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Series Code: ISITE
Program Code: ISITE180012A
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00:06 Hello, and welcome to iSITE program number 12,
00:08 and we're outside in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona. 00:12 Now when we first started iSITE number one, 00:14 it was so cold, do you remember that? 00:15 It was. We were literally freezing. 00:17 We should've had a hat on our head 00:18 and something to cover my ears. 00:20 It is definitely warmed up. 00:21 I shouldn't have, probably, these long sleeves on. 00:24 But we're outside at a very famous landmark 00:27 here in Phoenix, Arizona, and that is Camelback Mountain. 00:31 Now when you see it up close, I'm sure on the wide shot, 00:33 you can see some of this behind us, 00:34 this is part of Camelback Mountain. 00:36 And I understand 00:37 that the vertical elevation difference 00:39 is as high as the Empire State Building. 00:41 It's actually a little bit higher, maybe a few feet. 00:44 Yes. 00:45 A little bit higher than the Empire State Building. 00:48 The actual elevation of Camelback Mountain 00:50 is 2,700 feet. 00:51 It's the highest peak here in the Phoenix area. 00:54 But the vertical climb, like, 00:56 from the beginning of the Echo Canyon Trail 00:58 that we're taking all the way to the top 01:00 is just over 1,200 feet. 01:02 And, I think we're ready to take a hike today. 01:04 Well, we're going to try 01:05 and see how far we get up there. 01:07 I think the next spot somewhere up here 01:08 is called what they say the saddle. 01:10 So we've never been there before, 01:11 so this is something new for us. 01:13 They say that over 700,000 people visit 01:16 this landmark here in Phoenix each year. 01:18 And that's a lot of people. 01:19 It is, absolutely. 01:21 It's beautiful being on God's nature too though. 01:22 I tell you, it's neat to see... 01:24 I saw a cactus, where is he at? 01:25 He's over there, and there's one up here too. 01:27 That's growing, and looks like, on bare rock. 01:29 It's amazing. 01:30 It reminds of trees that are clinging to rocks as well. 01:31 I know. 01:33 And you think, it's harsh, it's desert conditions, 01:34 they said in the summer to be really careful hiking this 01:37 'cause it gets so warm, and yet in spite of all that, 01:39 you see life, you see plants growing, 01:42 and that's just amazing, in the midst of that, 01:45 arid conditions, how God can bring abundant life. 01:48 And we want to give a special shout-out, 01:49 if I can get my phone working, 01:51 to those of you watching on Facebook, 01:54 and these are some people who have liked 01:55 or who have shared this is Merrill, Tom Brown, 01:58 Pat, Dee, Ronald, Arial, Lowrey, Molly, Jenna, 02:03 Cawaisa, Julie, Gurlyn, Norman, Kevin, 02:06 Tom, Chris, Kenneth, Terry, and the list goes on and on. 02:10 So thank you so much. Continue to share the programs. 02:13 We are on Facebook and on YouTube and 3ABN.tv. 02:17 You can stream it on that or any of the other ways 02:19 that you can get 3ABN as well. 02:21 But we have a wonderful testimony. 02:23 I know we're going to 02:24 the Phoenix Central Seventh-day Adventist Church, 02:27 and this is an incredible testimony, 02:30 someone who got a flyer in the mail, 02:33 invited them to come to the meetings 02:36 and made a decision to give their life to Jesus. 02:38 So let's look at that now. 02:43 I'm here with my precious new friend, 02:45 and he has become a dear friend throughout the evenings. 02:49 And, George, 02:50 tell us how did you find out about these meetings? 02:53 I received a flyer in the mail the same day 02:56 that you had your first lesson. 02:58 So I couldn't go to the first one 03:00 but I went to the second one on. 03:01 And you have been very faithful. 03:04 Yeah, I've been coming every time I can. 03:06 Yeah. Doing what I can to get here. 03:08 Well, you know what, it is really exciting for me 03:10 because the first time I saw you, 03:12 we talked and, I know you're in a lot of pain 03:15 and yet God is bringing you out every night. 