the Lord. That's right. 00:10:00.96\00:10:02.80 Mollie, so you've been here how many years? 00:10:02.83\00:10:04.67 20 some odd? 00:10:04.70\00:10:06.03 Well, I'm in my 20th year now. 00:10:06.07\00:10:07.90 Okay. 00:10:07.94\00:10:09.27 And the things that are happening today, 00:10:09.30\00:10:10.84 are they more exciting than in the beginning? 00:10:10.87\00:10:13.21 You know, Danny, they are more exciting, 00:10:13.24\00:10:15.08 and I was talking with someone about this the other day. 00:10:15.11\00:10:18.25 The way it seems like we measure the miracles 00:10:18.28\00:10:20.52 around here are the finances because that's measurable. 00:10:20.55\00:10:24.69 You can determine that by looking at 00:10:24.72\00:10:26.82 what comes in and what goes out 00:10:26.86\00:10:28.62 and what the need is. 00:10:28.66\00:10:30.09 But that's not the greatest miracle of this ministry 00:10:30.13\00:10:32.99 and I know that you all know that, 00:10:33.03\00:10:34.60 the greatest miracles are the letters that we get, 00:10:34.63\00:10:38.40 and the emails that we receive, and the phone calls we receive 00:10:38.43\00:10:41.40 were souls that have come out of darkness and into light. 00:10:41.44\00:10:44.01 People have made Jesus Christ the Lord of their life. 00:10:44.04\00:10:46.57 They've come into new truth that have picked them up 00:10:46.61\00:10:49.31 and just catapulted them closer to the Kingdom of God, 00:10:49.34\00:10:53.65 into the heart of God. 00:10:53.68\00:10:55.02 And we know those are the true miracles. 00:10:55.05\00:10:57.22 That's the whole purpose for this ministry 00:10:57.25\00:10:59.32 to exist in the first place. 00:10:59.35\00:11:02.02 So we don't want it to sound like 00:11:02.06\00:11:03.93 we're looking at miracles with the finances 00:11:03.96\00:11:06.39 but someone said the... 00:11:06.43\00:11:08.43 I was talking with Shawn Boonstra 00:11:08.46\00:11:10.33 on the phone just a few minutes ago, 00:11:10.37\00:11:12.33 and he said, you know, 00:11:12.37\00:11:13.87 people say that we shouldn't maybe charge 00:11:13.90\00:11:16.67 for the CDs and DVDs and that sort of things, 00:11:16.71\00:11:19.07 the gospel ought to be free, 00:11:19.11\00:11:20.78 and he said the gospel message is free. 00:11:20.81\00:11:23.08 But, boy, it takes a lot of money 00:11:23.11\00:11:25.38 to get that gospel message up and out. 00:11:25.41\00:11:27.78 So we don't want to measure our miracles that way. 00:11:27.82\00:11:30.65 That is just a measuring stick that we have 00:11:30.69\00:11:33.72 that we can use to see how God provides. 00:11:33.76\00:11:37.53 Absolutely. 00:11:37.56\00:11:38.89 And to me, you've already said it, 00:11:38.93\00:11:40.73 but it's about the souls that are coming to the Lord. 00:11:40.76\00:11:43.77 And we don't go... 00:11:43.80\00:11:45.93 For instance, we don't want to go High-Def. 00:11:45.97\00:11:47.77 I didn't want to go high-definition, did you? 00:11:47.80\00:11:49.74 We don't really want to do these things, 00:11:49.77\00:11:51.54 but in order to keep up and, in fact, by law, 00:11:51.57\00:11:54.74 our stations, we had to... 00:11:54.78\00:11:56.24 When we upgrade, you know, we have to do that. 00:11:56.28\00:12:00.12 But nowadays, not only if you don't have to... 00:12:00.15\00:12:03.08 It's not just because we have to 00:12:03.12\00:12:05.15 but to keep up when people turn on a channel, 00:12:05.19\00:12:07.26 Bruce, and they can barely see us 00:12:07.29\00:12:09.12 versus some other channel on High-Def, 00:12:09.16\00:12:11.53 guess what they are going to watch. 