How many of you saw
a Newsweek this week
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with the special
feature on Islam in America,
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could I see your
hand. Oh a number of you.
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How many of you a colleague
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or a business
associate, investment counselor,
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a fellow
physician, who may eat hummus
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and tabouli
regularly, who may go to the
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mosque on Friday
and you may wonder
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how in the world can
I talk to this person
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about Jesus Christ? If
you have thought about that,
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if you thought you
know this is an enormous
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market of people
that we're not reaching,
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what in the world do
I need to do to become
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equipped to touch those people?
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Bryan Gallant is the leader of
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Enoch's Passion
ministry in Atlanta.
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Now Brian how is that
you got interested in the
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people from the
Islamic community.
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Enoch's passion
actually is now ministry
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of The Quite Hour,
but our journey began
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when we went
overseas with the Adventist
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Frontier missions
to live in Cambodia,
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where we're
surrounded by Muslims,
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although Cambodia
is a Buddhist country,
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there is a 7
percent Muslim minority
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which we then lived
with, and that began our
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journey where we
began to study about Islam
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or we actually
decided to read the
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Quran for ourselves,
and in fact God began
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to teach us many
things because it's one thing
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when you all learn
is about the news and
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you think they
are all terrorists and
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you wonder about those things,
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but it's another
reality when they are
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your neighbors, when
they are your landlords,
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when they are your best friends,
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and you find out that
they are normal people
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that laugh and cry
and dream and hope for the
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same things that you
do. I had one experience
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that really began to challenge
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my understandings
just as I finished reading
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the Quran for the first time,
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and reading it from
the perspective of a
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broken parent. My
wife and I as some of
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you heard our story before,
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our first two
children died in a car accident
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in 1994 and as you
won't fully imagine,
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but that forced us to
test all of the simplistic
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answers to the very
core either God is able
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to hold us, or he is not.
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And we've found
that our God is faithful,
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but it has broken
us, it has changed us.
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And in fact a week
ago we just had our fourth
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child since
then, praise the Lord,
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so I want to just say that the
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God of Jobs still
lives. God is faithful.
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And so as we were
there in Cambodia as I read
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the Quran from a
broken big picture perspective
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of our heavenly
father who is passion about
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saving all of his kids
right, not just the ones
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that we like but all
of them I began reading
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the Quran from that perspective,
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and one day I
actually walked into a trap,
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I didn't know
that, but God does.
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I walked in and there
was a Muslim teacher there,
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he was fluent in a
number of languages,
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English,
Cambodian, Komi, Arabic, Cham.
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He knew the Quran far
better than most of us
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know our Bibles
even though it's only
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half the size or less,
and there he had opened
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to a very difficult
section, and he said
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what do you think about that,
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and I must admit
there was no good answer,
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and I began to
squirm, I began to wonder
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and I also began to
pray because we've learnt
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that when God
sends you somewhere
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he takes care of you.
And there is also a promise
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that says when
you are brought before
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people he will
give the words to speak.
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And so as I began to
search through the Quran,
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having only
read it for one time,
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I tried to find an
answer that would respond
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a little bit better
than what he was looking for,
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and I couldn't find
anything and as you might
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imagine it was a
very challenging feeling
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to have his eyes
staring in the time
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to elapse very slowly,
or finally God led my eyes
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to verse that I
didn't knew existed.
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I gave it back to
him, and he read the verse
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in 29:46 which says do
not argue with the people
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of the book, but
say to them we believe
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in that which
has come down to us,
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and in that which
has come down to you,
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our God and your God is one,
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and it is to him
that we bow in submission.
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So how are you
equipping the people of the book
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who have a desire
in their heart to reach
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this great percentage
of people around the world?
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From that experience
and others as we came back
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in United States
and began the ministry
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Enoch's Passion
which is calling all people
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to a walk with God like
Enoch had and still has.
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He has
historically before Abraham,
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Ishmael, and Isaac,
and so the opportunity
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is to call to the
heart of people into a closer
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walk with God
through the messiah
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in preparation
for return of Jesus.
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And so we begun
Enoch's passion which is now
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a bridge building
ministry of The Quiet Hour
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that seeks to
reach out to Muslims here
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in the United
States, and preparing them
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for the return of
Jesus, but also to equip
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other believers as
to how they can describe
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their faith in such
a way that it resonates
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with the ears of the Muslim,
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touches their
heart where you describe
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who you are
instead of just a label.
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We actually say I
believe in the one true
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creator God. I
believe in living my life
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in preparation
for the second coming.
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I believe in healthful living.
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I don't eat pork, I
don't drink alcohol.
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I believe what the Bible teaches
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and by the grace of God
choose to live that way.
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When you share that
way with the Muslim,
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they will be
surprised and you have so many
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amazing bridges
you can build on,
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and part of my work
within The Quite Hour
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and in the Atlanta
area is helping to educate
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more people, so there
will be more voices that
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Muslims can realize
that there are some true
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people of the book
that are still choosing
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to obey God and
live in preparation
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for the day of judgment.
Well we have opportunities
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when foreign
students came to this country
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where he can
become interested in them
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and invite them to our homes,
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but when you have
colleagues and business
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associates who have the
same herds that we have.
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Your are equipping
churches and groups to
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actually be able to
minister these people.
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How would someone
find out how to get
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more information,
so that they could have
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their church involve? Thank you,
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I'm glad you asked. We do have,
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we have created through the
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North American
division, Adventist Muslim
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Relations Study
Center, we have created
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a reference, a
training manual entitled called
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To Display His
Glory, both giving
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and being the loud
cry. And it's something
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that can be done in your church,
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in your homes, we
actually right here
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in time for ASI we have
the DVD's of the session
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that was done in
Georgia, so you can get
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the manual and
the DVD's right there
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and take back with
you, or you can contact us,
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and we will
communicate and come to our
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church as well,
working with The Quite Hour,
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and with
Adventist Muslim Relations,
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our goal is to
create a core of people
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that are
choosing to love Muslims,
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instead of
allowing the ignorance
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and the
prejudice turn into hatred.
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We've actually heard
sometimes the attitude
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of people is nothing
Christ like at all to the
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point where they
are like or maybe
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we should nuclear
for city, wait five days
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and warn them before
you nuke another one,
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that is not the
character of God.
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And we of all people
need to be the most loving,
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the most open, the
most kind willing to meet
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people and build on truth,
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the principles of our
work is to test all things
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and hold that which is true,
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that's how we
build relationships,
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and we need to meet
people where they are.
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Thank you so very much Bryan,
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God bless you in wit.
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Our next guests are
Gary and Rod Bartholomew,
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and their ministry is
called Water for Life,
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and these men
are actually able to.
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God has given them
the opportunity to make
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a difference in the
lives of all kind of people
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through the Central America.
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Please tell me Gary,
how did you get involved
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in this ministry?
Well we saw a tremendous
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need in Central America,
and so our first efforts
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were in International
Children's Care Orphanage
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and School to bring safe water.
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And as result of
that how has it grown.
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Now we're out in the
villages, and clinics,
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and planning on hospitals
and other things in the
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surrounding area.
So you are drilling rig
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actually goes from town to town,
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village to village,
and it started all with
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International
Children's Care on their campus.
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That's correct and we
shipped another rig down
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last winter, so we have
two well drills there now.
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And how did the
communities respond
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to what you have been doing.
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Well they Mayor of
the area actually is over
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several different
villages. He is excited about it
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because he has
pure water now for
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many villagers,
and he choose the site
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where to drill and
which village to go next,
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and he comes in then
after we drill a well
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and puts in water lines etc.
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Well sometimes
they need capacity
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to store this water,
what do you about that?
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We do have some
slides and we have,
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we have build
some water reservoirs.
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The first slide shows
you know when you take
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a well drill into
village you can't hide,
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and the village
just comes out in mass.
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This is the way that we
get close to their hearts,
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and this
particular drill that you see
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there was donated
by someone from the
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Christian community
out of the State of Oregon,
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and that picture you
see there now with the water
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flowing is always a high day.
