Participants: Esther Murray & Nicole Murray, Larren Cole, Andrew & Daniel Hosford, Jared Thurmon
Series Code: 17ASIC
Program Code: 17ASIC000008A
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00:21 ¤Open my eyes that I may see glimpses of truth¤ 00:39 ¤thou hast for me. Place in my hand¤ 00:44 ¤the wonderful key that shall unclasp and set me free. ¤ 00:51 ¤Silently now I wait for Thee, ready me God thy will to see. ¤ 01:02 ¤Open my ears, illumine me, Speak now to me. ¤ 01:17 ¤ ¤ 01:23 ¤Take time to be holy, Speak oft with thy Lord¤ 01:32 ¤Abide with him always and feed on his word. ¤ 01:41 ¤While looking to Jesus help those who are weak. ¤ 01:52 ¤Forgetting in nothing his blessings to seek. ¤ 02:02 ¤Open my eyes that I may see Glimpses of hope thou has for me 02:15 ¤Place in my hand the wonderful key¤ 02:20 ¤That shall unlock and set me free. ¤ 02:27 ¤Silently now I wait for thee Ready my God thy will to see¤ 02:37 ¤Open my ears, illumine me Speak now to me. ¤ 02:52 Skip, can you share with ASI family what your class has been 02:58 doing this week and what they've been learning? 03:02 Our theme this year is Unforgetable and you might 03:06 gather by the horse and buggy that we've been talking about 03:09 something in the past and what what we've been dealing with is 03:12 Seventh-day Adventist history. There is no time like the 03:16 present where we need to understand our roots. Is that 03:19 correct, ASI family? And so our children day by day, meeting by 03:25 meeting have been introduced to one of the pioneers of the 03:28 Seventh-day Adventist Church; people like William Miller, 03:31 Hiram Edson, Ellen White, Joseph Bates and we've given them one 03:37 nugget of truth that these pioneers especially introduced 03:41 into this movement that God used them to bring to us. And so for 03:48 instance Kindergartners what was William Miller's message? Now 03:55 we're going to say it all together, so is everybody 03:57 ready? What was William Miller's message? Jesus is coming again. 04:03 Yes, Amen. So we're going to sing a song for you this evening 04:09 and it's based on Ellen White's statement in various places that 04:15 we can find in Life Sketches, page 196 where she says, We have 04:21 nothing to fear for the future except as we forget how God has 04:28 led us in the past and his teaching in our past history. 04:31 So I think we're going to have a graphic on the screen with 04:36 the words to the song; I hope we have that and we would like 04:40 you, ASI family, to join us on the third verse of the song. 04:45 Do you think you could do that? All right, so, is everyone ready 04:50 All right, here we go. ¤ ¤ 04:57 ¤We have nothing to fear for the future except we shall forget. 05:06 ¤the way the Lord has led us and his teaching in our past. ¤ 05:17 ¤We have nothing to fear for the future except we shall forget¤ 05:27 ¤the way the Lord has led us Praise God his ways are _.¤ 05:37 ¤We are learning about the history, how great our pioneers.¤ 05:48 ¤We'll spread the word, be ready for Christ is coming soon¤ 05:59 Through hope and disappointment is Jesus on the way. Now as we¤ 06:11 ¤join their journey, praise God yes praise the Lord¤ 06:19 ¤I am filled with confidence and courage in Jesus Christ the Son¤ 06:28 ¤As I look on in amazement at what the Lord has done. ¤ 06:38 ¤With Jesus as my leader we cannot be afraid. ¤ 06:46 ¤Through all our life he's always there. ¤ 06:54 ¤Praise God, let's praise the Lord. ¤ 07:00 Amen. One of our special features this week has been 07:08 Christian Berdahl He has blessed the upper grades and I'd like 07:11 you to just share a little bit about what he has taught our 07:14 youth this week. 07:17 Good evening, ASI. I've had the privilege, the honor to work 07:21 with your early teens and the youth this year and I'm telling 07:25 you they're a very special group They are the ones that are going 07:29 to carry Christ's banner here, the next generation to run the 07:35 church. Our theme has been Be Still and Know that I am God. 07:41 Today in the day of media, in the day of social media and all 07:48 all kinds of different distractions in the world 07:51 we've been discussing and looking at what kinds of things 07:55 can distract us from God. Starting tonight I'll be working 07:58 again with the early teens and we're going to start a 08:02 discussion on what are the challenges that they are facing. 08:05 Friends, I believe that this generation, it's harder to be 08:09 saved in this generation than it was just in the past because 08:14 there are so many distractions and so pray for the early teens 08:17 and the youth. We still have three meetings to go together. 08:20 I'm excited about that. I know that some have already come up 08:24 to me and talked to me about some of the challenges that 08:27 they're facing. So there are earnest young people here. 08:30 Please pray for the entire youth department. There is an 08:33 entirely different ASI going on and the leaders are amazing, 08:39 Praise God. 08:42 Alisa Trujillo has led the primary class in knowing Jesus. 