Our journey continues
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as we look at our
offerings in action.
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And we are going to be
talking with individuals today
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whose ministries have
received funding from you
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and see what God has done with
them through their ministries.
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So with me us Craig Cleveland,
he is a director for music
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for Fountainview
Academy in British Columbia.
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Tell us a little bit
about Fountainview, Craig?
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Good morning, Fountainview
Academy is a boarding school,
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a supporting ministry school
up in British Columbia, Canada.
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Its little north of Seattle
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and we serve
grades 10, 11 and 12.
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And so you have--
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the ASI family is
actually very well acquainted
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with Fountainview
choir and orchestra.
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We've been blessed
many times by their music
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and that is actually at the core
of the project that we funded.
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Tell us a little
bit about the project?
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Well, first of all
I want to thank you,
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it's so exciting to have
all of you joining with us
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in the ministry where we
wanted to reach the world
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through music for
the gospel, for Jesus.
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And the project
that you helped us fund
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is called "God
so loved the world."
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And this is a very
exciting project that covers
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the key doctrines of our
faith straight from the Bible.
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The young people sharing
the truths about that we believe
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in also dear and with
music that supports that.
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But this is actually a
part of a bigger system, Debbie.
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You-- this is, I want you
an idea of how this can work.
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They can be used individually.
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We follow the--
there's four seasons
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and with all
these music and so on
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we feel that it will attractive
to people but there's more.
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It's a part of a bigger
system where it starts out
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with our Christmas DVDs
that people love, you know,
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or film done, steam
trains out in the snow
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or riding on sledges,
people have loved that.
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So you can give
that to your neighbor.
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Then you can follow it up
with steps to Christ in song.
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And we have a new version
that I just released here at ASI
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which is an outreach version,
It's very, very inexpensive
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so you can give it out
by the tens and hundreds.
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And so that's next.
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And then if they like that,
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you come back with
help in daily living
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which is a little extra
for ministry of healing.
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And that is so practical,
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it puts the rubber on
the road for Christianity.
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And then you come
with God so loved the world
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and there they get
the doctrines of our faith
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and they have already been
led to see what we are doing.
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Wow, that
sounds really exciting.
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So you can actually use music as
the witnessing tool. Absolutely.
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And that kind of almost
like the health message,
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kind of an entering
wedge. That's right.
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To get people's interest
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and meet them
where their needs are
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and then you invite
them to Jesus. That's right.
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Now you talked a lot about music
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and I know we've
heard Fountainview
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but can you give us a flavor
of what this music-- Absolutely.
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We have a video,
we want to show you.
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It's a sneak preview of one
of God so loved the world songs.
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Of shining worlds in
splendor through the skies
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Our grateful songs
before Thy throne arise.
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Yet that swings the future
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and behind the chamber of love
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standing God within the shadow
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giving more shall always on.
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Our God is our soul.
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Just thrills my heart.
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Tell me, have you realized--
and are there any stories
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about the impact of this music
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on individuals
who receive this DVDs.
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Absolutely, I want to
share some stories with you.
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But first I just
have to tell you,
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you know, we are hear it at ASI.
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We are getting excited,
we are hearing this reports
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and we are just being stirred
up or hearing the gospel,
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the word open
and it's inspiring.
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We want to go out and we--
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every taxi driver, every person
we sit with on the airplane
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they are all the
target for the gospel.
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Oh, I got to hold on to his tie,
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he's going to hit
the ceiling any minute.
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And that's exciting and, Debbie,
I've done this all my life.
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You know, you want
to talk to these people,
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you want to just
pray, Lord send me.
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Let someone sit beside me
that wants to hear the gospel
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because I want to share
it and that's all wonderful.
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But you and I have
all had these experiences,
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I am sure where
we reach out and we-
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when we were pulling
out Great Controversy,
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we were pulling
out Steps to Christ,
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all of a sudden things go cold.
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That doesn't mean
we shouldn't do that
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but this is so much easier.
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And it's so much
more, so just come with me.
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You are on the plane
and you say, "Wait a minute,
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I was at this
convention, it was so inspiring.
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I just love it. I go every year.
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I would never miss it."
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And we support this orchestra
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and these kids they just
smile and people love it.
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They see their faces
and they are just drawn in
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and they sing this amazing music
and they do it all outdoors.
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I mean they are
paddling in boats,
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running on trains, they
are-- it's just amazing.
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And so think
about it, that's easy.
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And people love it.
I do it all the time.
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And you are part of ASI,
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you are funding
us, you are involved.
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So you say, look,
we are part of this.
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And you see, you
talk to these people
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and it's like its
music, its young people,
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its nature and its inspiration.
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So you have given them the
book Steps to Christ and so on.
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And so let me
just share with you
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some of the
exciting testimonies.
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Here's one from a young man,
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"Hi, my name is
Daniel. I am 16 years old.
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I've been raised in Romanian
Pentecostal Christian family
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all my life but
never open my heart to God.
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Just recently my
family received a DVD
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from a pastor in our small town.
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He gave us Steps
to Christ and song
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and my brother and I watched
the DVD over and over again.
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When I saw those
teenagers praising God
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and devoting their lives
for Him I was very impressed
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and liked what I saw and
I thought a lot about it.
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What I saw changed my
life. Truly opened my heart.
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I finally truly
opened my heart to God.
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It made me a better
person in every aspect there is.
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I gave my favorite sports
up which is a hard thing to do,
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so I can have
more time to praise God
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and I started
helping poor people
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and talking to others
about God and His salvation.
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Now, on April 17,
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I am getting baptized
with my two older brothers.
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I am a very happy person now."
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Praise God and
he closes by saying,
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"Thank you for doing
this. I want to thank you.
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This has changed my life."
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Wow, that's exciting.
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Now we have just a little--
we have less then a minute to go
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but there's an exciting
testimony you told me about
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a man and his son
both getting the CD,
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different
times, different places
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with their wives watching them
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coming to their houses
together, oh I am sorry,
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I am telling your
testimony. That's okay.
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But we are just
trying to race to the end.
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It seems to be
one in the morning
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and these people
in different parts
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in the same town are watching.
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They don't know
each other is watching
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and they watched
like 2:30 in the morning.
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It's a six and a
half hour presentation
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and they were spell bound.
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The next morning the
father comes to the son
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and says, "Look,
copy this DVD for me,
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I got to give it to my neighbor
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and you going to get a
copy too. Copy, copy, copy."
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And he is like, "No, no, no,
I am not doing that until you--
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I got to show you something,
I got to show you something."
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And they don't realize they are
talking about the same thing.
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And so finally the son just
says, "Ssh, be quite, you know."
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And he pops in the DVD,
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Steps to Christ song
and it starts playing.
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They dad's like, "Well,
yeah, then you finally did it.
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Why don't you just
listen to me in the beginning?"
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He is like, "No,
that's my DVD. No, it's mine."
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Then they realize
it's a same thing.
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And so folks if people
that don't even know the gospel
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are that excited about it is
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because the Holy
Spirit is working
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through the music,
through the testimonies,
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through the inspiration
of the books and so on.
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And where can we
find more information?
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fountainview.ca, CA for Canada,
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that's the
website, 221 is our booth.
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And I just want to
ask you to pray with us.
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We are looking to
launch and one last thing
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inspiration tells us that
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the Great Controversy
unveil Satan's deceptions
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and leads people to
decisions and so as we use this,
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we feel the best
thing to end our system
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with will be the
Great Controversy.
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And Mark Finely has agreed to
go to Europe with us next year
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and go to ASI
Europe with the orchestra
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and to film and the reformation
trail, a project there.
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We ask you to pray
with us about that.
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We certainly will. Thank you.
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Thank you, Craig.
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Coming up to join me
next is James Hartley.
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He is the
director for L.I.G.H.T.
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And L.I.G.H.T. is an
acronym for an origination
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that he will tell us about.
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Hi, James, tell us
what L.I.G.H.T. stands for
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and what is it all about.
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L.I.G.H.T.
stands for Lay Institute
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for Global Health Training.
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We are offering
short lay training courses
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in medical missionary
work around the world.
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So far we have run
courses in 64 countries.
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In the last four years
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we've trained over
5000 lay members. Amen.
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And so what was at
the core of the project
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that was funded
by ASI last year?
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The core is our
missionary teachers.
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We have a network of about 200
teachers that we affiliate with.
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There's about 30 or so
that we directly you know,
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helping to stipend
in the mission field
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to pioneer new projects.
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So really our work is to
share short training course
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in order for medical mission
work to really be successful
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and to have a good growth
you need a permanent school.
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So we start with short
courses, one week, one month
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and as the
church gets, you know,
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it catches a vision for it.
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In some cases the
church headquarters
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are offering facilities for
us to run full six month courses
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so we can train
trainers to go out
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and branch the
work even broader.
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Describe some of the
elements in the school.
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What are the--
what things are taught?