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The Mayor was present that day
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where he started up the
pump there in that village.
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I was able to
have prayer for him,
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and thank the
Lord for that water.
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Well and what
about storage capacity?
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We have now built two
40,000 gallon reservoirs
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at the orphanage
and school campus
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that lets the water we
can fill each one up in,
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even if they don't have
power then they are able
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to get gravity
flow to the campus,
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the one in the
middle that you can't see
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very well is the old reservoir,
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and it did not
have any covering on it
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or anything, so it
was very unsanitary,
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that's where the
birds came and perched
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and many other things,
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and so the new reservoirs
have electronic switches
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on them that turn
the pumps on through
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solar power, and
fill the reservoirs up,
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and then shut them off,
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and they have a
concrete top on them,
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so that they are sanitary.
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How did you get the
resources to be able
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to do this kind of thing?
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Well it's a little bit
tough there are no premix
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trucks there for
us. We use little cement
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mixtures and bunch of
people and wheelbarrows,
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and it's a
pretty big undertaking
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when you pour
several thousand pounds
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of concrete you
know hundreds of bags
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of concrete, a lot of
rebar and all of that.
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And, of course you
have all the equipment
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and the expertise at
building these, right.
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Well the amazing
thing is that Mt. Baker
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Silo out of
Washington State donated the
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funds to build these
reservoirs and the design
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and all of that, and they were,
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they just gave it to
us, and said here take it
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down there, and
again just another miracle
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that we were able
to have those down
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there to use. What kind
of publicity has occurred
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among your profession,
among the trade nationally,
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how did people learn
about what you are doing?
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We shared this
magazine last year the worldwide
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drilling resource
magazine, from that
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ten people joined us
on the project this year
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from the Christian community,
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from New York,
Ohio, Utah, California,
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one man from Utah,
excuse me from Ohio
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will be here this Sabbath to see
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what ASI is all about.
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I know that
drilling water, or providing
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water for these
villages has increased
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your credibility down there,
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how are you
expanding what you are doing
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for the people as
result of the trust
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that you and bond
you have build with them.
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As I said this is the
way we get close to the
00:16:44.26\00:16:46.87
hearts of the people
and so we have been able
00:16:46.88\00:16:49.10
to share with
evangelistic meetings
00:16:49.11\00:16:52.60
in the villages,
15,000 people a day die
00:16:52.61\00:16:57.12
worldwide because
of the lack of water,
00:16:57.48\00:17:00.12
or because of
contaminated water.
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It's more than we can
imagine in this country
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where we flush our toilets with
00:17:05.21\00:17:07.17
drinking water, and
so it's a huge issue
00:17:07.18\00:17:10.64
and so we have done,
we did five evangelistic
00:17:10.88\00:17:15.70
series this last
year, maybe our next picture
00:17:15.71\00:17:19.37
here will show us what
we did there last year.
00:17:19.94\00:17:23.33
Actually this is
having to do with dental work
00:17:24.84\00:17:28.07
in some of the
medical missions that we do
00:17:28.08\00:17:32.68
while we are down there,
00:17:32.69\00:17:33.75
one of those was a
little girl had a prosthesis,
00:17:34.19\00:17:39.13
she needed some knee sleeves,
00:17:39.14\00:17:41.15
we got a
businessman from Spokane,
00:17:42.03\00:17:44.66
donated those sleeves.
He, Galvin sent a letter
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back to him saying thank you
00:17:50.23\00:17:53.11
for these sleeves,
and that letter coming
00:17:53.12\00:17:57.78
back to him, he had not been,
00:17:57.79\00:17:59.93
he was an ex-Adventist
25 years since he had been
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in a church. He is
now going every Sabbath,
00:18:03.79\00:18:07.56
he has a catholic
wife, who is now coming
00:18:08.04\00:18:11.13
almost every Sabbath,
and they are just totally
00:18:11.14\00:18:15.97
changed how he
was living his life,
00:18:15.98\00:18:19.46
he gave up alcohol,
all of these other habits
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and is now just from
that little thank you
00:18:24.92\00:18:29.38
note coming back from Guatemala
00:18:29.39\00:18:31.67
has come back to church.
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He is going to be
baptized the 25th of this month.
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Praise the Lord,
amen. How is the Lord
00:18:43.41\00:18:48.39
expanding further
opportunities for you now
00:18:48.40\00:18:50.53
in more drilling.
Well we've been asked to go
00:18:50.54\00:18:53.07
into Belize, and
we've been asked to go into
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El Salvador, and
further than that,
00:18:55.73\00:18:57.88
and Chad and Cameroon, Africa,
00:18:58.56\00:19:00.98
and we don't know
where the Lord will lead us,
00:19:01.25\00:19:03.83
but it's the Lord has
just escalated this program
00:19:04.27\00:19:08.30
and there is a
tremendous need in any of these
00:19:08.75\00:19:11.25
third world countries.
Well now you have been
00:19:11.26\00:19:13.61
in this trade or profession
for a number of years,
00:19:13.62\00:19:16.92
could you have ever
imagined in your early
00:19:17.37\00:19:19.47
days that God would
use you in a way to impact
00:19:19.48\00:19:22.52
the whole
nation, a whole region,
00:19:22.53\00:19:24.33
and you can see results
for the Kingdom of Heaven,
00:19:24.74\00:19:26.87
did you ever imagine that?
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No, never imagined
it all. We went down
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just to help the orphanage,
00:19:31.67\00:19:33.09
we had a failed well down there,
00:19:33.54\00:19:35.46
the contractor that
work for us in the country,
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and now they are without well.
00:19:38.24\00:19:39.45
We've background of
drilling maybe we've to go
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and drill, and then
we say why we had that
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failed well. What is
the reaction of the Mayors
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and Governors of the region?
00:19:48.86\00:19:50.73
Well they are delighted
and they want to help us
00:19:51.17\00:19:53.41
import things into
the country which you know
00:19:53.42\00:19:56.12
the logistics are
tremendously difficult,
00:19:56.13\00:19:58.63
and so they are very happy,
00:19:59.02\00:20:00.95
they are also
gaining credibility of course
00:20:00.96\00:20:05.75
further up
politicians are up on the line
00:20:05.76\00:20:08.09
but they
appreciate that school of ICC
00:20:08.10\00:20:12.64
there in the education,
in the practical education,
00:20:12.65\00:20:17.08
and we hope to find
someone there to actually
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train in the
drilling profession.
00:20:19.43\00:20:22.16
Well you know our
favorite author says
00:20:22.86\00:20:24.73
Christ's method alone
will bring true success
00:20:26.10\00:20:28.62
in reaching the
people. Now you mingled
00:20:28.63\00:20:30.82
with one as one who
desired they are good,
00:20:30.83\00:20:33.73
and he won their confidence,
00:20:33.74\00:20:35.12
and that's exactly what
you are doing down there,
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isn't it, yeah. How is
it that you are getting
00:20:37.45\00:20:42.05
the Mayors involved
in your whole operation?
00:20:42.06\00:20:45.57
We ask them if they
will choose the site,
00:20:46.11\00:20:49.71
we will provide the drillers,
00:20:49.72\00:20:51.72
and the equipment
and we're asking them
00:20:51.73\00:20:54.01
to buy the well
casing for the well.
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And so they have invested in it,
00:20:57.00\00:20:58.96
and it's just
working out wonderfully,
00:20:59.35\00:21:02.06
and then you know it
takes us two or three weeks
00:21:02.07\00:21:04.71
to drill a well with
one of these old cable
00:21:04.72\00:21:07.04
tool rigs, and that's
just the amount of time
00:21:07.05\00:21:09.27
that's needed to do
evangelistic series.
00:21:09.28\00:21:11.74
Our next slide shows
our five evangelists,
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you know if any
of you are thinking,
00:21:18.63\00:21:19.97
oh I wonder if
could do it, or somebody
00:21:20.58\00:21:22.65
ask me to do it,
the youngest boy there
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in front is 11 years
old, the oldest one is 80,
00:21:24.66\00:21:28.18
and the 19-year old in
the white T-shirt in back,
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there is a
special story about him.
