Participants: Brian & Diane Hamilton (Host), Lizzie Chambwa
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY014095A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord, let my words 00:29 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:50 Mending broken people 01:07 Well, we want to welcome you to 3ABN today. 01:12 And we're glad that you have tuned in 01:14 and joining us for this particular program. 01:18 I am Brian Hamilton. 01:20 I oversee the finances for 3ABN. 01:24 Some people call me the chief financial officer 01:27 but I don't like that title. 01:30 I think Jesus is our chief financial officer 01:34 and I'm just an under steward of the means 01:39 that you have invested in 3ABN to further the ministry. 01:43 I have beside me my lovely life Diane. 01:47 And this is our first time doing this together, isn't it? 01:51 Yes it is. Are you nervous? 01:54 Yeah. Yeah, me too. 01:55 But you know, we have a lot of friends out there. 01:58 And so we're just gonna have to pretend 02:00 that you're all in our living room 02:02 and we're just having a good time together, okay? 02:05 3ABN today hasn't always been called that, 02:09 we have just launched, 02:12 recently celebration of 30 years of ministry. 02:17 And when 3ABN today was originally launched 02:21 this program it was called 3ABN Presents. 02:26 But somewhere along that journey 02:28 the name got changed to 3ABN today. 02:33 And so this is a program, 02:36 if this is maybe the first time you've tuned in 02:39 to our particular network or this program 02:42 where we do interviews. 02:44 We interview people who are involved 02:47 in different kinds of ministry 02:50 and the idea is that you'll be inspired by 02:53 what God is doing through that ministry 02:55 and maybe would want to do something similar. 02:58 We introduce-- we interview individuals 03:03 and they share their journey with God 03:06 and how they have been impacted on life events. 03:11 And so as you hear their testimony 03:14 it will edify and an encouraged. 03:17 And today's program will be no different. 03:21 This is going to be a very interesting program 03:24 you want to stay tuned, 03:25 maybe even get a notebook to take a few notes 03:28 on what you're going to learn today on 3ABN today. 03:33 Diane, we have some music, don't we? 03:35 Yes, we do. 03:36 Darrell Marshall will be singing 03:39 "In the Sweet By and By." 03:47 There's a land that is fairer than day 03:51 And by faith we can see it afar 03:56 For the Father waits over the way 04:01 To prepare us a dwelling place there 04:06 In the sweet by and by 04:10 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 04:15 In the sweet by and by 04:20 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 04:29 We shall sing on that beautiful shore 04:34 The melodious songs of the blessed 04:38 And our spirits shall sorrow no more 04:43 Not a sigh for the blessing of rest 04:48 In the sweet by and by 04:52 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 04:57 In the sweet by and by 05:01 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 05:15 To our bountiful Father above 05:20 We will offer the tribute of praise 05:25 For the glorious gift of His love 05:29 And the blessings that hallow our days 05:34 In the sweet by and by 05:39 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 05:44 In the sweet by and by 05:48 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 05:53 In the sweet by and by 05:57 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 06:02 In the sweet by and by 06:07 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 06:11 We shall meet on that beautiful shore 06:24 Well, we want to thank Darrell Marshall. 06:27 We always are blessed by him 06:28 as he comes to 3ABN from time to time 06:31 and shares wonderful talent 06:33 the Lord has given him and music 06:35 and that's a real blessing, isn't it? 06:38 Yes, it is. 06:40 Well, we have a guest with us today 06:42 that we want to introduce you to, 06:45 her name is Lizzie. 06:46 And, Lizzie, we are glad that you are here with us. 06:48 Amen. Share your last name with us. 06:51 It's Chambwa. Chambwa. 06:53 Yes, it's the African last name. 06:55 Okay. Yes. 06:56 It sounds, it sounds interesting. 06:58 Doesn't have any meaning to it? 07:00 Yes, it actually means, 07:01 well, my husband's name is Lushomo Chambwa. 07:03 Lushomo. 07:04 And Lushomo means faith in Africa. 07:06 Okay. 07:07 And so Chambwa is the family's last name 07:10 and I'm honored to be able be a part of the family. 07:14 And so sometimes last name is very difficult to pronounce, 07:18 so I just tell people hey call me LC. 07:20 Okay. Yes. 07:22 Well, we're gonna address you as Lizzie 07:25 but I practiced Chambwa. 07:28 Yes, excellent. 07:29 Before hand to see if my tongue would-- 07:31 you know, do the things it needs to do. 07:33 Amen. 07:34 To say that but and now, Lizzie, 07:37 I know, you're involved with church plant 07:38 and then that's where we're gonna go to. 07:40 Okay. 07:42 But before we do that 07:43 tell us a little about yourself. 07:45 Have you always been an Adventist, 07:47 Seventh-day Adventist, is this a new journey for you, 07:50 when did that happen? 07:52 Give us a little background of yourself. 07:54 Well, it's a new journey for me. 07:56 I'm excited about the journeys, life changing experience. 07:59 Okay. 08:00 I would not give-- give it up 08:02 for anything in the world. 08:04 I was raised in the Baptist church. 08:07 I was out of church for quite a few years. 08:10 I think I went back to the church 08:11 when I was 33 years old 08:14 and I want to get to know the Lord a lot more better. 08:20 And so one day I got a flyer in the mail said, 08:23 the good news is better than you think. 08:25 And at that age you think that you heard 08:27 all the good news or as to hear, right? 08:29 And so I decided to go 08:30 to the seminars, awesome seminar. 08:33 It was a six week Revelation seminar, 08:35 it was taking place in St. Louis 08:37 and Forest Park at the Art Museum. 08:40 It was six weeks, I went every singe night, 08:43 except for night. 08:44 And I have never heard 08:45 the gospel preach like that before in my life. 08:47 Now I was still attending the Baptist church 08:49 with the same time I was attending 08:52 this Revelation seminar. 