I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to 3ABN today.
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Thank you for joining us
as you do each and every day.
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Thank you for your
love and your prayers
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and financial support of 3ABN
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as we endeavor to
take this great gospel
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of the kingdom
into all the world.
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It's my privilege to have
co-host today Dr. Yvonne Lewis.
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Yay!
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Are you excited?
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I am so happy--
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Do you know
these folk over here?
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I do now. We do.
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Let's introduce our
guest, Brother Dwight Hall.
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Good to see you, Danny.
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Remnant
Publications, how you doing?
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I'm doing well. Great.
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I'm doing well. Thank you.
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Great, you have a little
guy you brought with you today.
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I saw when you
stood up while ago
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first thing I ask him
does he play basketball?
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And he said not that much
but it's Tim and it's Leffew.
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That's right.
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All right, how
about that Tim Leffew?
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Yvonne told me it's like nephew.
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That's right.
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That's how I remember that.
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And, Tim, we're
glad to have you here.
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Thank you.
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Now, Dwight, how long
is Remnant Publications.
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When did you start it?
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Well, we started
in 1985 so it's--
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I think this year
is 30 years for us.
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I think you're little older
than many of the ministries,
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little older than us.
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Oh, thanks. We
go back a long way.
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You don't have to
do the personal dig.
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Right.
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Now, we're just
talking about ministries.
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Yeah, right, we're
amongst friends, right?
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Yeah, there's I go.
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We kind of talked
to each other that way.
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We've got used to each other.
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I don't know if we
enjoy but I guess we do.
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We've done it for so long.
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Now I love Dwight
and love his ministry,
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love his passion for the gospel
because Dwight has passion.
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He's like that energizer bunny.
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He gets kick and he
keeps coming back up
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and so honestly
I appreciate that
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and that's something that
we've had to have in common.
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That's not easy
being in any ministry
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or in any thing
for 30 years, you know.
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But somehow the Lord has blessed
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and so it's going to
be a great program today.
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There's lots of things happening
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and remember Jesus said,
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go ye into all the
world and when he goes
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into all the
world, guess what happens.
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When this gospel of the kingdom
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goes into all the world,
it's the beginning not the end,
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it's the end of
this earth and this life
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but a beginning of eternity.
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So I'm always happy
to join hands with folk,
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Yvonne, that like
Dwight and Remnant
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because we've
done a lot of projects
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together over the years.
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And the Ten Commandments books
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were probably the biggest thing.
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How many of those eventually
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went out, over 10 million?
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Yeah, it's hard to say
'cause people actually pirated
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those books in
another parts of the world
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and just start printing them.
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So we don't really know
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but we did I think
well over 7 million
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and maybe going on to 8 million,
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you know, as time goes on
but who knows I mean a lot.
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Okay. All right.
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Lot of 'em gone out there
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and we've got some
great responses for that too.
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Absolutely.
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We'll talk a little more
about some of the other projects
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in a few moments but
we have a special friend
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who is going to be
doing music for us today.
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Oh, we do and he is a
dear friend of this ministry.
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Absolutely and us.
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And us, absolutely,
and he is such a blessing.
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T Marshall Kelly
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and he is going to
sing ''He's the One.''
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Is there anyone can help us
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One who understands our hearts
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When the thorns of life
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have pierced them
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till they bleed
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One who sympathizes with us
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When tenderness imparts
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Just the very, very blessing
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that we need
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Is there anyone can help us
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Who can give a sinner peace
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When his heart is
burdened down with pain and woe
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Who will speak
the word of pardon
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that affords a sweet release
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And whose blood can wash
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and make us pure like snow
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Yes, there is One, only One
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His blessed name is Jesus
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He is that One
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Yes, afflictions
will press our soul
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And the waves of
trouble will roll
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But we have a friend
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who will help us
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He is the One
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Is there anyone can help us
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When the end is drawing near
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Who will go thro'
death's dark waters by our side
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Who will light the way before us
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And dispel all doubt and fear
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And He will resurrect
us when He comes again
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Oh, yes, there is one
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Only one
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His blessed name is Jesus
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He is that One
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Afflictions will press our soul
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And the waves of
trouble will roll
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But we have a friend
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who will help us
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Jesus is that One
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Amen. Absolutely beautiful.
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I love T Marshall
and Pastor T Marshall
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and also love his music.
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Me too.
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I love the fact
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and you and I've
talked about this before that
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he doesn't just sing a
song, he ministers the song.
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Absolutely.
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There's a difference between
ministry and performance.
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Absolutely.
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It is ministry and I know
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I feel an anointing
every time he sings.
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And he has never
done anything different
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and since, you know,
30-40 years ago he doesn't,
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Dwight and Tim, he's
not out there for show.
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Right.
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He just
literally is communicating
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the good news of salvation
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and does it with such resonance
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and such beauty
that I really do,
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I love him as a person
but I love his music also.
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Speaking to that, Dwight,
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we were talking about you--
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you for 30 years,
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you've been in
ministry of Remnant Publications
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but we got to find out
a little bit about Tim.
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This is first time
I've interviewed you, Tim.
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Tell me little bit
about your background?
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Where're you from originally
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and where you
raised in a Christian home?
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I was, I currently live
in Cleveland, Tennessee,
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just outside of Chattanooga.
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Okay.
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And I was very blessed to
be raised in a Christian home.
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My mother and
grandmother were very devotes
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Seventh-day Adventists.
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In fact my interest in
the literature ministry
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which I'm involved in
today came from my grandmother.
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Just back in the early 1900
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she was a
literature of evangelist.
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When I was young, she
used to tell me stories
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about her
canvassing and she used to say
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I'd rather canvass then eat.
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She loved to
eat, so I knew that--
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I knew that was
an important thing
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but it made a big impact on me.
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But I've been
blessed for the last 33 years
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be involved in
literature evangelism
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or connected with the
literature evangelists.
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So when you were going through
higher school and all that,
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did you always know you
wanted to be a Christian
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did you ever say, you know,
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I don't think, the
way you like Dwight
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and just go out there somewhere
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for a while and then come back.
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I took a little
detour along the way.
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I didn't take a
motorcycle riding,
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I don't think like that.
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But I did take a little detour
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and really was about my
junior year in high school
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when the Lord really
took possession of my life
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and I know that I wanted
to serve Him at that time.
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Okay,
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so you decide I'm gonna
do something for the Lord.
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Did you go to college?
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I did.
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At first I felt like I
was called to the ministry
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and I went to
Southern Adventist University
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graduated from their
program there in theology.
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But during my college years,
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I had a friend
that invited me to come
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and work as a student
literature evangelist.
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Okay.
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And from the very first
call I knew that that's what
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the Lord wanted me to do.
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It's 100% outreach to people
who have never heard about
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our special message
in the kingdom of God.
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And it was such an opportunity,
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I loved it then
and I love it now,
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Well, the folks who do
that tend to have a gift to gab,
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I mean you
almost need to, right?
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'Cause you gonna
knock on somebody's door
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you don't even know.
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Is that the way you
started? You just go--
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No. Absolutely not.
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In fact I could tell a
story about when I did start.
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Well, let me hear it.
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When I--
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Let's hear it.
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Well, I was actually
very bashful at the time.
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Really?
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They had a machine
that was a Dukane machine.
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You may remember those,
you stick a cassette in there
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and a little tone and it switch.
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I do. They gave it.
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They gave the presentation all
we have to do is go to the home
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and get in and they
gave the presentation
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and then we had to have the--
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the presence of mind to
try and ask for the people
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to get the books.
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Well, I knocked on the--
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all went down the street
just knocking on the doors
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and the first home I went to,
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I practiced my
presentation over and over.
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I mean, I give it
perfect in front of the mirror
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but nobody ever interrupted
me in front of the mirror.
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And I knocked on
this lady's door,
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told her who I was
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and she interrupted me
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and my mind went totally blank,
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totally blank, I
couldn't say a word.
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I looked at her
and she looked at me
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and finally she closed the door.
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And I walked down
that sidewalk so defeated,
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I didn't think I ever
want to knock on another door
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again but that's
the way the devil works,
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you know, he
has a discouragement
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before the blessing comes.
