KTBW March Manager`s Monthly Report

KTBW Seattle
Manager’s Report March 2016
Seattle Praise the Lord!
The theme of our March program was “What Is God
Doing...in Giving Second Chances?” The program
started out that way. But soon the Holy Spirit took
over and the topic of Suicide and Second Chances
became our dominant talking points.
Sam Heredia, Pastor of Victory Outreach Seattle
hosted the program. Guests included a former Mafia
runner and Colombian Drug Cartel member, a veteran
of 14 months of intense fire fighting in Vietnam, a
mother who died for 12 minutes and came back to
life, and a husband who was so into drugs and gangs
that his wife declared “it’s either homicide or suicide
— you or me.”
“Joy in Our Town” Guests...
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Kenneth Morris talked about incarcerated
youth and how absentee fathers are the
reason so many kids turn on to drugs and
crime. Single moms are left to teach moral
values to their children and they just can’t
do it without a positive male influence in the
family.
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Stephen Le, Community Educator for the
Tenants Union of Washington, talked about
the different kinds of rental leases and the
all-to-often deposit scam.
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Erin Summa of the Child Safety Center at
Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital talked about
child safety in the home and how to fit the
right auto seat to your child.
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Bellevue City Council member and former
Mayor Conrad Lee emphasized the importance of the Chinese immigration to the
Seattle area in the midst of the high tech
boom here.
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We also interviewed Evangelist Keith Gerner
and Pastor Jack McKee of Northern Ireland
for future “Seattle Praise the Lord” shows.
Jack told how many of the young men in his
congregation have been shot to death in the
ongoing IRA battles.
In Other News from Seattle
The Seattle area experienced severe wind storms
twice during March. KTBW’s tower is on a remote
heavily forested mountain about two hours from
the main studios. Heavy winter rains soak the
ground, the winds blow huge evergreen trees
down which bring power lines down with them,
and off the air we go. Usually we’re off for one or
two days at a time. Twice in one month!
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On the bright side, we filled our fourth half hour
Saturday slot, thanks to El Shaddai Ministries
purchasing the final availability. We still have
several churches on our waiting list.
Station Manager George Pettingell and his wife
Karen attended Evangelist Emmanuel Ziga’s 16th
Anniversary Dinner at the Newcastle Country Club.
Seattle PTL Scrapbook
Ron Brandon served 14 months in Vietnam as a member of
Ripley’s Raiders, a Marine unit that was constantly involved in
heavy combat.
Seattle Praise the Lord host, Pastor Sam Heredia, leads an
ethnically diverse congregation just north of Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport.
A Russian Mafia member and Colombian drug runner, Capt.
Milton Alvarez was contemplating suicide when he saw
Nicky Cruz on TBN. He now travels the world as an ambassador for Christ.
On the right, Ocieanna Fleiss died of sudden cardiac arrest at
the age of 42. God brought her back to life after flat lining for
12 minutes. She wrote a book about her experience, Love Like
There’s No Tomorrow.
When Kathy and Johnny Heredia’s marriage was just five
years old, Kathy was hurting and suicidal. The marriage
was falling apart, her husband was a heroin addict and
into gang violence. Their lives were totally messed up.
Then their baby died of cancer and they both realized
there was more to life. That missing ingredient was
Jesus. Today they’ve been in the pastoral ministry for 25
years, helping others who have been messed up with the
same kinds of things they lived through.
What did God do in all these lives? He gave them a
second chance, even when they thought suicide was the
only way out.