ASI is a ministry
that's networking all these
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different ministries
together with the church.
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Being involved with
ASI, meeting other people.
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ASI convention is an
excellent opportunity,
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just a great
opportunity. In ASI, there is a
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particular fellow.
ASI is really the stamp,
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it's the glue that holds
all the ministries together.
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Welcome to ASI video
magazine, I'm Dan Houghton,
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as I attend the ASI
convention each year.
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I'm continually amazed
with the stories shared
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by ASI members.
Stories of witnessing
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and outreach of sharing
Christ in the market place.
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Today, we're going
to meet two ASI members
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sharing Christ in
very different ways.
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One through publishing
in media and the other
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through
personal relationships in
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the workplace. When
Light Bearers Ministry
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was founded in 1986 it
was a small outfit doing
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door to door
outreach, Bible studies,
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and weekend seminars.
Today, they are a publishing
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media, and teaching ministry.
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Light Bearers prints
20 to 40 million pieces
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of literature every
year. They are involved
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in projects around
the world and produced
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television programs
targeted at reaching
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secular society. Let's
find out how God has used
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Light Bearers to bless
his work around the world.
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This is our new
publishing facility,
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which we built
about two years ago,
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we're really happy to
be in this building because
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it is large enough to
facilitate all of our needs.
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First of all after
the literature comes out
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of the design
department it goes on to our
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six color Sanden web
press and then it is brought
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on cards to the
folders, where the tracks are
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folded and boxed
up and then finally
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they are palatalized
and prepared to go onto
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the trucks and out the
door to the ocean liner
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for wherever the
destination maybe.
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The Light Bearers
Ministry began as a
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teaching ministry,
didn't have a publishing aspect
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at first that developed
later, shortly after our
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conversion to Christianity
and my partner James
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and I began doing in
home Bibles study, small
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group studies with 10,
12, 15 people in a group.
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Ty and I would both
new converse came out
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of the world, I'd
a catholic background
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and I don't think he
had any kind of religious
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background and we met
in Spokane, Washington.
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Ty had joined the
Church a couple of years before
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I had through
evangelistic series,
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I came through
personal Bible study
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and then went through
some evangelistic series
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on Daniel and when we
met we just became friends,
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we both had a zeal of
burden and desire to just
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share the things
that we were learning,
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they were so new
to us and so clear
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and so powerful
and so life altering.
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We were young and
energetic, and just really
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eager to share in
any venue that might be
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open to us and
through that medium we began
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to conduct seminars
pretty much every weekend
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in different
places around the country
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and other countries as well.
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Sometimes people
say wow you and Ty,
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you know, you just
kind interact really
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well together, you
guys rehearse that no,
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no that was years of
just hanging out together,
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driving together,
talking, interacting,
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it just kind a follows
out or it comes natural.
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And then as we continued
on in the teaching work
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that we were doing, we
saw the value or preparing
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outlines and studies
in written form to share
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with the people, who
were attending the seminars.
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Up until about 87, we
were printing some small
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pieces of
literature, copy machine,
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nothing really, you know great.
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But we really felt a
desire to get a press.
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We didn't know
anything about publishing
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and never laid eyes
on a press before up
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closing personally,
it was just a device
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we knew was out there
in the technological world
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and we could make
use of it and we knew
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it would have a
major impact on the world.
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So, we did a little
bit of research, we picked
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a small two color
press called an AB Dick.
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And it wasn't really
a professional press.
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It was an AB Dick, it
was a duplicator something
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that they using a copy shop.
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But it was
impressed us, you know,
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you inked it up, you
have rollers the whole bit.
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And we purchase the
thing, they delivered it,
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they told us that the
next day they would send
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somebody to do some
training on the press.
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But we just
couldn't contain ourselves,
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so we slap some ink on there
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and the necessary chemicals,
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and we got the thing
up in running determent
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to get ink to stick
the paper by morning.
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And we stayed up all
night long and we just were,
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we had a few, I
can't remember what
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they are called,
but where the blows out
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and the whole thing
needs to be cleaned up
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and you start from
scratch and we did a few
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of those and by the
time the sun started
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rising and the dawn
started breaking upon us,
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we were still awake,
still working with this press
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and we were so
excited because we are
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printing ink on
paper and it was legible.
