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KENYA
Doug
&
Marg e
Pr i e s t
P . O .
BO X
2 1 6 0 4
Nai rob i ,
K e n y a
A F R I C A
February 1991
AN
INTEREST ING
CIRCUIT
I recently received an interesting phone
call. It came from
an Ethiopian
refugee
w h o
had
worked
with us
in th e r a d i o
ministry
for
about two years, and who,
a
few
months
ago,
resettled in
Iowa
City,
Iowa .
As I picked up m y p ho ne I heard, Mr.
Pr ies t M r . Pr ies t Lis ten And a ft er a
moment, Did yo u hear if? Did yo u hear
t
What I heard
wa s
o u r
E th io p ia n
r a d i o
p r o g r a m . T hi s w as t he s am e
program t h a t w as written in our home
in Ke nya ...
translated
in our office ...
recorded in ou r home studio ...
sent
by
to
FEBA radio
i n t he
SeycheUe
Is lands .. . t r ansmi t ted to th e a ir
w a v e s
from there ...
received in
Iowa City on a
short-wave radio
... picked
up
by a
-telephone receiver
... s e nt to a
satellite
...
then
received by a
Kenyan
satellite
dish
... transferred to
th e
local
phone
exchange ... and to m y e ar .
Quite an interesting circuit, wouldn t
y ou s ay ?
F ro m O u r
H o m e
in
Kenya
^
=>=>=> To Our H o m e in K e n y a
About th e only thin g n ot to
get
included
i n t he whole process
wa s
the
kitchen
s ink
and a fa x
m a c h i n e .
D o u g and M a r g e
Th e
program
wa s
written on a computer
recorded on a reel-to-reel
tape recorder
mixed on a 12 -ch anne l m ix e r
copied onto a cassette tape
taken
to th e
post
office in a 1982 Honda
C i v i c
mailed by
registered mail in a special
envelope
flown to
th e
Seychelles on a
je t
ru n
through a 10 0
KW transmitter
bounced from the ozone layer to earth, I
don t
know
ho w many times
p ut
through
several amplifiers
converted to electrical impulses
changed
into
sound waves
absorbed into the I ow a C it y p ho ne
exchange
t h en sho t
to
a sate l l i te
and
finally
f lung bac k ove r
to
this
part
of
the
world a gain.
(I sure wish we
could
have included a
fa x
machine some way. Ha. _ _ _ . _
Man
But
we live in a
wondrous
age.
W h a t
a
fabulous
opportunity
God
h as provided
for
th e
p ro c la ma tio n of
th e gospel.
And th e
meaning
of all this is that
men s
lives ar e being
changed
an d people ar e
being
brought
to
Christ.
L et m e
share
with
you some
responses
from
those who
have
also
been
part of th e
complete circuit in
Ethiopia
w it h t he
Jo y
Program
broadcasts:
Gentlemen,
I would like to greet you warmly like old friends, an d thank your programs for I have
been your customer since th e morning your program started. In fact what I want to tell
you is please, I am
native speaker
of
this language an d
also
know
very well
th e
psychological makeup
of
my society.
Really
your
program
seems
that
it wa s
produced by a ma n who knows very well about
ou r
society. Really,
he is
a very good
engineer with
good talent. In addition, to this,
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Dear
Sir,
|
I have tried to followup your beautiful radio programme in
the
Borana dialect, which is
a part ofyour Oromo
Programmes.
j i
I appreciateyour tactful approach to theBor^a in their own wayofthinking,culture,
history,
socio-political
system,
{Gada) Folk
t^les,
and
gospel
in theirown way, you
understand
their
concept
of
the
existence
of
i jk d.
To
say
itinplain
terms, you
are doing a
real
^ood
job.
I
have
a
belief
that you cangetthings
throu^ very easily
and smoothly. Ifthe same
method is applied at field work, I assure you mat you
can
see your effort to be a
su ess
I wish you success.
Thank you.
The writer of this
letter
wa^ a former district\governor and
was
a man of
much
influence
and
respect.)
Some day
I
hope
to
meetmany
of
our
listeners^
way
above
th e
ozone layer,
in heaven.
Thanks for sharing with us in this ministry.
Your partners
in broadcasting
the gospel,
Doug and
Marge Priest
Yes,
Doug
and Marge
I want to
help
complete the gospel
circuit for Itihe Borana-speaking people
ofEthiopia by
Enclosing
a
one-time
gift of 15, 2^,
50,
other .
Committing
byJune30,
1^1.
Praying for the broadcasts andthe listener^.
N am e
Addre ss
City
State
ZIP
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KENYA
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ETHIOPIA
RADIO
D o u g
M a r g e
P r i e s t
P O
B O X 2 1 6 0 4
N a i r o b i K e n y a
A F R I C A
J u n e 1991
PLEASE PRAY FOR JULY 24,1991
On September 4, 1990, God gave us
the
opportunity to begin broadcasting
two thirty-minute programs a week to
the Borana-speaking people of
Ethiopia
A
large
percentage
o f t h es e
people have
t ies
to
th e
I s lamic
faith. They
bel ieve t h a t
J e s u s w a s a
prophet but
do n o t
accept Him
a s
th e S o n
o f
God.
We felt that if
we
began
broadcasting
programs centered around
Jesus
that
many
would
refuse to l is ten.
So
we
decided
to
first present basic
Bible
teachings concerning
the attr ibutes of
God,
the creation,
the fall ofman,
death entering the
world,
the flood,
the
call
ofAbraham, the o ther
patriarchs,
slavery
in Egypt,
Moses,
the wanderings, and the prophets.
(These events a ll leading up to
the
entrance of
Jesus
upon the scene.)
Doug
and
Marge
On
July 24,1991, all of this will
change,
and
we
will speak for the
first
time
in o ur songs, prayers,
and
teaching about
Jesus.
A key
paragraph in
this
particular program
will be:
Those whostudy God's Word closely
have
said
that there are
more
than
300
propheciesgiven about the
Messiah of
God. They were all fulfilled in
the
life
ofone
person who lived
about
2,000
years ago.
His name was Jesus of
Nazareth. He was
the one ofwhom the
prophets spoke.
He was
the
one God
promised
to
Abraham
when God
said,
From
your
seed
will come one who
will
bless all the nations of the world.
He was
the
one
God
had
planned
in
the
very beginning to send to this
earth
to save
men from their sins.
O ur in troduc t ion of Jesus will be af ter
a lmost eleven months ofBorana
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decision and
we
ask you to also pray fo r t
Oromo and Borana
people.
PRAY FO R O TH ER MISSIONARIES
programs. Our hope
and
prayer is that our Usteners will be ready to hear about
Jesus when the time comes. We hope that many will believe in Him and make
Him
their Lord. We hope that i n the near future there will be baptized
believers
meeting
in
homes
a nd u nd er trees and in time in
tlieir
own church buildings.
PLEASE PRAY FO R R E S PO N S IV E H E AR T S
Pray
that
the
Holy
Spirit
will touch
the hearts
of
our
listeners
and
that
they
will
make
a
positive
response to
th e
message o f Jesus. Pray that
their hearts
will be
opened to the t ruth .
PRAY
A PRAYER
OF THANKSGIVING
On
May
1 1991 Barrel and
Sharlene
Hoffmaster
left
their five year ministry with
the
Maasai
of Kenya to enter the radio work with us. We praise God for their
lem
a s t he y s ha re the gospe l now
with the
Please
pray
also
that
God will
raise up
at
and help.
They
are needed
immediately.
least
another
missionary couple
to
come
Yours
in
Him
| O L^
Douglas D. Priest
6/91
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