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as you're well aware we're living in unprecedented times join us now for today's special program i want to spend my [Music] removing pain lord let my words [Music] i wanna spend my life mending broken people i wanna spend my life [Music] meeting broken people hello and welcome to a 3abn thursday night live we're so glad that you've joined us we call tonight's program a behind the scenes where we're sharing what god is doing through the ministry of 3abn and that's thanks to you you know you're part of our family and it's so great to spend these two hours with you each thursday we look forward to this time and thank you for allowing us into your living room or if you're driving in the car or watching us on your mobile device maybe while you're hiking on a trail we hear some people watch and listen to three events are outside doing different activities so welcome to we're so glad to have you part of our family and welcoming you here to our living room here in southern illinois you know we hear so many things that are going on in this world i think about haiti and we're hearing stuff here about afghanistan about our brothers and sisters around the world there always seems to be just some type of chaos or tragedy going on but you know what we can stand firm on the word of god and so 3a being in the midst of the coveted pandemic that seems to be rearing its head again we're still able to go out over the airwaves and over the television airwaves as well radio 2. and i was talking to mr danny um earlier this week and we're just talking about how even in the midst of covid threadband hasn't stopped amen you hear that three event hasn't stopped that's praising the lord jesus christ amen thank you for your prayers and financial support because this gospel of the kingdom is going around the world and we're able to give hope and yeah hope hope to a lost and dying world you know that's everything because when people are in tragedy and devastation they're wanting to find hope and so what a blessing that three event is out there and what's so incredible is that we get stories on a weekly basis of people that are just we may we just say tuning through or just skipping through the channels and coming across three abn are on the internet they're finding three abn and they're finding truth and their lives are being changed so tonight is a night of encouragement because we're here to proclaim what the lord jesus christ is doing in the ministry of three abn and i'm excited about the behind the scenes program always i always am i always love it because it's the family it is to get together around the island and we get to share what god is doing in and through your ministry and i also love it because you're our family and we can connect with you and share with you what god is doing so i'm excited can i introduce the family let's do it yay we have mr danny and dr evan sheldon i'm just so grateful you both are here and what an integral part of the ministry and mentors for greg and i and we just love you both thank you we love you all and the folks at home thank you for your love and prayers and financial support and um i'll let you introduce shelly and then i got a a comment i was thinking greg kind of spurred something on yay and our other guest at least for the first hour because we're going to trade out some guests second hour but our other guest is more of the family my sister shelly quinn and we love you and your husband jd shelley of course is new program development here manager here at 3bn and producer and your husband is in charge a pastoral department but just so blessed to have you here tonight it is such a blessing to be here we just want to thank each and every one of you we we consider this is god's ministry but it's also your ministry because we couldn't do what we do without you amen and you're going to be sharing some exciting updates pertaining to three of enchantments in just a moment so staying tuned stay tuned well i can't talk this evening i'm so excited i guess but stay tuned because we have a very important announcement about fall camp but mr danny go ahead well what you triggered in my mind was you know again the gospel is stop and go the lord says go and the devil says stop so when the restrictions were the highest and it looks like it could possibly be back to where it was last year yes in other words covert again is rearing its ugly head and around the world so we may see people but and and the work that we're doing and how the lord is blessed actually and i mean it covets a terrible thing the devil's out to shut down churches and do all he can do but actually we reach more people during covet when the restrictions are the highest yes why because more people are home more people are watching television or listen to radio or on the internet streaming so the devil can't stop the gospel and no matter what he does if he closed every church down in the world the gospel is still going to go forward if we couldn't go out door to door the gospel is still going to go out the lord knew all of that when he gave his man this technology and many many years ago a long time ago god knew it from the foundation of the world and so here we are living in these closing moments of verse history it's the future we always talked about prophecy now it's unfolding and we get to live long enough to be in it yeah this is great amen i was talking to a friend of mine who was saying how frightened she is of what's going on because you're hearing about so many different things happening and she said i'm just so scared and i'm depressed and i wow and it was an opportunity because she's not a christian it was an opportunity for me to say that well as christians we don't have to be afraid you know and we don't have to be depressed because we you know we can see that the prophecies of the bible are coming to pass that's what's happening and so as danny says we've read the back of the book we know how it's going to all turn out and it's it is so actually reinforcing of our faith actually to me because we're seeing everything line up according to the bible and it is it's it's amazing to me so you know for those of you who have friends who are not christians who need to know about jesus we have something for you right it's our responsibility and privileged to get the gospel to the world because without the bible you have no moral or spiritual compass so in a troubled world when everything is shaking and falling all around you no wonder she says oh i'm scared i don't know what to do or what's going to happen you know and uh under his wings i'm safely abiding you know as as a christian knowing as she said we've read the revelation the back of the book and the prophecies in the end we went all we have to do is be faithful the other night some young man said to me uh actually i went to play basketball for the first time in about three years and a young man a young man but he's about six four in his thirties and said to me i have to ask you something uh what are what are we supposed to do in this time you know it gave me the opportunity to say we have to look to jesus more than ever before because he said man the whole world seems like it's going crazy everything's a mess and he was really concerned so i spent a little time with him crazy and said you know there's peace when you give your heart and life to jesus there's a peace and a joy that he gives you and so the world didn't give it the world can't take it away so that's the good part and so anyway i'm excited myself after all these years and and i'm going to be and lord willing here in what the next two months a great grandpa you know from my side of the family we already are on her side yes but uh of course uh well well yeah i have a great great grandmother yeah jesse and jesse danae and so they named it uh danny lee so they're calling it baby danny melody says dad i feel fishy saying baby danny because you're my dad oh my god how do i see a new baby and then call it call it baby danny you know so because we always say baby faith and baby jonah you know born so she's like i'm gonna have to get used to this i'm not sure how but within the next month or so but you know what a time the the to come into this world and to be young parents because yeah so many distractions we thought there were some when we were young our folks thought there was but today is more distractions than ever before so now is the reason we have to stick to the word of god we have to see what the bible says and that's the only it's the only solid foundation on planet earth if you're not sticking to that you're going to be here there and everywhere yes that's so true are you going to say something about the word of god instead well what i wanted to say but i don't want to jump in here now but when i wanted to say something about your books because when you're talking about prophecy and when i'm speaking about the books and and if i'm jumping way ahead we'll talk about the details about focus on chocolate go ahead well come on i'll just hold myself please don't because the point is is that these three little books that you've written the truth about hell fire the truth about salvation in the ten commandments i was reading in revelation in in revelation 16 it was talking about the three unclean frogs the evil spirits that are coming out of the mouth we are seeing and we know what's going to happen you've got the beast you've got the image to the beast and spiritualism in this triad and this if if you study the beast papacy the uh what would you say apostate and spiritualism that teaches that the dead are mortal and still living do you realize that the three books you wrote hit all of these topics because the beast teaches that you've got to salvation by works they teach that the commandments are not true so as i was reading through your books i thought i don't know i know the lord led you because this one little book on salvation tells the truth about salvation there's nothing you can do to save yourself and there's so much word in here but then you get to the truth about hell nobody can love god if they think he's going to burn them forever right and it but you hit not only the truth about hell but it talks about that we're not immortal you the bible verses you use would would absolutely anybody that's believing in spiritualism and that somebody you know i had somebody tell me the other day oh my mother was at the foot of my bed and telling me to do this and telling me to do that so you're giving them a quick bible study and and then the truth about the ten commandments and it's so beautiful danny god operates by the power of love the law of love yes and i was thinking i just want to read this to you it says and this goes with what we're going in 2nd thessalonians and i'm in chapter 2 and verse 8 is where i'll beginning it says let's begin with the verse 9. the coming of the lawless one is according to the work of satan with all powerful signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth and it occurred to me that if somebody gets this beautiful envelope with these three books in it if they have any interest in the truth whatsoever and they start reading or even if they want to be proven wrong you have in these first three books the lord has guided you to overcome what's happening in the end times if people just accept it this much it's amazing to me really it's a wonderful gift it's a wonderful yeah which we're going to talk more detail about this in case you haven't heard of this incredible opportunity for evangelism we want to tell you about it because it's just absolutely fantastic and we're getting reports back already jill and i were just pointing at this little um email that came in and this is a testimony to already somebody receiving these three little booklets find my little envelope here and this beautiful little envelope and this is what the person says um they called in to the call center and said they're a baptist minister named dawn and he read the truth packet so he read all three booklets and he said that danny hit the nail on the head with all the booklets i ordered a case of each did you catch that he ordered a case of each to pass out in his community and sounds like his church it was a real blessing uh to receive these booklets so here's a baptist pastor who's already reached out to three abn saying praise the lord mr danny hit the nail on the head i want more which is incredible because then he's going to go and pass out the truth yeah 250 in each case so he's getting 750 to he is pass out that's the important part was that he read it and so it's so yeah was so convicted that now he says i want to share this with