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Denzil, you need to join this
organization called ASI. And I
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will tell you it
changed our lives, didn't it?
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Absolutely it changed our life
and we are so grateful to God
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for this opportunity to be
involved in the ASI ministry.
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When we went 30 years ago I
thought there's about 300 people
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there. What are we going to do?
I realize that God has something
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special for us as a family
to do. There wasn't anything for
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children at that time. I
said Denzil, we have to have
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something for the children and
the youth. That's so important.
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And as you saw last night, I was
a beaming Grammy sitting on the
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second row up here watching my
grandson. Isn't it special that
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we have something at ASI for our
youth and our children. And you
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know what, if you're not
a member of ASI we think you
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should join ASI. We
would love to have you.
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You know ASI has changed our
family, changed our way of life
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and changed how we look at how
we can use our businesses and
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our opportunities to
share Christ in the marketplace.
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And I invite each and every one
of you to become involved and if
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you're not a member please join.
You'll not regret it. So you can
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enjoy the same joys and
privileges that we have had to
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share Christ in our marketplace
and be part of this great work
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in seeing our Lord come because
he's coming very, very soon.
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Amen. Jesus is coming soon so
please find out more about ASI
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membership on our Website,
asiministeries.org. We want you
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to be a part of the family.
God bless you and happy Sabbath.
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The second coming of
Jesus Christ just impels me to
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understand how better to
relate to people because I
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believe Jesus is coming very
soon. In fact, every morning
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before I leave the house I have
prayer with my precious wife
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Nancy asking God to prepare us
for the day, to bless particular
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situations and just to
understand what it is that God
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wants us to do. I'll tell you,
to be connected with the Lord
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every day, to realize that he's
coming back soon for you and for
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me, that ought to tell of us
we need to do something for the
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Lord right now. ASI is one of
those dynamic organizations that
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just thrills you when you
attend a convention, when you
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get involved in sharing Christ
in the marketplace every day.
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ASI is something that will help
you to understand better your
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role in the great proclamation
of the three angels' messages.
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Let me tell you, the very core
of the three angels' messages is
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the righteousness of Jesus
Christ. What a happy, wonderful
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subject to share in the
marketplace. So I want to
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encourage each of you to become
a member of ASI. It will not
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only enrich you personally and
your family it'll give you the
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tools to really help you to
know Christ and to share him as
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we come to
Christ's soon second return.
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¤ ¤ O Worship the King.
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I'd like to invite you to
stand for our morning prayer.
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Our heavenly Father, as
delegates of ASI and members of
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ASI stand before you this
morning, we pray that you'll
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accept our praise, our
thanksgiving. May it mingle with
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that of the angels around
your throne. May we see our
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heavenly Savior, our precious
Savior and his nail-scarred
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hands interceding for us. Dear
heavenly Father we thank you for
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raising up this organization,
for using it the past 70 years.
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The untold, unseen good that's
been done around the world
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because of the dedication and
commitment of the members of ASI
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will only be realized when we
get to the kingdom. So we want
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to start praising you for that
now. We pray you continue to use
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us to advance your cause in the
earth, to hasten the coming of
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Jesus. Unite us as one
like never before. We want to be
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ready when Jesus comes. Father
may our lives give evidence that
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the living Christ is living
in us and that his power through
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us, our hands, our voices, is
seen in the world. Father, thank
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you for blessing ASI and now
we pray that you pour out your
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Spirit on this organization and
all of us, our speaker and our
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ears and hearts.
In Jesus' name. Amen.
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I invite you to remain standing
as we sing our opening song,
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Crown Him With Many Crowns
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You may be seated.
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Good morning and Happy Sabbath
ASI. I'm here before you again
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and as we prepare for the
morning's offering, we would
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like to share with you
three projects. The first is the
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Ethiopian Union Mission for
the funding of the providing
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scriptures or Bibles, Spirit of
Prophecy and training for former
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Orthodox clergy. The second
is a project named Kibidula,
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in Tanzania in Africa and
a third is our New Beginnings
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picture rolls which you have
seen posted here all week long.
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The first is of a sensitive
nature. It's the testimony of a
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former Orthodox clergyman
and because of the risk to his
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safety I am telling you his
testimony. In the order and the
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community where they live they
take a vow for simplicity so
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they have very few belongings
because they have devoted their
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lives to religious things. And
this particular clergyman, his
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name is Elias, we'll call him
Elias, came upon a Bible that
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was translated by a local
Adventist pastor. In reading the
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Bible, which actually is
forbidden among these clergymen
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he discovered wonderful truths
and he couldn't help believe
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what he was reading. They have
a Steps to Christ that he was
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reading and he was reading these
things and he was so overjoyed
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he felt that he just had to
share it with someone and so
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with his closest confidants he
would share these truths of the
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Bible. He was discovered
for these truths were not
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necessarily well received by all
They took him out into the woods
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They removed his shoes and they
beat the bottom of his feet.
