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aul, the man who played an integral role a second chance. The dispute grew so contentious that Pin the formation of the early church, and Paul and Barnabas parted ways. Barnabas, however, gave Mark who wrote the first gospel would probably Mark a second chance and included him in his ministry. have no place in our Christian heritage had it Years later when Paul was in a Roman jail, he reviewed his not been for Barnabas.* ministry and recognized a possible error in his judgment over John Mark. He wrote to Timothy saying Mark could Barnabas—little-known and barely mentioned in be of useful service to him. When Barnabas spotted talent, the Bible—had the gift of identifying potential. he both encouraged and nurtured, never giving up on Imagine the void in the Bible without Paul and people (Acts 12:25; 15:37-39; 2 Tim 4:11). John Mark. Paul wrote 13 of the 27 books of the New Testament—that is 31.57 percent of the Church leader, financier, indefatigable evangelist, mentor, New Testament, not counting Hebrews, that many Barnabas played a crucial role in the advancement of believe he wrote. And John Mark authored Mark, early . I believe there are many little-known the gospel that emphatically confirms the identity of people even today who, like Barnabas, are Jesus as both Savior and man. champions. You pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit; you support Hope Channel with your finances; and From the little we know of Barnabas, there are three you encourage others to watch. You see the potential of characteristics that define him. our media ministry; you are our Barnabas! He was a philanthropist. Barnabas became a This issue of HopeLINK is filled with amazing reports of Christian on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He was so how God is expanding and using Hope Channel to reach convicted of the needs of the early church that he millions. It is a “Barnabas Report.” Thanks for seeing immediately returned home, sold his possessions, and potential and being a Barnabas! gave everything to the fledgling church to advance the cause of Christ (Acts 4:36, 37).

He was a risk taker. When many doubted Paul’s dramatic Your friend, conversion, Barnabas accepted Paul’s conversion as genuine and introduced him to the church of Jerusalem (Acts 9:27). Later when he went to Antioch, he was moved by the Holy Spirit to stay there and minister to the growing church, where the believers were first called Brad Thorp Christians. When the cosmopolitan city needed both a scholar and an evangelist, Barnabas brought Paul to the *Based on a sermon by job despite his past and his reputation (Acts 11:19-26). John M. Fowler. Hear the complete sermon here: He was a mentor. Barnabas and Paul set out on their first http://bit.ly/fowlersermon missionary journey. They then invited John Mark to join them. Young and unaccustomed to hardship, John Mark became discouraged and returned home. Paul was very disappointed with John Mark and refused to give him

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parents, relatives, and community are Vice Presidents not supportive of my choice to follow Derris Krause Gideon Mutero Jesus. Even my friends laugh at me. Kandus Thorp But even though I am going through a Directors difficult time, what I am going through Cable Distribution, Joe Sloan is just a little suffering compared to Customer Care, Susan Marcellino Fundraising, John Huynh the joy I have found in Jesus. I live Marketing, Fylvia Fowler Kline to share the joy I have in Jesus with Production, Frenita Buddy others. May the Lord use Hope Channel Editor Fylvia Fowler Kline to mend the lives of many. — Anonymous Contributors: Sergio Gonzalez Carmen McMurdy Justin Woods

Hope Channel is changing my life and keeping I don’t get to church. So Hope Channel means Design me strong in the faith. It has given me hope in the world to me. I just got a 1.5% raise at Travis Holman some of my darkest hours. work and would like to pass that increase on www.travisholman.com —Rosemary to Hope Channel. Printing Review and Herald Publishing I’ve started going to church again after 15 —Betty Association years because of Hope Channel. My eyes are now opened to God’s saving grace. My life has Someone came into my bookstore because of Product Orders and Donations Support this vierwer-funded turned around and my wife and I are so much something she saw on Hope Channel. Looking for books on health and the Bible, she said, television ministry with your happier than we have been in a long time. donations. “I need to get my life in order.” Praise God for USA —Tom the ministry of Hope Channel in New York City. PO Box 4000 —Damion Silver Spring, MD 20914 Canada 1148 King Street East Oshawa Ontario, L1H 1H8 hopetv.org Contents Call toll-free in North America: 888-4-HOPE-TV (888-446-7388) Message From the President...... 2 Hope Channel Program Guide...... 10 International calls: 269-471-6050 To support Hope Channel through Viewer Comments...... 3 Hope Church Channel Program Guide...... 11 wills, trusts, annuities, or other Heard on Facebook...... 4 Happenings at Hope...... 12-13 planned giving instruments, please call 888-339-PLAN (7526). How Real is Hope?...... 5 Ways to Give...... 14 Adventist® and Seventh-day Hope Behind Bars...... 6-7 Hope Channel Resources...... 15 Adventist® are registered The Creation Pull-Out Poster...... 8-9 Everyone Needs a Will...... 16 trademarks of the General Conference Corporation of Seventh- day Adventists®

2 QUARTER 3 • 2014 | AN INSPIRATIONAL NEWSLETTER FROM HOPE CHANNEL | HOPELINK HOPELINK | AN INSPIRATIONAL NEWSLETTER FROM HOPE CHANNEL | QUARTER 3 • 2014 3 Heard on acebook from Hope Channel Fans Do you have an encouraging Bible verse for those facing a tough week ahead?

