Good evening, it's
time now for another
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one of our
members in action segments
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and I hope you
look forward to this
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as much as I do. I
think it's one of my favorite
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parts of our
convention. It is truly worship,
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isn't it? Talking
about what God has done
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in each of our lives.
There is nothing I think
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that qualifies
worship more than that.
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Praising the Lord
for the work He has done.
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You know it's interesting
I don't know of any of
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you have heard, but
there are some Adventists
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who are involved in the MOB.
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You heard about that?
Well I have a couple of
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people with me here tonight.
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I have David
Klinedinst and Madlyn Hamblin
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and they're going to
tell us a little bit about
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the MOB. First of all
we'll start with you David.
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Can you tell us
what organization
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you're working with right now?
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Well first of all MOB
stands for Missionaries
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of the Blind. Oh that
puts their minds easy.
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Yeah, it's a
ministry that's operated by
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Christian Record
Services which is the
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Adventist
Churches Ministry to people
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who are blind and
visually impaired.
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Alright thank you for that.
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Now tell us a
little bit about the MOB,
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let's, let's go right to that,
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because that's a
new part of your program
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that a lot of us have heard of
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Christian record,
but tell us more about
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the MOB itself?
Well it works like this,
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we serve about
20,000 blind people
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throughout the
world who get all kinds of
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reading materials
from Christian Record.
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But what we would
like to do is to make a
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personal connection
with each one of them,
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and so we are
looking for Lay people
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from every church
across North America
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who would like to
have a ministry of
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visiting a blind
person once a month.
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Okay, tell us a
little bit more about
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how that works?
How are you going to
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get these
people connected to the
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blind that you work with?
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What we would do
is we would give that
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Lay person the name
of a blind individual
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who lives in
their local community,
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who's been
getting materials from us.
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And we would ask
that Lay person to
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visit once a
month to encourage them,
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pray with that blind individual
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and if they do not have a church
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where they can go, invite them
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to the local Adventist church.
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Alright, that's
excellent, that gives
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us a good
overview. Now Madlyn, I would
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like you to tell us a
little bit about this,
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how you found out
about the MOB programs
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and you're involved
with it now yourself?
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Well I have been
praying and asking
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God to give me a
wider witness and soon
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I received
information about the MOB
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and I looked at all
the material and thought
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this is something I
can do I'm a busy person,
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and because I'm
an ASI member I know
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I should be witnessing,
but this was easy and
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so as a child my
parents had always
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taught us that we needed to be
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involved in helping
people less fortunate,
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so I thought this
is something I can do.
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There was a need
and an opportunity
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and something you say
looked easy to you to do.
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Maybe that some
people here might
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look easy too. Tell us
a little more about it?
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In terms of how you found out
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about it in the first place?
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Well I felt like God
was calling me to get
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involved in this ministry after
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I read the
materials, and we all know that
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the world is
filled with lonely and
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disillusion
people and as Seventh-Day
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Adventist
Christians we're really in a
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position to
empathize with this type of a
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person and so I
know from experience
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that when I help other people
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I'm the one who gets
a sense of helpfulness,
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and that my joy
greatly increases.
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Amen, can you
tell us about someone
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that you've met
through your ministry?
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Right now I'm
working with four people,
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I have two people
who are very intelligent.
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They both have Masters degrees.
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I'm working with
a 94-year-old woman
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and we take our beautiful collie
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dog Lilly over
to her and she loves
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to pet this
dog, and then I have,
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I'm working with
an 11-year-old boy.
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The first time I went
to meet this young boy
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I took our
12-year-old grandson with me.
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We took him a set
of story hour tapes,
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and when we came
to the door the father
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was there, I called
ahead before we came
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and the father was
just so overwhelmed
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that somebody would
come to visit his son.
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He said in all
the years that this,
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they had this child
no one had ever shown
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an interest,
not even the school.
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So there are
people that are out there
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and they are
lonely, because they have
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this blindness
that impacts them and
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separates them from others.
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Now tell me a
little bit more about this,
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this young man that
you're talking about.
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What, what has happened with him
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since you've
been working with him?
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Well this young boy
is mentally challenge
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and the family
are very overwhelmed,
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as I've been working
with the blind people
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I've come to understand that
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not only do blind need a friend,
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but the families need support,
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and so this next
week I will be going
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to the family of this blind boy.
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They're gonna
show me how to help him
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and babysit for them, so that
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they can have some relief.
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Okay, well now I
wanna turn a little
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bit different
direction. What has happened
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to you? How has
this impacted your life
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as you have worked
with these families,
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these
individuals? Well you know,
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I really believe
that I have gotten a lot
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of joy from
working with these people.
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On the regular
basis and we're having a
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lifestyle matters
program in our church
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and I'm inviting two
of the people to come
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and they've already
said that they would come.
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So I'm finding
that our church is going
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to benefit by
working with these people,
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and then I know that
lives are changed really
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and they are brightened
by my caring for them.
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And I see more
clearly my own blessings
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when I work for other people.
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Also when we work
for others I think that
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we really give a
spiritual legacy to our families
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that is more
valuable than any monitory
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estate that we could ever leave.
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And I'm also
grateful for that good
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feeling that I get, I
like that good feeling
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that I get when I
work for other people.
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There is joy and
service to the Lord,
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isn't there? Yes. A
real joy and helping
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others that's
why He has asked us
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to partner with Him in
this types of ministries.
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Thank you so much for sharing
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with us this evening.
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Our next ministry
I guess you would say
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and interview, our
next guest is Esther Doss
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and she is going
to be telling us about
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working now with the deaf.
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Esther, you've
been working with the
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deaf for quite
sometime, haven't you?
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It feels like I've
done this since birth.
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Elaborate on that
please? Well both my parents are
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deaf and my first
time that I stood up
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to intrepid I
was seven-years-old.
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Wow! So you are,
you've been working
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with the deaf all
along, but there is something
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new that you've been doing and
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that's what we want
to talk about tonight.
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Tell us a little bit
about the newest services
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for the deaf that
you've been providing?
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I work with
Adventist Deaf Ministries.
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What we do is two-fold.
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We first of all we
do outreach the deaf
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people allover
North America and secondly
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we try to nurture
the current deaf members
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that we have. One
thing that we've been
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working on is that
going to deaf expos.
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We have two
different organizations
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that have expos all
across North America,
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and they have
about 3,000 to 6,000 deaf
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people come to
one of these expos,
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it's like ASI
only everyone is deaf.
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So we have these
DVDs that we have created
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and we pass them out
like the leaves of autumn.
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We try to get them
in everybody's hands
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and they walk away with
a packet of information,
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it tells them
about God. It tells them
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that God loves
them and He wants them
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to be His children and
He is coming to get them.
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So you, you're
giving away these DVDs
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at these deaf
expos. I was just talking
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about blind.
We're on deaf on. Yes.
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You've been given these away.
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What is the content of those?
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Tell us a little more about what
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those have on them?
Well one thing that we,
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we really notice is
that the deaf community
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is highly secularized.
They, there are about
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two million deaf
people in North America.
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A study show about
two to four percent
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are even church
attending people.
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So we have a vast
majority that don't
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even have a
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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So the first DVD
that we created that is in
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the packet tells
them about God and
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that He loves them,
He desires a relationship
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with them and so
what are they going to do
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about it? And the
people have loved that so much,
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we have had many,
many excited comments
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about it. And
Atheists have come to us saying
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how much they love this DVD.
