Tim and Alistair share the story of where AudioVerse came from, what God is doing through this ministry, and how lives are being transformed all around the world.

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Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN)

Tim Arakawa

Alistair Huong

AudioVerse 3ABN Today Interview

I want to spend my life mending broken people.

Lord, let my words heal a heart that hurts.

Heal a heart that hurts I want to spend my life Mending broken people I want to spend my life mending broken people.

I'm Jay Christian and with me is Brian Hamilton.

I'm normally on 3ABN radio and Brian is normally the guy that sits in the accounting office and the way he describes it, he wears his little green shade and he sits there and works on the adding machine all the time.

And we have a couple of great guests that you're going to enjoy because they've got quite a story for you, a very interesting ministry.

We have Alistair Huang with us, and he's the executive director of AudioVerse.

And we also have Tim Arakawa, and he's a co-founder of AudioVerse.

And we're looking forward very much to talking with you and learning about your ministry.

First though, before we do that, we have a song and we would like to enjoy some beautiful music.

Celestine Barry, and the name of her song is 23.

♪ The Lord is my shepherd, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want I shall not want He makes me to lie down in green pastures He leads me beside the still waters He restores my soul He leads me in the path of righteousness For His name's sake Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death I will fear No evil for you are with me You write on your staff their comforting You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

The proper rounds over Surely goodness and mercy Shall follow me All the days of my life And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever, forever Forever, forever, forever ♪ Amen, a beautiful song.

Seldestein Barry with 23, and the gentleman on the piano in the background is her husband Michael.

Well, Brian, we have quite an interview ahead of us.

We've got a ministry that reaches around the world on the internet.

And we'll let the gentlemen that are here tell us about it because they work with it very closely and rather than spending a lot of time just saying this is what it is, us saying this is what it is, we'd like to hear it from you guys.

And Tim, if you would, tell us a little bit about AudioVerse and how it got started.

Sure, well, the best way I think to describe AudioVerse would be to say that it's just a collection of sermons available on the internet that anyone in the world can download for free.

We have a collection of, I believe, over 5, 000 sermons now on the website.

And they're from a lot of different speakers.

A lot may be recognizable to our audience here.

For instance, we have Mark Finley is on Audio Verse, Doug Batchelor, even Ted Wilson has a few sermons on Audio Verse.

And we've had various events that we've recorded as well that we have on the website as well.

You know, Tim, I was recently on AudioVerse and looking up some of the sermons that were on there, and I noticed 1 from Glenn Kuhn.

Now, Glenn Kuhn was active in ministry when I was a young person, back in the 70s, 60s, somewhere in that era.

How did you get stuff that far back on audio verse?

Yeah, actually, that's a neat question, because the truth never gets old, right?

And the Bible is relevant yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

And we actually got into contact with Glenn Coon's grandson, and they wanted to get the message out.

They wanted to let as many people be blessed by his messages as possible And that's really what audio verse is all about anyway And so through that connection with Glenn Coons family now We are working on releasing the rest of the material that we have and once it's all said and done we should have the most complete collection of Glenn Kuhn recordings, audio and video that's available in any 1 place.

Okay, well you've just said something that I want to check now.

So, okay, can they listen to it or do they have to download it?

Well, our website actually is designed to allow people to listen directly on the website or they can download it to listen to later or They can put on their iPods or iPhones and tablets and things like that.

And all of these technologies enable people to access the content wherever they are.

And yes, we do have audio primarily, but we also have some video content now too.

And from the sounds of things, you're doing some of your own programming.

Well, we don't have too many programs right now, but we continually try to release the gospel in the best way to touch hearts all around the world.

Yeah, actually, we are looking forward to letting more and more people know about Audioverse around the world.

Okay, how can they find you if they want to go and check you out on the internet?

It's www.audioverse.org And actually we brought a few pictures to share with our viewers here of the website of what they'll find when they get there.

And when you arrive at the Audioverse website, you'll know you're at the right place when you see the Audioverse logo right at the top.

And across the top of the web page, you'll see all the various links to take you to the different portions of the website.

And you can see we actually have material in different languages even.

And you can also search in the toolbar by topics, your favorite presenter and conferences that you may have missed like ASI or GYC.

You'll see the list of all the sermons that are most frequently viewed and you can click on the speaker's picture And you'll see this next page, which is the sermon page.

And the most important thing to remember on this page is right in the middle of the top of the page is a big media player.

You click that and you're listening to a sermon.

So literally within just 2 clicks of visiting audio verse you could be listening to the truths of God's Word And that's so exciting that people around the world can just take advantage of this resource Tim you helped get the whole concept started How did you come up with the idea?

Well, to begin with, I think it was providential.

You know, sometimes God just places an opportunity in front of us and we don't even know what the results are going to be, but we step forward in faith.

And that's really the way that AudioVerse started.

I was a student at Loma Linda University studying medicine at the time.

And while I was there, there was a large group of young people, students, young professionals who were all on fire for the Lord.

And several groups and ministries actually came out of that.

1 of them was Advent Hope, which is a Sabbath school of the Loma Linda University Church.

Another 1 was Restoration, which is actually an evangelistic series that happens on the campus of Loma Linda University every year and it's student-led.

And also other youth conferences and all that came about through this.

There were a lot of great speakers that were coming through, a lot of great presentations that we wanted to share, not just with the surrounding community, but with those beyond Southern California and across the world.

And so I began to wonder if there was a way that we could do this that was, you know, cost effective and easy.

You know, you've got to remember back in those days, in 2005, you know, we're used to this very connected world now, social media, our cell phones, and everything's wireless, but back then we didn't have any of those things.

In fact, When you look back, actually Facebook at that time was just an online college directory.

And YouTube, which we all think about when we think about online video, hadn't even started yet.

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