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First I want to go
the 11-year old in front.
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He carried on a
complete series in the village
00:21:39.17\00:21:42.28
of Pope town, and one evening
00:21:42.29\00:21:44.55
a 33-year old woman came to him
00:21:44.56\00:21:48.24
and asked for
prayer for healing.
00:21:48.25\00:21:50.40
She had been in
that terrible accident
00:21:50.41\00:21:52.44
involving damage to her kidneys,
00:21:53.98\00:21:56.34
to her spleen, to her liver,
00:21:56.35\00:21:58.09
she was bleeding internally,
00:21:58.10\00:21:59.65
and Aaron prayed for her.
00:22:00.32\00:22:02.69
She went to the
doctor in Guatemala City
00:22:03.21\00:22:08.67
just within a
couple of days there,
00:22:08.68\00:22:10.56
and she came
back, she said you know
00:22:11.07\00:22:13.28
I didn't have to have surgery,
00:22:13.29\00:22:15.55
her abdomen was
not extended anymore,
00:22:15.56\00:22:18.31
she was completely
healed, thank you Lord.
00:22:18.70\00:22:21.63
Dear ones if you
ever thought that
00:22:25.63\00:22:29.86
in your business, or
your profession you couldn't
00:22:29.87\00:22:33.01
share the good
news about Jesus Christ,
00:22:33.02\00:22:35.66
and that you
couldn't minister to people
00:22:35.99\00:22:38.47
in a way that would
be meaningful to them,
00:22:38.48\00:22:40.31
think again, if it
can happen in a water well
00:22:40.71\00:22:43.77
drilling operation, it
can happen where you work,
00:22:44.14\00:22:46.71
and where I
work. One more slide,
00:22:46.72\00:22:49.16
and this shows Jeremy,
00:22:50.68\00:22:52.44
Jeremy was the
18-year old evangelist
00:22:53.04\00:22:55.43
who had been visiting
our church for three months.
00:22:55.44\00:22:57.90
He agreed to go with us,
00:22:57.91\00:22:59.15
he says I'll help
you on those reservoirs,
00:22:59.16\00:23:01.49
then he said you
know I'll do that
00:23:01.50\00:23:02.93
evangelistic series,
here he is being baptized
00:23:02.94\00:23:06.01
at the end of his
own evangelistic series.
00:23:06.02\00:23:08.95
Praise the Lord, thank
you very much Gary and Rod.
00:23:09.34\00:23:11.99
Dr. Willard Regester practiced
00:23:16.76\00:23:19.43
general medicine for 45 years,
00:23:19.44\00:23:21.51
a veteran
physician. But Dr. Regester for
00:23:21.52\00:23:25.84
a long time you had a
passion about evangelism,
00:23:25.85\00:23:29.08
and you have offered
lay evangelistic series.
00:23:29.09\00:23:33.15
Now you have your
own television show,
00:23:33.16\00:23:34.83
but you have been
doing more and more
00:23:35.25\00:23:36.87
from that. What
prompted you to get involved
00:23:36.88\00:23:39.30
in sharing the
gospel with your patients,
00:23:39.31\00:23:42.55
with your
community where you live?
00:23:42.56\00:23:45.11
Well initially I
had a re-conversion,
00:23:45.55\00:23:48.03
and so I have since
that time I had a passion
00:23:48.72\00:23:51.79
for souls, wonderful.
And that's the only thing
00:23:51.80\00:23:54.38
worthwhile for
anybody in this audience,
00:23:54.39\00:23:56.57
or in the television
audience is winning souls
00:23:56.58\00:23:59.69
for the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:23:59.70\00:24:00.91
Well how is that
you got involved,
00:24:02.51\00:24:04.70
I mean you were
doing public evangelism,
00:24:04.71\00:24:06.77
I know you have often
met in conference center,
00:24:06.78\00:24:09.44
in other places, how
did you get that going
00:24:09.45\00:24:12.18
and where you
trained as the theologian.
00:24:12.19\00:24:14.32
No, I went to
college, and I took just
00:24:14.33\00:24:17.10
what was required
as far as theology,
00:24:17.11\00:24:19.27
I had the major in
biology and physics
00:24:19.28\00:24:21.70
and chemistry for medicine.
00:24:21.71\00:24:23.07
But when I got this
re-conversion in 1985,
00:24:24.01\00:24:28.07
I decided to go
back in the medicine,
00:24:29.05\00:24:30.96
and then one day
I said to my wife,
00:24:31.73\00:24:33.35
I said I think
I'll do a seminar,
00:24:33.36\00:24:34.88
so I went to
where a pastor was doing
00:24:34.89\00:24:38.26
a seminar, and the
only thing I found out
00:24:38.27\00:24:40.81
was how not to do him. Oh my.
00:24:40.82\00:24:42.70
So, I'm sorry if
there is any pastors here,
00:24:45.54\00:24:49.23
but, be kind, be
kind you are in over
00:24:51.51\00:24:53.99
a cooperative ministry.
00:24:54.00\00:24:55.01
I did call up, I
did call up somebody,
00:24:55.02\00:24:57.70
and they walked me
through my first one,
00:24:57.71\00:24:59.97
and we had 15
baptisms that first time,
00:25:00.62\00:25:04.02
and from then on
when the bug bite you,
00:25:04.50\00:25:06.50
you are dead man. Okay, alright.
00:25:07.03\00:25:09.32
And so since I had
time as most people here
00:25:10.39\00:25:12.74
know I know I've been here,
00:25:12.75\00:25:14.48
I've been to ASI
once before, good.
00:25:14.49\00:25:17.11
And I've done about 30 seminars,
00:25:17.77\00:25:20.93
five of them in
Romania, evangelistic series,
00:25:21.75\00:25:25.36
we built five
churches over there,
00:25:25.37\00:25:27.21
and each time of course
00:25:27.74\00:25:29.66
I had an evangelistic series,
00:25:29.67\00:25:31.04
so it just
keeps on, it keeps on,
00:25:31.46\00:25:33.14
but one day I
moved, okay, and I was
00:25:33.15\00:25:36.68
in a different
venue, and I'm getting old
00:25:36.69\00:25:39.52
and rickety you
can tell that you know.
00:25:39.53\00:25:41.77
Well I know that after
we had a number of birthdays
00:25:42.35\00:25:44.91
we start running out of
warranty on certain parts,
00:25:44.92\00:25:47.14
yes I know. It's
right. It comes from tearing
00:25:47.15\00:25:49.94
too many pages off
that calendar, okay.
00:25:49.95\00:25:52.43
So, I decided I was
little angry at God,
00:25:53.76\00:25:56.56
and so I was
arguing with God one morning
00:25:57.69\00:26:00.23
devotions and God
said well Regester,
00:26:00.24\00:26:03.97
why don't you put
an ad in the paper.
00:26:03.98\00:26:05.54
Alright, so
what you do about it.
00:26:05.55\00:26:07.45
So, I got up
and I thought that's
00:26:07.46\00:26:08.84
the craziest thing
I've ever been told by God,
00:26:08.85\00:26:11.50
and I thought ad in the paper,
00:26:12.57\00:26:14.58
ad in the paper
now, what I'm gonna do.
00:26:14.59\00:26:16.53
So, I called up
the local newspaper,
00:26:18.28\00:26:19.98
and I said I want to
put an ad in the paper,
00:26:20.79\00:26:23.75
and she said what
do you want to put,
00:26:23.76\00:26:25.10
and I said Jesus is coming soon,
00:26:25.11\00:26:27.88
do you want to talk about it.
00:26:27.89\00:26:29.16
Now I'm saying this
because this is the only
00:26:30.79\00:26:33.48
reason I'm at ASI
this year, alright.
00:26:33.49\00:26:36.32
So, that you will
go home and do it,
00:26:37.05\00:26:39.53
and before we get all done,
00:26:39.94\00:26:41.22
and I want to
show of hands because
00:26:41.23\00:26:42.70
there is not one
person in this auditorium
00:26:42.71\00:26:45.93
that can't do what
we're gonna talk about.
