Good evening, ASI family.
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It's good to see everyone.
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We have some wonderful
guests with us tonight.
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I begin over here,
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we have Kristina
and Daniel McFeeter
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from Kristina's Kitchen
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and we have Dr. John Kelly
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and Patty LaVanture
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who everyone
knows from Oak Haven.
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And then we have a
testimony by Richard Alva.
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So we are going to start tonight
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with Kristina and Daniel.
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And Kristina and
Daniel have a kitchen,
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it's called Kristina's Kitchen.
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Can you tell us what made
you start Kristina's Kitchen
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which is a centre of influence?
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I've always had an
interest in mission work
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in the United States
and when I met Daniel
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and he lived in
Kentucky which I didn't,
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but he started telling me
about this group of people
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called Avalachia
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and I had never
heard of it, of course,
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after I moved there I
discovered it was Appalachia
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but it peeks my interest
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and I really just fell
a burden to do something
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to reach the
people of Appalachia
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in the United States.
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All right.
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Now that sounds to
be like a lot of work.
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How much
preparation did that take?
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We've spent five years
doing preparation work,
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doing cooking classes,
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just reaching
out to the community,
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just anything that
I could do and help
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and especially
focusing on anything
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with friendship evangelism
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so making
friends with the people
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being a part of the community
and with our cooking classes,
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we did monthly cooking classes,
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and they're still
going on after 10 years,
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in two locations, every month.
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So it sounds like
a lot of preparation
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went into this.
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And tell us what
exactly is Kristina's Kitchen?
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Okay.
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Kristina's Kitchen's
been opened for five years.
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It is a bakery,
vegetarian restaurant,
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health food store.
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We also have a delivery route
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once a week in a
town about 30 miles away.
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And we also offer
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an apprenticeship
training program for students
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who want to
experience restaurant ministry
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and health
ministry on frontlines.
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All right.
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Now I believe that
there are some pictures.
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Pictures number
one, two and three,
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if they can just show
some of those pictures
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of Kristina's Kitchen,
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that'll give everybody an
idea what this looks like.
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So if you'd show those,
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in the mean time
Kristina's Kitchen
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I know is
involved in the community
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and how is it
involved in the community?
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What kinds of
things are you doing?
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Okay, so we always
wanted to just become
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a part of the community.
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That's been our goal,
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we really wanted to
be an outpost ministry
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and center of
influence in the community.
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And so, we've
basically opened the restaurant
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to the community for
nonprofit organizations
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to use our
restaurant for meetings,
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the farmers market
meets at the restaurant.
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Of course, we have
the cooking classes,
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a homemaker's
clubs uses our restaurant
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and so also our involvement
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with the Chamber of Commerce
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and representing restaurants
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on the tourism
board just really,
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just trying to become
a part of the community
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in every aspect
because we love our community
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and we want to
be a part of them.
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Yeah, that's really an
important piece I think
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that all that stuff it
sounds like so much work,
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but really great work,
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so I'm really thankful for that.
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Um, there must be some
stories from Kristina's Kitchen,
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examples of
things that have happened
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as a result of
that specifically?
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Well, one thing I
didn't want to share
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before I tell a few stories
is little bit of my husband.
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I want to give him a
second to introduce himself
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'cause I kind
of talked about me.
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So I am Daniel
McFeeters, of course,
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and everyone knows
me as Kristina's husband
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which is all right, you know...
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That is all right. In fact, no.
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I serve currently as a pastor
of a small church district
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in southeast
Kentucky where we live,
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but actually that was
only of recent development.
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My background is in computers.
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I'm a computer
professional by training,
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and Kristina and I
started this venture
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and to help as a
lay ministry together,
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and it's
interesting how the Lord leads.
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So he's my partner,
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but I want to tell
you a couple of stories.
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There's a picture,
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I'm very thankful
there's one there.
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I just, I could go on and on.
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Customers that
have just really been
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become part of our family,
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coming at regular basis,
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being able to sit
down eat lunch with them
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while they're
eating at a restaurant,
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being able to have
Bible studies with them
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while they're eating lunch,
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just praying with them.
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We had our local UPS guy
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that we were able
to actually save him
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from losing his job
because his health was so poor
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and just through eating lunch
at our restaurant every day,
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he's been able to keep his
job for an extra two years...
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Yes, okay Which
is really exciting
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and he's, of course,
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you know he's the UPS guy
so he tells everybody in town,
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you know, Kristina's
Kitchen is the reason
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why I still have a job
and you should go eat there
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because the food
really does taste good.
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That's great.
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And my favorite
thing of all is that
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God has really blessed us.
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Just this last December,
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our first restaurant
customer joined our church.
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Wow. That's great.
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And her name is Victoria,
and if you want to meet her,
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she will be here
on Sabbath helping us
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with our booth.
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Thank you very much.
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Our next guests are John Kelly,
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he's a physician
and Patty LaVanture.
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Patty, why
don't you begin first?
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Tell us, this is from Oak Haven.
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Just tell us briefly
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what you do or did at Oak Haven?
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Okay.
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Well, for years I've worked
as a Health Education Director
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and now currently I'm
working as Lifestyle coordinator
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under Dr. John Kelly.
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Okay.
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And I was a little intrigued
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by a physician
joining Oak Haven.
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John, tell us who
you are and what you do?
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Yes, thank you, Lindy.
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I'm Dr. John Kelly,
I'm President at Oak Haven,
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Country Life Natural Foods and,
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of course, the
Mark and Patty LaVanture
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have been the face of
Country Life Natural Foods
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for as long as
I've known anyway and...
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So, but, what we
wanna talk to you tonight
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about is not the
Country Life Natural Foods
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but something new that
God is doing on campus.
