Good evening every one!
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Welcome once again to ASI
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the Adventist laymen's
Services and Industries general
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convention of 2006.
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And welcome to Texas you all.
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Glad you came.
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You're gonna hear
some more good music,
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you're gonna hear
some good preaching,
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you're gonna hear
some members in action,
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but before we do that
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we want to talk
about some projects
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that you made possible,
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last year.
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And first off we're
gonna talk with Steve Dickman
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Steve, you are an
ASI officer, aren't you?
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Yes, that's right Cal,
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Ok, I'm president of
the Southern Union Chapter
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Ok. We've worked
together a little bit
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Amen. And you have
with you, your brother
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This is my brother, Randal
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he is the
administrator for a nursing home
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there at Harbert Hills Academy.
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Ok. And what do
you do during the day?
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I'm the president and
general business manager
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for Harbert Hills Academy
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We have the school,
the 49 bed nursing-home
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we have fifty
thousand watt radio station
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a bakery and a farm and a
few other things that we do.
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Ok, tell me just
a little bit about
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what ASI was able to help
you, accomplish this last year
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ASI has been very generous
with Harbert Hills Academy
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over the years and
its radio ministry.
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And we appreciate that, I
want to say a big thank you
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to the family here at ASI.
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And this most recent project
was to raise our tower height
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from 150 feet to 500 feet
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So along the way, naturally
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when you start doing something
for the Lord, you know what?
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The devil gets
involved. Absolutely.
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And we were in the
process of building this tower
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actually we have got a
used tower out of Florida
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and we didn't
know it at the time
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but that used tower
had a structural flaw in it
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and when we had it to
the height of 300 feet
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it ended up that we had
to take it all back down
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because of a structural failure
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And of course that was a
rather disheartening experience
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as you might imagine.
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And so ASI assisted
us with some funds to
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actually procure a new tower
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which has been an
extremely large blessing
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and we are now broadcasting
from a new, 500 ft tower
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from our studios there.
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ok, tell me what can
you do with this tower
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that you couldn't do previously?
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Well, we're able to
give a better signal
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to many of the folks
in our listening area
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and we've actually been able
to extend our listening area
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in a few places
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so it's covering a
larger listening audience
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than it did before.
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You've got some
fantastic stories to tell
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about the radio station, I
wanna hear a couple of them.
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Well, you're right Cal, you know
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radio is more than
just steel and concrete
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and towers and all of
the equipment that it takes
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to make it work. That's right.
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Radio is really
about ministering to people
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and I've invited my
brother Randal here this evening
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to share, first of
all a personal testimony
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and some other stories
about what radio means to people
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I want to say this
evening that this station
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has been a blessing to my life.
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I've been listening to
this station since 1975
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and I get hope and courage
by listening to this station.
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And I've recently
had a tragedy in my life
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my wife of 22 years passed away
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this recent spring
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in April.
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And a blow like that can
either turn us closer to God
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or can turn us
further away from God.
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I chose to use this
experience to draw closer to God
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and it's been a
tremendous blessing in my life
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to give me the hope and courage
that our Savior is coming soon
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and we want to be ready for
His coming each and every day.
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Our programs are hope filled
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they're filled with
the message of Jesus Christ
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And my wife loved this station,
it was dear to her heart
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she supported it, we
supported it together
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she listened to it
every time we got in the car
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when she was in
the car by herself
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she spoke of it often,
she loved It is Written
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Voice of Prophecy,
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but the ministry of the
music was something very special
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to her heart.
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So I'm very hopeful
for the fact that she died
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in the knowledge
of our Savior, Jesus
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and that I will see
her on Resurrection day
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This is what the station
has meant to me personally
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and I've had
some other experiences
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as administrator
of our nursing home
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I've had many
contacts with people
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that have come through there
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just the other day a family
was touring the nursing home
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and after the tour was over
we began to talk, personally
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about some things that
were important to her and to us
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and she off-handedly mentioned:
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You know, I listen to
your program every single day
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and I was very suprized by that
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she hadn't mentioned
anything of that nature before
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and I asked her: What
is your favorite program?
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and she said: The Story Hour
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and she was: I hate to
admit that being as old as I am
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that The Story Hour
is my favorite program
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and I said well,
I'm right along with you
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I have to say the same thing
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The Story Hour is my
favorite part of the program too
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and it's great to listen to the
stories of the Bible characters
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of the past and
how God has lead them
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You know, if He can lead
them He can lead you and I
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to a closer walk with God.
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Randy, there's
something interesting about that
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we're not just
reaching out to individuals
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we're also reaching out
to pastors in our communities
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We are in contact with
over 200 non-Adventist pastors
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trough a news letter and
other means of communication
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Share with us briefly
about a certain pastor
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that has been impacted
by the ministry of WDNX.
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We were
broadcasting a complete series
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of Evangelistic meetings
that Jason Morgan was putting on
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here at our local church
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and as he was
putting these meetings on
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we were
broadcasting them twice a day
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one in the
morning, one in the evening
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make sure that
everybody had a chance to listen
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this pastor heard the message
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he called after a few days,
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our pastor went to his church
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and visited him, the
upshot of all the thing is that
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his whole church now
is worshipping on Sabbath.
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and I tell you it just
warms your heart to realize that
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God is still
working in our world today
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He is still influencing
people for the Kingdom
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and our message
and our idea here is:
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impacting people for eternity.
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well, you know Cal...
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the radio world
is changing today
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there's a lot of
things now that are available
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that didn't use to be available
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computers run almost everything,
a lot of technology there
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But WDNX is
moving upward and onward
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we've applied for a couple
of other construction permits
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we've procured one of those
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and we're actually
getting ready to build up
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one more translator station
in the local listening area.
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Next guest, I don't
need to introduce Dick
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but I will, If
you have watched 3ABN
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you know that he's on there.
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Your program is:
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Body and Spirit. That's
right. Where are you from Dick?
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The Black Hills of South Dakota.
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ok. Maybe there
is somebody here that
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maybe there is somebody
here that doesn't know you
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I know that we have done a
little bit of banner before
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up front, and I've
asked you your age before
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could you tell me that again?
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I'm gonna be 51 real quick.
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You can still lift a Volkswagen
over your head, right?
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I'm a little bit smaller,
I don't know if you can tell
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but from the last time that we
were together here on the stage
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But you're hairier.
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You know what they
said about Abraham Lincoln
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that he looked
weird without the beard
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I've tried it
but it hasn't helped
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but I will say this,
that I've lost about 40 pounds
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and I've done it by doing
what you tell people to do
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Right? That's right.
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And it's all been hard
work too. I can tell you that.
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About how many guests
can you have at Black Hills?
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Well we're
having about 25 a month
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so we've really been blessed.
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And it's pretty full
all the time. That's right.
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That's a full house for us.
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Tell me what ASI has
been helping you with
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in the last year.
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One of the problems we had is
that we didn't have enough room
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to handle people who
could not climb steps
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And so ASI helped us
to build an expansion
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so now we can do
treatments and house guests
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on a lower level and
it's worked out really well
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We had a woman come out
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who had been in a
wheel-chair for 9 months
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because of her
rheumatoid arthritis
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and she hadn't
moved from that chair
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three weeks later, at
graduation, she got up and
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walked to take her diploma. Amen
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You've told me a
few other stories
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when we were talking before,
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I wonder if you
could tell us another one
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Which ones?
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You were talking about all
the people that you've helped
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and you did talk about the woman
that hadn't walked for a while
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but you also
talked about someone
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that had a
problem with their ankle.
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But I'll let you figure it out.
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When a woman come out
that had some ankle problems.
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And she had gone through
a very bad traffic accident
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and she came to the center
and was there for two months
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and the second
month of the program
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her boyfriend came
and stayed with her
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in different rooms, ok?
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and when they went back home
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I understood right
after they got back home
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they were both baptized
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in fact we've had five
baptisms already this year
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through this program
because we're reaching out
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to a group of people who may not
go to an evangelistic crusade
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but you have them one on one
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and you can work with
them through that measure
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so many souls are
coming to the Lord
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That is something
that I wanted to bring out
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There are some
people who question
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the aspect of
weather a life style centre
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talking about health
really isn't ministry
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and it really is a
ministry in a lot of ways
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the way that we can
minister to other people
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is not just simply
helping them get better health
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but also in leading
them closer to Christ
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Absolutely. Right.
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How did Jesus go
through His ministry
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the first thing
He did was go out
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take care of the
physical needs of the people
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and that opened the
doors to minister to them
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I know all of us who
study the advent message know
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know what the health message is
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it's the right hand of
our third angels message
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so when we look at
having a healthy body
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your healthy body is a
living, walking testimony
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to how you're living.
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Amen. You know
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you mentioned to me that there
are some people who look at you
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and say: You know, Dick, you
must do a lot of weight lifting
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o whole lot of exercising
and the must be the only way
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that you can keep up your health
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is that true? No, it's not.
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Once upon a time I used
to work out four hours a day
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seven days a week and
worked out with such people
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as Arnold Schwarzenegger,
as we know the governator
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and now I lift weighs three
times a week for 15 minutes
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and we're lifting that
weight for the last 15 years
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and I actually got
much stronger doing that
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than I ever did by doing
the 4 hours a day 7 days a week
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that was before my advental days
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so I wasn't
working out on Sabbath
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and your diet is...
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Well, I'm a total vegetarian
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I only eat twice a day
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and I've been doing
that for about 25 years
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but once upon a time before that
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I used to eat three
pounds of meat, a gallon of milk
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and have snacks every day.
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Ok and would you say that
you're a little healthier today?
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I'm a little bit healthier but
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honestly I got stronger
eating the vegetarian way
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than I ever did
eating the animal products
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so if you wonder how that works
read Daniel 1 all over again
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you'll figure it
out. OK, very good.
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Well, in parting is there
something that you'd like to say
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to the ASI members
here that are gathered
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they made possible your project?
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I'd like to thank you very much
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and pitch about get out there
and exercise in the morning.
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That's right.
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He does have an
exercise program in the morning.
