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WEEKQUEST: Let's try something new in here

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Some forums allow for promoters to throw something aimless against the wall to see what sticks. Some bite, some don't. Other forums in here exist so people can slam the industry and not throw out solutions.

Let's remedy that with healthy debate and insight. Who knows, maybe... just maybe, there is a PD or a GM out there watching and listening. Wouldn't that be something? So... QUESTION OF THE WEEK (or WEEKQUEST, because that is what we are supposed to be doing anyway)

Who has actually been been fortunate enough to lead someone to Christ while doing this business?
 
Most of the people with whom I have been fortunate to pray to receive Christ have made the decision through the work of the Holy Spirit as a result of one-on-one lifestyle evangelism.

As far as actually praying with someone receiving Christ while I was on the job? There have only been 2 of those in my career. Both of them happened when I was working an overnight shift right out of high school. And they happened within 1 month of each other. They were a boyfriend and a girlfriend who were strung out on cocaine. She found the station one overnight and heard us soliciting prayer. She called. And we talked for three hours. A week later she called back and accepted Christ. Then she got her BF to call. He and I talked and debated for about 3 days. But eventually he gave his heart as well.

In those days, I was spinning tunes from midnight to 6am. I was the only one in the radio station overnight. This was before the distraction of the internet...so my time was spent reading CCM, talking with listeners on the phone, reading the Bible, and just listening to God in the quiet of those small hours. Being surrounded by the music in a constant attitude of worship and prayer ushered in some amazing times of fellowship with God.

Most of my evening was spent taking requests from graveyard shift gas station attendants and insomniacs. Man, some of the calls that came in were amazing. A battered woman called who was terrified that at any moment her drunken hubby would come home and wail the tar out of her. The there was also the lady who called EVERY night to request prayer because the devil was chasing her. One night Satan apparently stole her vacuum cleaner...he fixed it...and then brought it back at midnight. "Wow..."

Then there was the 65 year old widow who would call...request prayer...and then after she had gotten to know you, she would proposition you for...you know what. Overall, the callers were sane...searching people who were reaching out for a touch from God. And the evening guy and I got to do most of that ministry. The daytime jocks pretty much just got calls from people requesting songs, music information and contesting.

In those days, we were commercial 6am to 6pm. But we went non-com overnight. The mood and energy was great during the day. But there was just SOMETHING that changed in that place when the doors locked at 5:30 PM and everyone went home. The atmosphere seemed to transform into something wonderfully different evening, overnights and weekends.

I miss that type of ministry. Sitting in the studio during those wee hours on the phone while 4Him sang "He Never Changes" on the speakers in the background.
 
I had similar experiences when I worked at a Christian radio station on Saturday afternoons back in the 1980's. The building was empty and back then you could dial the phone and actually get the studio and not an answering machine or computerized phone system that makes it pretty hard to get to the on air people that seems to be the norm of today's radio stations. I'd have listeners call in and talk and pray with me. It was a real blessing to be able to be there for those folks.
 
I can remember some pretty crazy nights on KOBC Joplin. Nurses from the hospitle and cops on patrole and people who worked 3rd shift called in on a regular basis. I had "special friend" who called himself "The Bangle".
He was a spooky charicture. Mostly I remember the night I got a call from a woman who said "I've got a bottle full of pills." She shook them to emphise her seriousness. "Give a reason why not to take every one of these." Two hours, lots of sweat, and many prayer offered silently later she gave her self over to Jesus. If hers' is the only life I ever know about touching then that is enough.
 
I could two ways with this post:

1. It's Tuesday and only four of us have shared this experience. Shame.

2. What great stories. And Shadow, you are so right... you have no clue how many other lives you will touch with that sweat equity. In heaven, we will all know, but on earth... there has to be more than this. You think? ???
 
Absence of response is not an indication of lack of success in sharing the Gospel.
The stories do remind me of how important evenings and overnight can be in ministry.
 
Justalurker makes a good point, not just in Christian radio, but when is your pastor the busiest. Usually in the evenings when folks are home from work. Sure he makes hospital and housebound visits during the day, but for everyone else nights and weekends are when he see's those folks other than Sunday morning for worship.
 
MikefromDelaware said:
Justalurker makes a good point, not just in Christian radio, but when is your pastor the busiest. Usually in the evenings when folks are home from work. Sure he makes hospital and housebound visits during the day, but for everyone else nights and weekends are when he see's those folks other than Sunday morning for worship.
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So it is evenings and weekends? :)
 
If you think about it, yes, unless an emergency situation, most people are at work during the day, so most pastors make hospital visits, visit the house bound, they do meet with retired folks during the day and funerals of course, but for counciling, and other Bible studies, etc, sure most of that happens in the evenings when people are not at work. Being a Pastor is not an 8-5 job, it's a 24/7 occupation. They make themselves available when their flock is available or needs them, which more often than not will be at night. If you don't believe me, ask your Pastor.
 
I had 20 + years of radio ownership and manageent before we sold and I did other things, including working weekends at KXEN, St. Louis for 8 years. Saturday afternoon requests were lots of different people plus a few regulars each week, and wonderful prayer experiences.

I'm a nursing home chaplain now.
 
Hate to classify, but Neutral is right... the days of the UPC with wooden, creaky floors that vibrate when the Hammond B3 organ gets strumming are just about gone. Don't think for a minute I am hating. My wife was raised in one of those wonderful churches. But these days, the "PASTOR" doesn't get to do the late night phone call and actually witness the ministry at work, unless it is a start up. He see that from his pulpit with an enormous altar call.

But to curb it around to the topic at hand... this has nothing to do with your pastor, this is about YOU ON RADIO leading someone to the Lord. It's the wonder of radio and the miracle of Christ hand-in-hand. Thought someone would like to share...

Oh... absence of replies? All it takes is one for people on this unfortunately not-that-active forum to activate ;D
 
While at 91 FM, I led a few people to Christ and prayed with numerous others. Late nights (when we played Alternative and then Christian Metal in the overnights) saw a lot of people call our prayer line. While filling in on the Alternative Edge, I talked a woman out of suicide, I praise God for that miracle still today.
 
I have had many wild experiences with ministering to people on the air. Every thing from giving an altar call over the air and a lady called in saying she needed to get saved, to a man in maximum security lock down somehow getting a radio and receiving Christ. God sets up so many appts. Many we do not even realize.
 
At WAPN during our show, the phone would ring as fast as we cleared a line during our show. I have hundreds, maybe thousands of call slips. Salvations, rededications, prayer requests, prevented suicides. As soon as the station went back to praise and worship music / brokered preaching - the phones went silent. Maybe one call an hour.

Want to reach people for Christ? Try Christian rock music! I got the call slips to prove it works.
 
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