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Yes, talk about that new thing.
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So in about a year ago,
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July of 2018,
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the Association of
American Medical College
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news put out an
article about five emerging
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fast growing medical specialties
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and describing
what training knowledge
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you needed to pursue those.
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Number three on the
list was lifestyle medicine.
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Yes.
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And so, of course,
they quoted some experts
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and they talked
about the fact that
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80% of disease
in the first world
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is chronic disease.
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And about 80% of that,
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the care for chronic disease
involves lifestyle habits,
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poor lifestyles, you know.
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I know you were talking
about food as medicine...
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Yes, absolutely.
And I enjoyed your talk.
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So anyway they went on
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to describe the need
for lifestyle knowledge,
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lifestyle
medicine and primary care
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and in specialties.
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Well, now Seventh-day Adventist,
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this is no surprise
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because we've
known about the cause
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and effect relationship
between lifestyle and health
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and disease for century or more.
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In fact, in Medical
Ministry, page 27, paragraph 2,
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some of you will
know recognize this,
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but we're actually the purpose
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for sanitarians being
established was revealed,
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and it was to reform
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the medical
practices of physicians.
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Yes.
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So a number of years ago,
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that really
took hold of my heart
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as I was talking to God
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about what was the
purpose at my emptiness,
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what was I
supposed to do after that.
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And I really
decided this was the thing,
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so I've been working
in lifestyle medicine,
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many of you know
that for many years.
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In 2004, the American College
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of Lifestyle
Medicine was established.
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And you were...?
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I was the Founding President
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Founding
President of the American
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College of Lifestyle Medicine.
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Yes.
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As a matter of
fact, you got an award.
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That is true. Yes.
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Somebody's been
talking to you but anyway, yes,
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so the American
Medical Association
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actually gave me an
award for that work.
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In 2017, the American
Board of Lifestyle Medicine
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was established
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and so now physicians can become
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board certified in
Lifestyle medicine.
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We have to take
the proper training
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and courses and pass the exam.
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But now two years later,
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is over almost a
thousand physicians
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around the world.
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There's our board
certified in Lifestyle medicine
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and is growing fast.
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The American College
of Lifestyle Medicine
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has doubled
membership five years running,
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this is how, this
is really growing.
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Yeah.
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So what happened was
what drew me to Oak Haven
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was the opportunity to
establish a training program
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for physicians
and nurses, that's...
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So you have a
residential program
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designed for training.
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Yes.
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And so, I've been training
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in doing physicians previously,
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but what we're doing now is
a program designed for that.
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Yes.
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And we had a little clip
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we could show about
this 10-day Immersion,
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just a one minute, we
use a 10-day Immersion
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because that way we
can refer them to Daniel
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as where we come up with that.
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You know every chance you
get, put hooks in what you do,
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so you have a chance
to bring in the Bible.
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Yeah. But whenever we get...
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We'll show you that clip,
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I'm gonna talk about a physician
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that came for training...
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And then
Patty's gonna talk about
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the opportunity we have
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working with the
Michigan Conference.
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With pastors, yeah.
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With pastors in
Michigan Conference.
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So in the
interest of time... Yes.
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I just want to say that
this is a perfect organization
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'cause you're training
physicians and pastors.
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Correct.
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Okay, so tell me
about the physicians
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and, Patty, will
tell me about the pastors.
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Okay.
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So the physicians come for
a ten-day clinical trading.
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They complete the course,
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the board review course
for a lifestyle medicine
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which when they ask
me to write questions,
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I said, wait a minute.
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I'd rather write
the review course,
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so I'm actually co-author
of the board review course
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in lifestyle
medicine, so that gave me
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a certain
attraction for training.
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And so physicians literally,
I mean, we just all the time
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we're getting enquiries
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from physicians
all over the world,
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mostly in US but all over
and they will come for 10 days.
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Before they come they will take
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a 30 CME course online
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and with a manual textbook
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and then they go
through the clinical training
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as of observer
but also as a patient.
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So they actually see
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what happens to
their own lifestyle changes
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and the risk factors
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and I wanted to
tell about one I...
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I'm gonna call her Jane Doe for,
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to keep her
confidential her name,
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but she was a Muslim
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and I had only
trained two Muslims before.
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This is a great experience.
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She love our spirituality
and our commitment to prayer,
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she was impressed with that.
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Long story short, she came,
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she was on a low carb diet
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trying to lose
weight without much success.
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I say, "Well, you can continue
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but why didn't you
try this for the 10 days."
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So she agreed to
do a plant based.
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She has so much
results and improvements.
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She went home, her
husband went on the program
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for four days only, he told her.
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After four days, he bought in
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and so he's lost 20 some pounds,
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they're both tickled.
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She went home to
Saudi Arabia for Ramadan,
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said, it was wonderful.
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She had no...
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She actually got
friends and family
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to join her during that.
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So we found that she
was a real typical example
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of someone taking a
training that wanted to know
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how to use
lifestyle through disease.
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Okay. All right.
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Patty, time is up, however,
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tell me just in 15
seconds about the pastors?
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Okay.
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August 11, we're
starting an inaugural program
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for pastors in collaboration
with the Michigan Conference
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and the pastors will
come with their wives,
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with their children
and we'll be having classes
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for the children as well,
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so they'll be
learning health principles
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and the pastors will
take these principles back
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to their pastoral
districts and we'll actually be
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running rallies after
the Lifestyle program,
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so lots of good things going on.
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Time goes so
quickly, but Oak Haven
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is really
expanding to include training
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of both physicians
and pastors together,
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and we've been told
that we need to do that.
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Thank you very much.
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Yes. Thank you.