others and that's really the reason we do it the reason we wrote it and we try to do it in a way that anybody can understand and we try to you know a lot of times when people write books you like to give your your side so to speak for your version what we've tried to do over the years because i have many friends and and christian friends who are not of this faith if we're talking different subjects about hell or salvation you know one saved always save or eternal burning or the ten commandments which includes the sabbath you know we've we say okay let's let's take the scriptures what we'd say for maybe pro and con you know well they believe this that so let's hit those two so what we try to do is not give you one-sided version but say here's the scriptures now you decide correct so basically we're leaving it for the folks to decide and uh but we're just it's not what i say in these books it's about the word of god amen yes absolutely word of god is quick and powerful you know and when it goes forth it never returns void amen i love that about this whole process with the focus on truth because when you are sharing truth-filled literature god's word will not return amen as we just saw with that minister who called him so we want to tell you tonight that you can call us right now at the call center and the call center is open you can call us at 618-627-4651 and there's two different options available tonight one is you can do a zip code mailing in your community or in your area we will send all three of these booklets in this beautiful little envelope to the zip code of your choice you have to talk with us about it that's why you need to call us but it's 50 cents per home so that's three booklets in that envelope for 50 cents per home so you just decide i want to sponsor a certain zip code and give us a call right now and you can do that the other way you can do it is the way that this baptist minister just decided to do it and that's by ordering cases you can order there's 250 booklets in a case and you can order a case it's only 16.50 that's because we've had people step forward and pay for the printing so that we can just make this available just for the shipping cost for you at home so you can order a case of the hellfire or a case of salvation or a case of focus on truth about the 10 commandments so that's just 16.50 for 250 booklets so you can call us to do that or you can go online and order your cases that way you just go to 3abn.tv and click on the banner there and you can order these booklets to share it's an incredible evangelistic opportunity and i'm thankful that people are still i just read yesterday and note when we're looking over i get the little financial notes someone sent quite a few thousands of dollars to yeah a good amount yes 20 plus thousand or whatever to do that so what that helps is we can continue to do because as you know you can't send three books in fact a stamp is 55 cents and i hear it going up so for three 48 page books and the envelope you know and mailed to the zip code of your choice for 50 cents is less shelly than just one stamp yeah and so that is only because of some of you who've said you know hey i can't go out and pass out the books or i can't do whatever but i can give financially so the printing cost we're working with pacific press and have they been incredible to work with beautiful books i was getting ready to say you get this in this beautiful mailer and all three are beautiful books look at some of the pictures and with the nathan green pictures and i mean it's beautiful yeah it really is a lovely presentation so the the interesting thing to me is as i said i think the if if i got the cases i'd want to give out all three books because one you might just kind of put away but three something's going to get your attention and you start reading and all three go together and they answer what we need the truth we need yeah we we've found the same thing that just as you were saying because there's about nine to 12 titles we're looking at writing focusing these but we didn't know which ones to do first so we just prayed about it and put them together and then afterwards we said you know we literally men heard only said them we said because you have to read them over and over and over getting them she's editing them mine is terrible shelley you know you co-wrote with me so you know what that's like so she she edits them and so it's a tough it's a tough job but we have to read it over and over again and so i was looking at her and i said the salvation you know the very first thing and something that we don't have as much as we should have in this church if you go on the internet should be all of this stuff about salvation well we've got if you talk about prophecies go on google and your prophecies adventist stuff comes up everywhere you know if you talk about different subjects many different subjects health you know we all come up i mean so many of the sabbath everything comes up but if you talk about salvation there's by grace through other people you know so this thing on the salvation so we said well that's the first thing that's most important and but you can't really you don't want to be saved unless you understand the god that you're you're you're who is saving you but if he's a god who's going to be torturing you burning you amen through the ceaseless ages of eternity why would you want to serve a god like that so really you know hopefully you read this this if the holy spirit's working on their hearts they read it but either way they understand okay this is a fair and just and loving god yes he loves the sinner he hates sin and sin is to be done away with and the sinner in fact has to be at that time shelley said well ago we're not immortal but the dead that those who are lost are not immortal but of course the eternal life is only promised uh in the garden of eden to who to to the righteous so it was never promised we don't put on immortality as you point in your book until first corinthians at the very last so it's good to know people aren't in hell burning right now if we have loved ones who are dead weren't christians so then now so we we say okay now you find out it's a loving god so you learn how to give you know through the book of salvation giving your heart to jesus and what it's all about and then well now that i i'm serving god what is it i do you know well now the the ten commandments the truth about so now we can see what god asked us to do for those who now are ready to go the blessing is on the go go into all the world so the lord did it because we didn't do it and we talked about it right and it's like well that's amazing that these just popped up we did you know this the whole idea there's so many people who feel like well i'm a good person i don't hurt anybody you know and so they think that what they do is going to get them into heaven and and what the bible teaches the bible is different from christianity is different from any other religion in that all the other religions you have to work your way in to nirvana or wherever but with heaven jesus has paid it all we just have to accept him and a lot of people don't know that and a lot of people don't know how to do it what do i do to be saved and so this booklet teaches that it shows from the word what to do it shows the character of god yes you know he's not some mean maleficent being he is he is loving and and that's what this teaches that so you're using the bible to vindicate the character of god and that is so so important all these scriptures line up back to back to back to back and as danny said even those that are used to question some of these things like well what about when it says that you know hell burns forever and ever or what about that the bible teaches what that means and you have to line do it line up online precept upon precept hear a little there a little that's how the bible is interpreted so we have to find out what forever means right what is foreign without end and you know everlasting now that but anyway we won't go into that you can read it and yeah so it's it just teaches this is a bible study these three booklets are a bible study and i think that you know some people think well that's my truth that's your truth no there is one standard of truth and and that's the word of god the bible so absolutely i'm i'm really excited about this project really thankful for it yeah i really like too that all three booklets give hope yes hell fire gives us hope you read that say oh help hope yeah there's hope yeah and also this bible study like you said but another thing that i like about each one of these booklets is at the very end it gives ways of also finding out more information and that's really important there's a graphic right there on the screen and that's really important because i think that's how pastor don the baptist pastor find out he found out more was by looking in the back of the book he gives the phone number gives ways that you can find out about 3abn watch 3 abm and i just want to say thank you at home because somebody one of you sponsored a zip code obviously in this gentleman's area i don't know i don't know who you are the lord knows who you are yeah and you've made a difference yes this is one person but you know what there are many more that have not contacted us yet they will you are making a difference and i think so many times we can say you know my 50 cents that's not really worth anything you know what it did in this gentleman's life yes so who's to say it won't make a difference in somebody else's life it will joe was talking about god's word not coming back void it's going out there god asked us right now because we have an opportunity you're alive you're well right i'm breathing right now on the set we have an opportunity and a privilege as you mentioned mr danny to be able to share the gospel truth with somebody and we are making a difference god has us here on this earth for a purpose you may be sitting where you are listening right now and saying you know what there is nothing in god has me here i'm here on this earth and there's no purpose for me yes you do have a purpose god has you here you can make a difference and i'm just here we're here all of us as a family saying thank you you're making a difference and i'm just so encouraged tonight because this is just the tip of the iceberg of people that will be contacting us some will never contact us but they've made a stand for truth i mean the times we live in it's just so exciting we have to take advantage in a good way of what god has given us and god's timing is so amazing because yes you know we were looking at this in the last two or three months but it's been hard to get paper so they haven't been able to print maybe about two million so the last couple months is trying to get paper together together but the timing's perfect it's god's timing because now as the restrictions are getting worse people more you know we're getting almost back and they're projecting uh that we could be back to where we were last year uh we hope that it's not but the lord's will be done whatever it is be done but to me now the people god knows who really needs the books and when they need them so now all of a sudden i think the paper's coming in and things are being printed in the next few weeks we'll have hopefully a few million couple million more you know the amazing thing about 3abn to me in the television ministry in general is we can reach people that we could never talk right into coming to say an evangelist that's right there's people who wouldn't but they start hearing the truth i had someone from the community call me today and their friend who's very active in another church said i want some of her books because i want to see about the way they look at the truth and and long story short it was interesting to me that woman would never come to an evangelistic series but also by the mailing on this you're reaching homes that gated communities people who may miss correct you're absolutely right but suddenly they see truth and now they're the love of the truth is being birthed in their heart and that is the only way we've got to love the truth forget you know jesus said that basically you're teaching commandments of men as doctrines and i said you have destroyed my covenant teaching but when we get the love of the truth in the word of god that's the only way that people are going to be ready for these end times and they're coming soon i'm just going to say yeah okay and you never know who's watching there's one of these the the televangelists or they had a network actually uh folk in that this network is huge religious network but the without going to all the details because