What a friend
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We have in Jesus
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All our sins
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And griefs to bear!
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What a privilege to carry
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Everything to God in prayer!
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Oh, what peace we often forfeit
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Oh, what needless pain we bear
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All because we do not carry
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Everything to God in prayer!
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Have we trials and temptations?
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Is there trouble anywhere?
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We should never be discouraged
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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Can we find a friend so faithful
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Who will all our sorrows share?
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Jesus knows our every weakness
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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Oh, how He loves you and me
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Oh, how He loves you and me
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He gave His life
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What more could He give?
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Oh, how He loves you
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Oh, how He loves me
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Oh, how He loves you and me
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Are we weak and heavy-laden
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Cumbered with a load of care?
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Precious
Savior, still our refuge
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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Do thy friends
despise, forsake thee?
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Take it to the Lord in prayer
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In His arms He'll
take and shield thee
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Thou wilt find a solace there
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Thou wilt find
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Thou wilt find
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A solace there
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Amen. Amen.
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Good evening, ASI.
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Welcome to the evening
session on Thursday evening.
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We're just
delighted that you're here
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to be with us this evening.
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We're looking forward
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to the blessings
that are in store.
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We're looking
forward to the encouragement
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that we're
going to receive here.
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And we have a
very special evening,
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this evening we have
something special on your seats
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that we've placed there.
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I hope you've all found them.
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We have a special edition
of the "Adventist Review"
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that has been placed
there for your enjoyment,
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and to be blessed.
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And in fact, you might notice
that it says right on there,
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"ASI Issue", and
it's been a few years now
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that we've been collaborating
with the Adventist Review,
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and it is just a blessing
to have this relationship.
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It's a blessing to
be working together
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and I'm not gonna be doing
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most of the talking
in the next few minutes,
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I'm going to give the
time to the two gentlemen
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that I have here with me.
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We have Bill Knott, who
is not a stranger to us.
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He has been here
a number of years.
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He's gonna tell us
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how many years in a few moments.
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And we also have Claude Richi,
who is here with us as well
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and we're delighted to have him.
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Well, you know, people
have begin to ask questions
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when there's changes,
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I'm sure you get
questions as well
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and you know, with
printing that is recently been
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terminated in
Maryland, by the Adventist--
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the Review and Herald
Publishing Association.
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You know, a lot of people wonder
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what impact is
that gonna have on us,
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so would you like to
address that question?
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The Adventist
Review, and the Review
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and Herald
Publishing Association have,
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for 160 years enjoyed
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one of the most
special partnerships
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in the history of
Christian publishing.
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We have been
through so much together,
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working side by side
to deliver assurance,
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comfort, truth and mission
to generations of Adventists.
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When the decision was
made to consolidate printing,
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however in one publishing house,
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many people thought that perhaps
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that meant
something about the future
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of the Adventist
Review, that we were,
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ourselves going away.
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The good news is, no.
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Your Adventist Review is
going to be what it has been
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and what it will
continue to be by God's grace,
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a journal of
inspiration and hope,
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as the ad in the
inside front cover
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of your edition
says, "We're pressing on."
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Amen.
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Well, we're
delighted to have you here
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with us this evening, Claude.
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In fact, Claude and I
have something in common,
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we've both spent time in Quebec.
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I live there currently
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and he's lived
there in the past.
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He was the Quebec
Conference president
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and fulfilled other
roles there as well.
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So we're delighted to have him.
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He's actually
in-charge of marketing,
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he is the marketing director
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among other responsibilities
that he has as well.
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And we'd like to
know, what do you feel
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people need to know
about this transition
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that you going
through right now?
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The transition is
not going to affect
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our readers in any
way, shape or form.
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They will continue
to receive the magazine
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in their mailbox
on a weekly basis.
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What they can look
forward to is in fact,
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a redesign of the magazine.
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We're going to
use this opportunity
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also to bring the magazine
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even to the next
level of excellence.
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Amen.
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You're already
used to excellence,
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and we want to
even-up this game further,
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and also to do even better
in terms of digital delivery
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by developing a tablets
version of the magazine.
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So-- those of you,
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who are familiar
with what we have
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on the website have
noticed that we have done--
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made some
significant strides there,
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also, but again,
we want to improve
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as the opportunities allow.
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Okay, wonderful.
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Bill, I noticed
here in the magazine
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on page six in your editorial,
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some very
interesting questions here,
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especially in your
article it's called,
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"The Visit of the Magi."
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Would you like to
tell us a little bit
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what's on your heart and
may be some of the things
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that you are wanting to express?
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My geometry teacher
in high school taught me
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that the shortest distance
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between two points
is a straight line.
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Well, the shortest distance
between a spirit inspired idea
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and it's accomplishment
in the life of the church
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ought to be a straight
line and with all deference
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to where I work
not another committee.
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My concern is that
we need to find a way
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to empower good
ideas in Adventism,
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to make sure that we learned
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how to be
cheerleaders and supports
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of what the
spirit is doing among us.
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ASI represents
such a rich diversity
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of giftedness and calling
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and one of our goals at
the magazine is to discover
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what God is calling people
in this organization to do
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to tell those stories
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and to see what the
Spirit is going to do.
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I think that means
for a lot of us that
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we've got to be
take a few more risks
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in the name of the Gospel
and see what God can do for us.
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Amen.
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Claude, Adventist Review
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actually has a
sister publication
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and in fact, it's
the one we receive up
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in Quebec, Canada,
it's translated into French
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and it's translated I believe,
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into about a dozen
languages actually.
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Oh, at least.
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As a matter of fact, right now,
we are printing the magazine
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and its daughter publication,
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Adventist World
Digest in 29 languages.
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Wow.
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We have just launched at
the beginning of this year,
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12 languages for the
Indian sub continent.
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Okay.
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Including Assamese, Bengali,
Hindi, Oriya, Guajarati,
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Marathi, Malayalam,
Kannada, Telugu and Tamil
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and we've
introduced this quarter,
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Urdu for
Pakistan and Vietnamese,
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and at the end of this year
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we will launch
our first languages
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in the African context,
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one being Kinyarwanda for Rwanda
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and Amharic for Ethiopia.
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And we're also looking forward
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to creating a
number of additions
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for the Inter-American region
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where they speak,
believe it or not,
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besides French,
Spanish or English,
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they also still speak a
number of native languages
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such as K'iche,
Quechua, Cakchiquel,
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Nahuatl, Maya and others,
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and we would like
to be able to reach
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those members as well.
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You know, one of the things that
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really, really is important
about Adventist World is that
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it is a magazine to
unite Seventh-day Adventist
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everywhere in beliefs,
faith, mission and hope.
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And we are, indeed,
perhaps the most tangible
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presence besides the Seventh--
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the uarterly
Sabbath School Bulletin
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to unite our
members around the world
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and to do that in
those various languages.
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Amen. Amen.
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Bill, I think you've
actually been coming to ASI
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for a quite a number of years,
maybe around 15 years even.
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What brings you back to ASI?
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Why do you come year after year?
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In one word, this
is where I find hope.
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I come here each year
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and I find people genuinely
excited about their church,
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excited about
mission, eager to press on
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and do what the
Spirit is bidding us to do.
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It's fun to come here
because you're around people
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who have stories of
God's grace and goodness
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and those of
the kinds of stories
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we love to tell
in Adventist Review
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and Adventist World.
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We've been
taking the opportunity
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to give you the window to come
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and talk with us and
tell us your stories.
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Many of you have signed up
for those windows over the--
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yet today and
tomorrow, we look forward
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to meeting you in the hallways
and learning what God is doing.
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This is where we
find encouragement
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and we share it
with the world church.
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Thank you so much.
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I am delighted to bring you
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another Offering
in Action segment,
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we want you to know how
God is using your offerings
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and we'll use your
offerings to impact the world
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for His soon coming.
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With me is Natasha Nebblett,
she is the president of GYC
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and next to her is Erwin Nanasi,
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who is the
assistant to the president
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for International Affairs.
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Natasha, tell us for
those who are new to ASI,
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or may not be aware
what does GYC stand for
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and what is the organization?
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So GYC stands for
Generation of Youth for Christ.
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And it was a moment
that was started about
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10 years ago a little bit more
than that by three college age,
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young people,
that looked around them
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and said, that they
wanted to get back to the Bible,
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get back to the Bible
with such seriousness Debbie,
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that we are willing die for it
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as so many have
throughout the years
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and also to live that
lifestyle to know that
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when Christ told
His disciples to--
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to go into all the world
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and make
disciples of all nations,
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He didn't add an age qualifier,
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and that means the young people
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are bound to do that too
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and also to live a
lifestyle of excellence
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and an uncompromising life.