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When someone comes to a
one month L.I.G.H.T. course
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there's a standardize
curriculum that we use.
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We translate it in
different languages
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so everybody gets
that in their language.
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In that course we study
the principles of health,
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the eight laws of health.
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We also study
the common diseases
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relevant to that
country, we study nutrition.
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We also study spiritual
classes, Daniel in Revelation,
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Three Angels Message,
sanctuary and witnessing
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and how to get Bible
studies and soul winning.
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And how the health messages,
they are entering wedge
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to open up ways
to peoples hearts
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and then we get
practical with them.
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They--we do health
expos, every one month course
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we are going to do
at least one or two
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health expos in the community
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and this is where
they really get to apply
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what they have been learning.
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So they have been studying
the importance of exercise
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and water and then at the expo
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they are face to face
with people in their community
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and this is really
where it all comes together.
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We also are
teaching them cooking classes
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and massage and
hydrotherapy and so forth.
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And then-- yeah, a lot of them
that might be the first time
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they have eaten
healthy food before.
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And so during the
one month course their--
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it's a lifestyle
program for some of them
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and they get motivated
about the health message,
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then they see how
it can be an inroad
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to communities and help others.
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Tell us about
some of the experiences
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and you have some pictures
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that help to
highlight those experiences?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Why don't we show a
picture from Guatemala here.
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Guatemala is an
amazing testimony.
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This here is the
union headquarters.
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Guatemala has its own union.
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There's 120 pastors
and here on the outside,
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on the left there
is the union president.
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Rodney is on the right,
he is one of our directors.
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And he has desired,
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we've run seven
one-month courses
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in Guatemala over
the last three years
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and they have been
so motivated about it.
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They wanted to see every pastor
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in the country of
Guatemala trained.
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So the only way
to make that happen,
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we thought about the
one month and it just--
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with their
schedules it wouldn't work.
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So we rotated every pastor
through one week intensive
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and we just
finished that two weeks ago.
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Every pastor in Guatemala
has got one week intensive
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and health evangelism and
also you saw those DVDs there.
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ASI sent 3000
New Beginning DVDs.
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Those 120 pastors got trained
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with a medical
missionary approach.
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They are going to
take those DVDs and go back
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and they are
going to train 3000,
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not lay members,
3000 small groups.
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There's over 10,000
lay members in Guatemala
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that are committing themselves
to do evangelism this next year.
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So those pastors and their
wives who are also trained,
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the wives are
doing cooking schools
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and expos with the pastors.
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So all those 120
pastors are going out,
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they are going to train
these 3000 small groups,
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give them the DVDs.
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And this next year
they are all suppose
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to run an evangelistic event.
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That's wonderful.
Let's move to the Amazon.
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Yeah, so the
health approach, you know,
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it works in
first world countries,
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it also works in
out of the reach places.
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And also I think that L.I.G.H.T.
does is it helps ministries
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that don't have a training
school get a training school.
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So we help start new ones,
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we also help current
projects start up a school.
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Case implied would be the
Amazon Life Saver Project.
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I met Brad Miller at
the GC a couple of years ago
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and we started dialoging.
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He is the director for
the Amazon Life Savers.
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They have a boat launch project,
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they have five boats going
into the interior of the Amazon
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and they send
Bible workers out there
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but one of the issues they had
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with their Bible workers
were not very well trained
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because they don't have
a training school there.
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So he said, we
should join enforces
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and start a school down there.
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So in January
we went down there,
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we can look at the picture
here of a one month course.
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Me and my wife work
with Brad and his wife
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and we conducted this course.
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This lady sitting right
here had to travel two full days
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on back rivers at night time
from port to port boating in
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to get to this training which
is right outside of Manaus,
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right on the Amazon river.
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Some of these you know,
through all the tributaries
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of the Amazon and so
forth, it's extensive
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and they had to travel,
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several of these students
travel long way to be there.
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She is a
relatively new Adventist
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but as a real evangelistic
spirit we gave her the course.
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Since she's been in
her villages working
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and she started
up a church. Wow.
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So they won several
souls to the Lord already
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living the health
message. Very good.
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And you have another
experience for us. Yeah.
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Reaching Muslims
through health expos.
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You know, the
Muslim world is immense
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and is a large
challenge for us to reach.
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There is no
question in our minds
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that the health
approach is the entering wedge.
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If you try to
bring the Bible first,
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they will shut the door to you.
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So let me show you a
picture from Indonesia.
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Indonesia, this is actually
a picture of a health expo,
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it may not look
like a health expo.
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This is the counseling booth
that our students are doing
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right on this little rug here.
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Look at these women here.
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They are sitting and listening
to the eight laws of health,
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a presentation of
the health message.
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They have already gone
through all the booths.
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They exercise the
blood pressure and so forth.
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We are getting
hundreds of Muslim people
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from Indonesia
into our health expos.
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We started with
one month courses
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and then the union was so
impressed with the results of it
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that they wanted us to
start a six month school.
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So they gave us a property
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and they gave us a large school
building that wasn't been used.
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It was a little run down.
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So for four
months we fixed it up,
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painted it,
plastered, everything
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and had a grand opening
with union people there.
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And the first
course had 30 students.
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So 30 students in Indonesia
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have gone through a
full six months training
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and now they are
working through Indonesia
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conducting cooking schools,
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different health
seminars and health expos.
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They have had
hundreds of Muslim people
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in Indonesia coming through
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and they have had
several baptisms even
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and they have got many ongoing
Bible studies going right now.
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Wow. That's exciting.
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Our time is almost up.
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I just want you to tell us
for people who want to know
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where to get more
information about Fountainview
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and the ways that they can help.
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Where is your booth today? Okay.
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L.I.G.H.T.
Ministry is at booth 339,
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our website is
lightintheworld.org.
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We've made an online school
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so that more people can
get access to our training.
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You could take a one
month training online,
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it will be all video
there for you streamed.
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And then you can go to
the mission field with us
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after you complete the training
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you can go to one of
our projects and help about.
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Maybe you go to
Amazon with us, Debbie,
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I am waiting for that.
I will be ready for it.
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Those DVDs are available
for training and so forth.
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If you can help us
anyway we are translating.
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You know, there's so much to do
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and we just want
to see it go rapidly
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because the Lord is coming soon.
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Thank you very much, James.
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God bless you in your efforts.
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Coming up next is Julia O'Carey,
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Julia O'Carey is the assistance
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for the
Associate Direct for ASAP.
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Here at ASI, we are an
organization of lots of acronyms
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So Julia, welcome and tell
us what does ASAP stands for
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and tell us
about the organization?
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ASAP stands for Adventist
Southeast Asia Projects
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and it also can stand
for always say a prayer
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or let's get the gospel out
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to South East Asia
as soon as possible.
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And what ASAP does is
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we spread the gospel to
the national missionaries
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that we empower
and train and support
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and help in the
countries of Thailand,
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Cambodia, Laos,
Vietnam and Myanmar.
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And we also help the
refugees from these countries
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that come to United States.
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So how have the
offerings been helpful
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in expanding the
ministry of ASAP?
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We are so grateful for ASI
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and the offering
that we last received.
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We went to help
the church planters
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and medical
missionaries have stipends
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and picture rolls and Bibles
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then training that they
needed in Burma, in Myanmar.
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So that was such a blessing.
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Oh that's
really exciting to know
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that our offerings are actually
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touching people
all around the world
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through people
in those locations.
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So is there, there's someone
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that you are going
to be telling us about
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or is there a
video we see now? Oh yes.
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I just wanted to
show you a little glimpse
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of one of our
church planters in Burma
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and his name is Kline Horn.
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And he went to this un-reached
tribe for the Akat people
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and the government invited him
to this village and told him,
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we want you to
teach our children
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how to read and
write but no Christianity.
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And let's see what happened.
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I accepted the
position but still my heart long
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to be ableto share the
good news with these people.
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I prayed a lot,
asking God to show me ways
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that I could gain the confidence
and trust of the people.
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For the first four months
I simply taught the children
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regular school subjects.
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They learnt how
to read and write.
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We studied literature
and how to speak Burmese.
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Instead of the five hours
that they had asked me to teach
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we studied for
seven hours a day.
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After four months of working
with the children in this way,
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I noticed a big
change come over the people.
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I had gained their confidence.
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They were now very
friendly and accepting of me.
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I was impressed
that the time had come
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for me to begin to
teach the children about God.
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Its part of their
literature classes,
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I began to tell them
stories from the Bible.
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The children loved them.
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They also love to sing
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and so as part of our music
in Burmese language classes
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we began to sing
songs in Burmese about God.
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The children
enjoyed this so much
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that they began to come
to my home in the evening
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for more stories and singing.
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Even some of the parents
have started to come to my home
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in the evenings and
now also on Sabbath.
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We now have about 30 people
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from the village
coming on a regular basis.
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One of the most
influential people
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in a Lahu village is
the anonymous priest.
