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 is an excellent opportunity,
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just a great opportunity. In ASI
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there's a particular fellowship.
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ASI is really the
stamp, it's the glue it
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holds all the
ministries together.
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Welcome to ASI video magazine,
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I'm Dan
Houghton. ASI is made up of
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a diverse group of members.
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Some are non-profit
ministries others are
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businesses and professionals.
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Different though we
maybe we are all united
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by one goal and
that is sharing Christ
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in the marketplace.
Today we're going to meet
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two ASI members
that are sharing Christ
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in very different
ways. Shine is an ASI member
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organization in
Ardmore, Oklahoma operated
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by Mary Bernt. It's
an evangelism training
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program for young
people as a part of the
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program the young
people learn about healthy
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cooking and natural
remedies right along side
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evangelism. The idea is
to use health as a way to
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open doors to further outreach.
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Let's find out how God
is working through this
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ministry. Welcome to Veggies.
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This is our health food
store that we're walking
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into and we have
basically a full service
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of food store
with organic foods,
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a small amount of
organic produce and we
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also carry the supplements
and things of that nature.
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I didn't know that there
was anything in this town
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like this. So I
started kind of just coming and
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getting you know
more vitamin and that kind
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of thing and didn't
really we eat at the restaurant
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that much
didn't really know what
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it was they advertised
it a little bit and we kind
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of would come in and
it would smell so good,
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and that we kind of
started you know okay
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maybe we better
check this out. From
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a financial
standpoint its growing everyday,
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it's always a little
difficult, restaurants are
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always a little hard
I won't sit here and say
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that it's easy, we're
definitely not you know
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making tons of money
by any stretch of the
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imagination however
for us that isn't the key
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figure that isn't
really what we are looking
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at to see how well
things are going but we look
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at is our souls being
won, and souls are being won
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at this ministry and
lives are being changed,
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so we feel like
its very successful.
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Well, I've had some
significant heart problems
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over the years
for last five years;
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I had open heart
surgery about five years ago.
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The doctor told
Charlie that he was going
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to either have to
have another by-pass or go
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home and die.
When the heart problems
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continue to increase
and they were wanting
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to operate again and
he didn't want to do that
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I came and talked
with Mary and she agreed
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to sit down and
talked with both of us.
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It was really scary
because his skin tone was
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just ash and gray, he
looked like he was going
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to have heart
attack at any moment and
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I was really
concerned about him and in fact
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I plead with them
for the first few minutes
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we were together, I
plead with him to go
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to one of the
health centers like the
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Black Hills health
and Education Center or to
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Lifestyle Center of
America or to Wildwood,
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you know I told
them about several places
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and he said, I'm just
not willing to do that.
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And I just looked at
him because he was being
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so stubborn and I
was really praying
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in my heart Lord, I
don't know what to do
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with this man because
he's being so stubborn.
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But I, the thought
occurred me that his
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situation was so
extreme that would probably
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take an extreme
measure to turn this around
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and help him, so I
looked him straight in the
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eye and I said okay Charlie,
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if that's you know
the way you're going to be
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done and the only
thing person you're going
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to listen to is me
for some unknown reason
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well then I think
what you should do is going
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a total all raw
completely vegan diet.
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And this seems to
make sense to me because
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really I, I didn't
really have any other
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choice other than
the one I didn't want to
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do you know so. He
proceeded to start eating
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raw fruits, raw
vegetables, raw nuts.
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No dairy, no meat. I
showed them how to eat,
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and an oat meal
called muesli that you can
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prepare that's all raw
and put the orange juice,
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some fresh
squeezed orange juice to put
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on the muesli. So
that's essential what our
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diet was, just
grains, fruit, vegetables and
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a lot of juice. And
they loved it, they just,
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they, he and his wife
both went on this diet
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and the next thing I
know she's in here just
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so happy because
Charlie's mowing the lawn
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again and he doesn't
have chest pain and his,
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you know, he is able to do more
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and more work
everyday. Within a week,
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surely within a week
after going on the diet,
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you get a burst of
energy within about two weeks
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your skin starts
taking this healthy pink hue
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of course more,
it's most importantly,
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the angina pain at
overtime began to subside.