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And so we took-- the
young people took that--
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those values and that dedication
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and they started having meeting
together with their friends,
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out of that GYC kind of
as we know it now, was born,
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and we have a
conference every December
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here in North
America, where we get together,
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we seek the Lord, worship, pray,
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we also receive a lot
of training in evangelism.
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I mean how to reach
out to other people,
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seek that renewal.
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When 5,000 young
people to get together
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that have that
goal, it is powerful.
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That's
powerful, its sounds like,
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just like a little of ASI.
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It is.
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Erwin, I understand that
you just had a convention
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in Austria, share
with us a little bit about
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what happened there?
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What were some of
your observations about
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what occurred?
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Well, the
description that Natasha
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just gave is very fitting
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because that's
exactly what happened.
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People studied
scripture, they prayed together,
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they listened
to powerful sermons
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and the Lord was able
to use the speakers that
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we had invited
for the workshops that
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we had and also
the evening messages
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with powerful appeals
and the people responded.
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And so it was very interesting
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to see how the Lord
can use young people
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that lead other young people.
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We have it here, we had it there
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and it was very powerful
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because in only these
five days lives were changed.
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People came from
all over the world,
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not just from Europe,
not just from Austria,
00:16:37.76\00:16:39.63
from all over the world
and spending the time together
00:16:39.66\00:16:41.77
and just going
through that renewal
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and that refreshing that revival
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that can spark a reformation.
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And so it was
wonderful to see that
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young people had the
opportunity to do it again
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because we had it before.
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But this time
it was very special
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and we are looking forward
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to what is going to
happen in the future.
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I just want to pick up on
something you said Natasha,
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you were in
Austria sometime ago,
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so this is your
second time here.
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You were in Austria
couple of years ago,
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share with us some,
some of the things that
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you observed might
have been different
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from the first time
that you were there.
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So some of the
differences, we went--
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we went to Austria,
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actually same
location, same city, Linz,
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two years ago, in 2012 in July,
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and so then we
went back this time.
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I'll tell you it was interesting
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because we're going
back to the same location,
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same venue and
everything is like, you know,
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how was the conference
going to be different?
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And as we there--
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I'll just share a
couple of the things,
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that were quite a few things
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that were maybe
different to about it,
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but sharing a few of the
things one of the first things
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we noticed was
just the atmosphere.
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Two years ago it was
kind of, a bit of novelty
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that GYC was coming to Europe
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and we were holding a conference
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that was for every young--
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every young
person across Europe,
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as far as you
know, we were concerned,
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we want them all.
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And as, so
young people were like
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oh, here's GYC they've
heard about it in America,
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here it's coming,
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and so a lot of young
people came and experienced GYC.
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But this year people understood
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a little bit more clearly
what the idea behind GYC was.
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And so our attendance was
actually a little bit lower,
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it was about 800 to 1,000
but the young people that came,
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came because they
wanted to be there,
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they wanted to be in the Word,
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they wanted to
be on their knees,
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the prayer times were powerful,
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they wanted to be
out doing evangelism.
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And so we saw a
difference in the atmosphere
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as far as the spirit
of reverence was amazing,
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it was something
like, I have like,
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I don't think
ever experience before.
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And the
dedication, the seriousness,
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the music last
time because of the--
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the music restrictions
that they have in Austria,
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last time we just had
to have a couple groups
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just do all the
music, but this time
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we were able to let
the attendees do it, like
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we usually do
here in North America.
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And it was so
amazing to see the--
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the amount of investment,
the buy in, the excitement,
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during the outreach we
did it a few differences
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with the outreach as well.
00:19:05.82\00:19:07.70
Last time we just
went door to door,
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and we went door to door again,
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but we also had a
couple of other things
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such as a health expo.
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We did actually like a
flash mob into the city of Linz,
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where we went
into downtown and sang
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and a lots of
people responded to that.
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We had a prayer
booth where we went
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and pray with people
in the middle of the city.
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It was just a-- it was just
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such an amazing
experience to see
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how the young people responded,
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acknowledged the
Word of God, and--
00:19:32.91\00:19:35.18
but to also
being able to reach out
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to other people in
many different ways,
00:19:36.66\00:19:38.70
not just in one way,
00:19:38.73\00:19:40.06
but to be able
to use their talents
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in whatever the capacity
00:19:41.34\00:19:42.83
they had them to
reach out to other people.
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Erwin, just in a last few
seconds that we have left,
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what kind of impact that it
have on so many young people?
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That anybody come up to you
and say this was really great
00:19:50.35\00:19:52.34
I had a fun time,
were they moved spiritually
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What might they
have shared with you?
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Well, with an attendance
of 800 to 1,000 people,
00:19:56.92\00:19:59.83
if more than 100 people
make the decision for baptism,
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it's very powerful.
00:20:02.33\00:20:03.91
And so many more,
when they appeal was made
00:20:03.94\00:20:05.84
did not just
response to be Baptist
00:20:05.87\00:20:07.33
but also to spend their life
as a missionary and be trained.
00:20:07.36\00:20:10.68
And so those are
effects that these results
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we will see in the future also.
00:20:13.47\00:20:15.26
And so many came back
and said this was powerful,
00:20:15.29\00:20:17.20
the songs that we sang
and the straight messages,
00:20:17.23\00:20:19.36
straight
testimony, back to the Bible,
00:20:19.39\00:20:21.30
the spirit of
prophecy, the hope that
00:20:21.33\00:20:23.16
we have the Jesus is coming soon
00:20:23.19\00:20:24.91
and we can be ready, that
was something that was felt
00:20:24.94\00:20:27.77
and that is
heard and at this point
00:20:27.80\00:20:29.70
we also want to thank
ASI because without ASI
00:20:29.73\00:20:32.03
we would probably not
have been able to go there
00:20:32.06\00:20:33.74
and so thank you there also.
00:20:33.77\00:20:35.50
And the Lord has really blessed
00:20:35.53\00:20:37.38
and we're looking forward
to expand not just in Europe
00:20:37.41\00:20:39.68
but all over the world
so that Jesus can come.
00:20:39.71\00:20:41.59
Thank you very
much, Natasha and Erwin.
00:20:41.62\00:20:43.88
ASI we have a work to do
00:20:43.91\00:20:45.93
and our young
people have a work to do.
00:20:45.96\00:20:47.42
We are in good hands as
long as we train them right
00:20:47.45\00:20:50.66
and support them as they
go out to spread the message.
00:20:50.69\00:20:53.87
Now coming to the
podium are two individuals
00:20:53.90\00:20:56.93
that should be
no strangers to you.
00:20:56.96\00:20:58.83
I kind of recognize them,
let's see this is Jim Gilley.
00:20:58.86\00:21:05.25
I'm Danny, and this is Jim.
00:21:05.28\00:21:06.77
Okay. And this is Danny Shelton.
00:21:06.80\00:21:08.88
Listen, we are so
grateful, as ASI for 3ABN,
00:21:08.91\00:21:13.84
because of you the world knows
a little bit more about ASI.
00:21:13.87\00:21:18.03
We're even more
grateful for 3ABN
00:21:18.06\00:21:20.03
because of all
the wonderful things
00:21:20.06\00:21:21.66
that you have
done and accomplished
00:21:21.69\00:21:23.54
and allowed ministries to
do through your assistance.
00:21:23.57\00:21:26.53
So we just wanted you
to share a little bit about
00:21:26.56\00:21:27.89
what's going on.
00:21:27.92\00:21:28.97
Praise the Lord.
00:21:29.00\00:21:30.03
So I'm just gonna
let you take it away
00:21:30.06\00:21:32.04
and do your thing
watching the clock.
00:21:32.07\00:21:34.11
All right. Watching the clock.
00:21:34.14\00:21:35.57
We're good at
that. We watch every day.
00:21:35.60\00:21:38.51
You know, Danny, this
is-- how many have you been to?
00:21:38.54\00:21:42.24
This is actually 29, my
first ASI was Big Sky, Montana.
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And in 1985.
00:21:47.61\00:21:50.28
That's where the
miracle took place,
00:21:50.31\00:21:51.62
actually, the rainstorm.
00:21:51.65\00:21:53.23
Absolutely.
00:21:53.26\00:21:54.29
And you were able to
tell people about 3ABN
00:21:54.32\00:21:58.00
during the rain.
00:21:58.03\00:21:59.08
That's right, in 1985
several folk had heard,
00:21:59.11\00:22:02.11
I was 33-years-old,
00:22:02.14\00:22:03.90
you can do the
math from that now.
