When I was an Air Force chaplain at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, the manager of the Armed Forces Radio Network at the Command Headquarters for the Alaskan Command encouraged me to begin a radio broadcast that would reach all of the remote sites in Alaska. He attended my Sunday evening worship service that I conducted every Sunday night for the three years I was stationed there with my family. The time frame was from May 1967 to May 1970. It was during the heighth of the Vietnam War.
After prayer and a lot of discussion with other chaplains, my Wing chaplain, and my command chaplain, I started the radio broadcast. I gave it this name, "Today with God." It was a five minute broadcast. I was able to enlist other chaplains to assist me by doing a series of broadcasts that relieved me from having to do all of them myself.
Years later, when I returned to the pastorate, I began another broadcast, "Today With God," on a 100,000 Christian FM radio station at prime drive time, 5:55 p. m. Monday through Friday. I found a recording of a choir that sang "Nothing Is Impossible" at the beginning for the broadcast, and I closed with the choir singing, "Rise and Be Healed in the Name of Jesus."
Let me give you the lyrics to both songs:
Opening song for the broadcast:
Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God;
Nothing is impossible when you're trusting in His Word.
Hearken to the voice of God to thee;
"Is there anything too hard for Me?"
Then put your trust in God alone and rest upon His Word;
For ev'rything, O, ev'rything, yes ev'rything is possible with God.
Closing song for the broadcast:
Rise up and be healed in the Name of Jesus
Let faith Arise in your soul
Rise and be healed in the Name of Jesus
He will cleanse you and make you whole.
Dwight Cook was my radio announcer. He was at one time the leading disc jockey (Shotgun Cook) in Houston, TX. He had a recording studio and edited every broadcast for me. His father-in-law, Ed Mixon, formerly of Birmingham, Alabama and a mentor to me during my teen years in our church in Birmingham, The First Pentecostal Holiness Church, during O. N. Todd, Jr's tenure as our pastor, purchased and gave me the state of the art recording equipment to record every broadcast on a reel to reel tape. God provided all the money for the radio ministry and I never asked for any money for the broadcast. God moved upon people to give and every need was met. I consider that a miracle.
After prayer and a lot of discussion with other chaplains, my Wing chaplain, and my command chaplain, I started the radio broadcast. I gave it this name, "Today with God." It was a five minute broadcast. I was able to enlist other chaplains to assist me by doing a series of broadcasts that relieved me from having to do all of them myself.
Years later, when I returned to the pastorate, I began another broadcast, "Today With God," on a 100,000 Christian FM radio station at prime drive time, 5:55 p. m. Monday through Friday. I found a recording of a choir that sang "Nothing Is Impossible" at the beginning for the broadcast, and I closed with the choir singing, "Rise and Be Healed in the Name of Jesus."
Let me give you the lyrics to both songs:
Opening song for the broadcast:
Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God;
Nothing is impossible when you're trusting in His Word.
Hearken to the voice of God to thee;
"Is there anything too hard for Me?"
Then put your trust in God alone and rest upon His Word;
For ev'rything, O, ev'rything, yes ev'rything is possible with God.
Closing song for the broadcast:
Rise up and be healed in the Name of Jesus
Let faith Arise in your soul
Rise and be healed in the Name of Jesus
He will cleanse you and make you whole.
Dwight Cook was my radio announcer. He was at one time the leading disc jockey (Shotgun Cook) in Houston, TX. He had a recording studio and edited every broadcast for me. His father-in-law, Ed Mixon, formerly of Birmingham, Alabama and a mentor to me during my teen years in our church in Birmingham, The First Pentecostal Holiness Church, during O. N. Todd, Jr's tenure as our pastor, purchased and gave me the state of the art recording equipment to record every broadcast on a reel to reel tape. God provided all the money for the radio ministry and I never asked for any money for the broadcast. God moved upon people to give and every need was met. I consider that a miracle.