A name change to The Haven Quartet in 1989 failed to increase the group's recognition beyond its established audience. In the 1980s, the group began to incorporate a more contemporary sound, but it still lagged behind the most popular trends in contemporary Christian and worship music. With the addition of their own ship-like recording studio and modern tape recorders in the 1950s, the quartet started to record their songs in advance for playback on the show. From 1934 until the 1950, all songs were performed live on air. Referred to on air as the "Crew of the Good Ship Grace," the group performed traditional hymns and gospel songs a cappella or with organ accompaniment. The Haven of Rest Quartet was started in 1934, the same year that the radio program began. In addition to the radio program, Haven Today continues to publish a devotional guide called The Anchor Daily, founded by former host Pastor Paul Evans in the 1970s. The program airs 5 days a week for thirty minutes. Present day Ĭharles Morris' Haven Today program is a mix of Christian music, biblical teachings, interviews and a discussion of current events. The interior studio was equipped with a pipe organ for the program. The building has porthole windows, gangway ramp and promenade deck hand rails. On Decemthe building was awarded site number 895 on the Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments list for its unique architecture. In 1998, the Haven program moved out of the nautical building to Costa Mesa, California, then to Riverside, California. In 1941, Paul Myers commissioned a nautical-themed two-story building at 2432 Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake District of Los Angeles for the Haven of Rest broadcast. The Haven of Rest broadcast moved to a new station about every 2 years: KNX (AM), KHJ (AM), KMPC, then the KFI AM studio in Los Angeles, then the NBC Blue Network and NBC Red Network. Morris has co-authored several books with Janet Morris, his wife, including Saving a Life, Jesus in the Midst of Success, and Missing Jesus. Morris changed the program's name to Haven Today and replaced the live in-house quartet with contemporary Christian music in 2001. In 2000, the program was taken over by Charles Morris, a former news reporter and editor for United Press International who also worked as press secretary for two former U.S. In 2008, Ortlund was inducted into the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame for his years of hosting the Haven of Rest. Ortlund also served as a teaching pastor at Mariner's Church in Newport Beach, California in the 1980s. Ortlund hosted the Haven of Rest radio broadcast from 1981 to 2000. By 1988, the Haven of Rest was on 275 stations. Ortlund Sr., the former long-time Senior Pastor at Lake Avenue Congregational Church in Pasadena, California, where he had broadcast services over KRLA. Myers retired in 1971 and turned the program over to Pastor Paul Evans, who hosted the show until 1981. Myers gave the show a nautical theme, hosting under the name "First Mate Bob" and starting each show with a ships’ air horn, Eight Bells, and an in-house quartet singing 1890 hymn “The Haven of Rest." After returning to his wife and family, he was back on Los Angeles airwaves on KHJ (AM), and in 1934 started the radio broadcast The Haven of Rest on KMPC. Paul Myers credited the founding of Haven to hitting rock bottom: kicked out by his wife and passed out on a beach during a drunken bender, he was awakened by a ship's bell back at his hotel, he opened a Gideon Bible and felt called to ministry. The daily broadcast is currently on over 600 stations in North America and overseas. The program has had four hosts: Myers, Paul Evans, Raymond C. The radio program was founded in 1934 as The Haven of Rest by Paul Myers, who became a radio personality known for Christian ministry. O come to the Savior, He patiently waits, To save by His power divine Come, anchor your soul in the Haven of Rest, And say, My beloved is mine.Haven Today is a national broadcast Christian radio program. How precious the tho't that we all may recline, Like John the beloved and blessed, On Jesus' strong arm, where no tempest can harm, Secure in the Haven of Rest. The song of my soul, since the Lord made me whole, Has been the old story so blessed, Of Jesus, who'll save whosoever will have, A home in the Haven of Rest. I yielded myself to His tender embrace, And faith taking hold of the Word, My fetters fell off, and I anchored my soul The Haven of Rest is my Lord. I've anchored my soul in the Haven of rest, I'll sail the wide seas no more The tempest may sweep o'er the wild stormy deep In Jesus I'm safe evermore. My soul in sad exile was out on life's sea, So burdened with sin and distressed, Till I heard a sweet voice saying, Make me your choice And I entered the Haven of Rest.
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