Hello and
welcome to iSITE Review.
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We are so happy that
you've joined us again.
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It's already program #4.
We're coming to you here from
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Phoenix, AZ, for the Pathway
to Life evangelistic series.
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And you may say: "Where in
the world are Greg and Jill
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and Elder J. D. Quinn? "
We're actually in our hotel!
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And the hotel has been very
kind to let us use, of course,
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the conference room
that is just off to my right.
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We're here in
the breakfast area.
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Obviously it's not breakfast
time, otherwise there'd be
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lots of people here.
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But what a privilege it is to be
part of this evangelistic series
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and see how God is leading.
Amen! We have Elder J. D.
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with us because we have an amaz-
ing story that has come from
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your church, so we're going to
play that in just a few minutes.
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We do. And we just
want to give a shout out
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to those of you who
are watching on Facebook.
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You know, J. D., 3ABN has
broadcast over satellite TV.
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You know, that was the big
push in the 90's to get 3ABN up
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on satellite. People
would watch on cable.
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People would watch
on their local downlink.
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And then we said: "Oh, we're
going to stream on the website.
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and we're going to get the
app for the phones and stream
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on Youtube. " But we're
streaming live on Facebook
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and that is so exciting.
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Each night's iSITE and
the program with Pastor John
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is streaming live on Facebook
and we want to give a shout out
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to those of you who
have watched the program
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and have shared it.
This is Amanda and Jerome,
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Dave, Jessie,
Terry, Abraham, Claudio,
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Genevieve, Diane, Matt,
Rob, Rosalyn, Joseph, and Dave.
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So special thanks
to each one of you.
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Want to encourage you to
share the feed, to send us
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your comments and likes
and we'd like to hear from you.
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Yeah, and I think it's really
great to actually hear from you
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because it's
always nice to connect.
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Because so many times,
you know, we're looking
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into these glass lenses, and to
get feedback from the other side
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of the lenses is a
really encouraging thing
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and I think that's the
way that we can connect.
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So, yeah, we encourage you
to go to like Jill mentioned
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Youtube... Facebook.
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Twitter... I think
we're on Twitter as well.
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Absolutely. And
of course our 3ABN.tv
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website you can also send
an e-mail to us, so do that.
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Let us know how you're enjoying
the series with Pr. Lomacang.
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And we don't want to forget
the 3ABNPhoenix.com website
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has the other churches.
We're starting to upload
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some of those
sermons there, too.
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Technology has changed
a great deal, hasn't it?
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Huh... I just can't believe.
I remember talking to my
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grandfather just like yesterday.
He came over in a covered wagon.
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He came over in a
covered wagon. A covered wagon!
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And it just doesn't
seem like that long ago
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and here we're talking
about these fancy words.
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Yeah. And I mean I
try to fit in here...
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I mean, I'm anxious to see
what my story's going to be.
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I remember when I
started and heaven. I just hope
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that it's whenever I
see Jesus coming, you know.
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But time goes by so fast.
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Exciting time we're
living in. It is! That's true.
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How is it going? You and Shelley
are at the Phoenix Central
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Seventh-day Adventist church.
And I know we have a testimony
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but how's it
going at your church?
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Oh, we just love each and
every person that's there.
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You know, it's just a couple
times and you're just hugging
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everybody's neck. But
there's a lot of hurting people.
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And we want to talk about
Rosemary here in a few minutes
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whenever you're ready, but
this is a special, special lady.
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A lady that you just
fall in love with. Um-hmm.
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And very seldom do you
see excitement one second and
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tears the next, but
that's the life that some people
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are caught up in. Yeah.
Well, you had the opportunity
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to sit down with Rosemary
just a short while ago -
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maybe a day or two ago -
and we have it on the iPad.
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This is technology again.
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So let's listen to that. Yeah.
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I'll start it here. OK.
Hit the little play button.
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Hi, my name is Rosemary Gortarez
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and I am a member
of Central SDA church
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for seven years now.
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Unfortunately I have
been "missing in action"
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for the last year and a half.
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My heart has been very heavy
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and I want to find
my way back here. Amen!
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I've been
wanting to find my way.
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A lot of battles in my life
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which I'm sure
we all go through.
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And it is just too
much to go into that,
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but what I you to know
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is that I received an e-mail
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of an event that
was going to go on.
