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YEMEN OMAN SAUDI ARABIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES QATAR BAHRAIN KUWAIT JORDAN ISRAEL LEBANON SYRIA IRAQ TURKEY CYPRUS IRAN AZERBAIJAN ARMENIA GEORGIA by Pam Osment O f all of my responsibilities at ORTV, one of my favorite tasks is answering the letters that come in from our many students around the world. One year ago, we received a letter from Seddigheh, a young woman in Iran. She wrote to tell us how much she and her niece Ziba were enjoying watching our programs via satellite. Imagine our surprise to learn that Let’s Talk in English and Studio Classroom Coffee Corner were being beamed to Iran! Over the past year, Seddigheh and I have struck up an e-mail friendship that continues still today. It’s always a joy hearing from her because of her enthusiasm matched with an unquenchable zeal for learning English. Seddigheh and Ziba have a common goal: They hope to be teachers and manage an English institute in their city. To help them make progress toward that goal, ORTV, along with one of our board members, Norm Dalke, sent magazines, CDs, MP3s and the Jeff and Jenny series to help them get started. The young women have started a small class teaching English to some of the neighborhood children. I’m grateful to know that through our magazines and programs, we’re able to touch lives in places that we may never have the opportunity to visit and are officially closed to a missionary presence. ORTV’s Reach Extends Into Iran Pam Osment served in Taiwan for 15 years with her husband, Pastor Mike Osment, before moving back to the States in 2003. Pam now works for ORTV from her home in North Carolina. A Review of July-September 2004 Seddigheh and Ziba holding ORTV’s Jeff and Jenny’s World
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ORTV Pictorial 2004 Q3
Transcript of ORTV Pictorial 2004 Q3
YEMEN
OMAN
SAUDI ARABIAUNITED ARAB EMIRATES
QATAR
BAHRAIN
KUWAIT
JORDANISRAEL
LEBANON
SYRIA
IRAQ
TURKEY
CYPRUS
IRAN
AZERBAIJANARMENIA
GEORGIAPoti
Baku
by Pam Osment
Of all of my responsibilities at ORTV, one of my favorite tasks is answering the letters that come in from our many students around the world. One year ago, we received
a letter from Seddigheh, a young woman in Iran. She wrote to tell us how much she and her niece Ziba were enjoying watching our programs via satellite. Imagine our surprise to learn that Let’s Talk in English and Studio Classroom Coffee Corner were being beamed to Iran! Over the past year, Seddigheh and I have struck up an e-mail friendship that continues still today. It’s always a joy hearing from her because of her enthusiasm matched with an unquenchable zeal for learning English. Seddigheh and Ziba have a common goal: They hope to be teachers and manage an English institute in their city. To help them make progress toward that goal, ORTV, along with one of our board members, Norm Dalke, sent magazines, CDs, MP3s and the Jeff and Jenny series to help them get started. The young women have started a small class teaching English to some of the neighborhood children. I’m grateful to know that through our magazines and programs, we’re able to touch lives in places that we may never have the opportunity to visit and are offi cially closed to a missionary presence.
ORTV’s Reach Extends Into Iran
Pam Osment served in Taiwan for 15 years with her husband, Pastor Mike Osment, before moving back to the States in 2003. Pam now works for ORTV from her home in North Carolina.
A Review of July-September 2004
Seddigheh and Ziba holding ORTV’s Jeff and Jenny’s World
Christian Music Conference 2004
Heavenly Melody Releases Its Latest Taiwanese Album
Heavenly Melody on Tour
Christian Music Christian Music
From September 3-5, 2004, wor-ship leaders, instrumentalists
and singers from Chinese churches all over the world congregated in San Francisco. They attended this year’s Christian Music Conference to learn more about Christian music and how to use their talents to glorify God through music. www.cm2004.org Many distinguished experts led seminars on worship leading, vocal and instrumental training, song writ-ing and audio engineering. ORTV’s CEO Doris Brougham conducted two seminars on ministry expansion and leading worship with a servant’s heart. Heavenly Melody’s Esther Liao also led a seminar on vocal techniques. As well as the seminars, the attend-ees were treated to two evening wor-ship concerts where all the speakers performed and everyone worshiped together. Heavenly Melody, who were in California for their North American tour, also performed in this concert.
The Heavenly Melody Singers have just fi nished re-cording their 18th album of original songs, a Tai-
wanese album entitled “The Arena of Life.” It includes songs with a contemporary fl avor along with many in the traditional Taiwanese music style. The album fo-cuses on the Heavenly Father’s love and how lives can be changed when people come back to Him.
Heavenly Melody toured the U.S. and Canada from August 12 to September 10.
As well as ministering in churches, they also performed at the Christian Music Conference 2004 and participated in a series of concerts called “Power to Change” in Los Angeles.
Cross-Strait Teachers Camp in Beijing
Six Studio Classroom teachers (Liz and Phil Archer, Rachel and Matt Sawatzky, Hazel Johansen and Steve Marth) led the
“Cross-Strait English Teachers’ Camp” in Beijing August 15-21. Arrangements were made jointly by Studio Classroom’s Beijing branch offi ce and Taipei headquarters. Camp participants included over 50 teachers from both Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland. Studio Classroom (SC) teachers gave presentations on using Let’s Talk In English and Studio Classroom as well as teaching theory and practice. There were many opportunities for the Taiwan and Chinese Main-land teachers to exchange ideas with each other about teaching. More importantly it was a chance for both sides to better understand each other. With God’s grace, each of the six SC tea-chers had the opportunity to share directly about the importance of Christ in their life and teaching. Teacher Phil Archer commented, “It was wonderful to see the Taiwan and Chinese Mainland teachers together and to be able to share our English teaching and belief in Jesus with them.” Studio Classroom will follow up on this important work through con-
tact with these teachers in Taiwan and the Chi-nese Mainland. Please keep this Studio Class-room teaching services ministry to Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland in your prayers.
called “Power to Change” in Los Angeles.