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And when I got down
to the end of the street,
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a lady invited me and I
had my little Dukane machine.
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I went inside and
believe this is a true story.
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I got inside
and I got so nervous
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I couldn't plug that
machine into the wall.
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I had to ask the lady to
come over and plug it in.
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But when it was done
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she said, you know, I
want to get those books
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and she bought
the series from me.
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And when I left the home
she said God sent you here today
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and that was the first
time in my life that I ever knew
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that God had used me
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and there was
something inside of me
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that said I want
to do that again.
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I want to do that again.
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And it is just a continuing
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and I still want to do it again.
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He hasn't left me since then.
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The blessing that comes
from service is a blessing
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you can get no
other way in your life.
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And one of the things
that Danny is written about
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is the blessings on the go.
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So if you just step
out there and do it,
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which is what you did,
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you kind of
recoiled from the first house
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but when you went
to the second one,
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you know, the Lord
gave you the courage
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and you did that and you--
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and that she
responded really well to it.
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So I think that kind
of reinforced your desire
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to kind of do it again.
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Oh, absolutely.
'Cause it was encouraging.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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You know, what a better time,
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no better time than to bring up,
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we did our day of
prayer sometime ago
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and always
beginning of a new year.
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And I was talking
to Dee Hilderbrand.
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Dwight, you
know Dee well, right?
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And so Dee is
somebody that's always going.
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She is in hurry,
she does everything.
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She wears all kinds of hats.
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Anything we need in ministry,
you call her day and night,
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she's willing to do it.
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But it reminds me
what you were saying,
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you go there and
you are not really sure
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and you're little
bashful so at our day of prayer
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I'm interviewing Dee in
front of all the workers
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and we're talking and she and--
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I had some point kind of got
on to her about her whatever,
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well, Dee, you should do
this or that and she said,
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remember what I said to you.
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Even though I don't
know what I'm doing,
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it doesn't slow me down.
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So I said now that is deep.
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So...well, I
want to get t-shirts
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and say even though I
don't know what I'm doing,
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it doesn't slow me down.
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Just think about it,
if you can come to the...
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to the face to face
with Jesus on judgment day
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and you look up and say,
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Lord, even though I
don't know what I'm doing,
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it didn't slow me down.
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He's probably
gonna say come on in.
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That's right. Come on in.
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So everything
that we do in life,
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it's not like you have to
know or have it down path.
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You tried, you
went front of the mirror
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but when you got
here in front of the lady
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suddenly you kind of went blank
but it didn't slow you down.
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So now you go
down to the next house
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and then a lady says, Tim,
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you know, the Lord sent you here
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and then it's a
whole new revelation.
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Absolutely. That's right.
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And what a great feeling
to know that God is using you.
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Oh, yes.
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I think there's no
better feeling than to know that
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God is using you to
accomplish His purposes.
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Absolutely.
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To know that you're
God's person in God's place
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at God's time, there's
nothing that can match that.
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Yes. Nothing that can match it.
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So you decided when you
were in college that this is--
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this was the path
that God had you on
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as opposed to pastoring.
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Yes, that is
correct. That is correct.
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When I looked to what the Lord
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cared to have me do
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and I looked at
the gospel commission,
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so many of our ministries
are based on come ye, come ye.
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We have the meetings
and we want people to come
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but the real gospel
commission is go ye.
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Come on. You got
to go to the world.
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Who is gonna reach the people?
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Well, most people out
there don't even know we exist
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unless somebody
takes the gospel to them.
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They're not gonna come
wandering in our church doors.
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Somebody's got to go
to them and introduce 'em.
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They even give 'em a
chance to know about the gospel
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and I thought
that's what I want to do
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you know with my
life is to reach people
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that have never had a
chance even to hear once.
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That's incredible.
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Not too many I don't think I've
talked about it much on the air
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but right after I
got out of high school,
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I did little, well, I went
to Auburn school for a year,
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which I never really
used license pract or nursing
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but I didn't know if I
wanted to go far there not.
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But I ended up
somebody come by and said
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you should be a
literature evangelist,
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I think 'cause I talk a lot.
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Then you should be a
literature evangelist,
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so I did it for a year
in the Illinois Conference.
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And I learned what it's like
to get door shut in your face
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or doors not opened, see
people home and you're knocking.
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They look at you
and just ignore you
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but also found what it was like
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to be able to get
into somebody's home
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to pray with people
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and to see that
kids come around,
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see excitement
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and be able to leave
those books in their hands.
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And then some days
you have a great day,
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I stopped that there's a little
church over in Benton, Illinois
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and I knew the pastor
somewhat and not real well
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but I'd sang over in
his church with my family,
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so I stopped in and it was
in the evening almost dark,
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hadn't done much all day long.
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And so I knock on the door
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and he says, come on in,
come on in, he's in the study.
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So I say let me show
you these books you know.
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And so I'm thinking
maybe they got a few kids.
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It's probably only
100 plus member church.
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So I said I want to
show you these Bible stories.
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Oh, do you sell those?
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I said yeah, and he
said you would not believe
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I've been looking
everywhere for those.
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He said I have a
young married class.
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I have 23 young married couples
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and I want everyone
of 'em to buy these sets.
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Amen.
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He said we don't
have Sunday school,
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I teach out of these--
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out of the bed or the Bible
stories, that the Uncle Arthur.
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Yeah, Uncle
Arthur's Bible stories.
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This is what I
used for Sunday's school
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'cause a lot of these
folk are new Christians
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and I want a
simple understanding.
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So he said you go,
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I'll give you
names and the addresses,
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you go to every door
and I'm gonna call 'em
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make sure they buy it.
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I don't want any excuse
well, that day I sold 23 sets.
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That was your happy
day. That was my big day.
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All right 20, and
when you knock on the door
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oh, we're so glad.
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Elder, elder--
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the pastor called us
and said you were coming.
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So I said now not
all days are like that.
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I guess they just
are waiting for that.
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Well, that can be a
Bible story record I think.
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I guess.
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But you know
ministry in general, Tim,
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it's whether you're pastor
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you know, whether you're
singer, whether whatever.
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The devil hates people who's out
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and doing things
for the Lord, right?
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And so but...for you to
be in this for 33 years.
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That's right.
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So give us some
where did you work?
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I mean, always in Tennessee?
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It's always been in the
south in the Southern Union.
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I've worked in every
conference in the Southern Union
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with exception of Florida,
nothing against Florida.
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I've just never been
there and I've started out
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my literature ministry in
the Gulf States Conference
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as a literature evangelist,
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I've worked in the
Carolina Conference
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as a literature evangelist
in the district training.
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And as publishing director
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of the
Kentucky-Tennessee Conference.
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And now currently
I'm publishing director
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of the
Georgia-Cumberland Conference
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and working with family
home Christian books as well.
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Well, okay.
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What was the most
rewarding experience you had
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when you were doing
literature evangelism?
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Door to door?
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Now that is a hard question
for a literature evangelist.
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We have a lot of
beautiful experiences
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but I think of course
the baptism experiences
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which I've had a number of them.
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You really can't but to know
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again, just to know that
God is providentially there
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and that God has
led you to a spot.
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And I remember one time,
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I was working in
Eastern North Carolina
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and I did followed up on
a car and nobody was there.
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And I had to
leave the area next day
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but I got in my car
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and I looked down
at the seat beside me
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and the card was
there for that home.
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And I just felt
really impressed to go see
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that car and I had a
little discussion with the Lord
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'cause it was way out of the way
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and finally I gave
in and I went there.
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When I drove up to the door,
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to my surprise there was a car
that was there in the driveway.
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I'd asked the day
before and figured out
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that they worked during the day
and when I knocked on the door,
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little grandmotherly
lady came to the door
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and she invited me in.
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And before I
began my presentation
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I always asked why
they sent the card in?
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And she said well, I
send it in for my husband.
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And she said he
doesn't have much education
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but I saw the Bible story books
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and thought it would be
a marvelous thing for him.
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She said but that's all changed.
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She said about the month ago,
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she said my husband
went down to the local store,
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a drunk driver came
through the intersection
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and killed him.