Don’t get worked up about what God is good, a hiding place in tough may or may not happen tomorrow. times. He recognizes and welcomes God will help you deal with anyone looking for help, no matter how whatever hard things come up when desperate the trouble. -Nahum 1:7 the time comes. -Matthew 6:34

I have it all planned out- Don’t panic. I’m with you. There’s no need to fear plans to take care of you, not for I’m your God. I’ll give you strength. I’ll help abandon you, plans to give you. I’ll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you the future you hope for. you. -Isaiah 41:10 -Jeremiah 29:11

Come to me. Get away with me and When you’re in over your head, I’ll be you’ll recover your life. I’ll show there with you. When you’re in rough you how to take a real rest. Walk waters, you will not go down. When with me and work with me - watch you’re between a rock and a hard place, how I do it. Learn the unforced it won’t be a dead end. -Isaiah 43:2 rhythms of grace. -Matthew 11:28

Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere True, the grass withers you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. and the wildflowers fade, -Proverbs 3:5,6 but our God’s Word stands firm and forever. -Isaiah 40:8 Call for help when you’re in trouble. I’ll Whatever I have, help you, and you’ll wherever I am, I honor me. can make it through -Psalm 50:15 anything in the One who makes me who I am. -Philippians 4:13 Counting on God’s Rule to prevail, I take heart and gain strength. I run like a deer. I feel like I’m king of the mountain. -Habakkuk 3:19 Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. -Philippians 4:6

4 QUARTER 3 • 2014 | AN INSPIRATIONAL NEWSLETTER FROM HOPE CHANNEL | HOPELINK This hope we hold as the utterly reliable anchor for our souls, fixed in the very certainty of God himself in Heaven (Hebrews 6:19, J. B. Phillips). How Real is Hope? By Benjamin D. Schoun ope is tangible and visible. You can see it in the eyes moved and very different from our actions. All around us, Hof a hungry child just as much as you can see it in beginning with ourselves, are many examples of this: ad- the eyes of a desperate man gripping a lottery ticket. All of vertisements that are but a vague shadow of the product; us live hoping for something better than what we have— politicians who promise and never deliver; relationships for a job that gets us out of poverty, for healing from some that begin strong but shatter under the weight of broken deadly disease, for relief from injustice, for life after death. promises. Hope keeps us motivated. It gets us through tough times. God’s Oath. When we take an oath, we call upon God, In fact, many feel it is an absolute necessity for survival. a higher, more dependable source and promise we will do William Shakespeare thought so too when he said, “The our best to be honest and truthful. But God’s words are miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” such an immutable guarantee that He need give us noth- ing more than His word. His reputation of steadfastness There is no story more prominent of a person with reason precedes even the creation of this earth. If fact, there is no to despair than that of Job. God allows the devil to take reason for God to take an oath; we have ample evidence away from Job all of life’s blessing–his livestock, his wealth, that He can be trusted. Yet God, in His infinite mercy, his children, his own health. Commenting on the injus- takes an oath so we may understand Him in the most hu- tice being inflicted on Job, a friend asks, “Should not your man way possible that the hope He offers us is real and piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your endures forever. hope?” And Job answers, “Though He slay me, yet will I hope in Him.” Surely, through God’s words and His oath, we have all the reasons we need to Job’s response reflects his belief that trust Him. And “since we have such a hope comes from something out- hope, we are [to be] very bold” (2 Cor- side of himself—that it is anchored inthians 3:12). Without hesitancy and in the power of God and not in the with confidence, we should share with things of this world. An anchor is others what God has done for us. not dropped in the hold of a ship; it is let down outside the ship to This is what Hope Channel is all about! reach way down and touch what is It shares God’s news for a better life today firm and solid. In the same way, our and for eternity. Through its programs it hope must be anchored to some- offers a biblical perspective on our per- thing outside of ourselves—in God. Painting by Jean Fouquet (1420-81), sonal lives and on the happenings around depicting Job and his friends us. Through its Bible-based approach, Hebrews 6:18 gives us reasons Hope Channel points to Jesus as the so- why we can have full confidence lution to all of life’s problems. in God—“By two utterly immutable things, the word of God and the oath of God, who cannot lie, we who are If you are a Hope Channel viewer, tell someone about refugees from this dying world might have a source of Hope Channel and share your story of hope in Jesus. “No strength, and might grasp the hope that He holds out to one whose hope is in [God] will ever be put to shame” us” (J. B. Phillips). (Psalm 25:3). The Word of God. When God speaks, His words are a guarantee. When God speaks, things happen and people Ben Schoun, Vice Chair, Hope Channel, Inc.; Vice President, change. On the other hand, our words are often far re- General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

