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Now, James, you're with an
Organization called L.I.G.H.T.
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tell us what
does LIGHT stand for?
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Well, L.I.G.H.T. Ministry
is a relatively a new ministry
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it actually started
as an ASI Pilot project
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a few years ago where we
took several of our young people
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that have taken our
short training courses
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and we took them overseas
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to start training
programs overseas,
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and we chose two countries,
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one a Muslim
country, Tajikistan,
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and the other country... a
Western country is Portugal,
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and the project worked so well,
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we felt impressed that we needed
to put more into this effort
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and organize it in a bigger
way so many OCI Ministry Leaders
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and ASI help,
through ASI's encouragement,
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and ASI Austria,
especially, and Wildwood,
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we organized a new strategy
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for making available,
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short health
evangelism training courses
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to every member of the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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There's a statement
that Ellen White said,
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she said, "We
have come to a time
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when every member of the church
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should take hold of
Medical Missionary work"
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and I've realized how
can that be if our church
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is not trained to
be Medical Missionaries
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or even has it available,
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I worked at Wildwood as Director
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for the College
of Health Evangelism
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for the past six years and
we receive a lot of applications
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from all over the world,
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but we're not able to take
all these people for training,
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so we thought we
should have training schools
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in the country that these
people... in every country,
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because it's too
expensive to come to the States,
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and these courses
are not readily available
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to church members
all over, so we thought,
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we have a big job
and our goal is to have
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a training school,
short training school
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in every Union
of the world field,
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so that every
Seventh-day Adventist
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can at least have available...
have the opportunity
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to get trained to do
Gospel Medical Missionary work
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according to the
Lord's plan. Amen.
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So our strategy is
to enter a new area
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doing several
one-month training courses,
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let's say we go
into the Philippines,
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we've been working there,
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we've done several
one-month training programs,
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then we channel in
the most interested
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and best students from
those one-month schools
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to a six-month school,
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and then from
that six-month school,
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we're looking to train leaders,
we're looking to inspire,
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give the vision to these...
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to these young people,
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and then we work
to our third phase...
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is to help them
establish a permanent ministry,
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an on-going
six-month training course,
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we want to help them develop
industry for self-support,
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we want to provide
Leadership training,
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and we may leave missionaries
there after the second year,
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so that it can continue to grow
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and be a lighthouse in
that country... in that region.
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I know you have some progress
reports or updates and pictures.
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Yeah, yeah, so I
have some pictures
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to give you a visual idea
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of how it is, if you
want to look at more,
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our website is
lightingtheworld. org
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lightingtheworld. org
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this is a family that
is from Southern California
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that came to Wildwood,
they trained for two years,
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and they have now
committed themselves
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to help with the
six-month training course
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so they've been in
the Philippines now,
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let's look at the next picture,
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we've been working in the
Philippines for many years now,
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so we've done a
lot of short trainings,
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but we've never done
a six-month training,
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so now, we've
purchased a piece of property,
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we've got a simple
Facility there for training
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and all the other houses on
this property are bamboo houses,
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all the staff members and
students live in bamboo huts
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and Alain and his
wife we teach hydrotherapy,
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we teach natural remedies,
principles of healthful living,
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evangelism, Bible, we
could go to the next one,
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we teach how to do health expos,
how to reach the community
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through the
right arm of the gospel
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simple health expo training,
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so there's a picture
of some of the students
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that we've got
and are working on
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another point on
the Philippines school,
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we've just purchased a jeepney,
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and they've got
an industry going
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where they're
producing soy products
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and they're
delivering them around,
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they've got an
agriculture program going
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so that's part of the...
what we want to accomplish
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because we want to
be self-supporting.
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This is a picture
from just two weeks ago,
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this is in Tanzania,
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my partner and his wife had
travelled all through Africa
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this year doing
training schools,
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we have had the privilege
to train 37 lay evangelists,
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here are some of our teachers,
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all have spent
some time at Wildwood
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with the Conference
worker there in the middle,
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here are a couple of our girls
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rubbing shoulders with
the Conference President,
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of the Moro
Conference in Tanzania,
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they are so excited
that the conference workers,
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we got a letter from the
Union and the Conferences
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not only asking us,
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they're begging
for us to come back
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and establish a
six-month training school,
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they are so excited,
they were so blessed by it,
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the work is also
opening up in Kenya,
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there was another picture,
we've worked in Zimbabwe,
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Kenya, Uganda, South Africa,
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that last picture was
a picture of Cambodia,
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we've trained 70 workers
there, this picture right here,
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is a "Karen" lady that I met,
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hiking through
the jungle in Myanmar,
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when we look at
the next picture,
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we're working
with the special people
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who are called "The Karen"
they are kind of displaced,
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they're not citizens of
either Thailand or Myanmar,
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here are some
Seventh-day Adventists,
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the gospel is
working amongst these people
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they are despised and they
are persecuted by the Burmese,
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but the gospel is spreading
and we're trying to train them
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so they can go around and
work amongst their people,
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this is a new training
facility that we're building,
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just across on the border
on the Thai side, to train
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so they can hike out of the
jungles and get to this Facility
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and we're also going
to use it to bring people
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out of Vietnam and Laos
and Cambodia for training,
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we're going to do a
one-month training program
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throughout the year
in different languages.
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This is a property that
was just purchased a month ago
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in Austria, so
we're not working only
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in the ten forty but in
the Western world as well
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beautiful facility,
here are some of our students
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that we actually
have already trained
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in a temporal spot, we
now have a permanent place
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with a farm, it's wonderful,
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we're starting a
new course in September.
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This picture right
here, is from Tajikistan
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and we've had the
privilege to train
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several workers in Tajikistan,
one... that is a special story
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that I'm going to share
with you is this young man
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he's from Uzbekistan,
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he came into Tajikistan for
a one-month training course,
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he was extremely
inspired about it
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so we could see that,
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so we actually brought him to
our training school in Ukraine,
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where he got extra training,
he came back to Uzbekistan,
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he opened up his living
room to be a treatment room,
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he's doing...
here you can see him,
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heating up
fomentations for hydrotherapy,
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he is doing consultations,
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the Mayor of the
city came into his house
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and got treated
himself, with massage,
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now it is actually illegal
in this part of the world,
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to meet... to have anything
more than two people meeting
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for spiritual meetings, so
he now has a massage business
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and so... excuse
me... let me explain
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how he got into
the massage business,
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so he's working
out of his living room
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doing treatments
and massage and so forth
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but he wanted to get licensed,
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so he started working
with somebody, he got licensed,
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and that person put so
much trust and faith in him
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that that person
gave him the ability
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to give licenses himself,
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so now, he's able
to license all of our
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Seventh-day Adventist workers,
that are taking our courses
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and he's turned it
into a ministry work,
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people come to
his house on Sabbath
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and he teaches massage there
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and they know that
it's a health training place
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and so... but they do like...
"spiritual massage courses"
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on Sabbath and have
these special meetings
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so it's a real blessing,
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the girls that you saw
in pictures of Tanzania,
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they both shared in all
this, it has changed their lives
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and I can see students
that come out of our courses
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they need an avenue
to get into the field,
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and when they start
teaching the classes
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that they have learned,
they learn it so much better,
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they've absorbed
it, those girls are...
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they told me just last
week, they are committed,
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they want to be involved
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in this type of
work their whole lives,
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they've seen how it
changes people's lives,
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we've seeing how
these short training courses
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are doing a great work
and so we hope to make it
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available to
everyone in the church.
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Well, thank you James, at
this hour of earth's history
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it's important to
be able to train people
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in their own country and so
that's what L.I.G.H.T. is doing.
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Thank you very
much for that report.
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Now we're going to
go to the Czech Republic
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to Otokar, and first of all,
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tell us, how did you
become acquainted with ASI?
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Well, it's easy, it was 17
years ago in Denver, Colorado
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when I attended my
first ASI Convention,
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and it was a big
inspiration for me,
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and because of that inspiration,
we, created, two years later,
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an ASI Chapter in
Czechoslovakia at that time or
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the Czechoslavak Chapter,
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and I had the privilege to serve
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as the
President of that Chapter.
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Now, some time before
that, you had a disaster happen
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in your life that
changed the course of your
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career, can you
tell us about that?