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Now our last one is Richard,
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and we have six
minutes on the clock, Richard,
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and I'm gonna watch the clock.
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His testimony is
very interesting.
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Richard, what do you do?
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Good evening ASI.
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I'm a health educator. Okay.
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But I just wanted Patty to be
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able to tell
everyone what booth number
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Oak Haven is at?
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752. 752.
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Okay so you are health educator.
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Now Patty, excuse me,
Richard's story is interesting.
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Richard, very quickly. So...
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Tell us about your start
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in health education?
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So in a nutshell,
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my life puts on display
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the mercy of God
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and how
incredibly much God loves
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each and every one of us.
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I started life
as a health educator
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at the age of four years old.
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I was living with my dad
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in the middle of
nowhere in the Mexican desert,
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and he was completing
his medical training there,
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doing a year of social service,
so he was the town doctor.
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And I was with him,
assisting him and so,
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I would stand
in the waiting room
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in the clinic
during clinic hours,
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and I would dispense
information to anyone
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who would listen about hygiene
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and proper hydration
and all sorts of stuff.
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So this is interesting, right?
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He is four years old
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and he is giving
health education lectures
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to his father's patients.
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That's right.
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That's an awesome four-year old.
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That's right. All right.
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So then tell me
what did that experience
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contour up in you?
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So that experience for
me was incredibly formative.
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It burned into my mind
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the definition of
what a physician is.
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And so, as I looked
around me as a young boy,
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I would see my father
taking care of people,
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loving them, being their friend,
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being kind to them,
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and it was in that context
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that all
clinical work took place.
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Okay.
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And you decided initially
to go to medical school?
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I did.
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It was my lifelong
dream to become a physician,
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and that was my definition
of what a physician was.
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Okay.
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So you got to medical
school and something happened
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the very first
day of medical school?
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What's interesting, the
first day of medical school
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at Montemorelos
University in Mexico,
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they take all of the
students and they had us
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write on very
tiny pieces of paper.
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We have to write on there
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why we wanted to
become physicians.
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And so, we wrote on there
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and then we put them
inside these little capsules
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and those capsules
went into some kind of
00:20:16.85\00:20:18.78
vault for posterity,
right, so we could, you know,
00:20:18.81\00:20:21.85
open up and see in the future
00:20:21.88\00:20:24.79
if why we wanted to
become physicians had aligned
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somehow with reality.
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Okay.
00:20:29.82\00:20:31.16
Now you told me as we talked
00:20:31.19\00:20:33.29
that two
organizations really impacted
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what you wrote on
your little capsule,
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and then one of them was ASI?
00:20:38.80\00:20:40.44
One of them was ASI
and the other one was GYC,
00:20:40.47\00:20:43.81
so Generation of
Youth for Christ.
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Yes. And so they
were instrumental.
00:20:45.37\00:20:49.14
All of your
ministries, just amazing for me
00:20:49.18\00:20:54.32
to get an idea
of why we're here,
00:20:54.35\00:20:56.45
what we're doing,
00:20:56.48\00:20:57.82
sharing Christ
in the marketplace
00:20:57.85\00:20:59.22
as a lifestyle
became really a part of me
00:20:59.25\00:21:03.06
and so I wrote on
that piece of paper,
00:21:03.09\00:21:04.83
"I wanna become a physician
to bring others to Jesus."
00:21:04.86\00:21:08.96
Yes. Okay.
00:21:09.00\00:21:10.43
You get to medical school,
00:21:10.47\00:21:12.27
by the third year
of medical school,
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the curriculum
there is different
00:21:14.24\00:21:15.57
than the States,
00:21:15.60\00:21:16.94
and in the third
year of medical school
00:21:16.97\00:21:18.97
something happened?
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So I'm in the third
year of medical school there,
00:21:20.38\00:21:22.61
I'm still in my basic
sciences, learning a lot,
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loving every minute of
it, and I spent most of my...
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The first part
of my day in class.
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And then after I
get out of class,
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I might have
lunch and then a lab,
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and then I would go
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and work at the lifestyle center
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that was
affiliated with the hospital
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that was affiliated
with the university.
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So in the morning,
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I would learn all about the why
00:21:47.77\00:21:53.41
but then in the afternoon,
I would get to see the how.
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Yes.
00:21:56.88\00:21:58.21
And it struck me instantly
that the way the work was done
00:21:58.25\00:22:01.88
downstairs in the hospital
00:22:01.92\00:22:04.12
and the way the work
was conducted upstairs
00:22:04.15\00:22:07.29
in the lifestyle
center were starkly different.
00:22:07.32\00:22:11.16
That was an eye
opener for me. Yes.
00:22:11.19\00:22:13.56
And not just, that
wasn't the only contrast.
00:22:13.60\00:22:16.00
Another contrast was the
amount of time patients spent,
00:22:16.03\00:22:20.00
either in the hospital
or the lifestyle center,
00:22:20.04\00:22:22.97
and the outcomes they had.
00:22:23.00\00:22:25.67
So it soon became
apparent to me that
00:22:25.71\00:22:28.94
those at the
lifestyle center spent less time
00:22:28.98\00:22:33.08
and had much better results.
00:22:33.11\00:22:34.88
Okay.
00:22:34.92\00:22:36.25
And that information,
00:22:36.28\00:22:37.89
you made decision
to quit medical school
00:22:37.92\00:22:41.32
and go into
health education instead.
00:22:41.36\00:22:43.32
How many of you
have ever experienced
00:22:43.36\00:22:45.39
a deep personal crisis?
00:22:45.43\00:22:47.93
So my definition
of what I had aspired
00:22:50.97\00:22:56.17
to my entire life
was now being challenged
00:22:56.20\00:22:59.61
by reality.