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They're showing it in churches,
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but no matter what
denomination they are
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and we have
noticed that people are
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accepting the
Adventist people now,
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because they realize we
believe in Jesus Christ.
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Now how many deaf
people did you say
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are in the
country? About two million.
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About two million.
How many Adventists?
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There are about 300 or so.
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And tell us about
the work that you're
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doing with the
Adventist deaf and helping them,
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training them to
work with others?
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Well that goes in
the second side of what
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our ministry does. We
try to nurture our members
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and they are so isolated
all across North America.
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And we've been having this year
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what we call Deaf Reach.
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It is a Lay
training program and because
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the best thing that
deaf people can do is
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go out and reach out
to their deaf friends.
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We have two Pastors for
the deaf in North America.
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They cannot do
the work, they cannot
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meet all two
million deaf people,
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so we have trained
these, some of these
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deaf people or deaf members.
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We've trained about
60 so far this year,
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that's a large percentage
of our deaf membership.
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Also in deaf reach
what we do is we go
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to regions where we
have more deaf members
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and we train them on
how to give Bible studies
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and they have
been doing very well.
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They've already
started their Bible studies
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and we have yes 60,
they have taken this
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training course in
the last three months.
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Excellent, so you
are training the deaf
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Seventh-Day
Adventists to be able to share
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with the deaf non-Adventists
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all around the
world, all around our Nation
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anyway. You did
tell me you do have
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other languages is that correct?
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Well, one of our
DVDs, we went ahead
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and added
subtitling in four languages,
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because we
wanted at least you know
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do a record to spread the gospel
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amongst the deaf
all around the world.
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Excellent, so
then this ministry that
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you're doing tell
us a couple of stories.
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You were telling
me a little bit about
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these expos. Some
of the interactions,
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some individuals
stories that have taken place
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as you have been at
these expos for the deaf?
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Well, I don't like
to toot my own horn
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by any means, but
I have been to expos
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where you know in
new place and new city
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I've never been too,
and I've had deaf people
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walk across the
isle and look up and say
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oh that's, that's
religion I don't wanna deal
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with that, you know
that and they walk on,
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but they recognize
me and they comeback
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and say who are you? I
know you from somewhere
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and I just wait until
they figure it out and yes,
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it was the DVD they watched.
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And so they get
excited and then they say
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you know what at our
church we watched this,
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or whatever, we've
had a lot of those,
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but one lady in
particular walked by
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and this was here
in Phoenix by the way
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back in April.
This lady walked by well
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she was one of those
who said I don't like
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and she walked by recognized me,
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step back and she
tried to figure out
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who it was that I
am and she said oh yes
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I have your DVD and
she started to tell me
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everything that was on
the DVD and I said yes,
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yes, yes God is
good. And then I said,
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do you have my
new DVD? She said, no,
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you have another
DVD? And I handed her the
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packet she had just
refused. Then I said
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it's in the packet and she is
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oh I have to have
it. I've to have it.
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And so that was really exciting,
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but we've also
talked with many Atheists
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there was one man
who walked by our booth
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and saw that we were
Christian and he thought
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he had a debate on his hands,
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so he came back and he asked me.
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You know I don't believe in God,
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do you wanna know
why? I said well okay
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you don't believe
in God okay sure why?
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And he said well I, my
best friend was a Pastor.
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A deaf Pastor and
he died and I told him
00:13:08.22\00:13:10.97
before he died I
want you to comedown
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from heaven and
tell me that God is real.
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He never came
back, it's been ten years
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there is no God.
Well that was easy for me
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to address, and I
said of course he couldn't
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come and he said why
God wouldn't let him?
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I said well I guess
you could put it that way
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and so we
started having a study on
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the state of the
dead and he was so excited
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and he was not
peace and he walked away
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with the DVD.
Amen, amen well thank you
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for sharing this
with us this evening.
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I think it's a
wonderful ministry you are doing
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and the Lord bless you
in your work. Thank you.
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Next up is Dick
Nunez from the Black Hills
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Health and
Education Center and a lot of
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you would recognize
Dick, he has been up
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here with us a lot,
share about this before,
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but tell us for
those who don't know what
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Black Hills Health
and Education Center
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is all about? It's
a wellness lifestyle
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program where we take people
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and help them change their lives
00:14:15.11\00:14:16.23
and also we
educate people as well.
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Okay, so you're
mostly about lifestyle,
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but you've
started branching out into
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several other areas.
Can you tell us about
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some of the
things you are doing a
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little bit more expanded?
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Well you know it's
a old saying it is a
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picture worth of thousand words,
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so why don't we
show you a few of those.
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Alright. We've
very beautiful location,
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we're very blessed
and people feel like
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they found a little
piece of heaven when
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they come out to our center.
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We have a
medical program where we
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actually doing a free
clinic in Hot Springs,
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South Dakota as
well as helping people
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around the area
and doing bone density
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scans to help
people realize where their
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current health
status is, and then we have
00:14:52.09\00:14:54.49
a personal training program,
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we actually help the community.
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We've many people coming in and
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we have a personal
training school where
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we help people
become personal trainers
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that you can see
they come in all shapes
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and sizes and
ages. And then we have
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information classes we're doing.
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We reach out to the community,
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go out and speak
even in the little
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place of
Hermosa. We give massages
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for people,
helping them out with that.
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And we also have
massage school and
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then we feed
people. We teach them how
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to fix good
healthy food and we provide
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the area with
that good healthy food.
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And we've went a
lot of special programs
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and have people
commanding including
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ASI they were out there.
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And then we have a
lot of musical talent,
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I'm not part of
that, so but we do have
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a lot of people
that have great talent
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and so opened that
up for the community
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and finally this last
picture shows a family.
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A native American
family that we reach
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out to, we take up
collections for them,
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send it out to them
and what else happening
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is they are not
getting excited about
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finding out about
the gospel message.
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Okay I would like to
back up a little bit about,
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okay, one of the
things I say there was
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you were talking
about the personal
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trainers and
trainees. I would like you to
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talk a little more about that.
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What, what is the plan for that.
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Why are you doing
that? Well because a lot of
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people wanna get
involved in health
00:16:02.96\00:16:04.23
ministry, but they
don't know what to do
00:16:04.24\00:16:06.15
and where to turn.
And so when you become
00:16:06.16\00:16:08.27
a personal trainer
you actually have a chance
00:16:08.28\00:16:10.46
to work one on one
people in a very, very
00:16:10.47\00:16:14.16
close way and by
doing that you're the home
00:16:14.17\00:16:16.60
ministry of Jesus
was to reach the physical
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needs of the
people which opens it up
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for the gospel
message and so working
00:16:20.57\00:16:22.63
with people, they
see tremendous things
00:16:22.64\00:16:24.37
happening. It's a
real blessing, I mean just,
00:16:24.38\00:16:26.87
just, yesterday a
man came up to me,
00:16:26.88\00:16:29.03
because of Body
and Spirit, and says
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I couldn't walk
and all of a sudden,
00:16:30.42\00:16:31.73
started watching your program,
00:16:31.74\00:16:33.05
start doing the
exercises and I'm walking now.
