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One day in 1939, a young preacher from Oklahoma walked into Lincoln's KFOR radio station and bought a week's worth of air time for $65, all the money he had in his pocket.
With much of the world surrounded by conflict and confusion, Theodore Epp's vision was to proclaim the message of Christianity.
Epp's short devotionals attracted a wide audience and more and more stations signed on for them.
Sixty-seven years later, the organization that began with those first broadcasts now reaches about 3.6 billion people across the world.
This past year, however, the international radio ministry headquartered in Lincoln has been looking closer to home, said Woodrow Kroll, president of Back to the Bible and a senior Bible teacher.
"What we don't want is the Lincoln community to feel that, as an international ministry, we don't have an outreach to our local constituents here," Kroll said. "So we've been doing some things this year specifically designed for the Lincoln audience."
Such programs have included hosting concerts and the "Livin' It" extreme sports exhibition with actor Stephen Baldwin.
But the organization's biggest project is just now reaching completion.
Early this month,...