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Oh yeah, sometimes when
you want to walk on water,
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you have to get out of the boat
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and this was the
same case for me,
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we decided to do
something for the Lord,
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I was not so
happy with what I did
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or I was not thinking that
I could be so much involved
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for the Lord as working
as a famous photographer,
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this was my business
for the previous 15 years,
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and we decided to
start a country-life project
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inspired by Country Life Paris,
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we went for training to Paris
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and we had
experienced a hard time
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when our... the
house we lived in...
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in Paris during our
Christmas time in Prague,
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burned down
completely, and it was like...
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burning literally
the bridges behind us
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because most of my photographic
artwork burned there,
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and we had only three
things we saved from that,
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my wedding ring, a
cooking pot, and my Bible,
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these are all what
we got from this fire.
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So, your photography
was pretty much behind you,
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and you caught a clear vision
of what God wanted you to do,
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what did you do when
you got back to Prague?
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When we got back to Prague,
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we started to
work on a virgin field,
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because in terms of health
food, there was nothing there,
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so we needed to create
our own supplying structure
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by creating a
wholesale operation,
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and we started, we
were the first restaurant
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and health food store in Prague.
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Since then, a lot of
things have happened,
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and so far, we have
now almost six stores
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because are finishing
the sixth one, and we have,
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almost three
restaurants running.
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Okay, so here's a
picture of the first store.
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This is the
picture of our first store,
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this is still the
Flagship, and this was a miracle
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we got that place because
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everybody was
trying to get that location
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and only by miracle
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we are still
having this location.
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So now you have
restaurants as well as stores,
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what else do you have as
part of that supply warehouse?
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Beside the
restaurants and stores
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which are our main
business and the wholesale,
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we serve daily
about 3,000 customers
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in our stores and restaurants,
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to fill the
name of Country Life,
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we started with an
Organic Farm in 1992,
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a two-hundred acre organic farm
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where you grow 80 different
vegetables and different grains,
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so you see some
of the production
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and we were really the pioneers
in Organic in Czech Republic
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we saw something which started
just... in the beginning of '90s
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we really like
to have an Outpost
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because the
farm had no buildings
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so in 2001, we started...
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we bought an old
cow barn and a hayloft
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which we completely remodeled
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according to the principles
of ecological building
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and energy-efficient building,
and we became quite well known
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in the country
because of this endeavor
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and we also
became very well known
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because of our
involvement in organic farming.
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The Outpost is now the
base for our production,
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our organic
bakery, the wholesale
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and also for a school,
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we started also a Medical
Missionary Training School,
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an adult training and
this school is training
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during the whole
year, full-time students
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or during the
weekends, distance students
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so we have quite a
good group of students
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and those students are
getting ready to work in
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the health expos,
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they are also helping with
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one project which
is quite interesting
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the health clubs,
these are some small groups
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which are... we
work with local churches
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to give them tools
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of how to do some
Medical Missionary work
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and we have created so far
66 health clubs in the Country,
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and we are now exporting that
idea also to other countries.
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Okay, wonderful,
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now, can you tell us a little
bit about your Newstart Program?
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Yeah, this is also
another activity because
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we want to touch a
larger public so we are...
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we have, every year,
this year we have nine
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Newstart health weeks so
they reach over 300 people
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who are going through those
sessions throughout the year,
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and this is a very good place
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where we can have a
bigger influence on people,
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not only just one lecture
but you have a whole week
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ending with the Sabbath, so
you can add spiritual matters
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and as far as we still
don't have our own Sanitarium,
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we hope to have
one in the future,
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so we do that in rented
premises in different locations
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and we have acquired
a good group of people
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who are willing to attend,
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but those people who are more
interested in spiritual topics
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it's difficult to bring
them to a regular church
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because most of the
church members in our country
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are not really health conscious,
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so we have created a
kind of alternative church,
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we call it the Restaurant Church
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which is recognized by
the Conference as a church
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and we have
some special programs
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for those who are
interested in health.
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So you have church
services, actually,
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in your Country Life Restaurant.
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That's correct, so we
can use the restaurant
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seven days a week,
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not only six
days for the business
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but also the seventh day.
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Wonderful, so you're the largest
wholesaler of organic foods,
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you're a pioneer in
organic gardening and farming,
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and you have the
Outpost, you have the bakery,
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what are the results,
are you seeing lives changed,
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souls won, how can
you tell us about that?
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Yeah... you cannot
see all the lives changes
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from the thousand people which
are coming to our premises,
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but we can see some real
fruits ending with baptism
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so we have every
year, several baptisms
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just in June we had four
baptisms from our customers
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but not only from our customers
00:16:08.20\00:16:10.47
but we have a good mission
field also among our workers
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because to do all this
work, we have about 145 workers
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and we have about
one third of them are
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Seventh-day Adventist members
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so the two thirds are
potential mission field
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and we had in the
past among our students
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and among our workers we
had also several baptisms.
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Okay, now you told me
00:16:33.99\00:16:35.59
your health expo that you
hold there in your local town
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the town is about 200 people,
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how many people come
out to your health expo?
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We have organized, every year,
what we call a Harvest Festival
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it's in September and last year
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we had about 4,000 people
coming to that small village
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of 200 people,
so it was very busy,
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very crowded and even very
important VIP people are coming,
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so this year, we're expecting
even some Government members
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like the Minister of
Agriculture we have invited,
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and the Minister of Education
and Minister of Environment.
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You know, I was
looking at some of the pictures
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earlier that we didn't
have time to show tonight
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and he was telling me that
because the town is so small
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and so many people are
coming, they encouraged them
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in a "green way" to ride
bikes to the Harvest Festival
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and he showed me a
picture of the Mayor of Prague
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arriving on a bicycle to
the Harvest Festival there,
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so what a wonderful opportunity.
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Yeah, he came with his
wife and he is one of the
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most preferred
politicians in the Country
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maybe in the
future... future Prime Minister
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or maybe even the President,
00:17:46.93\00:17:48.26
he's still young
and he's very fit
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he climbed last
year to the Mount Everest
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so he's a good example of what
healthy lifestyle also can do.
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What do you see as the
future of Country Life in Czech?
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I think we would like
to expand our activities
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with the shops by
doing a Franchise System
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so it could be
together with the health clubs
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we can create
some small other shops
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in other cities
not only in Prague,
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but we want to
expand also to the other...
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to the new
European Union Countries,
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so the former
Communist countries
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by helping them to
start something like that
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and one thing which
is close to my heart
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because I grew up
in a Muslim country
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in North Africa, Tunisia,
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and we were planning with
my sister who is living there,
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to start a small
project in Tunisia.
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Thank you Otokar, we
appreciate you coming
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and sharing what God has
doing in the Czech Republic.
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Thank you Chester.
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It is encouraging to see...
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I want to say
the last thing. Okay.
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Everything of that
will not be possible
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without the help of
the Lord, of course,
00:18:51.89\00:18:53.90
but also with the help of ASI
00:18:53.93\00:18:56.53
and we really
appreciate your help
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and the help of all the projects
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and the last projects
which will be funded this year
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is a Community Center which
will be above our restaurant
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where we will
have a permanent church
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not only in the
restaurant premises
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but we'll do also lectures there
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and a physician
counseling room and so on.
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Thank you ASI.
00:19:15.78\00:19:17.12
God bless you
and your work there.
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Our next interview is going
to be with three young people
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and probably most
of you here tonight
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are familiar with the
ASI Youth For Jesus Program,
00:19:27.83\00:19:31.80
it's something
very close to my heart,
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and we're going to just
hear from three of these
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youth for Jesus about their
experience here this summer
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right here in Tampa,
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first we're going
to start with Brent,
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Brent, where are you from?
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I'm from a small town in
Minnesota called Maple Plain.
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Maple Plain, Minnesota,
how, I believe you go to school
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at an ASI
supporting academy, right?
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Yeah I go to
Daystar Adventist Academy.
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Okay, now, was this your
first Youth for Jesus Program?
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Yes it was.
00:19:59.29\00:20:00.76
Now, what did you think about,
00:20:00.80\00:20:03.26
now that it's over,
what do you think about
00:20:03.30\00:20:05.47
the Youth for Jesus
Program, how did it impact you,
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what has been special
about this experience?
