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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

mail

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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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

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