i don't know the whole story but the the head of the network you know it was a fall and he actually spent some time in prison when he got out of prison ended up said a friend gave him a uh said he could use a cabin up in the mountains you know in north carolina and so uh pastor loma kang was at a at a place where this person said this former big name televangelist said you're you're a pastor loma king aren't you and they're from 3abn oh my and he said yes because everybody knew john of course knew him they'd been on tv for years you know and uh so he said yes i am and he said well you know thank you so much and tell danny and the three abn crew thank you so much because that when i was on on top the mountain the only channel i could get was three abn he had a downlink station so he said i've learned the truth yes uh because he felt like that when you died you went straight to heaven or hell yeah and so he said i thought we were going to be raptured away but i learned that's really not glory to god so now you know i'm i'm planning on so he's back on television doesn't have his whole network but she and i turn on and he's telling people hey look i got a i got a uh some some food that lasts for survival camp because we're going through the time of trouble don't be lazy that's incredible praise the lord the only channel he could get yeah amen only one so you never know that's true who's watching amen these books you never know who's home right they're going into on the last one the covet this lady was so angry how dare you send us remember how dare you send us these books and so you all gave me the so i text her you know because she said she really just you know helped herself to saying some really ugly things and for a long time and i know jill and greg never get those letters but so anyway she did and then then she said of course i know that danny nevonne will never see this letter anyway but i just had to write it so we got it and so i text her back you know and and so she was so emailed her back and talked to her and she was so shocked she emailed back she goes i can't believe it well come to find out she was not only raised a christian but she was actually went to seminary to be a minister she was a minister and now she left and said she's an atheist wow after numerous emails she's back to being open to well maybe there is a god and i'm going to re-look at this so but she was angry how dare you send this in my mail i open it up in these books and then she wrote us this tell-all hate-all letter but your response was so kind and it was so christian it was so christ-like that she could she had no real comeback so then i think that had her really reevaluating wait a minute maybe maybe i've i've misread this but had you come back at her with anger like she gave you then it would have been a different she would have had a different response that's the point you know the lord used you to answer like that and it was it was a blessing really and now she's looking at re-looking at christianity amen you know what i'm just thinking tonight as we're talking that's your family and because of what you are doing because you standing with the ministry of three and financially and with your prayers all these stories are taking place all these lives are being changed all these people are discovering truth and finding jesus in the word of god for themselves so we just thank you and speaking of family one of my favorite times at 3abn is campaigning because we have the opportunity and privilege to hug your neck and to shake your hand and just say we love you and to visit with you we have been talking for several months that we are going to open up our campus this fall camp meeting and have an in-person camp meeting however that is no longer the case we've talked administratively and due to covert rising and the difficulties with that and with travel right now we are no longer going to be opening our campus for this fall camp meeting however camp meeting is still going on we are super excited about that because you can still connect with us you can still watch any way that you watch three being right now you can watch our fall camp meeting and camp meeting is all about something better isn't it oh yes that is the title of it the theme is something better it begins and mark your calendars because we're so disappointed we're not going to get to see you in person but we're going to know that you are watching and you don't want to miss this blessing our keynote speaker is pastor james rafferty camp meeting begins thursday september the 23rd thursday evening it begins at seven it goes friday and sabbath all day but what you'll have is james is going to do four presentations eight o'clock on thursday is love languages and there's something better it's all coming from the book of hebrews and he ties it into revelation so love languages then 8 o'clock on friday is heart transplanter then he has an afternoon presentation on the sabbath that's the september the 25th called the faith factor and then at seven o'clock the finisher i know and that is the author of our family we start thursday night with a music hour and we're going to have some reports i think that first week kind of catch up some things and then on friday we start in the afternoon at 1 pm at central and we go from one to five there's going to be four seminars let me tell you those kenny shelton is doing prophecies unsealed hope for the future i will be giving one called love without measure ryan is thy kingdom come and then jill has this seminar at four o'clock the lord hasn't given her a title [Laughter] yes and then then uh we have a break from five to seven at seven another music hour who are some of our musical guests do you know well i think didn't john stoddard say he was going to be able to come here his daughter we have a couple others that that uh well-known names that folk will know but we have a lot of our own own local folk here and so you know ryan and tim and john and yvonne and numbers and others too so uh a few that they're still working their schedules around but i'm pretty sure it's going to come so we'll wait and announce those oh that's exciting for sure that's exciting it's going to be good all of it is amen and then we have uh on our sabbath school is going to be at nine o'clock sabbath and then dr ben carson is going to do our divine worship amen isn't it then at 2 john lowe mccain is doing a seminar called this is an interesting title the leaning church oh not interesting that sounds good yeah sure and then of course we'll have james then that evening music hour but you can go to 3abncampmeeting.org or to 3abn.tv get the camp meeting scheduled so that this is what somebody told me and it's so funny because they always come in person when when we're here but they said what we do is we pop popcorn we have our sliced dowels we have this and we just sit back and we've got everything around us so that we don't miss a second oh that's great i like that plan it's going to be a blessing yeah that's good and then we're 3abn plus right so that people can watch and interact or is it going to be interactive or no no we're not doing the virtual interactive this part although you can always message so that is actually true so we will you can message anytime you can text us questions or comments or you can always message us on the three ibm plus platform that's correct so any option for that so i love that as well we'll be able to do that and people can dvr too here at work on friday and you you worry about missing anything just dvr it and watch it later which is great and the decision didn't come lightly but you know praying about it talking about it and some people say oh well it's lack of faith well not necessarily at all god gave his common sense too and so we use that and we know none of us are are exempt from covenant and say oh well it's not going to happen so sometimes i think you know through prayer we thought it's better not to there are many churches and conventions and others that people coming together good faith but they're leaving with covid so we don't want to to be a carrier here for people to come and for people to bring coven from around the world but as you said you know let's get to popcorn the apples or whatever that around the tv or the radio or go on the internet however you want to do it and let's enjoy a camp meeting together yeah the other day somebody said to me oh well i'm just going to go attend this and i'm trusting god because i know he loves me and i said would you just go get out in the middle of the freeway and say oh i'm trusting god so a good part the reason we're doing this is because we love you and we don't want to be as we believe in public health we believe in responsibility and we believe that god gave us good good enough brains to figure out let's don't be part of spreading this yeah and and this is the beauty that uh about three abn because mr danny and i were talking about that i alluded to it earlier and that is that three have been still able to broadcast camp meeting yes what a blessing you know yeah for you it's not the only way to get cam any camp meeting is to come here in person you can watch at home so that's the beauty that three event has god's given us this gift so yes we're sad that you won't be here in person but we're so glad that we can still broadcast camp meeting via the television or through radio to you and we'll still be able to connect in a sense but we just praise god again for this opportunity that three abn camp meeting is still going forward what an incredible lineup you know we haven't had to cancel any of the speakers or people attending you know for the participants so yeah we're excited excited because we know that god is going to do marvelous and powerful things together yeah it's nice having uh you know it's great it's always been great having pastor james rafferty with us but now that he and reece are officially three abners you know for the team that's even more exciting you know when they come to know that we get to work with them and have the same goals and visions to get the gospel to the world and dr ben carson oh wedding yvonne and i we can't say enough good about he and candy you know they love the lord they do what they're doing and his testimony is incredible if you see where his testimony is in the world in which we live in the country in which we live and everyone's talking about diversity and talking about all these things you get someone like him to say look here's my testimony and through it all god has been there so it doesn't make any difference where you come from what your background is how you you know your your religious background your spiritual or not non-spiritual background it doesn't make any difference what color you are what country you came from the lord is there all we have to do is seek him say lord please forgive me for my sins i realize i'm a sinner the bible says he's faithful and just to forgive us from our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness dr carson's testimony is incredible and he did i really look forward to it and he's got this demeanor about him that like you know he's just everything takes it in stride and then it occurred to me i guess if anybody in the world ever needed that kind of just gentle spirit and just take your time and you know he's not one that's going to get up and run across the stage and but i thought i wouldn't want him to if he were doing brain surgery on me right yeah you're standing in one place and steady okay let's just be methodical okay how about this so when you see him speak he's totally in control but you know what he says is profound he used to have that some of you aren't they're probably not old enough to remember the ef hutton commercial you know he doesn't say much but when he does people speaks yeah people everybody gets close when dr carson speaks uh we listen and i also second the um his testimony yeah i remember as a young man reading the book gifted hands yeah powerful you know i was always inspired from where he came from and what god has done through his life because he allowed god to work through him so wow just excited to have him here along with everybody else too i was just going to say he has he is such an inspiration he is and people who are not even religious or spiritual they see that he has integrity and that he stands for something he's authentic he really is i think that's the word he really is authentic and people see that they recognize that and so it's a blessing we've seen it locally people that i know friends of ours you know there's doctors lawyers business people and all of those that say man we we we wanted to come to camp meeting and uh