08:53 And all the years I've been a Baptist 08:56 I have never heard the gospel preach like that 08:57 before actually from the Bible itself. 08:59 Yeah. 09:00 And so I knew the Lord was doing something in my life 09:03 and I had just rededicating my life to Christ 09:07 through baptism in the Baptist church. 09:10 I would never forget the date 09:12 it was the August the 31st 2005. 09:17 And three days later I was baptized again 09:20 in the Adventist church 09:21 and that was September the 5th 2005. 09:26 And so I've been Adventist ever since 09:28 and my life has just been awesome, 09:30 it has been awesome and I thank God for it. 09:33 That's wonderful. 09:34 Okay, so you are raised Baptist. 09:37 Yes. Maybe straight a little bit. 09:39 Yes. 09:40 But coming back somehow God intervened through a flyer. 09:45 Yes. 09:46 And Revelation seminar and that captivated you. 09:50 Yes, well, actually when I saw 09:52 the flyer in the mail it had all these creepy little beast 09:55 on the front of them and I'm like, 09:57 I don't think I want to go to this church 09:59 you know, who will send to me 10:00 something like this in the mail. 10:02 And so instantly I wasn't familiar 10:04 with the Holy Spirit at the time. 10:06 But I knew that the Lord was speaking to me 10:08 and He says, I thought you said, 10:09 you want to get to know Me better. 10:11 And I'm like yeah, I do 10:12 but I don't think this is gonna be good. 10:15 He says, trust Me and I went and I'm telling you, 10:18 it has changed my life. 10:20 And I'm here today because of that message. 10:23 Okay, so you became a Seventh-day Adventist 10:26 and then you just sort of relaxed 10:28 and just chilled out? 10:32 Oh, no, you don't relax 10:33 in the Seventh-day Adventist Church? 10:34 No, you can't do that. Okay. 10:36 Oh, no. 10:37 So tell us the next part of the journey. 10:38 Well, I was excited about getting involved in ministry. 10:43 Actually I had a little small women support group 10:45 in the community 10:47 before I joined the Adventist Church. 10:49 I started my own food pantry in 2001. 10:53 And I was just getting little scraps 10:55 from here and there from different churches 10:57 asking for help to just give out 10:59 little food baskets here and there. 11:01 And I was joining the church they told me that 11:04 well, as Adventist we have community service training 11:08 and so you can learn at the Adventist way. 11:11 Okay. Amen. 11:12 I love the Adventist way, amen. 11:14 And so I got training on community service, 11:17 how to serve better, how to be a better leader. 11:20 And then later on I got into Bible worker training. 11:23 So I've been a Bible worker now for nine years 11:26 and I'm excited about it, you know, 11:28 and so I just stay busy in the Lord. 11:31 Next thing I know I was traveling 11:33 for training in different cities and states 11:35 and shared my testimony. 11:37 Okay. 11:38 I started my own Women's Ministries, 11:40 Harrison's Referral Services for Women. 11:43 I was a victim of domestic violence 11:44 and I started that ministry from that crisis 11:48 and so it changed lives 11:50 and some ladies are in the Adventist Church today 11:53 because of that ministry as well. 11:55 Praise the Lord. 11:56 You used the term Bible worker 11:58 maybe some of our viewers don't know 12:01 what a Bible worker is. 12:02 So maybe elaborate a little bit on what Bible worker is. 12:05 Okay, well, a Bible worker we visit homes. 12:08 Okay. 12:09 We give Bible studies in home Bible studies, 12:12 we drop off lesson to the potential people 12:16 that we're gonna be spending time with. 12:18 Okay. 12:19 We pray with them, we find out what their needs are 12:23 and that's exciting point about it. 12:25 We get to meet different people from different backgrounds. 12:28 And the awesome point about it is I like to do surveys, 12:31 I like to find that 12:33 what the needs of the people are 12:34 before we go in with the gospel message. 12:36 Okay. 12:37 Sometimes people don't have food, 12:39 they might have, they might-- utilities might be turned off, 12:44 they might need clothing. 12:45 And so I've learned the way Jesus will help people, 12:49 is that we meet the needs first. 12:50 And once I can meet their needs first 12:53 then I can go in and have Bible studies with family, 12:57 drop off lessons, spend time with them, 12:59 pray with them and particularly they end up coming to church. 13:03 Now we've been hearing some less than positive news 13:08 about the St. Louis area lately in the news. 13:11 Yes, yes a lot going on in Ferguson. 13:14 Strife and turmoil. Yes. 13:16 But what your tell us is there's other things 13:18 that go on St. Louis that maybe don't hit the news. 13:21 That's true. That are good things. 13:23 Yes, very good thing and that's evangelism. 13:25 Yeah. 13:26 And so people coming together, people helping each other. 13:30 And tell us a little more about the food pantry, 13:33 how long now have you been operating the food pantry? 13:36 Actually since 2001, it wasn't Adventist food pantry at first. 13:40 Okay. 13:42 So I started in 2001 13:44 and as I joined the Adventist church, 13:47 the new church that we had 13:48 was called Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church 13:50 I was a part of our new church plant myself. 13:52 All right. 13:53 And the church was called 13:54 Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church. 13:56 So I named the pantry 13:57 after the Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church. 14:00 And we are going strong now for 14 years. 14:03 Now I haven't been Adventist for 14 years 14:05 but the pantry has been going for 14 years. 14:07 We serve two communities in downtown St. Louis. 14:11 We're preparing for our thanksgiving baskets this year. 14:14 We have our volunteer's working on that. 14:15 We served over maybe I will say 14,000 people 14:19 maybe more in that community within those few years. 14:22 Okay. 14:23 And we also have Bible studies 14:26 that have come out of serving food baskets too. 14:30 Do you take the items to people or do they come to you 14:35 to receive the food, how's the service? 