08:46 Can you share a little bit with the ASI family what you have 08:51 learned this week. 08:53 Sure. Our theme as she said is Knowing Jesus. Every day we have 08:58 we have been going over some thing that we know about Jesus. 09:01 I'll hand the mike over to my assistant James who's going to 09:04 tell us what we've been learning. 09:06 This week every day we take a different opportunity to look at 09:09 how Jesus loves us was on Wednesday and then yesterday 09:12 we learned how Jesus speaks to us and today we learned how 09:16 Jesus made us. Tomorrow we're going to learn about why Jesus 09:20 died on the cross for us. 09:21 Just today in the theme of knowing Jesus made us we went 09:26 to the health museum and just to share how God works in the 09:30 unexpected we went to the health museum and the kids were having 09:32 a great time in the interactive exhibits and then we went to go 09:37 watch a video about human history and they started talking 09:41 about evolution. And you could kind of hear a little bit of 09:44 snickering going on as the children were mmmm. So the 09:49 decision was made to leave and some of the kids were why are 09:52 we leaving, why are we leaving. We said we'll talk to you later. 09:55 So we sent them back to the exhibits and they had a great 09:59 time. We got on the bus and I started talking about the 10:02 experience in the video theater. The minute I started talking 10:08 hands went up and you knew that they already knew what I was 10:13 going to say about how evolution is not true and we started a 10:17 conversation about creation and about how God made us, we did 10:22 not evolve from chimps and all of that. These children are smart. 10:25 They know their Bibles. I know these children come from homes 10:29 where Christ is being made the center and it is such a 10:33 wonderful opportunity to be a part of all that. So now we are 10:37 going to sing a song called Knowing You we hope that you 10:40 will be blessing to you all. 10:43 ¤ ¤ 12:44 We also had another guest come from Battle Creek Historic 12:47 Village. Don and Betty, I'd like to invite you to come up and 12:50 just share a little bit. 12:52 Well we thank you for the privilege of being here. We are 12:57 with Adventist Heritage Ministries. We actually have 12:59 four sites, but Don and I live in Battle Creek, Michigan and 13:04 just last month in the month of July we had over 1400 people 13:10 come by and about 25% of them are non-Adventist. We get them 13:14 into the discovery center of Dr. Kellogg's equipment that he 13:19 had in the sanitarium and then we encourage them to go out into 13:24 the village and most of the do it and Don usually gets a Great 13:28 Controversy in their hands. So we are really blessed there. 13:33 Thank you so much. I'd like to invite Pastor Christian Martin 13:37 now to share what you've been doing in your class this week. 13:42 It is good to be with you here this evening. This has been an 13:47 incredible, incredible ASI for our juniors. You know our theme 13:52 is Mission Possible. This morning we went to Space Center 13:56 Houston and so as you can imagine being in Houston, Texas 14:02 our theme has been Mission Possible and we discovered that 14:07 nothing is impossible as long as Jesus is the king of our hearts. 14:14 So we've learned a song these last few days entitled King of 14:20 Our Hearts. We want to share that with you. 14:21 ¤ ¤ 16:56 As we make Jesus the King of our hearts we discover that he has a 17:00 mission for us. In fact, Jesus himself came with a mission as 17:05 we learned in Isaiah chapter 61 verse 1. Let's say it together 17:13 juniors. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has 17:19 anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to 17:23 bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives 17:28 and the opening of the prison to those who are bound. 17:34 Amen. Jesus came to continue his mission through us and so 17:38 throughout the week, throughout the last few days we had 17:42 different mission challenges, Mission Possible. One of them 17:46 was taking water bottles just like this with the label Jesus 17:50 Loves You and a Glow tract called Living Water and Samuel 17:54 is one of our team captains and Samuel tell us about the 17:58 experience you had with your team. 18:00 Well it was a pretty amazing experience. We were out in the 18:05 park and I had about six of my students and we were sharing 18:10 water bottles and Glow tracts. I had one of my students who was 18:15 pretty shy and it was almost at the end. We had about 30 minutes 18:20 to share these Glow tracts and we're about to get to the end 18:25 and he came and he asked me, Oh can I share these with a cop? 18:31 And I'm like whoa, OK. And so I told him yes you can go. And 18:35 what did he say? I want to give this to my friend Officer. 