Hearkening back to that night in San Diego, the broadcast began with ships’ horns, followed by eight bells and the quartet singing “The Haven of Rest,” a 19th century song about a sinner anchoring his soul in Christ. Myers’ alcoholism had ruined his career as a Los Angeles radio manager, but he used his radio background to start what was then called “The Haven of Rest.” Paul Myers was in what he described as an alcoholic stupor when eight bells of a ship startled him, spurring him to re-examine his life and accept Jesus as his savior. The program’s roots lie in a drunken night 80 years ago along San Diego’s waterfront. “Haven” is made for radio, so it sounds more personal, said Bruce Munsterman, president and general manager of Houston-based KHCB Network, which broadcasts “Haven Today” over 37 Christian radio stations in the South. Many Christian radio programs today are broadcasts of Sunday sermons. It is broadcast over about 600 radio stations in the United States, Canada, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, attracting about 500,000 daily listeners.Ĭurrent host Charles Morris, 62, mixes combinations of biblical teachings, interviews, discussion of current events and Christian music into the half-hour, 5-day-a-week programs. “Haven” this year is celebrating its 80th anniversary, making it one of the oldest religious programs in the United States. But “Haven Today,” which is recorded in a studio in an office park in south Riverside, still is centered on the same gospel message that has kept fans like VanderPol listening. They had the quartet back then, and it was a beautiful quartet.” “I listened daily to the message, the singing. “Oh, I liked it so much,” the Ontario woman, now 90, recalled. Irene VanderPol began listening to Haven Christian radio broadcasts in 1934, when she was 9 years old.
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