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00:05 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:15 ♪ I want to spend my life removing pain ♪ 00:26 ♪ Lord let my words heal a heart that hurts ♪ 00:36 ♪ I want to spend my life mending broken people ♪ 00:57 ♪ ♪ 01:07 Hello and welcome to another 3ABN Today program. I'm glad 01:10 that you took the time to join us. [Jason Bradley] And so I 01:13 have a question for you, I won't hear your answer but I have a 01:16 question for you anyway. Do you enjoy a good story? What about 01:21 the journey that someone goes through as they're giving their 01:27 heart to the Lord. Well if you do, you're going to want to 01:30 stick around because the guests that I will be conversing with 01:35 they will share some stories, some powerful stories, about how 01:42 people gave their lives to the Lord. So we're going to hear 01:46 from them in just a minute. Let me introduce them to you. We 01:50 have Daniel Pedley and you are the communications director of 01:55 Adverum Productions. (Right) It's great to have you here. 01:58 Next to you, we have your wife here, Antonella Pedley, Adverum 02:05 Productions writer and producer. It's great to have you here as 02:08 well. Yes and thank you for having us. 02:10 Oh, you're welcome. I want to get into your background. I always 02:15 like to talk to our guests about their upbringing 02:20 you know what life was like for them and how things were in the 02:25 faith and all of that. But before we dive into that and 02:28 find out all about this wonderful ministry we're going 02:33 to be blessed in song. Kendol Bacchus will be playing a song 02:36 entitled Shepherd of My Heart. 02:38 ♪ ♪ 08:16 Wow what a beautiful song. Shepherd of My Heart. Thank you 08:20 for blessing us in song Kendol Bacchus. Daniel, I want to 08:25 transition into your background and find out how long has Jesus 08:29 been the Shepherd of your heart and how did He grab ahold of 08:33 your life? 08:35 Mmm, Amen. Well I think I have to start like at the very 08:38 beginning at my birth and there were some complications and I 08:44 almost died actually at birth and then when I was five years 08:49 old I got run over by a car and miraculously survived. So these 08:59 two events really put an impression on my you know to me 09:04 I think God was really real to me. I felt like He had a plan 09:11 for my life. He had grabbed me like you say and it always. 09:20 Yeah, it always remained through my life even though I was 09:24 baptized when I was 16. I think back then and even now I have 09:31 that constant understanding that God loves me, He has a purpose 09:35 for me and it doesn't matter what other people are doing or 09:39 how they are behaving God is always constant, He's always 09:44 there. 09:46 Mm-hmm. It's interesting because the devil was trying to take you 09:49 out at an early age. He knew God had a great purpose for your 09:53 life. How did you go about discovering God's purpose for 09:57 your life? 09:59 Oh yeah, we don't have that much time to talk about that but I 10:06 believe just step by step He led me from one thing to another. He 10:13 put a burden on my heart to do mission work and I kind of 10:18 discovered on my journey that it was going to be in a creative 10:24 way. I'm a graphic designer and I enjoy visual communication and 10:32 I kind of pops into what we're doing with our ministry. 10:36 Yes, yes. We're going to talk all about that in just a moment 10:39 here. But Antonella tell us when God grabbed ahold of your life 10:44 and how you've been able to stay grounded in the faith. 10:49 Yes so I was born and raised in Romania which was a communist 10:53 country at that time. And my parents were Christians. They 10:58 were Adventists so I always knew about the faith. I always 11:02 believed. But of course my faith was challenged very early on 11:05 because at school I remember we had a biology teacher and I 11:11 guess the communist party had given her this mandate to try 11:14 to convert me to that side. So I remember her calling me out 11:19 and saying how can you believe in God. I mean isn't that such a 11:24 stupid idea. And I was young and I didn't always know what to say 11:29 So those kind of questions have I've always tried to find good 11:34 questions for people who ask me and challenge my... 11:37 Have good answers for the people that ask the questions. Gotcha. 