18:40 What did he say? 18:41 I gave it to the cop and he said thank you. Pretty amazing, huh? 18:50 This is to know that we were out there to share with everyone 18:57 and at the end were able to share 50 Glow tracts with just 19:03 six students in less than 10 minutes. 19:06 All right. Good job, good job. Yesterday we had a very special 19:10 visit from our General Conference President. 19:14 And one thing we discovered is that this man not only loves the 19:18 church but he also loves our young people and he shared a 19:22 message on his Facebook page that we'd like to share with you 19:27 just now. 19:29 I'm here in the city of Houston, Texas and the ASI convention is 19:35 taking place. You will not believe where I am. I've been 19:39 with some of the most powerful people in this convention center 19:43 the juniors. I am so happy to be with them. Now I want you to see 19:49 them and here they are. Young people tell me what it is you've 19:54 been studying. Mission Possible. 19:58 All right. Mission Possible. Go! Mission Possible. Go! 20:04 Mission Possible. Go! Can you see what I mean? These are 20:10 wonderful young people filled with the power of God and they 20:14 are willing to go for Jesus. I hope all of you who are going to 20:18 watch this everywhere around the world are going to be filled 20:23 with the great enthusiasm that the Holy Spirit can give in 20:27 sharing the three angels messages and the love of Jesus 20:31 and that he's coming back very soon. Young people, wave to all 20:35 the friends all over the world. What? God bless each one of you. 20:39 Thank you. 20:41 Good evening. We're glad to be here. The juniors, they did good 20:47 didn't they? The early teens and I have been learning about being 20:52 in Egypt. Today we went and visited the Science Museum of 20:56 Natural history and we saw a bunch of artifacts from Egypt. 21:02 Also then we went and toured the butterfly museum so we got to be 21:07 in God's nature. So we got to spend at ASI here a little time 21:12 being still and knowing about God. We're learning that in 21:16 Early teens we have a lot of choices to make. We're at that 21:21 age of our lives where we're making a lot of choices for 21:25 ourselves and one of the choices is do we want to be a part of 21:29 this church, a part of this great movement and that choice 21:35 is ours to make. So we need some practical guidance, some 21:40 instruction and we found a place we can get it-The sure word of 21:44 prophecy, the word of God. So we're learning to depend upon 21:49 the Bible to guide our decision making and then stillness and 21:54 action. Actions have consequences. So we're 21:57 trying to learn how to make good decisions and to let the Holy 22:02 Spirit lead us. We're doing that by being still, spending time in 22:06 God's word, spending time in communion with God because be 22:10 still and know means to know God. This is life eternal. John 22:14 14:6 says to know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom 22:22 thou sent. So as our shirts say: It says Be still and know that I 22:28 am God. I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted 22:34 in Houston and all over the world, Amen? So we're learning 22:39 to be a part of this movement at this very important time in 22:44 our lives. Thank you. 22:46 Shawn Lovelace faithfully led the youth this year. Would you 22:52 kindly share what your class has studied this week. 22:55 Sure. Our class theme has been Be Still and I think you're 22:58 probably picking up the pattern here. But ours is a little bit 23:01 different. There's a period after Be and one after Still. 23:04 We don't just mean it in a sense of be quiet. I mean how is it 23:09 that a young person like us can survive and at the end of the 23:14 day we can still be. Does that make sense? Well in very short 23:20 order we have discovered that one of the secrets to surviving, 23:25 this generation especially, but any generation needs to be 23:31 still and to know that God is God. You'll probably remember 23:37 a verse that Ellen White quotes in Mount of Blessing on page 150 23:41 is the subtitle on our shirts. That which shares the life of 23:44 God with him surviveth all. So we've been learning together 23:48 what it means to share the life of God. One of the practical, 23:52 tangible steps we have to take, and we're only part way through 23:54 that journey, the week is not yet done, but we're excited and 23:59 we're glad to see what God has been doing with your youth. 