The Vault VLOG

As we close out 2024, we reflect on a big year of advances and changes. In many ways, it feels as though we've been walking on water for the past 24 years, endeavoring to keep our eyes on the Lord. What we are doing, humanly speaking, is impossible for a company of our size. Yet, as we continue to move forward and walk on the waters of impossibility, my prayer is that we will not, like Peter, be overtaken by the fear of unbelief, or should I say, disbelief that we could or even should have as our goal something as audacious as "every sermon in every language." If we're serious about this objective, it will require of us to get out of our comfort zone, get out of the boat, and take the necessary steps of faith to be where the Lord is in His mission throughout the world. Read our end-of-year 2024 report: www.sermonaudio.com/news/new-year-2024 Learn about The Vault: www.sermonaudio.com/vault

Build-A-Vault is a fun little side project that we've been working on that allows you to purchase and build a miniature replica of The Vault using real LEGO pieces. All proceeds support the Durand missionary family in Chile. The set was designed by their eldest daughter, Geneva Durand. With only 100 sets available and no current plans for additional production, this is a truly special limited edition. We hope this Build-A-Vault will be a lasting and enjoyable display piece and serve as a reminder to pray for us as we work toward building The Vault in real life. More than just a source of fun and games, The Vault represents our serious commitment to building our own private infrastructure to preserve and propagate sound preaching for posterity. Learn about The Vault: www.sermonaudio.com/vault Purchase Build-A-Vault: https://store.sermonaudio.com/products/build-a-vault Learn about Geneva Durand: https://genevadurand.com

In the world of computers, it is never a good situation to have a single point of failure, or a single copy of data. Having three of something—often referred to as "N+2 redundancy"—especially in different geographic locations, is considered ideal for truly redundant and highly reliable systems. However, the Bible talks a lot about the "four corners of the world" and it has long been our desire to reach those four corners, both figuratively and physically, with the preaching of the Gospel. By establishing a Vault Network across four geographic locations worldwide, we will achieve the strongest fault tolerance by maintaining multiple full copies of the entire sermon library with distributed load. It is the ultimate protection measure that will ensure the long survival of this treasure far into the future. **The Vault Site:** https://www.sermonaudio.com/vault

After years of putting together mockups and designs, and after years of going from concept to code, we have finally removed the Beta label off our site and have launched this massive rewrite as our primary website for SermonAudio! A solid foundation has been laid for the future. The new SermonAudio website is much more than a fresh coat of paint. It takes loads of technology to make it all work—a fresh new design language, a rewritten client-side framework, a corresponding server-side framework, a rewritten API layer, the database, and plenty of caching to keep things running smooth. The entire architecture for the new site is foundationally different from the existing website. It was necessary to do so in order to get off of legacy back-end systems and embrace the newer development tools that today's developers are using. We have been hard at work building out the physical infrastructure needed to guarantee the protection of our expanding library of almost 3 million sermons. However, The Vault is much more than just 3 petabytes of raw storage. It's an active computing cluster of 2,500 CPU cores and 8TB of high-speed RAM which allows us to have the horsepower needed to run the new resource-hungry website and scale as traffic increases into the future. **Launch Day Announcement:** https://www.sermonaudio.com/news/launch **The Vault Site:** https://www.sermonaudio.com/vault

We close out our summer with the completion of another important project, our SermonAudio TV App! Rewritten from the ground up, this new app for Android, Google, Fire TV, and Apple TVs gives you full access to millions of audio and video sermons with full User Account support so you can bookmark sermons, follow content, and keep up with your play history. We have also set an official launch date of September 2, 2024 for the new WEBSITE which will be the first major redesign of the website in its entire 24-year history! This is a major milestone and we hope you will celebrate with us as we pave the way toward Global Sermons. **Television App Announcement:** https://web.sermonaudio.com/news/tv

In this VLOG we give a summer update of our development efforts. The big news is that we've reached an important milestone with the ChurchOne App. Our development team has been working very hard in pulling together a fantastic rewrite of ChurchOne v4.0. We'd love you to download it today and promote it to your church family! That's not the only thing we've been working on. The new BETA website is marching towards completion. The new television app is also under heavy development. And the VAULT infrastructure is always experiencing change and growth. It never ends. **Get ChurchOne for Apple:** https://apps.apple.com/us/app/churchone-by-sermonaudio/id1488623753 **Get ChurchOne for Android:** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sermonaudio.MyChurch **ChurchOne Announcement:** https://web.sermonaudio.com/news/churchone

The Audiobook Initiative by SermonAudio utilizes voice-cloning technology to make available an extensive collection of historic sermons, books, and written works from renowned preachers of the past into easily accessible audiobook formats. For the first time ever, the entire works of C. H. Spurgeon, John Bunyan, and many others will freely be made available for listening as they are finished. **Audiobooks of C. H. Spurgeon:** https://beta.sermonaudio.com/broadcasters/spurgeon/series?sort=title **Audiobooks of John Bunyan:** https://beta.sermonaudio.com/broadcasters/bunyan/series?sort=title **Audiobooks of Horatius Bonar:** https://beta.sermonaudio.com/broadcasters/bonar/series?sort=title **Audiobooks Miscellaneous:** https://beta.sermonaudio.com/broadcasters/classics/series?sort=title Artificial Intelligence (AI) is regarded as perhaps the most significant technological advancement since the advent of the Internet itself. AI covers a broad spectrum of industries and applications but here at SermonAudio we are using it in some very specific ways as an acceleration tool like the printing press of the 1440s. What would take multiple lifetimes to accomplish can be done at a fraction of the time with these new tools. We believe that AI will aid in unlocking some of the greatest treasures of Bible preaching and teaching to the nations. The Audiobook Initiative is giving voice to Christian classics, and it will be our gift to the world. "He being dead yet speaketh." (Hebrews 11:4)

I want to take the opportunity in this VLOG to celebrate the marriage of our daughter on May 7, 2024. Genesis 2:24 reminds us that a marriage is about leaving that which is behind and cleaving to one another. It is a picture lesson of the unbreakable union that God's people enjoy with Christ. Praise God from whom all blessings flow indeed. **Learn about The Vault:** https://vault.sermonaudio.com

On April 8, 2024, North America witnessed a rare solar eclipse, a dramatic spectacle not to be repeated for another 20 years. This solar event reminds us of the day the sun stood still for Joshua allowing him to have more time to finish the job. Similarly, we are praying for more time to climb the mountain ahead of us and reach the summit of GLOBAL SERMONS as we continue the arduous task of building out the infrastructure of THE VAULT on the campus of BJU. This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end shall come. Lord, we need more time. That is our prayer. Please pray with us, and for us. **Learn about The Vault:** https://vault.sermonaudio.com

After 5 months of work and 14,250 lines of code, we just released our single biggest development effort to date as we get closer to the final push towards SermonAudio 2.0. Broadcaster accounts are now LINKED to SermonAudio User accounts allowing you to manage sermon content more conveniently. This update also refreshes your homepage appearance on the new SermonAudio with most options now accessible in the Dashboard. However, as much as we are utilizing the *tools* and *technologies* of our day to their fullest potential for the glory of God, we are mindful of the fact that we want to steer clear of employing worldly *techniques* in our work. I hope you'll continue to pray for us. **Learn about The Vault:** https://vault.sermonaudio.com **Learn about the linking process:** https://web.sermonaudio.com/broadcaster/linking-users