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His blood pressure
went down, the lab work was
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good everything that
the cardiologist checks
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on the six month
check, everything was just so,
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was shockingly good.
And in fact he recently
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became a member of
the 130 mile an hour club
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where he jump on a
motorcycle and you go
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130 miles an hour
and they actually clock
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you and you have to do
within three times and he
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became a member of
that club and Cherry wrote
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me this little letter
and I wrote her back and
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I said well Charlie's
just proved positive that
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you don't have to
slow down just because
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you're getting old.
This is where all the cooking
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goes on and I know they
can't smell the wonderful
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smells that are going
on in here but we have
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quite a crew, this
is my daughter Brianna
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and she works on her
days off, she helps us out.
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I love this food here, and she,
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Mary has shown me
that you can eat this type
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of food and it's
delicious and everything
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you eat here is good for you.
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You know anybody
make chicken salad,
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chickens like we
said, but she makes good
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chicken non-chicken-
salad-sandwich that,
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any chicken, you
know without any chicken.
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One recipe, it's like
such as the chicken salad
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that you'll see listed
up there, when I was really
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wanting a new
recipe one day I just said
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Lord please I really
want a new recipe and
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I need something that
people will just love that
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will bring them in on a
daily basis and he didn't
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tell me half a cup of
this or tablespoon of that
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but this idea
just came into my mind,
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I was just inspired
with this great idea
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and it has become a
foundation recipe for us
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and so what most of my
recipes I pray for them.
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I really don't eat here because
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it's healthy I mean,
well these are benefits,
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but I eat here
because the food's good.
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If you ate, what she
had out there today that
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lasagna, that was award winning.
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Today we're serving
lasagna, we always have
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two soups, we have a
really beautiful salad
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bars our salad bar is
just wonderful it's all fresh,
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we chop everything
up on a daily basis.
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We also then have
four sandwiches and
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two wraps that we
serve on a daily basis,
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our entree changes
every single day and
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then we sometimes will
throw a special another
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additional Cray for
something like that and
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then we also have a,
a really good healthy
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dessert everyday. We
probably could not get
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food of this quality
anywhere I know in Dallas
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or surrounding
cities. And the other places
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when our business
that we at. I wish there
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was a veggies in every
city in the United States
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and I do believe
it can be replicated,
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it's a lot of hard work
and it takes a tremendous
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commitment to do this
but i think it's very,
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very worthwhile work
because we do see souls
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won to the kingdom through this.
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I had a little problem
of drugs and I initially
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met Mary, she came
to an Oxford house,
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I stay in an
Oxford house right now.
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It's a place of
sober living environment
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for people that are
trying to, you know get their
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life together, and
Mary would come out there
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on Mondays and she
would visit with us
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and do Bibles studies.
Two days after I got there,
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still feeling pretty
bad Mary showed up and
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that's the last thing
I wanted to here in the
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world was what Mary had to say,
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but as she began to
speak I began to feel hope.
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There are hungry
people out there, amen.
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And some of them
are hungry for food,
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and some of them
are hungry for God.
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It's alright Jimmy.
And there are people
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out there who
need to be clothed,
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and there are people
out there who need to be
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ministered too. And God has a,
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God has a recipe
here, not only for caring
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for the needs of
others but it's in doing
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for others that
really we find our own
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relationship with
God coming into harmony
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and coming into our right order.
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We run health and
nutrition seminars and
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then we also
have the shine program
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which brings in young people.