00:22:03.93\00:22:05.78
I was excited, thought everybody
00:22:05.81\00:22:07.32
would want to know about
this new Adventist station
00:22:07.35\00:22:10.14
to reach the world,
00:22:10.17\00:22:11.23
trouble was I
didn't have any money,
00:22:11.26\00:22:13.17
didn't have an
education in television
00:22:13.20\00:22:15.48
didn't have much
for an education period,
00:22:15.51\00:22:17.29
and I thought everybody
would be excited about it,
00:22:17.32\00:22:19.61
but some folks started saying,
but we want to hear about it,
00:22:19.64\00:22:22.30
but of course ASI says,
00:22:22.33\00:22:23.76
but we plan our
programs way in advance.
00:22:23.79\00:22:25.27
Yes.
00:22:25.30\00:22:26.48
So they said that's
okay, may be next year.
00:22:26.51\00:22:28.77
And then Friday
came-- was Friday afternoon,
00:22:28.80\00:22:31.85
there were gonna be
rides up in the mountains
00:22:31.88\00:22:35.39
and a big rainstorm came in.
00:22:35.42\00:22:38.05
Any of you who
was there in 1985?
00:22:38.08\00:22:40.10
All right, so I
got witnesses out here.
00:22:40.13\00:22:42.07
They're are still alive, Danny.
00:22:42.10\00:22:43.13
Big storm came and
it's pouring down raining,
00:22:43.16\00:22:45.39
I was setting into meeting,
00:22:45.42\00:22:46.93
the National Convention had
about 250 to 300 people then,
00:22:46.96\00:22:51.32
was much smaller organization
and I remember seeing--
00:22:51.35\00:22:54.69
Phil Winstead was president,
00:22:54.72\00:22:57.05
Henry Martin was vice president.
00:22:57.08\00:22:58.52
I remember him
looking over my way
00:22:58.55\00:23:00.83
and doing like this,
so I didn't know anybody,
00:23:00.86\00:23:03.80
nobody knew me,
and so I thought well,
00:23:03.83\00:23:05.70
they're not talking to me.
00:23:05.73\00:23:07.45
So they kept motioning for
me, so finally I said well,
00:23:07.48\00:23:10.45
I went like this, I
didn't want to do this,
00:23:10.48\00:23:12.71
and them say no,
I'm not talking to you.
00:23:12.74\00:23:15.04
So I did this and they nodded,
00:23:15.07\00:23:17.00
so I finally, I said
well, I'll walk by them,
00:23:17.03\00:23:18.86
if they stop me then I'll go,
00:23:18.89\00:23:20.79
you know 'cause maybe
they're still looking.
00:23:20.82\00:23:23.05
So finally I
remember Henry said,
00:23:23.08\00:23:24.86
can you do us a big favor?
00:23:24.89\00:23:26.64
I have several hundred
people here this afternoon,
00:23:26.67\00:23:29.82
we were schedule for a free time
00:23:29.85\00:23:31.40
but because of this storm
we need to hear your story
00:23:31.43\00:23:35.72
about this new
television network
00:23:35.75\00:23:37.93
you're building called 3ABN.
00:23:37.96\00:23:39.68
And that was a start of
our relationship with ASI,
00:23:39.71\00:23:44.22
and just a few short years later
00:23:44.25\00:23:46.39
probably three
or four years later,
00:23:46.42\00:23:48.52
we were able to start televising
00:23:48.55\00:23:50.31
those literally
around the world.
00:23:50.34\00:23:52.25
ASI is an
incredible organization.
00:23:52.28\00:23:54.76
We've supported it
00:23:54.79\00:23:55.86
from the very
first time I went there.
00:23:55.89\00:23:58.67
We're so privileged and
we want to thank all of you
00:23:58.70\00:24:00.93
and ASI for
your support of 3ABN.
00:24:00.96\00:24:04.35
What a great
relationship to get the gospel
00:24:04.38\00:24:07.06
into all the world.
00:24:07.09\00:24:08.17
You know, one of the
things that they told me
00:24:08.20\00:24:10.17
before I came on the stage
is, your phone turned vibrate,
00:24:10.20\00:24:13.20
and by the way the
only telephone call
00:24:13.23\00:24:16.64
I ever got on the
air was from Danny,
00:24:16.67\00:24:18.89
and we were doing a
live-- he wasn't there
00:24:18.92\00:24:22.75
and I don't
think he realized that
00:24:22.78\00:24:24.07
I was doing a live at the time,
00:24:24.10\00:24:26.25
but I do want you
to remember that--
00:24:26.28\00:24:30.93
the 3ABN app if
you don't have it
00:24:30.96\00:24:33.73
on you iPhone or on-- we
got on the other one too,
00:24:33.76\00:24:37.32
the android, if you
don't have it get it.
00:24:37.35\00:24:40.42
It's not gonna
cost you anything,
00:24:40.45\00:24:42.61
and you can watch
3ABN wherever you are.
00:24:42.64\00:24:46.04
Anywhere in the world 24/7,
00:24:46.07\00:24:47.87
all six networks on your phones,
00:24:47.90\00:24:50.41
your iPhones, your
androids, your iPads,
00:24:50.44\00:24:53.57
that's incredible technology.
00:24:53.60\00:24:55.05
It really is.
00:24:55.08\00:24:56.32
And we're
finding people telling us
00:24:56.35\00:24:58.39
that they watching all the time.
00:24:58.42\00:25:02.34
A few weeks ago,
we were just finishing
00:25:02.37\00:25:05.48
our anchor series
with Ron Halverson.
00:25:05.51\00:25:07.87
How many of you saw
some of that with Ron?
00:25:07.90\00:25:10.35
We had him there
with us in West Frankfort
00:25:10.38\00:25:14.28
and Ron was, we're just finished
00:25:14.31\00:25:17.08
and we stepped
down off the platform
00:25:17.11\00:25:18.73
to have an after glow
with the folks that were there.
00:25:18.76\00:25:22.46
Phone rings,
and its my daughter,
00:25:22.49\00:25:25.51
and she says, dad,
we've got a person,
00:25:25.54\00:25:28.46
they live in
Dyersburg, Tennessee,
00:25:28.49\00:25:30.80
so we have a man that's
been coming here with his wife
00:25:30.83\00:25:33.92
have been coming to
church for a few weeks,
00:25:33.95\00:25:36.94
we're without a
pastor right now,
00:25:36.97\00:25:39.42
he wants to be baptized
00:25:39.45\00:25:41.11
and each week he comes thinking
there is gonna be a pastor
00:25:41.14\00:25:44.03
there to baptize him
00:25:44.06\00:25:45.37
and today he was
really disappointed.
00:25:45.40\00:25:47.92
He thought a man was
coming from the conference
00:25:47.95\00:25:50.50
but then he founded out the man
00:25:50.53\00:25:52.05
was not physically
able to do the baptism,
00:25:52.08\00:25:55.42
and he is so
disappointed, we came--
00:25:55.45\00:25:57.98
he came home to have
a celebration with us.
00:25:58.01\00:26:00.72
If we were to bring him
up would you baptize him?
00:26:00.75\00:26:03.98
And I said yes,
we would baptize him.
00:26:04.01\00:26:05.85
He will be a member
then of the Dyersburg Church,
00:26:05.88\00:26:08.36
we've done that
several times before.
00:26:08.39\00:26:10.65
And so they jumped in the
car, I turned to our group
00:26:10.68\00:26:13.99
and I said, we having vespers
tonight at our house, 7:30
00:26:14.02\00:26:17.85
and I bought this
house, it already had a pool,
00:26:17.88\00:26:21.21
I wouldn't have built a
pool, I don't swim very well,
00:26:21.24\00:26:25.19
but I float a
little bit, but I--
00:26:25.22\00:26:28.74
I said we will
baptize him our pool,
00:26:28.77\00:26:31.20
we've had a
number of baptisms there,
00:26:31.23\00:26:32.91
it's been a
great thing for that.
00:26:32.94\00:26:34.77
And so they got
there, about 7:30,
00:26:34.80\00:26:38.12
I turned around to
Ron and I said Ron,
00:26:38.15\00:26:39.93
why don't you do this baptism.
00:26:39.96\00:26:41.71
Ron says, I'll do it.
You know Ron, he is ready.
00:26:41.74\00:26:44.77
And so Paul Hallas came,
00:26:44.80\00:26:48.04
tremendous
middle aged gentleman,
00:26:48.07\00:26:51.17
a man who's had a real journey,
00:26:51.20\00:26:54.82
but this journey led him to 3ABN
00:26:54.85\00:26:58.09
and to the
gospel of Jesus Christ
00:26:58.12\00:27:00.78
and the three angels' message.