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Now you need to understand
because they have this vow of
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simplicity that they don't have
many belongings and so the way
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they travel and get
around is by walking. So you can
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understand how this disabled and
this injury affected him. They
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tied him to a tree and this was
very disturbing for him because
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he remembers that others who
were under punishment were tied
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to a tree and left for three
days. And if they lived, if they
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weren't eaten by wild animals,
then they were admitted back
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into the community. But he
praised God because they tied
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him to a tree just for an hour.
But they threatened him and they
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said you will not tell these
truths. You keep these things to
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yourself. But he could not. How
could he? How could we keep the
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truths of God to ourselves.
So he continues in a very
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clandestine and secret way to
share with his brothers in that
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community the truths, the full
truths, present truth of the
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Bible and what he's learned in
reading Steps to Christ. We were
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able to talk with another
clergyman who indicated that
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because of the sharing of these
truths, and he was discovered,
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they broke his arm and
because they don't have much, he
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didn't have the resources to
seek medical assistance and so
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for four months he lived with
that broken arm. And it wasn't
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until he was able to go out
and visit the SDA pastor, the
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Adventist pastor, that the
pastor saw what happened and
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was able to raise funds and get
him the medical assistance. When
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they went to the doctor, the
physician looked at his injury
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and exclaimed why have you now
brought him to me. I don't even
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know if I can save his arm. In
examination he determine that he
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needed to actually cut off part
of the bone before he reattached
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and reset the arm. So now this
former clergyman has one arm
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shorter than the other because
he dared to share Christ with
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another. Another clergyman
wanted to give a specific
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message to us here in the west
let's say and he said this: Our
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time of persecution is now for
sharing the gospel, for telling
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others about Jesus. Our time of
persecution is now, speaking of
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himself and his other brothers
who have learned of these Bible
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truths. But he says to the west,
your persecution is not yet.
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That to me is an admonition that
while we still have time, while
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we still have freedom, while
we still have ability, while we
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still have resources that we
must take advantage of this time
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now to share with our brothers
and sisters. They say the west
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doesn't understand what it
means to be persecuted. We don't
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understand trouble. We've heard
some in the news, Christians
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being beheaded, being killed for
their faith just because they
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call themselves Christians.
We are so blessed but we have an
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obligation that we must take
advantage of this time to do the
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Lord's bidding now, now,
before it's too late. So as you
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consider this particular project
for former Orthodox clergymen
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who have decided to remain
in that environment so they can
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reach out to their brothers,
let us give them what they need
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in order to share the gospel.
Let us give them the full truths
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of the Bible, the Spirit of
Prophecy and good training so
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that they will be able to tell
their brothers and others that
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Jesus is coming soon. For our
second project I would like to
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introduce you to a family. So
as they come out here to stand
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before me I'm introducing you
to the Fournier's Their lovely
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girls Tolisa, Emily and Shiloh
and we have Jason and his wife
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Antoinette. The reason I want
to introduce them to you as a
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family is that they run and work
on a ministry in Kibidula in
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Tanzania as a family and as only
one family in the midst of many
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families and many others who
are ministering to other in the
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Kibidula area. So I wanted you
to meet them so that you would
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know that this is a
special collaboration. This is a
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partnership that's important
because it takes all of us,
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family, and families to share
the love of Jesus. So at this
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time Antoinette is going to
share more about that Kibidula
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project.
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Good morning ASI. Thank you so
much for the opportunity to hear
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what we have to say. Kibidula
has been a part of our lives for
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many years. Our children were
born and raised there and we are
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still laboring there. But what
makes it so special is that in
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process of reaching out to
help others we ourselves are
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receiving the help that we so
desperately need and isn't that
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just the beauty of the Christian
walk? The Lord loves us very
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much. Kibidula Mission is
supportive ministry of the
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Seventh-day Adventist church
in Tanzania, East Africa and is
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a long-standing member
of ASI and Outpost Centers
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International. If I could sum up
everything we do and stand for
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at the mission it would be this.