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But of course if
you're already way too fit,
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if you're already too strong,
and you have no pains at all
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than you don't
need to came and see me
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and exercise in the morning
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but if you need
to lose a few pounds
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and need to get
feeling good again
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you should be out there.
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But anyway, I'd like to
thank ASI for your support
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of the Black Hill
Southern Education Centre
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awesome things are happening,
God has blessed us richly
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and despite our own humancy, He
just keeps blessing and blessing
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Thank you ASI
because without you
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there would be some souls that
would not be in the Kingdom.
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Amen, thank you so much!
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With me now is Mike Jones
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Mike tell me a little bit about
who you're working with and
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and what your project is.
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I work for Voice of
Prophecy, the last three years
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and we have a little entity
called Operation Reconnect
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we're trying to reach out to
the many hundreds and thousands
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of inactive former members who
are no longer active in church
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Interesting. You have
some personal experience
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in this area. Don't you?
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Well I was out of the
church for sixteen years, so
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that gave me some
credentials I guess
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for reaching out
to people like myself.
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That's right. That's true.
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What exactly do you do
to do this reconnecting?
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Well, thanks to the
generous contributions of ASI
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we have created a news
letter called Getting in Touch
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that goes off three times a year
to inactive and former members
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and any of the
folks here that'd like to
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get their loved ones name,
who might be inactive in church
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it's called reconnectnow. org
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we also have created a DVD of
former members who've come back
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that's really
inspiring to share with people
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who are inactive
themselves right now.
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and we've created a
lot of different things
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in case that
people want to come by
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and visit the
Voice Prophecy booth
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we'd be glad to
share those with them
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we have another DVD that Lonnie
and Jeannie Melashenko did for
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us to help our churches
become more user friendly
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when the inactive and
former members show up
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it might be likely to
want to come back again
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because they'll feel so loved.
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Good, good. Well now, you
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you wanted to talk a
little bit on the personal level
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and you had
mentioned that your son also
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has recently come
back to the church
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perhaps you could
introduce that a little bit
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well, I have three sons,
two of them left the church
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and the two of
them had come back
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one of them came back in
February and it's been a joy
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we've seen thousands of people
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starting to come
back to the church
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in recent years,
it's just been wonderful
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but it's really
personal when it's your own kid
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and I have a 43 year old
son and he's here tonight
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Lonnie Melashenko
from Voice of Prophecy
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to interview him
and just tell the story
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so that you can hear one story
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of the hundreds and
thousands that are out there
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and they'll come and share
that story with you right now.
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You were out of the
church for how many years?
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Approximately 23 years
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23 years.
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You know that Gods'
messenger to this church
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says that in the very
last days before the loud cry
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many of those who want to
walk with us will come back
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it's one of the missionary
projects of the ASI folks
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going venturing with
The Voice of Prophecy
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What were the factors that
brought you back to the church
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because you not only came back,
you've been recently baptized
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What brought you back?
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It was a slow process,
but it was probably one day
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when my 11 year old son
asked me about Revelation
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he had some
questions about the church
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and I didn't have
any answers for him
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and I knew I was doing both
of my sons a great disservice
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by not having them in the church
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so they could make educated
decisions down the road about
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religion, their own
lives and their own directions
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in regards to the Lord.
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And after 23years there was a
deterioration of your own life
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your own habits, your
relationship in your marriage
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and the kids saw nothing,
they've never been to church
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No, never.
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What was happening in your
own personal life, at you job
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in your marriage in particular?
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Well I was in a lot
of working all the time,
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I was trying to attain
all the things that you think
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are gonna make you happy in life
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and was finding that difficult
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my marriage had
gone down the drain
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it was in the pits. Yes.
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My wife and I had
been to counseling
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a year prior, kind
of worked things out
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I said, I'll
give it another shot,
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but if it deteriorates again
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I'm done, about a year
later it deteriorated again
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it got really bad
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she was unhappy, I was unhappy
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we were both resentful
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we both didn't like each other
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it was pretty bad.
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So you were just
about ready to divorce?
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But something happened that
was a major God moment for you
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it had something to
do with Roger Morneau
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and the prayer ministry that
your dad was engaging for you
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you didn't know about it, but
it had to do with an anointing
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what happened there
that was so amazing?
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I was done with my
marriage, I told my wife that,
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she called my dad
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my dad called me and said
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we'd like to come
anoint you, and I was like
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Ok sure. You know, I didn't
want my wife to be able to
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say I didn't do everything
to make the marriage work
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I didn't really believed that
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there was going to
be a difference from it
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but my dad came
down with his wife
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they anointed my wife and I and
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I wondered for years
if there really was a God
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if it was true and
I'm here to tell you today
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that I had this sense of
peace and calm come over me
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like nothing I've ever
experienced, all my anger
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resentment, my
hatred towards my wife
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it was just gone, instantly.
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That anointing was a miracle.
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Yeah, and I knew
than that there was a God
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there's no way that happens and
it's not a divine intervention
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Many of these
folks here, tonight
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sat in the seminar
in Sacramento, last year
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when your dad brought
you in the classroom and said
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this is one of the
examples we need to try to reach
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What happened on
February 18 of this year?
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Myself and my two
boys were baptized.
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Amen.
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And he's sharing his story.
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And we'd like
to have you, please
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come by the booth
tonight or tomorrow morning
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Mike Jones,
right here, from Texas
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will be more than
happy to share with you
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his journey, but what would
you say to people out there
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there are a million
or more Adventists today
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who don't have their families,
they don't have their children
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what would you say
to these folks out there
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in terms of how
to get them back?
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I would say to keep
praying, be supportive
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but don't be pushy.
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Because the harder you
push the harder you drive them
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and from my own,
personal experience
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the more we're gonna
turn and go the other way
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so just be
supportive and just be there
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and just trust in
God, He'll do His work
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like He did on me.
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A big thank you to Mike
Jones. Let's welcome him back.
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God bless you Mike.
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Thank you so much.
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We have four great
stories for you this evening
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about how ASI
members are being active
00:19:50.68\00:19:53.67
in sharing Christ
in their market place.
00:19:53.71\00:19:56.67
I have with me this evening
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Doctor Michael
Hasel and Rusty McKee.
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Our topic this evening
is biblical archeology.
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But don't get up and leave yet.
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Rusty, I understand you
had a recent opportunity
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to participate in a
biblical archeology tour
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in Israel. Tell us a bit
about your personal experience.
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There we were about
twenty or thirty of us
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in the rural area of Israel
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the beautiful hill,
grassy valley and rolly hills
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and than Dr. Holston
starts reading the Scripture
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he's reading
about David and Goliath
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and I'm just enjoying the view
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and than he ends up saying:
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and this is
where David trusted God
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and Goliath was killed.
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And than this chill
just went through my spine
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and I was just thrilled
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all this in the Bible
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and this story you've
heard since your childhood
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come to life.
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And you're trying to pick up
what's over here and over here
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and he describes it's
either this valley here or there
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you're looking at what
they would have seen too
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Well than the doubt had to hit
00:21:02.00\00:21:04.30
and I was like: no no
no, how do you know that?
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Than he continues to tell
from an archeological standpoint
00:21:06.24\00:21:09.18
what has been found
and why everything lines up
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and points out to
be: this is the valley
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Wow, what a
powerful experience Rusty
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Dr. Hasel just tell
us a little bit about
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what's happening in the field of
biblical archeology right now.
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Biblical archeology is a
field that is in crisis actually
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is a field that right now
is facing some difficulties
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We have been in a transition
time in the last twenty years
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where the Bible has
been divorced from archeology
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in the secular
world in which we live
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and many more scholars
today, biblical scholars
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are turning to
archeology to try to figure out
00:21:48.01\00:21:50.98
what parts of the
Bible actually happened,
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what parts didn't.
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Even though we have this
secularization of disciplines
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so there's a real
need and a real value
00:21:58.11\00:22:02.47
of reconnecting with the Bible
00:22:02.50\00:22:04.67
and bringing these two
disciplines together again
00:22:04.71\00:22:07.16
in today's' world.
00:22:07.19\00:22:08.53
As we were talking before
our time here this evening
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I was really impressed
with some of the things
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that God is doing in this
filed to bring about change
00:22:15.37\00:22:18.45
tell us a little
bit about the experience
00:22:18.48\00:22:20.31
at the Southern
Adventist University that
00:22:20.34\00:22:22.68
you're having there
with some of the things
00:22:22.71\00:22:25.02
that the Lord is doing.
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God has been incredible. At
Southern Adventist University
00:22:26.18\00:22:29.16
some years ago we've had a dream
00:22:29.19\00:22:30.93
of starting a
program in archeology
00:22:30.96\00:22:32.86
but we didn't have any artifacts
00:22:32.89\00:22:34.69
and I remember
telling Dr. Blenko,
00:22:34.73\00:22:36.50
our dean, at the time
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we don't have anything
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we don't have
anything in that area
00:22:39.28\00:22:41.65
it was a matter
of miraculous events
00:22:41.69\00:22:43.73
one that
happened after the other.
00:22:43.77\00:22:45.74
that we ended up a few
months after that period
00:22:45.78\00:22:49.34
with one of the
largest teaching collections
00:22:49.38\00:22:52.91
of ancient near
eastern history artifacts.
00:22:52.94\00:22:54.38
in the United States of America.
00:22:54.42\00:22:56.29
from the largest
graduate program in archeology
00:22:56.33\00:22:59.37
at the University of Arizona.
00:22:59.40\00:23:00.77
It is now housed at
Southern Adventist University
00:23:00.81\00:23:03.46
and we have a state
of the art new museum
00:23:03.49\00:23:05.48
that we just opened
a year and a half ago.
00:23:05.51\00:23:08.05
that's had over 5000
visitors already coming
00:23:08.09\00:23:11.24
to come to see how
the Bible comes to life
00:23:11.28\00:23:14.36
through these ancient vessels
and these ancient artifacts
00:23:14.40\00:23:18.09
So we're seeing God
working in a powerful way
00:23:19.74\00:23:22.74
I would like you to share
just briefly, the testimony of
00:23:22.78\00:23:25.93
of the individuals
instrumentally getting this
00:23:25.96\00:23:28.91
to Southern, because
I think that's powerful.
