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Making Waves: TWR’s journey to reach the world for Christ through media
“You hold in your hands a story of vision, innovation and proof of the power of the gospel.” DR. ERWIN LUTZER, Pastor Emeritus Moody ChurchCarlos was a master cocaine producer for drug lord Pablo Escobar. In officially atheistic Albania, Berti monitored the airwaves to help defend his communist homeland. Rachid grew up in Morocco, preparing to one day lead a local mosque – like his father.
How would any of them ever have the opportunity to hear the good news that Jesus Christ died on the cross to give them new, eternal life?In the middle of the 20th century, Paul Freed founded Trans World Radio based on a Media could overcome cultural, political and geographic barriers to help the Church make disciples of all nations. Seven decades later, TWR continues making waves by leveraging radio, multimedia websites, animated Bible videos and more to bring the gospel to hostile lands, places missionaries can’t go and unreached people groups in over 230 languages.Making Waves compellingly weaves together listener testimonies like those of Carlos, Berti and Rachid with reports and personal accounts by TWR staff and leaders. Authors Richard Greene and John Lundy paint a dynamic portrait of how the Lord is using TWR, its partners and media to transform individuals’ lives. We hope it will embolden God’s calling in your own life!
How would any of them ever have the opportunity to hear the good news that Jesus Christ died on the cross to give them new, eternal life?In the middle of the 20th century, Paul Freed founded Trans World Radio based on a Media could overcome cultural, political and geographic barriers to help the Church make disciples of all nations. Seven decades later, TWR continues making waves by leveraging radio, multimedia websites, animated Bible videos and more to bring the gospel to hostile lands, places missionaries can’t go and unreached people groups in over 230 languages.Making Waves compellingly weaves together listener testimonies like those of Carlos, Berti and Rachid with reports and personal accounts by TWR staff and leaders. Authors Richard Greene and John Lundy paint a dynamic portrait of how the Lord is using TWR, its partners and media to transform individuals’ lives. We hope it will embolden God’s calling in your own life!
257 pages, Paperback
Published January 30, 2024
About the author
Richard Greene
113 books14 followersRichard Thomas Greene is a Canadian poet and biographer whose book Boxing the Compass won the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. Greene received his BA in English at Memorial University in 1983, and took his doctorate as a Rothermere Fellow at Oxford University in 1991. He returned to Memorial University to teach English before joining the University Of Toronto at Mississauga in 1995, as a member of the English and Drama department. Married to pianist Marianne Marusic and father to four children, he resides in Cobourg, Ontario.
Greene first distinguished himself as a teacher and a critic with his book Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry, published in 1993. In addition to 18th-century poetry, it was with scholarly works on Dame Edith Sitwell and Graham Greene that Greene broke through to greater renown and a wide general readership. He enjoyed international success in 2007 with Graham Greene: A Life in Letters - a biography constructed out of the novelist's own words. His recent biography, Edith Sitwell: Avant-garde Poet, English Genius is an attempt to revive the reputation of a neglected writer.
Greene is primarily known in Canada as a poet. His first collection, Republic of Solitude: Poems 1984-1994 drew little attention from reviewers when published in Newfoundland in 1994. However, it contains poems such as "Utopia" that have been often anthologized. His second collection, Crossing the Straits, was published by the St. Thomas Poetry Series of Toronto in 2004. Richard Greene's third collection of poems, Boxing the Compass, describes the journeys Greene made by Greyhound and Amtrak while visiting archives of Graham Greene's letters. It eventually won him the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry.
Richard Greene currently teaches Creative Writing and British literature at the University of Toronto.
Greene first distinguished himself as a teacher and a critic with his book Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry, published in 1993. In addition to 18th-century poetry, it was with scholarly works on Dame Edith Sitwell and Graham Greene that Greene broke through to greater renown and a wide general readership. He enjoyed international success in 2007 with Graham Greene: A Life in Letters - a biography constructed out of the novelist's own words. His recent biography, Edith Sitwell: Avant-garde Poet, English Genius is an attempt to revive the reputation of a neglected writer.
Greene is primarily known in Canada as a poet. His first collection, Republic of Solitude: Poems 1984-1994 drew little attention from reviewers when published in Newfoundland in 1994. However, it contains poems such as "Utopia" that have been often anthologized. His second collection, Crossing the Straits, was published by the St. Thomas Poetry Series of Toronto in 2004. Richard Greene's third collection of poems, Boxing the Compass, describes the journeys Greene made by Greyhound and Amtrak while visiting archives of Graham Greene's letters. It eventually won him the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry.
Richard Greene currently teaches Creative Writing and British literature at the University of Toronto.
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March 31, 2024
I like this book. This book gives you a broader perspective of TWR ministry. It accomplish the goal that it shares in one of the chapters: “we have tried to do through this book is to illustrate how God is big enough to take ordinary individuals from diverse backgrounds and to provide everything that is necessary to accomplish what He has called them to do.”
If this book you can have a great perspective of TWR ministry. I’m encouraging you to read it.
Why not 5 stars? Actually I would like to give 4.8, but the platform doesn’t allow it. And it’s because there’s one chapter that I’m not agree with the statements.
After that, I highly recommend this book.
If this book you can have a great perspective of TWR ministry. I’m encouraging you to read it.
Why not 5 stars? Actually I would like to give 4.8, but the platform doesn’t allow it. And it’s because there’s one chapter that I’m not agree with the statements.
After that, I highly recommend this book.
June 5, 2024
If you put my name on the cover of your book, I'll give it five stars, too.
By the way, the Canadian poet Richard Greene whom Goodreads placed with this entry is not the Richard Greene who was the principal author of "Making Waves." Our Richard Greene lives in Boone, North Carolina, approximately 630 miles from the Canadian border. Although our Richard Greene has written a lot, I do not believe he has had any poetry published.
By the way, the Canadian poet Richard Greene whom Goodreads placed with this entry is not the Richard Greene who was the principal author of "Making Waves." Our Richard Greene lives in Boone, North Carolina, approximately 630 miles from the Canadian border. Although our Richard Greene has written a lot, I do not believe he has had any poetry published.
October 11, 2024
This interesting story is fascinating and enjoyable. I read a chapter a day along with my daily Bible reading and always looked forward to the next chapter. I have long been a believer in radio as a means to bringing the gospel to the world and TWR is certainly doing that.
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