And Gateway to Joy Begins GTJP-1
The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast
The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation
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🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In addition to our current releases, this is the first of our series of curated shows featuring the Gateway to Joy radio program, which ran for 13 years from 1988 to 2001.
We go back to basics and the beginning today.
One of Elisabeth's best-known themes was probably "Do the Next Thing." We also get the inside story on the very first Gateway to Joy recording session.
Gateway to Joy programs featured:
- Do the Next Thing
- The Mind of Christ
Guests:
- Valerie Elliot Shepard
- Jan Wismer
Theme Music: John Hanson
Special thanks to Mike Dize and the Bible Broadcasting Network
Visit www.ElisabethElliot.org for more Gateway to Joy programs, lectures, talks, devotionals, videos, and other resources.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Elizabeth Alliet Gateway to Joy podcast, the debut episode of this |
| 0:11.0 | podcast. Good to have you along. Hey, maybe before we begin, it would be good for a quick |
| 0:17.6 | review of the Gateway to Joy radio program. Maybe you listen for years when it originally |
| 0:23.7 | aired, or maybe you've heard the slightly newer version of Gateway to Joy. A little |
| 0:29.0 | history now from Jan Anderson-Wismer. She tells us about how the Gateway to Joy radio program |
| 0:35.7 | got its start. Come with me back to 1979. The setting is a radio studio on the campus of Grace |
| 0:43.0 | College of the Bible in Omaha, Nebraska. There's a young woman there who's working the graveyard shift, |
| 0:48.5 | so she decides to write a letter to Elizabeth Alliet. So she sits down at the selectric typewriter |
| 0:54.6 | and the home of the typewriter is in the background. She writes Elizabeth to tell her just how much |
| 1:00.3 | she has appreciated the book, let me be a woman. And while this girl, this young college girl is |
| 1:07.0 | writing this, God plants a seed in her heart that says, one day Elizabeth Alliet is going to be |
| 1:14.0 | on the radio. In April of 1988, back to the Bible, invited Elizabeth Alliet to come and be the |
| 1:20.6 | speaker for a 15 minute radio program. At that time, the Lord gave me these verses. I had in |
| 1:29.3 | mind to build a house as a resting place. I had in mind to build a radio program with Elizabeth Alliet, |
| 1:37.9 | and David says, and I made preparations, and God said to me, all of this was drafted by the |
| 1:45.8 | Lord's own hands. Now who is willing to give today with an open hand? It was God's work. He |
| 1:58.5 | allowed me to have something to do with the beginning of it, and it was such a privilege to get |
| 2:04.0 | to work with Elizabeth. Thanks, Jan. On October 1, 1988, the Gateway to Joy Radio program went on |
| 2:12.0 | the air and continued for over a decade. Then the program was off the air for several years, |
| 2:18.2 | but by July 2013, Lars Grin, husband of Elizabeth Alliet, was working on getting Gateway to Joy |
| 2:25.6 | back on the air. Before long, the programs were mailed to the Bible Broadcasting Network in Charlotte, |
| 2:32.0 | North Carolina. Some were on CD, many on real-to-real tapes packed in multiple large boxes, |
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