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And then the
trainer came, the guy
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that was gonna teach
us how to run the press
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and he came to the ministry
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and there we were
you know just all story
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we had and
excited, and he came in
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and he started
going through with us.
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And we just had one
question after another.
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And he just couldn't
figure out why we had so many
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questions and
they were just all very
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practical questions.
And we told him about
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our experience, we said
we have been up all night
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with this press and we
run through and he said,
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I now wonder you
asking all these questions.
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He said these
questions are all based on the
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experience you have
had all night running
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this press right,
I said, we said yes
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absolutely so it was awesome.
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We were certain of
two things at that point
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and that is that
it could be done.
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And that we needed to
keep going in the direction
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of publishing and
that we needed to hire
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somebody else to
actually run the press.
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And that began to
develop in 87 and by 1990
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we had a full
publishing house. And we started
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to print containers of
literature for overseas.
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Light Bearers
Ministry is all about filling
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containers with
truthful literature and then
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shipping it to designated
areas around the world,
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where people are
in desperate need
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of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Literature distribution
is the most effective way
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of communicating
the Gospel for at least
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three reasons. Number
one cost effectiveness.
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All of this literature
that we print is produced
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and shipped for
less than four pennies
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per publication.
This press is the one that
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we use to print
material in mass.
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We can fill the
container with material
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in about two weeks.
Secondly, its effective
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because of its impact,
it's a tangible item that
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people hold in their
hands to take home other
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family members can read
it, so it has a, it has an
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ongoing life cycle in
a community, in a home.
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And to this date, we
probably printed about
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four hundred and
thirty million plus pieces
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of literature in over
thirty different languages.
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So, the third reason
is because the literature
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that is placed
in people hands has
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a grounding effect.
It's more effective to read
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the truth and to go
over it again and again
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and to have it in your
possession in a written
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form then
merely to hear somebody
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speak the truth
and then leave town.
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And right now
we're printing French,
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Portuguese, we have
got of course the English
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and request for a
number of other different
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languages, we have
developed the ministry
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primarily to present
literature for the needs
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of third world
countries. Countries that just
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don't have the
means to fund literature
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and to do it in such a way that
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we can make the cost low.
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All over has gone out
absolutely free of charge,
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the gift to various
entities around the world
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that becomes distribution
centers and so really
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what Light Bearers Ministry is,
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is it is a massive
communication network,
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just in this year
this coming year alone.
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We will put into
circulation 50 to 60 million
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publications.
Sometimes you know,
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you get so busy and
you're out there doing
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ministry and doing
what you need to do
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and you lose site or
lose connection with some
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of these other ministries
and what they're up to
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and no one really
has time to connect.
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So, you take a few
days off every year about
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August first week and
you go to ASI convention
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and you hick up with all
these different ministries
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and you connect with
them all at one time.
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You just get it
all out of the way
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and you don't have
to be calling everyone
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then you figure out
what their schedules
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are for different
events and you try to hook
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that in what you're
doing and see if you can work
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together and
there is so much more
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to get accomplished as you work
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with these other ministries.
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The ASI convention is
an excellent opportunity,
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just a great
opportunity to meet people,
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to lay plans, to
cast vision and also along
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the way as you
attend the meetings at ASI,
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you just receiving
a lot of motivation
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and education that
goes a long way for shaping
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what it is that
we're going to do to
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make an impact
in the world field.
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And so ASI
really facilitates that,
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it's a wonderful place.
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One of the most
incredible things that we have
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witnessed and experienced
as a ministry is that
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we've received
reports of churches
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that have spontaneously
come into existence.
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Because literature was
distributed in the area,
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so we've had
missionaries who have gone
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to villages and towns
and way out of the way places
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and they start holding
meetings and Bible studies
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and so on. And they discovering
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the process that, hey
these people already know
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the certain truths
and they began to inquire,
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how do you know
these Bible truths?
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How did you
encountered these things that
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another evangelist or
missionary come to visit
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and they produce
Light Bearers literature,
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literature is that
sometime earlier, months ago,
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years ago someone
came through the village
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with the bag pack
full of literature because
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we send a container
and people ride on bicycles
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into remote places if
they go out on hikes into
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remote villages
and they just hand the
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literature out free
and then they leave.
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One of the most
exciting experiences
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I had was on my
first trip to Africa.