00:20:08.34\00:20:11.34
Well, the prayer
life... we pray a lot there
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at Youth for Jesus,
every morning at 7:45
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our whole site would
come together and pray for the
00:20:17.61\00:20:21.38
contacts that are
coming on, for the Speakers
00:20:21.42\00:20:23.99
and that
everything would run smoothly
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and then again at 12:45.
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Okay so twice a day,
you and your team from...
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which site were you at?
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I was at the Tampa First site.
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So the team from Tampa First
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would meet together
twice a day and pray,
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did you see God
answering your prayers?
00:20:39.60\00:20:41.57
Yeah we did.
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Tell me about one of
your contacts... Paul.
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Well, Paul started coming
to the meetings fairly early on
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and I noticed that no one
was sitting by him at his table,
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he was all alone, and
so I went and sat by him
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and after the meeting, I
just started talking with him
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and getting to know him
and he has Bone Marrow Cancer
00:21:01.42\00:21:04.79
and as the meetings went
on, he told me about that
00:21:04.83\00:21:08.16
and then... he was saying that
00:21:08.20\00:21:09.70
a lot of times he'd be depressed
00:21:09.73\00:21:12.03
because he'd be in his apartment
all alone and everything
00:21:12.07\00:21:14.57
but when he'd
come to the meetings,
00:21:14.60\00:21:16.37
he'd forget that
he even had Cancer
00:21:16.40\00:21:18.01
because people
were so friendly to him.
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Okay, so you went and
you had the opportunity
00:21:19.64\00:21:22.98
to make a friend
and to get to know him,
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did Paul continue
coming to the meetings?
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Yeah, he came faithfully,
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he said that he
was only going to come
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on Monday, Wednesday
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and Friday, because
Tuesday and Thursday
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were the days he had to
clean his apartment and stuff
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but he started coming on
Tuesdays and Thursdays and
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Saturdays regularly,
which was really good
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and then, at the
end, we had our baptism
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he said that he was
going to come regularly
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to the church service so I
was really glad about that.
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All right, would you recommend
the Youth for Jesus Program?
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Yeah, I'd highly recommend it.
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Okay, come a little
closer ladies, Alena.
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Hello. Where are you from?
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I'm from Zlín, it's a
city in Czech Republic.
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You're also from the
Czech Republic, okay,
00:22:06.86\00:22:09.42
now what were the
blessings that came to you
00:22:09.46\00:22:11.99
from the Youth
For Jesus Program?
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It was a big privilege for
me to be here in Youth for Jesus
00:22:14.23\00:22:18.20
and at first, my
spiritual life really grew up
00:22:18.23\00:22:21.90
I became closer to God
00:22:21.94\00:22:23.41
and also, a church
where I was assigned to,
00:22:23.44\00:22:27.01
it was Westside, so the
members, they really accepted us
00:22:27.04\00:22:30.48
and also the
contacts, the people,
00:22:30.51\00:22:33.52
at first, it was full
of travels and programs
00:22:33.55\00:22:37.19
and later I could see
they were full of energy
00:22:37.22\00:22:40.76
and full of God and how
their spiritual life grew up.
00:22:40.82\00:22:43.83
So you saw changes in the
lives of your contacts and
00:22:43.89\00:22:46.80
that was a real
blessing to you. Yes.
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How did you feel about
the whole... the team...
00:22:49.00\00:22:51.93
your team, the local church,
the contacts, how did you...?
00:22:51.97\00:22:55.77
It was such a big family,
00:22:55.80\00:22:57.44
they... we were
so close together.
00:22:57.51\00:22:59.51
Even though you're
from the Czech Republic...
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Yeah. It felt
like one big family,
00:23:01.34\00:23:03.78
isn't it neat to be
part of the family of God?
00:23:03.81\00:23:05.31
And as people were
learning the truth,
00:23:05.35\00:23:07.38
they became a part
of the family as well.
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.38
Now, you had a contact named
Vanessa, tell us about Vanessa.
00:23:09.42\00:23:13.29
Well, this girl,
first when I met her
00:23:13.32\00:23:16.32
I said, "Well, I'm not
going to talk to her in anyway"
00:23:16.39\00:23:20.10
but later, we
became really good friends,
00:23:20.13\00:23:22.83
she's just a few
years older than me
00:23:22.86\00:23:25.23
and we can understand together
00:23:25.27\00:23:27.30
and we could talk
about spiritual things
00:23:27.34\00:23:29.80
about
relationships, about everything
00:23:29.84\00:23:32.51
so it was a big blessing for me.
00:23:32.54\00:23:34.28
Did Vanessa continue
coming to the meetings?
00:23:34.31\00:23:35.91
Yeah she did, and she
also promised to come here.
00:23:35.94\00:23:38.58
Okay, wonderful and
what do you hope to do
00:23:38.61\00:23:41.95
when you get back home,
00:23:41.98\00:23:43.32
anything that you
hope is in your future?
00:23:43.35\00:23:45.09
We came here as
Czechoslovak Team
00:23:45.12\00:23:48.06
and we are planning to make
00:23:48.12\00:23:49.82
Youth for Jesus
next year in Czech
00:23:49.86\00:23:52.59
so just keep us in prayers
00:23:52.63\00:23:54.70
that it will be
such great as here
00:23:54.76\00:23:57.30
and also I would
like to thank you,
00:23:57.33\00:23:59.57
ASI and Maranatha in Czech,
00:23:59.60\00:24:01.57
because without
them, we wouldn't be here,
00:24:01.60\00:24:03.57
so just... thank you.
00:24:03.61\00:24:06.17
Okay, thank you Alena,
00:24:06.21\00:24:08.74
next we have Eniko,
and where are you from?
00:24:08.78\00:24:12.28
I'm from Budapest the
capital city of Hungary.
00:24:12.31\00:24:15.78
Okay, you're from
the capital of Hungary
00:24:15.82\00:24:18.35
now, you I believe
came to ASI last year
00:24:18.39\00:24:20.89
here in the
States, right? Yeah...
00:24:20.92\00:24:22.29
And you heard a bit about
the Youth for Jesus Program
00:24:22.32\00:24:24.89
but you thought,
"That could never be for me"
00:24:24.93\00:24:27.93
why did you think
you could never be
00:24:27.96\00:24:29.30
part of the Youth
For Jesus Program?
00:24:29.33\00:24:30.67
Well, actually I thought that
it was just all about preaching
00:24:30.70\00:24:34.20
and in English and I thought,
"Oh no, that's not for me"
00:24:34.24\00:24:37.14
So you can't preach in English
00:24:37.17\00:24:39.07
so you couldn't
be a youth for Jesus,
00:24:39.11\00:24:40.64
but you found out there is more
00:24:40.68\00:24:42.08
to the Youth for Jesus Program
than just preaching, right?
00:24:42.11\00:24:45.41
What did you do while you
were here this summer in Tampa?
00:24:45.45\00:24:48.72
Well, I had many
great experiences here
00:24:48.75\00:24:51.92
like I did survey and
health talk in English
00:24:51.95\00:24:55.72
and children's program
and Bible study in English.
00:24:55.76\00:24:58.96
Okay... all in
English, you notice,
00:24:58.99\00:25:01.66
that's helpful here,
00:25:01.70\00:25:03.16
so if you are going
to give a Bible Study
00:25:03.20\00:25:07.34
you would probably want to
have plenty of time to prepare,
00:25:07.37\00:25:10.77
especially
since it's in English,
00:25:10.81\00:25:12.14
is that how your
first Bible Study happened?
00:25:12.17\00:25:15.91
No, it was... I
went with Tanya and Loni
00:25:15.94\00:25:19.71
and they told us that I should
experience the Bible Study
00:25:19.75\00:25:24.69
and I said, "Okay, well,
I will see how you do it"
00:25:24.72\00:25:27.82
So you went with
your Bible Worker
00:25:27.86\00:25:29.96
and they said, "You
should experience a Bible Study"
00:25:29.99\00:25:32.06
Yeah, and then, I got
to the car and they said,
00:25:32.09\00:25:35.03
"Oh, you are going
to do the Bible Study"
00:25:35.06\00:25:37.37
and I said, "Me?" and they said,
00:25:37.40\00:25:39.47
"Okay, don't
worry, you have time"
00:25:39.50\00:25:41.50
and I had five or
ten minutes to prepare
00:25:41.54\00:25:44.64
but thank God Tanya
helped me a lot so...
00:25:44.67\00:25:47.74
Okay, how did
that Bible Study go?
