Join Alistair Huong (AudioVerse Executive Director) and Eli Kim (AudioVerse Board Member) to learn how this online media ministry is effectively using technology to spread the Three Angels’ Message and to prepare a generation of people for Jesus to come.

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Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN)

Alistair Huong

Eli Kim

AudioVerse: A Preacher in Your Pocket - 3ABN Today Interview

I want to spend my life mending broken people.

I want to spend my life Removing pain Lord, let my words Heal a heart that hurts I want to spend my life Mending broken people I want to spend my life meeting broken people.

Welcome again to another edition of 3ABN Today.

My name is Ryan Day and we are excited about today's program.

Every program here at 3ABN is exciting in my opinion, but for sure today is special because we got AudioVerse in the house.

That's right, the ministry AudioVerse, which we're gonna learn all about today.

It's a great tool of evangelism, a great tool that you can share with people and just bring encouragement to yourself and others.

And we're gonna talk all about what is going on in the world of AudioVerse in just a few moments.

We have Alistair Huang and Ellie Kim with us.

So you guys are coming to tell us all about AudioVerse and I'm excited what's going to be discussed during this hour.

In fact, if you have any friends or family around that's interested in this powerful tool, tell them to gather around right now.

We're not going to get started just yet because before we get started, we're going to have a beautiful song that's going to be brought to us by my good friend Miss Pat Ko and she's going to be playing a song for us entitled Overshadowed.

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And thank you, my sister, for blessing us with that song.

If you're just now joining us, my name is Ryan Day.

And we have audio verse in the house with us.

I'm so excited because these, I guess you guys are the faces, the faces behind the great, the great, exciting, powerful app that everyone has on their phones than listening to hundreds of thousands of hours of sermons.

Alistair Hwang and Ellie Kim from AudioVerse.

So I'm going to start with you, Alistair.

Just tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're from, and a little bit of background on what you do for AudioVerse.

Yeah, well, thanks so much for the warm invitation here, Ryan.

I'm 1 of the early volunteers of AudioVerse.

For those who don't know, AudioVerse started back in 2005.

My brother-in-law actually was 1 of the founders of the ministry and he roped me in.

I was good friends and Ellie was a good friend of ours as well during that time.

And we were a volunteer group of hodgepodge, you know, mission-minded young people wanting to serve the Lord.

And so, Audioverse was the thing that we got involved with early on.

But as the ministry grew, everyone's lives took over, careers and families and kids.

And I ended up being asked by the board to become the chief executive or the executive director of the ministry.

I guess you can say I help facilitate things, but the main thing is I get all the blame for everything that goes wrong.

Yeah, I was also there in the very beginning.

I remember, I actually remember when they had a competition for suggestions of the name for Audioverse.

I don't remember what I submitted, but I'm glad Audioverse won.

And I was there from the very beginning, also a volunteer.

I helped, I guess, design the first logo for Audioverse.

And now they asked me to be a board member.

I've been a board member for a while now and that's my involvement.

I do want to just make sure we give credit where credit is due.

We're only 2 members of a team of many people that contribute their talents to this ministry and we're very appreciative of their ministry and sacrifice as well.

But, you know, here at 3ABN we have new viewers all the time and if you are a new viewer and you're watching 3ABN for the first time, we want to welcome you.

So We have new viewers all the time that tune into 3ABN, and there's someone probably right now saying, what in the world is AudioVerse?

So tell us a little bit about AudioVerse, its history, how it got started, and let's just start there.

I think that's a great, great point to start.

Yeah, I can give you a little bit of the history and I'll let Ellie share a little bit as well.

So, Audioverse, I mentioned, started in the year 2005.

To give you a little bit of a context, that was before the iPhone was invented.

We were, We were, that was like, I think, Facebook started the year after or somewhere in that realm.

So it really was quite a leap for these college students or medical students at the time to have this idea, hey, why don't we put all of these sermons from our youth group?

It was at the Avan Hope Sabbath School on campus there, and there were preachers coming every Sabbath.

And we were still burning CDs to give them out for free.

And so everyone could download the MP3s and just put them on the iPod.

And we got in touch with various ministries as partners.

And they started putting their content on our site, and you can say the rest is history.

But maybe Eli, you can share a little bit about what Audioverse is today.

Well, today we've grown to such a large ministry where we're worldwide.

A lot of people don't realize that it's not just America, although that is 1 of our largest audiences, but it is worldwide.

Anyone who has a phone or has internet really can download and listen to the sermons.

And it's actually 1 of my things I anticipate from your report every month where you tell us the numbers and we see, wow, we reached this country and this country.

So we are all over the world, but we're not just a sermon collection.

We've expanded to other features like audio Bible we have on there as well where you can listen to it the different voiceovers different versions of the Bible you can listen and as well as stuff for children there's a lot of content for children as well children's programming we've expanded to even some things like scripture songs that maybe people can learn new songs.

We do have a story of a young lady in Thailand, her name is Shani, and she was wanting to get content.

She was a new Christian at the time, and she discovered Audioverse.

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