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Hope Channel Pays Tribute to Former Board Director/Co-founder Phillip Follett


more than 50 years. He served the world church as a General Confer- ence vice president. He died of


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acquisition includes one high-power station to generate the signal and 24 additional low-power stations. The signal will cover more than 33 million people in five different state capitals including São Paulo, Brasilia, and their surrounding areas. The purchase of the former home


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shopping network was possible by a combination of contributions from the Adventist church’s South-American Division, regional church offices in Brazil, the church’s publishing house in Brazil, and the generosity of an Adventist businessman. “There is no other explanation than


being a miracle from God,” says Pastor Antonio Tostes, director of the South American Media Center and Novo Tempo TV in Brazil. “Several factors con- tributed to the acquisition. The financial circumstances of previous owners, the good financial situation of the church in


cancer at his home in Collegedale, TN, on October 7 at age 79. “Many do not know that Elder Follett was a key ‘found- ing father’ of Hope Channel’s global network. Hope Channel


Novo Tempo Now Reaching 1 out of 3 Brazilians


ope Channel in South America has just announced the pur- chase of 25 new TV stations. This


Brazil, and the contribution of the donor all came together at just the right moment. “There were other inter-


ested parties, but they could not get their offers together in time,” adds Tostes. “When our negotiations began, the price decreased by 30 percent. The timing was providential. Under any other conditions we could not afford to buy it.” With all the units on the air, Novo


Tempo reaches almost 60 million people, about 33 percent of Brazil’s population. Novo Tempo now owns 40 low-


and high-power stations across Brazil. Another 400 low-power


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belonging to municipalities carry their signal 24 hours a day. Novo Tempo’s programming is also distributed by SKY, a popular cable company in Brazil reaching 3.7 million homes and an addi- tional 10 million people. Hope Channel president Brad Thorp


he ministry of Elder Phillip Follett in the Seventh-day Adventist church spanned


is one of the monumental contributions Elder Follett made to the Adventist Church,” said Hope Channel president Brad Thorp. “He was a pioneer in ‘NET’ evangelism.” Follett was Hope Channel’s first board chairman, facilitated


many NET meetings that spanned the globe, and strongly advocated for Hope Channel to create multiple contextualized channels that led to the development of 13 full-time channels using nearly two dozen different languages and eight of the world’s 10 most-spoken languages.


points out that the more Novo Tempo invests in reaching the public, the better have been the evangelistic results. Tostes confirms that observation. “Today we are having an amazing


evangelistic return. Our Bible School is receiving more than 20,000 contacts a month and sending out more than 10,000 Bible courses a month. We’ve been answering more than 13,000 Biblical questions every month,” explains Tostes. “The Novo Tempo workers are amazed at the doors that God is opening. We see these happenings as a call to a renewed love and dedication as our Great Hope approaches.”


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