FROM ONE LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER by insight for living ministries
n 1984, Chilean pastor David Hormachea VPV. For the following 10 years, David led began studying at Biola to deepen his a small team that produced and distributed understanding of God’s Word and sharpen the VPV broadcast. With David focused on carefully transhis skills for lifelong ministry. He never expected “chancing” upon the Insight for lating and faithfully contextualizing every Living radio broadcast featuring Pastor word of Pastor Chuck’s sermons, the team Chuck Swindoll’s clear expositional method, required additional leadership. So, he engaging presentation, and aim at the heart. reached out to friend and former colleague, But when does God ever work within the Ken Grant, who had grown up in Latin America as a child of missionaries and at realm of our expectations? These sermons not only fuelled David’s the time was working in radio at HCJB. Ken spiritual growth but soon led to a partner- joined VPV as manager. When Ken stepped onboard, VPV was ship in ministry that would last nearly two decades. He quickly reached out to already airing on about 200 radio stations, but Ken streamlined the operaInsight for Living Ministries Multiplication— tions by knowing which of with the earnest desire of translating and broadcasting that’s God’s aim. these stations would maximize VPV’s reach across the AmeriPastor Chuck’s sermons into the Spanish language. Due to the newness cas. Furthermore, Ken also transitioned and complexity of the endeavour, Pastor VPV’s broadcast delivery method from casChuck felt hesitant to pursue it. With a new sette tape to CDs, which were much cheaper language comes a new culture. But once to produce and ship. Now, VPV delivers Insight for Living Ministries' president and messages using the standard File Transfer chief executive officer, Cynthia Swindoll, Protocol (FTP) system. Multiplication—that’s God’s aim. God heard from her husband about the opporis exalting Himself from one person to tunity, she thought YES! Then, after prayerful consideration, another, from one language to another, from one pastor to another, and from one Visión Para Vivir (VPV) was born! David quickly began translating and country to another. recording Pastor Chuck’s sermons while also developing key contacts in Latin Excerpt taken from "Visión Para Vivir: Insight for America to prepare to launch. In 1988, HCJB Living Ministries in the Spanish Language." Read in Quito, Ecuador, and KHCB in Houston, the complete article online at insightforliving.ca/ Texas, began airing the first broadcasts of vision-para-vivir.
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