00:25:47.78\00:25:50.11
Well, it was great after that
00:25:50.15\00:25:52.51
and the
contact's name was Amanda
00:25:52.55\00:25:56.12
and she got baptized so I
was really happy about it.
00:25:56.15\00:26:00.02
Amen, isn't that
wonderful, praise the Lord.
00:26:00.06\00:26:03.73
Now what do you want to do when
you go back home to Hungary?
00:26:03.76\00:26:07.96
Well, I hope we'll
have something like that
00:26:08.00\00:26:11.43
in Hungary too because
it's such a great blessing.
00:26:11.47\00:26:14.27
Okay, thank you, Youth
for Jesus, for sharing,
00:26:14.30\00:26:18.14
for coming here to Tampa
00:26:18.17\00:26:19.51
and for telling your
stories here tonight.
00:26:19.54\00:26:21.01
Thank you very much.
00:26:21.04\00:26:24.01
Audience clapping.
00:26:24.05\00:26:26.95
Our next members in
action are going to be
00:26:27.02\00:26:30.42
Doug and Debbie Baker,
00:26:30.45\00:26:32.15
now the Bakers... I
think... many of us know well
00:26:32.22\00:26:36.79
they're from Heritage Academy,
00:26:36.83\00:26:38.46
and Doug, I'm
going to start with you,
00:26:38.49\00:26:40.83
your young people
have been involved
00:26:40.86\00:26:43.13
in a variety of
outreach activities
00:26:43.16\00:26:45.40
in the recent
past and are currently,
00:26:45.43\00:26:47.64
tell us about some of
those outreach activities.
00:26:47.70\00:26:49.80
Well, first of all,
00:26:49.87\00:26:53.48
one thing that has
really impressed me
00:26:53.51\00:26:55.44
is the way that the
Lord has been opening doors
00:26:55.48\00:26:59.25
I would say, kind of
like a SWAT team opens doors,
00:26:59.28\00:27:03.02
I mean, He just
busts them open for us
00:27:03.05\00:27:05.05
and there they
are in front of us,
00:27:05.09\00:27:07.02
one thing that we've
been doing for about six years
00:27:07.06\00:27:12.36
is Literature Evangelism
00:27:12.39\00:27:14.93
and the Lord has opened
that in such a big way for us
00:27:14.96\00:27:19.17
we do Literature Evangelism
from Knoxville to Nashville
00:27:19.20\00:27:23.37
which is about 200 miles
00:27:23.41\00:27:25.37
and all the
businesses through there,
00:27:25.41\00:27:29.34
so you know,
witnessing in the Marketplace
00:27:29.38\00:27:32.68
and then there are two
towns that are near us,
00:27:32.71\00:27:35.18
one is Crossville and
the other is Cookeville
00:27:35.25\00:27:38.32
and this last year,
we went to every home
00:27:38.35\00:27:41.39
in both of those cities.
00:27:41.42\00:27:43.49
Okay, I think Volkar
would appreciate that
00:27:43.53\00:27:46.06
printed-page outreach,
right, what else are you doing
00:27:46.09\00:27:49.06
to help your
young people involved in
00:27:49.10\00:27:50.67
frontline witnessing?
00:27:50.70\00:27:52.33
Well, we're also
working with ACTS
00:27:52.37\00:27:53.70
and when there are disasters
like hurricanes, tornadoes,
00:27:53.74\00:27:57.44
we respond
pretty much immediately
00:27:57.51\00:28:01.88
and we just finished training
with FEMA this past May...
00:28:01.91\00:28:08.22
or April... and... so
all of our kids are certified
00:28:08.28\00:28:14.52
with FEMA to do disaster relief
00:28:14.59\00:28:16.89
so we can have a much
more close relationship
00:28:16.93\00:28:20.80
working with them in
Disaster Relief that way
00:28:20.86\00:28:24.70
we went to...
00:28:24.73\00:28:27.30
there was a big
tornado that came through
00:28:27.34\00:28:29.30
Jackson,
Tennessee, this last year,
00:28:29.37\00:28:31.21
the year before there
was a tornado in Florida
00:28:31.24\00:28:33.81
and then of course,
00:28:33.88\00:28:35.21
there was everything
that happened in the Gulf,
00:28:35.24\00:28:37.25
so since the
hurricanes in the Gulf,
00:28:37.28\00:28:41.78
we've been doing
disaster relief for them.
00:28:41.82\00:28:44.39
Okay, I think you're
going to be needed more and more
00:28:44.42\00:28:46.59
and it's a wonderful
way to reach out to people
00:28:46.62\00:28:48.79
at a time when they really
have some felt needs, very much,
00:28:48.82\00:28:51.93
Debbie, tell us about
some new exciting programs
00:28:51.96\00:28:55.50
that you're offering for
young people at Heritage.
00:28:55.56\00:28:59.07
Well the Lord really
impressed us not too long ago
00:28:59.13\00:29:03.27
that there's a real
dearth for religious programming
00:29:03.30\00:29:07.41
for teenagers and young adults
and through a generous donation
00:29:07.44\00:29:11.75
from ASI and others,
00:29:11.78\00:29:13.11
we've purchased
video production equipment
00:29:13.15\00:29:15.35
for the purpose of creating
video or programming for kids
00:29:15.38\00:29:22.29
to reach them and I
think about a year ago
00:29:22.32\00:29:24.99
one of our
students who was new said
00:29:25.03\00:29:27.83
during the summer program,
00:29:27.86\00:29:29.86
had been with us
for about three weeks,
00:29:29.90\00:29:31.30
said, "I have been outside
00:29:31.33\00:29:33.23
in the sunshine in
the last three weeks
00:29:33.27\00:29:36.71
more than I have in five years"
00:29:36.74\00:29:38.44
because she's from
inner city, Atlanta,
00:29:38.47\00:29:41.11
and can't go outside,
she comes home from school
00:29:41.14\00:29:43.81
from Public
Schools as a young person
00:29:43.85\00:29:46.51
went straight and was
locked up in her home,
00:29:46.55\00:29:49.08
and the only thing
she had was the television
00:29:49.12\00:29:51.65
and it really struck us,
00:29:51.69\00:29:53.02
turning on the television
to religious programming
00:29:53.05\00:29:56.19
would really reach her and
how many thousands of other kids
00:29:56.22\00:30:00.03
are trapped inside
their homes as latchkey kids
00:30:00.10\00:30:02.90
with this kind of
ministry from a young person
00:30:02.96\00:30:05.50
speaking to a young person about
the things that affect them
00:30:05.53\00:30:09.20
and in the days
that we're living in now,
00:30:09.24\00:30:10.71
could really have an
impact on both of their lives,
00:30:10.77\00:30:13.81
both those that are sharing
and both that are receiving.
00:30:13.88\00:30:17.01
Okay, so specially here
in the Western world where
00:30:17.05\00:30:19.48
sometimes it's hard to
get access to those homes
00:30:19.51\00:30:21.88
and Media can be a real outreach
00:30:21.95\00:30:23.49
and it can be something today
that even young people can do,
00:30:23.52\00:30:26.32
we're living in a
different age technologically,
00:30:26.35\00:30:28.52
and... really young people
00:30:28.56\00:30:30.26
with very small
amount of equipment
00:30:30.29\00:30:33.36
can do a lot for
Jesus. That's right.
00:30:33.40\00:30:35.36
But what about some of
those more remote places?
00:30:35.43\00:30:37.80
You have a program that
you're developing, I think,
00:30:37.83\00:30:40.17
that will help young
people reach there too.
00:30:40.20\00:30:42.70
You know, I know
absolutely nothing...
00:30:42.74\00:30:45.04
as much as I would
like to, about aviation
00:30:45.07\00:30:47.94
I had dreams of
being an aviator myself
00:30:47.98\00:30:50.61
but the Lord had
other plans in store,
00:30:50.65\00:30:53.18
but with... just
recently has opened the doors
00:30:53.21\00:30:56.99
by bringing us a
pilot as a teacher
00:30:57.02\00:31:01.36
who had put aside the
world of being an aviator,
00:31:01.39\00:31:05.69
and said, "I'm
going to go minister
00:31:05.73\00:31:07.66
in the classroom,
to a bunch of kids"
00:31:07.70\00:31:09.53
but the Lord had
something else in store
00:31:09.56\00:31:11.70
and opened up the doors
00:31:11.73\00:31:13.07
by meeting and putting together,
right here in ASI last year,
00:31:13.10\00:31:18.01
this gentleman and AWAS,
00:31:18.04\00:31:21.18
we were setting up our
booth and they were talking
00:31:21.21\00:31:24.41
and had a chance to witness
and share with each other
00:31:24.45\00:31:27.58
and today we are
partnered together with
00:31:27.62\00:31:30.75
Adventist World
Aviation to begin
00:31:30.79\00:31:32.65
a mission aviation
program for our students
00:31:32.72\00:31:35.72
and it's phenomenal to see
how the Lord open these doors.