14:37 Yes, they come to our facility, 14:39 we're located in downtown St. Louis 14:41 a 1401 Lasalle street. 14:44 And so we have two different distribution days. 14:47 We serve two different zip covers on Mondays 14:49 and we had served all the others zip covers 14:52 on every other Thursday. 14:53 So we serve twice a month. 14:55 And then we also have this program called MoboMarket. 14:59 Well, we have a 16 wheeler truck 15:02 that comes to our facility once a month. 15:04 Okay. 15:05 And they bring the food to us 15:07 and we have maybe five to seven pounds of food 15:09 and we line their food up outside on pallets 15:12 and we just give it away to the whole entire community, 15:14 oh, it's awesome. 15:16 We have such a wonderful time doing that. 15:17 Wow. 15:18 So is this the storefront 15:20 or is this a church that you're working out? 15:24 Well, no, the building that we're working out 15:26 of right now the food pantry, 15:29 it's the St. Louis housing authority. 15:30 Okay. 15:31 I've been serving the community for so many years 15:34 and they've enjoyed what I've been doing. 15:36 They gave me a place to use for free for the last 14 years. 15:39 Wow. 15:40 I don't have to pay any bills and the utilities. 15:42 They just want me to serve the community 15:44 and we've been doing a wonderful job with that 15:46 and I thank God for that. 15:48 Wow. 15:50 Now you're not new to 3ABN. 15:54 If I-- Diane, you were involved with Lizzie. 15:58 Right, yes, the radio station had 16:02 you doing women of the Bible or no-- 16:06 Women at the well. Women at the well. 16:08 Yes, yes. 16:10 And I did a program with you I remember. 16:13 Yes, and I enjoyed it. 16:14 I'm so looking forward to it 16:15 and I pray that people around the world 16:18 had the opportunity to listen to the broadcast 16:19 and they were blessed by it. 16:21 So you're a co-host. 16:22 Yes, co-host, yes, women at the well, yes. 16:25 Okay. Yes, the Lord is good. 16:27 Yes. 16:28 So this last year you became a Seventh-day Adventist, 16:33 you were involved with mission work 16:37 and ministry into people 16:38 even before you became a Seventh-day Adventist. 16:41 And tell us what are you doing in addition to the food pantry, 16:48 what kinds of things do you have? 16:50 Well, I have my own women's ministries 16:52 as I was saying earlier 16:53 Harrison's Referral Services for Women, 16:55 its domestic violence ministry. 16:58 We help women and children 16:59 that are going through domestic violence, 17:02 we have been get into domestic violence shelters, 17:05 we help them with correct packages, 17:08 prayer and also we give them Bible lessons. 17:11 And we make sure they want to get out of these shelters that 17:15 and they get into transitional housing, 17:17 they were there to also support them 17:19 through that as well. 17:21 And we're excited about 17:22 that we just had our women's retreat 17:24 we just had a one day women's retreat 17:26 this past couple of weeks ago 17:29 November 1st and 2nd very nice time, 17:32 we had such a wonderful time. 17:34 And we're trying to reach more people in our community 17:40 and with everything going on in St. Louis and Ferguson 17:42 there is a lot of domestic violence 17:44 as well as all different types of abuse. 17:46 And so we're trying to also intertwine 17:48 what was going on in St. Louis, 17:50 so we can help those that are going 17:52 through different type of domestic violence. 17:55 So do you have a place that women come to, 17:59 you have an office, you have 18:01 or is it at the community service center? 18:04 Yes, yes, we also meet there or a lot of times we get calls, 18:07 we get emergency calls. 18:08 And so once those calls come in 18:10 we just have to place them in emergency facilities 18:12 and there we just work from there. 18:14 And so those call can come in the middle of the night, 18:17 early in the morning it just depends. 18:20 We're working on 18:22 8th Annual Domestic Violence Victory Banquet. 18:26 It's gonna be coming up 18:27 next year July the 19th on Sunday. 18:30 That victory banquet you come out 18:33 and we have a three course meal. 18:35 Okay. 18:36 Very nice, we have keynote speaker 18:38 and the floors open for testimonies 18:40 for people to come up and share 18:41 what the Lord has done for them and share their victories. 18:45 Well, whatever it is that you've been through, 18:47 it's so wonderful event, hope you all can come. 18:50 Yeah, that's good. 18:51 This is the first time you've done it? 18:53 No, this is our eighth annual coming up. 18:54 Eighth annual. Yes. 18:55 Wow, okay. Yes. 18:58 You have down to also it sounds like 19:01 every things really going on great 19:02 but you may be had some struggles 19:04 in your journey as well. 19:06 Well, we have our struggles here and there 19:09 and I thank God for the struggles. 19:11 Okay. 19:12 It's a growing experience for me, 19:14 humbling experience for me. 19:17 It also boosts up my prayer life. 19:19 Okay. 19:20 And so but yeah, we've had 19:21 a little challenges here and there 19:23 but nothing that the Lord haven't 19:25 you know, been able to bring us through 19:28 but right now everything seem to be going pretty well. 19:31 Praying every day that the Lord just continues to guide me, 19:37 to lead me and teach me what it is He wants me to do. 19:41 My biggest thing getting into ministry 19:44 was this is God's ministry, it's not mine. 19:47 Okay, right. 19:48 The Lord has just allowed me, amen, to be a part of it 19:52 and I just want to please God in every aspect 19:55 of every thing that I do. 19:57 My biggest goal in my-- 20:03 my prayer request has always been that 20:06 the Lord would teach me how to be a good leader, 20:10 how to be a inspiration to others? 20:13 I don't want to be a stumbling block to anyone. 20:16 Now I'm human you know and we make mistakes 20:19 but I love people, I love to serve 20:22 and that's what I want to do. 20:23 I just want to serve the way Jesus wants me to serve. 20:25 Okay. 20:27 Lizzie, tell us about, you have family? 20:29 Yes, yes, yes. 20:33 I've been married three years next year, June the 10th. 20:37 I just married my lovely husband 20:39 Lushomo Chambwa, he's from Africa from Zambia. 20:42 Zambia? Yes, and I have-- 20:45 my son he's 14 years old from a previous marriage. 