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Series Code: UBR
Program Code: UBR190002A
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00:01 Are you answering the call?
00:02 Well, stay tuned to meet a couple that is answering 00:04 God's call in two unique ways. 00:07 My name is Jason Bradley, 00:09 and you're watching Urban Report. 00:33 Hello and welcome to Urban Report, 00:35 my guests today are Eric and Marilyn Durant. 00:38 Eric is a Broadcast Engineer 00:40 and Marilyn is the Manager of 3ABN's Call Center. 00:43 Welcome to Urban Report, Eric and Marilyn. 00:46 It's our pleasure to be here, Jason. 00:47 I feel like you guys are far away so I'll wave, 00:53 but it's great to have you guys here, 00:55 you're no stranger to us here at 3ABN 00:58 and probably with our viewers too, 01:00 because you, Eric, 01:02 played Mullick on Workin' the Dream. 01:04 And you guys have also been 01:06 on 3ABN's Family Worship as well. 01:10 So I want to introduce 01:11 the Dare to Dream viewers to you, you guys 01:16 and get a little bit of your background. 01:18 Where were you raised, Eric? 01:20 Well, I was raised in Brooklyn, New York. 01:22 Okay. 01:23 We left Brooklyn when I was eight or nine years old, 01:26 and we moved to Queens. 01:28 Okay. 01:29 My father was an engineer for IBM, 01:32 and my mother worked for the postal system. 01:34 Okay. 01:35 And they were both Catholics, 01:37 right up until probably my fourth or fifth birthday 01:41 when things change, we started going 01:42 to Baptist Church at that point. 01:44 Okay. Okay. 01:46 And what about you, Marilyn? 01:49 I was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado. 01:53 And my mother worked for a local bank there, 01:57 and my father worked for a local steel mill. 02:01 Okay. 02:02 And raised in the Baptist Church. 02:06 Okay, so, so both of you were raised Baptist. 02:10 But now you're Adventist. 02:11 Now we're Adventist. 02:13 We're gonna get to that part of the story, 02:14 the conversion story and all of that stuff. 02:17 It's a praise the Lord moment. 02:18 Yes, yes. 02:20 And how did you guys meet each other? 02:22 We met in Denver, Colorado. 02:24 Might just got out of the military 02:26 maybe six months earlier. 02:27 Okay. 02:28 And getting to Colorado 02:30 when you first got out the military as a Christian 02:32 is challenging when you're in the dating environment. 02:35 It's hard to find genuine Christians. 02:38 You know, as a young man, I was in my early 30s. 02:42 And I was looking around 02:44 and I just couldn't find anybody 02:45 that matched my values, my Christian values. 02:48 It's the values that I just learned 02:50 as being an Adventist 02:51 because I got baptized and then I got honorably discharged 02:55 from the military six months later, 02:57 so I was a brand new Adventist. 02:59 I had the Adventist heart, the Adventist mind. 03:03 And finding a Christian female that shared those, 03:06 that philosophy was difficult. 03:09 Now unpack that, you said the Adventist heart, 03:11 the Adventist mind, what do you mean by that? 03:13 It is a dedication for the truth. 03:17 Okay. 03:18 It's living that dedication for the truth. 03:22 It's staying away from the things 03:24 that pollute your heart, pollute your mind. 03:28 And I found that a lot of the people that I dated, 03:31 they were, they were marginal Christians. 03:35 They were cultural Christians. 03:38 And at that point in my life, I was beyond that, 03:40 I didn't want a marginal, cultural, 03:44 I needed someone that was dedicated as I was 03:46 because I knew that I'd be leaning on her. 03:49 And she'd be leaning on me as we move towards Jesus. 03:52 Nice. Nice. Yeah. 03:53 So in other words, when you say the marginal Christian, 03:56 you mean like one that's conveniently Christian, 03:59 or, you know, fitting Christianity 04:01 around their personal lifestyle preferences 04:04 and all of that stuff. 