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The STR 48 Hours of Christmas
is Sunday 12/24 and Monday 12/25.
A Christ-Focused Christmas
All Day
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Listen to 48 Hours of Christian Christmas Songs, sermons, and heartwarming stories only on Strong Tower Radio. What a witnessing opportunity to introduce someone to your favorite classic Strong Tower Radio programs like Dee Bryant's "Christmas With No Angels," Holly Bailey-Wiltzer and Judy Shull's Christmas specials, Discovery Mountain Christmas, and Your Story Hour's Christmas stories.
Enjoy hearing great school Christmas concerts by Great Lakes Adventist Academy and Battle Creak Academy, plus Strong Tower Radio's Christmas Variety Hours classics and the Northview Adventist School Christmas story.
There are Christmas versions of your favorite programs: Bible Answers Live, Night Sounds, and our own Jilane Fenner's Gospel Melodies. We also have Fresh Manna classic Christmas sermons with messages from Steve Wohlberg and H.M.S Richards, SR., as well as local pastors only on Strong Tower Radio (STR) stations, STR apps, or STR.fm December 24 from midnight to December 26 midnight.
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Recording the Top Ten Community Issues series starting with mental health.
Top Ten Community Issues-
Mental Health
Strong Tower Radio (STR) is engaging the community in discussions on their top ten issues; hear the topic of mental health this Wednesday at 9 p.m., and Thursday at 1 p.m. only on STR stations, STR apps, or STR.fm.
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Music Director Michael Sandvik- Great Lakes Adventist Academy
Classic GLAA Christmas Programs
Enjoy Great Lakes Adventist Academy's classic Christmas programs Friday at 1 p.m. and Saturday at 5 p.m. on Strong Tower Radio (STR) Variety Hour only on STR stations, STR apps, or STR.fm.
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STR's birthday and future discussed by the staff.
14th Birthday and STR Plans
Strong Tower Radio (STR) staff discuss the ministry's birthday and future plans this Monday at 10 a.m. and Wednesday at 12 a.m. only on Strong Tower Radio (STR) stations, STR apps, or STR.fm.
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Special Edition- Two-week report
December 28 Edition
News & Views
(first edition)
Note: The Michigan Update will not be published on December 28th so Strong Tower Radio News & Views will present a combine edition to our readers so they can be informed next week.
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Winter Closet Pantry volunteer, Badonna Davis,
fitting a child with brand-new winter boots.
Jack Frost Winter Closet Pantry
Many kids never get outdoor winter clothes, much less new winter jackets, snow pants, gloves, and boots. The Cadillac First Presbyterian church runs a children and youth brand new winter clothes service they have creatively named "The Jack Frost Winter Clothes Pantry" that they run from October to December each year. When Strong Tower Radio went on location to capture the story with the volunteers and to observe children receiving their gift clothes, we learned that they had outfitted 240 area youth just this year.
It is an amazing story of caring and meeting needs. One of the parents related with a trembling voice his own experience of shame from either not having respectable or adequate winter clothes as a child. It was a beautiful sight to see the staff outfit these children with dignity and respect. Hear this program Sunday, December 31st at 3:30 a.m., Monday, January 1st at 4 p.m., January 3rd Wednesday at 9 p.m., and Thursday at 1 p.m. only on Strong Tower Radio (STR) stations, STR apps, or STR.fm.
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Strong Tower Radio reviews its 2023 calendar
STR Year in Review
Wow where did the year go? Once we did a "deep-dive" into the past 365 days, we found out where it went. John Duman, STR's Ministry News printed newsletter and Tom Mejeur, STR's weekly emailed News & Views editor searched our newsletters and program vaults to find out what we did. Listen to our program Sunday, December 31st at 5 p.m., Monday, New Years Day at 10 a.m., and Wednesday, January 3rd at 12:01 a.m. relive the best of 2023; only on Strong Tower Radio (STR) stations, STR apps, or STR.fm.
Here is a list of some of the highlights:
280 hours of special programming for the Resurrection, Reformation, Thanksgiving, and Christmas programs
52 Strong Tower Radio TODAY interview programs and links
52 Strong Tower Radio FEATURE interview community programs and links
15 Nature programs with university, state, and federal biologists (see the FEATURE interviews list)
Karens Blue Butterfly field visit
Wildfire safety ,
Bat conservation,
Bear aware,
Snowy owl migration,
Kirtlands warbler recovery,
Waterfowl spring migration,
Shore bird migration,
Oakwilt disease,
Monarch butterfly migration,
Fall bird migration.
12 Gardening monthly programs plus a visit to tour the Cedar Lake Grower's one acre greenhouse renovation.
7 on-location Adventist Community Services programs:
Ithaca,
Berrien Springs Neighbor to Neighbor,
Kalamazoo,
Battle Creek,
Grand Haven,
Warren, and
Escanaba (see the FEATURE interviews list)
11 on-location Christian school visits to:
Cedar Lake elementary,
Grayling elementary,
Oakwood Academy,
Metro Junior Academy,
Troy Adventist Academy,
Kalamazoo Junior Academy,
The first Seventh-day Adventist school—Battle Creek Academy,
ASPIRE on-line school,
Iron Mountain school, Wilson school, and Bluffview Christian School 2023 recordings will air in 2024.