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You know, we've
been printing literature
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for Africa for over 20 years.
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But I never actually
gone there until 2006.
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And the country I
went to the first time
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was Zimbabwe, which
is in a very difficult
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economic situation
with high, high inflation.
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And we went to, I went
to the University of Solusi,
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which is an
Adventist University.
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University status just
recently. But it's also the
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oldest mission in Africa,
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the oldest Seventh-Day
Adventist mission in Africa.
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It was founded in
1895 with the grant of land
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from the government.
They have over two thousand
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students in row, 60
to 80 percent of them are
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not Seventh-Day
Adventist, it's a
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catholic country, so
lot of them are Catholics.
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And I was there
doing weekend prayer
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on three angles
message, Revelation 14
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and it was really fun,
but it was also intense
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and the reason why it
was so intense is because
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you've a lot of kids
there, who do not have
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an Adventist
background and actually have
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a catholic
background. But they don't
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necessarily have
Bibles, they don't necessarily
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have literature, and
so when I am preaching
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they are hearing
things for the first time
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and the scene slides,
power point presentation
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slides with all
this documentation on it.
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But because they
don't have it hand,
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they can't
necessarily go to the web,
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they have a lot of questions.
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And they are not
sure if they believe
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or they can
accept what I'm teaching.
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And so what we did,
I did a question answer
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time that helped a little bit.
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And I was able to
share from the Bible,
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but they don't have
Bibles in lot of them.
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I have four
students, four catholic girls
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for example, that
were intense about
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what day was the
Sabbath and asking me about,
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that, but only one
of them had a Bible
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between the
four. So, got back to
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Light Bearers and we
organized and got together
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a container of
literature filled with lessons,
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Bible lessons.
Bibles, thousands of Bibles
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and we sent five
thousand Bibles there.
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We have sent
enough Bibles there for
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each student and
just a couple months later
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a 165 young people were Baptized
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and became
Seventh-Day Adventist.
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And it was really
exciting because I know
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that part of the
reason for that was not
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just the weekend
prayer, but also the follow-up
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with the literature
that help to stabilize
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the message that we
had share in their hearts
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and help them to be
able to go back to a Bible,
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which they didn't
have. Back to Bible studies,
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which they didn't have
and back to literature,
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which they didn't have
and we affirm everything
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that we have
taught. And now our plan
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is to just keep sending
a container of literature
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to Solusi University every year.
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They get it through
Blue Whale in Zimbabwe
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and they were just
soaking about I mean.
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We could send two
or three containers
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every year. But
what happens as you send
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a container of
literature to Solusi.
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You have these
theology students there,
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there are some of
them are graduating,
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new ones are
coming in, you have new
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students coming in
that come from different
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denominations,
different backgrounds,
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and so it's a brand
new field of ministry
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every year. You
don't have to unnecessarily
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go off campus. It's a
mission campus right there,
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so you are sending
literature to a place,
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where the mission
field is right there at
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Adventist
institution, it's really
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exciting to see that happening.
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It's wonderful to
see how God can use us
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for his glory to
spread the good news
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of his love to the entire world.
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And I'm thankful
for Light Bearers
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and the other ministries
that are members of ASI.
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Together, we're
telling the world about
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Christ's love and soon return.
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To learn more
about Light Bearers call
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area code 541-988-3333
or visit www.lbm.org.
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ASI has eight
regional chapters across
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North America; these
chapters host there own
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local conventions
each spring along with
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occasional rallies
and meetings throughout
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the year. Your local
chapter is an excellent
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way to get involved with ASI.
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It's an opportunity to
connect with like-minded
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Adventist
professionals from your area.
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Visit www.ASIministries.org
to find the more
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information about
your local ASI chapter.
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ASI convention is
just an inspiring time;
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I've heard it at
this five day camp meeting
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on steroids. I get
encourage when I come
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to the ASI conference.
The speakers, the fellowship
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that you have, it is so
charging and recharging.
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I'm top lifted, once I went,
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I didn't wanna miss. You need to
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come to ASI. There
is nothing like it.
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Jesus is rightly
called the master physician.
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Well here on this
earth he performed
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many miraculous acts of healing.
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One of the best
ways we as Christians
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can witness for
Christ is to help others
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with their physical ailments.
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Dr. Carlos Japas is a physician
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and ASI member
from Burleson, Texas.