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And it was from 3ABN
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with Shelley Quinn.
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And I knew in my
heart that God was...
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me asking God every night to
help me, to give me the desire
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to come back to where
I knew I wanted to be,
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where I knew my heart was happy,
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where I knew that
this was where I belonged.
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So I believe that
that was a calling
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that God was sending me.
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And if anyone could do it, it
was going to be Shelley Quinn.
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I've heard her
speak, read her books,
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and a lot of it I could relate
to with my own difficulties
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in my life. But I know
that I am here still today
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and being able to go
through the difficulties because
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my faith in the
Lord... I've never let go.
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I'm still fighting the battle,
but I'm here for a 2nd day now.
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And I was here
this morning for church
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and it's a blessing for me.
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I love the Lord, and I
also want to show my grandkids.
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They were here with me as well.
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And I want to
bring my family back
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to church as well with me.
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So if any of you out
there are fighting these battles
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like we all do and we're all
going to constantly go through
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them, just keep in
your heart that you know
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where you want to be
and take that action.
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Take that step forward and do it
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because this is
where we need to be.
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With God's love and grace, you
will be back in church as well
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just like me.
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I love my Lord.
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Wow! The thing that
really caught my attention is
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whenever she was
sharing this with me
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boy just quickly: "God hears...
God sees all of our requests. "
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This precious lady
because of difficulties
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outside her control
got caught into a mess
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that a year and a half kept
her from being with the people
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that she loved. And they
never gave up on her either.
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And then just as I
heard her testimony
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and after actually
getting to see this
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Shelley walked into the
room. What a special time.
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It was just a direct affinity
kind of like they were drawn
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together. And they went
over and they hugged each other.
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And my heart was touched.
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A lot of people's hearts were
touched, but the main thing is
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God hears your prayers.
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Amen! And I appreciated
her appeal, too. Amen.
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You know when you
feel the Holy Spirit
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"pricking at your
heart" so to speak
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she said: "Just do it. "
Yeah. Basically: "Just listen;
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just obey. " And
that's very important
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because we do not know
about tomorrow, the next moment
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that we have. When the Holy
Spirit - Jesus - is speaking
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to us we need
to listen and obey.
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Powerful; powerful. It's
neat to be used of the Lord,
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isn't it? Most certainly!
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And again, it's absolutely
fantastic to see one person
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all these different
emotions in a short time.
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Wow! Just to think, she
had walked away from God,
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away from the church for that
time and had made the decision
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to come back. And one thing
that really touched me in that
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testimony, J. D., was the
fact that she received an e-mail
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from 3ABN. So even
though she was out of the church
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and away from God at that moment
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somehow she was
still connected to 3ABN
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and had gotten that e-mail.
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Yeah, she was just try...
I think she was looking for
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an excuse and then God
provided just the right
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climate at the right
time and she bit into it.
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Amen. And then here she
came back the second time.
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Praise the Lord!
Thank you so much.
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What an incredible testimony!
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I think we're heading out to
the mountains. Is that right?
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We're going to change our
clothes and start heading out
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into nature at the
Phoenix Mountain Preserve.
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We are in the
Phoenix Mountain Preserve
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right here. It's incredible,
sweetheart, this beauty here!
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It is! It's a whole range
of mountains here right around
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the city of Phoenix.
We're attempting... I don't even
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know if we're going to
accomplish it... but we're
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attempting to scale I
think they call it Piestewa Peak
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which is the 2nd highest peak.
It's somewhere way up there.
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I see people hiking up
there and I don't know...
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I'm a little out of
breath and we're just beginning.
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You know, you and
I both enjoy nature
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and it's a blessing being out-
side in God's beautiful nature.
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It's a little bit different
than southern Illinois.
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In southern Illinois
there are corn, soybeans, wheat.
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And... corn, soybeans, wheat.
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Wheat...
yeah... that's for sure.
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But here you saw in the
opening shot you can see
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I think you say this
correctly sagauro cactus.
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Totally different from what
we have in southern Illinois
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but it's beautiful to
be out in God's nature.
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I understand now that these
cactus, they have little arms
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that come out on
the sides of them.
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They have to be 75 years old in
order to put out a little arm.
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Isn't that amazing?
So the one in front of us
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must be just over 75 'cause
it's got just little stubby arms
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coming out.