00:26:46.37\00:26:48.94
Well let's talk about
it. So, she said I can't put
00:26:48.95\00:26:53.18
that ad in the paper,
and I said well if I said
00:26:53.19\00:26:56.55
Allah was coming
soon, would you put that
00:26:56.56\00:26:58.45
ad in the paper,
she says let me talk
00:26:58.46\00:27:01.42
to my boss. So,
when I came back she said
00:27:01.43\00:27:05.47
yes I can take
the ad. I said alright
00:27:05.81\00:27:09.03
I want to put
Jesus is coming soon,
00:27:09.04\00:27:11.29
do you want to
talk about it. She said
00:27:11.30\00:27:12.57
you have to put your name,
00:27:12.58\00:27:13.64
and so I said
my name is Willard,
00:27:14.42\00:27:16.42
and she says and
your telephone number,
00:27:17.04\00:27:18.62
I gave her my name
and telephone number,
00:27:18.63\00:27:21.39
and within two weeks, two weeks,
00:27:21.40\00:27:23.55
I had a lady call me
up and said Dr. Regester,
00:27:24.13\00:27:27.79
I said how do you
know, I am Dr. Regester,
00:27:28.43\00:27:31.32
and she says
because I watch you on TV,
00:27:31.66\00:27:33.64
so I put Willard
together with Regester,
00:27:33.65\00:27:35.95
so you must be
Dr. Willard Regester,
00:27:35.96\00:27:37.89
I said that's me. She
says I think I've sinned
00:27:38.61\00:27:42.25
against the Holy Spirit.
00:27:42.26\00:27:43.47
And I said you know
the fact that you called
00:27:45.14\00:27:46.90
me proves to me
that you did not sinned
00:27:46.91\00:27:50.33
against the Holy
Spirit, so I right way try to
00:27:50.34\00:27:53.78
make a contact
with these people.
00:27:53.79\00:27:55.53
I gave her Bible
studies, I gave here the book
00:27:55.54\00:27:58.35
the 27 doctrines, 28 is out now.
00:27:58.36\00:28:00.77
We need another two or three,
00:28:02.12\00:28:03.52
so I hope for
30. And it's not that
00:28:03.53\00:28:09.20
we have too many,
we don't have enough,
00:28:09.21\00:28:11.26
do I hear an amen, amen.
00:28:12.63\00:28:14.88
And she said she would study,
00:28:15.82\00:28:19.06
and I said I
want you to come to my
00:28:19.54\00:28:20.97
Sabbath school class.
She came to the Sabbath
00:28:20.98\00:28:23.35
school class and
then one day she called up
00:28:23.36\00:28:26.72
and says I'm
ready to be baptized.
00:28:26.73\00:28:28.89
Now many of you read
that in the ASI magazine,
00:28:30.33\00:28:33.27
I know that. But let
me tell you other things
00:28:33.28\00:28:35.56
that happened, I
got a call one day from
00:28:35.57\00:28:37.33
a young fellow, he
said I've the inability
00:28:37.34\00:28:43.21
to leave this house,
I think he had an anklet
00:28:43.22\00:28:45.66
around his ankle, the
police were monitoring
00:28:46.10\00:28:49.25
and he said I need a Bible,
00:28:49.86\00:28:51.85
I want to change my life,
00:28:51.86\00:28:53.13
and I was
looking out the window,
00:28:53.14\00:28:54.45
and I decided I
got to change my life.
00:28:54.46\00:28:56.60
And I said why
did you called me?
00:28:58.22\00:28:59.97
And he said well
you know it's funny,
00:29:01.23\00:29:02.91
I was looking out the window,
00:29:02.92\00:29:04.27
and I turned
around, and there laying
00:29:04.71\00:29:07.35
on the table was the
classified ad wide open
00:29:07.36\00:29:11.68
and my eyes fell
on this strange ad,
00:29:11.69\00:29:14.41
Jesus is coming soon, do
you want to talk about it,
00:29:14.89\00:29:17.12
I figured if a
guy would put that ad
00:29:17.13\00:29:18.83
in the newspaper, he
would also have a Bible
00:29:18.84\00:29:21.95
for me, so that night
I delivered him a Bible.
00:29:21.96\00:29:26.07
What's been the result of that?
00:29:27.66\00:29:28.88
I haven't heard
from him, oh okay.
00:29:29.86\00:29:31.93
But I did get a
call from prison,
00:29:32.38\00:29:34.99
there is a fellow
in prison that he said
00:29:35.57\00:29:37.38
I saw your ad would you
send me some literature,
00:29:37.39\00:29:40.39
I send him
literature, and I got a call
00:29:40.87\00:29:42.52
cost me $2.65
every time I took a call,
00:29:42.94\00:29:46.34
and I got a stack of
calls this long from AT&T
00:29:47.09\00:29:50.24
I can show it to
you. I'm always answering
00:29:50.25\00:29:52.99
the phone because his girlfriend
00:29:53.00\00:29:54.45
was also in
prison, and he shared the
00:29:54.46\00:29:57.41
literature with
her, and they both wanted
00:29:57.79\00:30:00.50
literature for
the other jail mates,
00:30:00.51\00:30:03.93
their friends, so I
have a prison ministry
00:30:03.94\00:30:06.65
going from that ad.
Now this is something
00:30:06.66\00:30:10.52
you can do, I will
be asking you how many
00:30:10.53\00:30:13.63
of you are gonna do
it, so start thinking,
00:30:13.64\00:30:15.36
get those wheels turning.
00:30:15.37\00:30:16.49
The other day I
had a fellow call,
00:30:16.50\00:30:18.46
he is agnostic,
he wanted to argue,
00:30:18.47\00:30:21.19
and I don't
argue, I won't argue.
00:30:21.85\00:30:24.84
I recognize you are
really, really timid.
00:30:24.85\00:30:26.76
Yeah, I am.
00:30:26.77\00:30:27.74
You are so perceptive,
you are so perceptive.
00:30:31.68\00:30:35.19
Well that's the
spirit, that's the gift.
00:30:35.20\00:30:36.78
Yeah that's the gift.
Tell us about some other
00:30:37.14\00:30:40.06
results you have
had from this ad.
00:30:40.07\00:30:41.83
Well this fellow
called and he said
00:30:41.84\00:30:43.87
I'm writing a book,
it's in Barnes & Noble;
00:30:43.88\00:30:46.38
it is in Barnes &
Noble I brought it.
00:30:46.39\00:30:48.36
I'm not going to tell
you the name of the book
00:30:48.37\00:30:50.87
because I don't want to
advertise for this fellow,
00:30:50.88\00:30:52.72
but he talked, it's
telling why there is the worst
00:30:53.15\00:30:57.43
book in the world,
and he is talking about
00:30:57.44\00:31:00.35
God's word, is that blasphemy,
00:31:00.36\00:31:02.30
and I pray for him.
I had a fellow call me
00:31:03.50\00:31:07.12
just Friday before I came here,
00:31:07.13\00:31:09.97
and he wanted to talk to me.
00:31:10.32\00:31:12.18
I said what you
want to talk about;
00:31:12.49\00:31:14.05
I said do you want to
talk about Jesus coming.
00:31:14.51\00:31:16.92
He said the first
thing I want to talk about
00:31:16.93\00:31:18.84
is what is your denomination?
00:31:18.85\00:31:21.27
And I said I'm a
Seventh-day Adventist.
00:31:21.72\00:31:23.72
He said we have
nothing to talk about.
00:31:23.73\00:31:26.03
Now you are gonna
hear if you do this,
00:31:27.69\00:31:30.62
and I'm gonna ask
for a show of hands
00:31:31.25\00:31:33.06
pretty soon. I'm
watching the clock,
00:31:33.40\00:31:35.59
but I'm gonna take
two or three minutes
00:31:36.21\00:31:37.92
more than that
says, and I said to
00:31:37.93\00:31:44.21
what was I saying?