4 on-location festivals-
Holland Tulip Time,
Mackinaw Island Lilac Festival,
Kalamazoo Ringers Bronze Fest,
Evart Dulcimer Fun-Fest 3 episodes
7 Museum tours
Holland Museum & homes tour,
Holland Windmill Island,
Bay City USS Edson ship tour,
Bay City Drivers Education,
Wilson Live Nativity,
Battle Creek Historic Adventist Village,
White Pine Historic Village plus Port of Ludington Maritime Museum, next season 2024
Hart Historical District Museum, next season 2024
11 interviews
Pastor Steve Bohr,
Pastor Sean Boonstra,
Steve Wohlberg
Scott Michael Bennett's miracle,
Ron Price on relationship healing,
Neville Peter- singer composer
Archaeologist,
Organizing your life and decluttering,
A prison parole,
Lake County Sherriff,
Physician assisted suicide.
Topics on Top Ten Community Issues:
Child abuse prevention and Safe Families,
Human trafficking awareness,
Disability awareness,
Family Issues,
Veteran suicide prevention,
Youth depression,
Kid in the garden,
Mexico and Cuban missions,
County fairs, plus the
County road commissioners interviews,
and there were more!
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Ways for STR Giving
You can give to Strong Tower Radio in several ways with different effects.
The first is the fastest, most effective donation by giving directly via a mailed check, calling in a donation, or donating on our website at StrongTowerRadio.org. This allows you to designate a station or support the whole radio network through a one-time or recurring donation.
Another way is by giving to the Michigan Radio Ministry fund with a tithe envelope or via your church's Adventist Giving online.
Photo Credit- Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventist graphic
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STR Giving Graphic
You can give to Strong Tower Radio by accessing the giving page with your smartphone. Point, click, and give!
Photo Credit: Strong Tower Radio- Jennifer Brooks
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President David Bolduc checking the tv station monitors
STR Events Calendar
Be a part of Strong Tower Radio by joining us personally at one or more of the following scheduled events:
1/6 11:00 a.m. Kam at Cadillac SDA Church
1/13 11:00 a.m. David at Marrion SDA Church
1/20 11:00 a.m. Kam at Grand Blanc SDA Church
"David" is David Bolduc- Founder and President
"Jilane" is Jilane Fenner- Public Relations and Board Member
"Kam" is Kam Ferguson- Development Director
"Tom" is Tom Mejeur- Production &
Marketing Director
"SDA" is the abbreviation for Seventh-day Adventist
"STR" is the abbreviation for Strong Tower Radio
Photo Credit: Tom Mejeur
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Pastor Ron Kelly's classic sermon on STR's Fresh Manna.
Sermons on STR
Here are the upcoming Fresh Manna sermons and speakers that will be streamed on StrongTowerRadio.org, STR.fm, and on Strong Tower Radio's local stations Monday-Friday at 2 a.m. and 11 a.m.
This Week-
12/21 Malcolm Douglas- "And Shall Call His Name"
12/22 Jacob Gibbs- "The Incarnation, Handicapped by Choice"
Next Week(s)-
12/25 Jermaine Gayle- "Greatness from the East"
12/26 Ron Kelly- "Forward to the Finish"
12/27 Bela Kobor- "The Way to Gods Heart"
12/28 Jacob Gibbs- "Kingdom Wise"
12/29 Phil Mills- "A New Year - Living with the End in View"
1/1 Ron Kelly- "In the Beginning and the New Beginning"
1/2 Sean Brizendine- "New Start New Heart"
1/3 Phil Mills- "The Land of Beginning Again"
1/4 Raymond Holmes- "Tune the Instrument"
1/5 Ron Kelly- "From 2020 to Heavenly Vision"
STR Sabbath Sermons- Saturdays at 11 a.m.
12/23 Ron Kelly- "Extreme Ownership, Infinite Infant"
12/30 Pat Milligan-"Let's Start New"
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Snowflakes, source unknown.
Something in the Air!
My wife and I have recently enjoyed several hikes in Michigan’s northern woods, and here and there we’ve smelled a sweet fragrance along these walks. It’s a smell that most enjoy during the Christmas season, the scent of spruce and fir-tree boughs. Some businesses even offer little pillows full of fir tree needles whose fragrance lasts for many months!
Think of it: Our God put scented oil in certain trees and placed nerves in our noses that would send pleasure signals to our brains upon smelling the oil!
Amazing as that is, there’s more! If you recently listened to Strong Tower Radio (STR), you heard Dr. Eddie Remirez share studies that quantified the immune system benefits of one hour in the woods. Trees give off properties that increase specific human immune cell production rates by 50%, and the increased rate lasts for one month!
Ps 92:14-15 (NASB) describes God’s followers as full of sap and very green (very much alive) and that they declare the righteousness of God’s character. Many of you proclaim God’s character through your prayers and financial gifts to STR, and we praise God that you are full of sap! Your generosity is a sweet-smelling savor to God as He continues to draw listeners to Him through the STR broadcast.
As a result of listening to STR, eleven precious souls have given their lives to Jesus and embraced the everlasting gospel in 2022. Glory Hallelujah!! Praise God!!
As we approach the end of 2023, I invite you to include Strong Tower Radio in your year-end generosity. Your gift enables STR to enter 2023 with strength and meet numerous annual expense items we encounter each January.
Thank you for your continued offering unto God through your prayers for and financial support of STR.
May the Holy Spirit keep you full of sap and wafting the fragrance of God’s love as you enter 2024.
Kam Ferguson
Development Director
How to Make Your Investment Donations:
For credit card or bank account withdrawal go to our secure website, StrongTowerRadio.org/Donate, or
call at 231-468-2087.
You may also donate by check or money order mailed to
Strong Tower Radio, PO Box 567, Cadillac, MI 49601
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