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That's very
exciting. Amen, so you are
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telling me that there
is not just a physical
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aspect of this bid a
spiritual one as well?
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Absolutely because you
can do all the lectures,
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the exercise, the treatments,
00:16:44.88\00:16:46.43
the medical workout all of that,
00:16:46.44\00:16:48.82
but true healing
is gonna come until
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Christ is
introduced in their life.
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Well tell us about
some of the people that
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have been impacted.
Especially in a spiritual
00:16:53.97\00:16:56.10
way if you would. Tell
us some of the stories?
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Well there was a man
that came out who was
00:16:58.19\00:16:59.94
a total Atheist,
he was a fireman,
00:16:59.95\00:17:01.91
and another
fireman buddy came out.
00:17:01.92\00:17:04.09
And they went
through the program
00:17:04.10\00:17:05.41
and he was a heavy smoker.
00:17:05.42\00:17:06.77
We did try to get
him off his cigarettes
00:17:06.78\00:17:08.65
although he still
snuck some, and then they
00:17:08.66\00:17:11.52
left the program
and three years later
00:17:11.53\00:17:13.77
he came back. What
we didn't know is this
00:17:13.78\00:17:16.43
man now had
terminal lung cancer.
00:17:16.44\00:17:18.51
But what he wanted to
do is get out to a place
00:17:18.52\00:17:21.39
where he felt
very loved and accepted
00:17:21.40\00:17:23.36
even though at the
time he was an atheist.
00:17:23.37\00:17:25.20
What we didn't know
is he was coming out
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to prepare to meet God truly.
00:17:27.53\00:17:29.93
And he came out to the program,
00:17:29.94\00:17:31.52
went through it
again. He went through a
00:17:31.53\00:17:33.67
non-medical
parts. We never did catch
00:17:33.68\00:17:35.28
on to his cancer,
but before he left
00:17:35.29\00:17:38.09
we baptize him in our creek.
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Amen, so is
that an isolated case
00:17:39.72\00:17:42.93
or do you do baptisms there?
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No, no, no what
you know we had eight
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baptisms
particulars. He was the first
00:17:45.28\00:17:46.56
one that year,
because see we get a lot of
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people who would
never go through an
00:17:48.43\00:17:50.76
evangelistic
program or to a Revelation
00:17:50.77\00:17:54.03
seminar, but they
will come to a wellness
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lifestyle center to
learn about taking care
00:17:55.85\00:17:58.88
of themselves. We
had a man right after
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the coal mine
tragedy who was the
00:18:01.03\00:18:03.20
superintendent of
schools of San Diego.
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And when he came
out he said to me
00:18:05.21\00:18:07.27
after the
orientation I see you people are
00:18:07.28\00:18:09.50
Christians here.
And I said well yes and
00:18:09.51\00:18:11.70
he goes I'm an
Atheist and I'm looking for
00:18:11.71\00:18:13.72
one reason to leave
this place, give me one,
00:18:13.73\00:18:15.97
you mention God I'm out here.
00:18:15.98\00:18:18.08
And so I said well
I rather see a sermon
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than hear a
sermon anyday and he goes
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okay I can live
with that, so at the end
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of the eight days
he was supposedly gonna
00:18:24.71\00:18:26.07
leave but he said
his wife, let's stay a
00:18:26.08\00:18:28.29
little longer. You
know they were gonna do
00:18:28.30\00:18:29.61
an Alaskan cruise,
but she talked to him
00:18:29.62\00:18:31.40
to go on a
lifestyle center, even though
00:18:31.41\00:18:33.14
he said I don't
wanna get healthy.
00:18:33.15\00:18:34.73
Woman it sounds like
your husband is right.
00:18:34.74\00:18:36.48
And so he came
out anyway and at the
00:18:36.49\00:18:39.53
eight day Mark
he said let's stay a
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little longer and
then at the 13 day
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make he did have to
go and during graduation,
00:18:43.11\00:18:45.54
he got up and he
said I'm really glad
00:18:45.55\00:18:47.81
I chose to come
here and his wife's like.
00:18:47.82\00:18:50.40
And he said Dick
said in the beginning
00:18:50.41\00:18:53.86
I rather see a sermon
and hear a sermon any day.
00:18:53.87\00:18:56.59
Now if I see sermons
I felt that God is part
00:18:56.60\00:19:00.00
of my life. And
we have situations
00:19:00.01\00:19:01.97
like that people
who are Atheists now
00:19:01.98\00:19:03.70
all of a sudden they
wanna get to know God
00:19:03.71\00:19:05.74
or people leave
our program and say
00:19:05.75\00:19:07.32
I feel like I, I taste
the little bit of heaven.
00:19:07.33\00:19:09.60
But I tell our stuff
all the time that only
00:19:09.61\00:19:12.00
for the Holy Spirit
to work here we as a
00:19:12.01\00:19:13.80
staff have to put
away all petty differences
00:19:13.81\00:19:16.17
following the
teachings of the disciples.
00:19:16.18\00:19:18.42
Come in one
accord, because that's when
00:19:18.43\00:19:20.05
the power of the
Holy Spirit is gonna work.
00:19:20.06\00:19:21.51
And without the Holy
Spirit nothing is gonna
00:19:21.52\00:19:23.89
happen and then you take it
00:19:23.90\00:19:25.19
and reach out to
the world and that's
00:19:25.20\00:19:26.98
what we're trying
to do evangelizing our
00:19:26.99\00:19:29.31
community one
person at the time.
00:19:29.32\00:19:31.20
Amen and that entering message,
00:19:31.21\00:19:33.92
the health message
hoping people get well
00:19:33.93\00:19:36.05
and Lord works through that.
00:19:36.06\00:19:37.98
Well I think we
have a recommendation
00:19:37.99\00:19:39.56
for the folks here,
next time we're thinking
00:19:39.57\00:19:41.17
about an Alaskan cruise
consider the Black Hills.
00:19:41.18\00:19:44.75
Yeah and even though
it's not me get out there
00:19:44.76\00:19:47.44
and exercise
tomorrow morning alright.
00:19:47.45\00:19:49.38
Alright, and you can
learn more about this.
00:19:49.39\00:19:51.97
Black Hills has
a booth number 827.
00:19:51.98\00:19:56.55
That's right. So stop by
and visit that. Thank you.
00:19:56.56\00:20:00.01
Alright our next
guest is Ellen Metcalf from
00:20:05.36\00:20:08.52
AIE that's
something I'm gonna have
00:20:08.53\00:20:12.90
her describe to us right now.
00:20:12.91\00:20:14.52
Hi Ellen, welcome
and tell us what is
00:20:14.53\00:20:16.53
AIE stand for and what is it?
00:20:16.54\00:20:20.04
Well thank you Dan.
We call AIE, because
00:20:20.05\00:20:23.83
it's too hard to say
the whole name every time
00:20:23.84\00:20:26.05
it's Adventist
Institute of Entrepreneurship.
00:20:26.06\00:20:29.06
And AIE is a
network of business owners
00:20:29.07\00:20:33.24
who mentor young
people to use their
00:20:33.25\00:20:35.92
business to spread the gospel.
00:20:35.93\00:20:37.73
Alright and what,
this is Adventist Institute
00:20:37.74\00:20:42.73
of Entrepreneurship
that's a hard word.
