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Todd & Julie with (Left to right) Michaela, Levi, Samuel, and Lilyanne The scene is rustic: dirt floors, clay brick and mud walls, and a red tile roof with bare rafters. Inside there are men, women and children, and a couple chickens, listening to the speaker who is using a single microphone plugged into an amp. The speaker is a humble man, speaking in the local dialect of Portuguese. People around there know him as a farmer. But when he’s not working the fields, he is witnessing to his neighbors at the market and studying his well-worn Bible getting ready for the Sunday evening message. He also spends his evenings listening to his beloved radio on the porch very loudly so every one who walks by can hear. You see, this man came to know Christ not through a missionary but through that radio. In fact, he’d never seen a missionary before, until he wrote a letter to Harvest Radio station asking for someone to come and teach him more about his new-found faith. The teaching h...