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One of the most
important emphasis here at
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Shine is that we
wanna train the students
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to see the
Evangelism is not an activity,
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even though there are
many activities associated
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with it, but that it's
more of a lifestyle and
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that any and every
conversation and every
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relationship that we
have the privilege of being
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part of, it's a
spirit influence and every
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relationship should
be dedicated towards
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eternal ends. Mary,
wow! She's just such
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a mentor you know
and it's not just Mary
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I mean it's the
church as the whole,
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but Mary just reached
out there and was able,
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she is a soldier, and,
and she has these girls
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and well these
people. So far I haven't seen
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any man in the Shine program,
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but it's my
understanding that anybody
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is welcomed. You know
she takes these beautiful
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people and she turns them into
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soldiers and I mean soldiers.
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The young people
learn how to work.
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They learn how to do evangelism,
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because we, we
always do the evangelistic
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series as well they do,
they learn Bible studies
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and they just learn
how, I think that they are,
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they end up being very
inspired to just really
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go out and approach
people and find those
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people who are
looking wishfully to have,
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who want to do Bible studies.
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They now know how
to, in general help them
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with their health.
Help them with heart issues
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you know with
obesity, with blood sugar,
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with all of
these kind of things.
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And they have just
a heart to bring them
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to do the Bible
studies. ASI just inspires me.
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It is just that once
a year national meeting
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that they're
holding and we do go to the
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regionals here and
they're also very inspiring,
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but that meeting
that they hold once a year
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is like putting fuel
in the tank. It just,
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it just helps me to,
to be even more inspired
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to continue doing
the work that I do.
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ASI has really
tremendous commitment
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to soul winning.
I love soul winning,
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ever since I became
to Seventh-day Adventist.
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I'm so in love
with this message and
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it so changed my
life for the better that
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I've wanted to
share it with everybody
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I meet and using a
restaurant and an health
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food store like this
people come here to us
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and they're
looking, they're searching,
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they're usually hurting
or you know they already
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have a need. And
it, it's just a perfect
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combination. My
whole, I just really believe
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that God created
me Mary Bernt to be in
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a restaurant. It's
just what I love doing
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and it's just such a wonderful,
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wonderful way to reach people.
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What a normal day.
You never know what
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you might hear in this kitchen.
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It's usually comes
out as singing though,
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I will say that.
God really can use us
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in amazing ways.
ASI members share the
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commitment of shine to
follow wherever God leads.
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To hear more stories
like the one we just saw
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I encourage you to
attend the ASI convention
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every year I'm
blessed by the remarkable
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testimonies shared
by our members at the
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convention. For
more information visit
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www.asiministries.org.
Are you interested
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in keeping in touch
with the ASI family.
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People that are in
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fellowship. They are just close
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or even closer than
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opportunity for
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to see different ministries.
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The fellowship is just heavenly.
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Denise Hayden is an
ASI member and owner
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of Fine Line
Services Incorporated.
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A documentation
services company that
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specializes in legal documents.
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Over the years God
has opened so doors for
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Denise to
witness to her clients.
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People in need
of legal documents
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are often in
situations that find them
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looking for answers, and
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that's where Denise comes in.
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As you see here
these are documentation
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pieces on the very
first 24 hour prayer
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service that we
did, basically I believe
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in the power that
comes from 24 hours
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with Jesus and
prayer. And so we took this
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and built the
whole Jericho wall,
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the whole
Jericho theme and then.
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And these are all
computer generated things.
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There is not a
library, it's not a lot of money
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that you need to put in to it,
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but these where
just things we design the
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wall on the computer
and built a big box and
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then we put the
prayers and our concerns
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into this Jericho and
everything that people
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wanted to purge from
their life was put inside
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of Jericho and at the
end of the prayer service
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6 O'clock in the
morning we burned that,
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after we've
marched around it the
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seventh time, because
kept within the theme.
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The Biblical theme, we
burned Jericho which was
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the last thing was,
that will happen in Jericho.
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And all of the
concerns, we walked away just
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cleanse and everyone
was hugging each other.
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We were just glad to
be free and we walked
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with a sense of
confidence now, but everything
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was in God's hand, so
these were the cleansing
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things that came out
of the 24 hour prayer
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services that we held.