00:20:42.74\00:20:46.80
See what he was
saying. It is AIE from here on.
00:20:46.81\00:20:50.33
So how does it work.
Tell us about how the
00:20:50.34\00:20:52.46
program is
working and how it's meant
00:20:52.47\00:20:55.38
to work. What do
you actually provide?
00:20:55.39\00:20:57.37
Okay, we actually
arrange a week long
00:20:57.38\00:21:00.90
business trip. We
call it the business trip
00:21:00.91\00:21:03.39
and where a AIE
mentor business owner
00:21:03.40\00:21:08.46
brings a young person
to their home or to their,
00:21:08.47\00:21:12.82
and to their business both.
00:21:12.83\00:21:14.57
And shows them the
intersection between
00:21:14.58\00:21:17.49
business and
ministry. Show them how they
00:21:17.50\00:21:20.07
are sharing Christ
in the marketplace.
00:21:20.08\00:21:22.79
Alright do you find
that there are students
00:21:22.80\00:21:25.11
interested in
this type of a program?
00:21:25.12\00:21:27.27
Actually students
are very interested
00:21:27.28\00:21:29.07
in this program. We did a survey
00:21:29.08\00:21:31.83
at Southern Adventist University
00:21:31.84\00:21:33.74
about a year ago.
And of the 53 students
00:21:33.75\00:21:39.42
who said they wanted
to use their business
00:21:39.43\00:21:41.51
for the Lord evangelistically,
00:21:41.52\00:21:44.66
80 percent were
interested in internship
00:21:44.67\00:21:48.20
like this with
a evangelistically
00:21:48.21\00:21:50.65
minded business
owner. Excellent, so do the
00:21:50.66\00:21:54.03
business owners, are
they interested in this.
00:21:54.04\00:21:55.98
What do they get out of it?
00:21:55.99\00:21:56.98
Tell us why they
would be interested?
00:21:56.99\00:21:58.59
Well I'll tell you
couple of stories about
00:21:58.60\00:22:00.39
some mentors that, that
are very dear to my heart.
00:22:00.40\00:22:04.11
I have a friend
David who owns Assisted
00:22:04.12\00:22:07.17
Living Facilities
in Colorado and he has
00:22:07.18\00:22:10.18
mentored many young
people over the years,
00:22:10.19\00:22:12.46
and he actually
recently hired a mentee of his
00:22:12.47\00:22:18.48
and she was, she
wanted to spread the gospel.
00:22:18.49\00:22:21.87
Her name is
Marianela, and as part of her
00:22:21.88\00:22:25.19
business running
his facilities as a
00:22:25.20\00:22:28.46
administrator she
wanted to share the gospel.
00:22:28.47\00:22:30.92
She went to church her
first weekend in the town
00:22:30.93\00:22:33.83
and found that
there were two members
00:22:33.84\00:22:35.79
at the church that was
it. And within two months
00:22:35.80\00:22:40.85
Marianela with
her contacts that she
00:22:40.86\00:22:42.78
had with her
business and in the community
00:22:42.79\00:22:46.20
within two months
of being administrator
00:22:46.21\00:22:48.19
she had six Bible studies.
00:22:48.20\00:22:49.83
One was with the
local Lutheran Pastor.
00:22:49.84\00:22:52.94
And she kept
working with these contacts
00:22:52.95\00:22:56.19
over the time and
by the end of her first
00:22:56.20\00:22:58.59
year in this, in
this small town she had
00:22:58.60\00:23:01.36
two baptisms. She held
an Evangelistic series,
00:23:01.37\00:23:04.72
she was preaching
on, on Sabbath and that
00:23:04.73\00:23:08.03
little church is
growing now, instead of going
00:23:08.04\00:23:10.51
the other way.
Excellent, well I think
00:23:10.52\00:23:13.16
this is very much
like what ASI is about
00:23:13.17\00:23:16.57
isn't it? But you're
starting people right
00:23:16.58\00:23:18.72
at the beginning when
they get ready to start
00:23:18.73\00:23:21.06
their business
you're teaching them,
00:23:21.07\00:23:23.55
training them to share
Christ in the marketplace?
00:23:23.56\00:23:26.74
Exactly,
exactly we want to give,
00:23:26.75\00:23:29.21
we want to give
everyone a chance
00:23:29.22\00:23:31.58
to train a young
person to share Christ
00:23:31.59\00:23:35.21
in their
marketplace to give them that
00:23:35.22\00:23:36.69
hands on, that
hands on experience.
00:23:36.70\00:23:39.48
Okay now tells us
just enclosing here
00:23:39.49\00:23:41.43
a little bit how
people can get involved.
00:23:41.44\00:23:44.14
Okay. Tell us how anyone here
00:23:44.15\00:23:45.98
could be
involved in this program.
00:23:45.99\00:23:47.23
Okay, it's very
simple business owners
00:23:47.24\00:23:49.89
as I know many of
you are, you're busy
00:23:49.90\00:23:52.60
and we wanna make it
as easy and as simple
00:23:52.61\00:23:54.48
as possible. All you
need to do is log on to
00:23:54.49\00:23:57.68
AIEteam.com and
click the link to host an
00:23:57.69\00:24:03.61
AIE business
trip. We scan through
00:24:03.62\00:24:08.51
all the applicants
that come in and when there
00:24:08.52\00:24:12.03
is someone who is
interested in your
00:24:12.04\00:24:13.68
industry will contact
you and see if the time,
00:24:13.69\00:24:16.77
the location everything works
00:24:16.78\00:24:18.62
out for your
schedule. We want to make it
00:24:18.63\00:24:20.94
easy for you to give
that hands on experience
00:24:20.95\00:24:23.98
to a young person that
wants to share the gospel.
00:24:23.99\00:24:26.20
Alright, do you have
a way that people can
00:24:26.21\00:24:29.29
get a hold of you
outside of the website?
00:24:29.30\00:24:31.23
Can they find
you here personally
00:24:31.24\00:24:32.97
and talk to you about this?
00:24:32.98\00:24:33.95
Sure I'll be here
all weekend, we don't
00:24:33.96\00:24:35.09
have a booth this
year, but I will be here all
00:24:35.10\00:24:37.57
weekend and you're
more then welcome to get a
00:24:37.58\00:24:40.68
hold of me
anytime. I wanted to share
00:24:40.69\00:24:43.06
if you don't mind? A
just a little snippet
00:24:43.07\00:24:47.28
of how I want, my
vision is to share the
00:24:47.29\00:24:51.23
gospel in
business. Back in the 80s
00:24:51.24\00:24:54.88
Steve Jobs was
asked about his vision for
00:24:54.89\00:24:58.91
Apple computer and he
said instead of saying
00:24:58.92\00:25:02.93
I wanna make it a large profit
00:25:02.94\00:25:04.94
or I want to built
the next super computer
00:25:04.95\00:25:07.06
he said something very simple.
00:25:07.07\00:25:08.60
He said I want
to change the world,
00:25:08.61\00:25:10.71
and I want our
young people to catch that
00:25:10.72\00:25:13.27
vision to change
the world for eternity.
00:25:13.28\00:25:15.50
Amen, amen, thank
you, thank you Ellen.