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And I said, well, Lord
why do you have me here?
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And she insisted that I
go on with my presentation
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which I did.
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And when I got down to the end,
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I was showing her
the book Bible readings
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for the home you know,
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we always hold the book upside
down and we kind of fall it,
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you know, how
you did when you can,
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so they can see the book.
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And she stopped me, she said,
I want to tell you something.
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You're probably
not gonna believe this.
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She said but since my
husband has passed away,
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it's been really
hard and the evenings
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been very difficult.
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She said last night
I was so discouraged
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that I just went to bed early.
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And it had been long time
since she'd sent this card in
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asking about the books.
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She said that
when I went to sleep,
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finally went to sleep
she said I had a dream.
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She said in that dream
I saw that the next day
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the man was
gonna come representing
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these Bible story books--
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How about that?
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And I knew what it was
likes to be like Moses.
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I want to rip off my shoes
00:21:18.72\00:21:21.28
and say God I'm
on a holy ground.
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You're standing
on a holy ground.
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She said but I
took off work today
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because I believe that
that dream would come to pass.
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Absolutely.
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And I tell you, you
cannot replace an experience--
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Maybe that's just a coincidence.
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If it was, it was the best
one that ever happened to me.
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Well, we-- we're
famous around here for saying,
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we don't believe in coincidence,
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we believe in divine providence.
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Oh, absolutely.
00:21:44.42\00:21:45.73
Think about that
the lady had the faith,
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had a dream to stay home--
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That's right to get
those volumes and she got 'em
00:21:49.99\00:21:52.30
so she can
teach the young people
00:21:52.33\00:21:53.88
in her
neighborhood about the Bible.
00:21:53.91\00:21:56.14
But just again, to know
that you're God's person
00:21:56.17\00:21:58.84
right where God
wants you at the time
00:21:58.87\00:22:00.49
that God wants you
there filling the need.
00:22:00.52\00:22:02.31
There's just
nothing that can replace.
00:22:02.34\00:22:04.53
Well, what a
beautiful, beautiful experience.
00:22:04.56\00:22:07.29
So tell me how you got--
00:22:07.32\00:22:09.51
how you and
Dwight work together?
00:22:09.54\00:22:10.81
How did you guys meet
00:22:10.84\00:22:11.87
and what's your
relationship now?
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Well, that's one of
those God's providence things--
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Okay.
00:22:16.44\00:22:17.47
It's not coincidence.
It's providence here.
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As you may know in North America
00:22:20.01\00:22:21.72
there's been a lot of change
in the publishing ministry.
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And there's a lot of independent
00:22:25.12\00:22:27.09
literature evangelists out there
00:22:27.12\00:22:28.54
that suddenly found themselves
without a support program,
00:22:28.57\00:22:32.02
plus with our regular
literature evangelists,
00:22:32.05\00:22:34.03
we were trying to think how can
we take literature evangelism
00:22:34.06\00:22:36.88
to a new level to help us out.
00:22:36.91\00:22:39.70
And Jim Wilson who
works for organization
00:22:39.73\00:22:42.20
that had been talking
with Dwight and Dwight said,
00:22:42.23\00:22:44.07
you know, I have this
really good program, it's that--
00:22:44.10\00:22:47.85
it's an online program that
00:22:47.88\00:22:49.16
I think would work
with literature evangelist.
00:22:49.19\00:22:51.47
And Jim called me up
and he said, this is it.
00:22:51.50\00:22:54.09
He said, we got to do this,
00:22:54.12\00:22:55.78
don't let it pass
by, just like that.
00:22:55.81\00:22:58.75
And so we started
talking and it really has been
00:22:58.78\00:23:01.46
a tremendous
blessing on our program.
00:23:01.49\00:23:04.01
Your ministry or organization's
family home Christian books?
00:23:04.04\00:23:06.45
Family home
Christian books, that's right.
00:23:06.48\00:23:08.84
And it's a web based program
for literature evangelist.
00:23:08.87\00:23:11.74
Every literature
evangelist receives a web page.
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Okay.
00:23:14.42\00:23:15.45
And when they go
out, they make contacts.
00:23:15.48\00:23:17.59
Before we've
always had the problem,
00:23:17.62\00:23:18.97
a literature evangelist
can contact the lot of people,
00:23:19.00\00:23:21.44
but to do follow up
from all those people
00:23:21.47\00:23:23.45
is almost an
impossible thing for me to do.
00:23:23.48\00:23:25.85
Well, with this
program after they--
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in a home the people register
00:23:27.60\00:23:29.90
and we put them in on our system
00:23:29.93\00:23:31.23
and then once a
month we send them specials
00:23:31.26\00:23:33.58
and we keep in
contact with the people.
00:23:33.61\00:23:35.47
And the literature evangelists
as the people ordered
00:23:35.50\00:23:37.76
they get the
commission just as if
00:23:37.79\00:23:39.01
they were in the
home at that time.
00:23:39.04\00:23:40.07
Oh, wow. That is great.
00:23:40.10\00:23:41.84
If they had it that time,
00:23:41.87\00:23:43.52
you know, I
might still be doing.
00:23:43.55\00:23:45.30
But it makes a--
00:23:45.33\00:23:46.39
It's too late for
me moving back in it.
00:23:46.42\00:23:48.25
It makes a residual income
for the literature evangelist
00:23:48.28\00:23:50.64
that allows us to keep
in contact with the people.
00:23:50.67\00:23:52.81
When they order, the
literature evangelist
00:23:52.84\00:23:54.34
can call him and thank
him and start developing
00:23:54.37\00:23:56.79
a relationship with people
that are sincerely interested.
00:23:56.82\00:24:00.28
Plus it gives us
database for evangelism.
00:24:00.31\00:24:04.53
If the town is having
an evangelistic series
00:24:04.56\00:24:06.72
or cooking school.
00:24:06.75\00:24:07.85
We're developing this
huge database of information.
00:24:07.88\00:24:11.72
All they have to do is contacts.
00:24:11.75\00:24:12.78
We know everybody
just bought a cookbook.
00:24:12.81\00:24:14.51
We know everybody's
bought a prophecy book.
00:24:14.54\00:24:16.31
And we can send them
specialized invitations
00:24:16.34\00:24:19.06
for these events.
00:24:19.09\00:24:20.12
That's tremendous.
00:24:20.15\00:24:21.18
That to me, that's
bringing the gospel up--
00:24:21.21\00:24:24.15
Well, the gospel is timeless
00:24:24.18\00:24:25.90
but it's bringing the
message up to our time.
00:24:25.93\00:24:29.53
It's so...that is a,
it's a win-win for everybody.
00:24:29.56\00:24:32.55
Oh, we think it
just, it was God send,
00:24:32.58\00:24:35.42
there's no other
way to look at it.
00:24:35.45\00:24:37.14
It blends the traditional
literature evangelism.
00:24:37.17\00:24:39.52
You cannot replace
face to face contact,
00:24:39.55\00:24:41.69
door to door.
00:24:41.72\00:24:42.75
But you got to
have some mechanism
00:24:42.78\00:24:44.32
and it spraggs the mechanism
for contact for future orders
00:24:44.35\00:24:47.99
for building up there a way
00:24:48.02\00:24:49.49
that they can
stay in their ministry.
00:24:49.52\00:24:50.93
It's just an
all around blessing.
00:24:50.96\00:24:52.49
And so we
developed this relationship
00:24:52.52\00:24:56.98
and Remnant Publications
has been a big blessing
00:24:57.01\00:25:00.37
as far as they
help with our shipping
00:25:00.40\00:25:03.57
and lot of the technology
that they help developed.
00:25:03.60\00:25:06.92
But it's
actually grown much bigger
00:25:06.95\00:25:09.08
than just Remnant
Publications and organization.
00:25:09.11\00:25:12.30
Dwight and I
both, we have the vision
00:25:12.33\00:25:14.21
that now is the
time when every ministry
00:25:14.24\00:25:16.72
and Adventist Church
should be working together.
00:25:16.75\00:25:19.79
The day has come
when we first to stop
00:25:19.82\00:25:21.42
being independent ministries
doing what we're doing.