Yeah... little baby arms.
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Yeah, that's for sure.
But it's really neat to be out
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in nature and to see
all these people actually.
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We're out here
on a beautiful day.
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Sunshine. Um-hmm. We're talking
about the city of Phoenix.
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You can see it off to our...
Almost in front of us actually.
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And here we are up on
the beautiful mountains
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just outside of Phoenix.
But what a blessing it is
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to be in God's
beautiful creation. Absolutely!
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And right now we're
going to go to Desert Cove
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which is Pastor
C.A. Murray's church
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where he is there. And
he had a chance to sit down
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with the Arizona
Conference president.
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He came to his church.
This is Elder Ed Keyes.
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And we're so blessed,
sweetheart, to partner. Yes!
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3ABN with the Arizona Con-
ference - boy, that's for sure -
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in the proclamation of the gos-
pel here in the greater Phoenix
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area. So what we
want to do right now is
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to hear the interview
that Pastor C.A. did with
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Elder Ed Keyes. And we're going
to hike up a little bit more
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on the mountain. We'll
see how far we can make it.
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Let's go to that interview now.
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We're at the Desert Cove
Seventh-day Adventist church
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and it is my privilege
to be with Pastor Ed Keyes
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who is the president
of the Arizona Conference
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but I have found out
that he is a "home boy. "
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He is from
Jersey City, New Jersey:
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my old stomping grounds.
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So, Ed, it's so
good to be with you.
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I want to talk a little
bit about the conference.
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Give me the general
membership of the conference,
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the number of
churches that you have.
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The SDA church in
Arizona has 21,000 members.
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We're growing...
the Lord is blessing.
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We have 106
churches; we have 11 schools...
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well, 10 schools
and an academy...
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and community service centers
and all kinds of programs
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around the
conference. Praise the Lord!
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You mentioned to me that
in addition to the five 3ABN
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meetings that there are some
other meetings that are going on
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at this time.
Yeah, we were excited
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to partner with Pathways
to Health when they came in
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at Christmas time, and
they were the ones that
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told us we could have
3ABN come and share meetings.
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We were excited, so we
jumped on board with that.
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But we had already had 3
meetings already scheduled.
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We have Elder Richard Halvorsen
holding a meeting in Sedona.
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We have Elder Jim Stephens
who is holding a meeting in
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Cottonwood. That
one hasn't started yet.
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And I forget the third one right
now, but we have a third one
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going as well. It
appears, though, as though
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evangelism is a very important
part, a very integral part,
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of the work of the
Arizona Conference.
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It is indeed. You know, we have
five things that we're really
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actively
promoting. One is retention,
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keeping the people that
we have 'cause a lot of times
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you know the back door is
wide open and we lose them.
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We'd like to keep
people. The second one -
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number two - is evangelism.
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We want to continue bringing
people into the fellowship
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of the church. And
youth is a third one.
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Education is the fourth
and stewardship is the fifth.
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But we believe
evangelism feeds all of them.
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It is really a key component
to our vision for the Adventist
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church in
Arizona. Praise the Lord!
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Now you let it sort of
leak out that this church is one
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of your favorite
churches to visit
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so I hope I'm not
talking out of school.
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You're right... you're right.
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But I have found...
We just began last night
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but the flavor
here, the feeling,
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for evangelism is
very very high here.
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Very strong. Yeah,
the Desert Cove church
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has had a long history in
caring for their community
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and wanting to see
people in the community
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know the same Jesus that we know
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and fall in love with Him.
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Praise the Lord!
Give us some sense of
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your feeling, this
cooperation with 3ABN,
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the Arizona Conference,
and these five churches...
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just some sense of your
feeling for us in that union.
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Well we are so excited.
When we heard that 3ABN was able
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to send evangelists here
we said: "Well, fantastic! "
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I mean, we can't
go wrong with that.
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We believe in soul
winning and we know 3ABN does
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so to tie the two together
I mean it's just a happy
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happy marriage.
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Thank you Pastor Ed
Keyes. I don't want to keep him.
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He's the conference
president and he has miles to go
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before he sleeps and much to do.
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But thank you for spending just
a little time with us today.
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God bless you; thank you.
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Thank you Pastor
C.A. and Elder Keyes.
