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1952 to 1972

 

1952: TWR International Begins!

1954: The first TWR International programming to Spain is broadcast.

1960: The first missionaries from Canada are sent out under TWR International.

Image of Paul Freed, TWR International founder

1973 to 1981

 

1973: On June 18, TWR Canada is established under the direction of Rev. Arthur Murfin as a national partner with TWR International. TWR Canada begins to send out missionaries. Approximately 32 missionary families are sent out by the early 80s.

1980: Steve and Pam Wise join TWR Canada as regional representives.

1981: Steve and Barbara Shantz join TWR Canada as missionaries.

 

"One story of impact was on the site of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which was the historic capital of the Kumar Empire. There was this group of 25 doctors and community helpers and ourselves. And I remember one particular session where we taught a group of Buddhists, who were largely doctors, about the Holy Spirit and how we as believers are given the gift of the Holy Spirit that strengthens and empowers our ministry. This was a brand new teaching to them. A hush fell over the group as we talked about the Holy Spirit. And in the midst of that hush as they sat there waiting for what we would say next, a breeze blew through the trees and it picked up the leaves and stirred them into a circle and raised them up in the air, and then they fell back again onto the ground. Everyone there felt the Spirit of God move over that meeting."  - Steve Wise

"Barbara and I joined TWR in 1981 as career missionaries. I had just finished college and my goal ever since I was a teenager was to be a technical missionary and use my technical skills for the furtherance of the gospel. So I applied to TWR because I heard about TWR at a missions conference at Benton Street Baptist Church in Kitchener, and Barbara and I had been seeking the Lord's leading and guidance in serving as missionaries.

Most of my highlights go back to when I was working directly with technology, but it has also been a wonderful highlight to work in Latin America, to get to know the Latin America leaders in TWR and the national partners, and to travel to those national partner offices. When we were in Monte Carlo, I would travel into Eastern Europe with our monitoring equipment and I would sit in a farmhouse at night out in the Hungarian countryside with an antenna, a highly sensitive radio and a laptop computer, and measure the signals that we would be broadcasting. So, to be in the target area in the Cold War, and to hear TWR coming in loud and clear blew my mind and I would just sit there thinking, 'this is what our listeners hear and this is the whole result of everything we do at TWR; to put that signal into a closed country or a difficult area of the world to reach.'" - Steve Shantz

 
 

 

1982

 

Dr. Carl Seyffert becomes the first full-time director of TWR Canada.

Tony joins TWR Canada as a missionary and begins the Persian ministry, broadcasting the gospel to the Persian-speaking world.

 

"Carl and I had heard about TWR though Art Murfin, who worked as a TWR representative in Canada. Art visited Carl at our church. Carl got so excited when he realized how many hundreds of thousands of millions of people could hear the gospel, and hear Christ and his love and death and resurrection. He was also excited to hear about all that could be accomplished." - Millie Seyffert, Carl's wife

"When we started to broadcast, there was no budget and the airtime to broadcast for half an hour was over 1,000 US dollars. Meanwhile, I had no support, only $86 a month. Despite that, God miraculously provided support, not just for me but also for air time. He provided us with $1,100 every day for 365 days a year. Several years after the Iranian Revolution there was no other way to reach the Iranian people except for radio. God gave us the strongest transmission so we could cover the entire country of Iran with the gospel every day.

"Also, despite the limitations of the mail being controlled and not being able to mail the Bible, we did it anyway and found a way. We received so many letters sent through different methods and different countries, but all from Iran. Some even took the letters from Iran to Afghanistan to mail it to make sure we received it. We received so many letters from us doing only 30 minutes of programming a day, and for me that was most encouraging." - Tony

1983 to 1984

 

1983: McDaniel and Blossom Phillips join TWR Canada as missionaries.

1984:  Carl Seyffert arranges a meeting for Paul Freed to share the story of TWR with some people in London, Ontario.

 

"I was a broadcaster for many years and radio was a thing I enjoyed. We had a program on Bonaire called Caribbean Night Call that came on at midnight (soft, easy, laidback conversation), and I asked who would be listening, but I had to craft programs for people who I would never meet and never know what they are like because there are hundreds of islands. I used to draw a composite (an image of someone I would talk to), for the series of programs, and a letter came in. Her first words were 'how did you know? Every world you said was for me and I needed to hear it.' This woman from Jamaica was encouraged to return to church." - McDaniel Phillips

"Carl had arranged for Paul Freed to come in and speak to some of us. And we were just going to have some Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was 5:00 and we sat down to eat and he was due to speak at 6:00.

"Paul would not eat and said to me, 'I get nervous when I have to speak to others' There are eight of us in the room. Here's a man whose voice and impact has gone around the world, and yet he was so self-effacing and so humble of spirit that he didn't want to eat before he spoke, in case that would impact what he had to say to us. He spoke for maybe 20 minutes about the mission and vision of TWR. I was thinking if Paul were sitting in the office today (2023) in London, giving that speech and sharing his heart and vision, I think it would totally resonate with exactly what's happening today. I also think he would be completely comfortable with what TWR has done with the radio, and now other media." - Steve Wise

 
 

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