00:27:00.81\00:27:02.22
He knows this
message better than I do,
00:27:02.25\00:27:04.59
I tell you and Ron
baptized him there.
00:27:04.62\00:27:07.50
And it's happing
all over the world.
00:27:07.53\00:27:08.90
Debbie just asked
us are there any still,
00:27:08.93\00:27:11.58
you know, miracles?
00:27:11.61\00:27:12.66
We see miracles constantly.
00:27:12.69\00:27:15.45
Just in the last few weeks
we get letters all the time.
00:27:15.48\00:27:18.95
Today, Angie
Lomacang was telling me,
00:27:18.98\00:27:20.75
she works in 3ABN radio,
00:27:20.78\00:27:22.97
that a lady called the
station a little upset.
00:27:23.00\00:27:26.74
She said, what is
happening with my radio,
00:27:26.77\00:27:29.06
I turned to 3ABN and I got 3ABN,
00:27:29.09\00:27:33.02
but it was you know, Christiany,
00:27:33.05\00:27:34.65
what, heavy spiritual,
so I didn't want to watch it
00:27:34.68\00:27:36.73
so I turned the channel,
00:27:36.76\00:27:39.26
it turn back by itself later on.
00:27:39.29\00:27:42.19
So she said it
continued to do that
00:27:42.22\00:27:44.47
and she finally
called the station and said,
00:27:44.50\00:27:46.16
what are you doing to my radio?
00:27:46.19\00:27:48.21
You are controlling
the channels of here
00:27:48.24\00:27:51.22
because it keeps coming back?
00:27:51.25\00:27:52.64
Well, she ended up accepting,
00:27:52.67\00:27:53.96
you know, the Lord and
joining the Adventist Church.
00:27:53.99\00:27:56.48
We could write a book
on channels stuck on 3ABN.
00:27:56.51\00:28:01.88
Just the other day, we did
a program with Jim and Mollie,
00:28:01.91\00:28:04.73
and Mollie had some good letters
00:28:04.76\00:28:06.17
and some of
those continually say,
00:28:06.20\00:28:08.58
oh, I got my cable
station only would get 3ABN
00:28:08.61\00:28:12.88
and for we could
not get it fixed,
00:28:12.91\00:28:14.77
people with satellite dishes,
00:28:14.80\00:28:16.47
it's keeps
getting stuck on 3ABN.
00:28:16.50\00:28:19.19
God knows who is
ready and who isn't?
00:28:19.22\00:28:22.48
And so I believe Jesus is
coming very soon, don't you?
00:28:22.51\00:28:25.76
And because of that I
believe that there is,
00:28:25.79\00:28:28.10
that God has a plan for
each and everyone of us,
00:28:28.13\00:28:31.17
individually,
collectively as a church,
00:28:31.20\00:28:34.35
as a people to get the--
00:28:34.38\00:28:35.62
undiluted three angels
messages into all the world.
00:28:35.65\00:28:39.04
And this
November again is 30 years
00:28:39.07\00:28:41.54
and I think about
that and I give God honor
00:28:41.57\00:28:44.06
and glory and praise.
00:28:44.09\00:28:45.12
I'll take the
credit for the bad things,
00:28:45.15\00:28:46.74
but we give God the
credit for all the good things.
00:28:46.77\00:28:49.44
Thank you for your love
00:28:49.47\00:28:50.54
and prayers and support of 3ABN.
00:28:50.57\00:28:52.79
You know, Stan and Kathy Smith,
00:28:52.82\00:28:54.32
were riding in taxi cab today
and the cab driver asked them
00:28:54.35\00:28:59.07
what they were doing here
00:28:59.10\00:29:00.89
and they told him
what was happening
00:29:00.92\00:29:02.83
and he said, now
not by any chance
00:29:02.86\00:29:07.34
would Danny
Shelton be here, would he?
00:29:07.37\00:29:10.16
And they said well,
yes, he-- I think he is.
00:29:10.19\00:29:12.86
I haven't seen
him but I think he is.
00:29:12.89\00:29:14.72
He said well, I just was sure
00:29:14.75\00:29:16.52
I saw him walking down
Monroe Street here today.
00:29:16.55\00:29:20.62
And he said, I
thought, what he can't be here,
00:29:20.65\00:29:24.02
but it's amazing
this is a gentleman that
00:29:24.05\00:29:26.10
watches 3ABN all the time
and was recently baptized.
00:29:26.13\00:29:30.77
So your message
what you are doing
00:29:30.80\00:29:34.13
in supporting this ministry
is having tremendous results.
00:29:34.16\00:29:39.16
We appreciate
you're being a part--
00:29:39.19\00:29:41.90
our being a part of this
offering that will be coming.
00:29:41.93\00:29:45.37
We ask you to pray
about being generous,
00:29:45.40\00:29:48.27
there's so many
different groups there
00:29:48.30\00:29:50.27
and they all are
very much in need.
00:29:50.30\00:29:52.75
As you know we bring ministry
00:29:52.78\00:29:54.63
after ministry on 3ABN
to talk about their needs
00:29:54.66\00:29:58.78
and we want you to
support each one them`
00:29:58.81\00:30:01.76
because God wants us to share
00:30:01.79\00:30:05.82
and to be with each other
00:30:05.85\00:30:07.16
and to be supporting each other.
00:30:07.19\00:30:09.86
And this year, we're trying to,
00:30:09.89\00:30:12.30
to get our studio finished,
00:30:12.33\00:30:14.15
our control room
in the worship center.
00:30:14.18\00:30:18.03
Because for years we've had
to bring our mobile truck up
00:30:18.06\00:30:21.50
and hook up to
it, which is okay,
00:30:21.53\00:30:24.27
but that means that
00:30:24.30\00:30:25.89
when the mobile
truck goes out of town,
00:30:25.92\00:30:28.22
we can't have a
television program
00:30:28.25\00:30:31.47
there in the worship center
00:30:31.50\00:30:33.41
or if we're having a
program in the worship center
00:30:33.44\00:30:36.21
we can't send the truck out.
00:30:36.24\00:30:38.21
So we would really like
to finish that this year,
00:30:38.24\00:30:41.05
and that's what
the commitment is.
00:30:41.08\00:30:43.35
Thank you so much.
All right, God bless you.
00:30:43.38\00:30:49.39
Ladies and gentlemen,
once again welcome to ASI.
00:30:49.42\00:30:52.93
Are you ready for
Members in Action?
00:30:52.96\00:30:57.07
Oh, are you ready
for Members in Action?
00:30:57.10\00:30:59.71
Yes.
00:30:59.74\00:31:00.83
Now you know
that Members in Action
00:31:00.86\00:31:03.37
is the very heartbeat of ASI
00:31:03.40\00:31:06.54
because only what we
do for Christ will last.
00:31:06.57\00:31:09.94
And I'm gonna tell
you, you might not be
00:31:09.97\00:31:12.23
as excited as I am now,
but when you start hearing
00:31:12.26\00:31:15.21
some of the-- the testimonies
00:31:15.24\00:31:17.27
you will be exuberant
with excitement, okay.
00:31:17.30\00:31:21.41
Right now with me
I have Richard Alva,
00:31:21.44\00:31:24.73
who is a
nutritionist and health educator
00:31:24.76\00:31:28.63
and we have Elton DeSousa
00:31:28.66\00:31:30.48
who is a
chaplain and Bible worker.
00:31:30.51\00:31:33.16
Now the thing with
these two gentlemen,
00:31:33.19\00:31:35.20
they both work at a medical
practice, Medicore Partners.
00:31:35.23\00:31:39.95
Yes, we have a
chaplain and Bible worker
00:31:39.98\00:31:42.78
with a
nutritionist and health educator
00:31:42.81\00:31:45.36
at a medical practice.
00:31:45.39\00:31:46.42
How is this possible?
00:31:46.45\00:31:48.13
Good evening, ASI.
00:31:48.16\00:31:50.54
Well, we have an
amazing opportunity
00:31:50.57\00:31:53.10
that God has provided.
00:31:53.13\00:31:54.68
Medicore Partners
it's a medical practice
00:31:54.71\00:31:57.10
that was started by
Dr. Manuel and Esther Alva,
00:31:57.13\00:32:00.56
those are my parents and
they've been in ministry,
00:32:00.59\00:32:03.75
in health ministry doing
that work for a few years now.
00:32:03.78\00:32:07.80
So how is the two married?
00:32:07.83\00:32:09.34
Because you
know, traditional with,
00:32:09.37\00:32:11.70
you know, natural
typically doesn't blend.
00:32:11.73\00:32:15.11
What's beautiful is
that God is the one that
00:32:15.14\00:32:17.26
does the work.
00:32:17.29\00:32:18.34
Amen.