so we we wanted to be there we wanted to to to meet him sure because i i think we could safely say he's probably the most well-known adventist in the world good or bad how people you know those that's in front and and and some more than others but i don't care if it's you or me or you're at home the more that people see you you're gonna have some love you and so i'm gonna hate you and you know spiritual warfare going on and so we're not we we just take it but with dr ben carson i've meet people on the other side of the aisle who still say we really respect him this man has integrity there's something about him that's different than most of the other people that we we see in those positions now he's not a politician for anybody who's upset he's not no longer doing that but he's he's a child of god and he's given his testimony amen i don't think he was a politician when he was in politics really not but that's the name they give you it doesn't work for the government he's a layman but he's out there he and candy and they're witnessing to people about the lord jesus christ was purpose to be here has nothing to do is to calm some of you that's thinking otherwise has nothing to do with his political anything from his past it has to do with what god is doing amen you know in the lives of each and every one of us so i think mark on your calendar september 23 through 25 that's three abn fall camp meeting shelby says starting thursday night at 7 00 p.m central time with the music hour going right on into the of course the bible study aspect as well and then of course on friday and on sabbath and you can go to 3abn.tv find the schedule there or 3abncammitting.tv as well to find the schedule there too i think one thing that i want to just mention here because this is a behind the scenes i'll let you talk about roku but um i want to just give an update quickly on cuba many of you are following the project that three event is doing there being on the package in cuba well pastor john denzel would be here tonight but he can't because he's actually in cuba so he's there so pray for him amen yeah absolutely and chaplain harnell hernandez is there as well and we're getting the reports that come back are kind of spotty just because the communication is a little bit um awkward at times but we're hearing great reports about what god is doing there so we're looking forward on the next behind the scenes to give you another encouraging report about what's going on in cuba but god's opened up some another province there that we're having a hard time getting access to and so we got that report um that and just said a miracle has happened we've got access to this certain province or a county if you want to call it in cuba so praise the lord for that he's doing marvelous things you know i like how pastor john dinzie and chaplain harnell hernandez they dream big and i think that's what god wants us to do mr danny is just absolutely dream big and uh the opportunity that may be showing itself to 3abn is just absolutely incredible and i'm going to kind of leave it there i'm not going to tell you what it is but god looks like he's moving in a powerful way to open up in another incredible door there in cuba so i'm so excited about what god is doing what's so exciting is chaplain harnell had traveled around the different uh provinces and cities throughout cuba and we are on the package in every city yes so he went to buy the package in the different cities and to ask people is the package here is the package here because we've been saying well we're on the package but are we really on the package you know you have to actually go there and see and he went and he saw and we are on the package in every city throughout cuba that's over a million people who have access to the gospel what an incredible blessing and we're the only christian network we are the only on the package oh that is amazing absolutely and i would also say thank you to elder henry he's the inter-american division president we're able to go down to miami and meet with him he's inter-american division president of seventh-day adventists there and uh he is giving his support to what's happening there and and what a blessing you know to have that support because it's really working together absolutely when we're at odds and not getting along well the gospel doesn't always go forward as well so to work together what a blessing talk about roku absolutely so 3bm plus he referenced this this just a little bit ago dr yvonne 3abn plus we have launched on the website and we've heard from many of you that have been really blessed by that and then we just launched on amazon fire and we've heard great reports from that and we launched on roku and there's been a few issues with that this has just been very honest with you there is some issue on the programming back end with the development of it and some of you have called us or emailed or written in and said it's a little confusing to me to to access it so we want to tell you we are working on it as we speak that's correct our developers are working right now to try to rectify those issues to make it so much easier for you to be able to access if you look at the screen it might look as if you have to log in or create an account to get into roku you don't have to do that all you have to do is click a button that says browse and you can access all the content free so right now it does look confusing and we are sorry for that we're trying to get that rectified but the bottom line is you just click the the button that says browse and you have full access to all the streaming networks all the radio streaming networks and all the on-demand programming so you'll have access to everything we're working to streamline that process and make it easier for you if you're still having problems please call us we want to know about it because you're our family and we want to be connected with you so if you're still having problems feel free to call us the call center is open actually right now so you're welcome to call now if you'd like 618-627-4651 and we'd be happy to help walk you through that process i just talked to a precious lady uh this week from california who was having difficulty accessing it and i thought this was so precious because one of the ladies at the call center typed up the instructions and mailed it to this lady so that she'll know how to access it she didn't have emails so we couldn't send an email with the instructions and we said well we'll type it up so just praise the lord for the call center as well for their hearts sweet heart to be willing to help each person yeah we kind of attribute it to growing pains may we say you know because three events continuing to find new avenues and new ways of being able to share more information and more truth with others so sometimes these little growing pains a little bit painful but we'll get through it and it'll continue to grow and expand and we're excited to hear reports about people stumbling across 3abn on roku as well so if you know someone too because if you may know someone that's having a few struggles with roku yeah i just haven't called 3abn and we'll be so happy uh to to help them out and roku has grown please endlessly in the last three or four years i mean it literally is around the world now it's it's it's amazing it's on the open stock market and all that i mean it has really really grown so we have no idea how many people are watching but you take dish network by itself 15 million homes yep in america for instance three three people they average for home i mean so you're 45 million people you know americans potentially can watch three and just on that one avenue yeah that's right not to mention all the downlink stations all the cable stations you know all the streaming whether it's computers the satellites all the different ways and it's really it's really amazing you know what amazes me is um it's so exciting that cuba this we are the only channel and they'll really get to hear the word of god yes but jd my husband is in the pastoral department and daily there are people who are giving their hearts to the lord accepting christ as amen but also daily there are people who are coming out of babylon i mean there are people who have been in a confused religion they're watching three abn and they're calling every day and saying can you tell us where the nearest adventist church is we want to join and what's really amazing is that so many pastors are calling saying what people are flooding into our churches and they're ready to be baptized i mean they've already been trained up yes according to biblical teachings biblical standards and god's standard of truth and he said we don't even have to do anything except schedule a baptism that's right that's exciting yeah that's great wonderful i would yvonne and i would attempt to make the offer again on the books we tried it once before and we didn't do too well oh my god so maybe greg and jill we'll let them do it we did a program without them and let's see you can call well no not that maybe you can email well i'm not sure that's the one so we said from now on let's see if jill and greg will do it you didn't do that oh my word it was terrible i even said where's chili [Laughter] i felt needed so thank you thank you joey yeah go ahead if you would like to access this incredible opportunity for evangelism with the focus on truth project with all three of these booklets you have two options tonight first you can do the zip code mailing that would mean you get these three booklets in this envelope for 50 cents a home just 50 cents a home for the three envelopes three booklets in an envelope that's less than the cost of a us post postage stamp and just give us a call if you want to do that call us at 618-627-4651 that number again is 618-627-4651 or you can even go online and you can do a zip code mailing but if you do it online 3ubn is going to pick the zip code you cannot assign the zip code we're picking big cities throughout the country so if you do that you go to 3abn.tv you click on the banner there that says focus on truth and you can sponsor a zip code online or if you want to order cases of these books they come 250 booklets in a case 250 booklets of hellfire or salvation or ten commandments or you can order a shelley's head one case of each or just this week i signed off in a church in indianapolis and they ordered 15 cases because they said it's part of their homeless ministry and they give food to the local people who are homeless and they want truth literature truth-filled literature to go in each package of food so they want a whole bunch of cases so 16.50 and it's for one of the cases and so just give us a call right now and order a case 618-627-4651 or you can go online and you can order the cases that way at 3abn.tv so if you got a case of each that's what 750 books there is and it's like 49.50 correct to get them to wherever you want them in in the united states now that i promise you that's the truth i'm not making that up it's amazing there's no gimmick because like once you do it it's okay now send this or send that that's literally it because of those of you who've said we'll help with the printing we'll get it we just wanted to get out and ask people to do the the shipping and getting the shipping is is you know literally down as low as we can and working with the pacific press again to do this but that's an amazing thing because i keep i can't keep forgetting that one stamp because even if you want to send a letter to somebody you got to buy the paper you got to buy the envelope you got to buy the stamp so now you got three books and the nice envelope that's got pictures on it says a gift special gift for you or something on it and people get this when you open it up you got some nathan green one of the greatest artists alive for as i'm concerned some of his pictures even in this so it's not a little magazine or a little booklet you look at and say oh that's you're gonna want to look through it because it's good quality and so to all of that so for 50 cents is amazing or if you the case is again you get three cases 750 250 of each one for less than 50 dollars i mean that's amazing that is so and we'll do them as long as the finances allow that's right and uh so uh we we're asking you if you want those we we've had requests for how many for um oh philippines yeah that was like three hundred thousand three hundred thousand about nine hundred thousand nine hundred quest nine hundred thousand overseas yeah that's big when you include all that together yes oh wow tremendous amount yeah absolutely amazing people are so hungry and they are looking for answers and we can we're not the holy spirit