03:19 What is appealing to you about these messages? 03:22 Well, you give me a lot of clarification on the Bible. 03:25 I had some mixed emotions 03:28 and not understanding certain things, 03:31 and you have brought out things in the Bible that made it 03:35 very clear where I need to go and where I'm coming from. 03:39 Praise the Lord. 03:40 Now, George, you have such a great smile. 03:42 The first night I saw you, there wasn't much of a smile, 03:45 but I've noticed from night to night, 03:47 you're smiling a whole lot more. 03:49 Yeah. It is true. 03:51 I've seen some changes during the time I've been coming here. 03:55 At home, certain things falling in place that never did before, 04:00 but more important lesson that I learned on television 04:05 was a story about the seed, being you the seed, 04:10 being planted in a nutritious soil, 04:14 you yield everything you need to be. 04:17 Yes. Seed is what the Lord made you. 04:20 But if you're planted in the areas 04:21 where there are weeds and rocks and stuff, what happens? 04:26 You become that. 04:28 And that's what happened over the years. 04:30 I was running around with negative people, 04:32 started thinking negative, 04:34 very hateful toward people that burned me 04:37 and took advantage of me, and since last week now, 04:41 I have forgiven everybody 04:43 and asked the Lord to be my Savior. 04:45 Praise God. Hallelujah. 04:47 You know what, George, 04:48 you are the reason we're here in Phoenix 04:51 because God has a plan for your life 04:54 and he has been bringing you, 04:55 and it's so exciting to see what the Lord is doing. 04:58 He has you, especially. 05:02 Well, we're glad. 05:03 How long has it been since you've been to church, George? 05:06 About 27 years now. 05:10 Well, and I hope that now that you're learning the truth, 05:14 this will become your home. 05:18 You know, this is a special time at Sabbath, 05:20 it's a Friday evening. 05:22 We're able... 05:24 We just got through having 05:25 a wonderful, wonderful message by Shelley. 05:27 But it's always fun to sit down with Clayton. 05:30 Clayton runs all the IT stuff right here. 05:32 I don't know, he tells me that you just learned this 05:35 10.5 years ago, 05:36 and he's been putting the pieces together, 05:38 and without you, this would be a train wreck. 05:43 Oh, not necessarily. This is, you know... 05:46 Yeah, I did start doing this about 10.5 years ago. 05:49 But it was... It is a God-given gift. 05:52 Yeah. 05:53 I have never been trained on any of this stuff. 05:55 It was just one of those type of things that 05:57 God has moved in me to be able to put this stuff together. 06:01 Another thing that really amazes me 06:03 is that you live in Mesa, and how far is that from here? 06:08 It's about 40-45 miles from my house to here. 06:12 Yeah, and you have made a covenant with this church, 06:16 but more than anything, 06:18 with God that you will be here every night. 06:21 Oh, yeah, definitely. 06:22 Wow. He put me in this church. 06:27 He said, "This is where I want you to be." 06:30 He's given me all the talents, 06:33 everything, anything I needed for this church 06:36 to be able to do the stuff we do, it's always there. 06:39 Yeah. 06:41 You know, the funds to be able to do what we do, everything, 06:46 it's like, when He tells us to do this, it's done. 06:51 I know that you certainly cooperate with 3ABN 06:54 because there's a lot of pieces to this puzzle 06:57 in order to get all this with five different churches. 07:00 Well, I guess we got more than five 07:02 because I know that the Apache Junction, 07:04 I know that Pastor Jose Marin, 07:06 he's over there, so with all these churches 07:09 and all the pieces of this puzzle, 07:11 it takes someone that's dedicated, 07:12 that someone that has said, 07:15 "Hey, I'll make this work on my end here at Central." 07:18 Oh, definitely. 