00:32:18.37\00:32:19.43
And so because God
is the great physician
00:32:19.46\00:32:22.76
and salvation comes from Him
and health also comes from Him
00:32:22.79\00:32:28.88
God is the means by
which people receive health.
00:32:28.91\00:32:33.57
So God uses conventional means,
00:32:33.60\00:32:36.38
He uses natural
approaches and that's why Elton
00:32:36.41\00:32:39.21
and I have the opportunity
to work together in ministry.
00:32:39.24\00:32:41.93
Okay, so now how did the
two of you come together?
00:32:41.96\00:32:46.37
I mean where did
you find you know,
00:32:46.40\00:32:48.11
a chaplain and a Bible worker?
00:32:48.14\00:32:50.84
For a few years I was working
00:32:50.87\00:32:52.98
there in the clinic
giving health education classes
00:32:53.01\00:32:56.04
and we have that going.
00:32:56.07\00:32:57.11
Inside the clinic?
00:32:57.14\00:32:58.19
Inside the clinic.
00:32:58.22\00:32:59.56
And so one thing that
really laid the foundation
00:32:59.59\00:33:03.08
was the way that the doctors,
my parents are physicians,
00:33:03.11\00:33:06.54
interact with the patients,
praying with their patients,
00:33:06.57\00:33:10.31
talking to their
patients about God,
00:33:10.34\00:33:12.46
winning their trust and
their confidence that way,
00:33:12.49\00:33:14.83
introducing them to Christ.
00:33:14.86\00:33:16.34
So when I came
along they were prepared
00:33:16.37\00:33:20.16
and ready to
hear about nutrition,
00:33:20.19\00:33:23.63
to hear about health, to
hear about better living,
00:33:23.66\00:33:26.19
and then Elton came along.
00:33:26.22\00:33:28.60
So Brother Elton,
you are the chaplain
00:33:28.63\00:33:31.82
and Bible worker, how
are you working this in?
00:33:31.85\00:33:34.29
I mean, you just,
I'm sick and you're gonna
00:33:34.32\00:33:37.35
talk to me about the
Bible, is that how you do it?
00:33:37.38\00:33:39.93
Yes. Really?
00:33:39.96\00:33:41.55
Well, Jesus is
the great physician
00:33:41.58\00:33:44.51
and working at the
clinic I learned that
00:33:44.54\00:33:49.12
eventually everybody
has some level of stress
00:33:49.15\00:33:52.91
and the patients that
Richard sees everyday,
00:33:52.94\00:33:56.93
with his class he introduces
to the stress management class
00:33:56.96\00:34:02.35
that we have at the
clinic and this class--
00:34:02.38\00:34:06.84
when people come to the class,
00:34:06.87\00:34:08.87
they expected to be
healed with their stress,
00:34:08.90\00:34:13.35
there will be some
kind of a psychologist
00:34:13.38\00:34:15.64
or some, you know, person.
00:34:15.67\00:34:18.04
So are they looking for a pill,
00:34:18.07\00:34:20.64
I mean because
when I come to a doctor
00:34:20.67\00:34:21.86
or when people come,
00:34:21.89\00:34:22.94
they're
typically looking for a--
00:34:22.97\00:34:24.55
yeah, yeah, quick fix.
00:34:24.58\00:34:27.27
That's right,
they do, in especially
00:34:27.30\00:34:29.92
when they come with
their stress they expect,
00:34:29.95\00:34:32.31
you know, way
that we're gonna give
00:34:32.34\00:34:34.65
some kind of a
pill or some kind of a,
00:34:34.68\00:34:37.83
you know, yoga treatment
or something like that,
00:34:37.86\00:34:41.39
but then I tell them--
I have to be honest to you
00:34:41.42\00:34:46.13
I cannot help you but
I know someone that can.
00:34:46.16\00:34:49.69
And when I say
that they look at me
00:34:49.72\00:34:52.22
and I bring "Steps to Christ"
00:34:52.25\00:34:54.10
and I tell them
Christ is the way.
00:34:54.13\00:34:57.26
Would you like to
sign up and then continue
00:34:57.29\00:35:00.79
with this Bible study?
00:35:00.82\00:35:02.52
So you are
prescribing "Steps to Christ?"
00:35:02.55\00:35:05.47
Yes. Wow, okay, okay.
00:35:05.50\00:35:07.15
So what happens, I mean
you were telling me that
00:35:07.18\00:35:09.26
90 percent-- are they
Seventh-day Adventist?
00:35:09.29\00:35:11.92
Are they--
00:35:11.95\00:35:12.98
No, 90 percent of the
people that we are working with,
00:35:13.01\00:35:17.18
they are Catholics.
00:35:17.21\00:35:18.79
And in their region there,
00:35:18.82\00:35:20.75
there is a lot
of Catholic people
00:35:20.78\00:35:22.28
so they start
reading the "Steps to Christ"
00:35:22.31\00:35:25.12
and they get very impressed
to how we are saved by grace--
00:35:25.15\00:35:28.30
Elton, Richard looks
like he's just bursting
00:35:28.33\00:35:29.98
with something to say.
00:35:30.01\00:35:31.22
How about that?
00:35:31.25\00:35:32.64
It's incredible
because when you see somebody
00:35:32.67\00:35:36.70
who has the right
healthy living information,
00:35:36.73\00:35:41.04
but they don't have
Christ its one thing,
00:35:41.07\00:35:44.99
but when Christ is
introduced into that equation,
00:35:45.02\00:35:48.89
it changes everything.
00:35:48.92\00:35:50.42
Now since you
brought in a Bible worker
00:35:50.45\00:35:52.70
into the practice
what has been the results?
00:35:52.73\00:35:54.96
Now how long has he
been in the practice?
00:35:54.99\00:35:57.87
Well, we are
there for four months
00:35:57.90\00:36:01.35
and we have 105
"Steps to Christ"
00:36:01.38\00:36:05.81
given in the 105
Bible studies set up.
00:36:05.84\00:36:09.87
Okay, so now Richard,
you been there since when?
00:36:09.90\00:36:12.41
Right.
00:36:12.44\00:36:13.84
I started working
with my parents in 2003
00:36:13.87\00:36:16.33
with the health
education in 2006
00:36:16.36\00:36:18.82
and then fulltime since 2011
00:36:18.85\00:36:21.66
with the series of
health education classes.
00:36:21.69\00:36:24.11
But since we started
making Bible studies available
00:36:24.14\00:36:28.16
to the patients we have
not seen health outcomes
00:36:28.19\00:36:31.99
so quickly as we are seeing now.
00:36:32.02\00:36:34.33
So you're literally
seeing physical results
00:36:34.36\00:36:37.06
in addition to spiritual.
00:36:37.09\00:36:38.27
Both.
00:36:38.30\00:36:39.35
And they go
together, absolutely.
00:36:39.38\00:36:40.89
Okay, we gonna run out of time,
00:36:40.92\00:36:42.02
but I want to see your pictures.
00:36:42.05\00:36:43.45
I think we have a few pictures?
00:36:43.48\00:36:47.14
I want to share real quick,
there this man comes to me
00:36:47.17\00:36:50.06
and when he hears about
the stress management class
00:36:50.09\00:36:53.54
he calls me aside and he
say, how do you do this class?
00:36:53.57\00:37:00.43
Because I been
to a psychologist,
00:37:00.46\00:37:02.46
I been to you
know, some yoga classes
00:37:02.49\00:37:05.26
and everybody tells me the same,
00:37:05.29\00:37:07.27
it's inside of me
that I have the answer.
00:37:07.30\00:37:10.30
But then he calls me
00:37:10.33\00:37:11.87
and he ask are you gonna
tell me something similar
00:37:11.90\00:37:15.43
'cause I don't
want to waste my time?
00:37:15.46\00:37:17.53
And I tell him no I
won't 'cause I believe that
00:37:17.56\00:37:20.87
only Christ has the answer.
00:37:20.90\00:37:23.02
Amen. Amen.
00:37:23.05\00:37:24.23
So they took our pictures away.
00:37:24.26\00:37:27.33
It's okay.
00:37:27.36\00:37:28.56
Well, with the results
that you are seeing now
00:37:28.59\00:37:31.72
what would you
admonish the rest of us to do?
00:37:31.75\00:37:35.75
I'm reminded of John, John 16:13
00:37:35.78\00:37:40.01
where it says Jesus is speaking
00:37:40.04\00:37:41.52
and He says that the spirit
will lead you into all truth.
00:37:41.55\00:37:46.24
Christ is truth
00:37:46.27\00:37:48.35
and we see
amazing results that work,
00:37:48.38\00:37:50.99
not because of us
but because of the work
00:37:51.02\00:37:52.95
that the Holy Spirit is doing.