00:22:59.64\00:23:01.71
And so I felt called
to start working now.
00:23:01.74\00:23:07.68
Yes.
00:23:07.72\00:23:09.05
I knew that
eventually if I stuck with it,
00:23:09.08\00:23:12.45
I could become a
lifestyle medicine physician.
00:23:12.49\00:23:14.72
Yes.
00:23:14.76\00:23:17.06
We didn't have a
certification at that time,
00:23:17.09\00:23:19.96
but I felt deeply
moved and impressed
00:23:20.00\00:23:24.50
to start working now
00:23:24.53\00:23:25.87
and soon I came back to the US,
00:23:25.90\00:23:27.64
came back to the States,
00:23:27.67\00:23:29.40
and I started
working everywhere I could
00:23:29.44\00:23:32.11
and anywhere I could.
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Yes. That's great.
00:23:33.51\00:23:35.61
Well, that's a
powerful testimony,
00:23:35.64\00:23:38.25
there's more to it,
but our time is finished.
00:23:38.28\00:23:41.68
I wanna thank you
all for participating.
00:23:41.72\00:23:44.12
We're all blessed by
your testimonies tonight.
00:23:44.15\00:23:46.55
Thank you, ASI.
00:23:46.59\00:23:47.92
There
00:24:24.69\00:24:26.96
Is a quiet place
00:24:27.00\00:24:33.74
Far from the rapid pace
00:24:33.77\00:24:39.61
Where God can soothe
00:24:39.64\00:24:46.28
My troubled
00:24:46.31\00:24:51.32
Mind
00:24:51.35\00:24:54.49
Sheltered by tree and flow'r
00:24:54.52\00:25:01.03
There in my quiet hour
00:25:01.06\00:25:06.23
With Him my cares
00:25:06.27\00:25:11.67
Are left
00:25:11.71\00:25:15.54
Behind
00:25:15.58\00:25:20.02
Whether a garden small
00:25:20.05\00:25:26.19
Or on a mountain tall
00:25:26.22\00:25:30.79
New strength
00:25:30.83\00:25:33.76
And courage there I find
00:25:33.80\00:25:41.34
Then from
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This quiet place
00:25:51.25\00:25:56.65
I go prepared to face
00:25:56.69\00:26:02.69
A new day with love
00:26:02.72\00:26:09.60
For all mankind
00:26:09.63\00:26:16.71
With love for all mankind
00:26:16.74\00:26:23.85
A quiet place
00:26:44.00\00:26:49.74
And now we have another Offering
00:27:01.95\00:27:03.89
in Action segment and with me
00:27:03.92\00:27:06.42
is Carlos Munoz, he is
the Director for AFCOE,
00:27:06.45\00:27:10.73
Amazing Facts
College of Evangelism.
00:27:10.76\00:27:13.33
Amen. All right.
00:27:13.36\00:27:14.70
So there are lot
of excitement things
00:27:14.73\00:27:16.06
that are
happening at Amazing Facts.
00:27:16.10\00:27:19.33
And as a Director of Evangelism,
00:27:19.37\00:27:21.00
you must be very
excited about one in particular.
00:27:21.04\00:27:24.44
But tell us a little bit about
00:27:24.47\00:27:26.14
Amazing Facts
College of Evangelism,
00:27:26.17\00:27:27.98
some of the things
that are going on there
00:27:28.01\00:27:29.74
and then the new
piece that's happening?
00:27:29.78\00:27:31.91
Amen.
00:27:31.95\00:27:33.28
So Maranata, good
evening everyone and so,
00:27:33.31\00:27:37.29
as most of you
know Amazing Facts
00:27:37.32\00:27:38.72
is focused on sharing
the everlasting gospel
00:27:38.75\00:27:41.92
through all the resources
possible, media, TV, a mail,
00:27:41.96\00:27:46.59
but one of the
pillars of the ministry
00:27:46.63\00:27:48.46
also is to train our laymen
00:27:48.50\00:27:52.30
and our church
members in evangelism.
00:27:52.33\00:27:54.24
And so, a big
focus of our mission
00:27:54.27\00:27:57.51
is evangelism training.
00:27:57.54\00:27:59.07
And so AFCOE
00:27:59.11\00:28:00.44
is the Amazing
Facts Center of Evangelism
00:28:00.48\00:28:02.61
and it's where people can come,
00:28:02.64\00:28:05.65
church members from all parts
00:28:05.68\00:28:07.02
and they come and
they learn the strategies,
00:28:07.05\00:28:09.48
the methods, the key
essentials to learning
00:28:09.52\00:28:12.32
how to be an
amazing disciple and so...
00:28:12.35\00:28:15.69
Last year we
started our online course
00:28:15.72\00:28:18.09
because sometimes
people can't come in,
00:28:18.13\00:28:20.73
they can't come to our course,
00:28:20.76\00:28:22.10
our onsite
course and so we decided
00:28:22.13\00:28:24.40
then to push an online course,
00:28:24.43\00:28:26.60
and we started with
our taking the courses
00:28:26.63\00:28:29.27
from our AFCOE into
starting to upload them
00:28:29.30\00:28:35.28
into this
wonderful online course
00:28:35.31\00:28:38.58
that we started called
00:28:38.61\00:28:39.95
"Amazing Disciples" last year.
00:28:39.98\00:28:41.78
So how's that working?
00:28:41.82\00:28:43.15
Now they go
online and they enroll
00:28:43.18\00:28:46.22
like they would
normally if they came?
00:28:46.25\00:28:48.09
How does it work? Yes.