11:39 And then when we moved, well we got married and we lived in 11:46 Western Europe I realized that there are people here also who 11:50 don't believe in God. In fact, a lot of people don't believe in 11:52 God. So I realized that we have to be able to give an answer to 11:58 the people who ask about faith (Absolutely) So that encouraged 12:03 me to educate myself about these things, about the 12:07 questions that people have. 12:09 Yes, yes. To study, learn, grow, share. All of that, yes. And how 12:14 did you two meet? 12:17 We actually met here in the United States. 12:20 Wow! Well praise the Lord, praise the Lord. How did Adverum 12:25 get started? 12:26 Yes well as I said, we had this idea or this feeling that people 12:34 around us didn't believe in God. And we wanted to be able to 12:38 share our faith with them. And I remember back in 2000 or so the 12:47 books of Richard Dawkins were coming out and there was a lot 12:50 of talk about that and the arguments he had against God. 12:54 And I remember I was talking and thinking how can we help people 12:59 ground their faith in the Bible. because a lot of people don't 13:07 believe in the Bible. A lot of the evangelistic methods that we 13:11 have they presuppose that people believe in the Bible. And 13:16 so what do you do when somebody does not believe in the Bible 13:18 that it is the word of God? 13:20 And so we kind of thought that or God put on our heart this 13:25 thought that we should help people to believe in the Bible, 13:30 to build up their trust in the Bible. So observe actually means 13:36 towards the truth. So helping people to gain or regain the 13:43 trust in the truthfulness of the Bible. 13:47 Nice, nice. I love that. And that is a question that a lot of 13:50 people have is where do we start You know you have to establish a 13:55 foundation. If they don't believe in the Bible where do 13:58 you start? So where did you start? How do you help people 14:03 to see the validity of the Bible if they don't believe in it? 14:08 Maybe we'll go a little step back. (Okay) So after we got 14:14 married we lived in Jersey which is an island. 14:18 Mm-hmm. Not New Jersey, yeah. 14:20 Old Jersey. (Okay gotcha) and we were the only Adventists on this 14:26 island. And we were there for four years. 14:30 What was that like? 14:31 It was very lonely, very lonely. (Yeah) In fact, we had yeah 14:41 because we were the only Adventists we tried to have some 14:44 Christian fellowship and we also got materials from different 14:50 ministries. We're watching those And then I think it's around 14:55 2000 that the Hot Bird 5 satellite, 3ABN came on Help Bud 15:01 Five and we got special permission from our landlord 15:05 to put a dish up and from that moment when he plugged 15:11 everything in, the technician and we saw 3ABN for the first 15:16 time. (Wow. Praise God) 15:19 Yes, that was a happy moment when we finally saw the image 15:22 there. And 3ABN became our church for about two or three 15:28 years. We were watching 3ABN every Sabbath and we realized 15:34 the importance of Christian media. It was such a tremendous 15:38 blessing in our life. So that thought was at the back of our 15:44 thoughts. And then we worked for a Christian television station 15:50 in Sweden and also again caught a vision for working with media. 15:56 And then that came together in Adverum Productions. 16:01 Yeah, so 2016 we started, we actually did our first 16:07 production in that summer and we'll have some slides later on 16:13 show you some of the things. We did... 16:19 Yeah, that'll be wonderful to look at. Would you say that it's 16:21 been a journey? 16:23 Absolutely, yeah. 16:24 A learning process. 16:25 Oh yeah. 16:27 Right. What are some challenges maybe that you faced along the 16:29 way? 16:30 Yeah well you know we've been doing this as a side project so 16:39 we have a commercial business that pays the bills and then 16:43 we're trying to do this kind of on the side. So I think that's 16:47 one of the challenges is we would like to do more but it's 16:52 like you have to get the bread on the table... 16:56 Yes, yes for sure. So you've been helping to fund the non 17:02 profit, the ministry by your business. (That's right) Wow. 17:07 That's tremendous. I'm hoping that our viewers and listeners 17:12 that are catching a vision will help fund as well so that you 17:17 could end up focusing on that full time. Is that something 17:21 that you're working towards is transitioning to full time 17:26 Adverum? 