00:25:21.45\00:25:24.04
And so we've
gone into partnership
00:25:24.07\00:25:26.01
with other ministries.
00:25:26.04\00:25:27.71
You know, for
instance Breath Of Life,
00:25:27.74\00:25:29.46
It Is Written, and 3ABN
as well, and Amazing Facts.
00:25:29.49\00:25:34.11
We've gone into a
partnership with these,
00:25:34.14\00:25:36.51
where as literature evangelist
used to carry half a dozen
00:25:36.54\00:25:39.97
or dozen items to
make available to people.
00:25:40.00\00:25:43.23
Now we have over 500 items
00:25:43.26\00:25:46.14
that the literature
evangelist can offer in home.
00:25:46.17\00:25:48.61
If a person is interested
in prophecy but doesn't read,
00:25:48.64\00:25:51.77
you know, they can get
John Bradshaw's prophecy DVDs
00:25:51.80\00:25:54.85
from literature evangelists
and literature evangelists
00:25:54.88\00:25:56.95
makes a
commission based on that,
00:25:56.98\00:25:58.80
so it just opened
up lots of options.
00:25:58.83\00:26:02.37
And something else too which
he mentioned the partnership
00:26:02.40\00:26:04.92
but like with 3ABN is partnering
00:26:04.95\00:26:07.90
on the deal with bookmarks.
00:26:07.93\00:26:10.04
So what happens on the
one side of the bookmark
00:26:10.07\00:26:11.93
which I think Tim has one here.
00:26:11.96\00:26:15.13
This is, this
is... it is Written one
00:26:15.16\00:26:17.63
but you have 3ABN on
there and on the back
00:26:17.66\00:26:19.71
then the LEs has
the number on there.
00:26:19.74\00:26:23.18
Which that's what
gives them their commission
00:26:23.21\00:26:25.53
with that person but
they go there in person
00:26:25.56\00:26:27.72
which you know
about meet in advertising,
00:26:27.75\00:26:29.95
you only get a percentage.
00:26:29.98\00:26:31.62
Well, when you
hand somebody and say
00:26:31.65\00:26:33.50
hey, you need to
be watching 3ABN,
00:26:33.53\00:26:35.32
they have cooking classes.
00:26:35.35\00:26:37.00
You know they
have doctor classes
00:26:37.03\00:26:38.36
and inspirationally
they have lots of things.
00:26:38.39\00:26:40.46
So you share that and it say
and that shows on that bookmark
00:26:40.49\00:26:43.30
how they can turn on to
that television station.
00:26:43.33\00:26:46.30
So those LEs that are pounding
the payments so to speak,
00:26:46.33\00:26:49.36
there's hundreds
of LEs out there.
00:26:49.39\00:26:51.39
They are out there
knocking on the doors,
00:26:51.42\00:26:52.50
handing out that
bookmark which to me is touch.
00:26:52.53\00:26:56.25
It's not just on the air,
so it's a pretty neat thing
00:26:56.28\00:26:59.12
when you think
about it, you know.
00:26:59.15\00:27:00.64
That's wonderful.
00:27:00.67\00:27:01.70
You are also doing something
00:27:01.73\00:27:02.76
I think with the
antichrist agenda, right?
00:27:02.79\00:27:04.76
That is right. That is right.
00:27:04.79\00:27:06.25
Of course during the
summer we have this army
00:27:06.28\00:27:07.98
of young people that come
in, our Magabook students.
00:27:08.01\00:27:10.27
I saw it and it looks beautiful.
00:27:10.30\00:27:12.13
Absolutely
beautiful. Oh, it is, it is.
00:27:12.16\00:27:13.81
And Brandon was--
00:27:13.84\00:27:15.89
Brandon Tygret
developed it here.
00:27:15.92\00:27:17.83
They actually called us
00:27:17.86\00:27:18.89
and said what are
the people in the field
00:27:18.92\00:27:20.43
and that was a blessing to us.
00:27:20.46\00:27:21.94
And what are the
people in the field need
00:27:21.97\00:27:23.62
out of this book
to make it presentable
00:27:23.65\00:27:26.00
from your perspective.
00:27:26.03\00:27:27.06
And he tried to work
with us in developing a book
00:27:27.09\00:27:29.15
in such a way that
it would fit our needs.
00:27:29.18\00:27:30.87
Yeah, that's wonderful.
00:27:30.90\00:27:32.80
We were centering and I want
to center in on specifically
00:27:32.83\00:27:37.75
what we're here, one of
the... the testimony is great.
00:27:37.78\00:27:40.45
Thank you for those.
It encourages us so much.
00:27:40.48\00:27:43.16
Couple things I want to do.
00:27:43.19\00:27:44.33
I want to center in
on the newest project
00:27:44.36\00:27:46.06
you guys got going,
I think it's amazing.
00:27:46.09\00:27:48.40
But also for
people who are there now.
00:27:48.43\00:27:51.61
In fact I just talked
to a guy the other day,
00:27:51.64\00:27:53.91
he's been in
business, a businessman
00:27:53.94\00:27:56.11
fairly new
Adventist and he said to me,
00:27:56.14\00:27:58.63
I just don't know
what I'm gonna do,
00:27:58.66\00:28:00.47
I went out of
that, I feel like--
00:28:00.50\00:28:02.19
I want to work for the
Lord but I'm not a pastor.
00:28:02.22\00:28:04.71
He's a great guy smiling,
I'm sitting here thinking,
00:28:04.74\00:28:06.97
what about the
people who are watching,
00:28:07.00\00:28:08.55
maybe they want to get
involved and say you know what,
00:28:08.58\00:28:11.10
I want to become a
literature evangelist.
00:28:11.13\00:28:13.06
Is there anyway
they can contact you?
00:28:13.09\00:28:14.71
Who should they
do this work with?
00:28:14.74\00:28:16.97
Maybe they say we
want to work with,
00:28:17.00\00:28:18.63
with you all and
think about is to help
00:28:18.66\00:28:21.59
because I believe there
are people watching this says,
00:28:21.62\00:28:23.40
you know what,
00:28:23.43\00:28:24.46
I want to get away
from what I was doing.
00:28:24.49\00:28:26.11
I want to just spend
my time in the Lord's work
00:28:26.14\00:28:28.58
and especially when
you hear stories like this
00:28:28.61\00:28:31.06
that Tim is sharing with us.
00:28:31.09\00:28:32.57
It makes you
want to get out there
00:28:32.60\00:28:33.82
and be part of the Lord's work.
00:28:33.85\00:28:34.99
And that's the
beauty of the program
00:28:35.02\00:28:36.95
that we have now.
00:28:36.98\00:28:38.41
Because if-- since we
service with the internet,
00:28:38.44\00:28:41.88
then the literature evangelist
can actually go to the internet
00:28:41.91\00:28:44.14
order their books.
00:28:44.17\00:28:45.23
They can get training,
they can get all of that
00:28:45.26\00:28:47.07
by this website
that anybody anywhere
00:28:47.10\00:28:50.55
can sign up for the program.
00:28:50.58\00:28:52.87
And we believe, you
know, some people in our day
00:28:52.90\00:28:55.94
and time believes that
publishing is on its last leg.
00:28:55.97\00:28:58.61
We don't believe that.
00:28:58.64\00:28:59.67
We believe the revival
is coming in publishing.
00:28:59.70\00:29:02.85
We believe the Lord is
pouring out sprit and people
00:29:02.88\00:29:04.95
just like you talked
about from all over are calling
00:29:04.98\00:29:07.75
and saying we want to
do something for Lord.
00:29:07.78\00:29:09.48
People realize
the times we live in.
00:29:09.51\00:29:11.50
But what it is
that Yvonne hit on it is
00:29:11.53\00:29:14.09
because you are bringing--
00:29:14.12\00:29:15.48
you're
incorporating the technology,
00:29:15.51\00:29:17.48
today's technology just
books in general, you know,
00:29:17.51\00:29:21.32
but when we're gonna find
out what you have going here,
00:29:21.35\00:29:24.08
I mean it's not like
you're just picking up
00:29:24.11\00:29:26.51
34 years ago
book and reading it.
