![]() They had formed their quartet in 1928, while students at Southwestern Junior College (now Southwestern Adventist University) in Texas. ![]() While conducting evangelistic meetings in Southern California in the following decade, Richards became acquainted with The Lone Star Four, a male quartet consisting of the three Crane brothers, Wesley, Waldo, and Louis, and Ray Turner. The need for her services quickly led to full time employment paid for daily, the amount dependent in contributions received that day. ![]() The immediate success of the program created a demand for secretarial assistance, a need met by Betty Canon, a stenographer who offered to assist one day a week on a volunteer basis. Rejecting the showy tactics of most radio evangelists of that time, he presented in his Bible Tabernacle of the Air a reasoned, biblically based message. Richards (1894-1985), a successful West coast Adventist evangelist in the 1920’s, began broadcasting on California radio stations in 1929, in addition to his ongoing work in tents and tabernacles. By 1947 the VOP was reaching around the world, broadcasting in six languages on more than 600 stations, and its international evangelistic ministry continues in 2020 on multiple media platforms. ![]() ![]() in 1929, became Adventism’s premiere radio ministry, with nationwide broadcasting and a Bible Correspondence School both launched in 1942. The Voice of Prophecy (VOP), founded in California by evangelist H.M.S. ![]()
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