00:12:11.56\00:12:12.89 Yeah. 00:12:12.93\00:12:14.26 So it's all something that we do. 00:12:14.30\00:12:15.63 But growth, in everything, every period of our life, 00:12:15.66\00:12:17.93 there's growth, whether it's spiritual growth, 00:12:17.97\00:12:20.17 and hopefully from physical growth 00:12:20.20\00:12:21.74 when we're growing up, mental growth, 00:12:21.77\00:12:23.64 all of these things, and it's the same way 00:12:23.67\00:12:25.34 when you start a little baby. 00:12:25.37\00:12:26.71 This is a baby. 00:12:26.74\00:12:28.08 And God has birthed it. 00:12:28.11\00:12:29.44 And as it grows, it continues to grow. 00:12:29.48\00:12:31.18 We're going to go through changes. 00:12:31.21\00:12:32.61 We're going to continue to go, 00:12:32.65\00:12:34.48 and God blesses every bit of that. 00:12:34.52\00:12:36.62 But the end result is there's not more buildings. 00:12:36.65\00:12:39.35 We don't want to build a bigger building, 00:12:39.39\00:12:41.59 you know, who wants to build a bigger building? 00:12:41.62\00:12:43.19 Well, we needed to because why? 00:12:43.22\00:12:45.49 To fulfill your orders from the call center, 00:12:45.53\00:12:47.93 that when you're ordering the products 00:12:47.96\00:12:49.70 that are going out to be witnessing tools, 00:12:49.73\00:12:51.83 evangelistic tools around the world, 00:12:51.87\00:12:54.60 we got to have a place to store those and move them. 00:12:54.64\00:12:56.74 Hopefully, they don't sit long. 00:12:56.77\00:12:58.47 But it's all of that is just growth. 00:12:58.51\00:13:00.64 And that's a praise report, that's a two hander. 00:13:00.68\00:13:02.78 So when we come to you, we're not discouraged, 00:13:02.81\00:13:05.21 and, boy, we need a million dollars, 00:13:05.25\00:13:07.65 you know, to do all of this, Jim, 00:13:07.68\00:13:09.65 we're excited about it. 00:13:09.68\00:13:11.25 Praise God. 00:13:11.29\00:13:12.75 When there's a need God, where God guides, He provides. 00:13:12.79\00:13:15.56 And He's going to do that absolutely, 00:13:15.59\00:13:17.69 no doubt in our minds. 00:13:17.73\00:13:19.06 Oh, yes. 00:13:19.09\00:13:20.43 But we want to give you the opportunity 00:13:20.46\00:13:21.80 because you ask us about it, 00:13:21.83\00:13:23.16 "How's things going on at 3ABN?" 00:13:23.20\00:13:24.53 Everywhere I travel, "How's things going? 00:13:24.57\00:13:27.04 How are you doing financially?" 00:13:27.07\00:13:28.70 Well, we're here, that's why 00:13:28.74\00:13:30.07 we can do these kind of programs, 00:13:30.11\00:13:31.44 and we have a few minutes here to talk to you about it. 00:13:31.47\00:13:33.81 So we want to thank you for your love and your prayers 00:13:33.84\00:13:36.44 and financial support of 3ABN. 00:13:36.48\00:13:38.98 This is going into our 30th year, 00:13:39.01\00:13:40.78 maybe some of you, if you've never given anything, 00:13:40.82\00:13:43.18 maybe you want to give $30 a month for one year, 00:13:43.22\00:13:45.82 we're not going to make you sign a pledge 00:13:45.85\00:13:47.29 or do any of that. 00:13:47.32\00:13:48.66 We just want to thank you in advance 00:13:48.69\00:13:50.06 for what you do for the cause of God. 00:13:50.09\00:13:52.26 Amen. You know, Danny, I'm excited. 00:13:52.29\00:13:54.10 We already have $200,000 gift, 00:13:54.13\00:13:57.80 and towards this million dollars 00:13:57.83\00:13:59.67 that needs to be raised. 00:13:59.70\00:14:01.24 We'll be talking to you more about it. 00:14:01.27\00:14:03.24 So please be praying about what you can do 00:14:03.27\00:14:06.74 to be a part of sending the gospel 00:14:06.78\00:14:09.68 around the world. 00:14:09.71\00:14:11.05 Amen. 00:14:11.08\00:14:12.41