but we have the opportunity to cooperate with the holy spirit and to send this information out and let the holy spirit do his work he convicts you know i want to just mention this too about the cases there's been a little bit of confusion on this that when you get the cases so you don't get the white envelope with the cases so the only way that the wide envelope happens is when it's a zip code mailing thank you so sometimes people expect to get the box of books plus that many envelopes no the envelopes are just used when we do the zip code mailing when you get the cases you can of course put them and send them however you want to but really it's handing them out to someone gas station walmart wherever so just want to make sure to clarify that that aspect well i know that uh this uh this hour has gone by amazing doing uh you know some musical chairs and some time flies when you're having fun my dad used to say even though he was working hard and wasn't enjoying it just fly when you're having fun son you know yeah it did go by in a hurry and i also i don't know if you noticed this too but when we were talking about you know how to get the books i always look at jill and say sweetie why don't you tell us so i'm kind of in your she makes it look effortless she does any closing thoughts then i know we've got about a minute left any closing thoughts as we wrap up this first hour i'm just you know we look and see that the time is short and the loud cry will soon be you know babylon has fallen come out come out and it's so good that we can teach people now introduce them to truth even if they don't react immediately they will have this truth when it happens yeah that's excellent shelly amen dr yvonne again this is the time now is the time and we don't put it off we just do it and just just share the word we if you can't speak it send it send a booklet i love it that's great it's the most exciting time to be alive in earth history and i really mean that you know all these years have been on earth and it's just i'm blessed amen so are you yeah that's good amen to that we love you all thank you for being on this first hour we're going to trade out guests or we're going to trade out family for the second hour and we have exciting updates and reports how you can be involved in the ministry of three avian [Music] hello and welcome back to 3abn today live behind the scenes we're so glad that you have joined us this evening the first hour went by in a hurry we've done a little bit of musical chairs and switched out uh with some of our family we mentioned guests but they're part of our three avian family we want to say thank you for being a part of 3abn's family and thank you for your prayers and financial support for this ministry it seems like we kind of rattle that off kind of every program but we really mean it you know you're making a difference in somebody's life even this evening and you're watching 3abn because someone is financially supporting and praying for this ministry and you know what's so encouraging to me as as we've been through this year last year of coven it seems like it's kind of rearing its head again as we talked about in the first hour god is continuing to provide for the needs of this ministry you know in this current role that i'm in i'm relatively new at it and when coveted hit i have to be honest with you my heart kind of skipped a beat like oh no what's going to happen but you know what i was rebuked by the lord reading the scriptures there's no need to worry god says he's got it this is his ministry and we have the privilege to be a vessel that god can pour through no matter what we do here at 3abn no matter what you're doing whatever sphere of influence you have in your home god is using you and you're here for a purpose and it's exciting to be alive in this moment in earth's history for sure amen and i was just thinking as you're talking about that sweetheart just the faith journey that's true what a blessing to be on a faith journey that's right you know this is kind of personal but i know the times we get down on our face before god god you need money god this ministry needs to go forward and we can't do it without you how are we going to do that and then all of a sudden sometimes that very day a check comes in from one of you at home and we realize that god holds this ministry and the palm of his hands and he wants the gospel to go forward and it's not about us trying harder or doing anything god's the one at the helm of this ministry that's really a blessing you know and i appreciate you mentioning the faith aspect of it because it has been a growing experience for jill and myself you know and we if hebrews talks about we walk by faith and not by sight and so it's a day by day process and and i know that many of you give sacrificially thank you so much for doing that i think about the person that um sent in i believe it was last year they sent in 99 cents and they spent the money to send you know put a stamp on the envelope and then they sent 99 cents and maybe the person that gave it felt it wasn't very much but you know they gave because they felt impressed to give and you know what happens god's the one that god is the one who does the increase he multiplies no matter what we give and so just thank you thank you for being a part of the ministry and we want to introduce who we've got on the set with us now amen we switched out family members we could say and we're delighted to have more of our family here tonight we have tim parton who's the general manager of 3am praise and music network our brother and friend and just so glad to have you here it's always delight and pleasure to be on a program with both of you i enjoy just watching how you do this it is so nice you you're just you're pros but but that aside i'm delighted to be here we're learning tim you are well you're just talking about the learning process yeah you know you make mistakes but uh i think he's due for a pay raise but tim thank you for what you do you know thank you very much you know for uh leading out in the praise hymn network you know it's doing a tremendous uh work and we want to talk about that a little bit more in detail but i do want to mention this right now um my friend grandfather lyle hamill he passed away last week at the age of 98 and uh there at the very end that's all he had on his living room because he always loved listening to you tim he you know because he was losing his hearing 98 years of age and at the end he couldn't hear very well but he'd always say that man that plays the piano tim parton i can always understand when he sings and when he talks i love that man and so at the very end praise him was on in his living room there at the very end but i know that he's not the only one that your network has ministered to from young to old god has that network here for purpose and you're making a difference so thank you so very appreciate that that's uplifting i the last year 2020 was a dynamic year for praise him yes people watched us um we i'm getting emails in still talking about how we saw people through you know they listened to us that we were we were encouraging um the music what you know it's nothing we're doing it that's but it's the music that's uplifting god and and music encourages people it does so i'm so grateful that uh god has opened the door for the praise and music network amen so honored to be at work going around the island we have mike babb who's a three man radio engineer and speaking of mike you might not always see him in front of the camera and we are very excited mike to have you with us here tonight oh thank you you might be excited i'm a little bit uh shaky here one of my first times here but thank you and how long have you you and your wife of course valero works in our accounting department and really their whole family is part of the team tell us how long you've been here it's about 20 years i believe now wow yeah wow we'll introduce jay and then i want to come back to you for a second but jay christian is no stranger to you at home he's of course general manager of three abn radio network and he and his wife svietta we're just so grateful to have them here as well what a blessing you guys are to the ministry thank you for being here you're welcome we're pleased to be here it's been i've been here a little bit longer than mike i remember when he was hired so that means i've been here longer than 22 years wow and hasn't been the day that i've come to work and said i don't want to be here you know when you have a kind of job sometime i got to go to work again today number one there's no boredom number two you're working for the lord and number three uh the people here from the top from the very tip top from the human side of things uh all the way i hate to say down because it's just maybe it's from this position to this position instead of instead of this way but um you know to the different uh to the different positions people are friendly people are nice they're christ-like they remember who their savior is and it's here every day and when i come in i'm very happy to be a part of that and maybe sometimes i give it if i can give a smile or two now and then but i know i absorb a lot and that is that's really nice so it's great to be here we appreciate your leadership you've been a part of radio from basically the very beginning because radio is uh like 21 and a half years of age is that right or about 22. yeah i was the third employee okay he hired yep and so but i'm the only one of the three that's still here and then mike you joined not long afterwards of course right but i think about radio you know we talk about television but many of you listen to 3abn radio and are listening right now as well and that has a massive impact around the world because it's not only the stations but we've also got the ability on our phones and other devices i guess that's the right word to use and that people can pick up 3abn radio and even in our local church here the thompsonville 7th avenue church we've had people come in through the doors yes and say hey i've found truth through 3abn radio here wdqn which is our local station that is 95.9 and people find and listen and their lives are changed so thank you yes it's uh it was very gratifying the first time somebody came in and said well it's very gratifying every time but you just pay attention it just really means something to you the first time somebody says i was listening on freebie and radio here and wanted to come in and see your church but we've heard that now a lot of times i will tell you it never gets old it'll never ever get old yeah absolutely i'd love to hear it and so whenever somebody says that i say praise god praise god because that's somebody else that he's been able to reach through his radio station radio network amen so grateful for your leadership and what you bring to the ministry and your lovely wife we love her um i want to go back to mike just for a moment just because we don't always get to have mike on so we don't maybe this is just the beginning mike a bit more time a little bit of your journey like how did you even come you and valera come here to 3bn wow um we had we've been living and working in portland uh oregon okay um that's like right next door to thompsonville that's like miles and miles away beautiful mountains nice beaches yes big pine trees maybe but the lord had other plans for us i had been working for one of the stations there in portland for quite a while and the direction of that station at that time uh hip-hop was growing uh was in its kind of big uh beginning stages and growing um and i was at the time i was involved with engineering getting my feet wet with that and and we had been watching we i think at one point we we got three abn and we ordered the satellite dish we heard about it and we started watching and and we had seen at the time there was an ad that was run looking for a radio engineer wow well i i i'm i'm comfortable i'm fine most of my family and my wife's family live on the west coast so you know we're used to being around all of them um we started having individuals from our local church instead of say hey i've seen on 3abn they have an opening have you thought about that yeah quickly [Laughter] and i had been there was one day i was talking with my boss at the station in portland and and i had mentioned that to him and he said well you might want to think about that why he says well you know i i've really enjoyed you here i like you here um but i see the the route that the station is going you know and and i'm getting close to he's getting close to retirement and he's concerned you know about different things the way the world does things and