07:19 I mean, but that's, 07:21 you know, this is what we kind of do here. 07:24 You know, the video end of it, 07:26 you know, it's even like when I came to this church, 07:29 they didn't have a whole lot of video stuff here. 07:31 I slowly built a system together for us. 07:34 And in my first time, I was doing this, I'm like, 07:37 "What am I going to do with this? 07:38 I've got all the equipment now, what do I do with this?" 07:42 And so I started doing the YouTube thing. 07:44 And it's blown up crazy 07:47 to where we've been out of this little church here. 07:49 We've been viewed in 180 countries around the world. 07:51 That's just absolutely amazing. 07:53 What a minister in itself. 07:55 Yeah, you know, it definitely is. 07:57 And, you know, like I said, all glory goes to God. 08:00 Because, you know, when I first started the YouTube thing, 08:03 even I couldn't go on and find any of the sermons 08:06 but yet they were being viewed in other countries. 08:08 So it was like 08:10 He's given me a gift to be able to put this out there, 08:12 and we've actually got enough viewers 08:15 on that watches on a normally basis, 08:19 we have a separate church just on the internet. 08:21 That's amazing. 08:22 I know that we had Pathway to Health, 08:27 you were here whenever that was going on, 08:29 and now we've transcended into Pathway of Life, 08:32 what did you all do here to prepare for this 08:35 so that we are where we are today? 08:38 It was for us, you know, preparing for... 08:42 I mean, we had the diabetes classes, 08:45 we had the depression classes, 08:47 and then they did bridging gap which was the Daniel, 08:51 and basically, the gapping for that. 08:53 Yeah. 08:55 And I know every night seems like 08:57 we have new people that are coming in. 08:59 Yep. And it's just amazing. 09:01 All we know that it's our responsibility to sow the seed. 09:04 True, true, and you know, that's again back to my thing, 09:08 that's when He says, "Go." 09:10 Amen. 09:11 And we don't ask where, we just go. 09:14 Amen. When he guides, we go. 09:16 Amen. 09:20 Amen. Great rolls. 09:22 And we do appreciate Clayton 09:23 and all his work on the AV team. 09:25 And we appreciate all the other churches as well 09:27 that each one has their own AV team 09:28 that have been participating with this series, 09:31 and a good interview by JD and with Clayton. 09:33 Absolutely, it's a blessing, you know, 09:35 you think about each one of the churches 09:36 and their local team pulling together 09:39 and recording the series so that each one can be 09:41 uploaded on 3ABNPhoenix.com. 09:43 Yeah. 09:44 We have made it a little bit further up the trail here. 09:47 I'm trying not to look like I'm sweating. 09:49 Well, here's a little dry in Phoenix, 09:51 so it's a little hard to sweat, but anyway, it's hot. 09:53 But it's beautiful, you can see some of the, 09:56 I guess the city below us, there are some of the houses, 09:59 and like Jill said, we're little further up, 10:01 there's a sheer rock cliff actually in front of us, 10:03 but we're going to continue up this trail. 10:05 Now there's interesting... 10:06 It's hard for me to kind of see it here but they say, 10:08 that's supposed to be the praying monk. 10:10 So I know that with 10:12 some of the early Native Americans here, 10:14 this was actually a holy spot here at Camelback Mountain. 10:17 And I see a little cactus or actually, 10:20 it's probably a big cactus growing right on top of 10:22 what they say is the praying monk, up there. 10:24 That's right, and it looks little 10:26 just because it's a long ways from us. 10:27 But hopefully, we'll be making it up there. 10:30 As I think about the people behind us, you know, 10:32 the houses and everything that's behind us here, 10:35 you think about the people in this world 10:36 who don't know Jesus, 10:38 people who maybe... they heard about Him 10:40 but He doesn't connect with them, 10:42 or they just think, 10:44 "I don't know where is God when I'm hurting right now." 10:46 So that's the important of this series, 10:49 it's that people can come to a knowledge of Jesus, 10:52 people can find out who He is, and that God is love 10:55 and that He wants each one 10:57 to accept Him and to follow Him. 10:59 That's right. And that's really incredible. 