4 QUARTER 3 • 2014 | AN INSPIRATIONAL NEWSLETTER FROM HOPE CHANNEL | HOPELINK HOPELINK | AN INSPIRATIONAL NEWSLETTER FROM HOPE CHANNEL | QUARTER 3 • 2014 5 gospel to me The has always Things had not just gotten been about changed lives. better for them; everything As a young man I prayed had changed for them. Their one day with a preacher experiences were their on my TV, and at that personal versions of the moment my life was forever Prodigal Son. To me and to changed. I’m not saying others there, their stories things just got better; I’m have been shared and retold saying everything changed. over the years—of how God I got off the floor that night can change lives forever. as changed as I could possibly be. I never realized Why were these men (and how free a person could be the women in an adjoining until Jesus set me free in compound) so changed? front of my TV at 3 a.m. that Because they had personally morning. encountered their Creator HOPE and accepted His promise That is, until one day in of forgiveness. They were Nigeria a few years later. living proof that, “if the Son sets you free, you As a Hope Channel BEHIND will be free indeed” (John employee, I have the 8:36, NIV). Standing there, blessed opportunity to in the company of some travel to various places very hardcore criminals, I where Hope Channel is understood the meaning of making a real difference in BARS true freedom. I understood BY JOE SLOAN people’s lives. Since I began how man could imprison the working at Hope Channel I was hungry and you fed me, body, but God can free the in 2003, I have been to I was thirsty and you gave me a drink, soul! many places and seen many I was homeless and you gave me a room, things, but that day in that How had these inmates Nigerian prison blew me I was shivering and you gave me clothes, heard the liberating away! I was sick and you stopped to visit, message of the gospel? I was in prison and you came to me. Because some weeks earlier More than a hundred Hope Channel came into the inmates, incarcerated under —Matthew 25:36 prison. A single TV in the very trying and difficult middle of a common area circumstances, were collectively singing and praising was airing Hope Channel, and the inmates, first out of God with an unimaginable joy. Their conviction was curiosity and then out of conviction, were spending hours undeniably genuine and their individual transformation every day listening to programs about God’s love. Where was miraculous. They may have been locked in a prison God’s message is, His power also is. behind high walls and barbed wire, but their hearts were freer that any free man I’d known. Their enthusiasm for While Scripture says, “You shall not covet (Exodus Christ and their desire to share it were at least equal (and 20:17, NIV),” I don’t think I am sinning by coveting their probably superior) to any Christian I’d known. relationship with God. While I was both humbled and

6 QUARTER 3 • 2014 | AN INSPIRATIONAL NEWSLETTER FROM HOPE CHANNEL | HOPELINK amazed by God’s power in that AS OF 2012 THERE WERE with a presence in thousands of Nigerian prison, I quickly discovered prisons across the United States that the situation there was not a 1.35 million in state prisons has allowed Hope Channel to fluke. Since then I have traveled to 217,800 in federal prisons “piggy-back” on their prison TV other places and witnessed similar 44,500 in local jails system. This means wherever results. In a Romanian prison, for they have a channel in a prison, example, I sat for more than an Hope Channel can use their You can change these numbers by hour, listening to the warden tell racks, wires, and distribution partnering with Hope Channel of the wonderful things that were system without charge. All Hope happening in his prison since the Channel will need to fund is the introduction of SperantaTV (Hope Channel Romania). equipment specific to Hope Channel, such as the satellite receiver. This offer cuts costs to a fraction. But, there’s What I saw in all those prisons in Africa and Europe more! In prisons where this network does not have a is why I am doubly excited about a new project Hope presence, Hope Channel has access to the company Channel has begun for American prisons. I am convicted that supplies the expertise and experience this network and convinced that the same miraculous events I saw uses to get into prisons. Praise God for his abundant in Africa and Europe can also happen here in the United blessings! States. World governments and cultures may vary, but the needs of the human heart are universal. It is solely to What an incredible opportunity for Hope Channel to very meet these heart-felt needs that Hope Channel exists. directly fulfill Jesus’ desire that we live our Christianity (Matthew 25:36). But to be successful, we need to work Just as in other nations, the incarcerated in America together. Would you like to take Hope Channel to a prison need to hear God’s message of transformation. They need in your community? Email or write us about it, and be a to discover how, in a sudden, miraculous way, their lives part of changing the lives of many who desperately need can be changed and redeemed by Grace. to hear that God can indeed transform and free the hearts of the imprisoned. For God does not just make things The first step in this initiative took place in a miraculous better, He changes everything for the better! way. Without our asking, a large television network Joe Sloan, Director of Distribution and Cable Carriage, Hope Channel, Inc. ______