he says you know i know you have a special thing for the sabbath for saturdays in your heart you know and i i i won't be there to kind of stand up for you oh wow in those instances and i said well you know i i thank you very much but i have it in my heart i am firm on this for not working on the sabbath and that you know if it comes down to my job or the sabbath i got to go with the sabbath sure and and so he's he's he continued to say you know but you should check into it so make the story even longer [Laughter] i i sent it i sent an email and and nikki anderson who has since retired with us she responded back and we didn't hear anything okay we had been praying about it and left it in the lord's hand so nothing was happening we had gone a little bit later we had gone to oregon camp meeting and while we were there there were a couple um three alien representatives there manning the three abn booth okay and um and so we we toured around went and saw them and talked to them a little bit and they said oh you know we have an opening and i said i applied and i got a response and haven't heard anything i haven't heard anything well when they came back they started hey there's a guy out there that's interested in the engineering that you have opening and and so he uh a little bit later uh we got uh an email wow and and then uh at that time was from uh gonzalo santos and so we responded exchanged a few emails and and it kind of quieted down and then emails came back up and and so then it finally came to a point where something was said and and we vlara and i looked at each other and we said well uh let's continue to pray about it but at this point i think the lord's sending us a uh a sign that you know this is not for us then we'd get a an email would come in oh but did i tell you about this no okay i guess the lord's saying yes now wow and then it came down to one of the things we were thinking about at that time was what are we going to do about school for the children and we get an email we've all heard the story i think of that one dollar i think it was that came in that somebody wanted to start a school yeah and so we were thinking well i don't know about school well here comes an email in saying uh um we got a school we just started up and we're glad to have you well we were looking at costs schools there in the portland area and because that was getting ready to start up and we're sitting there wow okay we're going to have to make some adjustments to be able to afford that and then when we heard they have the school here we thought wow move away from family a place we've never been a job that you know we're just start i don't know that we can afford the school for the kids well at just after i said that we were getting ready for bed and i said let me check the email one more time here comes an email oh did i tell you that there's a special tuition for those who are members of the church and that work it also work at 3abn no you didn't and wow lord is blessing there i uh you know so we just you know it was just one thing after another we were thinking the door was closed and the lord opened the doors again where's god and then it was worked out um we were it was the weekend before 9-1-1 okay for 9 11. 9 11. and we were invited to come here and so we were looking at tickets to come out here wow i don't know look at the prices for the two of us to come out um and so we i did one of these name uh name your price things wow it was accepted uh it was it was that's another just a little over a hundred dollars for the uh for each of us but it's still a good deal here we come yeah and and so we came visited we said yes and then on the plane going back we started rethinking how we gonna make this move satan was planning things in and and long of short obviously we finally said yes we really felt the lord moving yeah and and so we we accepted the position and and came you've been here ever since yeah moral of the story is we need to work on our hiring process now no the moral of the story is god brings people oh yes and god brought you and your wife and whole family yes and we wouldn't change it one bit if we had to do it over you know i think everybody that has come here has had struggles from time to time with whatever sure and you know even in those struggles we have seen god moving and you know we will still say if we had that same opportunity given us today that we wouldn't have changed it mm-hmm amen yeah we would continue with it because god is so blessed amen um yup you your wife and your kids now they're grown they've graduated from school and uh some of them are working here at three abn and have significant rules yes mr g one getting married yes that's right getting married and another one having a baby which mr danny mentioned about him being a great grandfather well mike babb and his wife are going to be grandparents that seems unreal doesn't it to be grandparents so uh danae your daughter yes mary jesse yes so they're having a baby that's going to be born here in the next couple of months so so excited um about that you know talking about you know being a part of the family and you being part of our family we mentioned this in the first hour i'm going to let jill comment on this but this has to do on fall camp meeting and being together as family and how that's changed a little bit because of covid again kind of rearing its head so talk to us about fall camping the significant change that's taking place so fall camp meeting is still happening that's right we're not having off campus people come in other words you need to stay home and watch on 3bn so we are having fall camp meetings september 23 through 25. we are looking forward to it there will be anointed music and sermons messages from the word of god but we are not having an in-person camp meeting meaning you stay home and watch from home it's due to the rise of covid that's been going on and we're sorry for that we wish that it were open because we really want to meet you and see you and talk with you but we encourage you during camp meeting you can text us we'll be giving that number during camp meeting or you can message your comments and we want to connect with you that way but fall camping we are looking forward to that um september 23-25 yeah absolutely that's coming up really soon i also want to touch on this the second hour here this is the focus on truth project we were given an update the uh the first hour but you can send all three of these booklets which is the truth about salvation the truth about hellfire and the truth about the ten commandments and a nice little wide envelope all for the cheap price may i say of 50 cents it's not incredible that includes the three booklets that includes the postage that includes the little white envelope and you know a postage stamp costs 55 cents you just saw that graphic there so this is less than the price of a stamp i mean that's absolutely amazing and that's here within the u.s a zip code here in the u.s but the call center they're open tonight so that number is 618-627-4651 and they'd be happy to explain to you how you can send these booklets to a zip code of your choice or as jill mentioned first hour you can also buy cases of these booklets 250 of each topic come in a come in a case and the suggested donation is 16.50 that includes the books and the shipping to your address here in the us it's really amazing you know we mentioned in the first hour you mentioned about a church in indianapolis and we are getting a lot of response here about how you're participating in this project so in between the hours this idea came from uh jorge he's our production manager saying hey wouldn't it be neat to see pictures of you maybe distributing them or you and your church or family that are distributing these books or what you're doing so great idea thank you jorge so send those pictures to us because in the next upcoming maybe behind the scenes will show some of those pictures well this is how you can do it you can send it to the email and it's very simple it's mail m-a-i-l at 3abn.tv that's mail m-a-i-l i can spell right right okay m-a-i-l at 3abn.tv send those pictures to us and we'd be happy to show them on the next behind the scene because we know that many of you are participating so we're hearing about it a lot i just want to say you did a really good job with that and now i've worked myself out of a job for that you have you you did really well oh you mean trying to see yeah yeah we talked about that the first hour good job yeah i always look at jill and say sweetie why don't you tell us how good job but we want to hear from you when we want to showcase what's happening in your churches and how you're distributing and evangelizing so speaking of connections with our three man family before we have an incredible opportunity with radio but before we go to that amazing yes um can we talk about the blog for a minute tim we launched three abn kindling three man's first ever blog so tell us about that so a blog is simply a kind of like a journal and this this particular blog is featuring uh some writers uh reecey rafferty james rafferty's wife bobby davis he has been here for many years as a producer and editor and and he is contributing to this blog as well as i am and uh jason um bergman has it contributed so we're writing a different whatever our uh somewhat expertise is uh bobby writes from a kind of a recovery format idea reecey writes on health and wellness that's her background i'm writing on wisdom or the lack thereof and and the pursuit of but um from a lot of experience that i'm lacking that i'm working through jason of course is writing uh from from a financial point of view uh we're also getting some uh entries from pastoral so so it it's just it's great it's kind of an extension of well it's definitely an extension of three abn but also maybe a little bit into the magazine the world magazine but kindling is of course an object that you is used to start a fire and so that's what we want each of these articles to be is something that will start a fire maybe something that will spark something i know i like how paul talked into second in second timothy chapter one to timothy he says you know stir up and actually that word stir up means kindle the fire that is in you so it's a nice uh this is a just something that will uh hopefully again spark sparks something you know this morning in fact before i came to work i was uh i was past couple of days i'd been cleaning out the fence row so i had a pile of of weeds and things that needed to be burned and so i i spent about 10 minutes and um 12 matches getting um the a fire to start on uh wet weeds so there's lots of you talk about no i didn't even get the smoke oh you didn't even get it because the thing wasn't even light oh my so you you can you can only imagine what my entries to this blog are you know with me being so wise as to be trying to light wet weeds so my point would do that you need to call my son jason oh is is he he's the good fire starter you know how to do that well i clearly clearly need there needs to be a hotline my point being that kindling needs to be uh dry before you start if you want it to work so it needs to be properly uh prepared i guess so that's what i think that these these entries to the blog which they come out every monday 7 00 p.m central 7 p.m central so we've got currently about six five six entries on on there and you can go to 3abn kindling.org i think the graphics showed on the screen so um anyway it's just a really it's it's kind of a fun project that we're working on not like we needed another project because there's always plenty to do but uh it's something to stay connected with you and i hope that you will enjoy it read it comment on it uh let us know it i know from my point of view i always like to hear back from you in fact this week i i was on i i commented on some knives that i purchased um and it was yeah you'll just have to read it it's about staying sharp and uh anyway so it's it's just a lot of fun a great project and i'm really delighted thanks for the opportunity to be creative in that in that way yeah i think each one of the authors on the blog are incredibly gifted writers you know tim and bobby and reecey jason um pastor earl we haven't seen yet that's coming but i know it's going to be amazing but it's it's neat to just get a kind of window you could say into each person's world and learn and grow and ignite that fire so i'm very very excited about a brand new way to connect with you at home i think you can also go on the website and subscribe so you can be notified when the new um blog entries come that way you don't have to remember to go back and check the new ones