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At first, the
anonymous priest in this village
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was very skeptical but
God has touched his heart
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and he has become one
of my biggest supporters.
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He encourages the children
to come to my evening meetings
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and has become
very interested himself.
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He does not know how to read
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and so he is learning
about God from our discussions
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and the picture rolls
that I have received from ASAP.
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And it's amazing,
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this anonymous priest
also know as a Shaman,
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his daughter was in this school
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and she would
come home every night
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and share stories from the Bible
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and that's what
got him interested.
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And it's amazing what
the Lord can do to these
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simple medical missionaries
and church planters.
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And I have one
more story, can I share?
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Yes. Okay.
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This medical missionary
was giving health meetings
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before the evangelistic
meetings in this one village
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and he noticed
that this one family
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that came only
came the first night.
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And so he was concerned.
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He prayed and he
went back to their home
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and found them and they
said, "Oh, we are so burden.
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We have to go to the rice
fields and harvest our rice.
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We don't have time."
00:20:45.14\00:20:46.55
And so he had the
approach that Jesus has
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to mingle with men and
then let them come follow me.
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And so he said, "I
will come with you."
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So he went to the rice
fields and he helped then work
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and after day five
of the meetings this--
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slowly the Holy Spirit worked
on the hearts of this family
00:21:02.21\00:21:05.24
and they decided to come
to the meetings on day five
00:21:05.27\00:21:08.70
which was a really good thing
00:21:08.73\00:21:11.08
because the wife,
Mitrutishi she was an alcoholic
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and when she heard
the health meetings
00:21:16.60\00:21:19.14
and heard the messages
about Jesus for the first time,
00:21:19.17\00:21:22.23
she broke down and
cried and she said,
00:21:22.26\00:21:24.31
"You know, this is
really what I need.
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This is what my whole
family needs, a family of nine.
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To make a long
story short, at the end
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she ended up getting baptized,
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her husband ended
up getting baptized,
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her children but when she
was walking towards the water
00:21:36.26\00:21:40.82
she started shaking violently
and our church planter Tun Win,
00:21:40.85\00:21:45.84
he held her arm and he knew
it was an attack from the devil.
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The devil did not want to
give up his control of this lady
00:21:49.69\00:21:53.00
and he started singing a
hymn and praying for her.
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And she started
to calm down enough
00:21:56.82\00:21:58.77
that they could baptize her
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and she went in the water
00:22:00.77\00:22:02.44
and when she
came out of the water
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she was a new person.
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She was radiant and
she had joy, she had peace,
00:22:06.14\00:22:10.26
and she has been such an
amazing witness in this village.
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Thank you so much.
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Where is your booth
00:22:15.14\00:22:16.17
because we want
to hear more stories
00:22:16.20\00:22:17.31
about ASAP and what's happening?
00:22:17.34\00:22:19.67
Our booth is 419 and we
would love you to come on by
00:22:19.70\00:22:23.56
and we have a special gift of--
00:22:23.59\00:22:25.29
if you like
these mission stories,
00:22:25.32\00:22:26.79
we have some of our favorites
that we like to give you.
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Well, thank you ASI
00:22:30.38\00:22:31.50
for what you are
doing through your offerings
00:22:31.53\00:22:33.10
and may God bless all
of us so we can continue
00:22:33.13\00:22:35.62
supporting ministries for
reaching the world, thank you.
00:22:35.65\00:22:38.37
I just want to ask you to pray
specially for this one tribe
00:22:38.40\00:22:43.30
where a 1,000
Wa people in Burma,
00:22:43.33\00:22:47.55
heard the gospel for the
very first time last month
00:22:47.58\00:22:50.76
and I ask for your prayers that
the seeds that we were planted
00:22:50.79\00:22:54.15
will take root and
grow because this would be
00:22:54.18\00:22:56.67
an amazing thing
for all of these people
00:22:56.70\00:22:59.17
to become Seventh-day
Adventist Christians.
00:22:59.20\00:23:01.55
Thank you. Thank you.
00:23:01.58\00:23:03.91
So dear to my heart
is the promise of God
00:23:03.94\00:23:11.91
A home with the pure and
blest Where earth weary pilgrims
00:23:12.94\00:23:20.94
Strangers here below
Will find their eternal rest
00:23:23.59\00:23:31.59
I'm homesick for
heaven, seems I cannot wait
00:23:33.22\00:23:39.77
Yearning to enter
Zion's pearly gate
00:23:39.80\00:23:44.17
There never a
heartache, never a care
00:23:44.20\00:23:50.86
I long for my home over there
00:23:50.89\00:23:56.74
'Tis Eden, fair
Eden, I long to behold
00:23:56.77\00:24:03.29
Where naught can
despoil that's fair
00:24:03.32\00:24:08.75
Where saints of all
ages, hold communion sweet
00:24:08.78\00:24:14.66
The glories of heaven share
00:24:14.69\00:24:20.64
I'm homesick for
heaven, seems I cannot wait
00:24:20.67\00:24:26.79
Yearning to enter
Zion's pearly gate
00:24:26.82\00:24:31.38
There never a
heartache, never a care
00:24:31.41\00:24:38.21
I long for my home over there
00:24:38.24\00:24:44.67
But chiefest of all is
the thought that enthralls
00:24:44.70\00:24:51.87
That I shall behold my King
00:24:51.90\00:24:57.73
Rejoice in His
presence, revel in His grace
00:24:57.76\00:25:03.93
And ever His praises sing
00:25:03.96\00:25:10.20
I'm homesick for
heaven, seems I cannot wait
00:25:10.23\00:25:18.20
Yearning to enter
Zion's pearly gate
00:25:20.39\00:25:24.79
There never a
heartache, never a care
00:25:24.82\00:25:32.19
I long for my home
over there, over there
00:25:32.22\00:25:40.19
Amen. Amen.
00:25:49.32\00:25:52.35
Good morning ASI
family. Good morning.
00:25:52.38\00:25:55.07
Have you been
blessed so far? Yes.
00:25:55.10\00:25:57.23
I want to hear a big amen.
00:25:57.26\00:25:58.72
Amen. Amen.
00:25:58.75\00:26:00.73
Well, you know,
those who have been coming
00:26:00.76\00:26:02.37
to the prayer chapel here at
ASI have been blesses as well.
00:26:02.40\00:26:06.11
And I have here Michael
Belknap and Jason Kunai.
00:26:06.14\00:26:09.87
And Michael, what was your
main reason for coming to ASI?
00:26:09.90\00:26:14.92
One of the main reasons actually
00:26:14.95\00:26:16.40
was to come to the
prayer chapel this year.
00:26:16.43\00:26:18.44
So how did you hear
about the prayer chapel?
00:26:18.47\00:26:20.60
Last year at the
convention in Sacramento
00:26:20.63\00:26:23.42
it was my first year at ASI
and I went to the chapel there.
00:26:23.45\00:26:27.22
Praise the Lord.
00:26:27.25\00:26:28.28
And you know he came all the way
00:26:28.31\00:26:29.34
from Niagara Falls, New York,
00:26:29.37\00:26:31.96
to come to the
prayer chapel. Tell me why?
00:26:31.99\00:26:35.91
Well, the reality is that I
guess I have needs personally
00:26:35.94\00:26:39.38
and battles that I
face and there's decisions
00:26:39.41\00:26:42.28
that need to be made
at this time in history.
00:26:42.31\00:26:44.38
And when I was remembering
about the prayer chapel,
00:26:44.41\00:26:47.67
I just felt impressed,
hey, there's an opportunity.
00:26:47.70\00:26:50.18
This is the time God told us
00:26:50.21\00:26:51.75
that He is going to
pour out His Holy Spirit
00:26:51.78\00:26:53.93
and He do it at meetings
like such as this in prayer.
00:26:53.96\00:26:57.52
So I thought this
is the place to go.
00:26:57.55\00:26:59.08
You know that reminds me of this
quote from Selected Messages,
00:26:59.11\00:27:02.65
"A revival need be expected
only in answer to prayer."
00:27:02.68\00:27:08.13
That's very exciting.
We are glad you are here.
00:27:08.16\00:27:10.41
And this is your first
experience with united prayer,
00:27:10.44\00:27:13.71
right, Jason?
Tell me how did it go?
00:27:13.74\00:27:15.90
I felt just really blessed
00:27:15.93\00:27:19.43
and like Michael
I had questions also
00:27:19.46\00:27:22.59
just wondering where
the Lord wants to use me
00:27:22.62\00:27:26.72
in future
ministry in Niagara Falls
00:27:26.75\00:27:29.25
and so it was
perfect opportunity to come.
00:27:29.28\00:27:32.40
Praise the Lord and you
know, you shared with me
00:27:32.43\00:27:34.86
that you've been
Christian for seven years
00:27:34.89\00:27:37.51
and what else can you tell
me about the united prayer room?
00:27:37.54\00:27:42.02
Have you learned
anything about prayer in there?