00:23:28.95\00:23:31.87
Professor William
Deever is the former
00:23:31.90\00:23:35.22
near eastern archeologist
in North America today
00:23:35.26\00:23:38.01
he's in his seventies,
when Times Magazine or News Week
00:23:38.05\00:23:41.42
wants to have any kind of
information about archeology
00:23:41.46\00:23:44.80
to the Middle East
concerning Archeology
00:23:44.83\00:23:47.26
he's the person they interview.
00:23:47.29\00:23:49.23
He travels all over the world
00:23:49.27\00:23:51.14
he's just published a
series of three trilogies that
00:23:51.18\00:23:54.39
he's published over 40 books,
400 pure reviewed articles
00:23:54.42\00:23:57.60
this is the
professor in this field
00:23:57.63\00:24:01.43
in North America
00:24:01.46\00:24:03.25
and he's not a
Christian, he's an agnostic
00:24:03.29\00:24:05.75
But when he came to
Southern Adventist University
00:24:05.79\00:24:08.63
in 1999 and saw our campus
and saw what we were doing
00:24:08.67\00:24:11.61
on the way to the airport
after that visit, he said
00:24:11.64\00:24:14.55
You know Michael,
you have something here
00:24:14.58\00:24:16.80
that we haven't seen at
the public university in years
00:24:16.84\00:24:20.30
he says, I believe
that you have a mission
00:24:20.33\00:24:23.09
you have students
that believe in a mission
00:24:23.13\00:24:25.82
you have faculty, you have
staff you have administration
00:24:25.86\00:24:29.61
there's something here,
00:24:29.64\00:24:31.48
a common purpose that I
haven't seen for a long time
00:24:31.52\00:24:34.32
I believe that the
future of this discipline
00:24:34.35\00:24:36.22
is in a place like this
00:24:36.25\00:24:37.22
where there's
still love for the Bible.
00:24:37.23\00:24:39.02
Amen.
00:24:39.05\00:24:40.41
So we have this museum at
Southern Adventist University
00:24:40.45\00:24:47.25
there are lots of
Adventist universities
00:24:47.28\00:24:49.45
that have this kind of program?
00:24:49.48\00:24:51.00
We are actually one
of three institutions
00:24:51.04\00:24:54.96
around the world that are
teaching biblical archeology
00:24:55.00\00:24:58.79
from a Christian perspective.
00:24:58.82\00:25:02.01
There are only three.
00:25:02.04\00:25:03.93
And as the discipline
has become more secularized
00:25:03.97\00:25:07.36
seminaries and other
programs have closed down
00:25:07.39\00:25:10.38
because they no longer
see a need for archeology
00:25:10.42\00:25:13.38
but the secular
world at the same time
00:25:13.41\00:25:15.72
is looking for what is happening
00:25:15.75\00:25:18.02
and I think it provides
some tremendous opportunity
00:25:18.06\00:25:20.74
in the time in which
we live, the end time.
00:25:20.77\00:25:22.80
to be able to use this tool
00:25:22.83\00:25:24.16
for the
furtherance of the Gospel.
00:25:24.20\00:25:26.21
I want to close out by
asking Rusty a question
00:25:26.25\00:25:29.36
one more question.
Rusty tell us briefly what
00:25:29.40\00:25:32.48
what could
someone tonight here do
00:25:32.51\00:25:34.41
if they wanted to learn more
about the field of archeology?
00:25:34.45\00:25:37.34
I think the first thing that
I would do is go to the website
00:25:39.05\00:25:41.95
of Andrews or
Southern Adventist University
00:25:41.98\00:25:44.74
and see what's
available, not just for yourself
00:25:44.77\00:25:47.26
but when you come
across other peoples' paths
00:25:47.30\00:25:49.72
where they're questioning
the authenticity of the Bible
00:25:49.76\00:25:52.45
especially with
the Da Vinci Code
00:25:52.48\00:25:54.71
the powerful
effect that it is having
00:25:54.75\00:25:56.95
and yet it's just all fiction
00:25:56.98\00:25:58.90
people don't know.
00:25:58.93\00:26:00.11
and we must lead
them to the truth
00:26:00.15\00:26:01.65
so the evidence
that they support
00:26:01.68\00:26:04.12
that the Bible
is a true document
00:26:04.15\00:26:06.21
not just a
spiritual world of God
00:26:06.25\00:26:08.24
but it can also be
supported historically
00:26:08.28\00:26:11.08
it is an effect
00:26:11.11\00:26:12.08
so we go to the websites and
check on what universities have
00:26:12.09\00:26:15.68
and maybe if they
have enough an interest
00:26:15.71\00:26:18.16
take the time to go visit
00:26:18.19\00:26:20.01
these
universities personally. Amen
00:26:20.05\00:26:22.25
Dr. Hassel in
closing share with us
00:26:22.28\00:26:24.41
how this has been used in your
recent series with Mark Finnley
00:26:24.45\00:26:27.97
Mark Finnley just
finished a fantastic series
00:26:28.00\00:26:31.23
at the
Chattanooga Convention Centre
00:26:31.26\00:26:32.90
over he period of June to July
00:26:32.93\00:26:35.30
and he approached me some
months ago and said Michael
00:26:35.34\00:26:39.21
I believe we need to
do something in archeology
00:26:39.24\00:26:41.66
together as a
preseries to those meetings
00:26:41.69\00:26:43.85
I've done it once before,
00:26:43.88\00:26:44.85
but I've not done
it with an archeologist
00:26:44.87\00:26:46.56
Let's work together
and put something together
00:26:46.60\00:26:49.10
for this. So we had
a five night series.
00:26:49.13\00:26:51.77
in Chattanooga, not
knowing what to expect
00:26:51.81\00:26:54.79
but 650 people came
out from sending out
00:26:54.82\00:26:57.77
20000 handbills.
00:26:57.80\00:26:59.57
the second night
765 people were there
00:26:59.61\00:27:02.77
at the end of
that particular series
00:27:02.80\00:27:05.89
as we transitioned into the
main revelation of hope meetings
00:27:05.93\00:27:08.94
we had nearly
300 people transition
00:27:08.97\00:27:11.70
from the archeology meetings
00:27:11.73\00:27:13.26
into the Revelation
of Hope meetings. Amen
00:27:13.30\00:27:15.42
That is phenomenal
when you think about
00:27:15.46\00:27:17.65
the kind of success
we've had in the past
00:27:17.69\00:27:19.81
and I believe in the
secular world in which we live
00:27:19.85\00:27:21.84
people are looking for answers
00:27:21.87\00:27:23.50
they're asking the question
00:27:23.53\00:27:25.09
Is the Bible true? Can
I trust the Bible today?
00:27:25.13\00:27:27.70
We can provide those kind
of answers as 7th day Adventist
00:27:27.74\00:27:30.87
Thank you so much for
sharing with us tonight, Rusty
00:27:30.90\00:27:34.00
Rusty and Don Cross. Thank you.
00:27:34.03\00:27:35.34
Good evening folks.
00:27:36.49\00:27:37.72
We have another fantastic
story to share with you
00:27:37.76\00:27:41.01
Luther Keith is from
the Wildwood Health Retreat
00:27:41.05\00:27:44.23
Tell us Lou, what's happening
at the Wildwood Health Retreat
00:27:44.27\00:27:47.54
The Lord is
changing men's' hearts
00:27:47.57\00:27:50.63
we are using natural methods
00:27:50.66\00:27:53.59
to deal with
unnatural complex problems.
00:27:53.63\00:27:56.87
Most of the people the
Lord is sending to us for help
00:27:56.91\00:27:59.83
they have chemical dependencies
00:27:59.86\00:28:03.00
depression, anxiety,
stress eating disorders
00:28:03.04\00:28:05.88
and other things that
come with those problems
00:28:05.92\00:28:08.73
So recently you've
been in a recent project
00:28:09.65\00:28:14.01
you've been involved with
at the Wildwood Health Retreat
00:28:14.05\00:28:16.63
I think our main projects are in
00:28:16.66\00:28:19.56
I almost want
to say new building
00:28:19.60\00:28:22.82
unless the Lord
builds the building
00:28:22.86\00:28:25.19
they do labor and labor in vain
00:28:25.22\00:28:27.48
So we've been
building a health center
00:28:27.52\00:28:29.39
for the last two
and a half three years
00:28:29.43\00:28:31.23
but during that process
the Lord is building men.
00:28:31.27\00:28:35.13
Tell us about this
Health Centre project
00:28:36.87\00:28:38.91
how that came about.
00:28:38.94\00:28:40.58
When Moses lead
the children of Israel
00:28:41.28\00:28:45.51
through the Red Sea
00:28:45.54\00:28:47.38
when they
completed their journey
00:28:47.42\00:28:49.57
there was no doubt
that it was not Moses
00:28:49.61\00:28:52.90
it was the Lord
that had opened the way.
00:28:52.93\00:28:56.15
And I'm glad the Lord has worked
in such an astonishing manner
00:28:56.19\00:29:00.15
in building our health center
00:29:00.18\00:29:01.56
that we know that all
the glory goes to God.
00:29:01.60\00:29:04.26
So I have a few pictures
00:29:05.36\00:29:07.01
that I'm going to show you,
00:29:07.05\00:29:08.63
I'll give you a
very brief background
00:29:08.67\00:29:10.98
on these Amish
people that were living
00:29:11.01\00:29:12.90
in the northern
part of our country
00:29:12.93\00:29:14.79
they became interested in our
00:29:14.82\00:29:18.24
ministry.
00:29:18.27\00:29:19.24
We've been working
in an old farm house
00:29:19.27\00:29:21.44
we could take two or
three guests at a time
00:29:21.47\00:29:23.61
But these Amish
people, they contacted us
00:29:24.60\00:29:26.65
and they offered to come
down and build us a new facility
00:29:26.69\00:29:30.16
they would bring
all the materials
00:29:30.19\00:29:32.63
Amish business men out
there would give them the costs
00:29:32.67\00:29:37.07
and they would help us.