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ost of the experts interviewed by Dr. THIS SUMMER This summer you will find Hope Channel represented MMcKibben on Go Healthy for Good are presenters at the American College of Lifestyle at various meetings. Additionally Hope Channel will be Medicine Convention. At the 2014 Convention, Dr. participating in the following two events: McKibben will interview more notable physicians for the next season. Oshkosh, Wisconsin | August 11-16 Over 40,000 are expected to attend this The convention is open to the public! international event where children ages 10-15 If you want to fully immerse yourself will meet for a week of worship, activities, and in fantastic presentations on lots of fun. Based on the life of Daniel, the Old healthy living, come for a day or for Testament prophet, the focus of this camporee the entire convention. Join Hope will be on how to live in this world without conforming to it. Channel and Go Healthy for Good Hope Channel will be producing various segments for the event in San Diego, October and broadcasting some of the presentations live to churches and 19-22. communities whose children are not able to attend the event in person.

American College of Lifestyle Medicine lifestylemedicine2014.org Geneva, Switzerland | July 7-12 The second of its kind, this conference will draw upon the research of experts from all over the world to focus on the subject of non-communicable diseases. ATTENTION Hope Channel Germany will lead in the video production of this DIRECTV VIEWERS event and Dr. Nerida McKibben, Host of Go Healthy for Good, will both present as well as interview over a dozen guests that As of July 16, Hope will later be aired on the show. Channel will move to a new satellite. Although Hope Channel is a standard definition channel and will still be on Channel 368, it will be available only to AN AMAZING customers who have DIRECTV HD equipment and ACCOMPLISHMENT IN BRAZIL are subscribed to Advanced Receiver Service —HD. TV (Hope Channel Brazil) is now on NET, the To upgrade to HD, order an HD-capable receiver largest cable TV provider in Brazil, with 5.6 million subscribers online or call us at 1-800-531-5000. DIRECTV and a potential audience of about 18 million. We give praise customer support team is available from 8 AM to 1 for this miraculous happening and are excited about the many, AM ET every day. many more opportunities this gives us to share the message of Jesus’ love and grace.

12 QUARTER 3 • 2014 | AN INSPIRATIONAL NEWSLETTER FROM HOPE CHANNEL | HOPELINK Also noteworthy is the birthday celebration of seven-year-old Speranta TV, aka Hope Channel Romania! Both real and virtual cake were had by all across the network of more than 25 Hope HOPEY SPOTTED IN BUCHAREST Channels worldwide! everal partners in ministry came together to the Sprawled over a city block, the hands-on exhibit included SBiblical Village—a 10-day event in the heart of Bucharest. authentic representations of Bible times. There were While most of the logistic and financial support for this event traditional houses, shops, and even “residents” wearing came from the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the project traditional clothing. Each piece of clothing was handmade was organized by the AMiCUS Student Association and the just as they were in Jesus’ time. Activities for both adults Association “Pathfinders for the Future,” the Federation of and children drew many to the event. Among the daily Hebrew Communities in Romania, the Romanian Archery visitors was also Hopey who offered photo opportunities Federation, ADRA Romania, and the Mihai Ionescu High with a great big . School in Bucharest.

HOPE CHANNEL OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA ecent developments in the African television Requirements vary from country to country in regards to Rindustry are presenting Hope Channel with amazing the percentage of local content required. Development of opportunities. With their move from analog to local content is a strength of Hope Channel as we digital broadcast, the governments of all African have always encouraged the concept of thinking countries will be distributing national channels global, but living local. Additionally, by DTT (digital-terrestrial-transmission) Hope Channel International provides and making set-top boxes available for a a 24/7 feed of programming with the nominal fee. This will allow everyone with a flexibility of inserting as much local box free access to the new digital platform content as wanted. using analog televisions. This will also allow channels with local programming such as Hope This opportunity for Hope Channel to be carried alongside the national channel and Channel to be on the African gain coverage throughout the countries. digital platforms is time- sensitive. With the likelihood of Kenya has led the continent in this digital rollout and Hope many local TV channels competing for Channel International has been included on their digital the same platform, it is essential for platform. Malawi and Tanzania will be next, with many Hope Channel to secure its place in every other countries joining them. country in Africa as quickly as possible.

April 17 Hope Channel Tanzania inaugurated their new channel in Kiswahili. Over 10,000 were in attendance. A new television studio opened in Malawi for programming in Chichewa. The official launch of Hope Channel Malawi is scheduled for late June.

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