04:06 That's right. 04:07 I wanted the Christian 04:09 who their life revolved around their Christianity. 04:12 And at the time everybody I met, 04:16 basically, their Christianity was out on the... 04:19 Far out in orbit somewhere 04:21 and their heart revolved around their music 04:23 or revolved around their career. 04:27 They had idols that I didn't agree with, 04:29 as far as media people, entertainers, things like that. 04:34 Okay. 04:35 And I don't know if I should tell this story, 04:37 but it's an interesting one. 04:39 Finally, really settled my mind on going the route that I went, 04:44 which was, I went to an online dating service. 04:46 Okay. 04:47 And what made me do that 04:49 was the final person I went out on the date with, 04:52 and she brought a doll with her. 04:54 And she said that 04:55 I said, it's kinda odd, this doll sitting here. 04:58 I said, "What's this doll." 05:00 And she said that, 05:02 she used this doll prior for a few days 05:05 prior to our date. 05:06 And it was her way of bonding with her dates before the date. 05:11 And it turned out that she was a voodoo Christian 05:15 mix sort of thing. 05:17 Wait a minute, she used a doll to bond with her...? 05:22 Dates. 05:23 Dates, before she went out with her dates. 05:25 That's right. 05:26 And then she brought the doll along 05:28 and turned out talking to her later on 05:30 that she was some strange mix 05:31 between voodoo and Christianity. 05:34 And I said to myself, 05:37 it's time to try another method. 05:38 And I went to an online service where I put in certain things, 05:42 Christian and certain things, and... 05:44 And where did you meet her again? 05:46 In Denver. 05:48 In Denver, just like, 05:49 you just kind of ran into her and... 05:51 Yeah, is actually it was a supermarket. 05:53 Wow! 05:54 Yeah, it was a supermarket and we just started talking, 05:57 and we swap numbers 05:59 and we agreed to meet at a restaurant. 06:01 Okay. 06:02 And in a few days, you know, that's where we met. 06:06 Wow, I'm glad you ended up with Marilyn as your bride 06:09 by your side. 06:10 Praise the Lord. 06:12 Now, I hope that lady is out 06:13 of what she was practicing before for, 06:15 you know, the sake of her soul and all that stuff. 06:17 But I'm glad that Marilyn is your bride. 06:20 Amen. Yes, yes. 06:22 So, Marilyn, during this time, prior to meeting online, 06:26 where were you at in your life? 06:28 I was living in Denver and going to college 06:34 and just working 06:37 and at the time my stepfather had passed away. 06:41 And so I was going back and forth to Pueblo 06:45 to be with my mom 06:46 and my girlfriend and her husband 06:50 at the time felt like you need somebody in your life. 06:53 And her husband heard about this online dating service. 06:57 And I didn't want to do it. 06:59 So my excuse was, 07:02 I'm going to see my mom and I can't do it. 07:05 And finally, one weekend, I made the mistake. 07:07 Well, now, looking back, it's not a mistake. 07:10 But I said, she asked, "What was I doing?" 07:14 And I told her, I said, "Oh, I'll be here this weekend. 07:17 Did you want to do something?" "Oh, great. 07:19 Now you can come and fill out 07:21 this questionnaire for the online dating." 07:24 And I thought, "Ah, I messed up" 07:27 'cause, you know, I didn't want to go that route. 07:29 But I did and praise the Lord that I did, 07:32 because I met my husband. 07:34 Amen. 07:36 And the interesting thing is, I was the first, 07:38 she was the first person that came up in the list. 07:41 Yeah. 07:42 And I ended up marrying her, there was nobody else. 07:45 Wow. 07:46 And he was the first one that I responded to. 07:50 So it was providential. 07:51 So like, what, what did that look like? 07:53 Like, okay, so you have the online dating thing, 07:55 you met online. 07:56 She was the first one that came up, 07:58 and then you reached out to her 08:00 and send her a note and just said, like, 08:03 you know, let's get married or how, what happened? 