Education. At the primary school
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which is an English media
primary school, 148 students
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receive a Seventh-day Adventist
Christian education as outlined
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in God's word. These young
students not only learn from
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books but they work and they
plant and they also learn to
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make things with their hands.
In a moment, I will return to
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talk about the second school
that we have for at risk youth
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ages 14-22. The third
school that we have is our lay
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missionary training program
where lay people from churches
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in Tanzania come for five months
to learn how to be effective
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soul winners for Christ. We
train about 65 lay people every
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year and over the years we have
chosen the very best of these
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lay missionaries and 26 of them
are laboring in unreached areas
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of Tanzania where there is
no Adventist presence. Can you
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imagine that-no Adventist
presence. And these missionaries
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face privation and
sometimes danger as they work in
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especially difficult areas of
the country. As I speak many new
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companies of believers are
worshipping in mud huts or under
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trees because they don't have
churches. You can only imagine
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the blessing the one-day church
program has been for these
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believers because the cost
of a roof is the greatest factor
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hindering them from having their
own church and it's with much
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appreciation that they look
to ASI and say thank you because
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especially in Tanzania if you
don't have a church you don't
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have a message. By God's grace
we have been able to build over
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500 one-day churches in
Tanzania. In July 2014, we
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jumped at the opportunity to
start a printing operation and
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we started printing tracts from
inside the garage. Thanks to the
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support of ASI we have been able
to build a new printing building
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to house our two presses
and folding and packing machines
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that were donated to the mission
In July of this year, we printed
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one million Glow tracts in
the Swahili language and in just
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four days distributed them in
the city of Dar es Salaam with
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the help of local churches. Our
publishing department stays busy
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translating quality books into
Swahili, doing the layout and
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design, getting it printed in
Poland, and selling it into the
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colporteur system in Tanzania.
Currently Dr. Hans Dielh's book
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the U-Turn is a best seller.
Kibidula also invests a lot of
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time and energy into teaching
the health message, not only to
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our students but also to the
community through public health
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seminars and health expos and
helping guests who come to our
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lifestyle center. But all these
programs to win souls to Jesus
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cost money and it is our aim
to become self-supporting. We
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believe the time is coming when
support from the outside will no
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longer reach us and great
drive currently to become self
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supporting through an export
business of avocados. Over the
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last three years we have planted
over 80 acres of avocados by our
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own team grafting and growing
these threes. Now to come back
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to our second school. On July 10
I received a notification on my
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Instagram feed from the Voice
of the Martyrs. It was an urgent
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call to pray for three
young teenage girls who had been
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rescued in Tanzania. These girls
of whom one is a primary school
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student and the two others
secondary school students have
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recently converted from Islam
to Christianity. The girls were
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captured and raped by their Imam
and arrangements were made for
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them to marry Muslim men. In
Tanzania girls can be legally
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married at age 15. Fortunately
these marriages didn't take
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place and these girls are now in
good homes. Attention is being
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given to the schooling options
remaining for the two older
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girls who became pregnant and
were expelled from public school
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for life unless new laws come
into effect soon. In 2001, the
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government established a primary
education program which made
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primary school attendance for
children age 7-15 compulsory.
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By also abolishing the mandatory
primary school fees Tanzania has
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made a huge change to education
with 92 percent of boys and
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girls attending primary school
in 2012. However, when you come
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to lower secondary
education this number changes
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significantly with only 32
percent of boys attending and
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24 percent of girls. And when
you realize that Tanzania is one
00:24:04.14\00:24:08.88
of the youngest countries
on earth with 71 percent of the
00:24:08.91\00:24:13.21
population age 30 years
and younger, this statistic is
00:24:13.25\00:24:17.29
staggering. There are many
factors contributing to this
00:24:17.32\00:24:21.56
education crisis but one
factor that demands scrutiny and
00:24:21.62\00:24:26.09
attention is the plight of
the vulnerable girl. Boys are
00:24:26.13\00:24:30.87
vulnerable too. But statistics
show that Tanzania has
00:24:30.90\00:24:35.60
Some research shows that
mandatory pregnancy testing in
00:24:50.09\00:24:53.52
schools and the expulsion of
pregnant students from primary
00:24:53.56\00:24:57.66
and secondary schools has
been going on for over 50 years.