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Let's find out how he's used
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his practice to
witness to others.
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I was prepared my own funeral
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and my wife was
writing that these are
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only one for my funeral.
I wanted to be different.
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I don't wanted
people just crying
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because you know.
We still remaining
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in this world,
we will die anyway.
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But I wanted to be
different, I wanted to do
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a sermon for my
friends that they only think
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that most of them
they only think that,
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they worry about
life is getting a
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professional degree,
making money. And they don't
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worry about, who
is your good neighbor.
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Victor is a great guy;
he, he's actually young,
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dynamic. And he is a
quite intelligent man;
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he is an
engineer in electronics.
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Working with a
Groberman in a private company,
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I was flying every 15
days to different countries.
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I don't know in what
country that I buried
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that virus
disease, but the first thing
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I notice is my feet.
When I look at my feet
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because it was
starting little pink when
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I was walking and
I notice that lose
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therefore multiply in my feet
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because it look
like elephant feet.
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And one day he came in to see me
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and says doctor,
I need your help,
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I have been
seeing so many doctors,
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but I just want the
opinion of a Christian doctor.
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Before I was going to Dr. Japas,
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I had a feel, the
feeling, strong feeling that.
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I won't be dying in seven days.
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I examined him, I
went through all the areas
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that I could see,
that I could help me
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make a diagnoses. I
even look at the reports
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that he brought to
me from other doctors.
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And I said Victor
I really don't know
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what you have,
but I know one thing.
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We gonna trust in God,
we gonna do the best we can.
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We gonna pray, if
you don't mind I am gonna
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pray with you and God
would give us the answer.
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An every single visit
that I got with Dr. Japas,
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we pray before and
what he find out later
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I have a sarcoidosis,
which is a disease that,
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is worse than TBC.
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He was swollen on the
feet I thought at beginning,
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but he had some
congestive heart failure.
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But that was not so.
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I told the Lord, I quit
my job if you still need
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me in ministry. I'm
going to quit my job
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and I do in one
month, but if you cure me
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in seven days, I told
the Lord you have to cure
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them in seven
days I have the strong
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sensation instead,
instead of dying in seven days.
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I will be alive, but if
I alive after seven days
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is mean that he will
open the door for me at least.
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I said victor we
need to take an x-ray,
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when I saw that x-ray
it was just full of white
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ground glass
appearance typical of
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what could be tuberculosis.
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You know, when I said
to Dr. Japas that I will,
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I was about, I had a
strong sensation that
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I will be dying in seven days.
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He looked at me and
he says unless God have
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another plans you won't die.
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We will do all that
you can, I don't know
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who you are he says
to me, he was sincere,
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but he would
lead me with prayer,
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we will find out
and that was a comfort
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in my heart. Because I knew,
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I was in where I
with the rippers.
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As he says I'm alive
because you are my doctor
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and I was
shocked, I said, hey Victor
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I haven't done anything for you.
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He said no, no
doctor you're the answer
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to my prayers. I
thought I was gonna die
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and I thought that
was the end of my life.
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And I wanted to
have an opinion from
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a Christian doctor,
but you pray for me.
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And from that
moment I knew that God
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has healed me.
As a matter of fact,
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I went back to my
doctors that were,
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they have seen me.
They have checked my lungs
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and when they took another x-ray
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they couldn't
see anything on them
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and it was quite
miracle. I didn't know that
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happens then I was
shocked, but I praise God
00:19:39.79\00:19:42.38
because he is the
only one that could
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have healed
Victor. I become very well
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acquainted with Dr.
Japas as a patient treating
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all my different ailments
and he always takes time,
00:19:49.97\00:19:52.99
always very careful
and curious in kind.
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And when I walk
into his waiting room
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that is always full
and I know those people
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are there because he
treats them in the same way.
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Each patient is a
unique case and I enjoyed
00:20:09.42\00:20:12.32
each one of them
sometimes I have to be
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reminded by my
nurses that I am spending
00:20:14.31\00:20:16.51
too much time with them
00:20:16.54\00:20:17.56
and that's one of my faults.
00:20:17.59\00:20:20.00
I was chairing the
Huguley Hospital board
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and the nurses
nearby were talking about
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Dr. Japas, Dr.
Japas a new doctor.