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What a blessing to have
the support of the Arizona
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Conference here with this
evangelistic series that's
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going on in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Jill and I have hiked up
higher along with the crew.
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Appreciate Arody and Brad.
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We're higher up on the mountain
in the Phoenix Mt. Preserve.
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And we paused for a moment.
That would explain why we're
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no longer out of
breath. Yeah... that's true.
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And to be honest with
you we paused a few times
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on our way up the mountain.
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I don't even
know how far we are,
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but there's
quite a ways to go yet.
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But I see the airplanes
and they seem a little closer
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than they were at
the bottom. That's right.
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So I know we're getting
higher up, that's for sure.
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But you know, this
trail here as you can see
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actually has
quite a few switchbacks.
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Back and forth, back and
forth and it's getting steeper
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and steeper and actually
quite narrow in some spots.
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And the way this trail is
there's actually some pretty big
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steps. It's kind of
cute. We saw this little kid -
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her mom and the little girl -
and the step was huge for her.
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And instead of just like step-
ping down she stood at the edge
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and then she went "Whee!
" and jumped off the edge
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to the next step. She
was quite proud of herself.
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Was she the one I
said "Good job" to?
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Yes, that's right.
And then she told her mom
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"That lady said
good job to me. "
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I think what's a neat thing,
'cause there's a spiritual
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lesson we can learn from
this path because we're all on
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a journey and we're all
on a path of life actually.
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And I see a lot of
people on this path -
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because it's steep and narrow
and has some ruggedness to it -
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helping each other out.
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I think what's encouraging
about this series that we're
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doing here in Phoenix is
that we're able to spread
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the gospel and we're lending
a hand to them to say: "Here,
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here's a step...
let's show you the way. "
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And we can lead and
guide. So we appreciate again
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your support financially
and prayerfully of this event.
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Amen! I'm
reminded of Psalm 16:11.
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Oh, that's a good text.
David says: "He will show me
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the path of life. At
your right hand are pleasures
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forever more. " And so
you just think God has a path
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for each one of us. That's
true. You know, a path that
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He wants us to
walk on and to follow.
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And just as this path, you
know, it's kind of hemmed in
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by those rocks as we
go up, but the same thing.
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You know, God has His
Word, the Bible, that gives us
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as it were landmarks and
says: "OK, you're going in
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the right direction here.
" "OK, maybe you need to turn
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a left turn here
and go this way. "
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And I think that's the whole
purpose of the evangelistic
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series: to point us
back to the Word of God.
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Because in the Word
of God is where we find
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the path of life and that
leads to life everlasting.
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What an incredible blessing!
Yeah, you know, you're right.
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And I think, too... You know,
we talked earlier about the
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city of Phoenix
which you see behind us.
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And, man, there are millions...
Well, what? 1.6 or 7 million
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or maybe almost 2 million
people. It's the fifth largest
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city in the United
States. Yeah, that's for sure.
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There's a lot of people here.
There's a lot of people that are
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in these homes, in these
businesses that are behind us.
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And we just want to pray
for each one of them - yes -
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that God will lead
them in the way everlasting.
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And what an opportunity
we have through 3ABN,
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through other mediums,
even where you are in your
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community. You know, it's
easy to say: "Well, they're
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doing that in an evangelistic
series. I can't do anything. "
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But you know, we all
have a part that we can play.
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Even someone that you may
meet at the grocery store...
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at Wal-Mart we say or
the gas station or something
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like that. We always have
the opportunity of sharing
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Jesus and leading
someone on the path everlasting.
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Amen! Well, we're going
to go hike up the trail -
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the path here - a little bit
more. All right, let's do it!
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But while we do that, we're
going to go to the Chandler
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Seventh-day Adventist church.
And Christ Shelton had a chance
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to talk with the lady who's
actually been cooking the meals
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for them there. All right! So
let's see what she has to say.
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Hi, this is Chris
Shelton coming to you again from
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Chandler, Arizona.
Beautiful blue sky!
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Back in Illinois we
haven't had very many blue skies
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this winter.
It's been pretty cold.
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It's cool here
for Arizona right now
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but you know, it's still
lovely... it's beautiful.
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And I have with me Judy.
Judy is a special lady 'cause
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this lady is cooking
our food for us every day.
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And she's got quite a
task, don't you, with non-GMO,
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no soy, and she's even trying
to do some gluten free for us.
