rejoice evermore!
“Joy Ridderhof had the vision of sharing the gospel with records. She recorded with her own voice, and pressed the records in her garage (in 1939)…”
“How can we ever tell the blessings of rejoicing? I recall the undertakings, impossible and out of reach, which we have attempted just because we knew God could not fail!! And the recording trips we have taken – almost to the ends of the earth – because we believed the promises and could give thanks for them long before our eyes saw the answer! Nothing puts the world so within our reach as rejoicing faith.”
”Faith makes us know that God is able to give us the heathen for our inheritance; rejoicing faith sends us forth to appropriate!”
”Faith makes us know for sure that we can possess the land; but rejoicing faith causes us to wield the mighty weapon which will pull down the strongholds of Satan!”
”Faith looks beyond the great barriers into the lands of the heathen and tells us we can get the
Gospel to everyone; but rejoicing faith is the power that lifts us over every wall and thrusts us
through every troop, conquering and to conquer!”
Obedience to the command “REJOICE EVERMORE!” makes faith vibrant and active, Through
it each day our hearts can be kept singing in the expectation of His manifold blessings and
benefits that He delights to bring to those who expect and look for them.
Are you expecting? Are you looking? Are you rejoicing?!” —Joy Ridderhof, 1903-1984
(from Joy Ridderhof’s 31 Days of Devotionals)
this video is PRECIOUS!!! watch it with your kids!🤎
“The ministry of Gospel Recordings, now known as Global Recordings Network, was founded in Los Angeles in 1939. Joy Ridderhof returned home ill after a time as a missionary in Honduras. She felt a deep sense of sorrow at having to leave her beloved Honduran village behind, whose people in many cases were unable to read or write and thus relied on a verbal message to introduce them to Christ. If only she could have left behind recorded messages in their native Spanish to continue to nourish their newfound faith!
Thanks to several friends’ generosity, this vision began to come to fruition as she recorded the first Gospel record in Spanish at the end of 1939. Requests for more records started trickling in from Honduras and soon after, requests came flooding in from Honduras and other Spanish-speaking countries in Central and South America, as well. “Spanish Gospel Recordings” was born…
…Each additional language recorded would lead to requests for more languages to be served. Joy continued to respond, starting to see this as a fulfillment of the call to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Joy’s health improved, and she and others with her began traveling the world and producing recordings in many areas. As they traveled, Joy and her fellow recordists inspired believers in other countries to join them and support this growing global work. First Australia, then the Philippines, then in Asia… centres for the mission, now called simply Gospel Recordings, popped up on many continents.
this will be our next read-aloud!
Within decades, attracted by Joy’s example of faith, prayer, and rejoicing, Christians in many countries were working with her and the growing team in Los Angeles to produce audio recordings of Bible stories. Record presses were maintained in Sydney, India, South Africa, Mexico, and USA. Later cassettes were distributed, then CDs, and now SD cards and social media carry the message. Over time GR’s vision of the Gospel in every language began to set trends in the global mission community. Recognition grew of the need for oral cultures to have access to Christian audio materials… (via global recordings usa)