00:28:48.12\00:28:49.56
It's like an online course
00:28:49.59\00:28:51.89
and so it's basically divided up
00:28:51.93\00:28:53.73
like if it was a Sabbath school,
00:28:53.76\00:28:55.10
it's 13 lesson week,
00:28:55.13\00:28:56.46
every day you have your lesson
and then you have your Q and A,
00:28:56.50\00:28:58.53
you have quizzes,
and then you have other,
00:28:58.57\00:29:00.34
you have downloads
from more resources.
00:29:00.37\00:29:03.20
They can also
come in and they have,
00:29:03.24\00:29:04.74
we'll do live Q and
A's with Pastor Doug,
00:29:04.77\00:29:07.11
with Pastor John,
we'll do just a...
00:29:07.14\00:29:10.75
We have also a Facebook group
so there'll be interactions.
00:29:10.78\00:29:13.85
And so the idea is
that they can come in there,
00:29:13.88\00:29:15.95
they can be immersed
and so, what we developed
00:29:15.98\00:29:18.12
is we started
with our first class
00:29:18.15\00:29:19.69
which is Amazing
Disciples, and two months ago
00:29:19.72\00:29:21.96
we started with our second class
00:29:21.99\00:29:23.32
which is Amazing Doctrines.
00:29:23.36\00:29:25.03
So we're taking
the onsite course
00:29:25.06\00:29:27.13
and we're building
it little by little,
00:29:27.16\00:29:28.56
so that anybody
00:29:28.60\00:29:29.93
from any part of
the world can come in
00:29:29.96\00:29:31.83
and they can be part
of the course with us.
00:29:31.87\00:29:34.40
And so as recipients
of this year's offering,
00:29:34.44\00:29:37.17
ASI is supporting
the continue development
00:29:37.21\00:29:40.08
for the online courses?
00:29:40.11\00:29:41.44
Amen. Amen. Oh, excellent.
00:29:41.48\00:29:43.85
Now, do you have some
stories or testimonies,
00:29:43.88\00:29:46.45
I mean what has been
00:29:46.48\00:29:47.82
the response to people enrolling
00:29:47.85\00:29:49.82
and using these courses?
00:29:49.85\00:29:51.25
Oh, yeah, we have a
number of testimonies.
00:29:51.29\00:29:53.09
I'll give you two short ones.
00:29:53.12\00:29:55.26
We have the story of Luis.
00:29:55.29\00:29:56.83
Well, Luis went through
the Amazing Disciple course
00:29:56.86\00:29:59.06
and then he went into his church
00:29:59.09\00:30:01.06
and his church
was kind of dying out.
00:30:01.10\00:30:03.37
He started to
implement some of the strategies
00:30:03.40\00:30:05.40
and methods that he learned,
00:30:05.43\00:30:06.77
the evangelism cycle
and some other things
00:30:06.80\00:30:08.54
and off the bat,
they had four baptisms
00:30:08.57\00:30:11.87
after they started
doing Bible studies,
00:30:11.91\00:30:13.34
and now they're seeing
how the evangelism cycle
00:30:13.38\00:30:16.31
is starting to
move, the attitude,
00:30:16.34\00:30:17.68
it's starting to
change in the church group.
00:30:17.71\00:30:20.52
Another really interesting story
00:30:20.55\00:30:21.92
is from Michael.
00:30:21.95\00:30:23.49
Michael also, he
had a severe injury
00:30:23.52\00:30:26.25
and he had to then...
00:30:26.29\00:30:28.02
He wanted to come
to our onsite course,
00:30:28.06\00:30:30.63
but he wasn't able to
because of the injuries
00:30:30.66\00:30:32.06
and some resources so
he did the online course
00:30:32.09\00:30:34.23
and what happened
and the doing is that
00:30:34.26\00:30:36.03
he kind of broke
out of his shell,
00:30:36.06\00:30:37.63
he started to share,
00:30:37.67\00:30:39.73
implement some
of these strategies
00:30:39.77\00:30:41.97
with his family.
00:30:42.00\00:30:43.34
He started giving Bible studies
to his grandma, his grandfather
00:30:43.37\00:30:46.24
and we just
heard that he just...
00:30:46.27\00:30:47.71
His grandfather and grandmother,
00:30:47.74\00:30:49.08
they just got baptized
00:30:49.11\00:30:50.45
into the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
00:30:50.48\00:30:51.81
Oh, amen.
00:30:51.85\00:30:53.18
So these are just
some examples of...
00:30:53.21\00:30:54.55
So it helps, it
really equips people
00:30:54.58\00:30:55.92
and gives them I guess courage
00:30:55.95\00:30:58.95
and then know how to go out
00:30:58.99\00:31:00.32
and know exactly
what they need to do.
00:31:00.36\00:31:02.06
So they don't
have to be a pastor
00:31:02.09\00:31:03.49
or necessarily
leaders in the church?
00:31:03.53\00:31:04.93
No, no, no. Okay.
00:31:04.96\00:31:06.29
It's the calling to
be to make disciples
00:31:06.33\00:31:08.90
is for all of us.
00:31:08.93\00:31:10.27
And so we wanna
give every laymen
00:31:10.30\00:31:12.60
and every person
that's comes into the church,
00:31:12.63\00:31:15.57
we want them to
become amazing disciples.
00:31:15.60\00:31:17.31
And so, through the disciples,
through the doctrines,
00:31:17.34\00:31:19.51
we're actually preparing
a new next course for spring
00:31:19.54\00:31:22.51
which is gonna be
Amazing Sanctuary.
00:31:22.54\00:31:23.88
So it's a whole
course on the sanctuary.