00:31:35.76\00:31:40.00
Amen, so right here at ASI,
00:31:40.03\00:31:41.76
here's a good example of the
networking that can take place
00:31:41.80\00:31:44.80
and God can open
up new opportunities
00:31:44.83\00:31:46.63
right here at ASI, your
teacher, who is a pilot,
00:31:46.70\00:31:49.77
by the way, was
attracted to stop at
00:31:49.80\00:31:53.64
the AWA Booth and talk and
a vision sort of came together
00:31:53.68\00:31:57.05
and now you're
starting the Aviation Program.
00:31:57.08\00:31:59.55
Well, I know that God is going
to continue to bless your work
00:31:59.58\00:32:03.62
any last thoughts
that you might have
00:32:03.65\00:32:05.59
about what God is
doing at Heritage?
00:32:05.62\00:32:08.36
We just fasten our
seatbelts and hold on
00:32:08.39\00:32:11.09
because it's just incredible
just one step at a time
00:32:11.13\00:32:15.03
He's just making a way
for young people to learn
00:32:15.06\00:32:18.93
in one way or another,
how to share their faith
00:32:19.00\00:32:21.40
and it's just a powerful
as you saw the young people
00:32:21.44\00:32:24.91
that were here
just a moments ago
00:32:24.94\00:32:26.27
to watch them give their
hearts in ministry for the Lord
00:32:26.31\00:32:30.31
and for us, we're blessed
00:32:30.35\00:32:32.75
to have a small part in
that aspect of their lives.
00:32:32.81\00:32:35.28
And of course we know
that as the young people
00:32:35.32\00:32:37.52
become active in
sharing their faith,
00:32:37.55\00:32:39.09
no matter which arena
or skills they're using,
00:32:39.12\00:32:42.09
they're going to be stronger
in living for Jesus as well.
00:32:42.12\00:32:44.73
Amen. So thank
you for what you're
00:32:44.76\00:32:46.09
doing at
Heritage and may God bless
00:32:46.13\00:32:47.46
your ministry there. Thank you.
00:32:47.50\00:32:48.83
Audience clapping...
00:32:48.86\00:32:50.20
Our last
interview in this section
00:32:50.23\00:32:52.90
is going to be a gentleman
who is no stranger to us,
00:32:52.93\00:32:56.47
Irwin Rogers, now, Mr. Rogers,
00:32:56.50\00:33:04.71
where are you from?
00:33:04.75\00:33:06.78
I'm from Boise, Idaho.
00:33:06.82\00:33:08.78
Boise, Idaho,
00:33:08.82\00:33:10.19
now what is your line
of work or profession?
00:33:10.22\00:33:12.79
I have an insurance agency
and I've had it for 29 years.
00:33:12.82\00:33:17.83
And... so every morning you'd
get up and you'd go to work?
00:33:17.86\00:33:21.63
I'd go to work.
00:33:21.66\00:33:23.00
Now, you've been a part
of ASI and a member of ASI
00:33:23.03\00:33:27.47
attending ASI for quite some
time... how long has it been?
00:33:27.50\00:33:29.64
My wife and I joined ASI in 1984
00:33:29.67\00:33:34.54
and we went to our
first National Convention
00:33:34.61\00:33:37.98
at Big Sky, Montana.
00:33:38.01\00:33:39.65
1984, okay, so...
quite a few years...
00:33:39.68\00:33:43.52
now, through the years you
went to these ASI conventions
00:33:43.59\00:33:46.96
and you've seen
ASI change quite a bit
00:33:46.99\00:33:48.82
you've... back
then there was what...
00:33:48.86\00:33:50.63
how many people were in Big Sky?
00:33:50.66\00:33:52.39
We had 300 and real proud of it.
00:33:52.43\00:33:54.06
All right, so ASI
has continued to grow
00:33:54.10\00:33:57.87
but... as you kept
coming back to ASI,
00:33:57.90\00:33:59.93
what you shared with me was,
00:33:59.97\00:34:01.30
there were some
problems that began developing
00:34:01.34\00:34:04.37
with your attendance here,
00:34:04.41\00:34:07.38
there were just things happening
00:34:07.41\00:34:09.41
that were making
you uncomfortable.
00:34:09.44\00:34:11.38
There were just a lot of people
going on mission someplace
00:34:11.41\00:34:15.28
and getting a wonderful blessing
00:34:15.32\00:34:17.49
and I knew it wasn't
for me and I thought,
00:34:17.52\00:34:19.99
"The Lord is blessing
them and that's wonderful"
00:34:20.02\00:34:22.72
So you saw people
going on our mission trips
00:34:22.76\00:34:25.39
and you thought,
00:34:25.43\00:34:26.76
"That's great
but it's not for me"
00:34:26.80\00:34:28.13
what began really making you
00:34:28.16\00:34:30.87
try to avoid certain
places in the Exhibit Hall?
00:34:30.90\00:34:35.70
Well, we never missed an
ASI meeting for 16 years,
00:34:35.74\00:34:40.41
then my wife got ill
00:34:40.44\00:34:42.64
and she was in the Nursing Home
00:34:42.68\00:34:45.01
with kidney failures
and then she had two strokes
00:34:45.05\00:34:48.18
she wasn't able to go anywhere
00:34:48.22\00:34:50.75
so we didn't go to ASI,
00:34:50.79\00:34:52.45
then she passed
away in May of 2001,
00:34:52.49\00:34:56.96
and that was... I thought
this is kind of a lonesome thing
00:34:56.99\00:35:03.37
and if she'd have
lived two more weeks
00:35:03.43\00:35:05.50
we would have
been married 59 years,
00:35:05.53\00:35:07.57
so I decided to go to ASI that
year and it was in Dallas, Texas
00:35:07.60\00:35:13.27
so I got to Dallas, Texas,
00:35:13.31\00:35:15.81
and checked in at
this... at the Booth
00:35:15.84\00:35:20.05
and went to see the exhibits,
and the first one I saw was
00:35:20.08\00:35:24.29
the ShareHim
Booth, so I went up there
00:35:24.32\00:35:27.42
and Harold Kiney,
00:35:27.46\00:35:28.79
you all should get
acquainted with Harold Kiney
00:35:28.82\00:35:30.49
if you don't know him
00:35:30.53\00:35:31.86
as I walked up to him
and he grabbed me by the arm
00:35:31.89\00:35:35.90
and I've known
him for quite a while
00:35:35.96\00:35:37.30
and he says, "Irwin,
this is just for you"
00:35:37.33\00:35:39.93
and I said, "Oh no,
Harold, you got the wrong guy"
00:35:39.97\00:35:44.04
and I said, "if you got
somebody that wants to go,
00:35:44.11\00:35:48.11
I'll help them with their
expenses but it's not for me"
00:35:48.14\00:35:52.01
and Harold said,
"That isn't what I mean,
00:35:52.05\00:35:55.28
this is for you,
00:35:55.32\00:35:56.92
it will change
your life forever"
00:35:56.95\00:35:58.45
and I said, "I may
need my life changed forever
00:35:58.49\00:36:01.36
but this is not for me. "
00:36:01.39\00:36:02.72
So what took place in
your personal experience?