08:06 What happened there? 08:07 If I remember, right, it was, um, 08:10 we commerce text message wise, through the service, 08:14 and then went back and forth for a few weeks. 08:16 Yes. 08:18 And I had to convince her to go out with me. 08:20 Okay. 08:21 So it took a bit of convincing. 08:22 Okay. 08:24 I basically begged and eventually she said yes. 08:29 And we had our first date. 08:31 Nice, nice. 08:33 How long have you guys been married? 08:35 We've been married since March 18 of 2006. 08:40 Wow, wow. Praise the Lord. 08:43 So what's the, 08:44 you know, for those couples that are out there 08:47 that are considering getting married, 08:49 and all of those things. 08:50 What has been the glue in your marriage, so to speak, 08:55 what has helped you guys to make it this far? 08:58 I have to insist that it's Jesus. 09:01 Amen. 09:04 In any relationship, 09:05 you have to have open lines of communication. 09:08 And I look at marriage as a three way marriage, 09:12 it's you, Jesus and your wife, 09:15 and you're all communicating together. 09:17 And when that communication stops, 09:19 such as prayer, 09:21 or communicating with your spouse, 09:23 when that stops, things start to decay. 09:26 So we make sure 09:28 that we always keep the lines of communication open. 09:31 We pray to Jesus and we talk and we we pray together. 09:35 And that's the secret. 09:38 So in other words, like as you draw closer to Christ, 09:41 you guys draw closer to each other. 09:44 Absolutely. Yes. 09:45 Absolutely. Yes, nice. 09:47 Now, Eric, you were in the military. 09:50 And when you got out of the military, 09:51 what did you do for work? 09:54 Well, I went into the military as... 09:56 When I joined, I was a commercial pilot, 09:59 and I spent 12 years active duty 10:03 and during that time in the service, 10:05 I was involved in research and development 10:07 and flight test. 10:08 Okay. 10:10 And that led to my career after the military in 2002, 10:15 when I moved to Denver. 10:16 I started working with Boeing as an engineer. 10:19 Okay. 10:20 Yeah, and we worked a lot of missile defense programs 10:22 and things like that. 10:23 Wow. 10:25 So my education and my experience 10:26 through the military led to my career with Boeing, 10:30 which was completely a blessing. 10:33 I never interviewed for that job. 10:36 And there's a lot of companies out there. 10:39 And I always, since I was a child, 10:41 I always wanted to work for Boeing, 10:42 because they're the big name. 10:44 Yes. 10:45 And so when I got to Colorado, 10:47 someone just spotted me and they said, 10:51 "We see you working, we know of your performance, 10:54 would you like to work for the Boeing Company?" 10:56 And they knew my track record from the military and so forth. 10:59 And I said absolutely. 11:02 And it was as easy as that. 11:04 And how was it 11:06 as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, 11:08 how was that working there 11:10 like how did you keep the Sabbath, 11:12 how did that work? 11:14 Keeping the Sabbath for me was mandatory, 11:17 and one of the nice things about the job 11:19 that I had was um... 11:21 We only worked five days a week, 11:24 we didn't work weekends. 11:26 There are a lot of careers. 11:27 One of the reasons 11:28 why I never went the airline pilot route 11:30 is because the airline pilots don't have the option, 11:33 they have to fly seven days a week. 11:35 Got you. 11:37 So I stopped that, 11:38 I went into engineering 11:39 and because generally you can set your schedule a lot better. 11:45 And, Marilyn, what about you, what were you doing work wise? 11:49 I was an account reconciler for a company named First Data. 11:54 Okay. 11:56 And I... 11:58 That's what I was doing during that time. 12:00 Nice. 12:01 And so what brought you guys to 3ABN? 12:04 Well, 12:06 throughout my whole life, 12:08 God's been talking to me, 12:10 you know, I started out as a gang member, 12:16 believe it or not. 12:17 And even during that period of time, 12:21 I always had a spirit of caring about people. 