00:31:44.58\00:31:45.55
In the next minute you have,
00:31:47.93\00:31:49.25
would you
summarize. I asked this fellow
00:31:49.26\00:31:54.38
what do you
wanted to talk about,
00:31:54.39\00:31:55.65
I know he asked me if I was,
00:31:55.66\00:31:56.91
what kind of a Christian I was,
00:31:56.92\00:31:58.28
and I said I'm a
Seventh-day Adventist,
00:31:58.29\00:31:59.54
he says we have
nothing to talk about,
00:31:59.55\00:32:01.61
and he hung up.
Now listen friends
00:32:01.97\00:32:04.65
when you do this and
this lady at the newspaper
00:32:04.66\00:32:09.05
said you are gonna
get all kind of crazy
00:32:09.06\00:32:10.81
people you know
calling you and I have had
00:32:10.82\00:32:13.54
a lot of crazy
mostly drunk in the middle
00:32:13.55\00:32:16.56
of the night. But I'm a doctor,
00:32:16.57\00:32:18.85
I'm used to those night calls,
00:32:18.86\00:32:20.51
it doesn't bother me a
bit. And I told the lady
00:32:20.52\00:32:23.63
at the newspaper
I said you know what
00:32:23.64\00:32:25.41
they are going to
think that guy who put
00:32:25.75\00:32:27.92
that ad in the newspaper,
00:32:27.93\00:32:29.28
he is the crazy
guy. I don't care,
00:32:29.29\00:32:32.08
I want to be crazy
for the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:32:32.09\00:32:35.08
So I don't care if
they think I'm crazy,
00:32:36.40\00:32:38.42
so I just drop the
phone on the floor,
00:32:38.88\00:32:42.70
and I go ahead
and sleep that night,
00:32:42.77\00:32:44.36
the rest of the night.
But you will get strange
00:32:44.37\00:32:47.14
people like that. Now
that soul that we baptized
00:32:47.15\00:32:50.92
cost $29.95. Tell me
any evangelistic series
00:32:51.33\00:32:59.40
that you can win a soul
here I saw an evangelist
00:32:59.41\00:33:02.02
sitting over here
while ago, he is over
00:33:02.03\00:33:04.29
here for $29 you can't do it;
00:33:04.30\00:33:07.41
I've had a lot of
evangelistic series that
00:33:07.42\00:33:09.37
cost me $30,000. Dr. Regester,
00:33:09.38\00:33:12.61
lets see how many
people might like to get
00:33:12.62\00:33:14.55
involved in this,
how many will be willing
00:33:14.56\00:33:16.92
to go home and a
put a classified ad in.
00:33:16.93\00:33:19.00
Jesus is coming, well
lets see your hands common,
00:33:22.11\00:33:25.13
Jesus is coming
soon, would you like
00:33:25.14\00:33:28.05
to talk about it,
common lets get your hands up,
00:33:28.06\00:33:30.76
I want everybody in
the North American division
00:33:30.77\00:33:33.52
to see this one
person in one in every church
00:33:33.53\00:33:37.29
in the North American
division, one baptism,
00:33:37.48\00:33:40.47
one ad till the Lord comes,
00:33:40.85\00:33:42.61
it will cost you $29 a month.
00:33:42.62\00:33:44.41
Dr. Regester you have
been a great inspiration
00:33:45.17\00:33:47.58
to us to a number of people.
00:33:47.59\00:33:49.10
I'm leaving here
till I see more hands,
00:33:49.11\00:33:51.28
people know that
those are all zeroes
00:33:51.29\00:33:54.96
and I haven't
seen that many hands.
00:33:55.69\00:33:57.76
Okay, lets try one more time,
00:33:57.77\00:33:59.94
one ad for one month try it out,
00:34:00.48\00:34:03.92
okay common, lets go, okay.
00:34:03.93\00:34:07.83
Okay you are timid, you aren't,
00:34:08.72\00:34:10.11
thank you very
much. Thank you very much.
00:34:10.12\00:34:11.16
Guylaine and Rafael Font-Piguer
00:34:19.57\00:34:22.77
are from Madagascar,
and God put in their heart
00:34:23.49\00:34:28.06
the desire to go
and make an even greater
00:34:28.07\00:34:30.49
difference in the world than
00:34:30.50\00:34:32.60
they were already doing.
00:34:32.61\00:34:33.61
The name of your organization
00:34:34.46\00:34:37.62
is Fanantenena, Fanantenena,
00:34:37.63\00:34:40.91
see we can all learn, can they.
00:34:41.27\00:34:43.57
Tell us what is it that prompted
00:34:44.55\00:34:47.04
you to go to Madagascar?
00:34:47.05\00:34:49.32
Well we were just
looking to set it to go out,
00:34:50.10\00:34:54.54
and we went to
France and we got a call
00:34:54.55\00:34:57.98
from OCI to go to
Madagascar to open
00:34:57.99\00:35:01.68
our medical
center, so we went there
00:35:01.69\00:35:06.14
and we started
from the beginning
00:35:06.15\00:35:09.14
there was nothing,
we found the property,
00:35:09.15\00:35:11.53
we brought it, we
start building our houses
00:35:12.24\00:35:14.95
and we didn't
know about cyclones but
00:35:14.96\00:35:18.39
we have to learn
because the first year
00:35:18.40\00:35:20.71
when we just put our
tent on, the next week
00:35:21.76\00:35:27.79
we had a big cyclone
and the tent of course
00:35:28.56\00:35:32.25
was blown over, or blown out,
00:35:32.26\00:35:35.20
so we just found us
more shelter in house
00:35:36.09\00:35:39.96
that was nearby.
We stood there holding
00:35:40.31\00:35:45.11
the roof because
the wind was so strong,
00:35:45.12\00:35:47.76
and well this was
our fifth experience
00:35:47.77\00:35:51.54
and then we start building our
00:35:51.55\00:35:54.73
another shelter for ourselves
00:35:54.74\00:35:56.64
and next month
another cyclone came
00:35:56.65\00:35:59.39
and the house
was away, so you see
00:35:59.40\00:36:04.40
It was three
months three cyclones,
00:36:04.41\00:36:07.26
very strong ones. It
sounds like that someone
00:36:07.27\00:36:10.93
was trying to
discourage you from the work
00:36:10.94\00:36:12.99
you are doing.
Yeah, we got the message.
00:36:13.00\00:36:15.42
And but from that work
and starting in year 1992,
00:36:18.70\00:36:24.51
yes, from that work
what has been the result.
00:36:24.83\00:36:28.11
Well we started
with the medical clinic,
00:36:29.37\00:36:32.22
we had a doctor, then we started
00:36:32.23\00:36:35.46
medical
missionary training program
00:36:36.38\00:36:38.43
for church
members in Madagascar.
00:36:38.44\00:36:41.28
Then we had also, now
we have a secondary school,
00:36:42.54\00:36:47.57
we've over 200
children from this region.
00:36:48.45\00:36:53.48
And now since
three years we are doing
00:36:54.56\00:36:58.21
a health exposing day in
main cities of Madagascar.
00:36:58.22\00:37:01.42
You know I suppose
that the church has been
00:37:02.22\00:37:04.45
providing funding for you
00:37:04.46\00:37:06.37
or the Government has
been giving you funding
00:37:06.38\00:37:08.47
for this work. Well
we're self supporting,
00:37:08.48\00:37:12.21
but we're mostly
supported by private
00:37:12.70\00:37:16.46
donations, and
mostly by ASI family,
00:37:16.47\00:37:19.91
and we want to
thank you for that.
00:37:19.92\00:37:22.00
Thank you ASI family.
00:37:23.75\00:37:25.17
What are some of
the results of lives
00:37:28.69\00:37:31.06
that had been changed in
Madagascar from your work?