00:37:52.98\00:37:54.59
Amen. Thank you so much.
00:37:54.62\00:37:56.23
Thank you so much.
00:37:56.26\00:37:57.31
Truly the health message is
the right arm of the gospel,
00:37:57.34\00:38:01.83
it's our entering
wedge and when we use it
00:38:01.86\00:38:04.69
as the Lord has
commissioned us to--
00:38:04.72\00:38:07.35
you see results.
00:38:07.38\00:38:08.62
I was just amazed,
in a medical practice.
00:38:08.65\00:38:11.14
Now Gary, this gentleman--
00:38:11.17\00:38:14.61
now who still believes
in modern day miracles?
00:38:14.64\00:38:20.98
This is Gary
Morgan and his ministry
00:38:21.01\00:38:24.12
is Search for One Incorporated,
now first, come on closer,
00:38:24.15\00:38:28.93
explain what Search
for One Incorporated.
00:38:28.96\00:38:31.41
What is that? What do you do?
00:38:31.44\00:38:33.80
Melissa, Search for One,
we're doing a medical ministry
00:38:33.83\00:38:37.68
in the Republic of
Kiribati, South Pacific.
00:38:37.71\00:38:41.16
Where, who, what?
00:38:41.19\00:38:42.42
The Republic of Kiribati,
00:38:42.45\00:38:43.61
we are south of
the Marshal Islands.
00:38:43.64\00:38:45.01
Not Kiricel. Kiribati.
00:38:45.04\00:38:47.18
Okay.
00:38:47.21\00:38:48.25
It's the local
word for Gilberts.
00:38:48.28\00:38:49.82
Formally the Gilbert
Islands in the South Pacific,
00:38:49.85\00:38:52.33
so we are south of
the Marshall Islands
00:38:52.36\00:38:54.05
and were north of Fiji,
00:38:54.08\00:38:55.75
and about 2,000
miles away from Hawaii.
00:38:55.78\00:38:59.18
So right out there in
the middle of nowhere.
00:38:59.21\00:39:01.87
Okay, so another words,
00:39:01.90\00:39:03.39
you don't have the Hawaiian feel
00:39:03.42\00:39:04.85
and all of the luxuries.
00:39:04.88\00:39:06.43
No, we do not. No.
00:39:06.46\00:39:07.79
How did you get way out there?
00:39:07.82\00:39:10.48
Well, you know, tonight
is a very special night,
00:39:10.51\00:39:13.17
it was exactly 19
years ago, tonight,
00:39:13.20\00:39:16.92
that I walked into my
very first ASI meeting
00:39:16.95\00:39:20.25
and I walked in
and joined the audience
00:39:20.28\00:39:23.12
and I was blown
away with what I heard.
00:39:23.15\00:39:25.87
The reports from around
the world were phenomenal
00:39:25.90\00:39:29.17
and that night I walked
through the display booths
00:39:29.20\00:39:32.80
and there was a sailboat set
up in the back the auditorium,
00:39:32.83\00:39:35.97
it was "search
for one's first ASI"
00:39:36.00\00:39:38.73
and they were there
looking for a boat captain,
00:39:38.76\00:39:41.40
and a host family
to go start the work
00:39:41.43\00:39:44.19
in Republic of Kiribati.
00:39:44.22\00:39:45.38
I said where do I sign up?
00:39:45.41\00:39:47.39
So I've been doing ever since.
00:39:47.42\00:39:48.47
Just like that?
00:39:48.50\00:39:49.55
Just like that.
00:39:49.58\00:39:50.95
Now what is the purpose of
Search for One Incorporated?
00:39:50.98\00:39:55.33
Well, we are taking medical,
00:39:55.36\00:39:58.02
dental teams
into the outer islands
00:39:58.05\00:40:00.43
where there are no doctors.
00:40:00.46\00:40:01.93
Tarawa has got a
hospital/clinic with doctors,
00:40:01.96\00:40:06.02
but the outer
islands do not have any.
00:40:06.05\00:40:08.96
So our focus has
been to take medical help
00:40:08.99\00:40:11.22
to the outer islands.
00:40:11.25\00:40:12.85
But that work has been
growing through the years,
00:40:12.88\00:40:14.96
we're now taking
construction teams out
00:40:14.99\00:40:16.88
to help with building churches,
00:40:16.91\00:40:19.38
building on our
Kauma Adventist School,
00:40:19.41\00:40:22.61
we are also taking
evangelistic teams out there,
00:40:22.64\00:40:25.07
and we have some big
things planed for the future.
00:40:25.10\00:40:27.47
And what are those big things?
00:40:27.50\00:40:29.84
We are looking
forward to starting
00:40:29.87\00:40:31.63
a new clinic on
Tarawa this next year.
00:40:31.66\00:40:34.46
Dr. Ray Andreassen,
from Delta Junction, Alaska,
00:40:34.49\00:40:38.25
was out with us
this last February.
00:40:38.28\00:40:40.81
And he-- he was so excited with
00:40:40.84\00:40:42.77
what he saw out there,
the response from the people
00:40:42.80\00:40:45.58
and the needs that
he is looking forward
00:40:45.61\00:40:49.85
to sharing his
staff, his medical expertise
00:40:49.88\00:40:52.97
and time was setting
up a clinic on Tarawa
00:40:53.00\00:40:56.76
for the people out there.
00:40:56.79\00:40:57.86
Okay, so now within this clinic
00:40:57.89\00:40:59.85
how are you and
incorporating the building,
00:40:59.88\00:41:02.39
the evangelism, I mean
everything that you've,
00:41:02.42\00:41:05.40
you know, expounded on?
00:41:05.43\00:41:07.07
You know, it all works together,
00:41:07.10\00:41:08.69
but the medical arm of
our work is the leading edge.
00:41:08.72\00:41:12.95
Two years ago Dr. Dan
Wilson, out of Lewiston, Idaho,
00:41:12.98\00:41:16.87
went with us to a closed island.
00:41:16.90\00:41:19.00
This is an
island where they forbid
00:41:19.03\00:41:20.99
any evangelism, any teaching
00:41:21.02\00:41:23.69
other than the established
religion on that island
00:41:23.72\00:41:26.61
with up to a threat
of death for doing it.
00:41:26.64\00:41:29.69
So we went in
with our dental team
00:41:29.72\00:41:32.10
and we were
welcomed with open arms,
00:41:32.13\00:41:34.04
we now have an
island opened to evangelism
00:41:34.07\00:41:36.57
because of the
medical team that went first.
00:41:36.60\00:41:38.68
That right arm again?
00:41:38.71\00:41:39.88
Exactly.
00:41:39.91\00:41:41.02
Okay, now were telling me
about the un-entered territories
00:41:41.05\00:41:44.97
that you are interested in
going into, with the others.
00:41:45.00\00:41:48.24
We still have other islands
that have never been entered
00:41:48.27\00:41:51.27
with any Adventist
work and we are looking
00:41:51.30\00:41:54.11
for the volunteers that
want to help us do that.
00:41:54.14\00:41:56.81
So I mean, do you
already have these pegged out?
00:41:56.84\00:41:58.80
Do you know where you're gonna--
00:41:58.83\00:41:59.87
Yes, we do. Can you tell us?
00:41:59.90\00:42:02.37
So there are still
a number of islands
00:42:02.40\00:42:04.99
that have never been
entered due to the local people
00:42:05.02\00:42:09.70
and local religion.
00:42:09.73\00:42:11.55
Wanting to keep any
other influences out.
00:42:11.58\00:42:14.46
Okay, so like right now,
what is the projected plan
00:42:14.49\00:42:17.44
to try to enter
into these areas?
00:42:17.47\00:42:20.33
Well, we are planning
to start a mission college
00:42:20.36\00:42:22.35
for evangelism out there.
00:42:22.38\00:42:23.65
We want to train lay
people in doing lay Bible work,
00:42:23.68\00:42:29.71
gardening,
fundamental healthcprincipals,
00:42:29.74\00:42:33.16
we would like to
have a lay evangelist
00:42:33.19\00:42:35.24
in every village in
that country, God willing.
00:42:35.27\00:42:39.68
You have a very--
00:42:39.71\00:42:41.06
and this is what I was gonna
tell you about the miracle,
00:42:41.09\00:42:43.48
you have a very special
miracle to share with us,
00:42:43.51\00:42:45.96
it's a short
story, but it's powerful
00:42:45.99\00:42:48.18
and it's
encouraging to know that
00:42:48.21\00:42:49.94
God is still
working miracles today.
00:42:49.97\00:42:52.40
You know, God has
influenced every trip
00:42:52.43\00:42:54.00
we've made out there.