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Isn't that wonderful?
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But Judy, you were at
our first meeting last night.
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What did? Did you have an
experience with the Holy Spirit?
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What did you think
about the first meeting?
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I enjoyed it very
much and it brought home
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that it's time
to shake up people.
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And I have family members
I've got to try to shake up
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because I want
them to come home.
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Amen! In fact, we
prayed for our family members.
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And then after we had our group
prayer you and I had a special
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prayer just right in
the door, didn't we? Yes.
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We were praying for
certain important family members
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in your life. But what
would you like to see happen
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during this evangelistic series?
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I'd like to see
people come out more.
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Enjoy the message, realize,
and put it into practice.
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And that includes me...
putting it into practice.
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You know, I have been through
these messages many many times.
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And it never fails: each
time you learn something new
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or you think: "Oh
wow! I forgot that. "
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And it does help to
motivate, to stir our hearts
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to put these messages
into practice. What good is it
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if we don't pick up our Bible
and if we don't obey and follow
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and accept the
love of Jesus, right?
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That's right. OK. You
have any closing words for us?
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God bless
everyone. That's right!
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And if you are watching this
and you're in the Chandler area,
00:19:05.61\00:19:08.01
please come and see us. We
want to meet you in person.
00:19:08.21\00:19:10.75
OK? God bless you.
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A great report from
the Chandler SDA church.
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We thank Sister Chris. And
of course, Pr. Kenny Shelton
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is doing the evangelistic series
he and his wife there together.
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And we thank Judy, too,
because food is important!
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And that's just great. Appreci-
ate all of her cooking skills.
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And we're out
here even higher yet
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on the trail in the
Phoenix Mountain Preserve
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and I don't think I can
say the name of this trail.
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Piestewa Peak, which
is the second highest peak
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in this area. I
think it's 2,600 feet.
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I think the first
would be Camelback Mountain
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but this is the
second. We have not summited
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but we're a good deal
higher than we were. Yes!
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Yes, I agree with that. We
got out of breath a few times
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but that's OK...
exercise is good.
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You know, if we look
around this is really desert.
00:19:53.99\00:19:56.22
And coming from southern
IL a lot of things are green.
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We have trees; we
have green fields.
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When I look here
around at the desert
00:20:01.40\00:20:04.43
it looks dry, it
looks barren. There's cacti,
00:20:04.63\00:20:08.60
there's a lot of rocks.
And it seems like the promise
00:20:08.80\00:20:12.64
in God's Word
couldn't even come true.
00:20:12.84\00:20:14.34
You know, Isaiah 35
says: "The desert shall rejoice
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and blossom as the rose. "
And you think: "How could life
00:20:18.18\00:20:21.98
come out of something
that looks so barren? " Yes...
00:20:22.18\00:20:24.79
very good point! So empty,
so desolate almost as it were.
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But on the way up we saw...
Of course, this is the beginning
00:20:29.02\00:20:31.76
of springtime in Phoenix...
we saw the cacti and other
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plants beginning to blossom.
They've got orange flowers.
00:20:36.06\00:20:38.70
Um-hmm. And you see that
and you see that new life
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beginning to spring forth.
One of my favorite promises
00:20:41.84\00:20:44.01
is Isaiah 43. It says:
"Behold I will do a new thing.
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Now it shall spring
forth. Shall you not know it?
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I will even make a
way in the wilderness. "
00:20:51.25\00:20:53.42
And you could say this is
like wilderness... desert.
00:20:53.62\00:20:55.48
Yes... that's true.
"And springs in the desert. "
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So no matter where you
feel your life is today
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God can bring abundance;
God can bring fruitfulness.
00:21:01.39\00:21:05.06
God can bring beauty out of
the barrenness in the desert
00:21:05.26\00:21:09.40
of your life. You know, that's
true because several months ago
00:21:09.60\00:21:12.20
we came up here hiking
when GYC was in the Phoenix area
00:21:12.40\00:21:14.90
just several months ago.
And as we hiked up these trails
00:21:15.10\00:21:17.64
in this beautiful preserve
it's amazing now the difference
00:21:17.84\00:21:20.78
in two months. It still
had a little bit of green then
00:21:20.98\00:21:23.71
but now it's incredible.
