And Hello Once Again;
Well,we are late posting this newsletter again……..no one has complained……..but we do feel better when proposed goals are met.The reason for our tardiness is just being almost swamped with good things that need doing.The current major emphasis is to actually do……..rather than to comment about doing. So less talk and more action is the prevailing mood.
To elaborate a little……the effort is to get the sizeable amount of messages that have accumulated ,out of being stored in computer folders and onto the site.The hinderance as to how quickly that can take place,has been a combination of several factors.
1-First,we needed more space…….and now that is a reality.
2-Most of the material is in need of final touches of preparation.
3-This preparation is ongoing and gaining ground.
We hope to be adding a good library of C.M.M.L. Conferences in January……..also on the way are approx 200 additional messages by Donald Norbie,including an indepth series on Church History.
These items are just the beginnings, so keep an eye on us as we move along,and we just ask that those who visit here,share our existance with others.
Warmly In Christ,
The VFC Team
December 8, 2007
The VFC Voice – December 2007
November 4, 2007
The VFC Voice – November 2007
And again,Hello to All;
There is so much to be thankful for that we would likely miss something in any attempt to cover everything.We are now on a new server,with double our original capacity for storing and sharing ministry. And currently there are somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 tapes here that as of yet are still to be organized and digitized.To that amount of unworked material can be added 7,000 messages which are already finished except for final details of audio touch up and correct naming.There is no desire to “brag”
concerning lots of content…..but to say that the ongoing purpose is to share a growing library with all who are interested.
Sometimes we feel that progress is slow,but actually not necessarily so,considering our limited manpower.
One aspect of things that we might elaborate on just a bit,is the ever increasing technology around us.The internet itself is ever growing with more and more connectivity worldwide.Also the ways of sharing information via a growing array of players continues to increase.An example being the well know Apple Ipod which now can hold almost 160 gigabytes of audio files.Currently as of this writing,Voices For Christ files amount to approx 125 gigabytes…………so in effect,this implies that everything on the VFC site,can now be transported about and heard from a shirt pocket.We well remember just within the past few years,a van load of cassettes and reels delivered from the state of Kentucky,and a pickup truck loaded waist high with tapes from Florida,and most currently 18 plastic tubs containing 600 tapes apiece,from Pennsylvania.
Also on the agenda is a redo of the site with better ways to present and access the contents.So bear with us along the way,and anticipate good ministry to enjoy.
Warmly In Christ,
The VFC Team
October 21, 2007
New server
We are on a new server! This message proves it! We are now running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 on AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core 4200. We have a lot more memory and a lot more disk space than before and with the newly upgraded operating system base we plan great things in the coming year!
October 2, 2007
The VFC Voice – October 2007
Hello Again To All;
The new messages this month are the first installment from the Two Roads Radio Archives by Jeff Buckles and Mike Moody.We hope to add additional messages to these soon,as well as platform ministry also.
Behind the scenes,the newest news is that all looks well as to our soon move to more server space.
Currently VFC purchases space on two 80 gigabyte server hard drives.Both of these drives are almost completely filled.The planned soon coming move,possibly in approx 30 days,will be to two 160 gigabyte drives,thus doubling our space and allowing continued growth.At present we are drawing close to the 30,000 messages pointPerhaps a question might be,how much does VFC plan or want to grow? The answer is,we want to be constantly adding material if it is offered to us.There are some ideas along these lines,such as expanding with more French,Spanish and Portuguese ministry.One of the biggest current needs is in the area of speaker profiles and/or biographies.If someone wishes to help,please let us know.
The door is open,the necessary technology already exists,and the desire to keep building is resident. We have the greatest message the world has ever known,The Gospel Of Jesus Christ.Lord help us to share that message far and wide.
Warmly In Christ,
The VFC Team
September 7, 2007
The VFC Voice – September 2007
Hello Again To All;
All new messages this month were donated by Park Of The Palms Chapel in Keystone Heights,Florida. These are the 2007 Conference season.