20:49 And my husband now we have our new son, 20:52 a he's a year old and this Lushomo Chambwa Jr. 20:55 Wow, okay. 20:57 And we call him Juju, that's his nickname. 21:01 And so he keeps me very, very busy. 21:04 Okay. I have four grandchildren. 21:06 All right. 21:07 And I have two daughters, they both 24 years old. 21:11 They are ten months apart so you know, this-- 21:14 they look like twins but they're not twins. 21:16 And so one of my daughter 21:17 her and her husband have four children. 21:19 Oh. 21:20 And my other daughter that's Daine, 21:22 that has the four children. 21:24 And Victoria she doesn't have any children yet. 21:26 She's just finished four years of college at Mazowe. 21:30 And now she's enjoying life right now. 21:32 And she is very excited. 21:34 Now I would never have guessed Lizzie would be a grandma. 21:37 I know. 21:38 That just never even entered my mind. 21:40 Now we may be-- I look like a grandpa 21:43 but I don't think Lizzie. 21:44 Well, that's wonderful. 21:48 I've heard just a little bit about 21:51 involved with church planting. 21:52 You said, you were in a church plant. 21:55 Yes, part of a church plant. 21:57 Eventually, part of church plant 21:59 and now you're involved in a church plant 22:03 in someway, how did that come about? 22:06 Wow, I was attending the Mid-Rivers 22:10 Seventh-day Adventist Church in Saint Peters 22:13 under the leadership of Pastor Robb Long 22:16 and the Missouri Conference. 22:19 And they started the program called Equipping University 22:23 and we were getting a lot of training 22:25 on how to preach, 22:26 how to write sermons and the internet area. 22:29 So I've done lot of training with Equipping University. 22:32 And through that program they started church planting. 22:37 And I was interested in church planting. 22:38 I had no idea that I'll be church planting 22:41 more or less in church period, okay. 22:43 Okay. 22:44 And so but I was excited about church planting 22:48 and I said, Lord you know, can I church plant? 22:50 Can I plant a church for You? 22:52 And so with the training and the support, 22:55 and the prayers, and the love, 22:57 the Holy Spirit just overwhelmed 22:59 and I said, yes, you can do 23:01 all things to Christ that strengthens you. 23:03 And so I got involved in church planting. 23:06 I love it. It's like-- 23:07 my life is just seem to be blossom me more 23:11 in so many different aspects 23:13 and I'm just happy about that. 23:14 So how was-- how would a person go 23:17 about planting a church? 23:20 Well, that's a good question, 23:22 I'm still trying to find out as well. 23:24 Figure out, okay. It's a journey. 23:26 All right. 23:27 The good thing about it is we have training every month. 23:30 Okay. 23:31 We also each one of us that are planting churches 23:34 about three or four of us right now. 23:36 We have a pastor coach. 23:38 And so we were assigned a coach 23:40 and they are there to support us 23:41 and to be there for us to pray with us, 23:44 if we have any questions or need help with anything, 23:46 they are there to support us, 23:47 so we're not doing this by ourselves. 23:49 We have the support of the Missouri Conference. 23:52 So went out and you rented a great big church's building 23:56 somewhere, is that what you did you do? 23:58 Oh, no, that's gonna be later on down the line. 24:00 That's the down the line. 24:01 Right now we're house church right now. 24:03 You're house church. 24:04 Yes, it's exciting to open up now. 24:06 And whose house? It's in my house. 24:08 Oh, your house. Okay. 24:09 Excuse me, honey, our house. 24:10 Our house, God's house is your house. 24:12 Yes, in God's house yes so. 24:13 Okay. 24:14 Yeah, we're house church right now. 24:15 And so everyone comes to our home, 24:18 we have Sabbath school, adult Sabbath School, 24:20 we have youth Sabbath school as well. 24:23 My husband Lushomo he teaches youth Sabbath school 24:26 and I teach adult Sabbath school 24:28 and I also bring the message on Sabbath. 24:31 Unless I have a speaker coming 24:33 and you know, every now 24:34 and then but we have worship service, 24:38 praise and worship is awesome. 24:40 We have a wonderful time and the good part is 24:43 we get to fellowship together and we eat well, amen. 24:47 The church members love the food. 24:48 All right. 24:49 I think that's what keep them coming back you know. 24:52 Well, the spiritual food and this also physical food. 24:54 Yes. 24:55 How many do you have coming? 24:56 Well, right now we have about 16 people attending right now, 25:00 most the majority of them are youth, 25:02 which I'm very excited about that. 25:04 We have a quite a bit of youth 25:06 as of two week ago we just recruited two more. 25:08 Okay. 25:09 Youth, young ladies, two sisters 15 to 16 years old 25:14 and this is the good part 25:15 everybody lives right to next door to us. 25:18 That's your neighbors. Is your neighbors? 25:20 Yes, our neighbors. Wonderful. 25:21 Yeah. Oh, wow. 25:22 Isn't they beautiful? Yeah. 25:23 So are you feeding them 25:25 or they don't bring food you provide all the food? 25:28 Yes, yeah, I provide the food. 25:29 Actually I have a ministry for catering. 25:32 I do catering and wedding decorating. 25:34 Is there anything you don't do? 25:35 I'm sorry. 25:37 Well, the Lord did say, He will multiply our talents, amen. 25:39 Yeah, right yeah. And so I love to cook. 25:41 Okay. 25:42 And I cater different types of food 25:45 and I do decorating for weddings, 25:48 I cater for weddings in the different events 25:51 its called Calvary Catering and Wedding Decorating. 25:54 And I-- as I came with the name Calvary 25:57 because without Calvary we can do nothing. 25:59 Without Calvary we wouldn't be here today. 26:01 And so I thank the Lord for that, 26:02 but they're excited about the food 26:04 because we eat well, very well and healthy. 26:07 So what's a typical meal that you would have on Sabbath? 26:11 Well, they love greens, cabbage, 26:14 lentils, they like cornbread. 26:19 All right. 