Joy Ridderhof
Forced to return to the United States to recover from malaria, she began making Spanish evangelizing recordings that she distributed to places in Latin America, including Marcala.
That prompted her to make gramophone recordings of the gospel verses and songs in Spanish, and the first product was made to send to Honduras in 1939.
She and her helpers faced lack of money, wartime restrictions, equipment needs, mechanical breakdowns, travel hardships, and uncertainties.
[5] After Joy Ridderhof passed away on December 19, 1984, Global Recordings Network continues to grow into global-scale to reach out to over 6,500 languages and dialects (speech varieties) today.
In Dr. McQuilkin's home, she encountered and found the life changing principle of "worry was sin; rejoice in all circumstances which was God's will."
Dr. Robert C. McQuilkin was a popular author as well as a conference speaker and he introduced her to the concept of "worry was sin" that stayed in her heart for the rest of her life.
She established her ministry in the town of Marcala, Honduras and multiplied her missions through other parts of Spanish speaking countries.
That home office, named Spanish Gospel Recordings, was once located at 122 Witmer Street, Los Angeles.
Hardships As a young missionary with Friends Mission Board to Honduras from 1930 to 1936, Joy struggled with the typical tropical diseases.
Global Recordings Network produces audio and audiovisual products such as "the Gospel," "Bible stories," "simple Bible teaching," "music & songs," "testimony," "poetry and proverbs," "drama," and "dialogue and questions and answers" recorded by using mother tongue native speakers.
Global Recordings Network has a partnership with Joshua Project, Jesus Film Harvest Partners, The HOPE Project, OMF, Missionary Aviation, Operation Mobilization (OM), Digital Bible Society, Mega Voice International, Renew World Outreach, SIM, Wycliffe Bible Translators, SIL Global (SIL International), YWAM.
Global Recordings Network USA is a member of Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) since June 13, 2000.
Global Recordings Network has also reached the people in the neighboring communities of countries through the local mission events by distributing the audio and audiovisual materials.
The Global Recordings Network vision statement reads, "That people might hear and understand God's Word in their heart language, especially those who are oral communicators and those who do not have Scriptures in a form they can access."
Foundation of Vision and Mission Statements says, "While there is a people group with no effective, culturally appropriate form of gospel communication, Global Recordings Network will seek to provide an appropriate audio or audiovisual resource, no matter how small the language group," to the mission fields to have them recorded by the native speakers rather than the native speakers come to an office/center studio.