11:01 We have an exciting roll that we're going to go to too. 11:03 This is again a song that is been our theme song 11:07 of the Paradise Valley Seventh-day Church, 11:09 and that is "Wonderful Words of Life". 11:11 And the crew again have gotten some footage, 11:13 and even on this hike, 11:14 they're getting some footage to go along with this song. 11:17 So let's go to that roll right now. 15:24 What a beautiful song, "Wonderful Words of Life." 15:27 Didn't you enjoy the scenery? 15:29 It's so beautiful out here in the desert. 15:31 It has its own beauty, 15:32 and just great shots from our crew. 15:35 We have an incredible production crew here 15:37 and the music underneath that roll was Tim Parton. 15:41 So he sat in his hotel room with a keyboard 15:43 and put that together for us. 15:44 So that was really beautiful. 15:46 You know, I know you saw some pictures of cactus 15:48 and I don't know much about the southwest. 15:50 So there's a little cactus, it's about this big, 15:53 and I thought it was baby saguaro cactus, it's not. 15:55 It's called barrel cactus. 15:57 And the ones with the arms are the saguaro cactus. 15:59 So we're starting to learn 16:00 some of the cactus here in this area. 16:03 Now just off to my left is the Piestewa Peak 16:08 which we climbed on an earlier, well not quite to the top. 16:11 We got quite close. 16:12 Yes. We had to switch bags. 16:15 Piestewa Peak on earlier eyesight 16:16 and then in front of me is what they call, 16:18 I think, Four Peaks, and that is about 7,000 feet. 16:21 I know those mountains are way off in the distance. 16:23 But it's a beautiful scenery 16:25 because we have made it to Echo, 16:27 the saddleback, is that right? 16:29 Echo Saddle, I think, it's what they call it. 16:30 Oh, saddle, thank you. Yes. 16:31 And it's, I guess, 16:33 the saddle that the camel would have, right? 16:34 I'm not sure. 16:35 If you're riding the camel, you've got the head sitting 16:37 over here and then the saddle, and then you've got the hump. 16:38 So, I think, there's two separate peaks 16:40 here with Camelback. 16:41 We've made it. 16:43 We have made it to the saddle here, 16:44 and so what a blessing, and you know, 16:45 as we were coming up, I looked just over there, 16:48 and there is a house, literally, on top of the rock. 16:51 It's built on a rock. 16:52 It's built right on top of the rock. 16:53 It reminds me, Jesus says, 16:55 "Wise man built his house upon a rock." 16:58 And what happened? 17:00 The rain came tumbling down and the house stood solid 17:03 because it was built on the rock. 17:04 And we want our lives to be centered 17:07 on the Lord Jesus Christ because He is the rock. 17:10 Amen, yeah, that's for sure, 17:12 and there's again just beautiful nature here, 17:13 so much to learn from our creation 17:15 and where God has provided for us to learn from. 17:18 I know. What a blessing. Where are we going to next? 17:20 We're going to the Chandler Seventh-day Adventist Church. 17:22 Chris Shelton had the opportunity 17:24 to talk to a woman there who's a member of the church, 17:26 but she's been learning some really neat things 17:29 during the series. 17:31 So let's listen to that now. 17:35 Hi, I'm Chris Shelton, 17:37 and we're coming to you again from Chandler, 17:39 Arizona at Chandler Seventh-day Adventist Church. 17:42 And I have Sister Shari here with me. 17:45 And, Sister Shari, you've been here 17:47 every night except for two. 17:49 Yes, ma'am. 17:50 And I think you've got something on your heart 17:51 you want to share with the folks at home 17:53 about these meetings, don't you? 17:55 Yes, ma'am. 17:56 Well, I've been very blessed to be able to come 17:58 to these meetings and get to meet the Shelton family. 