The Korean Adventist World Radio (AWR) staff received training on radio production at the Korean Union Conference, from November 2 to 3, 2014. Anniston Mathews, program director of AWR Asia Pacific Region, and Surachet Insom, regional director of AWR Asia Pacific Region, served as instructors. They gave the Korean AWR staff an intensive 2-day training course dealing with various subjects, such as the importance of radio broadcasting ministry, how to operate devices necessary for radio production, the proper attitude of a radio host, and how to write a radio script.
The instructors continually emphasized the advantages of radio ministry. First, every listener can create his or her own picture when listening to the radio. When people watch TV programs, they see the same images so there is not much room for developing the imagination.
In contrast, radio programs give room to think. Second, it is relatively easy to produce and deliver a program. While a TV program is produced through a very complicated process, people can produce a radio program with only a microphone and a computer. Last, radio is a friendlier medium than TV. People can listen to the radio when they walk, when they drive, or when they lie in bed.
Radio is a great means of preaching the gospel all around the world in the last days. AWR produces shortwave broadcasting so that it can be transmitted everywhere including North Korea. It is significant that AWR broadcasting is the only way to reach people living in North Korea with God’s message.
Now AWR broadcasting is available through the internet on computers and smartphones. Nearly 10,000 people per day listen to radio programs brought by AWR Korea.