00:27:42.05\00:27:45.11
Yeah, actually it's real
easy for me to open up my Bible
00:27:45.14\00:27:49.59
and just read it in
the morning or whenever
00:27:49.62\00:27:54.23
but for me to pray it's really
hard sometimes personally.
00:27:54.26\00:27:58.28
And so it's just a
tremendous blessing
00:27:58.31\00:28:00.44
to be around people in this
prayer chapel that they pray
00:28:00.47\00:28:04.76
and the format is really easy.
00:28:04.79\00:28:07.31
And it's just like you
know, acts like adoration,
00:28:07.34\00:28:11.10
confession,
Thanksgiving supplication.
00:28:11.13\00:28:13.60
And it's just making
new pathways in my brain
00:28:13.63\00:28:16.72
because I am a new Christian,
00:28:16.75\00:28:17.78
you don't always
get taught how to pray
00:28:17.81\00:28:20.50
and it's just a
tremendous blessing.
00:28:20.53\00:28:22.85
Praise the Lord.
00:28:22.88\00:28:24.29
And if any of you are struggling
with your personal prayer life
00:28:24.32\00:28:27.71
and you want that encouragement,
00:28:27.74\00:28:29.33
I urge you to come to the prayer
chapel and pray with others.
00:28:29.36\00:28:32.69
And also if you are watching
on TV and you would love this,
00:28:32.72\00:28:37.68
you can go to armybible.com
and we have a prayer manual
00:28:37.71\00:28:41.82
that shows you exactly how
to do this, it's very exciting.
00:28:41.85\00:28:44.87
So how many hours were you
in the prayer room yesterday?
00:28:44.90\00:28:49.21
I believe between four and five.
00:28:49.24\00:28:51.90
So you know,
this might amaze you
00:28:51.93\00:28:54.82
but if you think about Jesus,
00:28:54.85\00:28:56.99
He prayed all
night long, didn't He?
00:28:57.02\00:28:59.22
And the apostles
they came together
00:28:59.25\00:29:01.81
and they prayed
for days and you know,
00:29:01.84\00:29:04.30
in this time we
really need prayer, don't we?
00:29:04.33\00:29:07.79
So what I like to
encourage you to do right now is
00:29:07.82\00:29:10.63
to come to the prayer chapel,
00:29:10.66\00:29:13.35
think about your schedule
today, when could you come.
00:29:13.38\00:29:17.29
And it's open from
6:15 AM to 10:00 PM at night
00:29:17.32\00:29:23.66
and it's located right
down at the end of this hall
00:29:23.69\00:29:26.84
if you walk past
the registration table.
00:29:26.87\00:29:29.30
And they started new session
at the top of every hour.
00:29:29.33\00:29:33.02
And so turn to the
person next to you and ask them,
00:29:33.05\00:29:36.84
"What time do you plan to
be in the prayer chapel today?"
00:29:36.87\00:29:41.95
and then tell them,
it's time to pray. Thank you.
00:29:41.98\00:29:46.16
We have something very exciting
to talk to you guys about,
00:29:51.50\00:29:54.94
how many of you love
technology? All right.
00:29:54.97\00:29:58.55
How many of you have smart
phones out there? All right.
00:29:58.58\00:30:02.53
How many of you have
Apple smart phones out there?
00:30:02.56\00:30:06.64
All right we got a
lot of Apple users.
00:30:06.67\00:30:08.44
Well, today I am
here with Andrew Jones,
00:30:08.47\00:30:10.36
he is the app developer
00:30:10.39\00:30:12.45
that we have
developed an app for ASI
00:30:12.48\00:30:15.16
and he is going to talk to
you a little bit about that.
00:30:15.19\00:30:16.89
Andrew, tell us
a little bit about
00:30:16.92\00:30:18.44
what this app is
capable of and, you know,
00:30:18.47\00:30:21.75
why we developed
this app for ASI?
00:30:21.78\00:30:24.63
Well, the app-- we
decided to do an app
00:30:24.66\00:30:27.85
that will let you stay connected
throughout the year with ASI
00:30:27.88\00:30:31.19
and be very useful
during the convention.
00:30:31.22\00:30:33.80
And so if you go to
our first slide here,
00:30:33.83\00:30:36.71
you will notice that
when you first open up the app
00:30:36.74\00:30:40.68
you will see that we have like
a twitter feed at the bottom,
00:30:40.71\00:30:43.53
so you can keep in
contact with the latest updates.
00:30:43.56\00:30:45.86
For example when I got
to my hotel couple days ago,
00:30:45.89\00:30:49.17
I noticed that
3ABN has been shown
00:30:49.20\00:30:51.47
on a certain channel in my hotel
00:30:51.50\00:30:53.50
and it's mentioned
that in the twitter feed,
00:30:53.53\00:30:55.76
so I was able to go to
that channel and watch 3ABN.
00:30:55.79\00:30:58.89
Also across the top of
this convention screen,
00:30:58.92\00:31:02.35
we give you
different functionalities
00:31:02.38\00:31:03.66
like you can see
the exhibitors, speakers
00:31:03.69\00:31:08.02
and then you have
of course the schedule.
00:31:08.05\00:31:10.48
So, well, if you
have the schedule
00:31:10.51\00:31:12.90
what's different
about that as oppose to
00:31:12.93\00:31:14.95
like say the
program that we have.
00:31:14.98\00:31:16.77
I mean, what kind of
features offer there?
00:31:16.84\00:31:19.78
Well, if you notice
on the screen here that
00:31:19.81\00:31:21.65
the schedule
gives you such things
00:31:21.68\00:31:23.59
as you can filter by
what's going on right now.
00:31:23.62\00:31:27.57
So you can-- if it's Thursday,
00:31:27.60\00:31:28.76
you don't have to look
at Wednesday's meetings
00:31:28.79\00:31:31.56
and you can of
course favorite an item.
00:31:31.59\00:31:35.02
So if you want a
Bill Jones schedule,
00:31:35.05\00:31:36.73
you can drill
down, favorite the item
00:31:36.76\00:31:38.71
and then you notice
on the screen we have--
00:31:38.74\00:31:42.47
if you go back
one more we do have
00:31:42.50\00:31:44.94
example of a
favorite to the list
00:31:44.97\00:31:47.12
of all the items
on your schedule.
00:31:47.15\00:31:49.65
And then of course
you can then drill down
00:31:49.68\00:31:51.04
and find out where
these meeting are at
00:31:51.07\00:31:53.60
and so like we
have the location,
00:31:53.63\00:31:56.74
the times and the meetings,
the session information.
00:31:56.77\00:32:00.26
So if I want to find
out what a session is,
00:32:00.29\00:32:02.70
what about the speakers and
some information about them?
00:32:02.73\00:32:06.60
Is that available
on the app? Yes, it is.
00:32:06.63\00:32:09.67
We do have a
whole speaker sections
00:32:09.70\00:32:12.35
where you can search
by speaker's name and--
00:32:12.38\00:32:14.85
for example this
screen shows Neil Nedley
00:32:14.88\00:32:17.02
and it shows like what
sessions he is speaking at.
00:32:17.05\00:32:19.98
You can look up his bio
and even go to his website.
00:32:20.01\00:32:24.21
For example I was at
the ASI booth yesterday
00:32:24.24\00:32:26.93
and this lady was
looking for contact information
00:32:26.96\00:32:29.41
for one of the speakers
and she assumes I had it.
00:32:29.44\00:32:32.25
So I merely knew
that we had the app.
00:32:32.28\00:32:34.48
So I looked it up,
00:32:34.51\00:32:35.56
I was able to give her
the website for the speaker
00:32:35.59\00:32:37.65
and of course she
appreciated that but not only,
00:32:37.68\00:32:41.30
of course we have speakers
but we also have exhibitors
00:32:41.33\00:32:43.72
and the app will
give you information
00:32:43.75\00:32:45.77
where all the exhibits
are at and their booth number.
00:32:45.80\00:32:48.86
So this app will tell
you where the booths are,
00:32:48.89\00:32:52.18
how to get to the booths?
00:32:52.21\00:32:53.96
We are not that advance
00:32:53.99\00:32:55.22
but it gives you
a list of everything
00:32:55.25\00:32:57.62
that's out there
and the booth number.
00:32:57.65\00:32:59.99
So let's say, if I want
to go to a particular booth,
00:33:00.02\00:33:02.49
it will tell me
exactly where to get to it
00:33:02.52\00:33:04.31
and actually if
I want to know more
00:33:04.34\00:33:07.44
about the
exhibitor that's there,
00:33:07.47\00:33:09.11
is there more
information than just the booth?
00:33:09.14\00:33:11.79
Yes, you can actually click on--
00:33:11.82\00:33:13.99
you can tap on
the exhibitor's name
00:33:14.02\00:33:16.12
and if they have a
website in our system,
00:33:16.15\00:33:18.03
it will pull up their website.
00:33:18.06\00:33:19.10
So you can then
preview the website.