17:28 That'll be a dream come true. 17:29 Yeah, that'll be great, that'll be great. What's the vision and 17:36 mission of Adverum. I know that you said you know to get people 17:40 to basically recognize the validity of the Bible. But you 17:46 also have people that share their testimonies and all of 17:48 that stuff too. What's the vision and mission just as an 17:51 overarching thing? 17:53 So the mission of Adverum is to reach secular people, people who 17:58 do not believe in God at this point. And so we thought of what 18:04 medium to use. So we thought using media, Christian media is 18:10 something that God has impressed us to do. And we also like the 18:14 format of documentaries, many documentaries. (Why is that?) 18:20 So I don't know if you remember James Cameron, he is an acclaimed 18:27 film producer and such and I remember hearing the story how 18:30 he watched a documentary. It was a health documentary. And it 18:35 was talking about the advantages of a plant-based diet and how 18:38 after watching the documentary he went straight with his wife 18:41 to the kitchen and they cleaned out all non-plant-based food 18:46 So I thought this is amazing how just watching a documentary can 18:51 bring about change. So we have taken on this mode of doing or 18:58 trying to do documentaries to reach people through the gospel. 19:04 And we believe that documentaries should be well 19:10 researched, they should be content-rich and also quality in 19:16 production. 19:18 Absolutely. Now I know that it has to take a lot of moving 19:21 parts. Research takes time. And then actually filming the 19:25 production and doing all of that stuff. Hopefully, we'll get to 19:29 look at some members of the team and some behind-the-scenes stuff 19:32 a little bit later. But it takes a lot of moving parts, right? 19:36 Yes, and first we thought we should start with a project that 19:42 involves stories. So I have a relative who is not a believer 19:49 and we were having a lot of discussions about the faith, 19:54 about God and I remember at one point he said to me, There are 20:01 no people these days who become Christians. It's always the 20:04 other way around. There are Christians who become non 20:07 believers and especially not here in Western Europe, in the 20:12 western world or in Europe. And I kind of thought for a minute 20:16 and I took that as a challenge. So I thought, Of course there 20:22 are people who have given their lives to God and have become 20:26 believers. So I thought why don't we show that? So then 20:31 we came up with this idea of filming conversion stories of 20:35 people who were non-believers, did not believe in God, didn't 20:38 care about God or were agnostic, who have made the journeys to 20:43 become believers. Not just believers but very firm 20:47 believers and people who share their faith with others. 20:51 Yes, that's incredible the power of a testimony. 20:54 Yes and we have a trailer that shows the journeys like and so 21:03 maybe we can... 21:05 Absolutely, I love that. Let's check that out right now. 21:08 I was firmly convinced about evolutionism. I was also really 21:15 vocal against people who believed in God. 21:19 My young life was formed by criminality and later I went 21:26 into captivity. I have an inquisitive mind and I wondered 21:32 is there any truth in the Bible? 21:34 I had money to spend so I could afford expensive toys. I felt 21:39 happy and I had no interest in God. 21:45 ♪ ♪ 21:54 I'm an officer in the German Army. I'm not a church member. 21:59 but I would like to prepare to become baptized. 22:02 I decided to follow God. I have never regretted my 22:08 decision. 22:10 And I got convinced that God loves me and that he wrote the. 22:14 Bible. 22:16 So I testified publically that I wanted to be a follower of 22:21 Jesus. 22:25 ♪ ♪ 22:39 Wow, that's incredible. You know I believe that a lot of souls 22:43 will be won to the kingdom from people watching those 22:49 testimonies and seeing how God moved in the lives of other 22:52 people. How do you go about finding these interviews. 22:57 Yeah, God sends us people. He just...I mean we're 23:05 keeping our eyes open. But we meet someone or we just start 23:09 talking to someone. Like oh wow they have a story to share. And 23:14 what is neat is that these are not famous stories. They're just 23:19 ordinary people. And I think it's exciting to...that when you 23:26 uncover them and when you kind of see the transition point of 23:32 what sort of tipped them over, like what got them, yeah, 23:39 believing. 