18:00 We watch you guys me and my mom on 3ABN pretty much every day. 18:04 So it's nice to actually meet you guys and see. 18:06 I'm really thankful for this meeting today, 18:09 talking about health message 'cause I've been struggling 18:11 with like dairy products, I'm trying to eat cleaner 18:13 and having more vegetarian based diet. 18:16 This meeting today really helped me 18:18 to solidify that that something 18:19 I need to change in my life and bring me closer to God. 18:22 That's been really helpful for me. 18:24 Bless your heart. 18:26 The Holy Spirit was speaking to you, wasn't He? 18:28 I know He spoke to many of us. 18:31 And I heard a pastor say not long ago 18:33 that a lot of people have stuff. 18:35 And you might have heard me say that in my prayer 18:37 because we all have stuff, 18:38 and sometimes this stuff separates us from God, 18:41 and the Holy Spirit begins to convict 18:44 and to speak to our hearts, and He wants us to be healthy, 18:48 He wants to be happy Christians. 18:50 But the beautiful thing that we learned tonight is 18:52 we are never left alone. 18:54 He promises to give us that power 18:57 to be sons and daughters of God. 18:59 Does that encourage you? Yes, ma'am. 19:01 That encourages me very much like knowing 19:02 my God is going to take care of me and help me 19:05 with the cravings and like the desires for dairy products. 19:09 I know that He'll be able to hold my hand 19:11 and keep me from temptation when those do it right 19:14 and lead me to the healthier options. 19:16 You know, we read tonight that He is our Son, 19:19 He's our lifegiver, He's our shield, 19:21 He's our protector, He will sustain, He will bless. 19:25 And I am so glad to get to know you a little better too 19:29 'cause when we're talking, 19:30 when we're talking to people through 3ABN, 19:33 we're talking to you and to others who are watching. 19:37 And we're talking to you here tonight. 19:39 God bless each and every one of you, 19:41 and thank you so much for tuning in. 19:44 Thank you so much for that wonderful testimony there, 19:47 Chris and Shari, from the Chandler SDA Church. 19:50 We are still in the Echo Saddle, 19:51 but we're in a little different spot. 19:53 We are. Yeah. Sitting on some rocks and... 19:55 I feel a little precarious. No, it's safe. 19:58 There's a little hole here between us 19:59 but you won't go too far. 20:01 But anyway, I think you have a better view now of 20:02 Piestewa Peak back in the background behind us, 20:05 and again, just a beautiful view here overlooking Phoenix. 20:09 And we're getting ready to go to next is Shelley Quinn. 20:11 She actually did a little report. 20:13 We've been talking about Shelley and her sickness, 20:15 and she's actually in the hospital actually 20:17 when she gave us this report. 20:19 Something in the city of Phoenix behind us here, 20:21 she was in one of these hospitals back here. 20:24 But, I think, what's interesting is that 20:25 you can see downtown. 20:27 And, I think, about where GYC started out here 20:29 several months ago, 20:31 and the evangelism that the young people did here 20:33 in this area and then Pathway to Health 20:36 with all of the free medical care. 20:38 I believe they said it was over $40 million, 20:40 I believe, is that right? 20:41 A free medical care was given here in the Phoenix area... 20:43 A lot, I may be wrong in those figures. 20:45 But it's neat to see then the Pathway to Life 20:48 that's following up, 20:49 and how God is blessing this event 20:51 and how lives are being touched 20:53 not just temporarily but for eternity. 20:54 Amen. Amen. 20:56 It's exciting to me to see 20:57 the whole city coming together as it were. 21:00 You know, you just see the teamwork with GYC 21:02 in the young people. 21:03 You'll see the doctors, and the nurses, 21:05 and the people who came in for a Pathway to Health 21:07 and other volunteers who were non-medical 21:10 who came in to help. 21:12 You'll see the laity, you see leadership with the conference, 21:15 evangelistic trust, everybody working together 21:19 to help save people's lives, 21:21 to help them bring the knowledge of Jesus 21:23 to other people. 