00:37:31.07\00:37:34.64
Some people, the
people are very poor,
00:37:36.62\00:37:40.28
this is the east
coast of Madagascar,
00:37:40.29\00:37:43.99
and this is one
of the unentered area
00:37:44.49\00:37:46.99
and there this is a
kind of neglected people,
00:37:47.49\00:37:51.38
and they had no medical,
00:37:52.03\00:37:55.01
they had no medical
health, and so we helped them
00:37:58.72\00:38:03.54
with these
going into their huts,
00:38:03.55\00:38:07.21
or when we were doing outreach
00:38:07.75\00:38:10.33
we met different
people that have a very badly
00:38:10.78\00:38:13.93
done hurt. For
example, there was a lady witch,
00:38:13.94\00:38:18.59
a lady she was a
witch, and her hut got burned,
00:38:19.30\00:38:25.23
and she was
neglected by the neighbors,
00:38:25.94\00:38:29.89
because they don't like witch,
00:38:29.90\00:38:31.38
they are afraid of them.
00:38:31.39\00:38:32.67
And so she was like
this in her hut without
00:38:33.20\00:38:36.21
any medical
care, she was starting
00:38:36.22\00:38:40.28
to get infected, and
we were doing evangelistic
00:38:40.31\00:38:46.18
outreach that
day, and we met her,
00:38:46.19\00:38:49.08
and we brought
her to the clinic,
00:38:49.77\00:38:52.35
and we helped her, we
put some clay poultices,
00:38:52.36\00:38:57.91
we cleaned the skin,
and after one month she was,
00:38:57.92\00:39:03.97
she was okay, she was healed.
00:39:05.05\00:39:07.11
Now here in America
where you know about
00:39:07.86\00:39:09.93
charcoal poultices and so on,
00:39:09.94\00:39:12.10
but how is that the
clay is used as a poultice.
00:39:12.52\00:39:16.24
As Europeans we
know clay that has a good
00:39:16.74\00:39:21.30
property anti-inflammatory
properties and also
00:39:21.31\00:39:25.39
it is very
soothing because it is cool,
00:39:25.40\00:39:27.66
and when you have been burned,
00:39:27.67\00:39:28.97
it's really
painful and it is soothing,
00:39:28.98\00:39:32.17
and so we applied clay
poultices like you would
00:39:32.68\00:39:36.58
apply charcoal
poultices. Well I'm wondering
00:39:36.59\00:39:41.87
how have you seen
God's hand involved
00:39:42.80\00:39:45.91
in the work that
you have been doing
00:39:46.24\00:39:47.68
specific example.
For example with this
00:39:47.69\00:39:51.76
lady to finish the
story, she was so happy,
00:39:51.77\00:39:57.75
we told her, we came
in your little hut because
00:39:58.75\00:40:03.73
God led us there, and
she started to open up
00:40:03.74\00:40:07.03
to the idea of there
was a God that was taking
00:40:07.04\00:40:10.23
care of her, and she
started to come to church
00:40:10.33\00:40:15.06
every Sabbath, and she
doesn't know how to read,
00:40:15.07\00:40:19.74
and she doesn't
read and doesn't write,
00:40:20.14\00:40:24.81
but she is able to
listen to the sermons
00:40:25.18\00:40:28.07
and to the Bible
studies, and she wants
00:40:28.08\00:40:29.92
to be baptized. Praise the Lord.
00:40:29.93\00:40:33.11
Now how has the
work expanded now,
00:40:35.42\00:40:38.86
what new opportunities
have been opened for you?
00:40:38.87\00:40:41.24
So now this last
month we've been doing
00:40:41.76\00:40:44.81
health expos in the
main cities of Madagascar.
00:40:44.82\00:40:47.94
We went to the mission the
00:40:48.62\00:40:51.61
south mission in Madagascar,
00:40:51.62\00:40:53.05
and the mission
president was very surprised
00:40:53.06\00:40:58.53
by this program,
so surprised that now
00:40:58.54\00:41:02.12
he is offering us
to OCI property for us
00:41:02.13\00:41:07.77
to open our lay
pastor training because
00:41:07.78\00:41:13.08
in the south of
Madagascar is a big field.
00:41:13.09\00:41:15.67
They have no money,
they would like to send
00:41:15.68\00:41:19.42
lay pastors in
these unentered areas
00:41:20.86\00:41:23.47
as most of these,
and they will be kind of
00:41:23.89\00:41:26.84
self supportive lay
pastors, so this is a,
00:41:26.85\00:41:29.96
for us it's a real
opening and we want
00:41:29.97\00:41:32.47
to follow God. Well
so you are providing
00:41:32.48\00:41:37.83
training for
pastors, and lay pastors,
00:41:37.84\00:41:40.47
how much money
would a lay pastor receive
00:41:40.84\00:41:43.46
for month over there?
00:41:43.47\00:41:44.63
A lay pastor gets
about $30 a month.
00:41:45.32\00:41:48.81
And a full time
pastor a little bit more.
00:41:50.25\00:41:52.69
Yeah full time
pastor is about $60 or $70,
00:41:53.49\00:41:56.79
that's per month, a month, yeah.
00:41:57.71\00:41:59.32
So for very little
money it is possible
00:41:59.76\00:42:03.47
to put additional
pastors in the field,
00:42:03.48\00:42:05.82
and you are being
invited to help provide
00:42:06.03\00:42:07.95
the training,
yes. If somebody wanted
00:42:07.96\00:42:12.71
to find out more
about your ministry,
00:42:12.72\00:42:14.72
and to be able to
receive your newsletter,
00:42:15.09\00:42:16.93
how could they learn
more about what you do?
00:42:16.94\00:42:19.25
We do not have
the booth here at ASI
00:42:21.91\00:42:25.46
but we're with OCI and
you can go to the website
00:42:25.99\00:42:30.26
of OCI and find
out everything about
00:42:30.27\00:42:33.34
our ministry in Madagascar.
00:42:33.35\00:42:35.08
Well we have the booth of OCI,
00:42:36.12\00:42:38.24
they have a directory
of all the OCI ministries
00:42:38.25\00:42:41.02
around the world, and
the ministry in Madagascar
00:42:41.03\00:42:44.66
is the first one
featured in the book, yes.
00:42:44.67\00:42:46.98
So, you can find it be
a very wonderful resource,
00:42:46.99\00:42:50.96
and it can end up
being a manual over
00:42:51.33\00:42:53.43
which you pray, not
only you might decide
00:42:53.44\00:42:57.08
that you would like
to support this because
00:42:57.09\00:42:59.01
you must be
getting a wonderful level
00:42:59.39\00:43:02.68
of results from a
very small investment.
00:43:02.69\00:43:05.26
Yes, well what we see there,
00:43:05.99\00:43:09.22
what is encouraging to
us is to see this school
00:43:09.61\00:43:13.50
can be a very
powerful thing because
00:43:13.93\00:43:17.28
this region is
animist; people don't have
00:43:17.29\00:43:19.82
any religion at all. So,
to see this young children
00:43:19.83\00:43:24.17
come to our school
and get it acquainted
00:43:24.18\00:43:27.04
with the gospel and
every year we have baptism,
00:43:27.05\00:43:29.84
we had seven
baptism last month before
00:43:29.85\00:43:31.91
coming here, so this
is really something that
00:43:31.92\00:43:34.91
our heart, so we
invite you to being involved
00:43:35.19\00:43:39.26
with something, some
kind of ministry because
00:43:39.36\00:43:41.51
it's really
rewarding. Would you invite
00:43:41.52\00:43:44.75
ASI members to
come over and visit you?
00:43:44.76\00:43:46.99
Oh yeah, we don't
get many visitors,
00:43:47.00\00:43:49.59
so we please come.
You would get inspired
00:43:49.60\00:43:54.45
if you go there, and
you may decide to give up
00:43:54.46\00:43:57.08
all and stay and
work because that's what
00:43:57.09\00:43:59.99
you folks did
when you left France
00:44:00.00\00:44:01.90
to go down to Madagascar,
00:44:01.91\00:44:03.17
didn't you.
Right. Well you have been
00:44:03.18\00:44:06.00
an inspiration for
us, so what final word of
00:44:06.01\00:44:08.90
encouragement do you
have for those of us here
00:44:08.91\00:44:11.25
in North America.