Heavenly Melody on Tour ORTV and HCJB (Heralding Christ Jesus’ Blessings) World Radio have been of
like mind and worked together on projects for several decades. Now the two organizations take things to the next level—with digital shortwave radio. HCJB World Radio has already been broadcasting to countless countries around the world using international shortwave, spreading the gospel in more than 100 languages and dialects. But until recently, one huge part of the world remained unreached by their broadcasts—the 10/40 window (mainly Mainland China, North Korea and Central Asia). Now, with a new shortwave transmission tower in northern Australia, HCJB World Radio is ready to broadcast the gospel without re-striction to these unreached countries. HCJB World Radio representatives met with ORTV leaders in July to discuss how both organizations could work together to make the most of this exciting opportunity. Beginning this fall, HCJB is broadcasting ORTV’s Studio Classroom English-teaching program and Sunday Break gospel program. When HCJB adds a second transmitter, they will be able to broadcast ORTV’s whole range of English-teaching programs and gospel programs in Mandarin, Fujianese and possibly other languages. ORTV asks for your prayers as we continue seeking God’s direction for this project, as well as gifts from you, our sponsors and partners in this endeavor to build God’s Kingdom.
Recent Visitors to ORTV
ORTV and HCJB Radio Join Forces
HCJB AUSTRALIA-INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST COVERAGE- MAY 2004
Programs relayed to Kununurra for
broadcast
East Asia Broadcast
South Asia Broadcast
South Pacifi c Broadcast
Programs in Cromo Language Programs produced
in Melbourne Studios
The staff at ORTV headquarters meet daily for worship and prayer. We were blessed on this particular morning when Jamaican pianist Huntley Brown led worship. He brought his brother’s family and some
friends from the Southern Baptist Mission Board to visit ORTV. ‚
Integrity Music’s co-founder Michael Cole-man visited ORTV August 6 with some of his
colleagues, including well-known worship leader Paul Wilbur. Energized after a fruitful week in Taipei training 700 Asian worship leaders, the Integrity team led ORTV staff in a rejuvenating worship and prayer session.‡
he staff at ORTV headquarters meet daily for worship and prayer. We were blessed on this particular
ntegrity Music’s co-founder Michael Cole-man visited ORTV August 6 with some of his
colleagues, including well-known worship leader Paul Wilbur. Energized after a fruitful week in Taipei training 700 Asian worship leaders, the Integrity team led ORTV staff in a rejuvenating
Open Airways
Shortwave radio is the main tool used by the People’s Republic of China’s Infor-mation Ministry. However, with this new partnership, shortwave radio will be used to tell about the love of Jesus Christ, uninhibited by censorship.
Jason and Michelle Roloff and their four children moved to St. Louis, Missouri, after two years at ORTV Headquarters in Taipei. Jason was involved in business, marketing and research development, as well as serving on the International Committee, working with the branch offi ces around the world. Jason plans to stay in-volved with ORTV while in
the States. “My plan is to assist in furthering the strategy in North America and to deepen an awareness of how people can be involved in ORTV’s ministries,” he said. Michelle worked part-time in the English Department. But
most of Michelle’s time has been spent raising three boys and one girl, all under the age of 6! “It was a great experience for our family to be in Taiwan,” Jason refl ects. “Immersion in a different culture is life-changing.”
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PICTORIAL is published four times per year by Overseas Radio & Television, Inc. ORTV’s mission is to bring the gospel to Chinese people worldwide through mass media communications.Founders: Doris Brougham, Lee and Dorothy HaggertyExecutive Director: Simon Hung Editor: Doris Brougham Writers: Melissa Tan, Amy KleinArt Director: Jessie Kao Design and Layout: John Mark Derbyshire Photographer: Jeff Chao
ORTV Says Goodbye to the Roloff Family
Linda Way was born in Taiwan, but immigrated with her family to California when she was eight years old. Her mother, Jennifer, is the treasurer of ORTV’s North American offi ce. Linda grew up listening to the Heavenly Melody Singers. Linda says, “I remembered praying that God would send me to serve at ORTV.” So after graduating this past June with a B.A. in Interna-tional Studies and Political Science at the Univer-sity of California, Irvine, she followed the Lord’s calling to serve at ORTV. She now serves in the English Department and is part of the Let’s Talk in English cast. Refl ecting on her fi rst weeks at ORTV, Linda says, “I feel completely embraced by the ORTV family and look forward to discovering the Lord’s path for me here.”
Linda Way was born in Taiwan, but immigrated
ORTV Welcomes Linda Way
Please continue to pray for Heavenly Melody as they begin a tour to the Philippines in
October. Also, Wesley Hsu, Tammy Lin and Eva Chiu will tour Singapore and Malaysia on their own, ministering in Chinese churches and per-forming songs from their trio album “God Loves People More Than Anything.”
Tammy, Eva and Wesley
Please continue to pray for Heavenly Melody
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