00:42:54.03\00:42:55.49
But last year we
arrived with a construction team
00:42:55.52\00:43:00.25
and we got to the
island of Abemama,
00:43:00.28\00:43:02.86
where we have our
Kauma Adventist School,
00:43:02.89\00:43:04.45
we're gonna be
working on the cafeteria,
00:43:04.48\00:43:06.59
and we found that the
island was out of food.
00:43:06.62\00:43:09.96
The seas were running high,
00:43:09.99\00:43:12.13
and the
government's supply ships
00:43:12.16\00:43:15.17
had not been there
in quite some time,
00:43:15.20\00:43:17.97
so I tried for three days
00:43:18.00\00:43:19.71
to get our large
sailboat started,
00:43:19.74\00:43:23.07
and I was unsuccessful.
00:43:23.10\00:43:24.75
I've never had
that problem before,
00:43:24.78\00:43:26.48
but for three days in
a row, would not start,
00:43:26.51\00:43:29.14
so I looked at Takamais,
my local right hand man
00:43:29.17\00:43:32.07
who takes care of
the boats out there.
00:43:32.10\00:43:33.29
I said, Takamais, what about
taking the old Macgregor 26?
00:43:33.32\00:43:37.90
It was our first sail
boat in the country out there,
00:43:37.93\00:43:40.25
but it had been on the
beach for a while and not used.
00:43:40.28\00:43:42.57
He said yeah, he said I
think that would make it.
00:43:42.60\00:43:45.13
So we put a new motor
on the back of that boat,
00:43:45.16\00:43:49.80
spent a day preparing
and we took off for Tarawa,
00:43:49.83\00:43:52.73
80 miles away to
get a supply of rice
00:43:52.76\00:43:56.09
and flour and
sugar, for the school
00:43:56.12\00:43:58.73
and to share with
the island out there.
00:43:58.76\00:44:00.59
Now this happened
00:44:00.62\00:44:01.71
because you said you
checked back at the school
00:44:01.74\00:44:03.86
and they had no food?
00:44:03.89\00:44:05.25
They were opening
school with no food there.
00:44:05.28\00:44:06.92
Wow.
00:44:06.95\00:44:08.01
So we made a very
quick trip to Tarawa,
00:44:08.04\00:44:10.89
got the boat loaded, 5
o'clock the next evening
00:44:10.92\00:44:14.04
we were back on the
sea headed back to Abemama.
00:44:14.07\00:44:16.40
But as soon as we
hit the open ocean,
00:44:16.43\00:44:19.07
we knew it was gonna
be a rough rugged trip.
00:44:19.10\00:44:21.71
We'd taken twice
the amount of fuel
00:44:21.74\00:44:24.02
that we usually budgeted
for that particular trip.
00:44:24.05\00:44:27.14
But as we went
through the night,
00:44:27.17\00:44:29.26
each time I transferred fuel
00:44:29.29\00:44:30.67
from our barrels
to the running tank
00:44:30.70\00:44:32.31
it became obvious
that we were running short.
00:44:32.34\00:44:35.76
The wind, the waves we
had swells up over 25 feet
00:44:35.79\00:44:41.03
and we were bailing
water, we had several ways--
00:44:41.06\00:44:44.38
Not to mention you got knocked
up side the head and the--
00:44:44.41\00:44:46.61
I mean, that's a
whole different--
00:44:46.64\00:44:48.17
That's right, by 2 o'clock
Friday afternoon I picked--
00:44:48.20\00:44:51.29
pulled out my
satellite telephone,
00:44:51.32\00:44:53.26
I called mission head
quarters let them know
00:44:53.29\00:44:55.14
that we are
running short on fuel,
00:44:55.17\00:44:56.65
we were 26 miles from
the island of Abemama,
00:44:56.68\00:45:00.54
and we were late,
it was questionable
00:45:00.57\00:45:02.87
whether we would make shore.
00:45:02.90\00:45:04.63
So it was God's blessing,
00:45:04.66\00:45:06.81
there was a secretary
there to take that call,
00:45:06.84\00:45:09.25
she emailed the school principal
00:45:09.28\00:45:11.65
at our Kauma Adventist School,
00:45:11.68\00:45:13.56
he rang the emergency
bell they had a prayer session,
00:45:13.59\00:45:16.57
assembled the whole student body
00:45:16.60\00:45:18.69
and faculty at
exactly 3 o'clock.
00:45:18.72\00:45:21.47
The very same time that you
are having issues with that.
00:45:21.50\00:45:24.25
Exactly, the
engine at 3 o'clock quit,
00:45:24.28\00:45:27.26
I went back,
opened up the big hatch
00:45:27.29\00:45:29.36
at the back of the boat,
00:45:29.39\00:45:30.43
to try and pull start the engine
00:45:30.46\00:45:31.75
after
transferring more fuel to it,
00:45:31.78\00:45:34.40
a wave and wind
caught that back of the boat
00:45:34.43\00:45:36.93
and as I looked up it hit
me right square in the face,
00:45:36.96\00:45:40.56
forehead and nose, I
had blood running down
00:45:40.59\00:45:43.29
in front of me on to the deck.
00:45:43.32\00:45:45.62
So I called Takamais
who is down bailing water
00:45:45.65\00:45:47.92
out of the main
cabin, I said Takamais,
00:45:47.95\00:45:49.84
I said need some help back here.
00:45:49.87\00:45:51.83
He looked out and says,
Gary, oh, no what to I do?
00:45:51.86\00:45:54.07
I said, through me your shirt
00:45:54.10\00:45:55.71
or rag something I
can clean my face with.
00:45:55.74\00:45:57.66
Now jump us to when you
get to share the experience
00:45:57.69\00:46:01.31
because they gonna
run me out of time.
00:46:01.34\00:46:02.83
Okay, so anyway that
last transfer of fuel
00:46:02.86\00:46:07.20
ran twice as long as
all of the other fuel tanks
00:46:07.23\00:46:10.90
that run on the trip
and we traveled four times
00:46:10.93\00:46:14.08
as far on that tank of fuel,
00:46:14.11\00:46:15.91
that tank of fuel took us
00:46:15.94\00:46:17.19
all the way to
the Lagoon at Abemama.
00:46:17.22\00:46:20.91
So I got in about
11:30 that night to my hut,
00:46:20.94\00:46:24.41
next Sabbath morning
00:46:24.44\00:46:25.79
I was able to walk
into Sabbath School
00:46:25.82\00:46:28.23
and tell these children,
beginning of the school year,
00:46:28.26\00:46:31.89
told them of our
miracle the day before
00:46:31.92\00:46:34.40
and how their
prayers had saved us at sea.
00:46:34.43\00:46:37.43
So it was a
tremendous start for the--
00:46:37.46\00:46:39.09
their school year.
00:46:39.12\00:46:40.34
May the good Lord bless it
and Gary, thank you so much.
00:46:40.37\00:46:43.27
You know, this
almost makes me want to cry
00:46:43.30\00:46:44.87
because truly only what
we do for Christ will last.
00:46:44.90\00:46:48.05
He is waiting for us
00:46:48.08\00:46:49.43
to go out there
to step out on faith
00:46:49.46\00:46:52.69
and He will work
miracles for you.
00:46:52.72\00:46:54.76
Don't be afraid,
don't look for that security
00:46:54.79\00:46:57.52
under your feet,
walk out on faith
00:46:57.55\00:47:00.05
even if you walking on
air with the faith of God,
00:47:00.08\00:47:03.16
He will sustain you.
00:47:03.19\00:47:04.55
Thank you, Gary.
Than you, Melissa.
00:47:04.58\00:47:08.92
You know, I don't
know if you realize
00:47:08.95\00:47:12.72
how close to
Christ's return that we are,
00:47:12.75\00:47:16.85
but when you hear
some of these stories
00:47:16.88\00:47:19.27
you will understand
00:47:19.30\00:47:20.65
why the Lord is
commissioning us to go
00:47:20.68\00:47:24.03
and will you
hear our next couple,
00:47:24.06\00:47:27.14
you'll understand just
what our mission really is.
00:47:27.17\00:47:29.58
Come closer, we
have Don and Trudi--
00:47:29.61\00:47:34.81
Starlin. And your ministry--
00:47:34.84\00:47:37.42
I just-- I spent hours
00:47:37.45\00:47:39.36
just really going over it,
00:47:39.39\00:47:40.89
their ministry is
working with refugees,
00:47:40.92\00:47:43.97
now when we say
go, are you going
00:47:44.00\00:47:46.45
into all of these
countries and lands,
00:47:46.48\00:47:48.78
where is your ministry?