00:33:19.13\00:33:21.09
So that let us stay more
in touch with all the people
00:33:21.12\00:33:25.44
that are involved
with ASI a little bit more,
00:33:25.47\00:33:28.15
it give you
information at your finger tips
00:33:28.18\00:33:30.62
and allows you to
kind of filter through it
00:33:30.65\00:33:33.38
and have a lot of options.
00:33:33.41\00:33:35.10
Yeah, just as you walk
around you don't have to--
00:33:35.13\00:33:37.80
if you lost your program
guide or forgot at the hotel,
00:33:37.83\00:33:40.81
then you can use
your phone. Nice.
00:33:40.84\00:33:42.94
So, but beside the convention
of course throughout the year
00:33:42.97\00:33:45.08
if you wan to stay
in contact with ASI
00:33:45.11\00:33:46.92
we have a whole
section just for that.
00:33:46.95\00:33:48.70
And so next we have this
screen just for projects.
00:33:48.73\00:33:52.48
And you can see
where you can search
00:33:52.51\00:33:54.38
by all the projects at
ASI's donations are going to
00:33:54.41\00:33:57.75
and you can pull up
information on them.
00:33:57.78\00:33:59.50
So here's the example
of Little Lights Project.
00:33:59.53\00:34:02.81
And it has the
information, the amount
00:34:02.84\00:34:05.05
and you can even
view Little Light website.
00:34:05.08\00:34:07.59
Nice and see what--
where the money is going.
00:34:07.62\00:34:09.93
What they are using it for
00:34:09.96\00:34:11.10
and get a little
bit more detail on that.
00:34:11.13\00:34:13.24
That's correct. Nice.
00:34:13.27\00:34:14.82
And of course moving on,
00:34:14.85\00:34:16.15
we also have a
bunch more information
00:34:16.18\00:34:18.42
like you can do
online donations.
00:34:18.45\00:34:20.34
So if you are on the
road or just on your phone,
00:34:20.37\00:34:21.94
you need to renew your
membership or donate to ASI.
00:34:21.97\00:34:25.17
You like
donating at that moment,
00:34:25.20\00:34:27.04
it will link you to the
PayPal online ASI's website.
00:34:27.07\00:34:32.66
And of course you can call or
email ASI directly from the app.
00:34:32.69\00:34:37.60
Now Andrew, what
about some of the past media
00:34:37.63\00:34:39.62
that's been
captured here at ASI?
00:34:39.65\00:34:42.00
What if I want to
listen to some of the mp3s
00:34:42.03\00:34:44.45
or watch some of the videos,
is that capable on this app?
00:34:44.48\00:34:46.87
Yes, we do have a
whole media section.
00:34:46.90\00:34:50.20
And right now we just have
the YouTube channel of ASI up
00:34:50.23\00:34:54.03
but in the future we will
have all the past conventions
00:34:54.06\00:34:57.97
including the
current one on the media.
00:34:58.00\00:34:59.93
So if I am in my
car and I want to listen
00:34:59.96\00:35:01.74
to one of the ASI meetings,
I can actually do that.
00:35:01.77\00:35:05.19
That's correct, we
will have different formats
00:35:05.22\00:35:07.12
depending on your connection
you will get an audio only
00:35:07.15\00:35:10.50
or you will actually have
high quality video with Wi-Fi.
00:35:10.53\00:35:13.29
Well, that's awesome.
00:35:13.32\00:35:14.35
When is this app
going to be available?
00:35:14.38\00:35:16.09
Well, we have submitted to
Apple and we are just praying
00:35:16.12\00:35:19.25
that they will approve it
within the next couple of hours.
00:35:19.28\00:35:23.17
Well as soon as it's available,
we will let you guys all know.
00:35:23.20\00:35:26.29
We will have a
little announcement.
00:35:26.32\00:35:27.38
We will put it our
on Facebook and Twitter
00:35:27.41\00:35:28.92
and you guys can
utilize this awesome tool.
00:35:28.95\00:35:31.91
And thank you, Andrew,
for developing this app.
00:35:31.94\00:35:34.24
Good morning ASI
family. Good morning.
00:35:38.44\00:35:41.20
Our offerings in motion,
00:35:41.23\00:35:44.44
in action and in
motion continue this morning.
00:35:44.47\00:35:48.51
With me is Darryl Thompson,
00:35:48.54\00:35:49.78
he is from
Ellen G. White Estate.
00:35:49.81\00:35:51.60
And Darryl, tell
us a little bit about
00:35:51.63\00:35:53.41
what your role is at
the Ellen G. White Estate.
00:35:53.44\00:35:55.49
Thank you, Debbie.
00:35:55.52\00:35:56.55
I am Darryl and I am
the assistant director
00:35:56.58\00:35:58.33
there at the
Ellen G. White Estate
00:35:58.36\00:35:59.39
and I take care of all
of our electronic projects,
00:35:59.42\00:36:01.51
our website and our apps.
00:36:01.54\00:36:03.71
Now ASI provided some funding
for the Ellen G. White Estate,
00:36:03.74\00:36:07.57
for what reason
00:36:07.60\00:36:08.63
and what kind of
progress has been made to date?
00:36:08.66\00:36:11.09
Thank you, we had
nine languages last year
00:36:11.12\00:36:14.59
and I stood up the
front and spoke to you people
00:36:14.62\00:36:16.92
and said, you know, we love
to be out and add more languages
00:36:16.95\00:36:20.90
and with generous
donations of ASI members,
00:36:20.93\00:36:24.72
we were able this year to
add 200 books and 45 languages.
00:36:24.75\00:36:29.35
Wow, that's' exciting.
00:36:29.38\00:36:30.41
Now, help us
understand, what does that mean?
00:36:30.44\00:36:33.31
So adding the number of
books in specific languages
00:36:33.34\00:36:36.90
on the website
available for people to access?
00:36:36.93\00:36:39.48
Yes, at egwwrittings.org,
you can go there
00:36:39.51\00:36:44.41
and when you go there,
00:36:44.44\00:36:45.79
you will notice that
if you go to the library
00:36:45.82\00:36:48.26
and you scroll
down in the library,
00:36:48.29\00:36:50.24
you will see language
by language by language.
00:36:50.27\00:36:52.95
We have 1, 2, 3
up to 420 English,
00:36:52.98\00:36:56.73
about 99 Portuguese, 78 Spanish
00:36:56.76\00:37:00.25
and the list goes
on down from there.
00:37:00.28\00:37:03.48
Well, that sounds--
00:37:03.51\00:37:04.75
how many people do
you have working on this?
00:37:04.78\00:37:07.47
Is it just you? I am
just the team director.
00:37:07.50\00:37:11.92
If you can imagine, let's think
00:37:11.95\00:37:15.42
with those nine languages
we spent half a million dollars
00:37:15.45\00:37:20.37
and three years to get
those nine languages up there.
00:37:20.40\00:37:24.09
And we release that at
General Conference session.
00:37:24.12\00:37:26.80
In the last year, you know,
00:37:26.83\00:37:27.89
we had the generous
donation of $200,000 from ASI
00:37:27.92\00:37:31.49
and we knew that we ought
to get those books up there
00:37:31.52\00:37:33.77
in multiple languages,
not the common languages
00:37:33.80\00:37:36.17
how we're going to
get people to help us.
00:37:36.20\00:37:38.02
But lucky there is the internet.
00:37:38.05\00:37:39.80
And lucky, you
might have heard of,
00:37:39.83\00:37:41.58
you know, Monster which
goes out and helps to get jobs
00:37:41.61\00:37:44.54
and we use their worker
00:37:44.57\00:37:45.70
and were able to get
lots of people to help us out.
00:37:45.73\00:37:48.00
So we had over 100
people working on this.
00:37:48.03\00:37:50.81
We have three team leaders
00:37:50.84\00:37:52.40
and all have the
different specialists,
00:37:52.43\00:37:54.13
all from people that was
scanning books at Andrews,
00:37:54.16\00:37:56.80
students, people
at the White Estate,
00:37:56.83\00:37:59.04
people in Germany, in Brazil,
00:37:59.07\00:38:02.65
in China, in
Philippines, in India.
00:38:02.68\00:38:05.60
Scattered across the globe,
00:38:05.63\00:38:06.80
we had teams of people working
on digitizing these books
00:38:06.83\00:38:09.26
and making them available. Wow.
00:38:09.29\00:38:10.62
So this is truly been a
worldwide effort. Exactly.
00:38:10.65\00:38:14.04
Can you tell me what
kind of impact have you seen?
00:38:14.07\00:38:16.96
Has anyone noticed that their
language is on the website?
00:38:16.99\00:38:19.83
Yes, lots of people are
used to write to us and say,
00:38:19.86\00:38:21.90
"Okay, you know,
you have this language,
00:38:21.93\00:38:23.37
you have English, Spanish,
Chinese, Russian, Italian,
00:38:23.40\00:38:26.68
Portuguese but
where's my language?
