The Sunday broadcast had been a pioneering production in every sense of the word. At that time, few television preachers were on network television for one full hour, and television professionals and equipment were, in many instances, the property of the major television networks. So developing a format and producing a major Christian television program that would be taped on location while actual ministry took place, was a large faith project.
“The key to success—we discovered through experience—was to avoid doing anything that would stop the anointing,” said Terri Copeland Pearsons, the first director of television at KCM.
The broadcast originally premiered in just two cities, Augusta, Ga., and Houston, Texas. But in only nine months, this power-packed program had expanded to 36 stations and was changing lives all across America—as thousands of letters pouring into KCM testified. The truth about this far-reaching medium of television—originally dubbed the one-eyed demon in religious circles—was now indisputable: Television could actually transmit the burden-removing, yoke-destroying power of God. And that’s exactly what the "Believer’s Voice of Victory" broadcast did.
The message of faith was blazing across the country like never before. Then in 1988, nine years after getting onto Sunday television, the Lord reminded Kenneth and Gloria of something He said to them in 1967 that put them on a course toward destiny. Then, He had said to them: 'I told you that I was coming so soon that I wanted this uncompromised message of faith on every available voice. I have not changed. I have not released you from that assignment.'
God then added a new, and seemingly impossible, direction, giving them an assignment that would be the biggest step of faith they had ever taken: 'I want you to begin airing daily, 30-minute broadcasts through which you will teach believers who they are in Christ Jesus. Bring them from religion to reality.... Use these programs to teach, not preach.' They didn’t have the money to go on daily television, nor did they have the personnel, the equipment or a studio. What they had, though, was that one word from God. And they had their faith. That was all God needed!
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