All those little cacti
00:21:23.91\00:21:26.15
that looked so dead have
these little bitty green leaves
00:21:26.35\00:21:29.05
and we saw the orange flowers.
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You know, even right here
in front of us is this little -
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I don't know - is it a shrub?
00:21:33.59\00:21:34.92
I'm not too familiar with
the southwest. A little tree...
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I don't think it's
cactus but a little shrub.
00:21:37.23\00:21:38.96
You can see the little
leaves coming out on it.
00:21:39.16\00:21:40.60
You know, in an area
that looks so desolate
00:21:40.96\00:21:43.20
and maybe barren there's life.
00:21:43.40\00:21:45.10
And we saw a little, I
think it's a ground squirrel.
00:21:45.30\00:21:48.10
Actually there's one right here.
Yeah, he's just hopping down
00:21:48.30\00:21:50.57
kind of hard to see. He's
getting pretty close to us.
00:21:50.77\00:21:52.17
He is! Little ground
squirrel hopping along
00:21:52.37\00:21:54.28
finding something to eat.
00:21:54.44\00:21:55.78
I know it's hard for
us to get those shots
00:21:55.94\00:21:57.28
a little ways away from us,
but we saw a hummingbird even
00:21:57.38\00:22:00.55
at one of the orange flowers
getting a little bit of nectar.
00:22:00.95\00:22:03.42
It's incredible like
you were saying - yes -
00:22:03.82\00:22:05.35
how life can come from
something that looks so dead.
00:22:05.55\00:22:08.46
And I think even in our
own souls, our own lives
00:22:08.66\00:22:10.63
we say: "Boy, I just
don't seem to have that
00:22:10.83\00:22:13.46
desire for Jesus Christ. "
00:22:13.66\00:22:15.00
But you know, if we
ask Christ and say: "God,
00:22:15.43\00:22:17.60
create in me a
clean heart; give me life;
00:22:17.80\00:22:20.87
give me that
wellspring inside of me. "
00:22:21.07\00:22:23.20
And only Jesus is the
One that can give that to us.
00:22:23.41\00:22:25.34
How encouraging that
is - it's incredible -
00:22:25.54\00:22:27.84
that life can come from
something that looks so dead.
00:22:28.04\00:22:29.38
Amen! That's what Jesus does.
00:22:29.44\00:22:31.11
You know that new birth
experience? You see that
00:22:31.31\00:22:33.11
in the desert in the springtime.
And I'm sure if we came
00:22:33.31\00:22:35.35
in a couple more weeks
it'd be even more beautiful
00:22:35.55\00:22:37.82
with the flowers. But
God does that in our hearts
00:22:38.02\00:22:39.82
and lives as well. Right
now we're going to go to the
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Phoenix Central
Seventh-day Adventist church.
00:22:42.39\00:22:44.69
J.D. Quinn had the
opportunity to interview
00:22:44.89\00:22:47.46
a couple of people.
One of them actually our
00:22:47.66\00:22:50.40
first iSITE we did the
group shot with all of the...
00:22:50.60\00:22:53.64
with all the people,
and the open for the program
00:22:53.84\00:22:55.70
for Pastor Lomacang
has that group shot.
00:22:55.90\00:22:57.81
And we had a picture taken
00:22:58.44\00:23:01.04
who is a gentleman from
the Phoenix Central church
00:23:01.24\00:23:04.01
who made a sign, and
it said: "Welcome 3ABN. "
00:23:04.21\00:23:07.35
That's right. He's a
street preacher I think. He is.
00:23:07.55\00:23:09.48
So let's go to that right now.
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I am a deacon here at that
Phoenix Central SDA church,
00:23:12.95\00:23:16.29
and I've been blessed and
called to do street preaching.
00:23:16.69\00:23:20.06
I've been a member at
this church for 8 years,
00:23:20.26\00:23:22.66
going on 9 years.
And I love the lessons
00:23:22.86\00:23:26.57
and the teachings of the
Bible that are presented through
00:23:26.77\00:23:29.24
the Seventh-day
Adventist movement.
00:23:29.44\00:23:30.77
And recently we had
the opportunity to have the
00:23:31.17\00:23:33.78
Pathways to Health
here in Phoenix, Arizona,
00:23:33.98\00:23:36.64
that ministered all
type of medical needs
00:23:36.85\00:23:38.78
to everyone that was in need
that couldn't afford otherwise.