24:04 Thank you. 24:07 Happy Sabbath. Now's the time for our members in action 24:13 reports and with me here tonight is Tim Rumsey with Pathway to 24:17 Paradise ministry and also Esther and Nicole Murray. We're 24:21 so glad to have you guys with us. Tim you started a new 24:25 project here called Shine; it's a family ministry. Could you 24:28 please share with us a little bit about it. 24:30 Absolutely. Good evening. You know the Bible says that in the 24:33 time of Jesus when he was alive on this earth, children's voices 24:37 rang out to him and sang his praises in the temple courts. 24:40 History tells us that during the protestant reformation, 24:43 especially in Scandinavia, when it became impossible for adults 24:47 to share the message and to preach the gospel that the Holy 24:51 Spirit fell on children and they stood up and preached fearlessly 24:55 even young children that could not read. In the book, Counsels 24:59 to the Church, on page 210, we are told that in the last days 25:03 children's voices will be raised to give the last message of 25:07 warning to the world. I believe that God wants to use this 25:10 generation of children, the children we just saw on the 25:14 stage behind us, to give that last message of warning. Shine 25:18 is a five-day family camp meeting that is designed to help 25:22 entire families, parents and children, make this a reality 25:26 for their family and to learn how to share their faith, to 25:29 share the gospel, to share the three angels' messages with the 25:32 people around them, their neighbors, their coworkers, 25:36 their family, the people they go to school with. We just 25:39 completed our first Shine family camp meeting a few weeks ago. 25:42 So it's a very new ministry, this has just started this 25:45 summer, huh? That's right. Very new. We 25:47 completed our first one a few weeks ago at Fletcher Academy in 25:51 North Carolina. Wow, Fantastic. 25:53 We have a short video clip that we'd like to show you that will 25:56 give you a little idea of what we did a few weeks ago. 26:14 Jesus loves me this I know. I want to tell the world so. 26:27 God has always had a remnant generation. A generation of 26:32 children who would not be bought or sold. Children who in their 26:36 inmost souls were true and honest. Children who did not 26:41 fear to call sin by its right name. Children whose conscience 26:46 was as true to duty as the needle to the pole. Today in the 26:51 time of the end God will again have a remnant generation that 26:56 shines as the brightness of the firmament and turns many to 27:01 righteousness. ¤ ¤ 27:17 Pathways to Paradise ministries presents Shine, a family camp 27:21 meeting, spiritual retreat and youth-presented public 27:25 evangelistic series combined in one life-changing week. 27:30 Activities include parenting seminars, workshops on 27:34 developing creative family worships, training to teach 27:38 children how to lead Bible studies, recreational activities 27:42 for the entire family and the opportunity to meet and share 27:46 with others who are committed to raising the remnant generation. 27:50 To learn more about Shine visit www. ShineKids. net. 28:00 What a beautiful place to do a program like that. I'm inspired. 28:05 I've got a little daughter myself and she's only 1-1/2 but 28:08 I think we can get her involved right away. It's better to start 28:12 them when they're young, right? So Esther you attended this 28:15 summer's program. Can you tell us a little bit about your 28:19 experience? Sure. The whole week was a 28:22 spiritual blessing but I think the biggest take-home for our 28:26 family in particular was learning how to do the door-to- 28:30 door evangelism. Our family had always been a little bit 28:34 hesitant to do that. We didn't want to come across somebody 28:39 that said no or slammed the door We just were nervous about it. 28:43 But the best thing was the classes on how to do it. They 28:48 told us what to say, how to say it and even when to say it. Then 28:52 they ended it with practical experience. They dropped off 28:55 in the neighborhoods and made us practice. 28:57 Good. So has that given you confidence to be able to do 29:02 something like that back in your home church? 29:04 Yes. Actually we have made a promise to the Lord and we've 29:08 kept it since the camp. We've been doing door-to-door one hour 29:12 every Sabbath. 29:14 Fantastic. That's great to hear. Now Nicole how old are you? 29:18 Twelve years old. 29:19 Twelve years old and you attended with your mom. So what 29:21 kind of experience did you have at the retreat? 29:23 Well, I was really nervous but I really wanted to do something 29:27 for the Lord. We studied about the sanctuary, how to give 29:32 Bible studies, door-to-door and how to preach. I thought I would 29:38 never be able to preach that Saturday night, but with the 29:41 Lord's help and Mr. Tim, I was able to preach. 29:44 So you preached the final Sabbath night? Yes. 29:47 That's fantastic. So maybe we can line you up in the future as 29:51 an ASI preacher here. Sure. That must have been great. 