16 July 2019 | AT contributor Larry Downing interviewed Rodney Vance, MFA, Chair of the Department of Film and Television Production at La Sierra University. Rodney Vance is a professional filmmaker and has mentored many Adventist students who wish to pursue a career in the film industry. LD: Rodney, in the past, faculty of Adventists […] Source: https://atoday.org/interview-with-rodney-vance-of-the-lsu-film-tv-production-department/
AWR360° Madagascar – Ranja’s story
She could make bullets drop to the ground, but she knew in her heart, that the power within her was not good. One day, she turned on the radio and found a peace she had never felt. Rejoice with us as you see how AWR360° helped Ranja leave her life as a powerful witch and live a life fully surrendered to the Lord! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkTQuT3kU-w
AWR360° Undisclosed location – Asad
When his life was finally on track and all seemed right in his world, Asad was abducted at gunpoint for broadcasting with Adventist World Radio. The God he shared about daily through broadcasts did not forget him. Be inspired by Asad's faithfulness to his God. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8RpHI08XE
AWR360° Undisclosed location – Reyna
Hope. Many in the world are looking for hope in very hopeless situations. Reyna was one of these people. She found herself in a terrifying situation and had no control over her own body. But her mind found the hope it needed when a radio was given as payment and helped her find physical, emotional and spiritual healing. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QEg_XeTapY
Inside Story: India ~ Snakebite Transforms Village
By Wilson Measapogu
Sundar Rao, a 27-year-old farm worker, was intrigued when a white man showed up at his Indian village and read about a Creator God from a black book on Saturdays.
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Sundar was attracted to U.S. missionary Theodore R. Flaiz’s Bible stories and decided to follow his God.
Sundar’s employer was furious when he didn’t go to the field the first Sabbath. His anger grew as Sundar kept missing Saturday work.
At home, Sundar angered his relatives by no longer participating in family religious festivals, including the worship of Naga, a snake god.
After some time, Sundar sought peace by building a house just beyond the brook that marked the village’s border. Soon he got married and had a daughter.
One day when Sundar was 29, the employer asked him to work on a Saturday. “After your worship ends on Saturday, come and help count bales of hay”, he demanded.
Sundar reluctantly obeyed. He arrived at the field after sunset but before darkness had set in. With help from others, he counted the bales. Noticing a small bale off to one side, he kicked it toward a larger bale. In a split second, a young cobra sprang from the bale, struck him on the leg, and fled.
No medical help was available, and Sundar knew he would die soon.
The villagers had no doubt that Naga was punishing him.
“Naga is very angry at you”, one said.
“It’s because you disobeyed all the village gods”, said another.
Sundar started to sweat. Formerly estranged family members gathered around him and wept. The village waited for him to close his eyes and die.
But nothing happened. An hour passed. Two hours. A snakebite specialist was summoned to check his leg. The specialist was astounded with what he found. He declared that the cobra had struck Sundar with the top of his mouth, not with the poisonous fangs, and had fled in fright without bothering to bite a second time.
The next day, the villagers were amazed to see that Sundar was healthy and happy.
“The protection of the white man’s God has saved him from the cobra bite”, they said.
From that moment, in 1957, many villagers joined Sundar in keeping the Sabbath.
Five years after the snakebite, I was born to Sundar.
Today, Gudem Madhavaram is an Adventist village. It has produced 40 pastors and Bible workers, and many educators and health professionals. On Saturdays, the whole village stops to worship the Creator God. This is the power of the God who turned a snakebite into a blessing.
Wilson Measapogu is executive secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Southern Asia Division, whose territory includes India. His father died in August 2017 at the age of 77.
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