00:29:26.54\00:29:28.30
Because everybody I mean,
kids know more about computers
00:29:28.33\00:29:32.60
than phones and all that
than most of us adults do.
00:29:32.63\00:29:35.62
So if you're gonna
keep that audience,
00:29:35.65\00:29:37.73
you got to find ways
to interact with them.
00:29:37.76\00:29:40.06
That's right and
the neat thing too
00:29:40.09\00:29:41.85
just going back
maybe a little bit
00:29:41.88\00:29:44.59
on who can get involved?
00:29:44.62\00:29:47.32
The one thing about
the literature evangelism
00:29:47.35\00:29:48.97
is it's pretty
much a full time job.
00:29:49.00\00:29:50.64
It wasn't really brought
out to be a part time job.
00:29:50.67\00:29:53.36
Sure.
00:29:53.39\00:29:54.42
And my dream has always
been, what about the homes,
00:29:54.45\00:29:56.86
kids at home schooling?
00:29:56.89\00:29:58.77
You know, I've...I've
been to different churches
00:29:58.80\00:30:02.37
and say I want
something for our kids,
00:30:02.40\00:30:04.50
I like to see
them knocking the door
00:30:04.53\00:30:06.56
and just share
around the neighborhood.
00:30:06.59\00:30:08.52
And I would, you know,
the mother would go with him
00:30:08.55\00:30:10.13
or the father whatever so.
00:30:10.16\00:30:11.64
It's pretty cool
because it's a part time thing.
00:30:11.67\00:30:14.91
I would say there's
thousands of viewers,
00:30:14.94\00:30:17.83
they could do
something on a part time basis.
00:30:17.86\00:30:19.98
They're not
worried about the money.
00:30:20.01\00:30:22.06
They just want to
reach the neighborhood
00:30:22.09\00:30:23.92
and yet and they care something
so they cannot be so shy
00:30:23.95\00:30:27.21
and they can go to door
and the parents can help them.
00:30:27.24\00:30:29.25
So anybody can get involved
00:30:29.28\00:30:30.60
and I and so it isn't
like you got to get in this
00:30:30.63\00:30:32.40
and do it 8-10 hours a day.
00:30:32.43\00:30:34.15
You can do it two hours a day.
00:30:34.18\00:30:36.23
What if somebody has
never got a book out ever?
00:30:36.26\00:30:40.21
And they just
did one in the year,
00:30:40.24\00:30:41.53
to me that's successful.
00:30:41.56\00:30:43.50
You know, because they
didn't-- and what if that book
00:30:43.53\00:30:45.63
went to somebody that
became a baptized member
00:30:45.66\00:30:48.42
and they would
they'd be evangelists
00:30:48.45\00:30:49.97
and baptize thousands of people.
00:30:50.00\00:30:52.13
I mean if you can imagine that,
so it's what can one book do?
00:30:52.16\00:30:56.57
You know so it isn't
like I wouldn't be successful
00:30:56.60\00:30:59.31
if I only can get 10 books out.
00:30:59.34\00:31:01.45
I mean what if
they get three out,
00:31:01.48\00:31:03.49
it could be
successful and that's what
00:31:03.52\00:31:05.20
so neat about the program.
00:31:05.23\00:31:06.78
And they have a
website. Absolutely.
00:31:06.81\00:31:09.26
It really ensures, you
know, that the opportunity
00:31:09.29\00:31:13.30
for future orders,
because they have a website.
00:31:13.33\00:31:16.25
I mean, I think that's a--
this is a magnificent idea.
00:31:16.28\00:31:18.71
And they're
touched every, every month
00:31:18.74\00:31:20.30
and we're gonna
do probably end up
00:31:20.33\00:31:21.68
doing it
probably every two weeks.
00:31:21.71\00:31:24.10
Where any new
products that come out
00:31:24.13\00:31:26.37
and of course
you have a database,
00:31:26.40\00:31:27.69
so if they bought a
set of the Bible stories,
00:31:27.72\00:31:29.71
if they bought bed time stories,
00:31:29.74\00:31:30.94
if they bought, you
know, whatever they bought
00:31:30.97\00:31:34.28
then you know that and you say--
00:31:34.31\00:31:36.45
you have got
this, you enjoyed this,
00:31:36.48\00:31:37.93
you might enjoy this.
00:31:37.96\00:31:38.99
It's a new product out there.
00:31:39.02\00:31:40.41
And so now they can buy that
00:31:40.44\00:31:42.03
because the colporteurs
can't continue to go back
00:31:42.06\00:31:44.86
to the same doors,
but they do need to use--
00:31:44.89\00:31:46.66
those are their
client so to speak
00:31:46.69\00:31:49.72
and that's how you build that.
00:31:49.75\00:31:51.13
Anyway it excites me
when I talk about it.
00:31:51.16\00:31:53.40
I get excited too when
I think about, you know,
00:31:53.43\00:31:55.76
using technology to
reach people for Jesus
00:31:55.79\00:31:58.23
I mean that's the
thing. It's awesome.
00:31:58.26\00:31:59.89
Absolutely.
00:31:59.92\00:32:00.95
Well, let's
talk about this book.
00:32:00.98\00:32:02.46
I see a book here
called the Miracle Man.
00:32:02.49\00:32:04.37
Yeah. Tell us about this?
00:32:04.40\00:32:06.21
Well, and the product we
show on the screen right now.
00:32:06.24\00:32:09.97
We're designing
it-- it's on the screen.
00:32:10.00\00:32:11.68
We're designing a
series seven volumes set
00:32:11.71\00:32:14.82
of the Bible stories
but really it goes along
00:32:14.85\00:32:18.07
with the Conflict of the Ages.
00:32:18.10\00:32:20.33
So the one neat
thing about these,
00:32:20.36\00:32:21.96
now I want to make
a statement right now,
00:32:21.99\00:32:24.74
my parents read
me the Bible stories.
00:32:24.77\00:32:27.28
Okay.
00:32:27.31\00:32:28.34
I listened them
over and over again.
00:32:28.37\00:32:30.74
When we-- my wife
and I got married,
00:32:30.77\00:32:32.61
Debbie and I got
married, we bought a set
00:32:32.64\00:32:34.44
and we read 'em to our kids.
00:32:34.47\00:32:36.41
And you cannot
be-- that's an icon
00:32:36.44\00:32:39.59
they're like 65 years,
they came out in the 50s.
00:32:39.62\00:32:41.91
I mean that's an icon
but the one thing about those
00:32:41.94\00:32:45.41
is that they haven't
really changed that much
00:32:45.44\00:32:47.81
and there's not interaction.
00:32:47.84\00:32:49.69
So this seven volume
set is out of the conflict,
00:32:49.72\00:32:52.74
so is but the neat
thing is the seventh volume
00:32:52.77\00:32:54.59
is on the Great
Controversy but for kids.
00:32:54.62\00:32:56.76
Okay. Okay, that's number one.
00:32:56.79\00:32:58.36
Number two is we at
the end of every chapter
00:32:58.39\00:33:01.83
on these seven volumes
set is an interaction page,
00:33:01.86\00:33:06.48
there's a QR code, okay.
00:33:06.51\00:33:08.58
And there is also a prayer
for the story like Goliath,
00:33:08.61\00:33:12.20
it says I think
the prayer is one line,
00:33:12.23\00:33:14.41
it basically says when you
feel you have giants, obstacles,
00:33:14.44\00:33:19.29
you can trust in
God just like David did.
00:33:19.32\00:33:22.50
There's an app in
here that will take--
00:33:22.53\00:33:25.48
you can just put your Kindle
your iPad, iPhone whatever,
00:33:25.51\00:33:29.93
and you can put it on a picture
00:33:29.96\00:33:32.22
and then like this picture
here is of Gideon I think,
00:33:32.25\00:33:35.36
if they show
those pictures again
00:33:35.39\00:33:37.45
and there's Gideon
you could see on there.
00:33:37.48\00:33:39.06
So they-- in the story
book if they put that iPhone
00:33:39.09\00:33:41.83
or whatever on that
picture, all of a sudden
00:33:41.86\00:33:43.42
you could probably
will hear the horn sounding.