29:54 Good I love the spirit. So well I'm excited about this project. 29:59 Tim if somebody wanted to learn a little bit more about this 30:01 family camp, where can they register? Where could they find 30:06 out? Where can they find you here? 30:08 We're going to be holding this once again next summer in June 30:12 2018, again at Fletcher Academy in North Carolina, but we would 30:16 love to bring it to your part of the country. So if you're 30:20 interested in hosting this event or maybe in an Academy during 30:24 the summer that's near you having this event held in your 30:27 area, please come talk to us. We're in aisle 500 in the 30:31 exhibit booths. Pathway to Paradise ministries. Again, you 30:35 can also go online to ShineKids. net. And there's a lot 30:38 more information there as well. We are just excited about the 30:43 families that came this year seeing lives changed and 30:47 impacted; a greater commitment to serving the Lord and that's 30:50 really what ASI is about isn't it? 30:53 Amen. Thank you so much for being with us. God bless your 30:56 ministry. 31:00 ¤ ¤ 31:12 It all started when we moved out of the city. We moved way up 31:19 here, way up in this remote area in the Modoc National Forest. 31:24 Here I discovered this really neat beaver colony. I was so 31:29 excited by this close encounter with nature that I started a 31:35 film with a video camera. That's when I made a remarkable 31:40 observation. These beavers were out and about every day of the 31:45 week except Saturdays. I was never able to get any pictures 31:51 on Saturdays. So I decided to do a little study. The incredible 31:57 results I want to share with you in this documentary I call the 32:03 7th Day Beavers. 32:16 I have with me here tonight Larren Cole of Desire Media and 32:19 he's going to be talking to us tonight about The 7th Day 32:23 Beavers. I know that some of you might have heard about this from 32:28 3ABN or Better Life TV or some other media outlet but probably 32:33 most of us like me would love to hear a little bit more about 32:36 what's going on with that. But before we get into the story, 32:40 Larren, I'd like to tell us just a little bit about you. Where 32:43 you're from. Are you from Houston here? 32:46 Not from Houston, no, I'm from Lakeview, Oregon area, actually 32:50 New Pine Creek. I live in California. Our office is over 32:53 the Oregon border into a little town called Lakeview. 32:57 OK, beautiful country. Now I understand that you're a 33:01 physical therapist. Does that keep you pretty busy? 33:04 No, I retired from physical therapy in 2002 and now I'm in 33:08 full time ministry with desire media. I'm the speaker/director, 33:11 the bottle washer, the toilet cleaner, everything for Desire 33:15 Media now. But that's a little ministry of our family that we 33:19 started back in 2002, 2003, that area. It started out as a little 33:22 book and video series for children about the book The 33:27 Desire of Ages. We started doing that. We started doing that and 33:31 then it sort of grew out of that as my children grew up and now 33:34 we are in full time public evangelism and we travel and 33:38 preach now. 33:40 And do you do anything online as well? 33:41 Yeah, we've got an online Bible school which we call Revelation 33:46 101. It's a Revelation 101 survival training course so it's 33:49 a free online Bible school. We have students from all over the 33:53 world. Yeah, we've got hundreds of students. A lot of churches 33:57 are using that as sort of a pre work for evangelism. 34:01 Praise God. I'd like to ask you some more about the beavers, 34:06 because I know we're all anxious to hear about that. Can you tell 34:09 us how did you get involved with these beavers? How did you find 34:12 out about them in the first place? 34:15 Well that's an interesting story I never would have noticed these 34:18 beavers resting on Saturday had it not been for a neighbor when 34:21 we lived in Redlands, California Southern California. I had a 34:24 neighbor named Bill and Bill told me one day out of the blue, 34:27 I wasn't in ministry at the time he just told me that he noticed 34:31 the bees that flew in the orange groves, that they would fly in 34:33 their normal patterns Sunday through Friday but on Saturday 34:37 he said it was dead quiet. They weren't going zooming by his 34:41 garage, he'd been in the garage, but they weren't out there in 34:43 the normal patterns on Saturday. So he told me that. Didn't 34:48 mean much to me at the time but when I did move to the country 34:52 I started going on Sabbath afternoon walks and I found this 34:55 really neat beaver colony. And I was so fascinated by it that I 34:59 would go back Saturday after Saturday, Sabbath after Sabbath, 35:02 I would go out on my little walk and I would look at these 35:05 but I never saw them out. One day I got a chance to go out on 35:08 a Sunday and there they were, the beavers. So back on 35:12 Saturday, nothing, then I started noticing a little 35:16 pattern and I remember Bill's bees. And I thought, I wonder 35:20 if these beavers are doing what Bill's bees were doing. 