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And they were so
excited about him that
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they voted him to be
the Doctor of the year.
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At a hospital like
ours, there is about
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350 doctors and
probably only 20 or 25 of those
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doctors are
Seventh-Day Adventists
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and Dr. Japas is a
Seventh-Day Adventist
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obviously, but more
importantly lives his life
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in such a way that
his colleagues elect him
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as a president of
the medical staff, they,
00:20:58.81\00:21:00.61
they've confidence
in him and appointed him
00:21:00.64\00:21:02.37
into that position and
so an Adventist Hospital
00:21:02.40\00:21:05.46
with Adventist
physician serving in that role.
00:21:05.49\00:21:07.67
I think the way it should be.
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The Seventh-Day
Adventist Church in Cleburne,
00:21:09.80\00:21:11.80
Texas has
organized a free clinic.
00:21:11.83\00:21:15.60
And I'm sure that
Dr. Japas spends quite
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a bit of time there, I
know he is involved there
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and donating his time to
the helping of indigenous
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and I believe
last year that clinic
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so over two thousand people.
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I'm not the only
one doing these things
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there are many
physicians in our institution
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Huguley Medical Center,
which offer their service
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totally free for this type
of patients and indigenous.
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And the Huguley
Hospital under his inspirational
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leadership has
started venturing to
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Latin American Countries
and to I believe Africa.
00:21:51.13\00:21:53.80
I see patients here on
these states indigenous,
00:21:54.40\00:21:57.50
but also do it twice
or three times a year
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a mission project.
00:22:00.48\00:22:01.91
Last, in the last
couple of years, we have taken
00:22:01.94\00:22:04.37
mission trips to
Honduras and Dr. Japas went
00:22:04.40\00:22:08.31
there with us a
couple times and he has gonna
00:22:08.34\00:22:11.25
down there and
served and because
00:22:11.28\00:22:12.98
he is bilingual that
has been a big blessing
00:22:13.01\00:22:15.88
additionally to
being a physician going out
00:22:16.14\00:22:18.54
and ministering the
health needs of the people.
00:22:18.57\00:22:20.20
He can talk to them and
make summaries in that way.
00:22:20.23\00:22:23.63
And when we
comeback, it's amazing to see
00:22:23.66\00:22:27.05
those people
rejoicing, they wanna do it
00:22:27.08\00:22:29.75
it immediately again.
They are just signing their
00:22:29.78\00:22:32.00
names again and
they wanna know when
00:22:32.03\00:22:34.42
we're gonna be going
out again into this place
00:22:34.45\00:22:37.20
because they
really love what they do
00:22:37.23\00:22:39.86
and they really
become enthusiastic about it
00:22:39.89\00:22:43.14
and they appreciate
actually what they have at home.
00:22:43.17\00:22:46.04
And it just helps the
whole spiritual atmosphere
00:22:46.07\00:22:49.10
of the Church and
this kind of thing has been
00:22:49.13\00:22:52.89
generated largely
through Dr. Mrs. Japas.
00:22:52.92\00:22:55.83
It's so good to share, you know,
00:22:56.65\00:23:00.85
the voice of all the
people that does they have
00:23:00.88\00:23:03.37
the opportunity
we have to know Jesus
00:23:03.40\00:23:06.44
to tell them about
Jesus, through especially
00:23:06.47\00:23:10.54
I like to work with
leader around the children
00:23:10.57\00:23:12.94
with occasion in
school or with medical group
00:23:12.97\00:23:17.59
that go and help them to
teach a better way to live.
00:23:17.62\00:23:21.66
So, Gracie when I
was about to marry her,
00:23:21.69\00:23:24.97
I said Gracie at
one condition I'm gonna
00:23:25.00\00:23:27.05
marry you, I said
if you promise to me
00:23:27.08\00:23:30.13
that you're gonna
give me 12 children.
00:23:30.16\00:23:32.56
He dreams with a
big family and I was
00:23:33.17\00:23:38.53
earlier afraid to
have a big family.
00:23:38.56\00:23:41.67
And she says
thought for a while,
00:23:41.83\00:23:44.29
she swallow little
bit, and says yes I promise.
00:23:44.32\00:23:47.75
After we've our second child,
00:23:48.09\00:23:50.79
which still having in
our home foreign students.