00:24:57.69\00:25:01.70
Between 5000 and 8000 girls have
dropped out of school annually
00:25:01.73\00:25:05.90
between 2008-2011 due to
pregnancy. This figure is a
00:25:05.93\00:25:09.77
gross underestimate because
of unknown factors such as
00:25:09.80\00:25:13.51
abortion, suicide and girls
dropping out of school before
00:25:13.54\00:25:17.35
they can be caught and publicly
shamed. Public shaming is the
00:25:17.38\00:25:22.08
systematic tactic aimed at
girls who have broken the law of
00:25:22.12\00:25:26.76
morality in Tanzania. The
reasoning is that by making
00:25:26.79\00:25:29.56
these girls a public example and
denying them further education
00:25:29.59\00:25:34.43
it will discourage other girls
from being promiscuous. These
00:25:34.46\00:25:38.53
girls can't again attend public
school without a letter of
00:25:38.57\00:25:42.40
good standing from your previous
school and an explanation for
00:25:42.44\00:25:48.21
the time of absence from school.
So rape, sexual harassment and
00:25:48.24\00:25:54.02
coercion from teachers,
male students or other adults or
00:25:54.05\00:25:57.55
simply one bad decision on the
part of a poverty stricken and
00:25:57.59\00:26:02.22
often desperate girl is the
end of her educational life. The
00:26:02.26\00:26:05.93
only options remaining for these
girls are to attend private
00:26:05.96\00:26:09.50
schools, which are unaffordable
to the poor or to go to the
00:26:09.56\00:26:13.30
vocational training schools
that require a certificate of
00:26:13.34\00:26:17.27
successful education of lower
secondary education or to get
00:26:17.31\00:26:21.18
married. It is a fact that
almost two out of every five
00:26:21.21\00:26:25.51
girls in Tanzania are married
by age 18 and that 70 percent
00:26:25.55\00:26:30.02
are married by age 20. Women
with no education tend to have
00:26:30.05\00:26:35.02
an average of 6.9 babies.
Women with primary education 5.6
00:26:35.06\00:26:39.93
babies and women with secondary
education and higher 3.2 babies.
00:26:39.96\00:26:47.17
Astonishingly statistics
show that 53 percent of women in
00:26:47.20\00:26:50.71
Tanzania justify wife beating.
Unfortunately I cannot take the
00:26:50.74\00:26:56.58
time here to talk about the
research of international human
00:26:56.61\00:27:02.38
right groups such as antislavery
highlighting the deplorable
00:27:02.42\00:27:06.76
issue of one million child
domestic workers in Tanzania.
00:27:06.79\00:27:12.13
In 2004, Kibidula
mission in partnership with _
00:27:12.16\00:27:17.40
Switzerland started a vocational
training center for vulnerable
00:27:17.47\00:27:20.84
youth that is unique. It is
an agricultural training school
00:27:20.87\00:27:24.21
that is specifically for primary
school failures and secondary
00:27:24.24\00:27:29.34
school dropouts, giving them a
second chance to become educated
00:27:29.38\00:27:34.15
contributors to society. This
program is free so the poorest
00:27:34.18\00:27:38.85
student who wants to learn
can attend. Students who pass
00:27:38.89\00:27:42.56
receive government issued
certificate which enables them
00:27:42.59\00:27:46.86
to enter the work force as
skilled labor. At the mission
00:27:46.90\00:27:50.53
these boys and girls live
on three separate farm units,
00:27:50.57\00:27:54.10
two for boys and one for girls,
where they put into practice all
00:27:54.14\00:27:58.84
that they learned in the
classroom. They grow their own
00:27:58.87\00:28:02.34
food, keep their own livestock,
have their own beehive, press
00:28:02.38\00:28:07.02
their own oil, plant their own
avocado orchards and sell extra
00:28:07.05\00:28:11.65
crops and in addition to
agriculture they learn carpentry
00:28:11.69\00:28:15.76
and sewing skills. The
girls sewed this outfit that I'm
00:28:15.79\00:28:19.79
wearing for ASI and they do send
their greetings to you here. But
00:28:19.83\00:28:25.63
the best news is that over
90 percent of these young people
00:28:25.67\00:28:29.60
accept Jesus Christ as their
Savior and are baptized into the
00:28:29.64\00:28:33.41
Seventh-day Adventist church.
But the need is so big that we
00:28:33.44\00:28:36.95
have outgrown the original
perimeters set for this program
00:28:36.98\00:28:41.22
so that we can help more boys
and girls. We are so thankful
00:28:41.28\00:28:45.22
for the extra classrooms that
were added to the program last
00:28:45.25\00:28:49.92
year as well as six small houses
for teachers. We have now more
00:28:49.96\00:28:54.53
girls attending than boys, but
because we only have one girls'
00:28:54.56\00:28:58.60
dormitory we really feel the
pinch. Currently the girls are
00:28:58.63\00:29:03.00
sleeping two to a single bed so
the need for a girls' dormitory
00:29:03.04\00:29:08.28
that is secure from harassment,
that is clean and neat is real.
