Inuvik, Canada … [ANN] The recently concluded Net ‘98 telecasts featuring the NeXt Millennium Bible seminars presented by Dwight Nelson have reached remote areas as only satellite broadcasts can.
Judy and Olav Falsnes live in the isolated town of Inuvik, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Canada’s North west Territories. But even there they were able to receive the transmissions.
“The broadcast satellite is so low on the horizon that our dish actually points down,” says Olav Falsnes. “We live 850 miles from the nearest Seventh-day Adventist Church, so this series was really helpful. Though attendance was of course small, the opportunity to share what we believe in this way was wonderful.”
The Falsnes operate a guest house for visitors to the region which in winter is often totally isolated by severe weather. Olav works as a pilot and mechanic, and has landed four times on the North Pole. Working with local Eskimos, they have arranged for religious books and tapes to be produced in the Eskimo Inuit language. The satellite outreach programs add another welcome tool to their ministry in the High Arctic. [Jonathan Gallagher]
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