00:36:02.76\00:36:07.20
I left the booth and I
never went by his booth
00:36:07.23\00:36:11.60
for the rest of ASI,
00:36:11.63\00:36:12.97
I just avoided
it but I did go home
00:36:13.00\00:36:17.27
in October, I was
shaving one morning
00:36:17.31\00:36:21.61
and I saw "Irwin" in the
mirror and I thought to myself
00:36:21.64\00:36:26.78
"Irwin, you coward,
if God can use fishermen
00:36:26.82\00:36:31.85
he can use
Insurance salesmen" Amen
00:36:31.89\00:36:34.72
so I thought,
"Well, I'll call Harold"
00:36:34.76\00:36:37.26
so I went to the office
and I called him on his phone,
00:36:37.29\00:36:41.20
never got him, he
was out of the country
00:36:41.23\00:36:44.43
but he did return my
call and two days later
00:36:44.47\00:36:47.30
I said, "Harold, tell
me more about ShareHim"
00:36:47.34\00:36:51.41
and he did, all
right, and before I knew it
00:36:51.44\00:36:55.04
I was signed up and
the next thing I knew
00:36:55.08\00:36:58.58
I was on the list to
go to Romania as a Speaker
00:36:58.61\00:37:03.59
so I went to Romania
00:37:03.62\00:37:05.99
and everything was
fine and it went well,
00:37:06.02\00:37:09.56
and I went to Gym Shade Academy
and we had our Homecoming
00:37:09.59\00:37:15.46
and Kenneth Mittleider
who was the Vice President
00:37:15.50\00:37:19.17
of the General Conference,
he also went to that school
00:37:19.20\00:37:22.27
on his 60th anniversary
00:37:22.30\00:37:25.07
and he heard I
was going to Romania
00:37:25.11\00:37:28.34
and he was very
excited because he said,
00:37:28.38\00:37:30.38
"I go on one of
these every year"
00:37:30.41\00:37:32.01
he said, "You'll be
good" and I said, "I hope so"
00:37:32.05\00:37:36.62
well I got back and
about a week after I got back
00:37:36.65\00:37:41.92
my phone rang and
it was 7 in the morning
00:37:41.96\00:37:44.36
and...
00:37:44.39\00:37:46.73
Elder Mittleider lives in
Georgia and I live in Idaho
00:37:46.76\00:37:50.13
of course, I guess he
didn't realize the time change,
00:37:50.17\00:37:53.50
but he said, "How was Romania?"
00:37:53.54\00:37:55.44
I said that it was wonderful.
00:37:55.47\00:37:57.31
"Oh I'm glad to
hear that," he says,
00:37:57.34\00:37:59.11
"I'm going to Madagascar
in April of next year,
00:37:59.17\00:38:02.54
and I need another
Speaker," and he said,
00:38:02.58\00:38:06.31
"Check it over
with your children
00:38:06.35\00:38:07.98
and if it's okay, call me back,
00:38:08.02\00:38:09.75
I need to know
by this afternoon"
00:38:09.78\00:38:11.45
and it was fine,
and I called him back
00:38:11.49\00:38:14.42
and the first thing I knew
I was on my way to Madagascar
00:38:14.46\00:38:18.19
and in March of this
year, on the 30th of March,
00:38:18.23\00:38:24.63
I got on the airplane from
Boise and we went to Atlanta,
00:38:24.67\00:38:33.64
and I had to
stay overnight there,
00:38:33.68\00:38:36.28
the next day I checked in,
00:38:36.34\00:38:38.65
ready to go from
Atlanta to Johannesburg,
00:38:38.71\00:38:42.78
well, when I checked in,
it was an overseas flight
00:38:42.82\00:38:46.52
and the agent
weighed my suitcase
00:38:46.55\00:38:50.23
59 pounds, and she
was going to charge me
00:38:50.26\00:38:54.30
$90 for the overweight,
then she turned and looked at me
00:38:54.33\00:38:59.23
and she says, "Did
they charge you in Boise?"
00:38:59.27\00:39:02.50
and I said, "No"
then she took her foot
00:39:02.54\00:39:05.01
and shoved the suitcase
on and it went down the ramp
00:39:05.07\00:39:08.24
and away it went,
00:39:08.31\00:39:09.64
I wasn't out of trouble though
00:39:09.68\00:39:13.95
because I went to Johannesburg,
00:39:13.98\00:39:18.22
and then from
Johannesburg to Madagascar
00:39:18.25\00:39:21.92
I had to fly on
an African airline,
00:39:21.96\00:39:24.59
they have a
strict rule of 44 pounds,
00:39:24.66\00:39:27.23
no more, and I had to
stay all night in Johannesburg
00:39:27.26\00:39:32.80
and during the
night I woke up wondering,
00:39:32.83\00:39:34.24
"What in the
world am I going to do?"
00:39:34.27\00:39:35.60
And I thought, "Well I'll
just pay for it and get there"
00:39:35.64\00:39:38.77
but the Lord brought
a thought to my mind,
00:39:38.81\00:39:42.74
"They don't weigh
you," so the next morning,
00:39:42.78\00:39:46.51
I put on a T-Shirt, a polo shirt
00:39:46.55\00:39:52.92
and a regular shirt,
00:39:52.95\00:39:54.29
then I put on
three pairs of pants
00:39:54.32\00:40:01.13
and two coats and it had
quite a few pockets in it
00:40:01.16\00:40:10.97
and I had to take some of the
electrical stuff out of my case
00:40:11.01\00:40:15.51
and I had the
computer and so forth
00:40:15.54\00:40:18.95
and I had them
stuffed in my pockets,
00:40:19.01\00:40:22.35
and I have to admit to
you it was about 89 degrees,
00:40:22.38\00:40:28.92
when I got on the plane,
and when I checked my bag
00:40:28.96\00:40:32.93
it weighed 44 and 1/2 pounds
00:40:32.96\00:40:35.26
and the guy said,
"That's all right"
00:40:35.30\00:40:36.67
and he pushed the bag in
00:40:36.70\00:40:38.23
so I got on the plane
but it was rather warm
00:40:38.27\00:40:43.14
and it was a 3 and a
1/2 hour ride to Madagascar
00:40:43.17\00:40:49.71
and when I got
there, everything was fine
00:40:49.74\00:40:53.82
and we have some
pictures that will show you
00:40:53.85\00:40:57.92
what happened after I got there.
00:40:57.95\00:40:59.29
Real quick.
00:40:59.32\00:41:00.72
There, that's the hotel
that we were staying in,
00:41:00.76\00:41:06.70
and they took
pretty good care of us.
00:41:06.73\00:41:08.43
Then this is the house
that my translator lived in
00:41:08.46\00:41:12.73
and this is his car,
00:41:12.77\00:41:14.90
and we took 45 minutes to
go from the hotel to the site
00:41:14.94\00:41:19.41
where I was conducting
on these kinds of roads,
00:41:19.44\00:41:23.65
very narrow and they
have shops on both sides
00:41:23.68\00:41:27.82
and notice the potholes and
one of the things over there
00:41:27.85\00:41:30.35
you can go either direction
00:41:30.39\00:41:31.72
and whatever
direction you were going
00:41:31.75\00:41:33.39
the other
driver will let you by,
00:41:33.42\00:41:35.32
this is the vegetable market
00:41:35.36\00:41:37.19
and those of you who
know might collect ties,
00:41:37.23\00:41:40.00
I couldn't
resist taking the ties.
00:41:40.03\00:41:42.16
This is the local laundromat,
00:41:42.23\00:41:43.73
and this is the
village in which I was to speak
00:41:43.77\00:41:50.14
19 sermons... 17
days in this tent,
00:41:50.17\00:41:54.44
we only got rained on
once this is a clothing store
00:41:54.48\00:41:59.08
that's between our
tent and the main road,
00:41:59.11\00:42:01.48
and of course, here's
the Transportation Department
00:42:01.52\00:42:06.49
and this is the group,
and what a wonderful group
00:42:06.52\00:42:11.46
and this is the baptismal class
00:42:11.49\00:42:14.06
and our last day which
was on the last Sabbath
00:42:14.10\00:42:17.57
we had 23 baptisms from my site,
00:42:17.60\00:42:20.97
and 60 more that would
join the baptismal class.
00:42:21.00\00:42:24.97
You see the straw hat there,
the church gave that to me
00:42:25.01\00:42:29.91
because they know that
I was going on a safari
00:42:29.94\00:42:32.35
and they looked at
my bald spot on my head
00:42:32.38\00:42:34.75
but I never worry about that.
00:42:34.78\00:42:36.12
So I understand that you
got another trip is scheduled
00:42:36.15\00:42:39.12
would you agree that
it has changed your life?
00:42:39.15\00:42:41.42
Oh yeah. Yes...