00:29:08.31\00:29:12.15
And we just want to express our
sincere appreciation to the Lord
00:29:12.18\00:29:15.98
and ASI for choosing this
project to be part of the 2017
00:29:16.02\00:29:20.66
missions offering. This offering
will enable us to build a new
00:29:20.69\00:29:26.80
girls dormitory to house and
educate an additional 42 girls.
00:29:26.83\00:29:31.87
The foundations are already
built. We're just waiting for
00:29:31.93\00:29:36.91
the building to start. I'm so
excited to see how the Lord will
00:29:36.94\00:29:41.58
bless and help us to not only
help these young people realize
00:29:41.61\00:29:46.41
their worth in this world but
most of all to be a part of that
00:29:46.45\00:29:51.15
army of youth that will finish
the work on this earth. Thank
00:29:51.19\00:29:55.76
you ASI for partnering with
us and helping us to accomplish
00:29:55.79\00:30:00.33
this mission. Happy Sabbath.
00:30:00.36\00:30:02.66
Our last project is the New
Beginnings Picture Roll. With
00:30:02.73\00:30:10.11
me is Norm Reitz who is the
vice president for evangelism
00:30:10.14\00:30:16.18
and Norm I know that in your
role the torch has been passed
00:30:16.24\00:30:21.12
to you to continue with the
development and the perfecting
00:30:21.15\00:30:25.72
of materials and tools that
we can use for lay evangelism as
00:30:25.75\00:30:30.13
well as for pastors. What does
this mean for the world church
00:30:30.16\00:30:34.46
in the accomplishment of
spreading the gospel around the
00:30:34.50\00:30:36.97
world to have these tools.
00:30:37.00\00:30:38.47
Well for New Beginnings, if you
heard the numbers this morning
00:30:38.50\00:30:43.44
out of Uganda, Tanzania and
Kenya they are historically huge
00:30:43.47\00:30:47.61
251,000 baptisms after three
months of meetings. The new
00:30:47.64\00:30:51.68
development within ASI and
the World Church is the picture
00:30:51.71\00:30:57.09
roll. When Desmond Doss's film
Hacksaw Ridge came out if you
00:30:57.12\00:31:02.46
saw it, he is rescuing people,
lowering them down the miano
00:31:02.49\00:31:08.60
escarpment and he prays, and he
prays Lord give me one more, one
00:31:08.63\00:31:15.64
more Lord. In ASI our prayer
is Lord, one more soul for the
00:31:15.67\00:31:21.21
kingdom. One more, Lord. The New
Beginnings picture roll that's
00:31:21.24\00:31:26.82
hanging here on our hut is being
introduced at ASI as a major
00:31:26.85\00:31:32.35
part of our offerings. We
believe it is going to lead
00:31:32.39\00:31:36.46
hundreds of thousands, probably
millions to the Lord. It is a
00:31:36.49\00:31:42.03
child of New Beginnings. There
are 26 segments. Each one has
00:31:42.06\00:31:46.30
seven evangelistic pictures
and one health poster. We are
00:31:46.33\00:31:53.54
printing two-sided on light
weight, plastic water-proof
00:31:53.58\00:31:58.11
paper. They're to be put into
rolls and carried to the field.
00:31:58.18\00:32:03.62
There for use in places where
there's no electricity and no
00:32:03.65\00:32:06.65
infrastructure. We believe that
these rolls will be preserved,
00:32:06.69\00:32:12.86
treasured and used and that
many will come to know the God
00:32:12.89\00:32:18.23
of heaven and Christ as their
savior and have a hope of heaven
00:32:18.27\00:32:23.57
because of them.
00:32:23.61\00:32:24.94
Amen. So at this time we would
like to share with you a video
00:32:24.97\00:32:28.41
that gives you some more
information right on the field
00:32:28.44\00:32:32.11
with the New
Beginnings picture roll.
00:32:32.15\00:32:35.68
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00:32:35.72\00:32:43.16
Over 100,000 evangelistic
meetings have been held using
00:32:43.19\00:32:46.49
New Beginnings materials
all over the world and our
00:32:46.53\00:32:49.76
opportunity to bring the gospel
to the third world is greatly
00:32:49.80\00:32:53.90
enhanced by
brining pictures to them.