00:47:48.81\00:47:50.93
Well, we have been
involved in foreign missions,
00:47:50.96\00:47:53.61
between the two of us,
00:47:53.64\00:47:54.78
we have about 40 years
of combined experience,
00:47:54.81\00:47:57.77
but now the
refugees are here among us.
00:47:57.80\00:48:02.08
So you all are actually,
00:48:02.11\00:48:03.23
you have to tell
me more about that.
00:48:03.26\00:48:04.69
Here in the
United States of America?
00:48:04.72\00:48:06.78
That's right, approx of the
100 least reach people groups
00:48:06.81\00:48:11.64
on planet earth about 20 of them
00:48:11.67\00:48:14.45
are now here in significant
numbers in the United States.
00:48:14.48\00:48:18.32
How is that so?
00:48:18.35\00:48:20.67
Well, five years ago
we just found out that,
00:48:20.70\00:48:24.11
there is a lot of refugees,
been immigrant to America
00:48:24.14\00:48:27.87
and when I was working in AFM
00:48:27.90\00:48:31.33
one of our development persons.
00:48:31.36\00:48:32.39
Oh, I work for them?
00:48:32.42\00:48:33.46
Yeah. Okay.
00:48:33.49\00:48:34.52
And you know,
came back and said,
00:48:34.55\00:48:35.98
there's a church that have
a group of people coming here
00:48:36.01\00:48:38.23
and they are from Burma,
00:48:38.26\00:48:39.31
that they don't
speak the language
00:48:39.34\00:48:41.36
and they ask me
if I could help them
00:48:41.39\00:48:44.07
and so I am
originally from Burma
00:48:44.10\00:48:46.40
and I can speak
Korean and Burmese.
00:48:46.43\00:48:48.64
And so I was able
to help them connect
00:48:48.67\00:48:51.17
and trying to explain
to them, who they are?
00:48:51.20\00:48:54.57
Where they are from? And
that's how we got started.
00:48:54.60\00:48:59.21
Okay. Now in some of the--
00:48:59.24\00:49:00.78
You know, the
information you sent,
00:49:00.81\00:49:01.90
you were saying that
00:49:01.93\00:49:03.03
you know America
has a misunderstanding
00:49:03.06\00:49:06.13
or misinterpretation
of what needs to be done.
00:49:06.16\00:49:09.51
Could you explain that?
00:49:09.54\00:49:10.97
Well, most of the
refugee that comes
00:49:11.00\00:49:12.48
they are literally
coming from the jungle.
00:49:12.51\00:49:15.02
And so they lived in a
place there is no running water,
00:49:15.05\00:49:17.21
no electricity,
and let alone having
00:49:17.24\00:49:20.52
to work or learning to drive.
00:49:20.55\00:49:22.08
And so when
they come to America,
00:49:22.11\00:49:24.12
they are put in a
housing places that--
00:49:24.15\00:49:28.13
it's basically concrete
jungle and so they don't know
00:49:28.16\00:49:31.73
how to run the
electric chimneys, that,
00:49:31.76\00:49:34.27
how to turn the stove on,
you know, the running water
00:49:34.30\00:49:37.41
and having to learn to drive,
00:49:37.44\00:49:40.32
do the banking you
know, and learn the language.
00:49:40.35\00:49:43.24
So simple daily things?
00:49:43.27\00:49:45.59
Right, simple daily
things that we take for granted.
00:49:45.62\00:49:50.47
So you're saying
that we need to go
00:49:50.50\00:49:52.43
and to reach them,
here in the United States?
00:49:52.46\00:49:55.72
That's right they are
here in United States.
00:49:55.75\00:49:59.71
They are all around us.
00:49:59.74\00:50:00.77
In fact, information
is on government websites,
00:50:00.80\00:50:04.03
various refugee
resettlement programs
00:50:04.06\00:50:06.85
that you can Google that
00:50:06.88\00:50:08.88
find people that
are close to you.
00:50:08.91\00:50:10.79
Yeah, well, I made a list here,
00:50:10.82\00:50:12.85
you were saying
there was some needs,
00:50:12.88\00:50:14.58
friendship,
support their pastors,
00:50:14.61\00:50:16.98
what do you mean by
support their pastors?
00:50:17.01\00:50:20.67
We found as we've gone around
00:50:20.70\00:50:22.87
and first of all made
friends with the people,
00:50:22.90\00:50:25.43
met their needs,
00:50:25.46\00:50:27.16
we've discovered
that God in his wisdom,
00:50:27.19\00:50:31.85
has placed strategically people
00:50:31.88\00:50:34.45
who are already
trained spiritually
00:50:34.48\00:50:37.02
amongst many of
these tribal groups,
00:50:37.05\00:50:39.67
they are here, but
instead as working as pastors
00:50:39.70\00:50:42.80
and ministers
they're doing menial tasks,
00:50:42.83\00:50:46.54
they are slaughtering chickens,
00:50:46.57\00:50:47.94
they're driving Ford
trucks, they're involved in,
00:50:47.97\00:50:52.37
in fact there's
one pastor right here
00:50:52.40\00:50:55.26
in the Grand
Rapids area from Burma,
00:50:55.29\00:50:57.75
who is working at a factory
00:50:57.78\00:50:59.32
making wiring harnesses instead
of out encouraging his people.
00:50:59.35\00:51:03.32
Or establishing
churches, I mean--
00:51:03.35\00:51:04.84
That's right, and he could be.
00:51:04.87\00:51:07.82
So what is that we can do?
00:51:07.85\00:51:09.59
I mean, it sounds simple,
I mean I can tell someone
00:51:09.62\00:51:12.68
how to shop, too good, you know.
00:51:12.71\00:51:15.08
Well, I think in North America,
00:51:15.11\00:51:17.40
we have been so focused abroad
00:51:17.43\00:51:20.18
that we haven't realized
the massive influx of refugees
00:51:20.21\00:51:24.20
that have come in from these
strategically located countries
00:51:24.23\00:51:28.10
in terms of the gospel outreach
00:51:28.13\00:51:30.70
places where we
simply cannot work today
00:51:30.73\00:51:34.57
and have not been able
to work for many decades
00:51:34.60\00:51:37.91
from Bhutan, Nepal, Burma,
00:51:37.94\00:51:41.31
and many of the Middle Eastern
and North African countries
00:51:41.34\00:51:44.25
where work is very hard to do.
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Okay, well, now
Trudi, you were saying that
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we need to rethink strategies
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and I had to write this
down so I wouldn't misquoted,
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rethink strategies for church
planting in North America.
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Well, basically what I'm--
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and would like to
encourage everybody is that,
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look around you,
you'll see the people
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they may look different to you,
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but they are our
brothers and sisters
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and when allow this refugee
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that came to America a
lot of them are Adventist,
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already Adventist
and looking for Adventist
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brothers and
sisters to help them
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and, they don't
understand the language.
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Tell them who is
helping them, as we're not.
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Well, she is really
want me to say this.
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Let me tell you one example,
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the story that we visited
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a family in Rock
Island, Illinois,
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and we stayed
with the host family,
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and Sabbath morning came
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and they were
worship in a home church,
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you know, basically in
home and Sabbath morning came
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and he told us
that Jehovah witness
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is coming to
give him Bible study,
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this quarter to eight.
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And Don and I
looked at each other
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and we said, we
hear that all the time,
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you know, they Korean
people will say, yeah,
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Jehovah witness
is knocking our door,
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but we have yet to
Adventist come to our door,
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so we wanted to see
what they were doing.
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So they came, they
dressed up really nice,
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you know, and they--
when they got to the door
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they take their shoes
off, this is Asian cultures
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and they sit on the floor,
and there is a couch there
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but they do not
choose to sit there,
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they sat on the floor
they spread their material
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and to our surprise that
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there was
material in their language,
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colorful illustrated
and they had the Bible
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in the Korean language
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they have the father
read the Bible in Korean,
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and the little girl
seven or eight years old
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she's attending public school
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so she was even
reading it in English.
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And so guess what's
gonna happen that little girl?
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We are missing
out the opportunity.
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So seize the opportunity.
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Yeah, and we don't live by there
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so we can't really
go there, we can only go
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and encourage
whenever we can and are able.
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Well, we have a
commission not only from them
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but especially from God.
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Thank you, Don,
thank you, Trudi.
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Let me tell about the church.
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Our time is run
out. Our time, I'm sorry.
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But I do want to leave
you with the quote that
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they had that
I-- I want to share,
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"If befriended and loved
are more open to the gospel
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than at any other
time in their lives
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because their entire world
view is being reinterpreted."
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We can give them the
truth we have the truth,
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so let's each one
reach one. God bless.
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