but you can be notified and that's a great way too so thank you so much for taking that on absolutely yeah yeah i think it's great because it's in its new ways we're trying to always reach and evangelize and find new ways to reach new people or just people like you know different like you said a window into what somebody's thinking in the process and what god is showing them in life so again tim that address in case someone said oh oh yeah and then they just quite didn't get to write it down it's three abn kindling k-i-n-d l-i-n-g see i can spell two so three a-b just go better than me well that's a big bigger word that's okay abn okay yep and then then you can subscribe like you subscribe and it will come to your mailbox or your email box every monday and you can just read it right there yeah it's funny yeah absolutely yeah and reecey is she's she is bona fide smart i'm telling you what i've read i was reading her comment uh one of her articles just today her blog and um i i felt very smart as i was reading it i really did i'm serious so risi if you're watching that was good stuff you're very smart yeah i think god's given each their talents and oh yeah thank you for being willing to share and take that on too jill's one that kind of got that idea going now you've taken on the project and so thank you so much tim for that indeed so we have an exciting thing like you were mentioning pertaining to radio uh jay there's a window of opportunity that is getting ready to open that you at home maybe would be interested in participating in i may am i correct yes you are okay did you notice that radio has a window and uh the kindling blog has you were just talking about the window that's a good point and we were talking about thinking cuba cochlear windows and talking about cuba earlier that's another window or door that's opening for us so yeah good okay we have a window that's open i think it's been uh mike i think it was in 2007 the last time since the fcc opened a window for non-commercial radio stations that's a long time and we don't know if one's going to ever open up again sooner or later all of the radio frequencies are going to be filled up the only way to get a radio station is to buy one but right now people can start they call them nce but we just call it non-commercial non-commercial educational but you say nce and most people have no idea what that is you know what it's e what's that but they understand non-commercial and so that's what it is um and it's a it's full power radio stations um anywhere from probably 100 watts up to 100 000 watts wow depending on the the opening that they have how much territory they can cover and where other radio signals are and all of that michael tell you all all of those things because he's the expert and a lot of what i know i got from mike so he'll be able to pass that along but it's coming up the win the window is november 2nd through the 9th okay we're talking a little over two months [Music] and when it first opens up and then you have another week if you need it but you know be ready on the second would be the best and we're glad to help anybody do that now one thing the the listeners and viewers need to understand is that the first thought that goes through people's mind new york chicago los angeles boss miami st louis yeah we've tried several times at st louis for different things but they think of big cities like that well they're wrapped up there's going to be no they're going to be no new radio stations there but if you look at a map of america it's not all big cities and there are a lot of communities across america that just may very well have room for radio stations and so anybody that's interested in that uh can contact us we'll i'll show you how to do it again now i'll i'll tell you now and then we'll tell you again before we're done but it's best to do email okay we can handle everything through email it's radio at 3abn.org and you can put on the whatever you want as far as the subject line just let us know new radio station or or whatever we can send you paperwork that can talk you through the entire process and so we'd be glad to work with anybody that wants to do it mike i hear him on the phone often giving advice to our affiliates you know if they have uh they're setting up new equipment or if they have a challenge or whatever he sits there and talks them through it and i know he'll be available for that too when the time comes but that that's what they need to do is just let us know we'll send them at least information to get them started and what to do uh on how to get a full power radio station so this is an opportunity for people at home to say i want to become a 3d radio affiliate yes yes it is and how much would it cost because someone might be sitting at home saying well i don't have the money for that so do we have figures on that or am i asking something that we don't know or i'll just say i don't really have figures but it's going to be over over a hundred thousand dollars the the thing to think about in my opinion oftentimes we get concerned and rightly so everybody wants to know what's the dollar figure what's the dollar figure my thing is we need this needs obviously prayer over it and if you feel that god is leading god's going to take care of those those needs when when you start looking at the costs because there's attorney fees there's engineering fees there's equipment fees and i mean on and on and on it gets overwhelming i kind of look at this window kind of as a david and goliath syndrome okay you know there's a lot of people out there listening to this and and this you know just the figure a hundred thousand yeah you know um which i almost guarantee it's going to be way over that but they're going to say no way well in reality there was no way that david could defeat goliath that's right one stone one stone it took so don't totally look at the the the dollar figure that's good and then also there's going to be lots of goliaths out there that's going to say you can't do this i and and satan is going to impress upon your i don't know anything right i don't know radio or but i feel god is is directing me in this direction if you feel god is directing you in that direction don't you think he's going to take care of you yeah yeah he will you're right he's going to hope that's a good point there's a story that i heard fairly early when i came to 3abn so that was a number of years ago and i believe it to be true so if it's not true somebody correct me because i tell it occasionally to people i understand danny was not the first person got impressed to start 3am and the people that the god approached were professionals that just knew this couldn't be done there's no way can't be done i can't get i can't get the money i can't get the support it's so expensive doing tv because it was just tv as you can see just tv only tv at the very beginning and so god went i think i heard danny use a phrase once that i was two stupid danny things i was too stupid to know that i couldn't do it so i did it you know with the help of the lord with the guidance of the lord and so there's always reasons not to do something but god will let people know amen if this is something i want you to do you understood about coming here my family has a similar story about how to come here so many people that work here have similar stories how the lord opened doors and and and you know kind of say go ahead go i'll be with you uh you feel it you know it and so put this in the lord's hands let him show you that's good yeah that's excellent so then tell me then about then again just as far as uh clarification for me so the windows that are being opened does that mean that there's frequencies available in every city no so how do i find out let's say parkersburg west virginia a little town i want to i want to put a radio station there i feel impressed to do that how do i know if there's a frequency available in parkersburg west virginia let's see okay we'll give you a piece of paper that talks you through all of this but the short answer is uh and i know mike will probably want to add to it but the short answer is the piece of paper that we've got gives the instructions on how to do this and one of the first things you're going to need to do is spend a little bit of money yeah you won't go broke but spend a little bit of money hire somebody that is a professional and they'll be able to tell them if they can put in the radio station where it would go what the power would be they have okay they have computer software that's not cheap okay that is they it gets information directly from the fcc of just about every licensed uh broadcast including cellular and and all of that and it also takes in account the the geography of the area so one one thing to keep in mind these engineers that are doing these what we call frequency studies or channel studies they don't have to be in your area because everything is pretty much done on on through the computer well with the database that they have connected with the fcc okay and so if you have a specific location you would tell them this is where i'm thinking that i would like it okay and if it's an exact location like at your church or you have some property you give them that location and then they do their computer stuff and come up with that that study if you don't know or have a specific thing you can say well i live in podunk uh wherever uh and i think there is i think it actually is yeah so and and what they'll do is they'll look at that town try different scenarios and and come up with you know hopefully come up with a with a station in that not a station but a frequency or a channel that meets the criteria of not competing with other uh full power radio stations so what you okay that's good what you can what you need to understand is that you tell this person either i want it exactly at this particular place or i want to cover thompsonville i want to i want to cover you know the name of any other city okay and tell me where the signal can go tell me where we can put the transmitter and things like that with the second scenario you'll have a much better chance okay of getting a radio station okay and then you look and you see where the signal goes and you say yes that that's an area that we want to cover and so then you proceed okay so the key is then if someone's interested tonight there's lots of people that are viewing and listening tonight and they're saying oh yeah yeah this would be wonderful the key is to actually contact you all then you'll put them in contact with the right people exactly so three bin radio you're offering the services obviously so hey we'll be happy to help because then they've become an affiliate like you mentioned of 3abn radio so that address again i know we're going to mention it multiple times jay is radio radio at 3 8 p.m dot org okay and that's the number one just remember radio you know everything else you've been hearing that for i don't know how many years but many years i'm sure just remember radio okay at 3abn.org okay very simple okay and this will send paperwork to them tell them who to get in touch with how to start off perfect to get the frequency steady and so forth and we're here uh to walk them you know to help them through all the steps so it's not right we're not sending them a piece of paper and saying there you go yeah call us if you call us ready to get your radio here we're we're here to tell we may not know the answers to some of their questions but we can direct them to where they can get those answers yeah because there's a lot of experience you know god's given you all and 3abn radio has how many affiliates approximately we we're in the neighborhood of 350. sometimes it's hard to know exactly because we go around the world but we have a lot of affiliates in america we have a lot of affiliates in australia and new zealand in that area and then we have uh you know radio stations at different places around the world so we're in the neighborhood of 350. now did we say just to clarify this window is for united states we have not said that okay okay so fcc is the governor uh commission here in the united states so outside the united states a lot of times that falls into other uh local organizations or fcc type and so this isn't for them we're not speaking foreign uh mike does it include territories and things like that i think well i think some of them it does like guam and and their territory yes puerto rico anybody that that any of these territories and stuff that falls under fcc jurisdiction um speaking with an attorney or uh there there's ways you can find out uh through the internet and search engines yeah okay so then we're talking about the world