23:40 Yeah since the majority, the vast majority of these people 23:43 they are from Europe or live in Europe. In fact, most of them 23:48 don't even have English as their first language. So it shows that 23:53 God is in the business of miracles in secular Europe today 23:59 And also what is good about testimonies is that they are 24:08 incontrovertible as in you cannot argue against somebody's 24:13 testimony. That is what they experienced. That's how God has 24:17 worked in their lives. And they are unique. God works in a 24:24 unique way in people's lives. And also people can relate to 24:29 different testimonies. We sometimes talk to people and we 24:32 say which one did you like? And they all say a different one 24:37 because they can relate to different issues that are 24:41 brought up different experiences of people and also as we started 24:48 filming the different journeys we realized that there are side 24:52 issues that come up. For example evolution or drugs and 24:59 criminality, depression, spiritualism, new age, 25:05 environmentalism, speaking in tongues and they also create 25:08 another layer of interest... 25:11 Yeah, yeah. So are those some of the topics that you cover 25:15 as well? 25:17 Yeah, so the main topic is how these people made the journey 25:20 from being non-believers to believers, but then these issues 25:23 also come up, right. 25:24 Got you. And these are things that they're dealing with. (Yes) 25:27 Or that they dealt with prior to coming to Christ. 25:31 Okay, got you. Have you received any feedback? 25:35 Yeah, yeah, we have a YouTube channel and we see people 25:44 commenting there. We also have actually Spanish subtitles 25:51 I think. 25:53 Yeah so both classes have contacted us and asked us if 25:56 they can carry our programs and asked if they can dub them or 26:03 translate them into different languages. So we have been 26:09 translated to Italian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Swedish, 26:13 some of them in German and Slovenian. (That's huge) And we 26:21 received a few proposals from people Spain (unclear). 26:24 Nice, nice. How has being a part of this ministry, how has it 26:28 strengthened your faith? 26:30 Yeah, well every time we do a journey we see actually the 26:37 Great Controversy in action. It seems like things always come up 26:42 things are always like getting in the way but then they're 26:46 being resolved. God is taking us through that. So I think seeing 26:54 God in action like even when we're doing a production... 26:59 Yeah, yeah for sure. 27:04 Yes and we have seen miracles as we were doing the journeys 27:09 Well one of them was just being able to do them with the 27:14 financial implications. And also putting together a team. Because 27:20 initially, it was Dan and I and another friend of ours, his name 27:25 is Heber. We caught the vision together. But then God brought 27:30 other people to the team who also had a burden to share God's 27:35 message and also have the skills to do this like videographers, 27:41 editors and also we are amazed at the talent that God has 27:47 brought. And how also we complement each other because 27:51 some of us some who are adventurous, some of us are more 27:54 laid back and want to check all the details. I'm sure you see 27:58 that here at 3ABN as well. (Oh absolutely) God brings together 28:01 different talents to complement the work. 28:06 Yes, yes. And it's incredible because if anybody at home knows 28:12 anything about production and the process so many moving parts 28:17 but yet God, as you're saying, brings it all together and we 28:22 all possess different talents, we all possess different gifts 28:25 but God knows who and when you know to put together so that His 28:33 word can go forth, and His message can go forth. So let's 28:38 talk about the behind-the- scenes of putting one of the 28:43 journey productions together. We actually have some photos 28:47 don't we? Let's take a look at those. Tell us what's going 28:52 on in each or who these people are. 28:54 This is our first production in Slovenia. As you can see we were 28:59 much younger there. We got a bit of rain but actually in general 29:06 we've never had bad weather. We've always had things that are 29:10 nice. Okay this is in Germany filming outdoors. 