The Lord has blessed me
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in a usually way
in Fine Line Service,
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because in the very
beginning of this business.
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It was very clear to
me that something was
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working beside me.
I'd like to tell you a bit
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of the history of Fine
Line Service when I left
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the corporate world
right after seven years
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working in corporate America,
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contracting with the
United States Government.
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I left and, and heard
the call of the Lord to say
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I can make, I can
use you for something on
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your own. And so I
quit my job on Friday and
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started Fine Line
Services on Monday.
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Under capitalized
didn't have any clients.
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Couldn't afford business cards,
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because my check
had not come yet and
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so I walk the streets
and another part of that,
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I had wreck my car.
The day that I quit,
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I wreck my car. So
on Monday I had no car,
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but God is so good
I walked down the main
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street of the
town that I lived in,
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and went to each of
the businesses and ask them
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if they would
need secretarial work,
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any type of
secretarial work. I didn't even
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have a business card.
I've to keep writing my
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name and, and didn't
even have a business name,
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but just knew
what I wanted to do.
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And by the time I
got home three businesses
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had called, by the
time I got the end of the
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street the last
business that I went to was the
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source of 98
percent of my business for
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the next three
years. Because I was under
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capitalized I saw a
magazine came out that had,
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that you could win
equipment, the grand prize
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was the computer, a scanner,
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a laptop computer
and a laser printer.
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And I said wow Lord
if you wanna bless me
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with that I can
really get the business off
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the ground. And so I
wrote my story to the
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magazine and I
won, not the grand prize
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I won a inch by, a inch
square article from them
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about the good work
that I've been doing in
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Fine Line Services.
However just to show you
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how the Lord works, He
took that inch paragraph
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and allowed the Washington Post
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Newspaper to see it.
They sent a journalist
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over to interview
me. I didn't even get the
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newspaper, my
mother gets the newspaper
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and she said I never
knew I would have a daughter
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as a center fold. And
I'm like what is she talking
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about, and she
showed me this huge article
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of her daughter
whose business from an inch
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paragraph. From that
the Kiplinger Magazine
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sent their
journalist to my door,
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so now the Lord was
telling me I will send it
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to your door. You
just keep following me,
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you just keep
doing the right thing,
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I will send what
you need to your door.
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And of course from
that I got speaking
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engagements, from those speaking
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engagements more clients came.
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They spread the word
out that's the history
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of Fine Line
Service and that why I walk
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in great faith,
because I've seen how the
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Lord deals with
me. And because of the
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documentation that I
do for the community,
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for business, for government,
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for the civil
agencies, I have seen that God
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continues to build a
force outside of myself
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that keeps knocking on the door.
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And my husband is
amazed that I don't see how
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people keep coming
you know finding you.
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And it's because the Lord sends
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them right here to my door.
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Those who have the
gift of business ministry
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to the public have a
very special obligation
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to God for Christian
service and sacrifice.
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So while my wife is
pulling, her husband is
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pushing and, and the
ministry that we have
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co-actively has
worked very, very well.
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When I heard about ASI
that it was an Adventist,
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Adventist Organization
for business people who
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were Adventist and
I said well you know,
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I think I should give my
moneys to this organization
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as opposed to the
chamber of commerce.
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Because I thought
they did the same thing.
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The networking thing
and meeting periodically,
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so I took my $600
out of the Chamber of
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Commerce and joined ASI for $40.
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There the
membership is only $40.
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I joined ASI, but I
didn't go to the convention,
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so I really didn't know
what ASI was about except
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that in my mind it
was similar to the local
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Chamber of
Commerce. In 1993 I went to
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my first ASI
convention in Toronto, Canada.
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And that's where the
Lord blew my mind with
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what I saw ASI did. It
was where all the businesses
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that were
Adventists, that were members
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of that and even more
came together and showed
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what they do for
Christ. They gave their
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testimonies and
they inspired, in my case
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engendered more
ministry out of you. You
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are in business to
serve Jesus to touch others.