00:29:38.97\00:29:39.94
Amen.
00:29:39.95\00:29:40.92
and the day came and
they said all we have to do
00:29:40.93\00:29:43.37
is prepare the foundation.
00:29:43.40\00:29:45.20
So the day came
00:29:45.23\00:29:46.39
when we had the foundation ready
00:29:46.43\00:29:48.45
we had almost no finances
00:29:48.48\00:29:50.27
we had very little staff
00:29:50.31\00:29:52.03
we had no time, we
were covered up in work
00:29:52.07\00:29:55.18
but we were able to
get the foundation prepared
00:29:55.22\00:29:58.13
and the day came.
00:29:58.16\00:30:00.19
I was told, I never met
an Amish person in my life
00:30:00.23\00:30:03.05
I knew that they rode boogies
00:30:03.08\00:30:04.52
and they had beards,
but that's all I knew
00:30:04.56\00:30:06.65
so that morning we
were expecting him to arrive
00:30:06.69\00:30:09.64
I was looking for two
vanloads of Amish people
00:30:09.67\00:30:12.59
I was told
there'd be an old group
00:30:12.62\00:30:14.85
and there'd be a young group.
00:30:14.88\00:30:16.30
So the first vanload pulled up
00:30:17.23\00:30:18.83
these young men got out
00:30:18.86\00:30:21.70
I thought it was the children
00:30:21.74\00:30:23.48
in the first group coming.
00:30:23.51\00:30:25.18
But these children ages
11, 13, I think 14, 16 and 17
00:30:25.22\00:30:29.57
these Amish children built
our Wildwood Health Retreat
00:30:29.61\00:30:33.93
7th day
Adventists were in the church
00:30:33.96\00:30:36.03
lifestyle center.
00:30:36.06\00:30:37.68
So I'm gonna show you
a few pictures of that
00:30:37.72\00:30:40.21
these were some of the
young men that got off the van
00:30:40.25\00:30:44.62
pulled out their pencils
00:30:44.65\00:30:46.65
and they began to build.
00:30:46.68\00:30:48.61
they were twelve all together.
00:30:48.65\00:30:50.30
this was the young group.
00:30:50.33\00:30:51.56
The old men were
19, 22, 23, 24 and 25
00:30:51.60\00:30:56.02
I was the oldest one there.
00:30:56.05\00:30:58.84
In two and a half days
00:30:58.87\00:31:01.47
they framed up our 4000 foot,
six patient lifestyle center
00:31:01.51\00:31:05.46
These are the older men
00:31:05.49\00:31:07.16
If they could stop the
pictures just every now and then
00:31:07.20\00:31:10.96
is looking back two years now.
00:31:10.99\00:31:13.32
So the walls
were being framed up,
00:31:13.36\00:31:15.67
we were putting
everything up next one
00:31:15.71\00:31:19.37
and by the way it's
been 300 Amish people
00:31:19.40\00:31:23.03
over almost three years.
00:31:23.06\00:31:24.90
It wasn't just
framing up the building
00:31:24.94\00:31:26.43
it was the
wiring and the plumbing
00:31:26.47\00:31:28.38
the Lord kept sending them back
00:31:28.41\00:31:30.44
over and over and over again
00:31:30.48\00:31:32.44
they brought wife
and children with them
00:31:32.48\00:31:35.43
as you can see they
bring their children with them.
00:31:35.47\00:31:37.82
My wife is working in the house
00:31:37.85\00:31:40.73
with the ladies,
teaching them how to make bread
00:31:40.77\00:31:43.56
talking to them about health
00:31:43.59\00:31:44.72
They don't know a lot of health.
00:31:44.76\00:31:46.36
We've got a message
that they need very badly
00:31:46.40\00:31:48.89
and they're opened to hear it.
00:31:48.92\00:31:50.11
So this is getting
toward the end of the first day
00:31:50.15\00:31:52.92
they're starting with
the walls at the second floor
00:31:55.09\00:31:57.44
These young men have
become very good friends
00:31:57.47\00:32:00.07
I really appreciate these
00:32:00.10\00:32:01.55
the man there in the middle
I think was the youngest one
00:32:01.59\00:32:04.38
I think he was
twelve or thirteen years old
00:32:04.41\00:32:05.91
I'm not sure
00:32:05.94\00:32:06.93
but they're
doing a lot of the work
00:32:06.97\00:32:09.41
the other men are
handing up the materials
00:32:09.45\00:32:11.36
and I'm helping them too.
00:32:11.39\00:32:12.73
Will you stop
there for a second?
00:32:14.44\00:32:16.47
This young mans' name is Lester
00:32:16.50\00:32:18.73
as we were building that morning
00:32:18.76\00:32:20.92
I'm not even sure if
Amish people are Christians
00:32:20.96\00:32:24.13
I'm terribly
ignorant regarding Amish folks
00:32:24.16\00:32:27.30
maybe you are too
00:32:27.33\00:32:28.73
but I asked this man,
we are working together
00:32:29.04\00:32:31.50
you can see the band
aid on his little finger
00:32:31.54\00:32:33.93
a piece of ply-wood fell on his
finger and almost cut it in two
00:32:33.97\00:32:36.58
I offered to take him
to the doctor, he said no
00:32:36.61\00:32:38.98
just tape it up, so
I've put two popsicle sticks,
00:32:39.01\00:32:41.35
taped his finger
up, I was his right hand
00:32:41.38\00:32:43.75
the rest of the day and I
worked closer to this young man.
00:32:43.79\00:32:46.08
And as we were working,
00:32:46.11\00:32:48.78
he said: what
must I do to be saved
00:32:48.82\00:32:51.14
question out of Acts 16
00:32:51.17\00:32:52.84
I said believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:32:52.88\00:32:55.36
Than I asked him: do
you believe the Bible?
00:32:55.40\00:32:57.97
he said yes, I said do
you believe every word?
00:32:58.01\00:33:00.55
authoritative,
infallible word of God?
00:33:00.58\00:33:03.09
He said yes and
from that point forward
00:33:03.12\00:33:05.60
we had a vibrant conversation
00:33:05.63\00:33:08.40
and we spent the
evenings having a Bible study
00:33:08.44\00:33:11.85
with all those Amish people
00:33:11.88\00:33:13.18
we were sharing
with them some facts
00:33:13.22\00:33:15.64
they were sharing
with us some fellowship
00:33:15.68\00:33:17.57
the nicest evenings
I've ever spent in my life.
00:33:17.61\00:33:19.71
Next picture
00:33:19.74\00:33:20.74
Amen.
00:33:20.77\00:33:21.74
So this was the
end of the first day.
00:33:21.75\00:33:23.55
And it was amazing to watch
these twelve men work together
00:33:23.59\00:33:27.53
By fifteen years of
age most Amish people
00:33:27.56\00:33:29.64
can frame up a
house from bottom to top.
00:33:29.68\00:33:31.73
I think there they passed us up
a little bit in industrial lines
00:33:32.29\00:33:35.38
This is midway
through the second day
00:33:35.41\00:33:37.94
and they're
getting the rafters on
00:33:39.04\00:33:40.81
and this was
00:33:40.84\00:33:43.83
toward the end of the second day
00:33:43.87\00:33:45.71
and this is... next
00:33:48.31\00:33:50.02
I was inside helping
Lester when the roof went on
00:33:51.46\00:33:54.54
and all I could hear were just
00:33:54.57\00:33:57.15
these nail guns going
00:33:57.18\00:33:59.27
And than when I came
out to look and turn and see
00:33:59.31\00:34:01.76
what the Lord had done
00:34:01.79\00:34:03.60
I could just
say: praise the Lord.
00:34:04.56\00:34:06.18
Amen.
00:34:06.21\00:34:07.18
This is one of the last projects
00:34:09.57\00:34:12.19
these dear Amish
missionaries did for us
00:34:12.23\00:34:14.76
Lord sent them down
00:34:14.79\00:34:16.23
and this young man
that's kneeling on the styrofoam
00:34:16.27\00:34:19.01
he had a concrete company
00:34:19.04\00:34:20.87
It's Christ in the Market Place,
00:34:20.91\00:34:22.64
but they're not
7th day Adventist
00:34:22.68\00:34:24.34
they're working for 7th
day Adventist ministering to
00:34:24.38\00:34:26.58
7th day Adventist
00:34:26.61\00:34:27.63
he's coming down from up north
00:34:27.67\00:34:30.43
brought all his
equipment with him
00:34:30.47\00:34:32.52
and made a nice
picture, I think you can see it
00:34:32.56\00:34:34.58
made us a nice double wide
driveway for our health center
00:34:34.62\00:34:37.42
and still say praise the Lord.
00:34:37.45\00:34:41.27
it's finished now
00:34:41.30\00:34:42.27
we've been taking
guests now for probably a year
00:34:42.28\00:34:45.12
and this is the last picture.
00:34:45.15\00:34:47.48
And this is my
wife, on your right
00:34:47.52\00:34:50.76
and some of these
00:34:50.79\00:34:53.08
kind folks that
the Lord sent down.
00:34:53.12\00:34:55.40
We have a
beautiful health retreat now
00:34:59.08\00:35:01.59
at the Wildwood
health retreat centre
00:35:01.62\00:35:04.10
True.
00:35:04.13\00:35:05.85
and you have touched
the lives of not only
00:35:05.89\00:35:08.78
those people who
came to help you build it
00:35:08.81\00:35:11.78
but I hear in your own
life that you have been
00:35:11.81\00:35:14.75
touched by this.
00:35:14.78\00:35:15.95
My own life.
00:35:17.52\00:35:18.54
It's interesting that the
Lord has called me to work
00:35:18.58\00:35:21.57
in this kind of ministry.