00:25:15.51\00:25:17.74
And our next guest this
evening is Robert Becker
00:25:17.75\00:25:22.12
and I just met Robert
here at this convention
00:25:22.13\00:25:24.62
and learned some amazing things.
00:25:24.63\00:25:27.43
First of all
Robert, where are you from
00:25:27.44\00:25:29.37
and what do you
do? I'm from Allentown,
00:25:29.38\00:25:31.65
Pennsylvania and
I'm a automobile dealer.
00:25:31.66\00:25:33.91
A car dealer
tonight. We've gone from the
00:25:33.92\00:25:35.89
deaf to the blind
to the car dealers
00:25:35.90\00:25:38.22
and so on and so
forth right. Right.
00:25:38.23\00:25:40.43
So car dealers is
that a place you can
00:25:40.44\00:25:44.41
actually share
Christ in your marketplace?
00:25:44.42\00:25:46.18
I think so. Well
tell us a little bit about
00:25:46.19\00:25:48.76
your dealership.
What makes it different?
00:25:48.77\00:25:50.71
Well for the last
47 years my wife and
00:25:50.72\00:25:53.72
I've been running an
automobile dealership
00:25:53.73\00:25:55.42
in Pennsylvania.
It was on, no one
00:25:55.43\00:25:58.77
back in our days
who start out closing on
00:25:58.78\00:26:00.92
Sabbath. That's
the biggest day in the
00:26:00.93\00:26:03.61
automobile
business and we found it
00:26:03.62\00:26:05.41
to be a challenge,
but it's not a challenge
00:26:05.42\00:26:08.06
for God. So you
are saying you've been
00:26:08.07\00:26:09.83
closed all along every
Sabbath? Every Sabbath.
00:26:09.84\00:26:12.28
And you're still
able to make a living?
00:26:12.29\00:26:13.90
Well we not only making
living, this year we are
00:26:13.91\00:26:16.35
up about eight
percent. Now wait a minute,
00:26:16.36\00:26:18.89
wait a minute we're
on a down economy right.
00:26:18.90\00:26:21.15
I think everyone
here has heard about the
00:26:21.16\00:26:22.88
car industry, the
auto sales industry.
00:26:22.89\00:26:24.94
You're telling me,
you are not suffering?
00:26:24.95\00:26:27.12
Not really, very
blessed I can say that.
00:26:27.13\00:26:30.01
I, I give God the
credit because we already,
00:26:30.02\00:26:33.09
that is in
South it just happens.
00:26:33.10\00:26:34.97
I just believe God bless us.
00:26:34.98\00:26:36.26
Certainly we all
know that, don't we? Amen.
00:26:36.27\00:26:38.30
The Lord blesses
us when we do what
00:26:38.31\00:26:39.85
he asks us to do,
and so tell us a little
00:26:39.86\00:26:42.35
more about that some of that.
00:26:42.36\00:26:44.70
Well I'm humbled to
tell you we've maintaining
00:26:44.71\00:26:47.41
the number one
position for the last 17 years
00:26:47.42\00:26:49.74
in our district. This
past year will be number
00:26:49.75\00:26:53.96
two in the nation
with the largest super
00:26:53.97\00:26:56.57
facility in the United
States and those aren't
00:26:56.58\00:26:59.31
just stopping that I did
just give God the credit,
00:26:59.32\00:27:02.20
and I humbly say
that. So in spite of being
00:27:02.21\00:27:05.37
closed on Sabbath
the biggest day, yeah,
00:27:05.38\00:27:07.92
you're saying you're
the biggest dealership?
00:27:07.93\00:27:10.62
Largest volume,
largest volume dealership,
00:27:10.63\00:27:13.26
largest, largest
volume dealership in our
00:27:13.27\00:27:16.85
district, we are
number two in the nation's
00:27:16.86\00:27:18.87
volume and we're
number one is the
00:27:18.88\00:27:21.12
facility in the United States.
00:27:21.13\00:27:23.03
Amen, don't tell me
that God don't bless those
00:27:23.04\00:27:25.51
who honor him. Amen.
Now let me, I would like
00:27:25.52\00:27:32.59
you to share
something else with the folks
00:27:32.60\00:27:34.23
this evening. You
were telling me about that
00:27:34.24\00:27:36.24
isn't just that
you're up the eight percent.
00:27:36.25\00:27:39.40
God has blessed you
even beyond that, hasn't he?
00:27:39.41\00:27:41.51
Yes, we got a call
a couple, probably two
00:27:41.52\00:27:44.06
months ago from
a national company.
00:27:44.07\00:27:46.48
It's a rental
company and gave me an order
00:27:46.49\00:27:49.28
for seven, just
about 700 new automobiles,
00:27:49.29\00:27:51.89
and that was like thank you God.
00:27:51.90\00:27:54.73
Well now you said it
didn't start out quite
00:27:54.74\00:27:56.50
that way. No I
didn't. It started out,
00:27:56.51\00:27:58.30
his name is Kevin
he said I need like
00:27:58.31\00:28:01.84
about 50 cars and so
I called and said yeah
00:28:01.85\00:28:06.20
I can get those cars for you.
00:28:06.21\00:28:07.18
Okay, took those cars
and next day he called
00:28:07.19\00:28:12.69
me said could you
get me more those cars
00:28:12.70\00:28:14.49
and I said yeah it's
about 150 down there.
00:28:14.50\00:28:17.34
No it's 225 cars,
I called him back,
00:28:17.35\00:28:20.95
I will take those cars too.
00:28:20.96\00:28:22.44
And of course from
that point the next
00:28:22.45\00:28:24.43
he called for more
and having 700 cars and
00:28:24.44\00:28:27.58
we're still counting.
So those are blessings.
00:28:27.59\00:28:30.51
That's fantastic, so the
Lord blesses you in that.
00:28:30.52\00:28:33.33
Yes. Now you said that
you do have opportunities,
00:28:33.34\00:28:36.01
because you're
close Sabbath to also have
00:28:36.02\00:28:38.99
you know that's
unusual that people comment
00:28:39.00\00:28:41.43
on that. Do
people say things about
00:28:41.44\00:28:43.03
that to you in
other areas? They do,
00:28:43.04\00:28:44.56
they do and I've
got many of that.
00:28:44.57\00:28:46.45
A sort of when we
close on Saturdays
00:28:46.46\00:28:49.14
they will say
won't, but when you're told
00:28:49.15\00:28:51.32
that is because of
religious convictions.
00:28:51.33\00:28:53.35
They look at it
totally different
00:28:53.36\00:28:55.16
and they really, really pleased
00:28:55.17\00:28:57.20
and they give us
accolades for saying
00:28:57.21\00:28:59.25
that and for
doing that I should say.
00:28:59.26\00:29:01.91
Amen, now you are
telling me about this
00:29:01.92\00:29:04.20
man also a
little bit, the one who
00:29:04.21\00:29:05.87
ordered all these
cars why? Why from you?