00:38:26.71\00:38:29.98
You know, why can't you
put our language up there?"
00:38:30.01\00:38:33.65
And so you know, I write back
00:38:33.68\00:38:35.03
and say, "Well,
it's coming, you know."
00:38:35.06\00:38:36.81
We also have a
website, partner.egwwirtings.org
00:38:36.84\00:38:40.15
and we sent them to there
to help make contributions.
00:38:40.18\00:38:42.78
If they saw a book
that they would like to help
00:38:42.81\00:38:45.02
put up on the website
they can sponsor that book
00:38:45.05\00:38:47.28
and then we would
make it available.
00:38:47.31\00:38:49.37
Now we just heard
prior to us coming out,
00:38:49.40\00:38:52.04
apps and all these
things that help us--
00:38:52.07\00:38:55.87
you can tell, I
am not a real, okay.
00:38:55.90\00:38:58.31
Yes, actually I was
helping Debbie yesterday
00:38:58.34\00:39:00.52
to get that app
on her smart phone.
00:39:00.55\00:39:02.54
If you have a smart phone
00:39:02.57\00:39:03.60
just like the previous people
were talking to you about it,
00:39:03.63\00:39:07.10
we have an android app,
00:39:07.13\00:39:08.87
we have a
BlackBerry Playbook app,
00:39:08.90\00:39:10.99
we have Nook
Color and tablet app,
00:39:11.02\00:39:13.19
we have a Kindle Fire app,
00:39:13.22\00:39:15.02
we have iPhone
app, we have iPad app
00:39:15.05\00:39:17.64
and if you have the new
you know, the Google Nexes 7
00:39:17.67\00:39:22.03
that works
wonderfully on that as well.
00:39:22.06\00:39:24.10
So we have those,
all those apps available.
00:39:24.13\00:39:26.37
With egwwritings you
just go to their app store,
00:39:26.40\00:39:28.81
type in egwwritings and
you will find the app there.
00:39:28.84\00:39:32.21
And those apps just simple help
you to access the information
00:39:32.24\00:39:37.15
from the website in a
more user friendly way.
00:39:37.18\00:39:40.57
Right, well, the
great thing about apps
00:39:40.60\00:39:42.55
is like you don't always carry
00:39:42.58\00:39:44.21
a laptop
computer around with you
00:39:44.24\00:39:46.05
but most people do
carry a smart phone.
00:39:46.08\00:39:48.13
And it's
amazing in the last year
00:39:48.16\00:39:49.88
how we get
people write in and say,
00:39:49.91\00:39:51.39
you know, the Spirit of
Prophecy has meant so much to me
00:39:51.42\00:39:54.27
because wherever I
go, I have it with me,
00:39:54.30\00:39:55.90
I can pull it
out, I can read it,
00:39:55.93\00:39:57.64
I can tweet it to my
friends, I can Facebook
00:39:57.67\00:39:59.85
or I can be in the doctor's
office and I can read it.
00:39:59.88\00:40:01.76
I can be driving in my car
00:40:01.79\00:40:03.32
and stream it from the
website and listen to it.
00:40:03.35\00:40:05.37
And it stops like--
okay, not while driving.
00:40:05.40\00:40:09.44
No, but then, you know, its an
audio book so they listen to it.
00:40:09.47\00:40:11.83
Oh. Yeah, ao they listen
to the audio, not reading it.
00:40:11.86\00:40:14.30
Okay. All right.
00:40:14.33\00:40:16.43
That's
fantastic. So what's next?
00:40:16.46\00:40:19.46
How many more languages
still have to be uploaded?
00:40:19.49\00:40:22.50
Well, we have
actually scanned over 500 books
00:40:22.53\00:40:26.31
that we have completed,
00:40:26.34\00:40:28.04
our students there at
Andrews that worked on our team.
00:40:28.07\00:40:30.95
We don't have the funds yet to
be ought to make then available
00:40:30.98\00:40:33.77
because there's a big process
in moving from a scan page
00:40:33.80\00:40:36.57
to make it
available on our website.
00:40:36.60\00:40:38.96
So ASI, this
year has also promised
00:40:38.99\00:40:41.29
to help us with some more money.
00:40:41.32\00:40:42.70
So the partnership of ASI
00:40:42.73\00:40:44.91
and other people
is much appreciated,
00:40:44.94\00:40:46.91
we'll make it
you know, available.
00:40:46.94\00:40:48.49
We hope to get the rest of those
you know, 300 books up there.
00:40:48.52\00:40:51.14
And there will be, you
know, we have in Steps to Christ
00:40:51.17\00:40:54.20
a 110 languages
available in Steps of Christ,
00:40:54.23\00:40:56.58
we haven't quite yet got 30.
00:40:56.61\00:40:58.26
So you know,
there's 80 languages yet
00:40:58.29\00:40:59.59
that we can still
add in Steps to Christ.
00:40:59.62\00:41:01.44
Oh, Darryl, thank you so
much for what you and your team
00:41:01.47\00:41:04.11
at the E. G. White Estate
is doing so that the world--
00:41:04.14\00:41:06.82
our word family can have access
to these marvelous truths.
00:41:06.85\00:41:09.66
Thank you. Thank you.
00:41:09.69\00:41:10.72
And where is your booth so
if people want you to help them
00:41:10.75\00:41:13.45
like you helped me,
where can they come?
00:41:13.48\00:41:15.66
Booth 214 or you
can visit ellenwhite.org
00:41:15.69\00:41:20.09
or the writings
website is egwwrittings.org.
00:41:20.12\00:41:24.35
Thank you. Thank
you very much, Darryl.
00:41:24.38\00:41:27.31
Coming to the
podium is Molly Steenson.
00:41:27.34\00:41:32.16
Molly is works with the 3ABN
00:41:32.19\00:41:35.29
and I am going to ask
Molly to share little bit about
00:41:35.32\00:41:37.24
what her role is at
this wonderful organization.
00:41:37.27\00:41:40.96
How many of you
are familiar with 3ABN?
00:41:40.99\00:41:43.75
All right. That's
what I like to hear.
00:41:43.78\00:41:45.92
I am the Vice
President, that's just the title
00:41:45.95\00:41:48.15
but I am General Manager, guys,
that's the job description.
00:41:48.18\00:41:51.53
And so that's what I do at 3ABN.
00:41:51.56\00:41:54.24
And with the offerings that ASI,
00:41:54.27\00:41:56.65
the ASI family and
others have provided for 3ABN,
00:41:56.68\00:41:59.96
what kind of
impact has it able to make
00:41:59.99\00:42:01.94
for the expansion of the gospel?
00:42:01.97\00:42:04.33
Through the years and we've been
part of ASI now for many years.
00:42:04.36\00:42:07.61
Anytime we start to launch out,
00:42:07.64\00:42:10.46
to do something
on a worldwide scale,
00:42:10.49\00:42:14.06
ASI has always been
there both to encourage us
00:42:14.09\00:42:17.66
with their
prayers, with their love
00:42:17.69\00:42:19.98
and with their
financial support.
00:42:20.01\00:42:21.95
And one of the areas
that they have helped us
00:42:21.98\00:42:24.58
in though the years is with our
low power television stations.
00:42:24.61\00:42:28.39
Do any of you live in an area
00:42:28.42\00:42:30.44
where we have a low
power television station?
00:42:30.47\00:42:33.08
We have a 127 here
at the United States.
00:42:33.11\00:42:36.65
Now what a low power
television station is,
00:42:36.68\00:42:39.83
it's a station in
your area, a downlink tower
00:42:39.86\00:42:44.38
where we can
broadcast the signal from 3ABN
00:42:44.41\00:42:47.81
and although they are low power,
Debbie, they are far reaching.
00:42:47.84\00:42:51.07
They will reach as
much as from 10 to 30 miles
00:42:51.10\00:42:54.51
all aroundin your area
and you don't have to have
00:42:54.54\00:42:58.64
anything other
than little rabbit ears
00:42:58.67\00:43:02.15
or the little loop to
receive it in your area.
00:43:02.18\00:43:04.87
So they are some of the most
productive tools of evangelism
00:43:04.90\00:43:09.85
that we have here
in the United States.
00:43:09.88\00:43:12.42
Wow. That's pretty incredible.
00:43:12.45\00:43:13.88
Now I understand even with
the low powered there's a way
00:43:13.91\00:43:18.09
that the
information is transmitted
00:43:18.12\00:43:19.96
so explain this
analog to digital thing.
00:43:19.99\00:43:23.46
Well, a few
years ago, excuse me,
00:43:23.49\00:43:26.24
the FCC told us that we
had to upgrade our digital
00:43:26.27\00:43:34.22
or our analog stations
from analog to digital.
00:43:34.25\00:43:38.64
Now I don't understand
a whole lot about this,
00:43:38.67\00:43:40.95
Moses Primo is our
genius in this area
00:43:40.98\00:43:43.68
but it has to do with bandwidth
00:43:43.71\00:43:46.18
and so with an analog station
we are only able to broadcast
00:43:46.21\00:43:52.41
one channel into
an area at a time.
