Studio Renovations

June turned into a month of many different activities!  Ed Ho spent time editing material written and recorded for us by a Chinese doctor.  When interviews or some other types of recording are given to us, we then must break them up into smaller segments to be aired in a series over several days.  If the material was not written for this specific purpose, it can be very time consuming to edit the recordings into an interesting series that sounds “live” to our audience.  Ed Ho has gotten very good at this!

Father’s Day was featured in June, so we prepared some new material and also reused some from previous years.  I recall receiving a letter from a listener a few years ago in which he stated that after hearing an article I wrote for Father’s Day, he repaired his relationship with his father, broken long before.  May God bless all the material on KNLS to so-touch the hearts of those who listen!

Perhaps you read about recent flooding in China.  Situations like this make people question whether God is alive and well or not, so Ed Ho wrote several articles in June about suffering; he affirmed that “Yes! God is still in control and he loves us all!”

June was a special month for me, as I went to Israel and worked for two weeks as a volunteer archaeologist at Tel Beth Shemesh.  Dr. Dale Manor, professor of Bible and Archaeology at Harding University is Field Director for Tel Beth Shemesh.  Each summer he takes a group of volunteer “diggers” and works in conjunction with Dr. Zvi Lederman and Dr. Shlomo Bunimovitz of Tel Aviv University.  For me, this experience was as educational as it was exciting!  We dug in a level that was occupied during the time of the Biblical book of Judges (ca. 1100 B.C.).  We were divided into groups of three or four and given a five meter square.  In addition to thousands of pot shards, our group also dug up a juglet in near-perfect condition, as you see in the photo.  How excited Sarah was when this item popped out of the ground—and she picked it up—the first time human hands had touched it in over three thousand years!  (You can read about a some important events that took place at Beth Shemesh in 1 Samuel 6 and 2 Chronicles 25.)

June also saw the beginning of a major renovation to our studios.  Old equipment was removed and we’re now waiting for the new equipment to be installed.  We cannot do new recording during this period, so we plan to give our website a facelift.  Take a look at www.smzg.org, and then return again in a month and see the difference!

Speaking of our Chinese website, we had over 242,000 hits on www.smzg.org during June.  People from widely separated places such as Russia and the Seychelles, as well as China and Singapore, visited our website.

Thanks for reading and thanks for your prayers!