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July 2003


	1. First Production of AWR Programs in Mongolian
	2. Farewell and Welcome for Tadaomi & June Shinmyo and Kwon JohngHaeng
3. AWR Conference in Guam and Japan
4. Taiwan Community Service Responds to SARS
5. Women's Leadership Education in KUC
6. A New Comm. Director Appointed - Glenn Mitchell
7. Death of Pioneer Medical Missionary - George Innocent

First Production of AWR Programs
in Mongolian

The first Mongolian radio programs for Adventist World Radio (AWR) were produced at the headquarters office of the Mongolia Mission Field (MMF) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on July 7-13, 2003.

Tadaomi Shinmyo, Communication Director of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD), visited the country to assist Dale Tunnell, MMF Director, and two staff who were assigned to produce the radio programs. The staff were Eggie, male script writer and speaker, and Sarah, female script writer and speaker. Furthermore, Enkheh, office worker of the MMF, became announcer of the program. Besides these three workers of the MMF office, Tomroo, a Baptist Christian and technician of a private FM station in Ulaanbaatar, really helped in recording and editing for the programs. Without his faithful cooperation, we would not have been able to accomplish the task.

Eggie, Sarah, Enkheh, Tomroo (from left of 1st row) Eunie and Shinmyo (from left of 2nd row)

Recording of the radio programs started on July 8 in the studio established at the basement of the MMF office building. Although the studio is humble and simple, it functioned well in keeping the recording room quiet for four days with electricity. In the meantime, the staff was forced to record at Dudley and Eunie's family (Filipino missionaries) apartment because of electricity problem in the MMF office for one day (July 8).

The production of AWR programs in Mongolian had been already planned in 2001 with the help of Akinori Kaibe, AWR Asia/Pacific Region Director, and necessary equipment was donated to the MMF by AWR. Therefore, it was a great joy for all of them who participated in the production. They produced 13 weekly programs and each program was designed for thirty minutes.

There are three major parts in one program and this format is the same in all programs. Namely, after introduction by announcer, the male speaker talks about the secrets of human relation, then listeners can enjoy Christian music. Thirdly, female speaker shares Bible stories. In the end, announcer appears again requesting the listeners' responses as well as informing Sabbath programs, mail address, telephone and fax number, and email address of the MMF headquarters.

The production team will continue to prepare the radio programs regularly so that the AWR Guam Station may receive sufficient number of the Mongolian programs for broadcasting. The first Mongolian broadcast is expected from October 2003.

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Tadaomi Shinmyo, Publishing/Communication/PARL/SOP/ATN Director