00:42:41.49\00:42:42.89
Well what happened,
00:42:42.92\00:42:44.29
I gave this report
at the Northwest Chapter
00:42:44.33\00:42:47.13
and Duane McKey was there,
00:42:47.16\00:42:48.96
and when I came
down from the pulpit,
00:42:49.00\00:42:51.77
he grabbed me by the
arm, "Irwin," he says,
00:42:51.80\00:42:54.54
"I need another Speaker"
00:42:54.57\00:42:55.90
and I said, "Where and when?"
00:42:55.94\00:42:58.01
and he told me, and
I checked current rules
00:42:58.04\00:43:01.78
and everything was fine,
so on the 25th of August,
00:43:01.81\00:43:06.45
I'm going to Tanzania. Amen.
00:43:06.48\00:43:09.55
Thank you for
letting God use you,
00:43:09.58\00:43:11.55
you know, you can
avoid certain booths at ASI,
00:43:11.62\00:43:15.19
but the Holy Spirit
still knows where you're at.
00:43:15.22\00:43:18.76
God bless you.
00:43:18.79\00:43:22.80
Special song by Celest Singers
00:43:22.83\00:43:31.87
Song: God and God Alone
00:43:31.91\00:43:38.88
music...
00:43:38.91\00:43:42.68
God and God alone
00:43:42.72\00:43:52.26
created all these
things we call our own
00:43:52.29\00:44:00.14
From the mighty to the
small the Glory in them all
00:44:00.17\00:44:08.34
is God's and God's alone
00:44:08.38\00:44:16.18
God and God alone
00:44:16.22\00:44:22.86
reveals the truth
of all we call unknown
00:44:22.89\00:44:30.07
And the best and worst of man
won't change the Master's plan.
00:44:30.10\00:44:38.41
It's God's and God's alone
00:44:38.47\00:44:46.41
God and God alone
00:44:46.48\00:44:51.85
is fit to take
the Universe's throne
00:44:51.89\00:44:58.76
Let everything that
lives reserve its truest praise
00:44:58.79\00:45:08.50
for God and God alone
00:45:08.54\00:45:17.41
God and God alone
00:45:17.45\00:45:26.25
will be the joy
of our eternal home
00:45:26.29\00:45:32.86
He will be our one desire
00:45:32.89\00:45:37.37
our hearts will never tire
00:45:37.40\00:45:41.00
of God and God alone
00:45:41.04\00:45:47.38
God and God alone
00:45:47.41\00:45:53.85
is fit to take
the universe's throne
00:45:53.88\00:46:00.66
Let everything that lives
00:46:00.69\00:46:05.39
reserve its truest praise
00:46:05.43\00:46:10.90
for God and God alone
00:46:10.93\00:46:17.11
God and God alone
00:46:17.14\00:46:23.24
is fit to take
the universe's throne
00:46:23.31\00:46:30.35
Let everything that lives
00:46:30.39\00:46:34.79
reserve its truest praise
00:46:34.82\00:46:39.19
for God alone
00:46:39.23\00:46:45.33
Let everything that lives
00:46:45.37\00:46:50.51
reserve its truest praise
00:46:50.54\00:46:59.71
for God and God alone
00:46:59.75\00:47:08.86
alone...
00:47:08.89\00:47:16.26
Amen, people clapping...
00:47:16.33\00:47:21.94
Participants walking on stage...
00:47:21.97\00:47:31.45
The stories and
events from different people
00:47:31.48\00:47:33.95
some of them were young kids,
00:47:33.98\00:47:37.22
Irwin, who said, he
forgot to tell you that he's 81,
00:47:37.25\00:47:42.09
some were from men,
some were from women,
00:47:42.12\00:47:47.80
some from other countries
but the theme is the same,
00:47:47.83\00:47:50.90
we're going to
tell people about Jesus
00:47:50.93\00:47:54.54
we're all in this together
to tell people about Jesus
00:47:54.60\00:48:00.84
you know... some of you...
that I went to the Philippines
00:48:00.88\00:48:07.12
and it was a ShareHim Program
00:48:07.15\00:48:11.19
and ASI had been
there before I was there,
00:48:11.22\00:48:15.99
people ask me, "How
many people were baptized?"
00:48:16.02\00:48:20.26
I don't really like to
say anything much about that
00:48:20.30\00:48:24.50
because I didn't
have much to do with that,
00:48:24.53\00:48:27.47
the ASI team had prepared
00:48:27.50\00:48:31.11
so many people to preach
00:48:31.14\00:48:34.64
before I got there so
hundreds could be baptized
00:48:34.68\00:48:40.68
just after Marti and I
left, it's all of us together
00:48:40.72\00:48:46.72
what drives me in this thing,
00:48:46.76\00:48:50.26
I think about
the people right now
00:48:50.29\00:48:55.66
that live next door to us,
00:48:55.70\00:48:59.17
right now, I can see the
little girl right next to us
00:48:59.20\00:49:07.58
running to meet
Marti and hugging her
00:49:07.61\00:49:10.78
I see the boy across the
street, he comes and hugs me
00:49:10.81\00:49:16.92
we couldn't bear to
think about going to heaven
00:49:16.95\00:49:22.32
and saying, "That's
for us but not for you"
00:49:22.36\00:49:28.06
and they won't know
unless we tell them.
00:49:28.10\00:49:33.74
Our Division has an interest
00:49:33.77\00:49:38.31
in giving this
message to everybody
00:49:38.34\00:49:42.88
the invitation, so
we've asked Elder Clouzet
00:49:42.94\00:49:47.45
to be a special
point person for us
00:49:47.48\00:49:51.82
to emphasize
evangelism during a whole year
00:49:51.85\00:49:57.19
Ron, tell us something about it.
00:49:57.23\00:49:59.96
Thank you Elder Schneider,
00:50:00.00\00:50:02.13
all that we are is about
00:50:02.16\00:50:06.23
sharing Jesus with
others, isn't that true?
00:50:06.27\00:50:08.50
That's what we're all about
00:50:08.54\00:50:10.47
that's what we
need to be all about
00:50:10.51\00:50:12.47
no matter what we do in life,
00:50:12.51\00:50:14.01
what profession we
have, what habits we have
00:50:14.04\00:50:19.11
it is to reach others for Jesus
00:50:19.15\00:50:21.12
and this Division
is not well known for
00:50:21.15\00:50:26.72
far out-reaching, outstanding
evangelistic endeavors,
00:50:26.76\00:50:32.39
we hear that from other places
00:50:32.43\00:50:35.06
and we heard
some of that tonight.
00:50:35.13\00:50:37.07
In fact, we have a growth
pattern of about 2.2 percent
00:50:37.10\00:50:41.54
did you know that there
was a time a 100 years ago,
00:50:41.57\00:50:45.97
when we grew 18.6
percent in one year
00:50:46.01\00:50:48.98
that was the
most we've ever done,
00:50:49.01\00:50:51.91
the second best
decade was about 12 percent,
00:50:51.95\00:50:55.72
at this point,
we're barely maintaining
00:50:55.75\00:51:00.06
if it wasn't for
some key ethnic groups
00:51:00.09\00:51:04.33
that really keep that up,
00:51:04.36\00:51:05.69
well, a few months
ago, a group of pastors,
00:51:05.73\00:51:11.63
a group of
leaders, a group of laymen
00:51:11.70\00:51:14.34
including one of your vice
presidents, Virel Kadamara,
00:51:14.37\00:51:19.04
we got together and we said,
"What can we do that God... "
00:51:19.07\00:51:23.68
I mean, "What can we do
that we've never done before
00:51:23.71\00:51:27.05
so that we can
ignite the passion
00:51:27.08\00:51:30.75
for reaching out to others
00:51:30.79\00:51:32.25
that Jesus wants
to put in our hearts?"
00:51:32.29\00:51:34.46
You know we baptize
00:51:34.52\00:51:36.26
about 35,000 to
37,000 people every year
00:51:36.29\00:51:39.73
and that's in North America,
00:51:39.79\00:51:41.46
all of the
United States, Canada,
00:51:41.50\00:51:43.63
that's not very much
when you compare the challenge
00:51:43.67\00:51:47.87
And Bermuda... And
Bermuda, that's right.