00:35:21.60\00:35:22.88
Because 14 years
ago, 15 years ago
00:35:22.92\00:35:25.99
I've never heard of
the 7th day Adventist
00:35:26.03\00:35:28.76
I was in a pit of
alcoholism and crime
00:35:28.79\00:35:31.49
and without God, without hope
00:35:31.52\00:35:33.88
and He did a miracle in my life
00:35:34.63\00:35:36.96
great miracle of
grace, my wife was pregnant
00:35:37.00\00:35:40.02
I brought her at
Wildwood hospital
00:35:40.05\00:35:42.02
for help
00:35:42.05\00:35:43.02
didn't know they were
7th day Adventist institution
00:35:43.03\00:35:45.30
and I met 7th day Adventists
00:35:45.33\00:35:48.20
I found the Gospel
00:35:48.23\00:35:49.72
and now I'm doing to
others as the Lord did on to me.
00:35:49.76\00:35:52.93
Amen.
00:35:52.96\00:35:55.14
Thank you. That's true.
00:35:58.11\00:36:00.82
That's certainly something to
praise the Lord about, isn't it?
00:36:04.31\00:36:06.41
tell us about a life
that has been changed
00:36:08.04\00:36:10.82
by the work you're doing
there at the health center
00:36:10.86\00:36:13.02
I told Steve
backstage I could think of
00:36:13.05\00:36:16.96
many, many, many
lives that have been changed
00:36:17.00\00:36:19.22
and the one that I
think is changed the most
00:36:20.18\00:36:22.95
it's been my own.
00:36:22.98\00:36:25.07
Because one or two
things that I've noticed
00:36:25.88\00:36:28.92
first of all, the
facility doesn't matter
00:36:28.95\00:36:31.92
we were in an old farm
house now in a new building
00:36:31.96\00:36:34.74
it doesn't matter how
ordinary the facility is
00:36:34.77\00:36:37.52
or how nice it is
00:36:37.55\00:36:38.81
it matters the
people inside the facility
00:36:38.85\00:36:41.84
and who's living in their heart.
00:36:41.87\00:36:43.72
Amen.
00:36:43.75\00:36:44.72
And the medical
missionary work that we're doing
00:36:44.73\00:36:46.50
I kind of see an insight
that I didn't see years ago
00:36:47.57\00:36:52.74
We're not just helping them
00:36:52.77\00:36:55.42
we're helping
ourselves. Can you say amen?
00:36:55.46\00:36:57.73
Amen.
00:36:57.76\00:36:58.73
As we reach out to minister
00:36:58.74\00:36:59.97
I have the slogan you
have Christ in the marketplace
00:37:00.01\00:37:02.54
Our marketplace is a sanatorium
00:37:02.57\00:37:04.47
as we reach out to
minister in the market place
00:37:04.51\00:37:06.96
we're not just helping
them, we're helping ourselves
00:37:07.00\00:37:09.84
when Gods sends His
people to get help from us
00:37:09.87\00:37:14.54
I'm not using
John the Baptist' words
00:37:14.57\00:37:17.61
but I'm doing the same thing
00:37:17.64\00:37:19.16
I try to take
our patients and say
00:37:19.20\00:37:20.91
Behold the Lamb of God who
taketh away the sin of the world
00:37:20.95\00:37:24.14
And that's the message
that John the Baptist was giving
00:37:24.17\00:37:27.21
and we're giving it, but
maybe not so much with words
00:37:27.24\00:37:30.25
but with these natural
methods that demonstrate
00:37:30.28\00:37:33.16
that we care for and
we love these people.
00:37:33.19\00:37:35.41
Amen.
00:37:35.44\00:37:36.64
Thank you, we
appreciate that testimony.
00:37:36.68\00:37:39.02
Welcome Sharon. It's
good to have you here.
00:37:40.66\00:37:42.44
Most of you know Sharon Ericson
00:37:42.47\00:37:44.20
She comes to us from the
great state of Minnesota.
00:37:44.24\00:37:47.83
Sharon, tonight
we're here to talk about
00:37:47.86\00:37:51.73
something that God has
00:37:51.76\00:37:54.37
kind of dumped on
you in a way almost
00:37:54.41\00:37:56.93
you never thought you were going
to be in the radio ministry,
00:37:57.68\00:38:01.70
did you?
00:38:01.73\00:38:02.70
Absolutely not.
00:38:02.71\00:38:04.15
My husband and I knew
nothing about radio at all
00:38:04.19\00:38:07.80
So God came along and He
tapped you on the shoulder
00:38:08.79\00:38:11.40
lets talk a little
bit about what's happened
00:38:11.43\00:38:15.41
to the ministry of
your radio station.
00:38:15.44\00:38:17.80
I know that radio stations
don't happen accidentally
00:38:17.84\00:38:22.18
No,
00:38:23.61\00:38:24.58
but you never know what's gonna
happen when you come at ASI
00:38:24.59\00:38:27.02
So tell us how you got
involved in the radio work.
00:38:28.54\00:38:31.17
Well, it happened
about ten years ago
00:38:31.20\00:38:33.50
we came to ASI
00:38:33.53\00:38:35.67
and ASI really
gave birth to KLPJ
00:38:35.71\00:38:38.44
We came to ASI and we
walked in the exhibit booths
00:38:39.54\00:38:43.97
which houses many ministries
00:38:44.00\00:38:46.23
and as we were walking
along we saw Livetalk radio
00:38:46.27\00:38:49.88
and we stopped to talk with
the people at Livestalk Radio
00:38:50.54\00:38:54.11
and they said:
00:38:54.67\00:38:55.64
maybe it would be possible
for you to have a radio station
00:38:55.65\00:38:58.29
in your town.
00:38:58.32\00:39:00.32
and as we talked the desire
grew stronger and stronger
00:39:00.36\00:39:04.15
within our heart
00:39:04.18\00:39:05.65
and I suppose that
was the most enthusiastic
00:39:05.69\00:39:09.16
we've ever been when
we left an ASI convention.
00:39:09.20\00:39:12.64
So along the way,
from that day until now
00:39:14.00\00:39:16.97
there have been a
couple of hurdles.
00:39:17.00\00:39:19.94
Share with us some
miracles that God has done
00:39:20.70\00:39:24.03
Ok. I'll be glad to.
00:39:25.25\00:39:26.69
When we left ten years
ago from the ASI convention
00:39:26.73\00:39:30.15
almost as quickly as we got home
00:39:30.18\00:39:33.20
we were excited to make
an application with the FCC
00:39:33.86\00:39:37.81
for a frequency.
00:39:38.54\00:39:39.83
It's interesting.
00:39:41.61\00:39:42.58
God knew that we did
not know what we were doing
00:39:42.59\00:39:44.46
And I would like to
bring this fact down
00:39:44.49\00:39:46.89
if God ever taps
you on the shoulder
00:39:46.93\00:39:49.30
and asks you to do something
00:39:49.33\00:39:51.44
it's so easy to say,
00:39:51.47\00:39:52.76
But God, it's not
something I can do.
00:39:52.80\00:39:55.66
And it's tempting to do that
00:39:56.52\00:39:58.80
but remember, if you venture out
00:39:58.84\00:40:01.05
God is happy to put the
right people on your path
00:40:01.09\00:40:04.84
and the right
circumstances in our path
00:40:05.66\00:40:07.64
to make it happen.
00:40:07.67\00:40:08.82
And that's what He did.
00:40:09.42\00:40:10.68
He brought someone from
Duluth Minnesota to our home
00:40:10.72\00:40:14.76
who probably
knows more about radio
00:40:14.79\00:40:16.56
than anyone else in
the State of Minnesota.
00:40:16.60\00:40:19.06
Amen.
00:40:19.09\00:40:20.06
And he advised us
00:40:20.07\00:40:21.24
and than, Livetalk Radio,
00:40:21.28\00:40:23.22
advised us
00:40:23.25\00:40:24.76
and my husband got so excited
00:40:24.80\00:40:27.02
when we got home
from that convention
00:40:27.06\00:40:28.81
ten years ago
00:40:28.84\00:40:30.02
he asked different people that
would be in the listening area
00:40:30.64\00:40:32.89
we had to come to our church
00:40:32.92\00:40:34.75
and he inspired
them about the radio
00:40:34.79\00:40:37.12
the only thing
is, when they left
00:40:38.12\00:40:39.62
many of them were inspired
00:40:39.65\00:40:41.75
but they were thinking
at what happened right away
00:40:41.79\00:40:44.37
and so did we.
00:40:44.40\00:40:46.47
So what we have now
00:40:47.70\00:40:49.24
God performing miracles
00:40:49.28\00:40:50.79
along the way,
00:40:50.82\00:40:52.53
and today we have a
00:40:52.57\00:40:55.26
tell us about the
power of your radio station
00:40:55.30\00:40:57.85
Today, as of October 4, 2005
00:40:58.86\00:41:04.88
we turned on the knob
00:41:04.91\00:41:07.07
and we heard KLPJ.
00:41:07.11\00:41:09.24
89.3 Sebeka
00:41:09.27\00:41:12.36
broadcasting from
Park Rapids, Minnesota
00:41:12.40\00:41:16.05
a hundred thousand
watt Christian radio station
00:41:16.09\00:41:20.17
serving central Minnesota. Amen.
00:41:20.84\00:41:23.20
let me assure you that that
is something to praise God about
00:41:31.66\00:41:34.55
because one hundred
thousand watt radio stations
00:41:34.58\00:41:37.09
they're almost impossible to get
00:41:37.12\00:41:39.30
in our nation today.
00:41:39.33\00:41:41.59
So that is certainly
something to praise God about.
00:41:41.63\00:41:43.75
so tell us about the impact
00:41:43.78\00:41:46.68
this radio station
has had on your community.
00:41:46.72\00:41:49.28
Well, I will tell you about that
00:41:50.74\00:41:52.73
it's been a wonderful
00:41:52.76\00:41:56.22
influence
00:41:56.89\00:41:57.95
we use as our provider
00:41:57.99\00:41:59.94
who does the
programming Livetalk Radio
00:41:59.98\00:42:02.61
and Livetalk Radio
00:42:02.64\00:42:04.64
has many programs
that you're familiar with
00:42:04.68\00:42:07.67
like Breath of Life
00:42:08.36\00:42:10.68
and it is written in the Voice
of Prophecy and Your Story Hour
00:42:10.72\00:42:13.92
it has Joni Erickson Tada
00:42:15.40\00:42:18.65
it has many, very very good
00:42:18.68\00:42:21.90
programs.