12:27 You know, I never robbed anyone. 12:29 I never dealt drugs. 12:31 I never tried to physically hurt people. 12:37 And I always wondered why, 12:39 you know, I was always, they used to call me, 12:41 they'd call me quite a few different names. 12:43 One of the names that they call me was preacher. 12:45 Okay. 12:46 My doctrine wasn't there. 12:48 I didn't know anything about Seventh-day Adventist theology, 12:50 but I was always preaching to people. 12:51 So I always had that spirit. 12:53 And, of course, you get sidetracked in life. 12:56 And eventually, we had a life event 13:00 in 2005, 2006. 13:07 Marilyn got a phone call one night, and... 13:11 No, she didn't actually get a phone call. 13:13 She called her mother. 13:15 Okay. 13:16 And no one picked up 13:18 and Marilyn started to get upset. 13:21 And I said, "No, everything's fine." 13:22 Well, it turned out, her mother passed away in her sleep. 13:26 And month and a half later, after that, 13:30 both of my parents died, 13:32 they died a week apart. 13:34 Both of your parents? 13:36 They both passed away. 13:37 So in the span of a month and a half, 13:39 we had three close family members die. 13:42 And when that happens, you start asking questions like 13:45 what's going on, you know, it's very, very traumatic. 13:49 And during that time, 13:51 I was working for Boeing in Seattle. 13:54 And I started hearing this... 13:57 I wouldn't say was a voice 13:58 but was a very strong impression. 14:00 And it kept saying, it's time, it's time, it's time. 14:04 And I'm sitting in meetings, 14:05 board meetings and things like that 14:07 and I'm hearing it's time. 14:08 Eventually, I got frustrated 14:10 after about the week and a half of hearing this. 14:11 I said, "What's going on, Lord, you know, what is this? 14:15 What is this impression that I'm getting?" 14:17 And it was late at night when I said that prayer. 14:20 And the next morning, there was an email from 3ABN 14:24 to come and work for 3ABN. 14:26 Wow! 14:28 And we came out, we didn't interview, 14:31 and we decided that it really wasn't for us. 14:36 And I prayed another prayer, 14:37 I said, "Lord, 14:38 you know, if this is really what You want, 14:40 Your will be done above anything else." 14:44 And right after that prayer... 14:46 And this prayer was may be a week and half later, 14:48 right after this prayer, 14:50 Moses Primo who is my boss now, he called on the phone. 14:54 And so, I said, "Okay, we'll think about it." 15:00 In another week or two past, 15:01 and I'm struggling 15:03 because right then we were planning on retiring 15:05 and semi retiring and moving down to Texas. 15:08 And I said another prayer, 15:10 I'm fighting inside and I said, "Lord, 15:11 you know, if this is really what You want, 15:14 I'll do whatever You want." 15:17 And right after that prayer, Moses calls again. 15:20 Wow! 15:21 And I always remembered when I was a kid, 15:25 I read a story in the Bible of the rich, young ruler. 15:30 And I always remember saying to myself, 15:32 I'm a teenager, in the gangs. 15:35 My mother gave a Bible, 15:37 and that's one of the first verses 15:40 that I've read and I remember saying to myself, 15:42 I will never do that. 15:44 How could you turn your back on Christ for the world? 15:47 And so when I started deciding 15:51 that we weren't coming to 3ABN, 15:54 the rooster started crowing. 15:57 Wow! 15:59 And as very convicted 16:01 and so it turned after the third phone call, 16:04 we decided that we were gonna stop our move, 16:06 we were mid-way through our moving, 16:08 to our Cinco Ranch, Texas. 