00:33:43.45\00:33:46.12
Wow.
00:33:46.15\00:33:47.18
So they could go through
every picture in this book
00:33:47.21\00:33:50.59
and they'll be
able to, you know,
00:33:50.62\00:33:52.32
maybe there's one with
Noah and the Ark and the peeper,
00:33:52.35\00:33:54.83
maybe you'll hear him pounding
on like Noah, let us in.
00:33:54.86\00:33:57.64
So it'll be an interactive
set of stories within app
00:33:57.67\00:34:02.76
that which will
attach the website.
00:34:02.79\00:34:06.22
It's just gonna be awesome
00:34:06.25\00:34:07.53
and then we also
have it in audio.
00:34:07.56\00:34:09.69
So they're flipped
into the pictures there.
00:34:09.72\00:34:11.43
These pictures we've done over
700 pictures that we're buying,
00:34:11.46\00:34:15.24
we've got 20
artists that are doing this
00:34:15.27\00:34:17.20
that'll be our pictures.
00:34:17.23\00:34:18.53
We're doing all
brand new stories
00:34:18.56\00:34:19.75
which Brad Booth is
helping with the stories
00:34:19.78\00:34:22.64
and he's did a lot
of children's books
00:34:22.67\00:34:24.50
so he is well known.
00:34:24.53\00:34:26.42
And you can see
those pictures there,
00:34:26.45\00:34:28.01
they are up to
date, they're fresh
00:34:28.04\00:34:31.45
but the neat
thing which I like is
00:34:31.48\00:34:33.12
that the
publishing isn't going down
00:34:33.15\00:34:35.18
but publishing does changing.
00:34:35.21\00:34:37.49
And kids are used
to looking at their--
00:34:37.52\00:34:40.17
You know, fonts and so
you need to do something
00:34:40.20\00:34:42.84
and when mom and
dad aren't around
00:34:42.87\00:34:43.99
which they're all busy
today, you know they can--
00:34:44.02\00:34:46.64
they can hear the story
from the audio we went through,
00:34:46.67\00:34:49.40
I went through 125
professional voices.
00:34:49.43\00:34:53.04
That's a lot of work
just to listen to them online
00:34:53.07\00:34:54.82
after while they seem sound--
00:34:54.85\00:34:55.94
I don't remember
getting a phone call.
00:34:55.97\00:34:57.43
You know, neither did I,
you know, as I think about it.
00:34:57.46\00:35:01.80
Yeah, okay, well,
that's fine go ahead.
00:35:01.83\00:35:05.54
We're not too
sensitive about it.
00:35:05.57\00:35:07.32
Okay, I hate rejection.
00:35:07.35\00:35:08.66
I'm just afraid
you would have said no,
00:35:08.69\00:35:11.24
so that's why I didn't.
00:35:11.27\00:35:12.31
You got out of that well.
I was sweating a little bit.
00:35:12.34\00:35:15.05
Yeah, you got the golden tongue,
00:35:15.08\00:35:16.11
you're forgiven.
00:35:16.14\00:35:18.19
But anyways and we've
got this a Christian man.
00:35:18.22\00:35:21.16
I mean we had men and
women but he's tremendous
00:35:21.19\00:35:24.08
and they'll be
some sound effects
00:35:24.11\00:35:25.28
within like one is that
when Goliath slaps his knee,
00:35:25.31\00:35:28.61
you hear the slap
00:35:28.64\00:35:30.41
and so it's
gonna be awesome audio.
00:35:30.44\00:35:33.31
And but, but
again not just the audio
00:35:33.34\00:35:35.42
but it'll be on this
hidden treasure question,
00:35:35.45\00:35:39.33
they'll be like
three questions asking,
00:35:39.36\00:35:42.30
you know, the parents can ask.
00:35:42.33\00:35:43.36
Okay, now what
about what happened here?
00:35:43.39\00:35:45.64
Simple questions
that keep them involve
00:35:45.67\00:35:47.71
but the neatest
thing is the interaction,
00:35:47.74\00:35:49.17
that's what neat in it.
00:35:49.20\00:35:50.58
And again there's 40 stories
for each one and there is,
00:35:50.61\00:35:54.39
so there's about 280
stories, seven volumes.
00:35:54.42\00:35:56.45
And the reason they're seven,
00:35:56.48\00:35:57.51
there's only five
in the Conflict series
00:35:57.54\00:35:59.04
but Patriarchs and
Prophets is such a big book.
00:35:59.07\00:36:01.45
So we have two volumes
in Patriarchs and Prophets
00:36:01.48\00:36:03.38
and two volumes
in Desire of Ages.
00:36:03.41\00:36:05.19
But it goes through
that and then of course
00:36:05.22\00:36:07.66
with a LE work
with a Conflict set,
00:36:07.69\00:36:10.73
our classic Conflict
and that's why we call it
00:36:10.76\00:36:12.75
the children's
classics, centric classics
00:36:12.78\00:36:15.24
because it goes along
with the hardback conflicts,
00:36:15.27\00:36:17.80
so now the adult-- you can,
00:36:17.83\00:36:19.46
the LE can say
and you can get this
00:36:19.49\00:36:21.68
for the adults and there's
even more stories in here.
00:36:21.71\00:36:24.29
So anyway and this
will be out probably in June
00:36:24.32\00:36:26.59
and we're excited because I
think it's been long overdue
00:36:26.62\00:36:31.27
something like this to come out.
00:36:31.30\00:36:32.95
Absolutely and
that's the go ye, you know,
00:36:32.98\00:36:35.73
not be satisfied
with where you are
00:36:35.76\00:36:38.27
but say look
technology is changing people's,
00:36:38.30\00:36:41.45
you know, ideas
and people's education
00:36:41.48\00:36:43.93
is changing,
everything is changing
00:36:43.96\00:36:45.78
and how do we keep
up and keep an audience
00:36:45.81\00:36:48.70
and keep in touch
with these young folk
00:36:48.73\00:36:50.63
without compromising.
00:36:50.66\00:36:52.28
You know, lot of times
what we see even in churches,
00:36:52.31\00:36:54.71
they got all this stuff
interactive things coming
00:36:54.74\00:36:57.20
but it's to me it's
compromising the gospel.
00:36:57.23\00:37:00.62
And so this isn't compromising,
00:37:00.65\00:37:02.34
this is just making it
real hearing the sounds
00:37:02.37\00:37:05.24
and being able to
take download an app
00:37:05.27\00:37:07.11
and go to the
website and follow along
00:37:07.14\00:37:10.24
with the books as you read it.
00:37:10.27\00:37:11.58
I mean, really that's brilliant.
00:37:11.61\00:37:13.42
It really is
00:37:13.45\00:37:14.49
and when you think
about what it's doing,
00:37:14.52\00:37:16.62
it's connecting an
experience with the story.
00:37:16.65\00:37:19.85
So it makes it
much more memorable.
00:37:19.88\00:37:21.78
It makes it come
alive. Absolutely.
00:37:21.81\00:37:23.84
And we need that for
kids because attention spans,
00:37:23.87\00:37:26.26
when I grow up of
course, I was an exception
00:37:26.29\00:37:28.76
my attention span
was like the kids today.
00:37:28.79\00:37:31.56
It should have been
a lot better, you now.
00:37:31.59\00:37:34.51
But today the
attention span for young people
00:37:34.54\00:37:38.19
even for adults
aren't that great
00:37:38.22\00:37:40.67
so there is stage, you
know, it is what it is.
00:37:40.70\00:37:43.52
We can't say I
don't really care,
00:37:43.55\00:37:44.58
you know, you
need to be sit down
00:37:44.61\00:37:45.69
and read the
chapter of the Bible.
00:37:45.72\00:37:46.81
You're not gonna get anywhere
00:37:46.84\00:37:48.42
and so what you
need to do is without--
00:37:48.45\00:37:50.96
which I like
what you said, Danny,
00:37:50.99\00:37:52.02
we cannot
sacrifice our principles.