35:25 So you'd see them on Sunday but you never saw them on Sabbath. 35:30 Never saw them on Saturday. 35:33 Like once or twice? 35:34 What I did as _ said, I decided to do a little 35:36 observational study and this lasted a total of 16 years. 35:40 Sixteen years. 35:41 Started out intense with my little 8 mm video camera in 2002 35:46 and I started watching things routinely and I noticed active 35:51 and busy Sunday through Friday, closed on Sabbath. And I never 35:56 saw them come out of their lodge on Saturday. So in 2013, after 36:01 13 years of doing this, well it was casual after about the first 36:06 two years, but after 13 years I felt impressed to make a 36:09 documentary about this. Our ministry had grown a little bit 36:13 It got some more professional TV equipment and cameras and 36:16 things like that and I thought just bring that out. I've got 36:21 five children, three boys who are all into media and why not? 36:25 Let's produce a video about this. And I felt impressed to do that. 36:26 So it took three years and we finally got it done in 2016. 36:29 That's amazing so what is happening with that video? 36:33 Where's it going? How is it being used. 36:34 That video has been on 3ABN. It's been on 3ABN, it's on a 36:38 number of other networks, even some in Europe and we are 36:42 amazing feedback. People are using this 7th Day Beaver DVD 36:47 and the story as a witnessing tool about the Sabbath. Not only 36:52 is it a great nature film, in high definition, on location, 36:56 Modoc National Forest, we also included four Bible experts that 37:00 would answer the questions that would logically come up about a 37:04 film like this. Why are these beavers resting on Sabbath? 37:07 And so these Bible experts, we've got Shelley Quinn, we've 37:10 got Dr. Neal Nedley, Steve Wahlberg and Jerry Bandy. 37:15 They answer the questions that would just naturally arise. 37:19 So it's being showed, lots of people. On the way over here 37:23 to ASI, stopped and preached at the Mariposa church. In the 37:26 audience a lady had just happened to have ordered 100 of 37:30 these beaver DVDs and she shared stories how she was distributing 37:35 them to people and witnessing to people, just like tracts. 37:39 Can you tell us one quick story? 37:41 Well one quick story, boy, we've got so many stories. Louie, I'm 37:46 thinking of Louie. Louie told me what you've done has changed 37:49 my life. He said, I needed to know that Saturday was still 37:53 God's Sabbath day or through time man has messed it up. So he 37:57 said, starting in 2013 when we started to produce the film, he 38:01 said I started searching the internet. I knew if any animal 38:04 would keep the Sabbath it would be beavers. So he searched for 38:07 three years and finally in 2016, that's when they finally got the 38:11 thing done. And it was in 2013 that he started searching that I 38:14 felt impressed to share that story. There are a number of 38:20 other stories. 38:21 Isn't that incredible. He's got so many more stories but we have 38:22 to end. What is your booth number? 38:24 Booth number 128. You can come and see it at the booth or you 38:28 can go to our website www. desiremedia. org. 38:32 He's got the DVDs there in case you would like to take one or to 38:36 share one with somebody, they're available. All righty. Thank you 38:40 There was a time when the earth was dark. It was an age of 38:47 grinding poverty, disease and death. The common people were 38:54 illiterate. They lived in fear of the judgment and hell. 39:01 The state church controlled all aspects of life from birth until 39:06 death. For a price the priest assured a better after life. 39:11 But this all changed with a new dawn in England. Minds were 39:19 awakened. Once the flame of the reformation was lit it was never 39:25 to be put out again. This is a story of courage and fortitude. 39:31 Against all odds, the burning of heretics and those who risked 39:38 their lives to follow the light. It is a struggle of ideas about 39:44 men's souls, their dreams and the purpose of life. The state 39:49 church responded by hunting down anyone who supported these 39:54 radical new beliefs and put them to death. Join us as we uncover 40:00 the heroic lives of those who led out in this movement and 40:04 changed the world forever. This is the story of Light Unshackled 40:12 Good evening ASI. I'm pastor Phil Mills. I'm joined with two 40:21 young people from my church, Daniel and Andrew Hosford. 