29:16 The challenges of filming outdoors. Yes and here we're 29:21 filming an the story of an environmentalist, so you see the 29:26 windmills there in the background. And we tried to use 29:31 every space we have. This is at one of our homes. We used three 29:37 two different, well actually three different angles of this 29:42 one home to film into these. Yes here's Heber and Patrick 29:50 two videographers to film one of the talents in the nearby 29:56 city. Yes there's a neat story about this one. This has also 30:04 the side issue of spiritualism and this artwork, it's out in 30:09 the open air...We didn't know about it. A passerby gave us a 30:15 map as we were filming and so you can maybe continue the story 30:22 All right, so we were there filming these people were 30:30 walking by and they said oh do you know there are other art 30:33 works around this forest. And so we got the map and we and it 30:41 fitted perfectly to the story of special interest. 30:44 Not only that, we can look at the picture again maybe, the 30:49 clouds are perfect. 30:51 That is, that's a good shot. 30:54 And then sometimes as you see on the next photo there we have to 31:01 get up really early in the morning. This was at, I think it 31:05 was a very early rise. 31:06 It was cold too, wasn't it? 31:08 Yes, it was very cold. And you just have to catch the golden 31:13 light at the sunrise. (That's dedication) 31:16 This is incidence.com recording. That's Patrick on the right, our 31:23 videographer and editor This was another one of those long days 31:31 Even after this, we went to record on the underground. 31:37 It was quite a long day that one 31:39 And this is Darby one of our videographers and he's here 31:46 filming his father. One of the testimonies is about the father 31:51 so it was very special to see how they worked together. (Yes) 31:55 And this is Darby's mom who did an amazing job at putting a 32:01 puzzle together. It took her all day for a three-second sequence 32:07 that we had when Albert is putting like three pieces of 32:11 puzzle at the end (wow) so she really did a great job there. 32:16 This was our last production in Germany and it was very, very 32:24 hot there. It was over 40 degrees Celsius. 32:29 No wonder there's no coats or no snowy hats or anything like 32:33 that there so yeah, yeah. It looked like it was a beautiful 32:36 day though. Yes for sure. 32:39 So his mom put together a puzzle Took all day to put together a 32:47 little puzzle for a three second sequence? Wow! And what was the 32:54 message behind that particular... 32:58 I think the pieces of his puzzle coming together so it's a little 33:05 ...if we can do this visual messaging we like to come up 33:11 with creative ways to support the story. 33:17 Yeah so he had a lot of questions about the Bible 33:19 especially how the Old Testament fits together with the New 33:23 Testament. In the Old Testament you have...He saw a God that was 33:29 stern, not so much love, and then in the New Testament, you have 33:34 more of a loving God. So he just couldn't understand how those 33:36 two fit together. And then when he understood that all the 33:40 sacrifices in the Old Testament they prefigure the sacrifice of 33:45 Jesus in the New Testament and that was the puzzle piece that 33:50 came. (Uh-huh) 33:52 Oh that's awesome (Put together) That's great, the missing puzzle 33:55 piece. What are some future productions that you have? 33:58 planned? 34:01 Right. Well we've always had this burden for making 34:05 documentaries, longer documentaries. So the one that 34:09 we have next on our goal is to do a documentary about health 34:17 in the Bible. (Okay, okay) Maybe you want to explain a bit more. 34:20 Yes, so a lot of people are interested in health these days 34:25 and I think also after the coronavirus epidemic I think 34:31 people are open to the message of health and we see that I'm 34:37 sure here in America but also where we live in Europe. And so 34:42 we thought that health would be an interesting angle to take on 34:46 the Bible because the Bible has so many things to say about 34:51 health. Everything from resting to diet, a plant-based diet the 34:59 advantages of that, the different health laws in the Old 35:04 Testament, like the quarantine laws, and hygiene laws, clean 35:11 and unclean meat. Also the benefits of having a 35:14 relationship with God, you know the peace that it brings and the 35:18 benefits to mental and emotional health. So all these things they 35:22 you find them in your Bible. When you read documents that 35:27 were written at the time the Bible was written some of them 35:32 you cannot help but laugh you know using cow dung as a 35:39 medicine or other strange things But we have nothing to be 35:43 ashamed of in the Bible. Everything that has been written 35:46 in the Bible about health makes sense today and is of benefit to 35:50 people. So we thought why not show these things about health 35:55 in the Bible and hope that it will strengthen people's trust 36:00 or build up the trust in the Bible. 