16:10 We decided to stop and come to work for 3ABN 16:14 because it's what the Lord wanted us to do. 16:17 Yeah, so your answered the call. 16:19 The call was quite persistent from what it sounds like. 16:24 Yes. 16:25 And I'm sure you were praying as well, I would imagine. 16:28 Yes. 16:30 So what position did you take on, Marilyn, 16:33 when you came to 3ABN? 16:36 Well, when we first got here, 16:38 I had no intentions on working. I was just coming for Eric. 16:43 And three months later, Mollie called and said, 16:47 "What are your plans?" 16:48 And I said, "Well, I don't know, 16:50 I'm just here waiting for Eric to get home." 16:52 And she said, "Would you like a job?" 16:54 And I said, "Sure!" 16:56 And so I came here 16:57 as the assistant call center manager 17:01 and here I am today. 17:03 And now you are the manager of the call center. 17:07 And what does a typical day look like for you, 17:09 if there is a typical day? 17:12 There is not a typical day. 17:14 There's a lot of... 17:17 We deal with shipping and receiving, 17:19 I deal with vendors when they need product, 17:22 and ordering products for 3ABN. 17:25 And so there is no typical day. 17:30 It's kind of random, 17:32 whatever happens that day, you have to deal with. 17:35 You guys get to interact 17:36 with all the viewers that call in. 17:37 The viewers, we get people that walk in, 17:41 you deal with walk-ins, 17:43 and I also have to deal with our shipping 17:48 like, FedEx 17:49 and things like that USPS and so, yeah. 17:53 In other words, you're very busy over there. 17:55 We are very busy. 17:56 Yes. Yes. Absolutely. 17:58 And, Eric, what's a... 18:00 First off, what does a broadcast engineer do? 18:04 And then, what's your day look like? 18:08 Well, a broadcast engineer at 3ABN, 18:10 our basic responsibility, 18:12 really our primary responsibility 18:14 is keeping 3ABN on the air 24 hours a day, 18:17 and seven days a week. 18:19 That means, 18:20 our internet streams keeping those up. 18:22 It's a huge task. 18:23 Our satellite streams, keeping those up, 18:26 over the air from our uplinks, keeping those up, 18:29 so people can put the rabbit ears up 18:31 and get us over on their television sets. 18:33 So that's our main role. 18:35 There's a lot of systems involved in doing that. 18:37 There's a lot of fiber optics. 18:39 Our job is to keep those running. 18:42 And just like your car, your automobile, 18:44 sometime it wants to run, 18:46 sometimes it doesn't want to run. 18:48 And our job is to make it run. 18:50 Wow! 18:51 Yeah, and we keep you guys pretty busy in that department. 18:55 We stay very, very busy. Absolutely. 18:57 Yeah, my typical day is usually... 19:00 We have projects. Okay. 19:02 And we have a central project, 19:04 let's say, 19:05 I need to repair a device 19:08 or spectrum analyzer or stuff like that, 19:09 and I've been working on that couple of days, 19:11 that's my project for the time. 19:12 But we also have other things that happen, 19:14 we have emergencies. 19:15 Sometimes a channel goes off the air. 19:17 Sometimes someone's equipments breaks, 19:19 their computer breaks or something like that. 19:21 So my day revolved around my project. 19:25 We have, like I said, 19:27 emergencies that we have to tackle. 19:29 Also I'm working on the... 19:31 I'm the primary software engineer 19:34 for the mySDAtv. 19:35 Tell us about the mySDAtv box. 19:37 What is the mySDAtv box for those viewers 19:40 that don't know? 19:42 Okay. Moses Primo is the manager. 19:45 We had an engineer few years back 19:48 and he worked on the mySDAtv 1, it's the black box. 19:53 He ended up leaving, going to another ministry 19:55 and I decided... 19:57 I felt impressed to volunteer to step in 20:00 and develop the mySDA 2 which is the blue box. 20:06 So that involves a lot of coding, 20:07 a lot of work, a lot of maintenance. 20:10 But it's a volunteer effort, it's a work of the heart. 20:13 I think it's very important for 3ABN 20:15 to spread around the world. 