00:31:23.91\00:31:25.51
And so, we wanna help them
00:31:25.55\00:31:26.88
not only to know the strategies
00:31:26.92\00:31:28.25
but also to
have the information,
00:31:28.28\00:31:29.62
how to confront, how to,
00:31:29.65\00:31:31.55
you know, when people
come up with questions,
00:31:31.59\00:31:33.69
how to read objections,
00:31:33.72\00:31:35.06
how to understand
our teachings better
00:31:35.09\00:31:36.42
so the idea is so that
they can power themselves
00:31:36.46\00:31:40.86
and go out and
become amazing disciples
00:31:40.90\00:31:42.90
and help others to
become amazing disciples.
00:31:42.93\00:31:44.60
So, Carlos, you
think everybody here
00:31:44.63\00:31:47.14
could actually
enroll in the course online?
00:31:47.17\00:31:51.27
Everybody that
has internet access
00:31:51.31\00:31:54.54
can enroll on
the course, exactly.
00:31:54.58\00:31:55.91
Oh, excellent.
00:31:55.94\00:31:57.28
So we have for
example, we have students
00:31:57.31\00:31:59.38
from six of the seven continents
00:31:59.41\00:32:01.02
on the earth.
00:32:01.05\00:32:02.38
All countries,
and we have almost
00:32:02.42\00:32:05.45
a 1000 students enrolled
00:32:05.49\00:32:07.26
in our course from last
year and it's just continues,
00:32:07.29\00:32:09.72
I mean every day I
get emails of people
00:32:09.76\00:32:11.19
that are enrolling and
people that are wanting
00:32:11.23\00:32:13.16
to get involved
and also, you know,
00:32:13.19\00:32:15.33
it's good to know
next we are planning
00:32:15.36\00:32:17.10
on bringing our onsite course
00:32:17.13\00:32:18.47
back on campus again when we,
00:32:18.50\00:32:20.74
through our new
building projects
00:32:20.77\00:32:22.10
and so a lot of fun
and exciting things.
00:32:22.14\00:32:24.91
So I'm curious how
did you become involved
00:32:24.94\00:32:27.34
in Amazing Facts?
00:32:27.38\00:32:28.84
I became involved 10 years ago,
00:32:28.88\00:32:30.45
I became baptized as
the Seventh-day Adventist.
00:32:30.48\00:32:33.08
Five years later, I
decided to go to AFCOE.
00:32:33.11\00:32:36.38
In 2003, I graduated AFCOE,
00:32:36.42\00:32:38.09
and then I got the
call to become an evangelist
00:32:38.12\00:32:40.36
for the ministry,
and then this year
00:32:40.39\00:32:42.22
I'm fresh out of the oven.
00:32:42.26\00:32:43.73
I'm the new AFCOE
director for the ministry, so.
00:32:43.76\00:32:45.26
Excellent.
00:32:45.29\00:32:46.63
Well, Carlos, we
are praying the God
00:32:46.66\00:32:48.36
will shower his blessings on us
00:32:48.40\00:32:50.50
so that we can
support this online course
00:32:50.53\00:32:53.27
that we wanna take advantage of.
00:32:53.30\00:32:54.64
Thank you very much. Amen.
00:32:54.67\00:32:56.00
And thank
everybody for the help.
00:32:56.04\00:32:57.37
Thank you. God bless.
00:32:57.41\00:32:59.81
So now the next
person coming out
00:32:59.84\00:33:01.24
to join me is no stranger to us,
00:33:01.28\00:33:03.65
Danny Shelton is the
Founder and President of 3ABN,
00:33:03.68\00:33:08.15
and ASI is
blessed to have partnered
00:33:08.18\00:33:10.99
with 3ABN to help
to share everything
00:33:11.02\00:33:14.66
that God is doing
through all of His people
00:33:14.69\00:33:16.66
and all of His ministries
00:33:16.69\00:33:18.03
and we work
together closely to do that,
00:33:18.06\00:33:20.30
and so we are thrilled that
00:33:20.33\00:33:21.93
3ABN is not only
a project recipient,
00:33:21.96\00:33:24.97
but also a
recipient of any overflow
00:33:25.00\00:33:27.80
that God will bless
us with this weekend.
00:33:27.84\00:33:30.21
So, Danny, tell us
what's going on with 3ABN?
00:33:30.24\00:33:32.81
There's new stuff
happening all the time?
00:33:32.84\00:33:34.71
All the time and I
say praise the Lord.
00:33:34.74\00:33:37.21
This is 34 years of going to ASI
00:33:37.25\00:33:41.88
and being a part of it.
00:33:41.92\00:33:43.35
Last year I was this time
00:33:43.39\00:33:44.72
I was in bed with
open heart surgery.
00:33:44.75\00:33:47.46
God has blessed,
00:33:47.49\00:33:48.82
I'm still on my
feet going forward,
00:33:48.86\00:33:50.53
but so many
things are happening.
00:33:50.56\00:33:52.19
It's amazing that 3ABN
00:33:52.23\00:33:54.43
has been reaching
satellites around the world,
00:33:54.46\00:33:56.63
we're on, you know,
00:33:56.67\00:33:58.00
all the cables
stations and dish network,
00:33:58.03\00:34:00.17
but what's really been growing
00:34:00.20\00:34:01.94
is the social media
as many of you know.
00:34:01.97\00:34:04.77
But I was amazed at the
figure that Moses Primo,
00:34:04.81\00:34:07.51
our Director of Broadcasting
just gave us for last month,
00:34:07.54\00:34:11.01
I think the month of
June actually that Roku,
00:34:11.05\00:34:14.22
anybody here watch 3ABN on Roku?
00:34:14.25\00:34:16.55
Okay, quite a few hands.
00:34:16.58\00:34:18.29
I want you to
listen to this figure.
00:34:18.32\00:34:20.92
The month of June
00:34:20.96\00:34:22.69
there were 3.8 million hours
00:34:22.72\00:34:27.23
viewed on 3ABN's 8
channels on just Roku alone.