26:20 A lot of times I make different soups 26:21 especially since its getting cold now 26:23 I make a lot of vegetables soups, 26:25 lentils loafs, oatmeal patties, amen. 26:29 Okay. And so-- 26:30 The neighbors are getting introduced to it. 26:31 Yes, and salad, yes, so they aren't-- 26:33 they've thinking that they're eating, real meat 26:36 but they're like man this stuff is good 26:38 but you keep telling me you don't eat meat 26:40 then why do you serving us meat? 26:42 And it's just so interesting and they love the food. 26:45 Yeah. 26:46 And not realizing they're eating tofu. 26:50 And lentils this is so awesome but they're eating healthy. 26:54 And I'm sharing the health message 26:55 with them as well so-- 26:57 So when got the inspiration to start this church plant 27:04 did you have a team of people 27:06 whether just you and your husband? 27:09 Well, we're working on core team. 27:10 Okay. 27:11 And those core teams of people 27:12 that were working with share the same vision. 27:15 Okay. 27:16 That we have for us at the church plant 27:18 and they will-- 27:19 some of those will come are potential leaders. 27:22 And so right now it's just six, seven of us 27:24 like I said most of-- excuse me, are youth 27:26 and so we're building up our core team right now. 27:29 So basically we just planting right now 27:32 but we're looking forward to be in a company 27:34 and then a full established church in the future. 27:37 Okay, so it was just basically you and your husband 27:41 or did you have other couples that were? 27:43 No, it was just myself and my husband, yes. 27:46 Okay, all right. 27:48 And now your-- the people, 27:51 young people attending are being mentored 27:54 and trained to takeover various decisions then I guess. 27:58 Yes, and also the adults you know, 28:00 future wise just we seek our future leaders. 28:05 My husband and I we just had our own evangelistic meeting 28:09 that's how I met husband, we were preaching together. 28:11 And we just had our own evangelistic meeting 28:14 called Igniting St. Louis with a Fire. 28:17 And this was in August, 28:18 August of 23rd through this year. 28:21 All right. 28:22 And three young people my husband and I 28:24 we baptized three young people. 28:26 Oh, praise the Lord. 28:27 Out of that evangelistic meeting 28:28 and three of those young people are in our church plant today. 28:31 So did you focus this evangelistic series 28:36 in your neighborhood or-- 28:38 No, we were actually in the whole new community. 28:40 We rented out in the Baptist church 28:43 in south St. Louis. 28:44 And we reached to people in that community 28:48 as well as the community that we lived in. 28:50 And so we rented that space out for that week, 28:54 we met every night, we have refreshments every night 28:57 from 6 o'clock to 6:30. 28:58 And you provide the refreshment? 29:00 Yes, we provide the refreshments, 29:01 yes, I love to serve. 29:03 And we started every night probably it's at 7 o'clock, 29:07 me and my husband we took turns 29:09 preaching every night different message 29:11 and thank God for ShareHim, amen. 29:14 And so we were able to do that meeting 29:17 and that last Sabbath we met, 29:19 we had a nice fellowship meal, 29:21 after the fellowship meal we had the baptism. 29:24 Very nice. 29:25 How did you advertise your meetings? 29:27 Well, we went door to door, we passed our handbills, 29:31 we did Facebook and we had posters 29:35 and we posted up all through out the communities. 29:36 Okay. 29:37 And we went door to door for about 29:39 for weeks before the meeting. 29:41 Oh. Yes. 29:42 So you're not frightened to knock on the door then? 29:45 Oh, no. 29:46 I might be worrying to dress right now 29:48 but I can takeoff this dress and these hills 29:49 and I can put on some tennis shoes and sweat suits 29:53 and we get out and we knock on doors. 29:54 We are very mission minded, very busy church. 29:58 Okay, is St. Louis the only area 30:02 you've focused in on ministry 30:03 or is there been other places you've traveled or gone to? 30:06 Well, I recently had the pleasure of visiting Manila 30:11 I had a mission trip this past May. 30:14 Myself along with some others from St. Louis 30:18 and around the world all the evangelist 30:19 we all travel to Manila, Philippines. 30:22 It was actually the 28th of April 30:24 until this 19th of May and it was awesome. 30:28 We all preached in different churches. 30:30 I actually preached at the Malabon Seventh-day Church 30:33 in Manila, Philippines. 30:35 And I think-- I think 30:37 if not mistaking about 90 or 95 different locations 30:41 we all preached along with pastor-- 30:44 I'm sorry, Elder Ted Wilson. 30:46 We all went together, it was beautiful. 30:49 So was that a ShareHim event? 30:51 Yes, through ShareHim, yes, I love ShareHim, amen. 30:54 Maybe people don't know what ShareHim is, 30:57 why don't you share a little bit of-- 30:58 why don't you ShareHim? 31:00 Well, ShareHim is a powerful ministry. 31:04 They, you know, they have evangelistic material 31:10 that you can go out and have evangelistic meetings. 31:15 They help you with whatever you need, 31:17 they setup the mission trips as well plan them 31:20 and help you get to the different locations 31:21 and make sure that you're stable and everything 31:24 and so if you're looking to do an evangelistic meeting 31:27 I recommend to call ShareHim. 31:29 They have different types of evangelistic equipment 31:31 that you can use for your evangelistic meetings. 31:33 PowerPoint, right? 31:34 Yes, PowerPoint, yes, exactly PowerPoint. 31:37 So ShareHim you could Google it on the internet 31:43 and I'm sure you'll find it, it is an organization 31:47 that plans evangelistic outreach events. 31:51 Amen. 31:52 And it has material to help support you 31:54 and all the information on how you can go to 31:59 just about any part of the world, right? 32:00 Amen, amen, yes. 32:02 And do and be a part of an evangelistic endeavor 32:06 of sharing the gospel around the world. 32:09 And so you're connected with one of those events. 32:11 Yes, and it was a very awesome experience. 32:14 The church that I was preaching at 25 32:19 from what I'm understating 25 souls 32:21 accepted Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior. 32:24 Some were baptized before we left 32:26 and some were baptized after we left, 32:29 but from what I understand out of all of the meetings 32:32 that took place there I think 10,000 souls were baptized, 32:35 during the whole entire meeting. 