Violinist David Lassiter, member of the Biola College music faculty, participates in live telecast from HCJB studios.
Pioneer Venture -
Missionary Television by Marjorie Larson
E arly i n D ecember , 1962, Bob Clark, director of mis sionary television station HCJB-TV in Quito, Ecua dor, felt discouraged. While he was convinced that during its three years of telecasting, missionary television had made a solid impact for the Gospel in Ecuador, he was concerned about the Christian public in the United States, whose support and prayers were urgently needed. Few people had any interest in contributing their share of the 12
Lord’s money to television. Because the only TV they knew carried a message incompatible with jnissions, they could not visualize television as a missionary med ium. However, Bob knew that HCJB-TV was different. Added to his burden was the fact that HCJB-TV would soon go off the air for an indefinite time to enable the engineers to make a changeover from Channel 2 to Channel 4. How would the audience react to this halt TH E KING'S BUSINESS
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