21:25 That is really exciting. Yeah. 21:26 So, I think, what we would do right now is actually 21:28 go to Shelley Quinn there 21:29 and get a little report from the hospital and, 21:31 again, we do thank you for your prayers for her 21:33 and for the rest of the team here in Phoenix. 21:40 Well, JD and I are here at 21:41 one of the lesser known tourist spots in Phoenix 21:46 at the HonorHealth Shea emergency room. 21:50 I'm just here to make sure that I don't have pneumonia. 21:53 And it's a wonderful hospital, lovely people. 21:58 But I just wanted to thank everybody 22:00 for all of your prayers because it has been miraculous 22:04 how as sick as I've been, 22:07 the Lord stands me up every night, 22:09 and we've been delivering, and I give Him all the glory. 22:15 Thank you so much for praying for us. 22:17 When we're on the front lines, 22:18 you know that the devil is on the attack. 22:20 So God bless you and thank you once again. 22:26 Hello, my name is Rodney Machokoto. 22:29 And my name is Daphine Machokoto. 22:31 Now we're with our sons Rodney here and Michael. 22:35 We're at Phoenix Central SDA Church, we're members here. 22:38 We're excited about evangelism. 22:40 We are both Pathfinder Directors here 22:43 and we also work in the Finance Committee. 22:45 My wife here works as well with the little children 22:49 at cradle roll, 22:51 and so we're excited with Shelley 22:52 that who has come here. 22:53 We're excited with the work she's doing as she's continuing 22:57 the work that we're working in Pathfinders. 23:00 I myself am a current PhD student 23:02 at Arizona State University here, 23:04 studying the history of how Adventists have gone 23:06 in different communities around the country 23:09 using different organizations 23:10 and how they have sustained this work. 23:13 And my wife here is tag teaming with me, 23:15 and she actually helps us with our children. 23:19 Yes, my job is stay-at-home mom, 23:22 and taking care of the boys, and homeschooling them 23:26 because it's important to teach them Jesus first 23:30 and then there on they will be able to go 23:32 into the world and teach everyone about Jesus. 23:36 All right, as we've been here in Arizona, especially Phoenix, 23:40 we have noticed that Phoenix is the fourth largest city now, 23:44 and there's a lot of evangelism that needs to be done. 23:48 At different levels, there's quite still have 23:50 some of the wealthiest people in the country, 23:52 and we have some of the most 23:55 poor people as well in the country, 23:57 there's a lot of challenges with drug addictions here, 24:00 there's a lot of refugees 24:02 that are coming from different parts of the world, 24:04 and so it's an exciting place to be bringing evangelism. 24:08 So Shelly, what she's doing, she's actually helping 24:11 to enrich the efforts that are happening here 24:13 at Arizona conference. 24:14 We appreciate what she's doing and we're excited about that. 24:18 Some of the things that we're doing with the children, 24:20 she is actually adding to that and we appreciate 24:24 what her and JD have done for us. 24:27 They have brought excitement. 24:28 This church already is, as people have seen, 24:31 it's a very diverse church with different people from 24:34 different parts of the world, we have different races, 24:36 we have people who are Native Americans, 24:39 we have blacks, we have whites, we have the Hispanics, 24:42 and other different types of groups. 24:44 We have Asians that are also part of this group. 24:46 And so what she's doing is her work is not only impacting 24:51 one group of people from one country 24:53 but we know her impact will actually 24:55 travel around the world because of what she's doing. 24:59 My wife has already bought a couple CDs 25:01 that she was sending to her sisters 25:03 some who are actually in Zimbabwe, 25:05 some who are in South Africa, and some who are actually 25:08 recently in China might be going back. 25:10 So we appreciate what they're doing, 25:12 and we appreciate what 3ABN is doing. 