20:17 I know that IP internet is the new medium, 20:20 the primary medium for sharing media content. 20:24 And I knew that this is what the Lord wanted me to do, 20:27 so I started on the box about two years ago. 20:30 And Moses Primo has been very happy 20:33 and impressed with the product. 20:35 And every time he says that I praise the Lord, 20:37 because I know people are being blessed by, 20:39 which is why I did it. 20:41 So basically the mySDAtv box is a streaming device, 20:44 in which people can access 3ABN 20:48 as well as some other ministries... 20:50 They're gonna access 3ABN, Dare to Dream, 3ABN Latino, 20:54 all of the 3ABN networks. 20:57 Right now, there's 25 channels. 20:59 Okay. 21:00 And there are 25 Adventist channels 21:03 from different ministries. 21:04 Nice, okay. 21:06 The big ministries are, you know, Amazing Facts, 21:09 Amazing Discoveries, Mission TV, Sum TV, 21:12 Stephen Bohr, a lot of content on there for any Christian. 21:17 And that's why I thought impressed to step in, 21:20 and to help Moses get this product to the people. 21:24 A lot of wholesome content. 21:26 How do you guys now, you know, of course, 21:29 we work in a ministry, so guys involved in everything, 21:32 but how do you incorporate God in the workplace? 21:37 Marilyn, we'll start with you. 21:39 Well, each day we start our day with morning worship, 21:44 that's important, 21:45 because you have to have a foundation, the start. 21:49 It can be stressful, 21:51 you can have a stressful day and to start your day in Jesus, 21:55 just builds for the rest of the day. 22:00 And then we have prayer. 22:02 So that's how we incorporate and we always try to strive 22:07 to be Christ like in our manner, 22:10 when we're communicating with the customers 22:13 and whoever we come in contact with. 22:16 Nice, nice. 22:18 What about you, Eric? 22:19 Yeah, ministry is a marriage. 22:21 It's a marriage between you and the ministry and Christ. 22:24 Once again it's that three way marriage. 22:28 You have to start every morning with prayer, 22:31 just like in a marriage with my wife, Marilyn. 22:33 You have to start the morning with prayer. 22:37 Ministry is a labor of love. 22:40 You're not expecting to get rewards, 22:42 financial gain, things like that. 22:46 And it's a relationship 22:48 and so every relationship prayer, 22:53 friendship, communication. 22:54 That's my motto, prayer, friendship and communication. 22:58 Nice. Nice. Yeah. 23:00 And how long have you been with 3ABN? 23:02 We've been with 3ABN, five years. 23:04 Five years? Five years. 23:06 Wow! 23:07 Time flies when you're having fun. 23:09 That's right. 23:10 It's the same, 23:12 I've been here for five years too. 23:17 Okay, so now I walk into your office, 23:20 and I see you coding, and then I see you working, 23:22 you have this workstation over here, 23:25 all of these things, so it seems like, 23:28 prayer really helps to get you through your day 23:30 from what I'm hearing from here 23:33 and I go to the call center 23:35 and I see all these orders getting ready to go out. 23:38 I hear the phones, phones ringing. 23:40 I see the warehouse and all of these things 23:44 like keeping up 23:47 with what you guys do here in this ministry, 23:52 it's amazing. 23:54 You guys are a blessing to this ministry, 23:57 and I'm glad 23:59 that both of you answered the two unique callings 24:03 that were placed on both of your lives. 24:05 Amen. Amen. 24:07 You know, and it's good to see that you're incorporating God 24:12 in the workplace because even in ministry, 24:14 you know, sometimes people will... 24:17 It's like you get so caught up in the act of doing 24:21 that you sometimes lose sight of that relationship. 24:24 You have to incorporate God when you're in the ministry. 24:28 And I'll give you a quick example. 24:30 I'm not a software programmer. 24:32 My background is electrical engineering. 