00:32:53.94\00:32:56.07
This is the Kajero
00:32:56.10\00:32:57.44
District or county and this
area is the Massai land. Now the
00:32:58.57\00:33:03.24
Massais are not drawn to
reading or even listening to the
00:33:03.28\00:33:07.88
radio. They are people who move
from place to place seeking for
00:33:07.92\00:33:12.85
pastures for the animals. But
I think Massais would literally
00:33:12.89\00:33:18.36
magnetized by the picture rolls.
It is awesome when you use a
00:33:18.39\00:33:23.26
picture roll in the _
to explain Biblical truth.
00:33:23.30\00:33:28.10
Imagine for somebody who
has never seen and imagined how
00:33:28.17\00:33:33.24
Jesus will come and then he sees
for the first time that picture
00:33:33.27\00:33:38.85
of Christ descending with
angels surrounding his throne.
00:33:38.88\00:33:43.39
And the people looking up
too at that. Oh it's just an
00:33:43.42\00:33:48.36
awesome picture. So
convicting. It sends the message
00:33:48.42\00:33:53.33
powerfully into their mind.
00:33:53.36\00:33:55.03
There is nothing more important
to God than the salvation of men
00:34:09.24\00:34:14.02
and women. That's why God used
every way possible, every means
00:34:14.05\00:34:18.52
available to save them. I am so
excited about the picture roll
00:34:18.55\00:34:22.39
project because it gives us a
tool, it gives us an opportunity
00:34:22.42\00:34:26.49
for God to work. Think about it.
God is going to use this project
00:34:26.53\00:34:30.57
to win 10s of
thousands for his kingdom.
00:34:30.60\00:34:33.10
It's been inspiring to see
all these beautiful works of art
00:34:33.13\00:34:38.34
produced by some of the best
Christian artists on this planet
00:34:38.37\00:34:43.51
to become part of
this picture roll.
00:34:43.55\00:34:47.12
I think what motivates me as an
artist to do the type of art I
00:34:47.15\00:34:50.02
do is the awareness that a
painting can have a profound
00:34:50.05\00:34:53.09
effect on people who see them.
Evangelists often use art and
00:34:53.12\00:34:57.49
images to help convey the
message of sharing the gospel.
00:34:57.53\00:35:02.26
To me a painting can be a very
profound tool of evangelism.
00:35:02.33\00:35:07.07
With over 120,000 series of
meetings this year this tool is
00:35:16.91\00:35:22.52
invaluable in putting it in the
hands of lay people to help them
00:35:22.55\00:35:25.49
with evangelism. Many of those
sites do not have access to
00:35:25.52\00:35:29.96
electricity. They need a way
to share the gospel and to share
00:35:29.99\00:35:34.33
through pictures is an ideal way
to help people understand more
00:35:34.36\00:35:38.67
about the sacrifice that
has been made on their behalf.
00:35:38.70\00:35:42.97
In our Christian experience the
word of God is so vital to all
00:35:43.00\00:35:47.98
that we experience with our Lord
Jesus Christ. And many of us who
00:35:48.01\00:35:52.95
have availability to beautiful
pictures and being able to
00:35:52.98\00:35:56.95
access things on line or in
some kind of program, we have a
00:35:56.99\00:36:01.22
great advantage. However, there
are thousands, yes millions, of
00:36:01.26\00:36:05.46
people who don't have that
advantage and the picture roll
00:36:05.49\00:36:10.07
project is just for them. It's
for people who will take this
00:36:10.10\00:36:14.60
precious project and they
will used it in total member
00:36:14.64\00:36:19.01
involvement sharing Jesus
with others, being a part of it.
00:36:19.04\00:36:23.38
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00:36:23.41\00:36:36.22
Ah, that was very exciting
wasn't it? Do you know that that
00:36:36.26\00:36:40.56
actually took place. That was
not set up. That was actually an
00:36:40.60\00:36:44.70
evangelistic series Keith where
people actually got baptized.
00:36:44.73\00:36:49.70
You know the area rivers were
all dried up. But people wanted
00:36:49.74\00:36:54.01
to be baptized and so let's fill
the cow troughs with water and
00:36:54.04\00:36:57.95
that's where they baptized
people because they wanted to be
00:36:57.98\00:37:01.58
baptized. Amen. I just want
to walk everyone through this so
00:37:01.62\00:37:05.95
that we understand exactly how
this works. So that's beautiful.