Well I would say it is,
00:44:11.26\00:44:15.36
I don't know it is
easier to, it is much more,
00:44:15.80\00:44:20.27
I don't know how to say,
00:44:20.61\00:44:21.58
to do something it
is much more important
00:44:23.64\00:44:27.62
than to think or
to think something,
00:44:27.63\00:44:30.48
I mean what you
think is important
00:44:30.49\00:44:33.00
but what you do is
much more important.
00:44:33.01\00:44:35.17
So you are encouraging
us to be doers not just
00:44:35.18\00:44:37.82
hearers of the word.
00:44:37.83\00:44:38.95
Thank you Guylaine and Rafael.
00:44:39.90\00:44:41.48
Our next guest is Julia O' Carey
00:44:46.27\00:44:48.52
and Pastor Isaiah Duong.
00:44:49.31\00:44:52.06
You folks are involved with the
00:44:53.55\00:44:55.45
Southeast Asian Ministry,
the Adventist Southeast
00:44:55.87\00:44:59.82
Asian Project. And
it's a wonderful group of
00:44:59.83\00:45:06.18
countries down there
that you are working on,
00:45:06.19\00:45:08.06
how did that
ministry get started,
00:45:08.38\00:45:10.98
how did you get
involved and what
00:45:10.99\00:45:12.55
were your interest,
and then we want to hear
00:45:12.56\00:45:14.82
how it's been,
how it's been blessed?
00:45:14.83\00:45:16.48
Well it started many years ago
00:45:17.34\00:45:19.28
in the early 80s
when Judy Aitken,
00:45:19.29\00:45:21.85
the founder of
ASAP was working in the
00:45:22.24\00:45:25.72
refugee camps in
Thailand when the Laos,
00:45:25.73\00:45:28.97
Cambodian and Vietnamese
were all put into camps
00:45:28.98\00:45:33.83
during the war.
And during that time
00:45:33.84\00:45:36.51
over 10,000 people
came to know the Lord,
00:45:36.86\00:45:39.27
and to make a long story short,
00:45:39.76\00:45:41.72
Judy still has this
passion, and she is still
00:45:42.11\00:45:44.64
sharing Christ, but
the neat thing is that
00:45:44.65\00:45:47.27
these people that
came to know Christ
00:45:47.28\00:45:49.37
in the refugee camp, a
really difficult situation,
00:45:49.38\00:45:52.21
they have returned, many of them
00:45:53.00\00:45:55.14
to their
countries, and now they are
00:45:55.15\00:45:56.69
sharing Christ, and
they understand the culture
00:45:56.70\00:45:59.10
and the language, and
God is just opening up
00:45:59.11\00:46:04.18
the doors in an
amazing ways right now.
00:46:04.19\00:46:07.23
And our motto at ASAP
is Christ is coming ASAP
00:46:07.73\00:46:12.41
reach Asia now.
And you know He says in
00:46:12.93\00:46:16.30
James 5:8:
Establish your hearts,
00:46:16.31\00:46:18.24
for the coming of
the Lord is at hand.
00:46:18.25\00:46:19.91
And you know He is
doing so many miracles
00:46:20.49\00:46:23.75
in these countries
as His coming is getting
00:46:23.76\00:46:26.86
closer and closer.
Can you tell us a miracle
00:46:26.87\00:46:29.34
or two please?
Pastor Isaiah heads our
00:46:29.35\00:46:34.09
underground house
church movement in Vietnam,
00:46:34.10\00:46:36.41
and he can share a
story and then I would like
00:46:36.42\00:46:38.13
to share one from Cambodia.
00:46:38.14\00:46:39.78
You know about
15 no, 10 years ago,
00:46:40.64\00:46:46.76
we began the radio
work to Vietnam through AWR,
00:46:47.84\00:46:51.84
Adventist World
Radio. And then we the Lord
00:46:51.85\00:46:55.38
have blessed our radio
program we have thousand
00:46:55.39\00:46:57.76
and thousand of
people come to the Lord
00:46:57.77\00:47:00.47
and wanted to
joining the church,
00:47:00.85\00:47:02.49
but you know
Vietnam is still under
00:47:02.95\00:47:04.77
communist control,
so we have no freedom
00:47:04.78\00:47:07.26
for evangelism in Vietnam.
00:47:07.27\00:47:09.13
Then we began the
underground church
00:47:09.98\00:47:15.04
in Vietnam with the
help of ASAP to support
00:47:15.05\00:47:19.18
the lay workers over there.
00:47:19.55\00:47:21.35
And I can tell
you some of the story,
00:47:21.82\00:47:24.11
several months
ago I talked to a man
00:47:26.55\00:47:29.91
who is 80 years
old, 80, and he one day
00:47:29.92\00:47:38.24
he receive, you
know he listened to radio
00:47:38.25\00:47:41.74
program for a
while, and then one day
00:47:41.75\00:47:43.97
he also received
a DVD and he studied
00:47:43.98\00:47:48.41
the DVD. You
know he told that for
00:47:48.42\00:47:51.23
seven days and seven
nights he could not sleep,
00:47:51.24\00:47:54.87
he could not eat,
and he was so shocked.
00:47:55.26\00:47:58.35
He told me that
during his life for 80 years,
00:47:59.10\00:48:02.92
he always believed that
he is in the right church,
00:48:03.31\00:48:07.56
he is right, and
he will go to heaven.
00:48:08.47\00:48:10.58
But then he discover
everything was wrong,
00:48:11.07\00:48:13.86
and he told me
that in seven days
00:48:14.23\00:48:16.48
and seven night he
could not sleep and eat
00:48:16.49\00:48:19.95
and that after that
you know what happened,
00:48:19.96\00:48:21.73
after that he
decided to live for Jesus
00:48:22.50\00:48:25.08
and he told me
that he use his bicycle,
00:48:25.09\00:48:28.56
and everyday he
went out on a bicycle,
00:48:29.03\00:48:31.99
and he asked me for
the DVD and the literature,
00:48:32.00\00:48:34.73
and then he
start to share to his
00:48:35.24\00:48:38.27
friends in Vietnam.
And the police of course
00:48:38.28\00:48:42.17
gave him some
trouble, arrest him,
00:48:42.18\00:48:44.01
forced him him to stop,
and he said that you know
00:48:46.56\00:48:49.93
I'm 80 years old, I
would have died anywhere,
00:48:49.94\00:48:52.46
any day, so if you
killed me you will help me
00:48:52.47\00:48:55.80
to rest in my
Lord, but whatever time
00:48:57.09\00:49:01.39
I've left for my life
I'll use that to share
00:49:01.40\00:49:04.87
this message to my friends,
00:49:04.88\00:49:07.45
and he is doing that,
he is still doing that
00:49:07.79\00:49:09.44
voluntarily on his
bicycle every day right now.
00:49:10.24\00:49:13.80
And, Julia I'm
wondering what prompted you
00:49:14.32\00:49:19.52
to get passion
about this personally,
00:49:19.53\00:49:21.57
and how where you
equipped to do it?
00:49:22.24\00:49:24.20
Well I grew up
in the refugee camps
00:49:25.09\00:49:29.03
in Thailand, Judy Aitken,
the founder is my mother.
00:49:29.04\00:49:32.77
and I went through
school, got an education,
00:49:33.33\00:49:35.72
and then God brought
me back to this ministry.
00:49:35.73\00:49:38.78
I just had such a
passion for these people.
00:49:38.79\00:49:40.97
The Southeast
Asians are my family,
00:49:42.35\00:49:44.37
I feel like I've a tie
hard in an American body,
00:49:44.38\00:49:48.24
but I went over there in March.