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And now we have the opportunity
to have Pathway to Life
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that will bring
people closer to Jesus Christ
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in our walk with
Him on a daily basis.
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We have teaching and Central
SDA church Sr. Shelley Quinn.
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She has an
astronomical beautiful knowledge
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of how she
expresses the Word of God.
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Come out and join us here at
the Phoenix Central SDA church
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for this extraordinary
seminar that will prepare you
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for the second coming of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Good evening. Coming to you
from Phoenix Central church.
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A series of meetings
that 3ABN has come to town
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to deliver a message that
is sorely needed for this time
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that we're in. Shelley Quinn
is delivering a powerful message
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tonight. And I
just want to express
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the gratitude and appreci-
ation that I have for 3ABN.
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In 2013 I had a series of
events that happened in my life.
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I come from a very
rough and tumble world,
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and I knew that
something wasn't right.
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I didn't have the
proper direction in my life
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and something was lacking.
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And you know, I
happened to meet an elder
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and he talked to me.
And my head's a little hard,
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so the first
time it didn't take.
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But eventually it did
take, and through watching the
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programming that 3ABN provides
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I was able to understand
that there's more to life
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than what Dan wanted.
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It's what the Lord
has planned for us.
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And through a series of events
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I was able this past year
to attend the Amazing Facts
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Center of
Evangelism for four months.
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And now I've taken that.
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We did a mission
trip into Mexico.
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We came back here to Phoenix
and now we're here at 3ABN
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series and we're doing
Bible working for Central church
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for this event. And I
just would like to say
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anybody who's sitting
at home who's feeling that
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they need to do something
or they have a burning desire
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that the Lord
is speaking to them
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or they just need
somebody to pray with them
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or speak to them
just take that step.
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Take that initial step of action
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and get out and just do it.
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Come to one of the meetings.
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There's five different
locations around the valley.
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And you'll be so blessed
by it I can guarantee you.
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What a great report from
the Phoenix Central SDA church!
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Shelley and J.D.
are at that church.
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And we had met the first night
when we had our first group
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meeting we met the
Bible worker Daniel.
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And he and his wife
are just a precious couple.
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And just to hear the impact
3ABN has made in his life!
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And then to
hear he went to AFCOE
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and now is doing Bible
work. They hired him to do
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Bible work for this
evangelistic series.
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I'm sure more in addition
to that, but he's doing it
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specifically for the
series. So praise God for what
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He's doing in the ministry
of 3ABN and how it impacts
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people all over the world.
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Well I think that's kind
of neat because really it's
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really spread. It's
like that ripple effect.
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You know, 3ABN made an impact
on his life. Praise the Lord!
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And now he's make
an impact on others
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and that ripple just
continues to spread like
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when you throw a
little stone into a pond.
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I don't see really any
ponds out here in the desert.
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No! But you can see that
ripple effect continues to go.
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It's really neat. So
again, we do thank you
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for making an impact
in other people's lives.
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Now that say that what
goes up must come down.
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And I know that we've had
a great time out here on the
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mountain, but
we're still high up.
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We must go down. We have to
get ready for this evening's
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meeting and they say: "All good
things must come to an end" too.
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We've had a great time
out here in nature - yes -
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but there's
something even better coming,
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and that's the message,
of course, of Pastor Lomacang
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here in just a few more minutes.
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Amen! Absolutely!
Now going down you know
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don't have the cardio so much
going down - that's true - which
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is a really good thing. But
you also... it's a little more
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work I think on the
legs going down. That's true.
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But it's such a blessing
to be up here and to show you
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at home some of the nature,
the beauty of God's nature
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here in Phoenix. And we
just want to encourage you
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to comment. You know
we're streaming live on Facebook
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every night - that's a good
point, yes - 6:30. That's true.
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And please send us your
comments. We want to give you
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a shout out and thank
you for sending them in
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or you can
obviously watch on Youtube
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or send us an
e-mail, too. That's great.
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That's true. The e-mail,
yeah, on our website: 3ABN.tv.
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Anyway, Jill and I are
going to head back to the hotel,
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change our clothes, and
get ready for the evening
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meeting. God bless you.
Thank you again for joining us
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here for iSITE Review.
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