00:37:52.05\00:37:54.51
But what we can do is
and what you said Yvonne is,
00:37:54.54\00:37:56.58
let's give them an experience
that this Bible is exciting.
00:37:56.61\00:38:00.95
That I want this God of heaven,
00:38:00.98\00:38:03.02
I want to know more about Him
00:38:03.05\00:38:05.03
that took this
boy David and killed
00:38:05.06\00:38:07.91
and slew this giant Goliath
and more stories like that
00:38:07.94\00:38:11.11
and it's all about trust in God.
00:38:11.14\00:38:12.80
It's all about being obedient
00:38:12.83\00:38:14.36
and the consequences
of being disobedient.
00:38:14.39\00:38:16.43
And if you love Me,
keep My commandments.
00:38:16.46\00:38:18.21
So anyway that's
what these stories
00:38:18.24\00:38:20.17
and how this is all gonna work.
00:38:20.20\00:38:21.75
And it's great to think too that
00:38:21.78\00:38:23.52
parents can have some,
00:38:23.55\00:38:25.30
you know, we talk about this too
00:38:25.33\00:38:26.76
about creating
memories for your children.
00:38:26.79\00:38:29.81
What great memories,
00:38:29.84\00:38:30.87
I mean my dad and my
mom sat and read this to me
00:38:30.90\00:38:33.88
and I heard this I mean,
00:38:33.91\00:38:36.05
it's an experience
connected with an emotion.
00:38:36.08\00:38:39.31
I mean I think it's--
it makes it memorable.
00:38:39.34\00:38:42.24
It is. Absolutely.
00:38:42.27\00:38:43.96
You were talking
about, I don't know
00:38:43.99\00:38:45.06
what they call
that short memory,
00:38:45.09\00:38:47.15
was that ADD or
what's the other?
00:38:47.18\00:38:50.20
ADHD.
00:38:50.23\00:38:51.26
And ADHD I would
have had that one
00:38:51.29\00:38:53.51
when I was a kid but
my dad wouldn't let me.
00:38:53.54\00:38:56.05
So I guarantee you
99% of that would be gone
00:38:56.08\00:38:59.62
if my dad were around today.
00:38:59.76\00:39:01.50
He had four boys and we want
00:39:01.53\00:39:02.87
to have assured
attention and there's no way
00:39:02.90\00:39:05.37
'cause he worked you
over if he did in a good way.
00:39:05.40\00:39:07.72
You know, Dwight,
what the Bible said,
00:39:07.75\00:39:09.05
it believe not sparing
the rod and spoil the child
00:39:09.08\00:39:11.25
so that always got my attention.
00:39:11.28\00:39:13.13
So my dad is resting in
Jesus when I get to see him
00:39:13.16\00:39:16.96
I'm gonna thank
him for care and love.
00:39:16.99\00:39:18.83
No, I'm not saying
there is a such a thing
00:39:18.86\00:39:20.49
but take-- take
it for what it is
00:39:20.52\00:39:22.41
but I understand a lot of this.
00:39:22.44\00:39:24.19
I got a feeling
that was your problem
00:39:24.22\00:39:25.46
and had nothing to do with
any physical thing going on.
00:39:25.49\00:39:28.38
I got a feeling, Dwight just
didn't want to pay attention.
00:39:28.41\00:39:31.97
That's what all
my teachers said.
00:39:32.00\00:39:34.26
I told my parents but
they just don't understand
00:39:34.29\00:39:37.36
but, you know, of course,
now that got us a little bit.
00:39:37.39\00:39:40.42
But my dad was the
same way but that's a thing,
00:39:40.45\00:39:42.72
we want to reach
out to the young people
00:39:42.75\00:39:46.17
and one thing just
00:39:46.20\00:39:47.23
maybe to
transition a little bit that--
00:39:47.26\00:39:49.70
that maybe the
viewers might know
00:39:49.73\00:39:52.30
what we want to do.
00:39:52.33\00:39:53.86
This book that
I've got right here
00:39:53.89\00:39:55.07
that I'm showing
you on the screen here,
00:39:55.10\00:39:57.17
this is what they call a
lead book where they put,
00:39:57.20\00:40:00.33
that's why this is the thin book
00:40:00.36\00:40:02.41
and we had this hand done.
00:40:02.44\00:40:03.47
But it goes in, there's like,
there's like 10 stories in here
00:40:03.50\00:40:06.75
and it can go
into doctor's offices
00:40:06.78\00:40:08.24
or dentist's offices
or chiropractor offices
00:40:08.27\00:40:11.25
or just professional offices
and what we really want to do,
00:40:11.28\00:40:15.36
Tim and I had been talking.
00:40:15.39\00:40:16.72
We want to try
to get this in that,
00:40:16.75\00:40:18.76
you know, with
these LEs are out there
00:40:18.79\00:40:20.17
get it into
every dentist's office,
00:40:20.20\00:40:23.65
doctor's office, of
course you have a little
00:40:23.68\00:40:25.73
deal with cards in
here so they can get that
00:40:25.76\00:40:27.75
and they can contact, you know,
00:40:27.78\00:40:30.46
on the website
to get these books.
00:40:30.49\00:40:32.67
And honestly it
just hit me, you know,
00:40:32.70\00:40:34.43
this is wonderful too
that reminded me of the lady
00:40:34.46\00:40:37.91
that said her husband, you know,
00:40:37.94\00:40:39.64
she wanted to get it for him
00:40:39.67\00:40:40.83
because he was simple, you know,
00:40:40.86\00:40:43.40
and didn't read that
well or didn't understand
00:40:43.43\00:40:45.97
because what for whatever reason
00:40:46.00\00:40:47.86
there's a huge
audience today of adults
00:40:47.89\00:40:51.67
that we're finding out lot
in the inner cities and all
00:40:51.70\00:40:54.88
that this would be perfect
for because it's a way to bring.
00:40:54.91\00:40:57.74
Sometimes you read,
the Bible's little tough.
00:40:57.77\00:41:00.18
But you put it
in today's language,
00:41:00.21\00:41:02.02
you put it in where
people can understand it.
00:41:02.05\00:41:04.17
You make it
interesting and so I think
00:41:04.20\00:41:07.28
we shouldn't limit
this to just children.
00:41:07.31\00:41:10.21
I think this is for
everybody and I enjoy.
00:41:10.24\00:41:12.80
I've read the Bible
stories read to my kids.
00:41:12.83\00:41:15.10
I mean, I do it, I enjoy
it and this is another one,
00:41:15.13\00:41:18.56
I mean to me this is great.
00:41:18.59\00:41:20.79
I want to get a set of
these for my grand baby,
00:41:20.82\00:41:22.38
he's the youngest one
00:41:22.41\00:41:23.45
'cause they're going to want 'em
00:41:23.48\00:41:25.14
as long as I get to
be a part and read him
00:41:25.17\00:41:26.85
'cause it's
really what I'm saying
00:41:26.88\00:41:28.82
that the gospel is
simple, it should be.
00:41:28.85\00:41:31.40
But sometimes some of the,
you know, King James is great
00:41:31.43\00:41:33.76
but it's little
hard to understand
00:41:33.79\00:41:35.26
but when we can
get these stories
00:41:35.29\00:41:37.03
and then get 'em
to our young kids.
00:41:37.06\00:41:38.63
I could-- he is
talking I'm gonna think about
00:41:38.66\00:41:40.69
baby faith in Jonah--
00:41:40.72\00:41:42.23
Saying well, we can use an app.
00:41:42.26\00:41:43.44
We can hear the sounds
and we can hear all of this.
00:41:43.47\00:41:45.56
They'll love it. Absolutely.
00:41:45.59\00:41:46.94
They will. That's nice.
00:41:46.97\00:41:48.59
I want to follow
up just a little bit
00:41:48.62\00:41:49.91
on what Dwight was saying
00:41:49.94\00:41:51.07
about putting these
in all the different,
00:41:51.10\00:41:52.95
not just doctor's
offices any person,
00:41:52.98\00:41:55.60
place a person sits and wait.
00:41:55.63\00:41:57.70
We want Seventh-day Adventist
materials to be represented.