the rest of the world would if someone has like hey you know i'm in some place in the world is there a possibility i could do something here could they still send an email to you guys and you guys could maybe send them to their local area or something if they have a question like hey i'll do our best we'll help we'll help we'll do everything that's great so that email address is radio at 3abn.org very good did i get it jay yes you got it yeah that's fantastic and you know and we know that god opens these windows and i like what you said too mike it's a great um comparison for us david and goliath too yeah all odds seem to be stacked against david i i i speak to a lot of affiliates um throughout each day and and i keep hearing that story over and over you know i don't know what to do i'm in unfamiliar territory kind of like what i am right now and i just don't know what to do look at the story of david and goliath that's right and how god led david and the israelites that's good yeah so i want to go to you then tim here giving us a quick update as we've talked about the window of opportunity that god's provided for three abn radio tell us about uh praise him you know the opportunities that god is providing for three even praise him network you know the growth maybe the correspondence you're getting programs what god is doing yeah i was just thinking as they were talking about being willing to to guide the people through that process i brian dickens who is the head of the programming department uh boy he was so instrumental i have this failure to launch syndrome and um it's it is it keeps me from doing i don't mean failure because you have lunch right but but it wasn't on my part it was thanks to somebody else who helped so uh i encourage you we are a team i mean it's a beautiful thing to see and and i encourage you to be someone that helps if you if you can help somebody um you know give them that push or kick whatever it takes you know be gentle but uh help them get it get it done and so i just i'm always mindful that it was brian that gave us he put the put the thing together to make it launch so since then i've got a lot of help and i am so grateful for my assistant and and the many editors that we have which those we are playing catch up praise him as playing ketchup on a lot of material we we will have artists to come in and tape they will record music but we've gone through a little season of not being able to get all of those edited ready for airing but we are we are fixing that problem yeah and god has opened up the door and we so we have some editors now who are working fastidiously and and and seriously intently so so that's we're excited we're going to get some new content i have so many people who will write in saying that we love your network we we watch it 24 7 and we get tired of seeing the same things so i encourage you to get outside and explore nature well because you know there's other things to do rather than watch tv but hey i understand it's a good thing to do we want you to keep watching but we are providing some new material so that is exciting and i am just i i will never stop being amazed at the fact that this is a worldwide network yeah um you know egypt turkey nairobi places you know that that i can't even pronounce um and and have to look up on the map to to find where these people are emailing me from and it's just it boggles my mind i i was in in ministry for several years where i traveled on the road playing the piano and um i went from coast to coast and in canada but not until i came to 3abn did i start receiving you know emails from foreign countries and and then even even going overseas to australia into russia and some just wonderful opportunities so uh you are a part of a worldwide family uh so i'm really grateful for that and uh yeah we're getting some a lot of like i said people watching and and loving the music oh yeah just it's encouraging inspiring and uh we're doing our best to make it keep it keep it coming one program that i'm excited about i like praise him you know all the programming but that we have flagship programs 3am today we have dare to dream urban we're getting ready to launch aunt francine mentioned the program here some time ago but it's kids express which is going to be her flagship tim you're getting ready you're putting together the flagship for praise him so they can go to you can go to uh 3abn praise him.tv and watch streaming live right there on on our website that's pretty simple yeah very simple so uh then we're of course on roku on apple tv amazon fire and one of the great ways of course is through the 3abn app that you can download right to your phone it is such a wonderful app yeah right there it is and we're down there on the bottom or the yellow one and it is great i just really do love the portability of it you know as long as i've got my phone i can watch three abn all of those networks it's great and and radio as well so uh anyway yep i like the app tim you know you're right because you know when we're out traveling and stuff and someone says so where do you work which we really don't feel like we work here but we say oh 3abn what is 3a been well you know there's the app it's really simple right boom you can download it on their phone and now they have access to so yeah so it's literally an evangelistic tool right there in your hands you talk about easy we can we will make it easy for you you just sit down there and watch tv with somebody on your phone and you'll you're you're you are evangelizing ministering uh so yeah great great app great uh technology and danny was talking earlier you're right absolutely need to be a part of that amen what about radio then jay mike the ways they can listen to radio okay i'll let mike handle that mike how can someone listen to three avian radio well the first one has already been mentioned uh the three avian app okay uh is one uh internet you can go to our website and and find a link there that will play any of any one of our several channels that we have another is um we've got roku yeah we're on roku most places where tv is we are with very few yeah another thing the satellite you can listen to it another thing that's kind of popular these days and i've been experimenting with it is like the it's called the google these little devices the name is slipping i mean like alexa yeah like alexa and and apple has its version siri version and um then google has their the google mini or whatever those are great ones that you can listen to us of course those are all internet based but virtually anywhere that you got internet you can you can listen to us so okay so then we talked about uh affiliates so how is someone then actually know if there's an affiliate obviously they may be stumbled across in their area but if they're looking like how would they find like 95.9 is there a list on the website somewhere or how can they find those frequencies let's say across the united states yes there is a list on our website 3abnradio.org okay and on there you can click on a list and it will tell you not only the radio stations we're on were on some internet radio stations as well and so a radio station there is is you know kind of a name but it's not exactly and it's organized by state yeah and it's organized by state oh wow so someone's on a road trip and there are there are different things other than just radio stations so if you want to look and see where we are in the state and that's a really good point then you look on the state you find the city and it tells you who is an affiliate and some of them are with us 24 hours a day some pick us up for just part of the day and we try to let people know perfect you with little notes on that let them know if they're with us all the time or if they're with us part time or whatever so if you tune in and we're not there then maybe next time we're on your way back tune in again because it could be something they're doing locally okay um and uh so that's the way the easiest way to find out just go to our website excellent thank you so much jay and mike you mentioned just briefly about the different channels that 3bn radio has so just mention those to us as well okay we have the three abn radio music channel okay so 24 hours 24 7 music and a little bit more okay more being little nuggets that jay has coordinated and and biblical um scripture yeah we'll read scriptures we'll read health tips well words of encouragement that sort of thing between some of the songs okay sometimes the music channels yeah yeah so there's a voice there to welcome people in and talk to them a little bit it's not just back-to-back music good we have radio latino and then we also have uh radio russia fantastic and radio australia and radio australia yeah yeah fantastic and we'll find you can find all that on the three avian app like we were mentioning so there's just so many ways you know so many windows that god has opened up for the ministry of three abn and thank you for walking through those windows and doors that are opening with us you know because we're going through this um together but the time is going has gone by so quickly any closing thoughts here uh before we uh end jay let's start with you yeah the only thing that that really comes to my mind is what we've been talking about up to now and that is with the window coming up but it's the application for non-commercial radio stations but just take it a step further because what mike was talking about is real people say i can't do that i don't have the money for this or that don't let that stop you not just for this but anything for the lord anything for the lord just ask lord if this is what you want show me guide me and if he's showing you and guiding you he will see you through and you don't need to worry excellent yeah what about you mike well jay just said everything [Laughter] basically you know don't get discouraged there you go um you know look at all the examples that god has given us in scripture you know you've got gideon um you know look what he fought with yeah yeah um you you got david and goliath um and i keep going back to the david and goliath because it just keeps coming to me because there's so many that get discouraged over that um and and i think too that it's applicable for our lives in general it is these things so um you know keep praying about it and looking to the lord for for guidance and and don't give up amen boy that's excellent mike thank you what about you lord we'll let you know yeah that's right yeah what about you tim well you know what i echo what both of these said excellent and it's exactly there was an artist that i used to play for and she sang the songs that she had written said god will make a way where there seems to be no way oh yeah forever he is faithful he will make a road when you bear a heavy load i know god will make a way so hold on to his promise that if if if he is stirring you to do anything in ministry yeah you know pray about it seek him and trust him and have faith that he will make a way trust him yeah wow praise the lord thank you tim sweetie what's on your heart this evening i saw your bible open there and turn into a scripture i was just i'm looking up the scripture while you all were talking here this is john chapter 4 verse 35 it says do you not say there are still four months and then comes the harvest i say lift up your eyes and look at the fields because they are already white for harvest and i was just thinking as we were talking here tonight about the opportunities for ministry the doors that might look a little scary to walk through but yet god is calling you at home right now to step forward in ministry to step out in evangelism to share jesus with your family and your neighbors and your community there's many avenues here at 3 am that you can join hands with us in sharing jesus you can share the app and tell people how they can have access to any one of these networks you can take access take this opportunity and establish a radio affiliate in your community or you can join hands with us with the focus on truth books in so many other ways but step forward by faith and help that harvest go forward yeah amen thank you so much jay being with us on with us this evening mike thank you tim sweet it's always a blessing to be with you it's a blessing to be with you at home thank you again for being part of our family and i want to just remind you that you know that jesus loves you and that nothing can separate you from god's love for you read romans chapter 8 and the 30 verses 30s in great encouraging text we'll see you again next time thank you for joining us this evening god bless [Music] you

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