00:29:05.88\00:29:09.18
Well that was a question because
00:29:09.19\00:29:10.72
my wife and I went
home that night just
00:29:10.73\00:29:12.69
a part of me, but
what he told me was
00:29:12.70\00:29:14.52
that about 20, close
to 20 years ago out of
00:29:14.53\00:29:18.02
Philadelphia zone
we've done some good trading
00:29:18.03\00:29:19.81
with the dealer
and he worked for,
00:29:19.82\00:29:21.39
and we remembered
that we were straight
00:29:21.40\00:29:23.68
forward and was
honest and we felt
00:29:23.69\00:29:25.32
that he could
trust us. And that is the
00:29:25.33\00:29:26.77
very word he
used. Even though you're
00:29:26.78\00:29:28.82
closed on Sabbath
or maybe because you're
00:29:28.83\00:29:31.09
closed on
Sabbath. He could have,
00:29:31.10\00:29:33.00
he could have
tried those any other 650
00:29:33.01\00:29:35.95
super dealers in United States.
00:29:35.96\00:29:37.45
He is working
with us and I'm really
00:29:37.46\00:29:39.06
grateful for that and thankful.
00:29:39.07\00:29:40.34
Amen, again the Lord
blesses those who honor
00:29:40.35\00:29:43.65
him and I think that,
that takes a real step
00:29:43.66\00:29:46.92
of faith and it's
an encouragement to me
00:29:46.93\00:29:49.85
in my business to know
that God will take care
00:29:49.86\00:29:52.86
when we honor
him, amen, amen, amen.
00:29:52.87\00:29:55.58
Thank you
appreciate you sharing tonight.
00:29:55.59\00:29:58.08
Our next guest is Michael Tuazon
00:29:58.09\00:30:06.41
and he's our
youngest, come on over here
00:30:06.42\00:30:09.36
a little closer. He
is our youngest interview
00:30:09.37\00:30:12.29
this evening. I
don't know how young
00:30:12.30\00:30:14.19
and I won't ask, but
I'm always interested
00:30:14.20\00:30:17.59
in the young
people and what they do in
00:30:17.60\00:30:20.74
the various
areas of our country.
00:30:20.75\00:30:23.60
I see them rising
all over the nation,
00:30:23.61\00:30:27.13
young people feeling the call,
00:30:27.14\00:30:29.70
hearing the call,
hearing the Lord's voice
00:30:29.71\00:30:31.40
and stepping up to
the task and Michael
00:30:31.41\00:30:34.47
you've been
involved with an organization
00:30:34.48\00:30:36.57
called Finish the Work.
Tell us a little bit about
00:30:36.58\00:30:38.48
that and how it got started?
00:30:38.49\00:30:40.03
Finish the work is
a revival evangelism
00:30:40.04\00:30:42.27
arm for ASI Pacific
Union and we got started
00:30:42.28\00:30:45.87
when we first
decided, hey what can we do
00:30:45.88\00:30:47.91
to see Jesus face to
face in this generation,
00:30:47.92\00:30:50.47
and so a bunch
of us got together
00:30:50.48\00:30:52.00
and we said let's go
and grab all our friends
00:30:52.01\00:30:55.07
and start
reviving all the churches.
00:30:55.08\00:30:56.79
Amen, have you
asked yourself likely
00:30:56.80\00:30:58.80
what can I do to see
the Lord face to face?
00:30:58.81\00:31:01.59
Well I'm alive I
think that's remarkable
00:31:01.60\00:31:03.71
in itself. Now
you've started another
00:31:03.72\00:31:06.34
project just
recently? Yes there is a new
00:31:06.35\00:31:09.00
project of
Finish the Work started
00:31:09.01\00:31:10.62
we said how can we
do something amazing
00:31:10.63\00:31:14.30
in our own
hometown, a lot of times we do
00:31:14.31\00:31:16.89
mission trips Overseas.
And so we said why don't
00:31:16.90\00:31:19.50
we do a mission
trip where we live.
00:31:19.51\00:31:21.88
So a bunch of us just
decision hey what about
00:31:21.89\00:31:24.09
we just take a challenge.
We kind of all challenged
00:31:24.10\00:31:25.95
each other to
take time off of work,
00:31:25.96\00:31:27.88
time off school and to
do full time evangelism
00:31:27.89\00:31:31.18
here in the United
States in California
00:31:31.19\00:31:33.06
where we live. What
do you call this project?
00:31:33.07\00:31:35.08
We decided to
call it, The Misfits.
00:31:35.09\00:31:37.12
Because we don't
fit in this world.
00:31:37.13\00:31:39.09
Not part of this world are you?
00:31:39.10\00:31:41.57
So when did you start them?
00:31:41.58\00:31:44.11
It started at the
end of November 2008
00:31:44.12\00:31:47.87
and in December a
bunch of us were praying
00:31:47.88\00:31:50.30
together and we all
realized that we all
00:31:50.31\00:31:53.36
were on the same
line. We wanted to do
00:31:53.37\00:31:54.81
something
different, something drastic,
00:31:54.82\00:31:56.97
something amazing and
that's when a lot of us
00:31:56.98\00:31:59.28
decided to either
take time off the school.
00:31:59.29\00:32:01.88
I actually resigned
as senior project manager
00:32:01.89\00:32:04.38
for the company
I was working with,
00:32:04.39\00:32:06.08
and I just said
Lord, why don't you
00:32:06.09\00:32:07.68
I believe you're
the same God in the
00:32:07.69\00:32:09.13
Old Testament. I
believe you're the
00:32:09.14\00:32:10.30
same God who
bless Abraham and Isaac
00:32:10.31\00:32:12.80
and Jacob, why
don't you bless us.
00:32:12.81\00:32:15.00
And so we dared God
to do something amazing.
00:32:15.01\00:32:17.56
You dared God to
do something amazing
00:32:17.57\00:32:19.37
and he did. He did we
said alright here we go.
00:32:19.38\00:32:22.80
We formed a team
and we said from here
00:32:22.81\00:32:25.53
on out till March
we're gonna do the full time
00:32:25.54\00:32:27.39
evangelism, but the
problem was we didn't
00:32:27.40\00:32:29.52
have any churches
yet, and so who on the
00:32:29.53\00:32:32.22
right mind would
hire bunch of unfit,
00:32:32.23\00:32:34.12
untrained kids to
run evangelistic series
00:32:34.13\00:32:37.04
with just a month of prep work.
00:32:37.05\00:32:39.24
So you've the
group. You're ready to do
00:32:39.25\00:32:41.22
the evangelism,
but no where to do the
00:32:41.23\00:32:43.81
work that you've taken up to do.
00:32:43.82\00:32:45.22
Right, well at
least in the first week.
00:32:45.23\00:32:46.98
Okay at least
for the first week.
00:32:46.99\00:32:48.74
Okay well it didn't last long.
00:32:48.75\00:32:50.10
How, how did you find
a place to do the work?
00:32:50.11\00:32:52.50
After the best point
training of Evangelism
00:32:52.51\00:32:54.71
there was a
Pastor at Modesto Central
00:32:54.72\00:32:57.47
who was just
praying for God to send
00:32:57.48\00:32:59.59
laborers, and we got
just somehow connected
00:32:59.60\00:33:03.91
and I called him up
and I said we have a team.
00:33:03.92\00:33:06.37
We'll do an
evangelistic series for free,
00:33:06.38\00:33:08.35
we're supported
by ASI Pacific Union
00:33:08.36\00:33:10.37
and we're ready to
go. He said I was just
00:33:10.38\00:33:12.86
praying for that. So
while you are forming
00:33:12.87\00:33:15.21
your team this Pastor
was praying for laborers.
