David Diga Hernandez - Bringing Heaven to Earth

Nothing is impossible when you put your hope in God. I’m standing here in the midst of a miracle in the making. I’m about to give you a tour of the future home of Encounter TV Studios in Round Rock, Texas. Now, many of you have been giving toward this project, so I thought now would be a great time to give you an update. Here’s the challenge: you’re going to have to see through the eyes of faith because, as I said, this is a construction zone. However, I want to give you an update so that you can see the process and what’s coming. Right now, I’m standing in this room, which is really the front entry. When you visit the studio, there will be a door right here; it’s going to be a glass door, I believe, and then this opens up into the lobby area, the entrance area, where you’ll be welcomed with our beautiful dove logo. Of course, everything we do here is done with excellence, embodying the culture of heaven.

As we move through to the main area, you’re going to notice this big box that’s in the way. This is actually a temporary studio location because we need a place to film while construction is ongoing. This is where we’ve been filming «Word and Spirit.» We’ve been live streaming «Viral Revival» and creating much of the content right in there. It’s a temporary studio while we work to build out the main facility, so this area will be wide open once this box is gone. It will just be filled with chairs and tables, a place for you to fellowship, rest, and prepare before the service. Speaking of preparing for the service and the studio tapings that we’ll be doing here, you can come in as a live studio audience. I believe they’re telling me that, as of right now, we’re looking to increase this. We know that we will have at least a seating capacity for a couple hundred people live in the studio.

Now, here is where the coffee bar will be. As I mentioned, this is something that we’re doing for you, the people who visit the studio. You’ll have refreshments and a place to sit so you’re not just waiting in line in the heat or in the cold before the taping begins. We want to do a good job of hosting you—our supporters, our viewers, our friends, our partners. Moving through here, we are going to look at part of the main entry as well. This continues; this area will be a very special portion of the lobby. We’re looking to build a small version, a miniature revival history museum. Many of you know that in phases two and three, we actually expand to include the revival history museum. For more information on that, you can check the website, but truly this will be the beta version, if you will. The lobby will include some elements of revival history, pictures of God’s generals, maybe some information about revivals past and so forth. Again, you can check the David Hernandez Ministries website for a bit more information on that.

Now, this area right here will be the main control room. Again, look through the eyes of faith. This is where Mr. Timothy Lay and his crew will direct productions that are live and those that are not live. There will be computers and screens, and there’s actually a window right there that looks out into the studio area. You can see out, but you can’t see in, so you won’t see Tim and the crew in the background while we’re taping. Again, there’s that word «taping.» I don’t know how many times I’m going to use that, but when I say «taping,» just know everything is digital. I just use «tape» because I’ve been programmed to use that word. This is the data center. This right here is going to be a room filled with hard drives and tech so that we can back up many of the files; in fact, all of the video files for all of the teachings that we release. We know that these days, censorship is a very real threat, and it’s quite possible that ministries like ours could be de-platformed in the future. So, we have begun to back up every episode of «Word and Spirit,» every episode of «Bible Revival,» and every video we put out—every worship clip, every highlight. Everything you see is backed up onto a hard drive and into the cloud. That’s a lot of data we use, so this room will be filled with many hard drives. This room, of course, will be expanded in phases two and three, but just so that we have a place to store all of that content for now, we’re going to use this room as the data center. Of course, all of those videos will be housed here securely, safely on the hardware, as well as in the cloud. Let’s continue on to the other rooms. This right here will be the men’s restroom, which is, of course, necessary. You need restrooms wherever you have people gathered in public. Now, this room right here will actually be our shipping center. If you’ve ever partnered with our ministry or ordered a product from us, you know that everything comes packaged with excellence—really high quality. We actually oversee that in-house. All of the packaging is in-house; in fact, all of our clothing is now made in-house, and this will be the shipping area.