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- [Narrator] Welcome to Zambia,
a land filled with rugged mountains,
abundant wildlife and many people searching for Christ.
God is at work in this land
and we are excited to see how lives
are being transformed through the radio.
1,070 evangelistic campaigns have been held across Zambia
and the surrounding region.
God blessed and it was a huge success.
People came by the thousands.
After the meetings, almost 18,000 people were baptized,
and more than 80% of those baptisms
came from listening to Adventist World Radio.
- Hi, I'm Cami, and this is AWR360.
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- We're here in Lusaka, Zambia,
for the Zambia for Christ 2018 meetings
and we have an incredible team of evangelists
that have come from all over the world, really,
United States, and in particularly, Europe.
We have a lot of people
that have come from the European continent,
who have come to Africa because they want
to share the love of Christ with the people here.
- [Narrator] Adventist World Radio
has been broadcasting in Zambia since 2004,
but just before the evangelistic series,
we began a special emphasis.
- Three months before we got here,
we started broadcasting on a daily basis
the prophetic message, the same message
that we're presenting night after night here
at our evangelistic crusades.
And the results are showing because we're finding people
who have listened to the radio
and they're coming to our meetings,
and they're accepting Jesus because of it.
- Just over a year ago, I was in Lusaka with Bob Peck
and Kathy and myself, and we were talking together,
talking with all of the pastors in the city of Lusaka,
and they said to me, "We'll do 1,000 meetings."
So, 1,000 evangalistic meets, all in one city at one time.
That's the first, that's the first time
in the history of the Adventist Church
that so many meetings will be held,
and they have been held now.
- [Narrator] Before Zambia for Christ began,
AWR broadcasters would ask the listeners
a question of the day.
This was based on the message
that was presented the day before.
Every day, one man, named Mr. Wika,
would call in with an answer,
or to ask a question of his own.
We found out more about this man,
and it turns out that he runs
a small business repairing furniture
and every day he stops his work early
so his employees can listen to the AWR message.
AWR has not only reached the countryside,
but has also penetrated through prison walls.
After listening to AWR on the radio,
nearly 900 inmates in Zambia's maximum security prison
have been baptized.
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In a nearby town, a lady had a dream,
and in this dream, she saw a small radio.
Later that very day, her husband brought home
the same radio she had seen in her dream.
When they turned it on, AWR was the only channel
that they could tune in, no matter where they set the dial.
As they listened, God's love transformed their home
and today they are both members
of the Seventh-Day Adventist' Church.
The speakers here are becoming part
of stories like these on a daily basis.
The Lord is using them in a mighty and powerful way.
- I was struggling to give the sermon about health
on Sabbath because I thought the people I'm approaching,
they know everything.
So I spoke about tobacco, I spoke about alcohol,
I spoke about clean and unclean,
and when I did a baptism call,
the first person who came up was known by the community
as being someone who was really addicted to tobacco
and had a huge alcohol problem.
- There is a surprising, amazing blessing
I've learned in Zambia, and that is
when I return home and whatever I'm going to go to preach,
I will end all my sermons with an appeal.
There are many people that want to give their life to Jesus,
but somebody has to challenge them to do so.
- On the fourth evening of our meetings,
an old lady came and she said to me,
"I had a dream before the crusade started.
"I had a dream, and in my dream I heard a voice calling me.
"Now, I didn't see the face,
"but I could hear it was a lady's voice."
And when she came on the crusade and she heard me,
she said, "This is the voice."
She recognized the voice from her dream,
so she said "I know that God
"has called me to the meetings."
- When I see people putting up their hands
or giving their lives,
or wanting to give their lives to Christ,
it gives you a feeling that is literally undescribable.
It's an amazing feeling
and you know it's not necessarily you,
it's Christ working through you,
and that feeling of Christ working through you is amazing.
- On the Last Sabbath, all of the meeting sites
converge together for one mass baptism.
17,968 people giving their lives to the Lord,
walking into the depths of the water
and coming out new.
We are told that 80% of those being baptized here today
came from listening to Adventist World Radio.
- We really need your help to help us keep
the radio broadcasting after these meetings,
whether it's in Rawanda or Romania or here in Zambia
because, you see, the members came to the meetings
because they heard the message on the radio.
They got excited about the health messages,
about the Adventist Prophetic Message,
and then after they're baptized,
they go back to their houses
and they still have their radios.
And so we still need to continue to broadcast.
It's not cheap, it does cost a lot of money,
but we need to keep the broadcast going
so that they'll listen to the message over and over again.
Thank you so much for your support
for Adventist World Radio, AWR360,
Broadcast to Baptism, as we continue to broadcast
connecting people with Jesus,
training them through the AWR360,
that total member involvement concept
to witness for Jesus, live for Jesus,
listen and learn and study, as they share the good news
that Christ soon return with their friends and neighbors.
So this work can be finished and Jesus would come.
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