00:42:22.56\00:42:23.53
It has a mix of 60%
music and 40% talk radio
00:42:23.55\00:42:28.68
so people listen to it
00:42:29.57\00:42:31.18
we've had people tell us:
00:42:31.22\00:42:32.76
I was driving along and
I came to my destination
00:42:32.80\00:42:36.16
and I just
couldn't get out of the car
00:42:36.19\00:42:38.36
because they haven't
finished the program yet
00:42:38.40\00:42:40.42
Amen.
00:42:40.45\00:42:41.44
We've had other people say:
00:42:42.10\00:42:43.31
I just keep it tuned to 89.3 in
my car all the time and listen
00:42:43.35\00:42:48.65
we've had people that
are taking Bible studies
00:42:48.68\00:42:52.70
because Livetalk Radio
offers discovery Bible course
00:42:52.74\00:42:57.31
probably 15 to 18 times a day
00:42:57.34\00:43:00.72
and people have an opportunity
to know the Bible better
00:43:00.76\00:43:04.10
we have one young
man that we know of
00:43:04.93\00:43:07.03
that is
preparing for baptism Amen,
00:43:07.07\00:43:09.14
because he listened to KLPJ.
00:43:09.17\00:43:11.48
we have a hundred
thousand watt radio station
00:43:14.28\00:43:16.34
in the State of Minnesota
00:43:16.37\00:43:17.37
What is your current vision
for the rest of the State?
00:43:17.41\00:43:20.96
You know, we have a big vision
00:43:23.41\00:43:25.56
And I think the
reason that we do
00:43:25.59\00:43:27.67
is because we've
already seen God do big things
00:43:27.71\00:43:31.16
Amen.
00:43:31.19\00:43:32.16
And it strengthens you.
00:43:32.17\00:43:34.48
And I'll tell you
that our vision is
00:43:35.28\00:43:37.16
our great hope is that we
can extend the listening area
00:43:37.20\00:43:41.09
there are some
large cities in Minnesota
00:43:41.12\00:43:43.91
that do not have a
Christian radio station
00:43:43.94\00:43:46.70
and we're hoping that we can
00:43:46.73\00:43:49.85
increase the frequency
00:43:49.88\00:43:52.03
in hopes that some day
00:43:52.06\00:43:54.14
we will cover the
whole state of Minnesota
00:43:54.18\00:43:56.21
Amen. All right.
That's one state down
00:43:56.62\00:43:59.45
and a few more to go
00:43:59.48\00:44:01.11
If God is tapping you
on the shoulder tonight
00:44:01.87\00:44:04.30
don't say no. Isn't
that what you'd say?
00:44:04.33\00:44:07.25
I would say that God
does talk to our hearts
00:44:07.28\00:44:10.13
and lots of times we still hear
a still, small voice of service
00:44:10.17\00:44:15.04
and it's so easy
sometimes because
00:44:15.07\00:44:17.95
we don't have self-confidence
just to blow that away
00:44:17.99\00:44:22.22
But God is the
great giver of help
00:44:23.10\00:44:26.31
and He does help us
00:44:26.34\00:44:28.07
and I would encourage you
if God is asking you to do
00:44:28.11\00:44:32.25
any kind of special project
00:44:32.28\00:44:34.28
or anything that
seems impossible to do
00:44:34.32\00:44:37.37
but that little voice keeps
00:44:37.40\00:44:39.85
calling you and
calling you within your heart
00:44:39.89\00:44:42.56
just surrender and step out
00:44:42.59\00:44:45.11
and watch how God works
00:44:45.14\00:44:47.16
it's most interesting.
00:44:47.20\00:44:49.15
Amen. Thank you Sharon for
sharing with us this evening
00:44:49.19\00:44:52.12
You're welcome.
00:44:52.15\00:44:53.12
I'd like you to say
welcome to Frazier Mathis
00:44:55.06\00:44:57.85
who is here from Global Vessels.
00:44:57.88\00:44:59.45
Yes. Thank you, Steve.
00:45:00.16\00:45:01.51
All right. Frazier,
tell us a little bit
00:45:04.32\00:45:06.10
about your
involvement in Global Vessels
00:45:06.13\00:45:08.10
and what is Global
Vessels about anyway?
00:45:08.13\00:45:10.03
Global Vessels is a
nonprofit organization that
00:45:10.07\00:45:12.63
my wife and myself
started about eight years ago
00:45:12.67\00:45:15.20
we are a non-profit organization
00:45:15.99\00:45:17.69
and we take individuals
to third world countries
00:45:17.73\00:45:20.08
to build.
00:45:20.11\00:45:21.08
and recently we've been
traveling to Africa to build
00:45:21.55\00:45:24.20
You're building
things around the world with
00:45:25.61\00:45:27.67
who helps you
build these things?
00:45:28.64\00:45:30.20
We solicit
individuals from our churches
00:45:30.24\00:45:32.73
around the churches
00:45:32.76\00:45:34.67
ask them to come and go with us
00:45:34.71\00:45:36.30
it's strictly volunteer basis
00:45:36.34\00:45:37.86
and they come and
help us to do the projects
00:45:37.90\00:45:39.88
that we try to do.
00:45:39.91\00:45:40.88
Originally, when you get
involved in this outreach
00:45:41.65\00:45:44.85
to building
things around the world
00:45:44.88\00:45:46.60
you are involved with
Maranatha, is that right?
00:45:46.64\00:45:49.14
We initially started
out in Ghana, West Africa
00:45:49.17\00:45:51.64
and I'd call Maranatha
00:45:52.64\00:45:54.44
I've done several
projects for Maranatha
00:45:54.48\00:45:56.40
and I called Maranatha and said:
00:45:56.43\00:45:58.03
You know what I'll
like to do in Africa?
00:45:58.07\00:45:59.87
And they said: Well, we're
not going right now because
00:45:59.91\00:46:01.58
communism has
fallen and we are in Russia
00:46:01.61\00:46:03.87
working as fast as we can
00:46:03.90\00:46:05.29
I said, Could you
possibly send me the blueprints?
00:46:05.33\00:46:08.35
So Maranatha's
sent me the blueprints
00:46:08.38\00:46:10.44
so I had the
blueprints in my hand
00:46:10.47\00:46:12.76
and said: Blueprints, time to go
00:46:12.80\00:46:15.00
so we go to Ghana, we do the pre
00:46:15.04\00:46:16.92
trip we get there,
we walk on the land
00:46:16.96\00:46:18.65
that we plan to
build this church on
00:46:18.68\00:46:20.25
they agreed that we can build it
00:46:20.29\00:46:21.52
so I come back to the States
00:46:21.55\00:46:22.71
I go to my
church family and say:
00:46:22.75\00:46:24.17
Guys, lets go build
this church in Ghana.
00:46:24.21\00:46:27.46
And people looked at
us kind of strange because
00:46:27.50\00:46:29.50
we didn't have any money
00:46:29.53\00:46:30.69
we only had the desire to go
00:46:30.73\00:46:32.67
We got the group
together and before long
00:46:33.28\00:46:35.99
36 individuals were
willing to take their vacation
00:46:36.03\00:46:38.45
to go with us to this
place we've never gone before
00:46:38.48\00:46:40.87
or to build this church.
00:46:40.90\00:46:42.14
The interesting thing
about building a church
00:46:42.18\00:46:44.07
they were worshipping at a
school at the particular time
00:46:44.11\00:46:46.78
and they were putting
them out of the school.
00:46:46.81\00:46:48.61
So we were there encouraging
them to build this church
00:46:49.52\00:46:52.58
we get there
00:46:52.61\00:46:53.71
we had to run the
people out of the work site
00:46:53.75\00:46:55.36
in order to work
00:46:55.39\00:46:56.49
because they have never
witnessed so many people
00:46:56.53\00:46:58.45
working on one building
00:46:58.48\00:46:59.49
because in a lot of
third world countries
00:46:59.53\00:47:01.40
you see buildings
that are partially done
00:47:01.44\00:47:03.28
and you think they are abandoned
00:47:03.31\00:47:04.81
they're not
abandoned, they pay cash
00:47:04.84\00:47:06.27
so they didn't have the
money to complete the building
00:47:06.31\00:47:08.78
we had the money to do it
00:47:08.81\00:47:10.28
we were working
00:47:10.31\00:47:11.28
and everybody was standing
around the work site watching us
00:47:11.29\00:47:13.35
we had to shoe them
out of the work site
00:47:13.38\00:47:14.93
so that we can actually build.
00:47:14.96\00:47:16.28
All right. Praise the lord.
00:47:16.31\00:47:17.60
So you've been involved
in a variety of projects
00:47:18.28\00:47:20.33
over the years,
00:47:20.36\00:47:21.33
what is the current focus of the
00:47:21.35\00:47:24.48
of Global Vessels Organization?
00:47:24.51\00:47:27.61
To show how awesome God is
00:47:27.64\00:47:29.90
each year, this
is our eighth year,
00:47:29.94\00:47:31.72
each year we
start out with no money
00:47:31.76\00:47:33.51
Everybody say that: No money
00:47:34.51\00:47:36.91
Not a dime.
00:47:36.94\00:47:38.64
We decided we want to
go and build this orphanage
00:47:39.39\00:47:42.19
in Tanzania.
00:47:42.22\00:47:43.33
in the process of
building a clinic,
00:47:43.37\00:47:45.71
we passed this
orphanage every day.
00:47:45.75\00:47:48.02
One day we said: lets go
in and see what it's like
00:47:48.06\00:47:50.72
We'd go into
this orphanage, Steve
00:47:50.75\00:47:52.51
we go in there and
this one man, by himself
00:47:52.55\00:47:55.42
single-handedly,
going into the city
00:47:55.45\00:47:57.98
rescuing these children,
00:47:58.01\00:47:59.80
his parents are
deceased because of AIDS
00:47:59.84\00:48:01.94
and bringing back to this house
00:48:01.97\00:48:03.21
two bedroom house, with
23 children in the house
00:48:03.25\00:48:06.98
They're sleeping on the floor,
on dirt floors. I go back to the
00:48:07.72\00:48:09.98
group working on the clinic
00:48:10.08\00:48:11.08
I said: Guys we
gotta do something
00:48:13.46\00:48:14.43
what are we going to do?