00:37:05.99\00:37:09.86
For the first one, as you heard
Norm say, we have something for
00:37:09.89\00:37:14.06
a health talk. So we actually
have diagrams there and we have
00:37:14.10\00:37:17.60
a script so that individuals can
follow that and actually teach
00:37:17.63\00:37:21.17
them about health practices.
And then we go from picture to
00:37:21.20\00:37:24.74
picture that outlines a
particular sermon. They have
00:37:24.77\00:37:29.24
sermon notes to follow and there
are seven of those pictures that
00:37:29.28\00:37:33.75
actually go with each particular
sermon. Thank you Kyle for
00:37:33.78\00:37:39.92
turning the pictures for us
so anybody can get a real good
00:37:39.95\00:37:45.19
feel for how the picture roll
works. So this must be really
00:37:45.23\00:37:50.23
exciting for you Keith. Keith
is one who has grown up in the
00:37:50.27\00:37:55.27
Congo and in Tanzania.
You've used the first generation
00:37:55.30\00:37:57.87
picture rolls and this must
be exciting for you to see this.
00:37:57.91\00:38:01.74
How does this make you feel?
00:38:01.78\00:38:03.11
I am absolutely floored. This
is just wonderful. I remember
00:38:03.14\00:38:05.58
growing up and my mom
would go out under the trees and
00:38:05.61\00:38:08.72
sometimes I would translate
for her in Swahili giving Bible
00:38:08.75\00:38:11.55
stories with these picture rolls
My wife and I both have one at
00:38:11.59\00:38:14.22
out house. We take them out in
our vehicle, on our motorcycle,
00:38:14.26\00:38:16.86
on a weekly basis and you
know I've had so many good
00:38:16.89\00:38:20.66
experiences teaching from these.
I remember teaching about heaven
00:38:20.70\00:38:23.63
at a funeral, actually it was
my little sister who we brought
00:38:23.67\00:38:26.47
into our home, an AIDS orphan,
and different experiences that
00:38:26.50\00:38:30.04
we've had sharing with such
a simple beautiful tool. I'm so
00:38:30.07\00:38:33.58
excited that an entire
evangelistic series can be
00:38:33.61\00:38:35.84
shared simply
with these pictures.
00:38:35.88\00:38:37.51
That's wonderful. Now is
this the only tool. You have
00:38:37.55\00:38:38.88
Something in your backpack
that we can actually see that
00:38:40.92\00:38:44.99
complements or expands the
possibilities for evangelism.
00:38:45.02\00:38:48.62
When I go out to preach I
usually have in my backpack a
00:38:48.69\00:38:52.23
Bible, some sermon notes and a
projector. And that's what I've
00:38:52.26\00:38:55.60
got today. This is an amazing
little projector, reasonably
00:38:55.63\00:38:58.57
priced and I am excited that you
can get it out there for less
00:38:58.60\00:39:01.37
than a hundred dollars actually.
Well wonderful. And the sermon
00:39:01.40\00:39:04.87
notes go right along with the
picture roll so even somebody
00:39:04.91\00:39:08.24
who just didn't have a
lot of _ but they like to read
00:39:08.28\00:39:11.58
they can read.
That's all it takes
00:39:11.61\00:39:13.21
All right. So who would use
the projector. Do you have to
00:39:13.28\00:39:16.85
actually plug
that into electricity?
00:39:16.89\00:39:18.59
Sure. And out in the bush I pull
a generator on my motorcycle all
00:39:18.62\00:39:21.92
the time. We're always packing
that thing up, it happens.
00:39:21.96\00:39:24.73
So I know we have the projector
You can put the sermons actually
00:39:24.76\00:39:29.46
right in there through a USB
port on a flash drive so that
00:39:29.50\00:39:33.03
can show and then you have
the picture rolls, which is the
00:39:33.07\00:39:36.57
analogue representation and then
you even have your phone so you
00:39:36.60\00:39:41.08
can download those sermons on
your phone. So we have covered
00:39:41.11\00:39:45.71
every possibility for sharing
the word of God in sermons for
00:39:45.75\00:39:49.58
everywhere around the world from
as a friend of mine said the
00:39:49.62\00:39:53.39
artic down to the Congo.
00:39:53.42\00:39:54.76
Yes that's
right. Praise the Lord.
00:39:54.79\00:39:56.73
That's phenomenal. So you're
looking forward to getting these
00:39:56.76\00:39:59.43
This is wonderful material. We
are just on fire about this. We
00:39:59.46\00:40:01.86
think about all the people that
we are training. We're involved
00:40:01.90\00:40:04.27
in training people for total
member involvement in Congo
00:40:04.30\00:40:06.94
right now. All the people that
will be benefitted from having
00:40:06.97\00:40:10.07
these materials to
preach from. I'm excited.