32:37 All right, praise the Lord. 32:38 I think C.A. Murray from 3ABN also a part of that. 32:40 Yes, yes, he was there as well. 32:41 Yes, very nice event. I'm so excited. 32:44 Is this your first time to do ShareHim? 32:46 Yes, yes, it is. And it won't be my last. 32:49 Okay. Kind of it grows on you. 32:54 Its a catchy inspiring anyway to be involved in that type. 33:00 It really is, yes. 33:01 We've been on some mission trips, 33:03 ours have been more building 33:05 something and then having meetings along with it 33:08 and it's always been a very encouraging thing. 33:11 Okay, well so you have food pantry going, 33:16 you have ministry for women who have been abused. 33:21 Yes. 33:22 And you have a church plant going. 33:24 Yes. 33:26 Wow and then done a mission trip here recently. 33:28 Yes. 33:29 This is-- do you have time for your family? 33:33 Yes, that's a good point. 33:34 My husband and I we make sure we have our date night. 33:37 Yeah. 33:38 And I love date night 33:39 because my husband always surprises me. 33:41 He takes me different places. 33:43 I spend time with my son, 33:45 we have our son and mother and I 33:48 we date night actually with my son. 33:50 And then we have our family time together 33:53 believe it or not most people say, 33:55 well how do you have time for your family? 33:57 Believe it not I make plenty of time for my family. 34:01 And my husband and I we-- 34:03 he's my best friend and we have a good time together. 34:07 Now the two daughters are not at home now-- 34:09 Now they have an own lives, 34:11 thank God, they're all grown up. 34:12 Baby and another son. 34:15 Yes, I have a new son, 34:16 new baby boy, he's a year old. 34:18 And his name is Lushomo Jr. Right. 34:22 And my son Don, he's 14 years old. 34:25 Okay, so he's still at home. 34:26 Yes. Okay. 34:27 So I have three spoiled babies at home. 34:33 We don't mind being spoiled. 34:34 Oh, I know, my husband don't mind, he's not shy. 34:38 So thank God for that, I thank God for family. 34:42 Well, I'm still, I'm curious church planting is not anything 34:47 that I have been very much involved in. 34:51 I've usually been pastoring a church 34:54 or been into business side of church, 34:57 church planting always sounded scary 34:59 but the way you made it sound it's like now 35:02 it's just did you go to your neighborhood at all? 35:05 How did you advertising your neighborhood, 35:06 how did you tell them-- 35:07 We knocked on doors, we knocked on doors, 35:11 we did surveys, we pray for people, 35:13 we pass our little cards to let them know 35:15 well, we're meeting for worship service, 35:17 well, we're having Bible study. 35:19 And right now we have prayer meeting 35:21 every Tuesday night from six to eight. 35:22 Okay. 35:23 We're meeting at 6000, West Florissant Avenue, 35:26 actually were five minutes 35:27 from Ferguson from all the chaos. 35:29 Okay. 35:30 And so we're praising the Lord on one end, 35:32 we have chaos on the other but the Lord is good, amen. 35:35 Yeah. 35:36 And we have worship service at our home. 35:38 Okay. 35:39 And so we have church at home 35:41 and we have building for prayer meeting for now. 35:44 So we're praying for a space 35:46 that we can come together have prayer meeting 35:47 and worship service in the same space. 35:50 We just recently had block party 35:52 for our church plant. 35:53 Oh, okay. 35:54 October the 19th it was awesome. 35:57 I have some pictures 35:58 I would like to show that we have 36:01 Maybe you want to tell us about what we're seeing here. 36:03 Yes, those are church members there. 36:06 And we had African music out 36:10 and we had some ministries come out to share 36:14 the type of ministries that they had going on. 36:16 We had popcorn, we had a prayer booth, 36:19 we had a information booth. 36:21 We had free food 36:23 that's my daughter Diane and my little son Juju. 36:26 Okay. 36:27 It's my husband and our son and we had a wonderful time. 36:31 Those are my neighbors. 36:33 All of them come to our church plant, 36:35 that's Pastor Long, he's a part of our-- 36:38 he's my coach, pastor coach and we had a wonderful time. 36:44 I just can't believe what the Lord had just done, 36:46 we had a wonderful time. 36:48 We had about, I think about 12 different ministries 36:51 that were coming out to setup booths along the street. 36:54 Okay. 36:55 Everybody came up from the community 36:57 and do you know I was told that 37:00 nothing ever happened in that community 37:02 like this, since 1975. 37:05 And our logo is, "If it's in the Bible I believe it, 37:09 if it's not in the Bible it's not for me." 37:12 We stole that from ShareHim. Oh, that's good. 37:15 But it's a good slogan we love it 37:18 and we had such a wonderful time. 37:20 The Lord is just so good, He really is so good. 37:23 And we have our prayer here. 37:25 And some of our church members, 37:27 we have a sister from-- she is Nepalese. 37:29 Okay. 37:30 She is also part of our church plant as well. 37:33 So the neighbors have not been offended by this, 37:37 they've really liked 37:38 what's happening in the neighborhood? 37:40 They enjoyed it. 37:41 They said, you know we are so happy 37:43 that you are here doing this 37:44 because nothing's happened in this community 37:47 on this block since 1975. 37:50 So it look like this street was closed off. 37:53 Yes, I had to get a permit. Okay. 37:56 And our older men in my neighborhood 38:00 we got a block party permit, 38:03 we blocked off each end of the street 38:05 and the children came from allover, 38:08 people just came from everywhere. 38:09 We had music, you can hear the music 38:11 for two or three blocks. 38:12 Okay. 38:13 We had a big bounce house for the children, 38:15 free food, free snacks, 38:17 oh, man, I think we gave away so many raisins. 