Other news is that overall things are going well,new ministry continues to arrive,and outgoing ministry continues to be shared thru site downloads and messages requested to be sent on discs.The outlook appears encouraging that we will be able to increase our server space,possibly without a resulting increase in costs.
We will likely have more to say on this in days ahead.
As usual,please remember us in prayer,and share the word that we are here.
Warmly In Christ,
The VFC Team
August 5, 2007
The VFC Voice – August 2007
Hello To All;
The new additions this month were donated by John Phelan of Nashville,Tennessee.The radio ministry of Rush Hour Relief and Chapel Time aired for 25 years .The original recordings on reel to reel tapes survived a house fire and came close to being lost,but survive they did,and are now preserved.
For September we hope to add this year’s Conference Season messages from Park Of The Palms in Florida.
The Park website can be visited at www.ParkOfThePalms.org
Please continue to pray for us and tell others of the Voices website.
Warmly In Christ,
The VFC Team
July 4, 2007
The VFC Voice – July 2007
Hello To All;
The new message additions this month by speaker Ken Baird,were donated in cassette tape format by the Baird family from Iowa.There was not quite enough time to get an accompanying profile in place ,but one should be forthcoming in days ahead.
Working with these messages has been an enjoyable experience.We find the ministry almost addictive in a sense.Hence we say,if you are a visitor to this website,please don’t leave without at least sampling some of these messages.And we add that in the preparation of these,we did three separate “sets”,each identical other than the introductory and ending theme music.To explain a bit,let’s call these “sets” Set A – Set B – and Set C.
1-Set A….These are the messages now on the website…….the theme music is found on the first message in each series only.
2-Set B…..These have the theme music included on every message,and can be requested as a mp3 cd if wished…Just request Ken Baird Set B.
3-Set C….These have the theme music ommitted altogether……..they can be requested as Ken Baird Set C.
Next month we hope to add more former radio ministry…….this time by speaker John Phelan,of Nashville,Tn.
Other recent arrivals have been many messages by Ernest Tatham,one of the Emmaus founders.Also several years of conference ministry from Ramseur N.C. are being prepared.Then spread out over the coming months,we hope to work with the many years of recordings sent from Greenwood Hills,and we have not forgotten the balance of messages still to come from the Bahamas archives.
All we ask is that you remember us in prayers,and share the existance of the Voices For Christ website with friends.
Because Of Calvary,The VFC Team
June 1, 2007
The VFC Voice – May-June 2007
Hello To All;
We at VFC have been blessed abundantly with new incoming ministry to prepare for the site. Approximately 11,800 tapes arrived from Greenwood Hills Conference Center in Pennsylvania.
Just trying to get these into some degree of order is a major undertaking.In addition,as previously mentioned,reel tapes of radio ministry by John Phelan in Tennessee also has arrived and converting the messages to audio mp3 files is well underway.Further radio ministry is expected at any time,this time from Iowa.These will be several hundred cassettes of broadcasts by Ken Baird.So we can heartily proclaim,that the Lord has blessed above and beyond that which we asked.
With so much preparation work at hand,we find it hard to keep up the pace of getting new material onboard every 4 weeks,therefore we feel forced to take a short break in that area,and devote all efforts into
dealing with the incoming flood.With over 28,000 messages already on the site,there seemingly is no lack of ministry for the present.At last check,over 10,000 messages per month were being downloaded from VFC, and an average of several thousand more going out as requested orders on CD and DVD discs.So,all in all,things are going well,and we thank the Lord for this.
We re-affirm our request for ministry stored away in attics,basements,closets.A main objective is that any such archives not be lost prior to having the chance to be preserved.Feel free to contact us at info@VoicesForChrist.org concerning any matters that we can assist with.
Warmly In Christ,The VFC Team
April 1, 2007
The VFC Voice – April 2007
Hello Again To All;
With joy in the heart,we add 412 new messages to the website,for the month of April.Of these , 81 are by the beloved brother Arthur Garnes.The remaining are the first installment of ministry from the Bahamas.
