Origin from 1942
A little over a decade after Soviet repression dissolved nearly all officially registered Adventist communities across the USSR sometime in the 1930s, a span this atlas records no more precisely than the decade itself, and fifteen years before Adventist leaders published Questions on Doctrine in 1957, both already recorded here, a Californian radio ministry reached across the United States for the first time. H.M.S. Richards Sr. had broadcast biblical messages locally on Los Angeles station KNX since 19 October 1929, and the program took the name Voice of Prophecy in January 1937 as it grew across the Don Lee Broadcasting System. On Sunday evening, 4 January 1942, four weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Voice of Prophecy reached listeners coast to coast for the first time, carried by 89 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System, opening with announcer Fordyce Detamore's greeting, Hello America. The broadcast, and the Bible Correspondence School the Church launched alongside it that same year, became Adventism's principal instrument of mass evangelism for decades afterward, eventually carried on more than 1,300 stations in 30 languages. Adventist Review, the Church's own news publication, records the broadcast's 4 January 1942 debut. Gary Land's academic reference history of the Church places the Voice of Prophecy's national broadcast in its own chronology of Adventist milestones.
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StatusEstablished marks the Voice of Prophecy's first coast-to-coast broadcast on 4 January 1942, carried by 89 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System, a milestone between Soviet repression dissolving nearly all officially registered Adventist communities sometime in the 1930s, already recorded here, and Adventist leaders publishing Questions on Doctrine in 1957, also recorded here. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Americas directly: "A little over a decade after Soviet repression dissolved nearly all officially registered Adventist communities across the USSR sometime in the 1930s, a span this atlas records no more precisely..."
This source names Los Angeles directly: "had broadcast biblical messages locally on Los Angeles station KNX since 19 October 1929, and the program took the name Voice of Prophecy in January 1937 as it grew across the Don Lee Broadcasting..."
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Adds a milestone in Seventh-day Adventist history between Soviet repression dissolving nearly all officially registered Adventist communities sometime in the 1930s and Adventist leaders publishing Questions on Doctrine in 1957, both already recorded here: the Voice of Prophecy's first coast-to-coast broadcast on 4 January 1942, carried by 89 stations of the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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