Pricey Good friend,
Every so often, when folks ask how Fact For Life started, I inform them that it was in response to the initiative of others and the prayers of the Parkside elders.
Our early days on Moody Radio occurred as a result of Bob Butts, now our chief working officer, pestered Joe Stowell, then president of Moody Bible Institute, and satisfied him that broadcasting our instructing was a good suggestion!
Giant reel-to-reel audio tapes have been despatched from Parkside to Bob in Chicago for enhancing after which distributed to Moody, who aired this system on three stations on the weekends.
It’s truthful to say that the imaginative and prescient was Bob’s, and the voice is mine.
We started a every day broadcast in response to the initiative of Ed Atsinger at Salem Radio Community. He apparently requested John MacArthur to recommend a reputation so as to add to Salem’s audio system record, and surprisingly, mine was given. It was a cheerful windfall that Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie turned chaplain of the US Senate in 1995 and, in doing so, gave up his every day broadcast at 8:05 a.m. on KKLA in California. His slot was given to us, and all of a sudden, we have been airing this system throughout the nation.
With out the prayerful assist of Parkside, together with that of Roland Hinz, Wealthy Riddle, and others, we’d by no means have flourished. They have been amongst a gaggle of well-meaning individuals who supplied recommendation in regards to the construction and content material of this system to assist us turn out to be distinctive. Our response was to hunt to show the Bible clearly and to belief God to do His work by means of His Phrase. Nobody had any inkling of the place we discover ourselves as we speak. Digital know-how and social media have created a worldwide attain which is as humbling as it’s encouraging.
2025 is for me a massively important 12 months. Susan and I’ll rejoice our fiftieth anniversary, which coincides with fifty years in pastoral ministry because the late Derek J. Prime took me beneath his wing. It should additionally mark the top of my function at Parkside Church after serving right here for forty-two years.
Relinquishing my Sunday-by-Sunday pulpit ministry will permit me to serve alongside the staff at Fact For Life in a bigger capability. We’re very excited as we prayerfully anticipate what this can imply. Our core objective stays, and I want to play an even bigger half in instructing the Bible with readability and relevance in order that unbelievers might be transformed, believers might be established, and native church buildings might be strengthened.
There may be a lot extra to this story and so many individuals who proceed to satisfy very important roles as we glance to the longer term. Collectively, together with you, we plant and water and watch as God makes issues develop. As Paul inspired the Galatians: “Allow us to not develop weary of doing good, for in due season we are going to reap, if we don’t hand over.”
With my love within the Lord Jesus,
Alistair