36:02 Yes, amen. You know I think I would struggle with the cow dung 36:06 one. I don't know if I would want to take that medicine on 36:10 that one. But no that's incredible and so many people 36:14 need to learn about health. Like people are wanting good health. 36:19 You realize your need for Christ big time when you're stuck in 36:25 the hospital, the situation is out of your control, there's 36:28 nothing you can do and that's often when people are looking to 36:32 Jesus. Really we should be looking to Jesus the whole time. 36:35 Not when we get in these situations. But that is really 36:40 good to teach about health and the Bible and it goes along with 36:45 the mission and vision of your ministry because you're showing 36:51 people the validity of the Bible and how it's applicable to their 36:54 life. So that's really good, I love that, I love that. How do 37:00 you go about determining where you're going to film? 37:04 Yeah well obviously where the people are. So if they're from 37:12 Germany...I mean we like to be more on location wherever they 37:17 are. So you get to see their environment and many places 37:25 that they had in their story. The school they went to or the 37:31 different aspects so I think where they're from determines 37:36 more. Yeah so we love filming on 37:40 location and yes we have been blessed to see different places 37:47 but also been very blessed to make friends of the people that 37:52 we have to film. That has been a great bonus. Some of the 37:56 people that we have filmed we have not known previously but 37:58 we have become great friends. And with the documentary yes we 38:05 are following God's leading. So I think it will be guided by the 38:14 research that goes behind the documentary, where we're going 38:17 to film. We want to capture experts giving their knowledge 38:25 about the subject but also we want to also have stories, many 38:31 stories of people who have benefitted from living a healthy 38:36 lifestyle. 38:38 Mm-huh. That's going to be great That is going to be great. So 38:43 you like to film on location, you want to get the testimonies 38:47 and journeys of people who have benefitted from that health 38:53 counsel and get the experts to speak as well, yeah. Yeah that's 38:56 going to be powerful. Tell me about your role with the 39:01 ministry. What does a day in your life look like? 39:04 Well so my official title is communications director but I'm 39:13 also logistics so when we go out on the road, I'm the one who's 39:17 driving there and making sure we have you know the parking sorted 39:24 out, it's the food to eat for the crew, just all the practical 39:29 things so they can focus on the actual recording. And then with 39:36 communications I write to different broadcasting networks 39:39 and you know offer our programming and send files to 39:46 them, so... 39:49 Yes and we've been very happy that 3ABN has been focusing 39:54 journeys. That has been a tremendous blessing and thank 39:58 you so much. 40:00 Oh praise the Lord we're happy to hear it for sure. These are 40:02 powerful, powerful testimonies that everyone needs to check out 40:05 Everybody needs to check that out. And you are the writer and 40:10 producer. So what does it look like for you because people who 40:13 are sharing their stories but what kind of writing are you 40:16 doing and what's the role of a producer and what's that look 40:20 like? 40:22 Yes well I'm having fun in my work every time we do these 40:27 productions because I get to hear the stories first and I try 40:36 to keep their words so we do scripts, the stories. But we try 40:44 to keep their voice and their words and also we're starting to 40:53 think about how we can illustrate the story, a view we 40:58 want. So then we get together the team and we brainstorm about 41:02 that and plan that. And then it is also very interesting how God 41:11 brings us new ideas. As we go on location we see places that fit 41:16 the story perfectly but we didn't know about it and we 41:19 couldn't have known. And those new experiences they also they 41:26 strengthen our faith to see how God is leading us and how He's 41:29 helping us in the productions. 