00:43:52.44\00:43:55.21
And of course
that was 3ABN English
00:43:55.24\00:43:57.80
but when we upgrade our analog
stations from analog to digital,
00:43:57.83\00:44:05.00
then we were able to broadcast
into an area 3ABN English,
00:44:05.03\00:44:10.76
3ABN Latino, Dare to Dream
00:44:10.79\00:44:13.54
as well as the
Proclaim television stations
00:44:13.57\00:44:16.26
as well as we were able to
broadcast on the same bandwidth.
00:44:16.29\00:44:20.83
Now when it's analog,
it's this much bandwidth,
00:44:20.86\00:44:24.57
when you upgrade it to digital
they compress the bandwidth
00:44:24.60\00:44:29.34
and you are able to broadcast
more channels into an area
00:44:29.37\00:44:33.44
not just those four television
channels but also radio channels
00:44:33.47\00:44:37.82
we are able to
broadcast into these areas.
00:44:37.85\00:44:40.51
These 127 areas
strategically placed
00:44:40.54\00:44:44.15
throughout the United
States, 3ABN English radio,
00:44:44.18\00:44:47.77
3ABN Latino radio
as well as radio 74.
00:44:47.80\00:44:52.33
So we continue to be able to
stretch the reach of the gospel
00:44:52.36\00:44:56.17
and to minister to more people
when we upgrade our downlinks
00:44:56.20\00:45:02.21
low power stations
from analog to digital.
00:45:02.24\00:45:05.29
So that's what we are doing now.
00:45:05.32\00:45:07.75
And we have 127, I
think I mentioned that.
00:45:07.78\00:45:11.04
It costs about
$40,000 per channel
00:45:11.07\00:45:14.68
to upgrade it
from analog to digital.
00:45:14.71\00:45:17.92
Now how many of you can
do the math very quickly?
00:45:17.95\00:45:20.73
$40,000x127,
that's about $5 million.
00:45:20.76\00:45:26.39
When we realized
this a few years ago,
00:45:26.42\00:45:29.49
that was overwhelming.
00:45:29.52\00:45:31.15
The 3ABN operates
from months to month,
00:45:31.18\00:45:34.94
when we tell you and
you've heard Danny and Jim
00:45:34.97\00:45:37.33
say this so often that we
have no money in the coffers,
00:45:37.36\00:45:40.47
do you know what that means?
00:45:40.50\00:45:42.02
That we have no
money in the coffers
00:45:42.05\00:45:44.13
but you know what
happens every month?
00:45:44.16\00:45:46.20
Our God supplies all of our need
00:45:46.23\00:45:48.18
according to His riches
and glory though Christ Jesus.
00:45:48.21\00:45:51.10
Well in the past two
years we have been able
00:45:51.13\00:45:53.87
through the
grace and mercy of God
00:45:53.90\00:45:55.77
to upgrade 54 of those
channels from analog to digital.
00:45:55.80\00:46:01.54
That is about $2 million.
00:46:01.57\00:46:03.48
We have no idea where the money
came from but God has provided.
00:46:03.51\00:46:07.21
We only have 73 more to upgrade
and that's about $3 million
00:46:07.24\00:46:12.05
but God has provided so
far, so we got total confidence
00:46:12.08\00:46:15.42
that He is going to
continue to provide.
00:46:15.45\00:46:17.67
And, Debbie, last
year in 2011 when we--
00:46:17.70\00:46:21.65
every year we come to ASI
with our proposal or a request
00:46:21.68\00:46:26.13
for funds to
help us as we continue
00:46:26.16\00:46:30.11
to stretch the
reach of the gospel,
00:46:30.14\00:46:32.92
to continue and to
upgrade what we have,
00:46:32.95\00:46:36.19
so that it will
reach more people
00:46:36.22\00:46:38.01
and we ask them
if they would help us
00:46:38.04\00:46:40.60
with funds to upgrade
our low power stations.
00:46:40.63\00:46:45.08
And these are the stations
that we ask or help for.
00:46:45.11\00:46:48.52
We ask for help to
upgrade the stations
00:46:48.55\00:46:51.53
in Lincoln, Nebraska,
in Collegedale, Tennessee
00:46:51.56\00:46:56.90
and in Huntsville, Alabama.
00:46:56.93\00:46:58.57
Now somebody tell me, what those
three cities have in common?
00:46:58.60\00:47:03.87
What do, what do-- Sorry,
00:47:03.90\00:47:05.17
universities and colleges
are in that area, aren't they?
00:47:05.20\00:47:08.31
We feel like-felt like it was
very important that we upgrade,
00:47:08.34\00:47:12.58
that they be some of
the first that we upgrade
00:47:12.61\00:47:15.15
so that our college students,
those that have left home
00:47:15.18\00:47:19.39
and that are now away from home,
away from their home church,
00:47:19.42\00:47:22.48
they will be able to
have access to the gospel
00:47:22.51\00:47:25.28
24 hours a day,
seven days a week.
00:47:25.31\00:47:27.35
It doesn't
matter what they are--
00:47:27.38\00:47:29.49
if they are Spanish speaking,
00:47:29.52\00:47:31.25
if they are from
the inner cities,
00:47:31.28\00:47:33.53
there is always that opportunity
00:47:33.56\00:47:35.54
and possibility to
receive the gospel.
00:47:35.57\00:47:38.28
Molly, we want to thank
you as ASI for everything
00:47:38.31\00:47:41.20
that 3ABN has done for
the expansion of the gospel
00:47:41.23\00:47:44.70
and also to be
able air ASI Convention,
00:47:44.73\00:47:47.06
so others can join in with these
00:47:47.09\00:47:48.74
marvelous
testimonies, music messages.
00:47:48.77\00:47:51.29
Thank you to 3ABN
and thank you ASI family.
00:47:51.32\00:47:54.82
Well, thank you so much
for all that you do for 3ABN.
00:47:54.85\00:47:57.43
Thank you, Molly.
00:47:57.46\00:48:01.44
Our next interview
are offering in action,
00:48:01.47\00:48:04.18
has to do with the DVD project.
00:48:04.21\00:48:06.38
Oh, and I have a guest
that I haven't seen for a while.
00:48:06.41\00:48:10.44
Ruth Cheneweth is
a veteran ASI member
00:48:10.47\00:48:14.19
and she is going to introduce
our guest for our interview.
00:48:14.22\00:48:17.47
I am so please to introduce
Eddie Lawson from Jamaica.
00:48:17.50\00:48:22.18
He is a businessman in Jamaica.
00:48:22.21\00:48:25.21
I met him and his
lovely wife in Guatemala City,
00:48:25.24\00:48:30.64
the Inter-American division
at ASI Convention there in 2002,
00:48:30.67\00:48:37.73
that's 10 years ago.
00:48:37.76\00:48:39.91
And I had with me at that
time the most anticipated,
00:48:39.94\00:48:44.84
the New Beginnings, a copy
of the New Beginnings with me.
00:48:44.87\00:48:48.96
So we showed around there while
we were there at that convention
00:48:48.99\00:48:53.61
and every time I look around
there was Eddie right next to us
00:48:53.64\00:48:59.21
So at the end of that
convention, I said to my son,
00:48:59.24\00:49:02.30
let's leave this with Eddie,
this copy that we had with us.
00:49:02.33\00:49:07.45
And so I presented, we
presented this to Eddie
00:49:07.48\00:49:13.08
and we said,
"Eddie, if you don't knew
00:49:13.11\00:49:16.45
we are going to present
this to you to take with you.
00:49:16.48\00:49:21.36
If you don't use
it in a certain time,
00:49:21.39\00:49:24.44
you have to return it to us."
00:49:24.47\00:49:27.35
Now, I want you to
listen to that journey,
00:49:27.38\00:49:31.41
that 10 year
journey of Eddie Lawson.
00:49:31.44\00:49:34.98
Thank you very much, Ruth.
00:49:35.01\00:49:37.05
So Eddie, you were given a DVD,
00:49:37.08\00:49:40.49
a New Beginning
sermons with 26 sermons
00:49:40.52\00:49:43.14
culturalized for
every part of the world.
00:49:43.17\00:49:46.36
What did you do with that,
00:49:46.39\00:49:47.73
with that charge
given by the Cheneweth?
00:49:47.76\00:49:49.86
I immediately, when
I got back to Jamaica,
00:49:49.89\00:49:53.12
I seek out and
found a lay preacher
00:49:53.15\00:49:56.83
because I was warned that it
must be used by a lay preacher
00:49:56.86\00:50:00.94
and so I found one
and I gave it to him.
00:50:00.97\00:50:05.27
So you found him,
you gave it to him
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and you set up these
meetings. Yes, I did.
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And who bankrolled the meetings?