00:51:47.90\00:51:50.21
The challenge that we have,
00:51:50.24\00:51:51.87
well, after much
prayer and discussion
00:51:51.94\00:51:54.88
we decided that we're
going to really test God on this
00:51:54.91\00:51:58.81
and we said, "Let's set a
goal, and let's publicize it,
00:51:58.85\00:52:02.65
and let's
commit ourselves to it,
00:52:02.68\00:52:04.29
financially, personnel-wise,
00:52:04.32\00:52:07.26
promotion-wise, resource-wise,
00:52:07.29\00:52:10.23
to reach out and baptize
a hundred thousand people.
00:52:10.26\00:52:14.93
Now it would have
been quite a thing
00:52:14.96\00:52:17.80
for us to have said
45,000 instead of 37,000
00:52:17.83\00:52:21.74
or even 50,000...
to be honest with you,
00:52:21.80\00:52:25.64
it is an impossible job,
because we're working hard
00:52:25.67\00:52:30.78
to just get the 37,000...
00:52:30.85\00:52:32.85
that is... the
people that are engaged
00:52:32.88\00:52:35.55
in leading others to
Christ are already working hard,
00:52:35.58\00:52:38.32
so what would it
mean, what would it take?
00:52:38.35\00:52:41.86
Well it would take
the concerted effort,
00:52:41.89\00:52:45.46
of a united church
to really seek after God
00:52:45.49\00:52:48.86
to pray like we've
never prayed before,
00:52:48.90\00:52:52.20
to ask for the
outpouring of the Spirit of God
00:52:52.23\00:52:54.90
to dig into Scripture,
00:52:54.94\00:52:56.91
to ask God to give us
a great love for others,
00:52:56.94\00:53:00.44
that same love that
you find in Luke 11...
00:53:00.48\00:53:03.38
you know when that
man that had a friend
00:53:03.41\00:53:06.25
who came to him at midnight
and went to his neighbor
00:53:06.28\00:53:09.55
and says, "You've got to
open the door and give me bread
00:53:09.58\00:53:12.25
because I have to
feed somebody else,"
00:53:12.29\00:53:14.72
that kind of passion for others,
00:53:14.76\00:53:16.96
that is what we
need to pray for,
00:53:16.99\00:53:19.66
and so resources have been made,
00:53:19.69\00:53:22.26
there is a new website
we're trying to publicize
00:53:22.33\00:53:26.10
some of you may have
seen a promotional DVD
00:53:26.13\00:53:29.54
in Camp Meeting this
summer about this project
00:53:29.57\00:53:32.77
the website, which,
by the way, is called
00:53:32.81\00:53:37.71
yearofevangelism.
org yearofevangelism. org
00:53:37.75\00:53:40.92
I'd like to invite
you to visit the website.
00:53:40.98\00:53:44.12
Here's what we
want to do with that.
00:53:44.15\00:53:45.92
There are a number
of resources there,
00:53:45.95\00:53:47.66
for lay people and
pastors to do evangelism
00:53:47.69\00:53:51.56
to start, to get going on that,
00:53:51.59\00:53:53.26
and there's an
opportunity to register,
00:53:53.29\00:53:56.87
if you are
planning to do meetings,
00:53:56.90\00:54:00.37
direct evangelism...
we're talking about,
00:54:00.44\00:54:03.30
inviting people to
make decisions for Christ,
00:54:03.34\00:54:06.27
inviting people to make
00:54:06.31\00:54:07.64
decisions for the
teachings of Scripture,
00:54:07.68\00:54:10.55
register there,
my hope is to see...
00:54:10.58\00:54:13.75
our hope is to see
those numbers increase
00:54:13.78\00:54:16.82
larger and larger and larger
00:54:16.85\00:54:18.79
and that would
create a momentum...
00:54:18.82\00:54:23.22
a sense of... "You know, maybe
God is behind this after all"
00:54:23.26\00:54:27.86
maybe God can use us in ways
that He has never used us before
00:54:27.90\00:54:32.43
so the objective is to ask God
00:54:32.47\00:54:36.24
to use us in ways that
have not happened before
00:54:36.27\00:54:40.78
you know, the last thing we
had of anything of this nature,
00:54:40.81\00:54:44.51
Elder Schneider, I believe,
that was probably in 1972,
00:54:44.55\00:54:49.22
some of you may remember that,
00:54:49.25\00:54:51.15
Mission '72... and
it was a big splash...
00:54:51.19\00:54:54.79
and there were, we
had quite a gain of people
00:54:54.82\00:54:58.36
but it was a one-year thing,
00:54:58.39\00:54:59.73
we don't really
want to think about this
00:54:59.76\00:55:02.43
as a one-year thing...
00:55:02.46\00:55:04.27
we really want
to think about this
00:55:04.30\00:55:06.84
as a start of doing new things,
00:55:06.87\00:55:09.37
a new way of doing
things, in other words,
00:55:09.40\00:55:12.57
putting people first,
putting our resources out there,
00:55:12.61\00:55:16.11
putting ourselves out there
00:55:16.14\00:55:17.68
that's one of
the beautiful things
00:55:17.71\00:55:19.65
about what we've heard tonight,
00:55:19.68\00:55:21.52
people are...
whether thoroughly trained
00:55:21.55\00:55:24.52
or whether
thoroughly prepared or not,
00:55:24.55\00:55:27.46
they have the
courage to trust God
00:55:27.49\00:55:30.33
in what God had put in
their hearts and they did it,
00:55:30.36\00:55:33.70
and that's really the
number one requirement,
00:55:33.73\00:55:36.56
so what we hope is
to see in North America,
00:55:36.60\00:55:39.40
a working together, lay
people, pastors, leaders,
00:55:39.43\00:55:45.34
you know that
we're in the initiatives,
00:55:45.37\00:55:47.41
we're asking leaders,
00:55:47.44\00:55:49.38
we're talking about
Presidents and Officers
00:55:49.44\00:55:54.02
and leaders of
Conferences and Unions,
00:55:54.08\00:55:57.29
to also do
meetings, we're asking Pastors
00:55:57.32\00:56:00.52
now catch this,
00:56:00.56\00:56:01.89
we're asking
Pastors to do two meetings
00:56:01.92\00:56:05.06
now, many pastors
do not even do one,
00:56:05.09\00:56:08.26
we're asking them to do two why?
00:56:08.30\00:56:10.47
Because we need
to get off the mode
00:56:10.50\00:56:12.63
of Evangelism as an event,
00:56:12.67\00:56:15.37
and we need to start thinking
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as a process, a
cycle of evangelism
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and that will force us to
start thinking differently
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about how we plan that
and how we work in churches
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and obviously
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we're inviting every
lay person to be involved.
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If you can preach,
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if you can lead
people to Christ,
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if you can give Bible Studies,
by all means, please be engaged,
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and here's a little hint,
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I'd like to
encourage our lay people,
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to encourage your
pastors in your churches
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to say, "Pastor, I've heard
about this year of evangelism,
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what do you think about that,
I've been hearing about this,
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I've been reading about it
in the Review and other places,
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should we do some
evangelism this year?"
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if you get a few people
like that the Pastor might say,
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"Well, maybe God is
trying to tell me something"
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and that would be a
wonderful opportunity
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but obviously...
volunteer and say,
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"Pastor, if you
decide to do a meeting,
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I am going to be
right there with you,
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I am going to help you,
I'm going to support you,
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I want to be useful in
order to reach out to others"
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this is what would be good,
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we need a lot of
prayers for this,
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we need to be bold for Jesus,
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you know one of
my favorite stories
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is the story of
Caleb, at the age of 85,
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who said to
Joshua, "You know, I'm 85,
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but I'm just as strong
now as I was 40 years ago,"
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and what he meant was not
strong in physical strength,
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what he meant was, he
was really strong in faith
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and that's really
key, in other words,
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"I do not believe that God is
any less now than He was before,
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so give me this mountain"
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and what he said was,
the mountain full of giants
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let me take this
over and the man at 85
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led a group of people
to eradicate the Canaanites
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and do the work
of God at that time.
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My brothers and sisters,
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I want to
encourage every ASI member,
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every person that can hear me
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to dedicate your life
to evangelism in 2009,
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if we do this, if
we do this at any level
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in the way that God
would want us to do this,
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this will begin to turn
the tide in North America,
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for us to really put Jesus first
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and put other people first,
and put our resources first,
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and once that begins to
happen, I really believe
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that the coming of Jesus
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will not take that much longer.
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