41:31 And then again it's God putting those puzzle pieces together the 41:35 missing pieces, I love it. How important is maintaining a solid 41:42 devotional life for you all? How important is that as you're 41:47 leading out in the ministry? 41:48 Yeah, well it's vital. If we're not connected to Christ then we 41:54 don't have power. You know we're just going on our own, our own 41:58 steam. But we need to continually get strength from 42:01 God, wisdom and guidance every day. 42:09 Yes as Daniel mentioned earlier we see the great controversy 42:14 at play when we do these productions. And sometimes when 42:19 there's a particularly hard issue may be something that has 42:23 has to do with the enemy we see that particularly that it is 42:33 very strong and we are humbled and we are in need of prayer. 42:38 And we have also seen how when we have come to a difficult 42:44 place, maybe we thought that okay we'll not be able to finish 42:48 this production because of some very thorny issues that have 42:50 come up how God has helped us and has brought it to a 42:55 resolution and we praise Him for that. 42:58 Amen, amen. We see the same thing here at 3ABN. We have 43:02 sometimes some random thing happen and it's nothing but the 43:06 enemy trying to hinder the progress of the gospel going 43:08 forward. But praise God, He's bigger than the enemy. He 43:13 triumphs every time. Yeah, yeah, so I love that. So getting back 43:20 to the documentary about health and the Bible. How long do you 43:27 think you want to make that? 43:31 Yes, that is a very good question. So our challenge will 43:36 be to restrain ourselves because there's so much to share and we 43:40 are so excited about the things that we have found in our 43:45 research. And so to decide exactly how to condense things 43:48 and how to focus will be a challenge but maybe an hour or 43:53 maybe two episodes. We have not decided yet, but... 43:57 Okay, you're answer's not set in stone today. It's not set in 44:02 stone, good deal. Okay. 44:04 But it will be a feature documentary so it's...Our 44:08 journeys have been 15 minute programs, but the documentary 44:15 will be longer. 44:18 Yes and about the 15 minutes, so we have seen how God has best 44:26 in showing these stories. If He leads and opens the door, we 44:31 would like to continue to make these and maybe do a season two 44:35 of journeys where we have perhaps longer stories. So maybe 44:43 do them in half an hour format. 44:44 Some stories already that we featured in the first season 44:48 we thought oh there's so many good things to tell and we only 44:52 have 15 minutes. Yes, we are praying about that. 44:56 So you've had to cut some down Oh man, that's tough, editing, 45:02 cutting things down like that, yeah. Mm-huh. 45:07 And even in how fast the talent speaks can effect. So you have a 45:13 script that's only 2000 words and if they speak fast or slow 45:18 then you know when you try to make up that time or cut it down 45:23 a little bit here and a little bit there. 45:25 Mm-huh, kind of massage it a little bit and get it just right 45:29 yeah, for sure. What are the needs of your ministry? 45:35 Well the prevailing number one is prayer. We need people to 45:40 pray for us. Yeah, without prayer we're not going to go 45:45 anywhere. 45:46 And not just for the production but that these journeys, the 45:52 testimonies that they will reach the intended audience and that 45:55 is people who are searching. And that comes with a lot of prayer 46:00 I think prayer is key here. And following up from that is where 46:07 we hope and pray that our viewers will get inspired to 46:12 share the stories with the people they know because we all 46:15 know people who have not given their lives to God or maybe are 46:20 unbelievers, and to share these stories. It only takes a little 46:24 click to just copy the link and send it on to someone. 46:28 That's right, that's right. Do you need any volunteers? Is that 46:32 a need? 46:34 Yes, we can always use help. Also if our viewers know of a very 46:38 good story of somebody who has maybe been an unbeliever and 46:44 have come to know God then we're always happy to hear from them. 46:49 Now what if someone lives in the United States. All right, how 46:54 can they share? Do they, I mean will you guys come to America? 