40:24 This last May we had the privilege of shooting the 40:27 documentary you just say the trailer for. It's a four-part 40:31 series that traces the history of God moving during the dark 40:35 ages to protect his light and to start and reformation that would 40:40 transform the world. We watched God work a number of miracles 40:45 to bring us to this point. You know I'm thankful for an ASI 40:50 that believes in its young people. We had a budget of about 40:54 $40,000 and it was ASI members that stepped up and helped us 40:58 raise this money, believing in young people that they could 41:02 make a difference. What do you say? That was just one of the 41:05 miracles. God worked a series of others. Daniel, our time is 41:09 short, but I wonder if you could just share with us briefly one 41:12 of the miracles you saw God work while we were filming in Europe. 41:15 So as we were over in Europe in May we were there for a 41:21 month and as I'm sure all of you know weather is very important. 41:27 When we were over there, there was one morning... We'd had 41:33 perfect weather for about two weeks and it was just phenomenal 41:40 the way that God was working. One morning I woke up and we 41:45 went outside and it was just pouring down rain. It was just 41:50 raining like crazy. I'm like God what are we going to do? We have 41:53 to film this morning. So we got in the car and we started 41:57 heading out to our first location and it was then that I 42:01 realized that we were about to film the story of Luther in the 42:04 thunder storm. God just worked out the weather incredibly. 42:07 Amen! Isn't it amazing. God gave us rain on the only day that we 42:11 needed it to fit the script. What do you say? Now Andrew as 42:15 a young person there's a lot of things you could have done with 42:18 your summer. Why would you choose to travel across Europe 42:21 inside a van traveling thousands of kilometers, hours and hours 42:25 of driving. Why would you do that with your summer? 42:29 Well, it's kind of the life of a film maker. What inspired me 42:37 the most was to be in the places of these men and women as they 42:44 willingly gave their lives for the faith that they had in Jesus 42:50 Amen. And to be able to share that with other people. Daniel 42:54 there may be some people here that want to find out more 42:58 information. Maybe they want to show the Light Unshackled film 43:00 when it comes out in their churches. When is it coming out 43:02 and how can they find out more information about it? 43:05 So Light Unshackled is coming out this October. It's coming 43:09 out in conjunction with the 500- year anniversary of Martin 43:13 Luther nailing the 95 theses. For more information, you can 43:15 visit lightunshackled. com. There's more information you can 43:21 see; behind-the-scenes videos. To visit our booth, it's number 43:26 407 in the exhibit hall. We'll be there and we'll be happy to 43:31 talk with you. 43:32 My Bible First. Come, we would love to talk to you. We want 43:35 this to go out. It's available for free on YouTube and we're 43:38 excited to get this message going to the world. 43:41 Thank you so much. 43:47 All right, good evening ASI. For our final Members in Action 43:51 tonight I have a good friend of mine, Jared Thurman. Jared it's 43:55 good to see you here at ASI. Glad you are here. And Jared 43:59 you know those of us who have been here in Houston, we've been 44:00 seeing and hearing about this thing called Fruition all 44:03 week. We've seen the young adults walking around with their 44:06 Fruition badges and we've heard about this. Tell us about 44:08 what is Fruition? 44:10 Yeah, absolutely. Ellen White has an interesting phrase in the 44:13 book Christ's Object Lessons that religion and business 44:17 are not two separate things, they are one. So Fruition was 44:20 really inspired by this along with the concept in the Great 44:24 Controversy that says where the Waldensians were welcomed as 44:28 merchants, they would have been spurned as missionaries. So 44:32 Fruition was really birthed to create a new generation of 44:35 entrepreneurs with a mission mind of how to reach people 44:39 through the ministry of business So the last few days we've had 44:42 a number of successful Adventist entrepreneurs, men and women 44:46 sharing their stories, how their faith inspires their best work 44:49 and teaching those skills to others. 