Global Recordings Network, Gospel Recordings, Language Recordings

Paano nagsimula ang pangitain

Ang pahinang itoy hindi magagamit sa kasalukuyan.

The CardTalk cardboard record player

"Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God."

ILLNESS PREVENTED HER ...

The ministry of Gospel Recordings was founded in Los Angeles in 1937. At that time Joy Ridderhof lay on her sickbed after returning from Honduras. All she felt was a deep sense of disappointment and sorrow at having to leave her beloved converts behind - people who in most cases were unable to read or write and relied on a verbal message to bring them to a saving knowledge of Christ.

SOMETHING TO LEAVE BEHIND

If only she could have left behind recorded messages in their native Spanish, how wonderful a legacy! In this way the existing converts could be built up in their faith and other people reached ... after all, "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God."

FIRST RECORDING IN 1938!

The Phonette hand wind record player

Thanks to several friends' generosity, Joy was able to see the beginning of this coming to fruition as she recorded the first gospel record in Spanish in the last day of 1938. What started out as a trickle soon became a veritable flood as enquiries for the Spanish records started coming in thick and fast not only from Honduras, but increasingly from other Spanish-speaking countries in Central and South America, as well.

TURNING POINT

A turning point was reached in 1940. Joy was asked to make a number of gospel recordings for the Navajo Indians in Arizona. Even one additional language would lead to requests for more and ever more languages to be recorded. She agreed, however, and so began the fulfilment of the wider commission - to take the gospel to the ends of the earth.

TODAY - IN 23 COUNTRIES

Presently the ministry is active in more than 23 countries of which most are under the co-ordination of an international fellowship called Global Recordings Network. Partnering with many other long-term and home-based missionaries and their expertise, we want to reach many who have been deprived from the privilege of reading his Word.

The Good News audiovisual

MAKE A DIFFERENCE THAT LASTS

After sharing the good news of Jesus with any person or group, it's always good to leave something behind. If they cannot read it doesn't help to leave lots of literature, So be creative, give them audio-visual tools! The material will build them up and equip them better to reach out to others.