46:57 (Absolutely) Or do they need to like be on Skype. How's that 47:03 work? 47:04 Absolutely. We're happy to travel to America. And I think 47:10 God has so many good stories here in America. So far we have 47:14 done stories of Europeans mainly but why not? God has brought so 47:22 many people to faith to Him through the Holy Spirit. 47:24 Absolutely, absolutely. Well I hope that our listeners and 47:29 viewers will get involved with the project that you have going 47:34 on and you're going to let us know when that documentary 47:37 becomes available, right? (Yeah, yes) Yeah, I want to see that 47:42 on health and the Bible. Okay. So just to recap a little bit 47:48 here. Writer and producer. So you help smooth things out and 47:54 communications and logistics and multiple hats. How do you 47:59 maintain the time management aspect? Because time can slip 48:03 away from you. How do you balance everything? 48:06 Yeah well it is a challenge and especially because we're running 48:13 a business that has to keep going and then when we do these 48:18 productions we don't get paid for them so once we start then 48:25 we have to finish them and we have to just keep going for them 48:31 And when you asked about needs it's something that we are yeah 48:36 we feel the need of funding our productions so that we can grow 48:42 and expand because right now we feel restricted by basically 48:49 time, how much time we can put into it. So it goes slower. 48:54 And so to be able to do them at the faster pace. That would be a 48:59 tremendous blessing. 49:01 Yes and also even marketing and all of that stuff, getting the 49:06 word out there. Word of mouth is a powerful, powerful tool but so 49:10 is Facebook, so are some of these other mediums to get it 49:14 out there but some of these things they cost. They take 49:17 resources and finances and stuff like that. 49:22 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yes maybe we can share a story 49:24 from our last production about the car that wouldn't die. 49:30 Yeah so we have an old fish car with quite a few miles on it and 49:35 earlier this year I had this prayer about this car. 49:40 I said well if 49:42 it's going to take us through the summer travels then please 49:49 God you know either make it break before so we can have time 49:54 to fix it or can it just take us all the way through. So we're 49:59 on our way to Germany and about 280 miles in we hear this 50:04 horrible sound somewhere from the engine and we stop, we pray 50:12 we call a friend, mechanic friend and then we have no 50:19 other choice but to keep going. So we kept going even with all 50:25 these sounds coming from the car and we did the production. We 50:31 tried to use it as little as possible and we managed to get 50:38 all the way home. The car was still going. 50:42 And we were praying, Okay Lord please help us to get to this 50:44 next mile. If we can get to here and then we got home and then 50:52 two days later the car broke completely. 50:55 Yeah, it was not drivable. I couldn't drive it. 50:58 But the Lord helped it to go just as long as we needed to 51:05 get home and He was faithful. He was faithful in His promise 51:08 that He would provide for us. 51:09 Amen, amen. That's a tremendous answer to prayer. It was the 51:12 little engine that could by God's grace. He got you all the 51:17 way home. And you know that also shows that God wants to hear 51:20 from us. He wants us to pray for the things that we need. He 51:25 wants us to talk to Him about everything. There's no detail 51:29 too small that He doesn't want to hear. He cares about our 51:32 every need. (Amen) And that's a wonderful illustration of that 51:37 I can't believe our time is running out, it's escaping us. 51:41 We are going to go to an address roll and then a news break and 51:46 we will be right back. 51:50 If you would like to contact or know more about Adverum 51:54 Productions you can do so in the following ways: you can write 51:57 to them at c/o Outpost Centers International, 5132 Layton Lane 52:02 Apison, TN 37302. You can call them at +46416-12373 52:16 You can visit their website at AdverumProductions.com 52:23 You can also send them an email at 52:26 Hello@AdverumProductions.com |
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