00:34:27.26\00:34:33.10
Almost 4 million hours
00:34:33.13\00:34:35.44
were watched in one
month, I had no idea.
00:34:35.47\00:34:38.21
The reason I want to find out
as our streaming cost, Debbie,
00:34:38.24\00:34:41.51
began to go up and up
and more from a few thousand
00:34:41.54\00:34:45.11
to many thousands
like this is more than
00:34:45.15\00:34:47.15
we pay for some
of the satellites,
00:34:47.18\00:34:48.95
but that tells
you that God is alive,
00:34:48.98\00:34:51.35
He's on the throne.
00:34:51.39\00:34:52.95
But our commitment has been
00:34:52.99\00:34:55.12
the three angels'
messages last year,
00:34:55.16\00:34:56.93
last fall our camp meeting.
00:34:56.96\00:34:58.49
The three angel's messages,
if they were ever needed,
00:34:58.53\00:35:01.76
it's now, the world
needs to hear about them.
00:35:01.80\00:35:03.57
This past camp meeting
was the Ten Commandments.
00:35:03.60\00:35:06.90
If they're ever
needed, it's now.
00:35:06.94\00:35:08.54
All you have to
do is look around,
00:35:08.57\00:35:09.90
you turn on the news,
00:35:09.94\00:35:11.27
listen to all the
politicians in the world
00:35:11.31\00:35:13.41
and you're gonna find
out things are in a mess.
00:35:13.44\00:35:15.58
There's only one answer
for this world's problems
00:35:15.61\00:35:18.21
and we as Seventh-day Adventists
00:35:18.25\00:35:20.12
have the privilege
and the responsibility
00:35:20.15\00:35:22.75
of taking an undiluted
three angels' messages,
00:35:22.78\00:35:25.62
one that would counteract
00:35:25.65\00:35:26.99
the counterfeit
into all the world.
00:35:27.02\00:35:28.86
So what I've seen, Debbie,
00:35:28.89\00:35:30.43
as long as we continue
to focus on the message.
00:35:30.46\00:35:33.36
Now the enemy is out there,
00:35:33.40\00:35:34.80
he's gonna try to
do all that he can,
00:35:34.83\00:35:36.56
but you know God is
bigger than the enemy.
00:35:36.60\00:35:38.80
So we're going forward.
00:35:38.83\00:35:40.17
What are we trying do?
00:35:40.20\00:35:41.54
Reach the people
with the message.
00:35:41.57\00:35:42.90
And what about our young people?
00:35:42.94\00:35:44.31
We in the last month
in June, in a week's time,
00:35:44.34\00:35:47.61
we produced over 100
new children's programs
00:35:47.64\00:35:51.58
more than we've done in years
00:35:51.61\00:35:52.95
because we have to center in
00:35:52.98\00:35:54.35
and give our children.
00:35:54.38\00:35:55.72
They're all on
iPhones, they're all on iPads,
00:35:55.75\00:35:58.19
they're all on
this social media.
00:35:58.22\00:36:00.26
Who needs to be there?
00:36:00.29\00:36:01.62
We do as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
00:36:01.66\00:36:03.76
so that kids around the world,
00:36:03.79\00:36:05.29
not only from our own church,
00:36:05.33\00:36:07.10
but those who're
wanting to join our church
00:36:07.13\00:36:09.36
can watch the 3ABN
00:36:09.40\00:36:11.10
and literally get
three angels' messages
00:36:11.13\00:36:13.47
where kids can understand it.
00:36:13.50\00:36:15.14
So lot of things are happening,
00:36:15.17\00:36:17.21
but I wanna thank ASI for
what you've done and, Debbie,
00:36:17.24\00:36:20.54
personally we worked together
with you and Ray years ago,
00:36:20.58\00:36:23.58
and for all the people
00:36:23.61\00:36:24.95
we've had the
privilege of working with
00:36:24.98\00:36:27.48
and partnering with but ASI
00:36:27.52\00:36:29.62
has been where 3ABN
literally was catapulted
00:36:29.65\00:36:32.85
in 1985 Big Sky, Montana.
00:36:32.89\00:36:35.56
So I thank you
and everyone at ASI
00:36:35.59\00:36:38.69
for your support
of 3ABN as we continue
00:36:38.73\00:36:41.53
to take the undiluted
00:36:41.56\00:36:43.26
three angels'
messages to the world.
00:36:43.30\00:36:44.63
Well you know,
Danny, we wanna thank you
00:36:44.67\00:36:46.74
and 3ABN, thanks 3ABN
00:36:46.77\00:36:49.34
because if it wasn't for 3ABN,
00:36:49.37\00:36:50.94
there are many ministries
that have been highlighted
00:36:50.97\00:36:55.54
are featured on 3ABN
00:36:55.58\00:36:57.25
so that the
people around the world
00:36:57.28\00:36:59.05
can see what's going on.
00:36:59.08\00:37:00.55
And tonight, we
just wanted to give
00:37:00.58\00:37:02.38
a little glimpse of
some of the ministries
00:37:02.42\00:37:05.45
that 3ABN has featured.
00:37:05.49\00:37:07.39
So we have these
individuals coming out.
00:37:07.42\00:37:09.76
Now, many of you recognize
some of their faces, don't you?
00:37:09.79\00:37:13.73
You recognize Lemuel Vega,
with Christmas Behind Bars,
00:37:13.76\00:37:18.13
and there's Alistair
Huong with AudioVerse,
00:37:18.17\00:37:21.57
Keith Mosier with
Congo Frontline Missions,
00:37:21.60\00:37:24.81
Jim airs through
many different ministries.