24:35 When I was in the military, I did flight test. 24:39 No programming involved. 24:40 When I took on the mySDAtv 2 for example, 24:45 I didn't know how to program in the language 24:47 that the mySDAtv had to be written in. 24:50 I did a lot of praying. 24:52 And there's a number of times where the Lord stepped in 24:55 to help me continue forward. 24:57 One quick example, I was stuck on one problem, 25:01 and I couldn't move any further forward, 25:03 I was stuck on this problem for almost three weeks. 25:06 And I pray the Lord and I said, 25:08 "You know, Lord, this is for you. 25:10 I'm not getting paid for this particular thing. 25:12 I'm volunteering my effort. 25:14 You need to help me out." 25:16 It's one of those sincere prayers, 25:17 because when you work on something that long, 25:19 you get frustrated after a while. 25:21 The next day, a young man from Africa walks in, 25:24 his name is Joseph. 25:26 And he says, "Can you help me, I'm an engineer from..." 25:30 I think it was Angola. 25:32 He said, "Can you help me with lighting and showing me, 25:35 how to work the cameras, 25:36 I want to start 25:38 my own little ministry in Africa." 25:41 And he looks over at my computer, he says, 25:42 "Oh, you program in Java." 25:46 As soon as I heard that, I said, 25:47 "How did you know I'm programming in Java?" 25:49 He says, "Well, I've been a Java programmer 25:51 for the last nine years." 25:53 Wow! 25:54 Right after I prayed that night before. 25:57 So it took me 10 minutes to explain the problem to him, 26:01 it took him three minutes to fix it. 26:04 And I move forward. 26:05 Praise the Lord. Wow! 26:07 Okay, so you prayed, you met Joseph, 26:11 nice biblical name too by the way. 26:12 He walked in the door... 26:14 Walked in the door, he saw, 26:16 you know, the coding and you know, 26:18 I walked by your office, 26:19 and I joke with you all the time about the code 26:21 and all that stuff, 26:22 but he saw the code and then he said, 26:25 okay you're programming Java, 26:28 you explain the situation, took 10 minutes... 26:30 Took 10 minutes. 26:31 To explain it, but it took him three minutes to fix it. 26:33 It took him three minutes to fix it. 26:34 He said, you do this, this and that, 26:36 and I was on my way, right after I prayed. 26:38 Wow! 26:39 And then we helped him out 26:41 with the cameras and the lighting. 26:42 Wow! 26:43 That's why I had to pray my way through this, 26:45 and the ministry like that is a product of prayer. 26:49 We have to pray our way through the ministry. 26:51 Absolutely. We face challenges every day. 26:52 Absolutely. 26:54 And it's through prayer and the love of Christ 26:56 that we get to where we're going. 26:57 Yes, you know what? 26:59 This is actually the year of prayer 27:01 here at 3ABN and, 27:05 you know, we're gonna be doing a lot of praying 27:08 and all those things. 27:09 We want the gospel to go around the world 27:12 and that definitely takes prayer for sure. 27:16 And thank you for everything 27:18 that you're doing in this ministry 27:20 to make sure that things stay afloat by God's grace, 27:24 you know, with getting the signal out 27:27 and working on the streams, 27:29 the IP streams and all these things. 27:31 I don't even know everything, 27:33 I don't even think you covered every single thing that you do. 27:36 But we're grateful for both of you 27:39 and what you do for this ministry. 27:40 Thank you. Amen. 27:41 You're welcome. It's my pleasure. 27:43 I can't believe our time is, it's pretty much up. 27:46 You know, this interview went by so fast. 27:49 Well, we've reached the end of another program. 27:52 Ask God, what He has for your life? 27:55 How you can get involved in ministry? 27:58 Remember to incorporate Him in everything that you do. 28:01 Thanks for tuning in. 28:03 Join us next time and remember, 28:04 it just wouldn't be the same without you. |
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