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Three Angels Broadcasting Network 3ABN is a 24-hour Christian television and radio network, consisting of eight television channels and five radio channels in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and French.

ABOUT 3ABN Three Angels Broadcasting Network

Known as the “Mending Broken People Network,” we produce programming that reaches people where they hurt, offering real answers from God’s Word and spiritual nourishment to help them grow. Each hour of every day, our television and radio channels offer sound biblical preaching and teaching, as well as the best guidance on a wide range of health and family topics. Also, we provide programs that target the needs of urban audiences, including Christian money management, parenting, and ex-offender rehabilitation. This, plus uplifting music, live event coverage, and children’s programming, helps us proclaim the three angels’ messages of Revelation 146–12.

We broadcast our programs to every inhabited continent from our headquarters in southern Illinois through a network of eight satellites, hundreds of television and radio stations, over a thousand cable outlets, and increasingly, through Internet streaming and our mobile device apps.

We are a 501c3 nonprofit company and are governed by a Board of Directors who work very hard behind the scenes to ensure we stay true to our mission. We are not owned or operated by any person or outside the organization, and neither are we funded by any church or denomination. However, many of our employees and volunteers are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Our “down-home” approach and the absence of great fundraising efforts or telethons results in the appreciation and financial support for all of our networks from people of all cultures and backgrounds.

A Brief History

God Calls Danny Shelton

Three Angels Broadcasting Network began in the early morning hours of November 15, 1984, when Danny Shelton, a carpenter from Southern Illinois, was kept awake by troubling thoughts.

As he recalled the Christian television stations where he and his daughter Melody had sung gospel music, he felt concerned about how God was misrepresented at times. Longing to find a way to express God’s love to the world, he suddenly felt strongly impressed to “build a television station that would reach the world with the undiluted three angels’ messages of Revelation 14. One that would counteract the counterfeit.”

Although he had no degree in communications or any television experience, Danny immediately began to explore the ideas that finally developed into Three Angels Broadcasting Network.

He visited a pastor friend, Hal Steenson, who had some television equipment, sharing what he was impressed to do. His friend told him that someone had recently offered to buy his equipment, but he had been strongly impressed to keep it until God directed him otherwise. Then, to his amazement, Hal volunteered to donate the equipment to him a short time later!

Many more things happened in the next few months. As Danny began speaking at area churches, others began to catch his vision. Mrs. Fonda Summers donated two acres of land in Thompsonville, Illinois, to build the station. Later, when a microwave signal interference study was conducted on the property, and amazed technician remarked, “Mr. Shelton, you must be the luckiest man I know because you have a clean sweep of every satellite on the horizon without microwave interference on those two acres. This is probably one of the only sites left in all of southern Illinois!”

A few days later, a visit to the local Christian television station brought about another conversation, this time with Clarence Larson, the station engineer. After introducing himself to Danny, he pulled him aside. He said, “I don’t know why I’m telling you this, but I believe a satellite uplink station could be built here in southern Illinois out in the Thompsonville area.” Interestingly, Clarence volunteered this information with no knowledge of Danny’s dream.

As progress on the project continued, Clarence began helping Danny. One day he realized that three-phase power would be required to operate the station, but the cost to run lines from the nearest main road was prohibitive. Upon investigation, he discovered three-phase power lines a few hundred feet about a hundred meters away from the property—simply following a country road. When Danny contacted the power company, he asked why those lines ran through open fields, away from factories or heavy machinery. The power company response? “We honestly have no idea.”

As Danny moved forward in faith, the doors continued to open. A satellite uplink dish manufacturer agreed to begin building a nearly $400,000 satellite dish with only a $10,000 down payment, and over the next few months, studio and office facilities were built. Equipment was purchased and installed—without incurring any debt!

Amazingly, on November 23, 1986, just over two years after Danny had been impressed to build it, Three Angels Broadcasting Network began to broadcast on satellite.

3ABN Worldwide

Three Angels Broadcasting Network began its work in Russia in 1992 when they taped and broadcast a series of evangelistic meetings with Australian evangelist John Carter in Nizhny Novgorod. As the third-largest in Russia, it had been closed to westerners for many years, but now the response to the meetings was tremendous.

Noting that 2,500 new Christians needed a place to worship, 3ABN purchased an unfinished 70,000 square-foot building and began remodeling it to meet this urgent need. Today, 3ABN’s Russian Evangelism Center includes two church facilities and local church conference offices, a large television and radio studio facility, and a literature distribution center. In 1993 3ABN Russia began producing Russian language programs that now air on 150 television stations and three satellites across the entire Soviet Union.

In 2000 3ABN expanded to provide worldwide satellite coverage for its television and radio networks. Additionally, 3ABN Radio and 3ABN Latino came on board in successive years.

Today, 3ABN’s lineup of television networks consists of 3ABN, 3ABN Latino, 3ABN Proclaim!, 3ABN Russia, 3ABN Dare to Dream Network, 3ABN Kids Network, and 3ABN Français. 3ABN International Channel airs much of the same programming as our flagship 3ABN channel, but at hours more suitable for Europe, Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. Also, 3ABN Radio can be heard worldwide via satellite and on over 200 affiliate stations, and 3ABN Latino; Radio carries Spanish radio programming.

Program Overview

Three Angels Broadcasting Network offers a wide variety of family-friendly Christian programming, 24 hours a day. Believing a healthy mind promotes a healthy spiritual life, 3ABN considers health programming to be of particular importance. Programs are designed to bring the viewers important information on medical and lifestyle issues such as cancer prevention, diabetes, and heart disease. A stop smoking clinic runs continually for those who wish to break their addiction to nicotine, while other programs deal with drug and alcohol recovery issues. Vegetarian cooking programs feature recipes showing viewers how to cook with less added fat, salt, and sugar.

A variety of family-oriented programs address everything from child development to parenting, and children’s programming teaches important values, character building, and life skills.

3ABN’s Biblical programs address topics ranging from current Christian concerns to Bible prophecy seminars. Weekend church services meet the needs of those unable to attend their local church, and other programs address viewer questions on Bible topics.

The flagship program, 3ABN Today, airs daily and features interviews with guests from around the world and a variety of musical artists.

For more information, visit our Programming Page call 3ABN at 618-627-4651, or by writing to 3ABN, P.O. Box 220, West Frankfort, IL 62896.