00:48:14.45\00:48:15.42
Some of them said:
Lets raise some money
00:48:15.43\00:48:17.18
pass the hat, we passed the hat
00:48:17.21\00:48:19.27
we gave money, they
said: what are we gonna do?
00:48:19.31\00:48:21.24
I said ok, we're gonna
go buy them some clothing
00:48:21.27\00:48:23.14
we've got a big,
huge, fifty five gallon drum
00:48:23.18\00:48:25.02
we filled it with
water, brought it back
00:48:25.05\00:48:27.16
heated the water,
bathed the children
00:48:27.20\00:48:29.28
put clothes on their backs, Amen
00:48:29.31\00:48:31.20
the woman were bathing
the children and crying
00:48:31.24\00:48:33.17
the children didn't
understand why they were crying
00:48:33.21\00:48:35.31
everybody's crying,
they're bathing the children
00:48:35.35\00:48:37.42
because the
children needed a touch.
00:48:37.45\00:48:39.16
They touched the children
00:48:40.00\00:48:41.27
so we complete that
project of bathing the children
00:48:41.31\00:48:43.86
and we're on our way back home
00:48:43.89\00:48:45.38
but everybody kind
of looks at me and says:
00:48:45.42\00:48:46.94
Ok now, what are you going
to do about those children?
00:48:46.98\00:48:48.89
what do you mean?
00:48:49.55\00:48:50.96
What are you gonna do? I said
I tell you what we're gonna do
00:48:51.00\00:48:53.06
we're gonna go back next year,
00:48:53.09\00:48:54.44
we're going to build
an orphanage village.
00:48:54.48\00:48:56.43
No money.
00:48:57.25\00:48:58.22
All right.
00:48:58.23\00:48:59.20
No money. How are you
gonna build an orphanage village
00:48:59.21\00:49:01.48
when you don't have any money.
00:49:01.51\00:49:02.48
Because God has all the money.
00:49:03.08\00:49:04.31
And all of his
biting are enabling.
00:49:04.35\00:49:06.45
And I believe that.
00:49:07.02\00:49:07.99
So we go back,
we gather our forces
00:49:08.00\00:49:10.44
the union there
donates the land to us
00:49:10.48\00:49:12.90
and we begin to raise money
00:49:12.93\00:49:15.17
trying to build this orphanage
village with ten houses.
00:49:15.21\00:49:17.57
And I guess they
can show a picture now
00:49:18.20\00:49:19.78
we have a few photos,
lets do those photos here
00:49:19.82\00:49:22.89
and let you see a
little bit about the beginnings
00:49:24.53\00:49:26.44
of this orphanage
that's being built
00:49:26.47\00:49:28.53
over there by Global Vessels.
00:49:28.56\00:49:30.82
You can see right now,
00:49:30.85\00:49:32.01
this is the
very first portion of
00:49:32.05\00:49:33.88
everything that's hand made
00:49:33.91\00:49:35.26
huge blocks we do
on on the foundation
00:49:35.30\00:49:37.67
everybody there volunteers
00:49:37.70\00:49:40.15
you have to have the
blocks dry, at least one day
00:49:40.19\00:49:42.59
so we let them out
in the sun and they dry
00:49:42.62\00:49:45.14
and we're anxiously waiting
to start erecting the building
00:49:45.17\00:49:47.44
This is the
finished product, by the way
00:49:47.47\00:49:49.71
Amen.
00:49:50.69\00:49:51.66
Beautiful.
00:49:51.67\00:49:52.64
Five bedrooms
00:49:57.74\00:49:58.85
two baths, a kitchen,
living room, dining room
00:50:00.35\00:50:02.80
These three
gentlemen you see right there
00:50:02.84\00:50:05.26
they called me,
they saw us on 3ABN
00:50:05.29\00:50:06.79
they called me on
the phone and said
00:50:06.83\00:50:08.30
we wanna go with you.
00:50:08.33\00:50:09.38
I said: great, come and go.
00:50:09.42\00:50:10.57
They said: well
there's a problem,
00:50:10.61\00:50:11.58
I said what's the problem?
00:50:11.59\00:50:12.56
I'm 78, my brother's
74 and his cousin is 72.
00:50:12.57\00:50:15.80
can we go?
00:50:15.83\00:50:16.80
Amen. I said, sure you can go
00:50:17.84\00:50:18.92
get a medical
clearance and you can go.
00:50:18.96\00:50:20.60
They called me back,
we've got a medical clearance
00:50:20.64\00:50:22.99
and I said, come on.
00:50:23.02\00:50:24.55
These three
gentlemen worked so fast
00:50:25.19\00:50:26.89
they were just phenomenal.
00:50:26.92\00:50:29.03
in the work that
they were able to do.
00:50:29.07\00:50:30.61
these are some of the children
00:50:30.64\00:50:31.61
who are
displaced in the orphanage
00:50:31.65\00:50:33.78
there, in Tanzania
00:50:33.81\00:50:35.04
that's where we're working
00:50:35.08\00:50:36.05
we also had clothing
that we were able to bring
00:50:36.44\00:50:38.62
we brought clothing
00:50:38.65\00:50:39.62
we were distributing clothing
to the ones that were there
00:50:39.63\00:50:41.37
there's so much to do
00:50:41.40\00:50:43.44
and very few people
were there to do it.
00:50:43.48\00:50:45.66
Interesting story, right here
00:50:45.69\00:50:47.86
one of the ladies who was there
00:50:47.90\00:50:50.00
working with us every year for
the last two years in Tanzania
00:50:50.04\00:50:52.66
hard worker
00:50:53.21\00:50:54.22
we were helping one of
the children go to school
00:50:55.11\00:50:56.60
the principal
called me inside and said:
00:50:57.14\00:50:58.89
do you realize where she lives?
00:50:58.92\00:51:00.51
I said, I don't have an idea.
00:51:00.54\00:51:02.06
he said, let me
take you to her house
00:51:02.10\00:51:03.28
You're sending her daughter
to school, that's great but
00:51:03.98\00:51:05.99
let me show you where she lives.
00:51:06.07\00:51:07.04
We go there and she's
living in a twelve by twelve
00:51:07.05\00:51:09.51
this is her house
00:51:09.54\00:51:10.72
with four children
00:51:11.35\00:51:12.50
sleeping on the floor
00:51:12.95\00:51:14.21
this is Friday, we come
back to the States, Tuesday
00:51:14.25\00:51:16.59
and I said,
Priska, we're gonna come
00:51:17.54\00:51:19.86
and we're gonna build your house
00:51:19.90\00:51:22.15
She said: You
only have two days left
00:51:22.19\00:51:23.54
I said, don't
worry, we're gonna build it
00:51:23.58\00:51:24.90
I said: we come Sunday
00:51:24.93\00:51:26.27
we're gonna tear the house down
00:51:26.31\00:51:27.52
and we're gonna
start building it.
00:51:27.55\00:51:28.73
we got there Sunday, Steve
00:51:29.38\00:51:30.81
her and her girlfriend
had tore the house down
00:51:30.85\00:51:33.97
she had swept the floor
00:51:34.00\00:51:35.84
so we had to build our house.
00:51:35.88\00:51:37.98
She had no place to live,
we had to build her the house
00:51:39.91\00:51:42.35
That's faith, isn't it?
00:51:43.22\00:51:46.38
Oh, yes. Amen.
00:51:46.41\00:51:47.38
So we start
building on the house
00:51:47.96\00:51:49.19
we left there with them doing
some of the finishing touches
00:51:49.23\00:51:53.16
on the house.
00:51:53.19\00:51:54.16
So what are the needs of
the Global Vessels ministry?
00:51:54.17\00:51:56.64
We need a couple right now.
00:51:56.67\00:51:58.33
Husband and wife team
00:51:58.36\00:51:59.73
maybe one child to
be and direct there
00:51:59.77\00:52:01.84
of this project in Tanzania
00:52:01.87\00:52:03.93
We need individuals
who would like to go
00:52:03.97\00:52:06.13
and volunteer six
months, three months, a year
00:52:06.17\00:52:08.46
who'd like to go and work there
00:52:08.49\00:52:10.34
with the ten
children, each house
00:52:10.37\00:52:12.42
has ten children, a house parent
00:52:12.45\00:52:14.47
and a nanny to help you.
00:52:14.50\00:52:16.18
So we need volunteers
to come and help us do that
00:52:16.22\00:52:18.61
Folks, you've heard
it, go to globalvessels. or
00:52:19.50\00:52:21.34
globalvessels.
org, our booth is 228
00:52:21.37\00:52:24.55
228, come by, see
us, come and go with us.
00:52:25.29\00:52:28.36
Come on. Amen.
00:52:28.39\00:52:29.56
Come and go with us.
00:52:29.60\00:52:30.57
God bless you.
00:52:30.58\00:52:31.55
Thank you,
Frazier. Appreciate it.
00:52:31.56\00:52:32.58
Good evening.
00:52:33.54\00:52:35.66
And this evening we have next
00:52:35.70\00:52:38.05
Elisabeth Gonzales.
00:52:38.08\00:52:40.13
Welcome to ASI and I
know you're involved in ASI
00:52:40.17\00:52:44.58
tell me what
you're doing with ASI.
00:52:44.61\00:52:45.91
Actually, I'm the president
of the Atlantic Union Chapter
00:52:46.74\00:52:49.95
ok, that's one job
00:52:50.62\00:52:51.78
what other job do you do?
00:52:51.82\00:52:52.89
Well, I have a personal ministry
00:52:53.96\00:52:56.39
because I think if
you are going to lead
00:52:56.43\00:52:58.46
one of the best
ways of leading is
00:52:58.49\00:53:00.24
is leading by example.