00:50:10.11\00:50:12.28
I operated three businesses
at a time, a hardware,
00:50:12.31\00:50:16.71
a pharmacy and we are
building a shopping centre.
00:50:16.74\00:50:19.92
And so I used my
personal resources
00:50:19.95\00:50:24.31
to finance these
crusades. Okay, wonderful.
00:50:24.34\00:50:27.34
And so I understand, so what
happened over the last 10 years?
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How many
meetings have been held,
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how many people baptized?
00:50:34.33\00:50:35.79
What kind of impact has it
made this one gift of a DVD?
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Well, I've lost count of our
meetings but one thing I can say
00:50:38.80\00:50:42.89
we've been to 13 or 14
prior crusades in Jamaica
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and we took it to
the Cayman Islands twice
00:50:50.11\00:50:54.15
and one time to
the Bahamas. Wow.
00:50:54.18\00:50:57.05
And I think you told me upwards
of 5,000 baptisms have resulted?
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The last count
which was about last week,
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we were over
5,000. Praise the Lord.
00:51:05.50\00:51:08.71
And even as we speak
there is a crusade going on
00:51:08.74\00:51:11.36
using the new DVD,
the New Beginning DVD.
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Oh, that is wonderful.
00:51:15.87\00:51:17.16
Now, I want to hasten to say
00:51:17.19\00:51:20.09
that this charge
that you responded to
00:51:20.12\00:51:23.79
and your commitment and
passion to get the word out
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and to use it, has not come
without some personal sacrifice?
00:51:26.56\00:51:30.38
No, not at all.
00:51:30.41\00:51:32.08
Whenever one steps
out to do work for Christ,
00:51:32.11\00:51:37.72
the devil is not pleased and
I experienced that personally.
00:51:37.75\00:51:44.64
My business was embezzled
00:51:44.67\00:51:46.44
by a co-worker
and almost bankrupted.
00:51:46.47\00:51:51.54
After that,
after we got over that,
00:51:51.57\00:51:54.34
my wife came to home
with a mystery illness
00:51:54.37\00:51:58.35
and she was
paralyzed for two weeks
00:51:58.38\00:52:04.86
and the doctors
wanted to go in her spine.
00:52:04.89\00:52:08.98
They eventually told us
she had a spinal aneurysm
00:52:09.01\00:52:12.74
and they wanted to
go in and I said no.
00:52:12.77\00:52:15.99
So this spinal aneurysm,
00:52:16.02\00:52:17.79
for those who are
not medically inclined
00:52:17.82\00:52:19.67
is a swelling of the
blood vessel close to the spine.
00:52:19.70\00:52:23.13
Right, It was
resting on the spinal cord.
00:52:23.16\00:52:24.67
Ah, on the spinal cord.
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So that pressure
they wanted to relief.
00:52:26.05\00:52:27.66
Okay. Right.
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She lost all moments
from here it go down.
00:52:28.75\00:52:31.58
Okay. And so we call up on God.
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On the Sabbath we had a special
intercessory prayer at my home
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because I couldn't go to
church that I was so down
00:52:42.27\00:52:45.78
and the church bothers
and sisters came to my home
00:52:45.81\00:52:48.23
and we had an
intercessory prayer.
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At the time we had
the prayer, Dawn was--
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we have flown over to Miami
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at a Jackson Memorial
to get a second opinion.
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And so we had that
intercessory prayer that day
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and the Sunday
morning, her mom was with her,
00:53:03.02\00:53:06.41
called me to say that
she just miraculously got up
00:53:06.44\00:53:10.27
out of the bed and
walked and took a shower,
00:53:10.30\00:53:13.87
something that she couldn't
do for the past two weeks.
00:53:13.90\00:53:16.83
Praise God,
praise God. God is great.
00:53:16.86\00:53:19.21
And the devil
also touch your person
00:53:19.24\00:53:22.10
and afflicted
you with cancer. Yes.
00:53:22.13\00:53:25.46
You were diagnosed with myeloma.
00:53:25.49\00:53:27.18
In 2006, I was
diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
00:53:27.21\00:53:30.82
I flown again to Miami and I was
told I had 18 months to live.
00:53:30.85\00:53:36.75
And how long ago was that?
00:53:36.78\00:53:38.16
In 2006, six years. Six years.
00:53:38.19\00:53:41.78
So the doctors
can say what they wish
00:53:41.81\00:53:44.10
but God has the
final word. Right.
00:53:44.13\00:53:46.34
Now before all of these happens,
00:53:46.37\00:53:49.19
there was something
that was even more tragic
00:53:49.22\00:53:50.92
that occurred in
your family. Yes.
00:53:50.95\00:53:53.71
The second week
of the first crusade,
00:53:53.74\00:53:57.50
we had a six weeks old daughter
00:53:57.53\00:53:59.92
and the night when
the crusade started
00:53:59.95\00:54:01.76
she got sick and we had
to rush her to the doctor
00:54:01.79\00:54:05.32
and she was admitted.
00:54:05.35\00:54:07.20
And for NICU in two weeks
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I was between the
hospital and the crusade
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because I was
managing the crusade.
00:54:13.10\00:54:16.07
And at the end of the
second week my daughter died.
00:54:16.10\00:54:20.61
So I remember meeting
Eddie and his wife Dawn
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and I was struck
by the testimony,
00:54:25.08\00:54:26.92
Dawn was still
very much grief-stricken
00:54:26.95\00:54:29.41
by the lost of little Samantha.
00:54:29.44\00:54:31.74
And their business is
named as Samms after Samantha.
00:54:31.77\00:54:37.92
And you went
through a lot of struggle,
00:54:37.95\00:54:40.09
I mean, your wife
needed you, Sam was sick
00:54:40.12\00:54:42.76
and the crusade
was going on and--
00:54:42.79\00:54:45.32
what must that had been for you?
00:54:45.35\00:54:47.55
You know, I am convinced
that the devil wanted me
00:54:47.58\00:54:49.97
to pull the plug on the crusade.
00:54:50.00\00:54:52.09
He wanted me to
cut off financing
00:54:52.12\00:54:53.96
because I was in the middle
of doing something for God
00:54:53.99\00:54:56.68
and to us God did not
saved our daughter and he could.
00:54:56.71\00:55:02.15
And so, you know, it was very
confusing to say it, you know.
00:55:02.18\00:55:09.31
Why did God allow
our daughter to die,
00:55:09.34\00:55:11.41
we're keeping the
crusade but you know,
00:55:11.44\00:55:15.42
I am convinced in my mind
sure is God must be praised
00:55:15.45\00:55:20.37
in whatever circumstances we
find ourselves and that kept me.
00:55:20.40\00:55:25.79
You know, I was very torn
between going to hospital,
00:55:25.82\00:55:29.22
stay with my
wife, coming back to see
00:55:29.25\00:55:31.58
the crusade was,
you know, going on.
00:55:31.61\00:55:35.90
And at the end of that
crusade we baptized 129 people.
00:55:35.93\00:55:39.76
Praise the Lord. Wow.
00:55:39.79\00:55:41.61
So, and there was
something, there is a message,
00:55:41.64\00:55:43.86
a reminder that
you gave to your wife
00:55:43.89\00:55:46.34
when she was
pleading for your support
00:55:46.37\00:55:48.47
and she was to say, you
know, how can you do this
00:55:48.50\00:55:51.33
and our little girl
is in need of so much.
00:55:51.36\00:55:54.51
What did you tell
her to remind her,
00:55:54.54\00:55:57.06
what the priority was?
00:55:57.09\00:55:59.44
Yes, I told her that,
"Honey, yes, it's hard
00:55:59.47\00:56:06.12
but God is
bigger than all of this.
00:56:06.15\00:56:09.74
No matter what we are going
through, we lost our daughter,
00:56:09.77\00:56:12.68
yes, it hurts, right?
00:56:12.71\00:56:16.24
But we must not be sidetracked
of the bigger picture,
00:56:16.27\00:56:23.30
to no matter what circumstances
we find ourselves in,
00:56:23.33\00:56:27.79
we must always put God first."
00:56:27.82\00:56:31.47
And God be praised
if you are faithful,
00:56:31.50\00:56:34.22
because you will be
faithful you will see Sam again.
00:56:34.25\00:56:36.59
And Sam will be
given to your arms
00:56:36.62\00:56:38.48
and you will be able to
watch her grow in eternity.
00:56:38.51\00:56:41.06
That was fundamental
too. That's what I said.
00:56:41.09\00:56:44.55
Make sure that
you and I live a life
00:56:44.58\00:56:48.13
so that one day we will
be reunited with Samantha.
00:56:48.16\00:56:54.11
Eddie, thank you so
much for your faithfulness
00:56:54.14\00:56:56.75
and your courage and
your demonstration to us
00:56:56.78\00:57:00.35
what can happen
when you put all,
00:57:00.38\00:57:02.53
literally all in
the hands of God.
00:57:02.56\00:57:04.73
Thank you very
much. Thank you very much.
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