There will be more of these……….. 759 more at the latest count.
We wish we had profiles on each speaker,and perhaps they will happen in time……..We can say emphatically……..there are some tremendous new messages here,by some wonderfully gifted men.We are just hearing many of them for the first time ourselves………such as the evangelistic ministry of brother Tom Roberts,and inspiring messages by brother George Walker,former missionary to Cuba.
We also want to share what we are currently very excited about……….the hopeful ability to access a gigantic archive of ministry,which spans the past 60 years at least…………This archive has been the subject of prayer for over two years now………..We have not seen it,but have heard remarks telling of numerous (Possibly 6 to 10 ) 55 gallon barrels of reel to reel and cassette recorded ministry.Organizing,preserving and sharing this wealth of ministry would be as a dream come true,and viewed as an opportunity of a lifetime.
So therefore,pray with us that working this archive will become a reality……….and the time to pray is now,for we expect to know the final word in the next several weeks at most.
Other plans along the way are a re-design of the site,and some additional ways of presenting the messages,such as the ability to know which are from particular locations,such as The Park Of The Palms etc,of which there are over 4,000 Park messages already on the site now.
When prayer is offered,we should include thankfulness to our God ,for His continual blessings that have been so evident thus far,in prompting individuals to allow access to the archives already online.
We say again,thank you for visiting Voices For Christ,and telling others of it’s existance.
Warmly In Christ,
The VFC Team
March 2, 2007
The VFC Voice – March 2007
Greetings Again To All;
The new messages this month were sent by missionary Milton Haack and also J.Leslie Campbell.Also we now have bios on J.Eddie Schwartz and Ray Fox.
Other tapes have arrived………..4 boxes of reels from John Phelan in Nashville,Tennessee………These are former radio broadcasts of a program that was entitled,”Rush Hour Relief”………..In days ahead we definitely hope to work thru the reels and get the programs digitized,( which means,transferred from tapes into audio files.)
Also a large “load” from an assembly in Charlotte,NC. As for what is currently on the “to do next ” list,we hope to get the 1,000 + messages from the Bahamas onboard.All are partially ready now,but still need correctly titling as to subjects and series titles.Here is a list of the speakers that will be showing up,Lord willing in days ahead.
1-Amos,Randy
2-Bastini,Rick
3-Boswell,James
4-Clifford,David
5-Clunas,John
6-Davies,Bill
7-Dougal,Neil
8-Fell,Benard
9-Ford,Stan
10-Gladstone,Fred
11-Haggerty,Frank
12-Hart,Arthur
13-Hart,Sam
14-Hill,Roy
15-Horlock,Malcolm
16-Irvine,Clint
17-Jacobsen,Oli
18-Key,Stephen
19-Keyser,Keith
20-Lacey,Mark
21-Lowe,Billy
22-Lowe,Bruce
23-MacKinnon,Dennis
24-McKendrick,Jim
25-Michael,Sam
26-Mikhael,Boushra
27-Naismith,James
28-Neilly,Elliot
29-Neilly,Lewton
30-Osborne,Bernard
31-Oxendine,Charles
32-Parks,Alan
33-Perry,Frank
34-Pinder,Alec
35-Pinder,Dennis
36-Pinder,Roddie
37-Price,Larry
38-Reese,Joe
39-Roberts,Tom
40-Sampson,Jeremy
41-Saunders,Dick
42-Schwartz,J.Eddie
43-Sheridan,Liddon
44-Smith,Dan (Vancouver)
45-Smith,Hubert
46-Snaddon,Dan
47-Trogdon,Rex
48-VanRyn,Carroll
49-VanRyn,Elliot
50-Walker,George
51-Zachariassen,Zach
Please continue to share the existence of the Voices For Christ site,and pray that God will continue to bless.
Warmly In Christ,
The VFC Team