00:53:00.27\00:53:01.83
So you have a ministry,
and what else do you do?
00:53:02.32\00:53:04.42
Actually, what pays the bills
00:53:05.31\00:53:07.78
is my home health care agency
00:53:08.63\00:53:10.62
that I operate in New York City
00:53:10.66\00:53:12.62
All right. Tonight
we're going to focus
00:53:13.38\00:53:14.85
on the ministry
that you have though
00:53:14.89\00:53:16.29
Tell us about how you got
involved in the country of
00:53:16.33\00:53:20.02
Guyana and what
the ministry is about.
00:53:20.05\00:53:22.98
Ok.
00:53:23.49\00:53:25.35
I happen to have
been born in Guyana
00:53:26.20\00:53:28.03
and I've always been supporting
several projects around Guyana
00:53:28.07\00:53:32.46
But they wanted a school,
and I was going to help them
00:53:33.88\00:53:37.85
get the furniture
and do all that it took
00:53:37.88\00:53:40.27
to get the school on foot.
00:53:40.30\00:53:41.91
Turned out that it was
not working out that way
00:53:42.30\00:53:44.94
and so we plunged right in
00:53:44.97\00:53:47.31
got a building
00:53:47.80\00:53:49.17
and got school started
00:53:49.21\00:53:50.62
So you have a school in Guyana,
00:53:51.33\00:53:52.60
how many students
did you start with?
00:53:52.64\00:53:53.93
We started with 23 students
00:53:53.96\00:53:56.37
so the Lord blessed
you with 23 students
00:53:56.41\00:53:58.95
you started school in Guyana
00:53:58.98\00:54:00.93
how has God been
leading in this ministry?
00:54:00.97\00:54:03.62
Ok. This is a
marvelous, miracle story
00:54:04.15\00:54:08.22
the school is now two years old
00:54:08.25\00:54:11.51
we've got two buildings now
00:54:12.01\00:54:14.13
and 300 students. Amen.
00:54:14.67\00:54:17.59
Along the way God
has done a few miracles
00:54:21.96\00:54:24.76
Yes. He has.
00:54:25.45\00:54:26.42
Is there any specific
miracle you'd like to share
00:54:26.43\00:54:28.61
something the God has
done, that comes to mind
00:54:28.65\00:54:30.85
Everything about
Christian education
00:54:33.97\00:54:36.15
is the way it shapes
the ways of young people
00:54:36.19\00:54:39.09
Amen.
00:54:39.12\00:54:40.09
and you see a real fulfillment
and you get your real joy
00:54:40.10\00:54:43.94
when you see young
peoples' lives changed.
00:54:43.97\00:54:46.74
I have gotten
several emails from parents
00:54:47.17\00:54:50.20
who said that their
kids were in public school
00:54:50.97\00:54:53.73
they were losing
grades, they were behaving badly
00:54:53.77\00:54:56.88
they were developing
habits that were unsatisfactory
00:54:56.92\00:55:00.00
they took them to our school
00:55:00.03\00:55:02.54
and our school
became the hospital
00:55:02.58\00:55:05.03
one of those
students, now in baptismal class
00:55:05.70\00:55:09.16
Amen.
00:55:09.19\00:55:10.16
One is getting ready to graduate
00:55:10.17\00:55:12.02
and there's several
more stories of that sort
00:55:12.48\00:55:15.10
coming out of the school.
00:55:15.13\00:55:17.38
So God is using this ministry
00:55:17.41\00:55:19.49
not only growing the ministry
00:55:19.53\00:55:21.54
but is using this
ministry to change lives.
00:55:21.58\00:55:24.57
Yes He is. And I think
this is what brings a real joy
00:55:24.61\00:55:28.94
When you see lives changed.
00:55:28.97\00:55:30.67
And when you hear
stories of people who
00:55:30.71\00:55:33.48
might have been totally lost
00:55:33.51\00:55:35.99
finding their way
and finding their future
00:55:36.03\00:55:38.77
that we hope will
be a Christian future
00:55:38.81\00:55:41.52
and one that is preparing
them not just to go out
00:55:42.04\00:55:45.26
with a certificate
00:55:45.29\00:55:46.75
but to learn that their
first allegiance is to God
00:55:46.79\00:55:50.10
to their family
and to their country.
00:55:50.13\00:55:53.33
So what I hear
coming through, Elisabeth
00:55:54.01\00:55:56.83
is that you have a
passion for this work
00:55:56.86\00:55:59.65
Yes I do.
00:55:59.68\00:56:01.58
Why is this?
00:56:01.61\00:56:03.44
Why do you think that God has
laid this burden on your heart
00:56:03.48\00:56:06.16
I sometimes wonder because
00:56:07.27\00:56:09.80
I started out just thinking that
I was going to help in some way
00:56:09.84\00:56:13.69
and when you find that it's
not going the way you wanted
00:56:14.67\00:56:17.29
and you really
wanna see it happen
00:56:17.32\00:56:19.80
I think the
Lord just enables you
00:56:19.83\00:56:22.28
and just continues to urge you
00:56:22.82\00:56:25.39
and we go ahead and believe me
00:56:25.43\00:56:27.93
it's not until you
put your feet in the water
00:56:27.97\00:56:30.72
that He really parts the sea.
00:56:30.75\00:56:33.17
This has really
been my experience
00:56:33.21\00:56:35.44
in working for the Lord.
00:56:35.47\00:56:36.85
As these young
people attend school
00:56:36.95\00:56:40.05
and as they learn and grow
in this Christian environment
00:56:40.68\00:56:43.95
their lives have been changed
00:56:43.98\00:56:46.18
you've mentioned
one young person or two
00:56:46.22\00:56:49.00
that you're
thinking of specifically
00:56:50.79\00:56:53.18
is there some story you'd
like to share with us about
00:56:53.22\00:56:55.87
a certain young person
or anything you can think of
00:56:55.91\00:56:58.49
that speaks about a specific
testimony of one young person
00:56:58.53\00:57:01.53
that comes to mind?
00:57:01.56\00:57:02.53
One that I think of all the time
00:57:02.54\00:57:06.07
is a young man who is
now in baptismal class
00:57:06.11\00:57:08.96
because one day, a lady
was walking on the street
00:57:09.00\00:57:13.40
she met another lady and they
just started talking casually
00:57:13.44\00:57:18.19
and than she said to her:
00:57:18.22\00:57:19.92
you know, I was having
real problems with my son
00:57:19.96\00:57:23.16
and I sent him to a school
that's a couple of blocks away
00:57:24.87\00:57:27.93
and his life has
changed so dramatically
00:57:27.96\00:57:30.72
it turned out, the lady
who she was speaking with
00:57:31.37\00:57:34.87
was one of our workers
from Adventist World Areas
00:57:34.91\00:57:38.38
who are also in Guyana
00:57:38.41\00:57:40.10
and she immediately
emailed me, she said
00:57:40.14\00:57:42.76
Elizabeth, my heart
was just so thrilled today
00:57:42.80\00:57:45.25
when I heard
this wonderful story.
00:57:45.28\00:57:47.75
Because you could see
the emotion in the lady
00:57:47.79\00:57:50.14
she really found
she was losing her son
00:57:50.17\00:57:53.12
he had been involved
in many, many ill things
00:57:53.71\00:57:57.28
and I let her speak to the
head-mistress of the school
00:57:57.92\00:58:00.60
and she told me about the
prayers, the encouragement
00:58:00.64\00:58:03.29
the difficult moments
00:58:03.32\00:58:05.24
but the final victory,
when the young man decided
00:58:05.28\00:58:08.45
he wanted to be baptized.
00:58:08.48\00:58:10.37
So I think that was
such a marvelous story
00:58:10.41\00:58:13.12
not only for the young man,
00:58:13.15\00:58:14.92
but I'm sure the impression,
00:58:14.96\00:58:16.66
that has been
made on that mother
00:58:16.70\00:58:18.53
will in time do something
to lead her to the Lord, also
00:58:18.57\00:58:22.29
Amen.
00:58:22.32\00:58:23.30
What would you
recommend to someone here,
00:58:25.31\00:58:27.28
who's listening tonight or
who's sitting in our audience
00:58:27.32\00:58:30.19
As God has lead
you in this process,
00:58:32.44\00:58:34.86
what could you
say to someone here
00:58:34.90\00:58:37.25
that would help
them make that decision
00:58:37.29\00:58:39.48
to follow God's leading?
00:58:39.51\00:58:40.84
There is work out
there for all of us
00:58:42.14\00:58:44.60
Amen.
00:58:44.63\00:58:45.60
When you think of need,
you don't have to look very far
00:58:45.61\00:58:49.06
and what we have to
start with is a willing heart
00:58:50.26\00:58:52.97
of wanting to help them
00:58:53.00\00:58:54.93
and as long as we are willing
00:58:54.97\00:58:56.59
and we ask God
to show us the way
00:58:56.63\00:58:59.42
He, in the most marvelous ways
00:58:59.46\00:59:02.22
opens ways for us.
00:59:03.16\00:59:04.63
keeps us going
00:59:04.66\00:59:06.06
and crowns all of
our efforts with success.
00:59:06.10\00:59:09.31
So, I would want to say
00:59:09.83\00:59:11.26
try it,
00:59:11.29\00:59:12.58
and you wouldn't be sorry.
00:59:12.62\00:59:14.02
The satisfaction I get
from the stories I hear
00:59:14.81\00:59:17.78
makes me so happy
00:59:17.81\00:59:19.26
that money couldn't
possible buy those emotions.
00:59:19.30\00:59:22.84
And what I do now is
not only work on this earth
00:59:23.23\00:59:26.75
but it's preparing souls
for Gods' eternal kingdom
00:59:27.25\00:59:30.09
Amen. Thank you, Elizabeth
00:59:30.78\00:59:31.89
thank you folks for
your attention tonight
00:59:31.93\00:59:34.26
and as we have shared
these wonderful stories
00:59:34.68\00:59:37.06
about how God is working through
ASI members around the world.
00:59:37.10\00:59:42.16