00:33:15.22\00:33:18.77
That's right. Alright,
and so you got together
00:33:18.78\00:33:20.88
tell us a little
bit about what you did?
00:33:20.89\00:33:22.59
What did it take to
accomplish the task?
00:33:22.60\00:33:24.51
Well we went to
Modesto and then which is one
00:33:24.52\00:33:27.02
of the biggest
churches in Central California
00:33:27.03\00:33:28.76
Conference. Modesto
Central and then from
00:33:28.77\00:33:31.37
there we went to
Turlock and I will
00:33:31.38\00:33:33.14
tell you two really
cool stories what happened
00:33:33.15\00:33:35.74
there. I wanna
introduce you to Anthony.
00:33:35.75\00:33:37.87
Anthony is a young
man who worked at Pep Boys
00:33:37.88\00:33:40.39
and he heard the call
for him to do full time
00:33:40.40\00:33:43.39
evangelism, so he
resigned from his job
00:33:43.40\00:33:46.24
or actually took
a leave of absence
00:33:46.25\00:33:48.76
and when he went
there he realized
00:33:48.77\00:33:50.40
okay well Lord
need to have this amount
00:33:50.41\00:33:52.49
of money saved and
so he looked at his bank
00:33:52.50\00:33:54.73
account and he had
just that amount of money.
00:33:54.74\00:33:56.52
So he said okay God is
calling me to full time
00:33:56.53\00:33:58.38
evangelism and while
we were doing the series
00:33:58.39\00:34:01.03
in Modesto it turns
out. One day he looked at
00:34:01.04\00:34:03.89
his bank accounts
to pay his bills and
00:34:03.90\00:34:06.19
it turned out
everything was wiped out.
00:34:06.20\00:34:08.37
A family member had
gotten a hold of checks
00:34:08.38\00:34:10.45
and had cleared
out his bank account.
00:34:10.46\00:34:12.93
So he's planned
to do this ministry,
00:34:12.94\00:34:15.62
because he has
the means available to
00:34:15.63\00:34:17.45
do it and now he
finds out he has nothing?
00:34:17.46\00:34:20.50
That is correct,
so now the ball is in
00:34:20.51\00:34:23.08
God's court. You
know God works best
00:34:23.09\00:34:24.90
when we can't work at all.
00:34:24.91\00:34:26.08
Amen, that is
the truth isn't it?
00:34:26.09\00:34:28.28
And so what happens
next is he then has to
00:34:28.29\00:34:31.67
make a decision,
is he gonna go back,
00:34:31.68\00:34:33.49
he can go back to
work or is he gonna
00:34:33.50\00:34:35.60
go by faith knowing
that he was called for it
00:34:35.61\00:34:38.08
and know, and having
faith that God will deliver.
00:34:38.09\00:34:40.61
What choice? He
decided to go back
00:34:40.62\00:34:43.42
and when he decided
to go back it turns out
00:34:43.43\00:34:45.74
that just in two
days people donated some
00:34:45.75\00:34:50.41
money towards
him the covered above
00:34:50.42\00:34:52.22
and beyond the
month he saved on his own.
00:34:52.23\00:34:54.66
And this is important
because the next series
00:34:54.67\00:34:58.26
was in Turlock and
that's where his family
00:34:58.27\00:35:00.92
happened to be and
he was the first person
00:35:00.93\00:35:03.31
who was Baptized Adventist.
00:35:03.32\00:35:04.42
He was the non-denominational
00:35:04.43\00:35:05.76
Pentecostal and he
was seeking to be the
00:35:05.77\00:35:08.72
only Adventist turns
out, he had family in
00:35:08.73\00:35:11.15
Turlock who had, the
last time they say him,
00:35:11.16\00:35:13.64
he was 310 pounds
and cursed like a sailor.
00:35:13.65\00:35:16.86
This time they see him,
he is totally different.
00:35:16.87\00:35:19.67
They don't even recognize him,
00:35:19.68\00:35:21.64
because he lost a 110 pounds.
00:35:21.65\00:35:24.56
Wow! And people ask
you know about subway.
00:35:24.57\00:35:27.20
Let me tell you
just follow the health
00:35:27.21\00:35:28.43
message to loose
pounds. Amen, amen.
00:35:28.44\00:35:31.38
So what happens
next is he then gets
00:35:31.39\00:35:34.36
his family to
come to the meetings
00:35:34.37\00:35:36.14
they get baptized
and we finish two of our
00:35:36.15\00:35:39.27
meetings and we
said alright Lord
00:35:39.28\00:35:40.71
we did two meetings
and you know a number
00:35:40.72\00:35:42.67
of decisions were
made about 30 to 40
00:35:42.68\00:35:44.63
decisions for Baptism
and we're like alright Lord.
00:35:44.64\00:35:47.27
Wait a minute, wait a
minute this is your first,
00:35:47.28\00:35:48.95
the first, the first taught out.
00:35:48.96\00:35:51.60
And you have already
got 30 to 40 decisions
00:35:51.61\00:35:53.96
for baptism. Yeah,
the first one we had
00:35:53.97\00:35:55.45
15 decisions, in the
second one we had 20.
00:35:55.46\00:35:58.09
Amen, amen and so the
Lord was blessing this work.
00:35:58.10\00:36:01.24
Okay continue
on with your story,
00:36:01.25\00:36:02.76
I didn't wanna go by that.
00:36:02.77\00:36:03.74
No not all, what happens next is
00:36:03.75\00:36:06.57
at the very next
series Anthony's brother
00:36:06.58\00:36:09.18
who was a seven year smoker
00:36:09.19\00:36:10.91
and a three
year Black tar heroin
00:36:10.92\00:36:12.59
addict decides
that he needs to make
00:36:12.60\00:36:14.43
a change and so he
goes to the meetings
00:36:14.44\00:36:16.30
in Watsonville, California.
00:36:16.31\00:36:17.93
Okay, so now
you've done Modesto,
00:36:17.94\00:36:21.92
Turlock and you're on
your way to Watsonville.
00:36:21.93\00:36:24.27
And it's only April.
Okay it's only April,
00:36:24.28\00:36:26.49
so the Lord has
provided places for
00:36:26.50\00:36:28.18
you to do
evangelism. Yes good. Alright.
00:36:28.19\00:36:30.58
And we start to get
all sorts of places now.
00:36:30.59\00:36:32.70
Okay, so now you've got
a heroine attack correct.
00:36:32.71\00:36:36.41
Yeah Black tar heroin
addict, a smoker since
00:36:36.42\00:36:38.78
13 has a kid. He is 20-year-old,
00:36:38.79\00:36:40.81
he comes to the
meetings realizes that
00:36:40.82\00:36:42.52
he needs to make
change his heart.
00:36:42.53\00:36:44.78
Here's the first
evangelist meeting
00:36:44.79\00:36:47.11
and from then on he
wants to quit smoking
00:36:47.12\00:36:49.23
he, he remember
he has been smoking
00:36:49.24\00:36:51.05
since he was 13-year-old.
00:36:51.06\00:36:52.30
He prays for God to
take away his addiction.
00:36:52.31\00:36:54.92
And He says
Father let this cigarette
00:36:54.93\00:36:56.87
smoke taste like
the worst thing ever
00:36:56.88\00:36:58.85
and God answers that prayer
00:36:58.86\00:37:00.50
and from then on he
hasn't smoke cigarettes.