00:49:48.98\00:49:52.09
And I was so touched
by this project called
00:49:53.04\00:49:57.31
Feed and Read which
we felt great for the ASI
00:49:57.32\00:50:00.24
is also helping to support,
00:50:00.25\00:50:02.03
but there is one girl
I'm gonna tell you about,
00:50:02.43\00:50:05.02
here name Mai, and
she is a Vietnamese girl
00:50:05.03\00:50:08.83
living in
Cambodia, and the Vietnamese
00:50:08.84\00:50:10.81
in Cambodia don't get
treated in the same way,
00:50:10.82\00:50:13.19
and she was running the streets,
00:50:13.88\00:50:16.58
gambling just
really a difficult child,
00:50:17.19\00:50:22.85
and she was at her last year,
00:50:22.86\00:50:25.52
and her parents didn't
know what do with them,
00:50:25.53\00:50:27.10
but her parents
were pretty mixed up too.
00:50:27.11\00:50:29.73
Teacher Kahn one of
the literacy teachers
00:50:30.94\00:50:33.33
that ASAP supports
found her on the streets,
00:50:33.34\00:50:36.05
and asked if she
wanted to change her life,
00:50:36.06\00:50:38.76
and he convinced
her to come to the
00:50:39.34\00:50:41.84
literacy school.
She came to the school,
00:50:41.85\00:50:44.58
and God touched
her heart and radically
00:50:45.45\00:50:49.26
transformed her
life, she became peaceful,
00:50:49.27\00:50:53.17
she stopped
swearing, she was so different
00:50:53.80\00:50:57.09
at home that her
parents started becoming
00:50:57.28\00:50:59.76
interested in the
school that changed their
00:50:59.77\00:51:02.81
daughter dramatically.
And now when I saw her
00:51:02.82\00:51:07.02
in March, she was
a teacher's assistant
00:51:07.03\00:51:09.78
at this literacy
school, and teaching other
00:51:09.79\00:51:12.34
little girls, and she
is not going to be sold
00:51:12.35\00:51:19.10
as a prostitute
because she has a future
00:51:20.07\00:51:22.66
and hope now, so
we praise the Lord for
00:51:22.67\00:51:24.67
how He works in so many ways.
00:51:25.29\00:51:27.14
Amen, how have people
in leadership been reached
00:51:27.49\00:51:31.51
over there, I mean you
are reaching all classes
00:51:31.52\00:51:33.87
of people from
those down in orders,
00:51:33.88\00:51:35.73
to those in leadership,
00:51:35.74\00:51:37.29
how are you reaching them?
00:51:37.30\00:51:38.36
Well the Lord have
different way to reach
00:51:40.19\00:51:43.48
the people in
every class of society,
00:51:43.49\00:51:47.46
but I can tell you
that one of quick story,
00:51:47.81\00:51:50.94
she listened to
AWR, she became Adventist
00:51:50.95\00:51:55.29
with the underground
church, and she is in
00:51:55.55\00:51:58.70
the fourth year of
her study in college,
00:51:59.52\00:52:01.54
and when she become
Adventist she had to keep
00:52:01.98\00:52:03.83
a Sabbath and they
kicked her out of school,
00:52:03.84\00:52:05.59
so she could not
finish her fourth year,
00:52:06.17\00:52:08.22
anyway she started to go out and
00:52:08.23\00:52:11.10
to do literature and
witness, and the DVD.
00:52:11.51\00:52:15.64
And she told me
the story that one day
00:52:16.92\00:52:19.26
she walked to a doctor office,
00:52:19.27\00:52:21.41
she gave the DVD to the doctor.
00:52:22.37\00:52:23.95
The doctor checked
you know look watch
00:52:24.84\00:52:27.11
the DVD and then
he said oh my life,
00:52:27.12\00:52:30.95
I've searched for the truth,
00:52:30.96\00:52:33.33
and now I've found it,
and now he is with you know
00:52:33.71\00:52:37.11
the Adventist Bible
study and he try to use
00:52:37.12\00:52:40.54
our literature to
share to all of his patients
00:52:40.55\00:52:43.17
in Vietnam, so you
know the Lord have different
00:52:43.18\00:52:45.37
way to do. And
that's really true,
00:52:45.38\00:52:48.31
how would someone
who wanted to find out
00:52:48.80\00:52:51.21
more about your
ministry, and learn how to get
00:52:51.22\00:52:54.89
newsletter or to be
able to contribute to
00:52:54.90\00:52:57.66
what you are
doing, how could they
00:52:57.67\00:52:58.64
learn about you more?
00:52:58.65\00:52:59.69
We've a website
asapministries.org.
00:53:00.73\00:53:04.77
And you are
welcome to log on to that.
00:53:05.20\00:53:09.01
Also we've a booth
here at ASI booth 317.
00:53:09.02\00:53:12.64
We would love to
meet and tell you more,
00:53:12.65\00:53:14.52
and tomorrow at 1:30
PM Pastor Isaiah Duong
00:53:14.88\00:53:20.13
is going to be giving
a special mission report
00:53:20.14\00:53:22.90
in room 104, and
if you are inspired
00:53:23.78\00:53:26.88
and you want to
hear more stories
00:53:26.89\00:53:28.25
of what's happening please come,
00:53:28.26\00:53:29.70
we love to see you there.
00:53:29.71\00:53:31.33
Thank you, and
before, before we go,
00:53:31.66\00:53:34.38
I just want to tell
you we're prayer ministry,
00:53:34.39\00:53:36.47
and we ask for your
prayers, please lift us up.
00:53:36.48\00:53:40.50
God said if you abide in Me and
00:53:40.87\00:53:42.59
My words abide in you,
you ask what you desire
00:53:42.60\00:53:45.54
and it will be done for you.
00:53:45.55\00:53:47.27
And we want souls won in Asia,
00:53:47.28\00:53:49.41
so please join us in praying for
00:53:49.42\00:53:51.09
the people in Asia.
So mark that down with
00:53:51.10\00:53:54.56
your pencil room
104 tomorrow what time.
00:53:54.57\00:53:57.66
1:30 in room, seminar room 104,
00:53:58.52\00:54:01.34
we would love to see you.
00:54:01.71\00:54:02.68
There are ways that
you and I can get involved,
00:54:03.13\00:54:05.76
and we can end up
supporting those who
00:54:06.05\00:54:08.71
already are involved
and the Kingdom of Heaven
00:54:08.98\00:54:12.14
can be expanded here
in now. Thank you very,
00:54:12.15\00:54:16.32
very much for
both of you for your
00:54:16.33\00:54:18.53
significant ministry,
and for challenging us all.
00:54:19.40\00:54:22.52
What a Friend, such a Friend,
00:54:37.95\00:54:45.32
What a Friend, such a
Friend, All sins to bear!
00:54:45.86\00:55:00.62
What a Friend, such a Friend,
00:55:01.01\00:55:08.44
Everything to God in prayer!
00:55:08.94\00:55:15.62
O what peace we often forfeit,
00:55:16.47\00:55:23.05
O what needless pain we bear,
00:55:23.23\00:55:30.08
All because we do not carry
00:55:30.70\00:55:37.97
everything to God in prayer.
00:55:37.98\00:55:46.66
Have we trials and temptations?
00:55:49.22\00:55:55.08
Is there trouble anywhere?
00:55:55.81\00:56:02.42
We should never be discouraged;
00:56:03.03\00:56:10.61
take it to the Lord in prayer.
00:56:11.11\00:56:18.10
Can we find a friend so faithful
00:56:18.93\00:56:25.41
who will all our sorrows share?
00:56:26.05\00:56:33.72
Jesus knows our every weakness;
00:56:34.25\00:56:41.80
take it to the Lord in prayer.
00:56:42.25\00:56:50.63
Are we weak and heavy laden,
00:56:53.24\00:57:01.17
cumbered with a load of care?
00:57:02.03\00:57:09.79
Precious Jesus,
still our refuge,
00:57:10.56\00:57:21.65
take it to the Lord in prayer.
00:57:22.26\00:57:31.46
Do your friends
despise, forsake you?
00:57:32.02\00:57:38.47
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
00:57:38.97\00:57:45.67
In His arms He'll
take and shield you;
00:57:46.97\00:57:55.89
you will find a solace there.
00:57:57.39\00:58:19.64