by Shelley Nolan Freesland Communication Director AWR has started broadcasts in the Wolof language to listeners in Western Africa.
AWR Pays Tribute to Edwin Charles
January 3, 2012 By
by AWR Staff The former director of the Adventist Media Center in India, Pastor Edwin Charles, passed away on September 28, 2011, after a lifetime of service in the Adventist Church. We mourn Pastor Charles’ loss, and wish to pay tribute to his dedicated work for AWR. After Charles completed his bachelor’s degree in English Literature at Mar Ivanious College, he began four decades of denominational service as a humble proofreader at the Oriental Watchman Publishing House (OWPH) in 1970
Vintage Gibson Guitar Helps Spread the Gospel
December 19, 2011 By
by Ed Reid Assistant to the President for Planned Giving A limited-edition 77-year-old Gibson guitar has been donated to Adventist World Radio by a generous couple who live in Juliaetta, Idaho.
Deep in the Mountains of Mexico
December 14, 2011 By
by Teddy Griffin an AWR intern at the time of writing Pastor Dagoberto Cirilo Sanchez was watching 3ABN when he saw a missionary group handing out MegaVoice Ambassador audio devices to people in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. Sanchez is currently serving as a missionary to the Huichol people, deep in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico
AWR in the Northwest US Neighborhood
November 2, 2011 By
An Urgency to Tell the World
September 29, 2011 By
by AWR Staff “My first concept of the power of radio came to me as a student in college,” says Allen Steele, one of AWR’s pioneers. “H.M.S. Richards, of the Voice of Prophecy, spoke to our communication club, and as the consummate communicator , he soon had me enthralled with the potential of speaking to the world via the radio waves.” Allen clearly remembers the challenge that Richards threw at the students.
Wandering the World with a Radio
June 15, 2011 By
by Dr. Adrian Peterson AWR International Relations Coordinator I was born into a secular family of seven children in a small town in South Australia. Back in the era before World War II, good-quality radio receivers were not available, and many listeners made their own, particularly for shortwave.
First Shortwave Broadcasts in Tibetan
June 13, 2011 By
by Shelley Nolan Freesland AWR Communication Director After a two‐ year search for a producer, AWR will begin broadcasting programs in the Tibetan language this summer through shortwave radio and online. “We are thrilled to have located this young man,” says AWR president Dowell Chow.