00:37:00.51\00:37:03.31
Amen, God still
works miracles doesn't he?
00:37:03.32\00:37:06.13
Amen. Individual as
well as your organization.
00:37:06.14\00:37:09.63
Tell us a little bit
about where you went next.
00:37:09.64\00:37:12.59
Now that's the one I
really was interested in.
00:37:12.60\00:37:14.68
Alright cool, so
Thomas getting baptized
00:37:14.69\00:37:17.50
and he the one who is
the seven year smoker,
00:37:17.51\00:37:20.87
three black tar heroine addict.
00:37:20.88\00:37:22.26
He gets baptized and
then joins the Misfits
00:37:22.27\00:37:24.54
as well and we know
go to our last series
00:37:24.55\00:37:26.82
in Salinas. So what
you're saying is that,
00:37:26.83\00:37:29.16
that he has fresh
in his experience and
00:37:29.17\00:37:33.56
he immediately
joins up and becomes one
00:37:33.57\00:37:35.40
of the
evangelists. That's right.
00:37:35.41\00:37:37.12
And that's the
training program you have right.
00:37:37.13\00:37:39.10
That's right.
We're bunch of nobodies
00:37:39.11\00:37:40.96
trying to lead
somebody, so we can
00:37:40.97\00:37:42.42
reach everybody. Amen, amen, you
00:37:42.43\00:37:46.40
told me that you
have two necessary
00:37:46.41\00:37:50.07
qualifications to be
a part of the Misfits?
00:37:50.08\00:37:52.76
Yeah as long as
you have the desire
00:37:52.77\00:37:55.65
and as long as you
have a humble heart.
00:37:55.66\00:37:57.44
The desire and the humble heart.
00:37:57.45\00:37:59.05
Doesn't Ellen White
tell us what we need
00:37:59.06\00:38:01.41
to do service for the Lord.
00:38:01.42\00:38:03.45
Yeah it doesn't
much. The willing heart
00:38:03.46\00:38:05.94
and humility
right. That's right.
00:38:05.95\00:38:07.80
So go on with the
story. So we then go to Salinas
00:38:07.81\00:38:10.65
and now we are at
our last series and this
00:38:10.66\00:38:12.71
is a church that
is in disarray about
00:38:12.72\00:38:14.91
70 members only going to church
00:38:14.92\00:38:17.53
and they want us to come in and
00:38:17.54\00:38:20.07
somehow fix everything.
And you said disarray,
00:38:20.08\00:38:22.77
what do you
mean? This evangelistic
00:38:22.78\00:38:24.63
series almost
didn't happen, you know
00:38:24.64\00:38:26.08
there were just
things going on in the church
00:38:26.09\00:38:27.95
and we didn't know
about all this stuff.
00:38:27.96\00:38:29.77
We just come and we're
like alright let's blitz
00:38:29.78\00:38:32.14
this area. And so
we decide to send our
00:38:32.15\00:38:35.44
evangelistic fly which
is called Unlocking the
00:38:35.45\00:38:37.45
Mysteries of Daniel
and Revelation in every
00:38:37.46\00:38:39.75
single newspaper in
the whole city of Salinas.
00:38:39.76\00:38:41.97
We go to all these
different Sunday churches,
00:38:41.98\00:38:43.91
we actually get ask to
do a vesper or one prayer
00:38:43.92\00:38:46.84
meeting at a Sunday church.
00:38:46.85\00:38:47.88
And all these
Sunday church people end up
00:38:47.89\00:38:50.09
coming to our
series, we had over a 100
00:38:50.10\00:38:52.19
plus visitors at
this series of only 70
00:38:52.20\00:38:55.49
Adventists
attending. Right, so you got a
00:38:55.50\00:38:57.28
church of 70
members and you've got a 100
00:38:57.29\00:38:59.41
non-Adventists
attending your series.
00:38:59.42\00:39:01.19
That's right.
Okay, so what was the
00:39:01.20\00:39:02.68
outcome of that?
Well God really poured
00:39:02.69\00:39:04.65
his Spirit at this
one there was over 60
00:39:04.66\00:39:07.48
decisions for
Baptism. Over 60, how that
00:39:07.49\00:39:10.51
double your
church. And again we don't,
00:39:10.52\00:39:14.85
we can't take any
credit for anything again
00:39:14.86\00:39:18.14
we're unfit, we're unchanged,
00:39:18.15\00:39:19.42
we are the misfits
all we did was pray really
00:39:19.43\00:39:22.30
hard and we just did our best.
00:39:22.31\00:39:24.13
We just you know
read the things that
00:39:24.14\00:39:25.86
we needed to, we
studied really hard,
00:39:25.87\00:39:27.82
we labored with
the people and by God's
00:39:27.83\00:39:30.08
grace you know
we're able to results,
00:39:30.09\00:39:32.70
but I wanna share
one really cool story.
00:39:32.71\00:39:34.50
Okay. This happened to
Thomas again in Salinas,
00:39:34.51\00:39:37.18
he is now trying
to reach the heroine
00:39:37.19\00:39:39.03
addicts that
were, that which he was
00:39:39.04\00:39:40.75
the part of and
actually during the series
00:39:40.76\00:39:43.37
he was held at
gunpoint and robbed.
00:39:43.38\00:39:45.88
And he wondered
why did God allow him
00:39:45.89\00:39:48.57
to spare his life,
just a few weeks ago
00:39:48.58\00:39:51.09
he is now co-reporter
in literature evangelist
00:39:51.10\00:39:53.50
in Central
California when he was knocking
00:39:53.51\00:39:55.53
on the doors at
his last door someone
00:39:55.54\00:39:58.56
as after he saw
they believe a man apiece
00:39:58.57\00:40:00.69
they gave him two water bottles
00:40:00.70\00:40:02.87
and he was like okay
why you are giving me two.
00:40:02.88\00:40:05.80
And the ladies
like well one is also
00:40:05.81\00:40:07.10
for your friend. And
he said friend no one has
00:40:07.11\00:40:09.17
been working me all night.
00:40:09.18\00:40:10.58
And he then says what
does my friend look like.
00:40:10.59\00:40:13.53
And she says you
know the guy behind you
00:40:13.54\00:40:15.36
who is eight or nine feet tall.
00:40:15.37\00:40:16.73
And Thomas
realized that during that
00:40:16.74\00:40:20.49
time in Salinas
God spared his life
00:40:20.50\00:40:22.98
and his guardian
angel was right there
00:40:22.99\00:40:24.70
just as it was a few weeks ago
00:40:24.71\00:40:26.74
and he co-reporting experience.
00:40:26.75\00:40:28.21
Amen, now just enclosing here
00:40:28.22\00:40:30.63
I would like to let
the people know that
00:40:30.64\00:40:32.43
they can find out
more about the Misfits
00:40:32.44\00:40:34.48
at the booth for
Pacific. ASI Pacific Union.
00:40:34.49\00:40:38.02
ASI Pacific Union chapter.
00:40:38.03\00:40:39.85
It's something to learn about
00:40:39.86\00:40:41.02
and Michael will tell
you a whole lot more than
00:40:41.03\00:40:43.00
he has told you this evening
00:40:43.01\00:40:44.08
thank you. Thank you.
00:40:44.09\00:40:46.23