38:19 I can't tell you 38:21 how many raisins and cranberries that we have. 38:23 But we gave away healthy snacks and food, 38:26 it was very, very nice, we had a wonderful time. 38:29 How do you finance all of that? 38:31 Well, out of our own pocket or if there is anything 38:34 that we need our conferences there to support us, 38:38 through church plant funds if we need that 38:40 but most of the majority of time my husband and I-- 38:42 we provide you know, everything ourselves 38:45 or through our food pantry, 38:47 we have items that we can use to help defray the calls, 38:51 with things we do that as well. 38:53 Okay. 38:54 Exciting, we're very, very exciting, 38:56 we're mission minded church, and we love our community. 39:01 And like I said most of our church members 39:03 are right in our community, our next door neighbors. 39:05 Wow. 39:06 That look like it was an exciting event 39:08 for your neighborhood. 39:10 Yes, it was a lot of work but it was very, very nice. 39:14 And I want to thank all the other members 39:17 and ministries from all the other 39:18 Adventist churches they came out. 39:20 And see what we wanted to do, 39:21 we did the block party to introduce ourselves 39:24 as a new church plant to our community, 39:27 to let them know that we were there. 39:29 And where they can come in worship 39:30 if they wanted Bible study 39:32 and we end up getting at least 21 Bible studies 39:35 out of that block party. 39:36 Wow. Yes. 39:37 Okay. Very nice. 39:39 And who's going to follow up with the Bible study? 39:42 I have done it already as well. 39:44 And the good part is, I'm training everyone 39:48 in our church plant to be Bible workers, 39:51 whether you're young or old you're gonna be a Bible worker. 39:53 And so when we get those names in 39:56 it's not gonna be all my responsibility. 39:58 I'm gonna spread those names out 39:59 for every body throughout the church 40:01 and young or old 40:02 everybody is gonna win souls for Jesus Christ. 40:05 All right. 40:06 Well, Diane and I involved in Prison Ministry. 40:08 Okay. 40:10 And something that Lord kind of let us to 40:12 and open the door for us to be involved in 40:15 and just recently we have gotten 40:19 some product from Christmas Behind Bars. 40:23 Okay. 40:24 Lemuel Vega I know if you've heard of him. 40:26 No. 40:27 He started going to one county jail 40:31 with the little gift package. 40:33 And it's grown to now he does about 45,000 a year. 40:37 Oh, wow. 40:38 Well, I'm just-- I'm thinking out loud 40:40 this isn't anything we've rehearsed 40:42 but we had a little gift box. 40:47 It's about to size of a cracker box 40:49 and little thicker maybe for a particularly prison 40:54 that didn't give it, didn't accept it. 40:57 So I have about 2,000, 2,500 gift boxes. 41:02 Amen. 41:03 Do you think your church plant would be interested? 41:05 I will-- we will love to do that. 41:08 And getting involved in a prison ministry 41:09 somewhere there area-- 41:10 Oh, that would be nice. 41:12 And we could provide some gift boxes. 41:14 I appreciate that. 41:15 I did prison ministry for a year and half. 41:17 Okay. 41:18 In Clayton in St. Louis. All right. 41:21 I really enjoyed it, it was a really experience. 41:23 We were able to help some people 41:25 when they were released from prison, 41:27 with transitional housing items and things in the area 41:30 but we will love that, we are new church plant were open. 41:33 Okay. 41:34 We need prayers, we look at differ location 41:38 where we can have worship service, 41:41 we're needing donations of any sort, 41:43 we don't care if it's food, clothing, personal items, 41:49 you know, it doesn't matter but prayer we need the most. 41:54 But we're new church and we're looking to 41:56 you know do great things. 41:57 So if you're in the St. Louis area 42:01 and you want to get involved in an exciting ministry, 42:05 or you want to be a part 42:06 of the church that's just launching, 42:10 you need to get a hold of Lizzie 42:11 it's what you need to do. 42:13 And I'm not just sure when we're gonna have the role 42:17 but we'll give you a chance to 42:19 be able to make contact with Lizzie 42:21 and her ministry in a bit 42:24 and be sure and have something ready to write that down 42:27 because I know that you'll want to be involved. 42:31 And also want to share the name of our church 42:34 is the Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church. 42:36 I love the name the Emmanuel its God with us, 42:40 God is been with us from day one. 42:43 And becoming a new Seventh-day Adventist 42:46 bring a part of this movement has changed my life. 42:49 And when I got into the church, 42:51 the new church plant was Emmanuel. 42:54 And so when Emmanuel church and New Life 42:57 Seventh-day Adventist Church merged together. 43:00 Now in St. Louis are called the Lighthouse 43:02 Seventh-day Adventist Church. 43:03 So with the new church plant because Emmanuel was 43:06 where I started and that was a part of me. 43:10 Yeah. 43:11 And since there was not 43:13 Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church at St. Louis 43:15 I just had to bring it back, amen. 43:17 All right. 43:18 So that's why we got a name 43:19 Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church. 43:21 Wow. Good. 43:24 Okay well, is there any other thing 43:27 that you want to share 43:28 we have a few minutes left here, about your ministry. 43:33 Well, I would just want to share with the audience 43:35 that just pray for us, we really, really need prayer. 43:38 Okay. 43:39 We're new church plant, we're growing, 43:42 if you out there you want to be a part of our new church plant, 43:45 you're Adventist and you're looking for a place to grow, 43:49 amen or you want to do something new 43:51 and like to be apart of us 43:53 please you know, give us a call, 43:55 join us we love to have you. 43:57 If you want to come and share your music, 43:59 your ministry or whatever we will love to have-- 44:03 anyone to come out and help us out. 44:05 Okay, I think we have an address role ready, 44:07 why don't we go to the address role. 44:12 If you'd like to contact Lizzie then you can write 44:14 to Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church, 44:17 6068 Emma Ave. 44:20 St. Louis, Missouri 63136, 44:23 that's Emmanuel Seventh-day Adventist Church 44:26 6068 Emma Ave. 44:29 St. Louis, Missouri 63136. 44:33 You can call 314-482-2594, 44:37 that's 314-482-2594 44:41 or you can email her at lizzieharrison@sbcglobal.net, 44:48 that's lizzieharrison@sbcglobal.net. 44:58 Well, you want to get a hold of Lizzie 45:00 I'm glad that we got to have a chance 45:02 to share that information on our contact. 