00:37:24.84\00:37:28.58
Dan Houghton building
that, so I mean, NAPS,
00:37:28.61\00:37:31.51
and the list goes on
and on and on and on.
00:37:31.55\00:37:35.12
But we have been blessed to hear
00:37:35.15\00:37:36.89
so much from so many ministries
00:37:36.92\00:37:39.42
to learn what they're doing,
00:37:39.45\00:37:40.79
to know how to support
them because 3ABN has given us
00:37:40.82\00:37:44.66
entry to that
information that allowed us
00:37:44.69\00:37:47.53
to be supportive
of their ministries.
00:37:47.56\00:37:49.43
When I felt
impressed by the Lord in 1984
00:37:49.46\00:37:52.43
to build a television
station to reach the world,
00:37:52.47\00:37:55.34
I knew it wasn't for me.
00:37:55.37\00:37:57.41
I didn't name it Danny Sheldon
whatever because the Lord,
00:37:57.44\00:38:01.84
I wanted the Lord to
allow me to be a vessel
00:38:01.88\00:38:05.18
of honor instrument and so,
00:38:05.21\00:38:07.62
I knew all along
this is not for me,
00:38:07.65\00:38:09.98
but this is to assist the church
00:38:10.02\00:38:12.59
and getting the
message to the world.
00:38:12.62\00:38:14.92
And then, as you say
ministry after ministry
00:38:14.96\00:38:18.09
that people hadn't
heard, they would say
00:38:18.13\00:38:19.93
can we come on 3ABN, we
allow them to share that.
00:38:19.96\00:38:22.90
But that's what
God called us to do.
00:38:22.93\00:38:24.80
And this way
working with the church,
00:38:24.83\00:38:27.04
with supporting
ministry to this church, ASI,
00:38:27.07\00:38:30.24
we've seen what is happening.
00:38:30.27\00:38:31.84
And if we ever
need to be together
00:38:31.87\00:38:34.58
in one accord, it's right now.
00:38:34.61\00:38:36.51
Jesus is coming soon.
00:38:36.54\00:38:38.18
And I don't
know if you know that
00:38:38.21\00:38:39.55
and I hope you
all aware of that,
00:38:39.58\00:38:41.22
but we need to be
praying every day, Lord,
00:38:41.25\00:38:42.95
what would you have us to do.
00:38:42.98\00:38:44.52
Each and every one of
us are here for a reason,
00:38:44.55\00:38:47.42
and that reason
is to be a witness
00:38:47.46\00:38:49.69
and to tell the
world about Jesus,
00:38:49.72\00:38:51.23
but as Seventh-day
Adventist Christians,
00:38:51.26\00:38:53.06
though God has
people in all churches
00:38:53.09\00:38:55.50
and I'm thankful for that.
00:38:55.53\00:38:56.87
We have that
tremendous responsibility
00:38:56.90\00:38:59.80
but as I said while ago,
the greatest privilege on earth
00:38:59.83\00:39:02.60
to give present truth to lost
00:39:02.64\00:39:04.87
and dying world, and I
count it the privilege,
00:39:04.91\00:39:07.08
and I thank ASI
for all the support
00:39:07.11\00:39:09.91
they have given to
3ABN and all of you
00:39:09.94\00:39:12.28
because while we
have supported them,
00:39:12.31\00:39:15.18
they all have supported us
00:39:15.22\00:39:17.12
because without the programmers,
00:39:17.15\00:39:18.82
there would be no 3ABN.
00:39:18.85\00:39:20.22
So thank all of
you and the rest of you
00:39:20.26\00:39:22.46
who've been on 3ABN and
given such a great message
00:39:22.49\00:39:26.19
to a lost and dying world.
00:39:26.23\00:39:27.56
Well, Danny, thank you so
much, and we'd just want to pray
00:39:27.60\00:39:29.70
and ask God to shower us
with blessings of the offering,
00:39:29.73\00:39:33.87
so that we can
continue the work that
00:39:33.90\00:39:35.94
God has set before us
and to collaborate, you know,
00:39:35.97\00:39:38.77
create synergy and energy
and just lot of enthusiasm
00:39:38.81\00:39:43.85
so we can get
this world, this done.
00:39:43.88\00:39:46.01
We wanna go home, don't we?
00:39:46.05\00:39:48.15
So then let's act like
it and give till it hurts.
00:39:48.18\00:39:52.25
That's right. So
that we can go home.
00:39:52.29\00:39:54.02
Thank you very
much. Thank you, everyone.
00:39:54.06\00:39:55.92
God bless. Thank you, all.
00:39:55.96\00:39:57.29
Good evening.
00:44:23.56\00:44:24.89
I have been so
blessed to be here at ASI
00:44:24.93\00:44:28.83
and I would like you,
00:44:28.86\00:44:30.20
would you please
stand with me for prayer?
00:44:30.23\00:44:33.47
Thank you.
00:44:33.50\00:44:36.34
Heavenly Father, we
just wanna thank You
00:44:36.37\00:44:39.71
for this wonderful
time that we've had today.
00:44:39.74\00:44:42.64
We've been so blessed
00:44:42.68\00:44:44.15
by so many of the
wonderful testimonies
00:44:44.18\00:44:47.42
by Andy Weaver, and
our pastor and our elder,
00:44:47.45\00:44:51.29
Elder Wilson.
00:44:51.32\00:44:52.82
And we just wanna
thank you and just continue
00:44:52.85\00:44:55.79
to bless this
ministry, and thank you
00:44:55.82\00:44:58.69
and we ask all
things in Your dear
00:44:58.73\00:45:01.16
and precious name.
00:45:01.20\00:45:02.56
Amen.
00:45:02.60\00:45:03.93