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You're not in
business for a profit,
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even if you're
full-profit business or a
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non-profit business.
So having gone to that
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convention my
understanding of ASI was
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all about increased and
it was by virtue of that
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first ASI convention
that I feel in my heart
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of hearts my
ministries blew, blew up.
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And created by virtual
blowing up created other
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little ministries on
the sideline that now
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ministry to many
groups. One of the major
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ministries that have is
just documenting tracks.
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Making tracks for
children, making those
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evangelistic
items that are necessary
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to take ministry
into the community,
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in a playful way,
in a commercial way
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and in a spiritual
way to get the message
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conveyed in a way that
is acceptable to multiple
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groups. I would like
to tell you about a unique
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ministry that
happened by happen stance
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one day there were
16 Denises in my church
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and we were. There
were three of us in the
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office one day and
someone ran into the office
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and said Denise I
need you and all of us
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turned around and so
we started laughing and
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from that I said
you know we really need
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to do something with
this. There are too many
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Denises not to do
anything. And I said you know
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we should start a
Denise ministries and that
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ministry would be a
discipleship ministry
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and be a ministry
to other women that as
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in their journey
just have someone that is
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called by their
name and as just woman.
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So Denise Ministry
started as a discipleship
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ministry and
from that we developed
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a President and a
Vice President and then
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when they saw us breakout,
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I went to an
embroidery shop and I had this
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nice sashes done for
us, so that when we did
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whatever we would do,
we would all be alike.
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This is our uniform sort
to speak and those ladies
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that saw us started
asking us to usher at church
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and be deaconesses
and then we were asked
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to present at the
woman's ministries and
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of course we
always present, we built
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a ministry around
the 24 hour prayer
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service and had
Denise Ministries doing every
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hour, so it's been a
very good. It's just one
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more ministry that can help
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someone along the way.
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The Lord sent to my
door a business of being
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a mobile notary. And
so at now as I go into the
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home in my professional manner.
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I find that the Lord
sent me to this home,
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because they needed the Lord.
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And as we're
talking around the table,
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we exchange
information and basically what
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I find out is they've
been looking for Jesus.
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They've been
looking for something else
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in their life. And may
not be able to leave it
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there then because it is
a professional arrangement
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and I've been contracted
to do a particular service,
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but what I can do
with that afterwards only
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the Lord knows and
some of those clients that
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I have met are still
searching for the Lord.
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Two of them are
now going to church.
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That I know of,
there maybe others
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I don't know of, but
I'm able to share Christ
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in that area as
well. As a notary public,
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and having a Pastor
along when I go on ASI trips.
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When we do rallies
together he does the
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preaching and I'll
do the showing them how
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ASI can minister to
their lives. We've found that
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when we do this as
a team, as a co-active
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ministry on the ASI
on the business side,
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because I'm the business
person. He is the minister.
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We have seen that
the Pastors at those
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churches now began
to utilize their ASI
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members enrolls in the church.
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In the back of the
church directory or the
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business and
business people members of the
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church. Should be, Should
be there and that's a part
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of making here, it
should be there and so if
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not there we do
encourage the Pastor.
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Pastor to Pastor this
is something that you might
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want to do. And from
that list so many benefits
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to the church as well
as ASI can be gathered.
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So we're working
together, my wife and
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I and we love it.
When I get the courage,
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I'm gonna ask for a
double salary one day.
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Each one of us can
be an active witness
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for Christ in the
workplace just like Denise.
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I encourage you to
look for ways to reach out
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to those around you.
ASI is made up the people
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who are excited
about letting the Lord work
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through their jobs
and their businesses.
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To learn more
about sharing Christ
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in your marketplace
visits the ASI website
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www.asiministries.org.
I'm Dan Houghton
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you've been
watching ASI Video Magazine.
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See you next time for
more stories of ASI members
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sharing Christ
in the marketplace.
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God be with you.
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