44:52 Excellent, excellent. And you know here at ASI we decided to 44:56 sponsor the Fruition event because we believe it's 44:59 important to invest in the next generation of Adventist business 45:02 leaders, Amen? I mean someone invested in us. You know someone 45:05 invested in us so that we could be here today. We need to invest 45:09 in the next generation. So we sponsor Fruition to be here as 45:12 a part of ASI this year. First Fruition was last year in 45:15 Phoenix, Arizona during the convention or right before the 45:18 ASI convention. But this year it happened right during 45:21 convention and they were right with us. 45:23 Let me share a story that came out of last year. There are now 45:27 out of that event some individuals came together 45:29 Seventh-day Adventist business men and women who realized it 45:34 takes means to do business. So a venture capital firm has been 45:39 formed with some individuals that want to use these means to 45:43 set up businesses in hard to reach places. Already businesses 45:48 are being set up in some of these regions and I can tell you 45:52 that there are countries, I visited the Middle East last 45:55 year, there are countries where the church is being asked to 45:59 leave and some countries actually auditing the books of 46:02 businesses making sure there's a profit or it's time to leave. 46:08 So we don't just need means to start businesses. These 46:11 businesses have to be sustainable, profitable and 46:15 filled with mission-minded individuals to be there. 46:19 So that's very exciting. 46:21 So that came out of Fruition last year? 46:23 It did and actually this group of individuals is seeking to 46:26 work very closely and is working very closely with the Seventh- 46:31 day Adventist organized church because the church knows regions 46:34 where this is very important. So I just want to make a quick 46:37 appeal. If the Lord has blessed you with money and you may want 46:40 a return on that money. This is an opportunity to do that and 46:44 to ensure that the person getting those funds has been 46:47 trained and equipped to make them a success. 46:49 Amen. Well it's really exciting to hear what came out of 46:52 Fruition last year. This year a lot of good stuff happened here 46:55 in the last two days. Tell us a little bit about what happened. 46:58 Yeah absolutely. We have a number of people come from 47:02 around the world who've got these ideas but they don't know 47:05 what to do with it, what's the next thing. And often, hey I've 47:09 got these unique things. I close on Saturdays, I have these 47:12 principles, I'm not going to cheat, I'm not going to steal. 47:15 There's nobody better that you want to hear some advice from 47:18 than somebody that shares those values. So workshops and 47:21 interactive time and people hearing from individuals who 47:25 sold their company for 500 million, 800 million dollars 47:28 whatever it may be. Sometimes it's nice though to hear from 47:31 somebody, I failed miserably. I want to tell you, don't give 47:34 up if you've failed miserably. So, it's been an encouraging 47:37 time. It's been nice that it's been here with ASI because a lot 47:41 of people have asked, hey Fruition ASI, what's that. 47:43 Maybe you could share what is the mission of ASI then I'd love 47:46 to share how is Fruition able to complement that. 47:49 OK, so the mission of ASI is to empower lay business people and 47:53 ministry leaders to share the gospel through their business, 47:57 through their market place so that Jesus will come. Amen? 48:00 That's the mission of ASI. So Jared, I'll ask you how does 48:04 Fruition fit into that mission? 48:05 Absolutely. So what we realized in some discussion over the last 48:10 10 years, I've been able to come to ASI year after year 48:13 and I recognize there is a generation of young Adventists 48:16 disappearing. I mean the statistics show 70 percent. 48:19 So of those that are staying, how do we ensure that they are 48:25 successful in getting into business, successful starting a 48:29 ministry and that they're the ones who are able to equip the 48:33 next generation and empower others to maintain this mission 48:37 in the world in the turbulent times that we find ourselves in. 48:40 We need more Adventist business people and we need more ministry 48:43 people, more ministry leaders. Jared where do we go from here 48:46 as we look as we look for the future for Fruition and ASI? 48:50 So back to that concept of needing mission-based businesses 48:53 around the world. Fruition really sees in discussions with 48:57 some of these territories, we have the equip individuals and 49:01 bring them on a journey. So there are plans in place for 49:06 developing an online curriculum to groom people so that if 49:10 you're given a half a million dollars to start a business in 49:15 X, we can ensure you're going to know what to do with that 49:19 money, know how to sustains that business, be totally equipped 49:23 that mission is your purpose for being there. So there are some 49:26 exciting things coming. We're holding some events on different 49:29 college campuses and our universities and I'm excited to 49:32 see what the Lord does with Fruition Lab. So if anybody's 49:34 interested, you have an idea, you want to invest or something, 49:37 Fruitionlab. org is the website. 49:39 Thank you Jared and thank you to Fruition for partnering with 49:43 us and being here at ASI this year. Thank you ASI. |
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