Faces of GRN: The Fix-it Man

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By Allan Starling

Is it broken? Does it need servicing? No replacement parts available? My advice is "Take it to John." Everything from faulty recording machines to malfunctioning air conditioners to leaky toilets have been put back into service by John's hands.

John Blomberg is a home-based missionary serving with GRN in our office in Temecula, California. He performs valuable service as our chief electronics technician. His service to the Lord through his talents is a valuable link in getting the message of salvation to the lost.

We have three Johns in our office, and because John Blomberg has been here the longest, we call him "1st John." He received his electronics training in the US Air Force where he was an instructor in inertial navigation.

During his thirty-two years at GRN, John has seen huge changes in the electronics field, from vacuum tubes, to transistors to integrated circuits to digital. For many years he kept the Nagra professional tape recorders repaired, rebuilt and back into service around the world. He has had to make parts or adapt machines for our specific purposes. He prefers the digital machines we now use because they have fewer moving parts and are more reliable.

John is a joy to have in the GRN family. His humble spirit, his willingness to stick with a difficult task until it is completed, his ingenuity and creativeness and his love for God radiates throughout the office.

When I asked what has kept him going all these years he told me that he is inspired because people who are oral communicators throughout the world are being given the words of life on tapes, CD's, and mp3's resulting in salvation that is in Christ Jesus. Whether hi-tech or low-tech, it's all about the Message! John's favorite verse: "Therefore... be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for ... your labor is not in vain in the Lord." 1 Cor. 15:58.

While John keeps things humming in our Temecula office, we pray for more like him who can travel to our offices in Africa, Asia and South America to keep their equipment going and to enable the Good News to continue spreading to those who still wait to hear.