00:40:10.11\00:40:11.77
Oh that's wonderful. Now I just
want to let you know... So we're
00:40:11.81\00:40:17.65
talking about the cost of these.
Our first print run of 10,000
00:40:17.68\00:40:21.85
will be about 55 dollars each.
That will be the cost for that
00:40:21.88\00:40:27.86
print run. So if you are able to
sponsor 100 of those then that's
00:40:27.89\00:40:35.43
5500 dollars. You know I'm bad
at math, right? Five hundred and
00:40:35.46\00:40:40.07
fifty dollars. (Laughs) and then
if you want to do a thousand
00:40:40.10\00:40:44.21
that's 55,000 dollars. And we
know that there are individuals
00:40:44.24\00:40:48.28
out there that can do all
of these things. So we're just
00:40:48.31\00:40:51.98
tugging on your heart strings.
The Lord just wants us to be
00:40:52.01\00:40:55.62
able to put these in your hands
so that you can go out and share
00:40:55.68\00:40:59.02
the message. We look forward to
giving these to you, Keith, so
00:40:59.05\00:41:02.09
that you can evangelize the
world out of Congo and Tanzania
00:41:02.12\00:41:05.13
and in the surrounding area.
00:41:05.19\00:41:06.70
Praise the Lord.
Thank you Debbie.
00:41:06.76\00:41:08.20
Thank you Kyle. Isn't this
exciting. We have a tremendous
00:41:08.23\00:41:14.04
opportunity before us today.
And I'm really excited about it
00:41:14.07\00:41:19.84
because it covers a
whole breadth of opportunity.
00:41:19.87\00:41:22.58
But right now I think I want
us to just zoom right in on this
00:41:22.61\00:41:30.22
picture. This is the
second coming. So I want you to
00:41:30.25\00:41:34.76
imagine with me our former
Orthodox clergymen standing here
00:41:34.79\00:41:41.56
watching Jesus come. I want
you to imagine with me the young
00:41:41.60\00:41:47.57
ladies and the men who are
at Kibidula Farm at Kibidula and
00:41:47.64\00:41:52.57
they're learning and they're
being taken care of but they're
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also being instructed about
Jesus and they're giving their
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lives to the Lord and they're
standing there looking at
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Jesus' coming. And then we think
about the people in the Congo.
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We think about the people in the
arctic, we think about people
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all around the world standing
there watching Jesus come. But
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how they know if we don't
tell them? It's incredible
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opportunity for us today that we
can put in the hands of all the
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ministries that we talked about,
all the ministries that are in
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your program guide. Give them
the tools so that they can share
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the love of Jesus with others.
But we must fill their hands so
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that they can help others.
They can't do it alone. If we're
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unable to go there then we can
certainly support them so that
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they can tell others. We need to
tell others here. We need to let
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our former Orthodox clergymen
who said your persecution is not
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yet We need to accept that
admonition that we will take
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advantage of the opportunity
and make sure that we will let
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others know that Jesus is coming
Can you do that with me today?
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Can you pledge your support
to Jesus that we will be in
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partnership with him and give
all that we have because he gave
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all that he had. At this time I
want to ask the deacons to come
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forward and I just want to
appeal to our 3ABN audience as
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well. You're not here in
the convention hall, but you're
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watching on TV or you're on your
device and you want to say I
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want to be a part of that.
I want to join my brothers and
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sisters at ASI and I want to
give the tools to people around
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the world so they can learn
about Jesus and we can go home.
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We want to look at Jesus' coming
more than just a picture on a
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picture roll. We want to see him
break through the clouds, don't
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we? So for those at home
the address is on the screen and
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you can go to
asiministries.org. Even those of
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you here on your phone if
that's your desire. You can go
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to asiministries. org and
hit Donate Now and place in your
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donation. We pray that God
has inspired you with everything
00:44:22.69\00:44:26.66
that you've heard and that you
will give above and beyond you
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can imagine because God said
that he will give us above and
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beyond what we can imagine.
Let us pray. Father in heaven,
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we thank you for the opportunity
to work in service with you. We
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ask you now that you would
be with us, that you would press
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our hearts that we would give
as much as you would have us
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give so that the work can
be finished and we can go home.
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Thank you Lord for blessing this
offering and the projects that
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will be recipients of it.
In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
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