45:04 And if you want to be a part of that church plant, 45:08 you want to be involved in any of the ministry 45:11 that's the number to call. 45:14 Dian, Lizzie was telling us 45:15 about her Domestic Violence Ministry 45:19 to women with the best-- 45:21 Yeah, we like to hear more about that. 45:22 Yeah, tell us more about that. 45:24 Well, it's a very interesting ministry. 45:28 It takes a lot of prayer. Yeah. 45:30 It's not always easy you know, 45:32 depends all the type clients you're working with. 45:36 We get a lot of calls here and there 45:38 throughout the evening, sometimes where women 45:40 that are going to domestic violence. 45:42 Believe it not you know, sometimes they have children, 45:45 sometimes they don't and you know, 45:47 sometimes you're talking to a client 45:48 on the other end and you know, 45:50 you don't know what's going on in the background, 45:53 you don't know if the person is in safe place 45:56 or not at the time, we've had victims 45:59 that have been actually killed 46:02 and murdered from their abusers. 46:06 What we try to do is to come the situation, 46:10 we try to get the victim out of the home 46:12 or separated from the abuser, once we do that, 46:16 we try to find a safe location 46:17 where they can meet to be picked up, 46:20 so they can be transferred over to safe environment, 46:23 and they stay in that shelter. 46:26 Sometimes they have to get their identity changed, 46:28 it depends on how bad the situation, 46:32 the situation is. 46:33 How did they get your number to even call you? 46:36 Knocking on doors. Okay. 46:39 I knock on doors, I've done some radio. 46:42 Okay. 46:43 And we try to get the ministry out there, 46:46 I went through all of our Adventist churches 46:47 in St. Louis most of them are aware of the ministry. 46:50 Okay. 46:51 Sad to say we do have 46:52 some victims of domestic violence 46:54 or in our Adventist churches as well. 46:57 And so we try to be a support system to everyone 47:00 and so just knocking on door with the food pantry 47:03 where meeting so many different people. 47:05 I'm constantly passing out my cards letting people know 47:08 about the services that we have to offer. 47:10 And what's very important and now just as Adventist 47:14 you know, we have to go out, we have to knock on doors, 47:19 we have to let people know what we have to offer. 47:21 Yeah. 47:22 And sometimes people can't get to us 47:24 so we have to go to them so every opportunity I get, 47:29 I get the message out there. 47:30 You never know and even if that particular person 47:33 that I hand a card to, 47:34 they might not ever need the card 47:37 but the card will come in handy for family member or friend. 47:39 Yeah. 47:40 That might be going to domestic violence. 47:42 So then that would mean you would be serving men, 47:46 women and children. 47:47 Yes, we do serve men as well. 47:49 Sometimes we have men, it's sad to say 47:52 but some people don't believe it that they are men, 47:54 they are victims of abuse as well. 47:57 But most majority of the time its always 47:59 you know, the women but it is you know, 48:02 we do have some men and so we have them 48:04 as well with shelter, resources 48:07 or separate themselves from the situation. 48:11 We also encourage them and help them 48:14 get counseling, if they are an abuser. 48:17 You know, and if they want the help 48:19 we trying to make sure that we provide that for them. 48:22 How do you get them separated from the situation 48:24 when they give you a call, how do you-- 48:27 Well, we coach them because we don't want 48:30 you know, anything bad to happen 48:31 we have to coach them on when the best time to leave, 48:36 you know, when the best time to 48:39 you know to pack up just keep the situation calm 48:42 because you don't want anything to happen to them. 48:45 So you have to give them the safe way to escape. 48:48 And sometimes they has to be planned. 48:50 Right, it doesn't always happen the minute 48:53 that they're giving you the call? 48:54 No. It maybe a few days later. 48:56 Yes. 48:57 And you're coaching them how to go about 48:59 getting extracted from this dangerous? 49:01 Yes, and some might be on the street 49:03 calling for someone's cell phone 49:04 and we can help them quicker that way, 49:06 but if they're at home and the abuser is there 49:09 we have to coach them on how to make sure the situation is 49:13 you know come before the exactly make that move. 49:16 Well, thank you, you know 49:18 we have another music you want to tell us. 49:22 Okay, Darrell Marshall again 49:24 and he will be singing "Because of Who You Are." 49:29 Amen. All right. 49:36 You spoke the words 49:38 And all the worlds came into order 49:43 You waved Your hands 49:45 And planets filled the empty skies 49:50 You placed the woman and the man inside the garden 49:56 And though they fell they found compassion in Your eyes 50:04 Oh Lord, I stand amazed at the wonder of it all 50:11 Yet a greater wonder brings me to my knees 50:17 Lord, I praise You, because of who You are 50:24 Not for all the mighty things that You have done 50:31 Lord, I worship You, because of who You are 50:37 It's all the reason that I need to voice my praise 50:43 Because of who You are 50:51 One holy night You set Your promise from a virgin 50:57 Your promise grew as You revealed to us Your heart 51:04 Enduring love displayed through out Your crucifixion 51:11 And with Your death, You tore the darken grave apart 51:19 Oh Lord, I stand amazed at the wonder of it all 51:25 Yet a greater wonder brings me to my knees 51:32 Lord, I praise You, because of who You are 51:38 Not for all the mighty needs that You have done 51:45 Lord, I worship You, because of who You are 51:52 It's all the reason that I need to voice my praise 51:59 Lord, I praise You because of who You are 52:05 Not for all the mighty needs that You have done 52:12 Lord, I worship You, because of who You are 52:19 It's all the reason that I need to voice my praise 52:25 Because of who You are 52:32 Because of who You are 52:38 Because of who You are |
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