25:15 Well, we've hiked up the path a little bit more, 25:18 and we're here against this rock. 25:20 But this path almost starts to get a little dangerous 25:23 as we start to get up a little more. 25:24 I don't know if you can see behind us... 25:26 Oh, yeah, it gets really steep. 25:27 It's pretty steep going up there. 25:28 Oh, very steep. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 25:30 And you see this fence here through, there's fence, 25:32 and there's actually hand rail here above us as well. 25:35 And a great spiritual lesson we can give from this 25:37 because we're all in the Path of Life, 25:39 and there are safeguards to keep us from falling off 25:42 on the wrong side of the path and that would be God's Word 25:45 to stay in communion with Christ always, 25:48 and just like these here are to protect us 25:49 from falling over the edge, 25:51 God's Word's there to help us and protect us. 25:52 Amen, you know, sometimes we think of God's Word 25:54 as something that is difficult, like, 25:57 "Okay, I have to do this. 25:59 I can't do that." 26:00 Well, I want to go off the path and go over here, 26:02 but this fence is not meant to hurt people, 26:04 this fence is protection. 26:06 That's true. 26:08 Because if you're hiking up this trail 26:09 and all of a sudden you slip, 26:10 you don't want to fall, you don't want to break a leg, 26:12 you don't want to hurt yourself, 26:13 you don't want to die. 26:14 So I think that's the power in God's Word, 26:17 it's to protect us, and it's to keep us safe. 26:20 And you think about that path and those handrails, 26:22 praise the Lord for that. 26:23 You know, I think, God sends people along our path, 26:26 who can give us a hand as a rail 26:28 and help us along that path, 26:30 That's true. 26:31 And we want to encourage you to pray for Shelley. 26:33 I know we came out of that room that she is in the hospital, 26:37 was just in the ER to get tested, and they released her. 26:41 Praise the Lord. 26:43 And so praise the Lord for that. 26:44 She is on the mend, and I'm thankful for that. 26:47 And we also heard from a precious couple, 26:49 he's a PhD student here studying 26:52 and he's doing his post-graduate work, 26:54 and he was talking about the drug issue here 26:59 as there would be in any large city. 27:01 And there's a lot of influx of refugee, 27:03 and specifically studying how we can evangelistically 27:08 help people who are dealing with those kinds of issues. 27:11 Yes, true. 27:12 You know, I was thinking that was a great testimony too. 27:14 You know, we all go through storms in life, 27:15 and thing about Shelley too, the health issues 27:17 she's been dealing, and with us we're hiking here, 27:18 see this walk this behind, 27:20 the side that's going up over our heads. 27:22 And you come around the corner, it's like, 27:24 "Whoa, look at that behind us. 27:25 That's like almost insurmountable." 27:27 You know, but the nice thing is in Isaiah, 27:28 God talks about being with us through a storm 27:30 or any challenge that we face in life. 27:32 So you can come around the corner in life and like, 27:33 "Whoa, what is this?" 27:35 But God is there to be with us through those storms 27:37 and to provide the strength that we need. 27:40 We've been bringing a lot of water 27:41 and drinking the water along the hike. 27:43 Of course, Christ is the fountain of life 27:45 force and the source, 27:47 yeah, of our water in life here spiritually. 27:49 Amen, absolutely. 27:51 Well, we are going to try to get up that hill. 27:53 Are we? We are. 27:54 Let's do it. No problem. Absolutely. 27:55 And then we have to get back to the meeting. 27:57 We got to change our clothes, 27:58 and get back for the meeting tonight 28:00 with Pastor John Lomacang, 28:02 and I'm looking forward to that. 28:03 I know every night God has a powerful message through him. 28:07 So make sure you stay by and be blessed by that message. |
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