00:23:50.82\00:23:54.95
So, the children's
came, came with first,
00:23:55.47\00:23:58.42
the second, the third. I
already forget about that,
00:23:58.93\00:24:02.53
I had enough with three.
00:24:02.56\00:24:03.68
But she had not
forgotten about that.
00:24:03.71\00:24:05.98
And leader by leader
I find out that my house
00:24:06.01\00:24:09.34
will fix all this
young students they came
00:24:09.91\00:24:13.31
and we adopt
them as our children.
00:24:13.60\00:24:17.04
They follow the
rules of the home
00:24:17.07\00:24:19.08
and we enjoyed them
as daughters and son.
00:24:19.45\00:24:23.09
And I was quite of,
not very happy about that
00:24:23.90\00:24:30.40
and say I wanna my
privacy, I wanted to be
00:24:30.43\00:24:32.32
in my home, I wanted
to be rule it of the house
00:24:32.35\00:24:34.87
and now this stranger comes in.
00:24:34.90\00:24:36.53
I don't know what the outcome,
00:24:36.70\00:24:38.39
what's gonna be, I said well
00:24:38.53\00:24:40.43
I promise you 12 children,
so here is another one.
00:24:40.46\00:24:43.51
And so over the year
she has been filing up
00:24:43.55\00:24:46.41
and not only
she has given me 12,
00:24:46.44\00:24:48.20
she has given me
close to 28 and one time
00:24:48.23\00:24:51.75
she even brought me a couple,
00:24:51.78\00:24:53.34
which was a single
mother with a child.
00:24:53.48\00:24:57.22
I said enough
Gracie that's not right,
00:24:57.25\00:24:59.56
what are you doing
with me and she said
00:24:59.72\00:25:02.58
well this poor
lady had no place to go.
00:25:02.61\00:25:04.94
But she wants to
follow our faith, no,
00:25:05.16\00:25:07.29
do you know her,
no I don't know her.
00:25:07.32\00:25:09.22
I just met her in the street.
00:25:09.25\00:25:10.55
I said how do
you dare to do that
00:25:10.58\00:25:12.90
and she said well that
she needs to have help.
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And as a consequence
of being in our house
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the child became a student.
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She went to our
academy, she lived with
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our children's like
if she was one of us.
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She graduated from
college and she is working
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as a pastor right
now. She became a converted
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Christian and her
mother became baptized too
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and they both came to be
part of the family of God
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as a consequence of
living in our house,
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so I praise the
Lord again because of
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Gracie decision to
bring them into our house.
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And being a member of ASI,
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I think it was the
touch of our life for my
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family for,
especially for my husband
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and I do have a purpose in our,
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you know, world place.
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From that moment
on, we went on projects
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that we wanna do
something for God.
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We wanna do something different
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to be in their office
and seeing the patient
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is not enough. We
want to go and do outreach
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and we got our
kids involved with this.
00:26:19.21\00:26:21.42
We're seeing a
renaissance of Adventism
00:26:22.10\00:26:25.81
through ASI, they're
bringing back the old spirit
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and they're
witnessing for Christ
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in the market
place. And I believe that
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Dr, Japas and his
health care practice,
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his medical practice
is doing that in a part
00:26:40.17\00:26:44.32
excellent matter.
There are people that
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invite him to
conduct their funerals
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non-Adventist
families because of his
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spiritual leadership,
because they know he is
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a Godly man and his wife Gracie
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and his sister
Norma they have a powerful
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influence upon the
patients in an uplifting
00:27:05.69\00:27:08.71
spirit building way,
it's just an inspiration
00:27:08.74\00:27:11.98
to watch them. I go
into the clinic quite
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frequently with my
own needs or to draw
00:27:14.70\00:27:17.21
some air in. And to
see them all at work
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with the other staff members is
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like walking into
a Church activity.
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There are so many
ways God can use us,
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to touch the lives of others.
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If we're just
willing to let him lead.
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ASI is made up a
people just like Dr. Japas,
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who have given
their lives in businesses
00:27:37.26\00:27:39.66
for God to use
according to his purpose.
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For more information about ASI
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and how to become a member,
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call area code 301-680-6450
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or visit www.asiministries.org
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you've been
watching ASI video magazine.
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I'm, Dan Houghton,
join me next time for more
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stories of ASI
member sharing Christ
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in the market
place. God be with you.
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