00:41:57.73\00:42:01.23
You know, people go
in and they read those,
00:42:01.26\00:42:02.83
all those garbage to
read that's around there,
00:42:02.86\00:42:04.86
for kids included
and but we want something
00:42:04.89\00:42:08.31
to be there that's of
value in those different places.
00:42:08.34\00:42:11.67
When we're
taking places you know,
00:42:11.70\00:42:12.97
it's a ministry in itself
actually just putting the books
00:42:13.00\00:42:15.81
in a different waiting areas.
00:42:15.84\00:42:17.49
And you think of all
across of North America,
00:42:17.52\00:42:20.05
all the different
place that these are,
00:42:20.08\00:42:21.76
they stand as a
testimony kind of an altar,
00:42:21.79\00:42:23.94
a pillar to the
Lord in the middle
00:42:23.97\00:42:25.46
of all the
trouble and when parents
00:42:25.49\00:42:27.03
come into doctor's
office, they have a headache,
00:42:27.06\00:42:28.78
they have
whatever, kids are sick,
00:42:28.81\00:42:30.41
there's
something wholesome there
00:42:30.44\00:42:32.08
before the families doing it,
00:42:32.11\00:42:33.17
it makes a contact
point between them and us,
00:42:33.20\00:42:36.43
so that we can
end up in their home
00:42:36.46\00:42:38.28
and visit with them.
00:42:38.31\00:42:39.46
And it's such a
beautiful way of doing that
00:42:39.49\00:42:41.58
and preparing
people for that experience.
00:42:41.61\00:42:44.19
Absolutely and you were talking,
00:42:44.22\00:42:45.31
there's time for
everybody to work together.
00:42:45.34\00:42:47.60
My mind goes too
all the ABC's hopefully
00:42:47.63\00:42:50.45
everyone of those who have 'em.
00:42:50.48\00:42:52.36
There are grocery stores
outside Andrews University,
00:42:52.39\00:42:55.39
Southern, you know,
they're selling magazines,
00:42:55.42\00:42:57.72
they sell all kinds of stuff.
00:42:57.75\00:42:59.18
We should be having
these out available for people.
00:42:59.21\00:43:01.62
I mean, there is so--
we have so many avenues
00:43:01.65\00:43:04.83
and sometimes we
only do certain things.
00:43:04.86\00:43:07.10
Well, if we're
gonna promote whatever
00:43:07.13\00:43:09.64
and let's promote
the gospel, you know,
00:43:09.67\00:43:11.47
let's make it part of it.
00:43:11.50\00:43:12.55
So I think we
ought to, you know.
00:43:12.58\00:43:14.84
Say let's all
work together everybody
00:43:14.87\00:43:16.94
because this is
what it's all about.
00:43:16.97\00:43:18.48
Well, we're thinking big,
00:43:18.51\00:43:19.65
don't think
we're thinking small.
00:43:19.68\00:43:20.78
Yeah. We're thinking big.
00:43:20.81\00:43:23.47
That's right. That's right.
00:43:23.50\00:43:24.97
Well, we'll help
anyway we can here at 3ABN.
00:43:25.00\00:43:28.29
We believe in it, we
think it's a great way
00:43:28.32\00:43:31.22
to get the gospel to the world,
00:43:31.25\00:43:33.12
and I love the
interactive part of it
00:43:33.15\00:43:35.27
and with young
people and, Dwight,
00:43:35.30\00:43:37.86
I've known him for, you
know, forever it seems like,
00:43:37.89\00:43:40.57
but ever since I mean we met
00:43:40.60\00:43:42.34
when we were very
young in ministry.
00:43:42.37\00:43:44.20
Young and young in
ministry and you know,
00:43:44.23\00:43:46.94
he always
thinks outside the box.
00:43:46.97\00:43:49.39
And I appreciate that about him.
00:43:49.42\00:43:50.72
If there's a way
to do and get it done,
00:43:50.75\00:43:52.50
Dwight Hall would do it.
00:43:52.53\00:43:54.36
And so you know that
if he's involved in it,
00:43:54.39\00:43:56.66
it's not going
to just lay dormant,
00:43:56.69\00:43:58.39
nothing is going to happen.
00:43:58.42\00:43:59.51
So I respect that
about you, Dwight,
00:43:59.54\00:44:01.39
and your commitment to the Lord,
00:44:01.42\00:44:02.58
your commitment to the message.
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And that you don't
compromise the message
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in order to sell more
books 'cause as you know
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you sold millions and millions
but you could move a lot more
00:44:10.22\00:44:13.45
if you were willing to
compromise a little bit
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but you don't do that.
00:44:16.06\00:44:17.20
At Remnant, so
thank you for what you do.
00:44:17.23\00:44:19.37
Thank you. Yeah.
00:44:19.40\00:44:20.81
There is a way just
to follow up on this
00:44:20.84\00:44:22.98
so you know a lot
of people out there.
00:44:23.01\00:44:24.93
It's true not everybody
00:44:24.96\00:44:26.30
is called to be a
literature evangelist
00:44:26.33\00:44:28.35
like I am but many people are.
00:44:28.38\00:44:31.13
They are involved in someway
00:44:31.16\00:44:32.64
but there's many
people that want to help
00:44:32.67\00:44:34.43
the literature
evangelist in their minister,
00:44:34.46\00:44:37.02
they believe in
the literature ministry
00:44:37.05\00:44:38.61
and they want to
support the literature ministry.
00:44:38.64\00:44:40.93
And as we see these--
these volumes all of--
00:44:40.96\00:44:44.35
When something
like this is initiated,
00:44:44.38\00:44:46.04
there's actually
great expense it come
00:44:46.07\00:44:48.37
with placing all
of these new books
00:44:48.40\00:44:50.21
out in new
territory in doctor's offices.
00:44:50.24\00:44:52.64
And I can't help believe that
there's some people out there
00:44:52.67\00:44:54.70
that would love to
sponsor these books
00:44:54.73\00:44:56.18
into doctor's office.
00:44:56.21\00:44:57.42
And they want to be
involved in the ministry
00:44:57.45\00:44:59.13
in someway of helping to
put that literature out there.
00:44:59.16\00:45:01.84
These pillars
alights in different places,
00:45:01.87\00:45:04.05
they would do that and then--
and then in return it blesses
00:45:04.08\00:45:06.48
the literature
evangelist who do feel
00:45:06.51\00:45:07.98
that God has called
him to be out there.
00:45:08.01\00:45:10.02
So it's a support back
support of the ministry
00:45:10.05\00:45:12.70
in being able to do that.
00:45:12.73\00:45:15.40
Well, I was going to
ask you well, Dwight,
00:45:15.43\00:45:18.05
how he decided to do
literature evangelism?
00:45:18.08\00:45:22.32
Well, you know,
00:45:22.35\00:45:24.67
I never sold books door to door.
00:45:24.70\00:45:26.38
When I was in
fifth and sixth grade,
00:45:26.41\00:45:28.51
they had magazine
sales, I was in public school.
00:45:28.54\00:45:32.18
And I remember my
parents were always too busy
00:45:32.21\00:45:34.46
always working just
as support at that time,
00:45:34.49\00:45:37.22
we were quite poor.
00:45:37.25\00:45:38.88
So I went out of my
little street bicycle
00:45:38.91\00:45:40.62
so that kind of ages
me, and I went door to door
00:45:40.65\00:45:44.66
and knocking on
door selling magazines.
00:45:44.69\00:45:46.39
So I had a
little bit of experience
00:45:46.42\00:45:47.59
at least going door to door
00:45:47.62\00:45:48.65
but when I came
back to the Lord,
00:45:48.68\00:45:51.39
somebody gave me
a Great Controversy
00:45:51.42\00:45:53.94
and The Desire of Ages.
00:45:53.97\00:45:56.28
And I bought a Bible
and when I read those
00:45:56.31\00:45:59.60
with my Bible, it
just, it changed my life
00:45:59.63\00:46:02.77
and of course it's
never been the same since
00:46:02.80\00:46:04.24
and that's why I'm here today.
00:46:04.27\00:46:05.81
And so I have a tremendous heart
00:46:05.84\00:46:07.49
for literature evangelist
because it's the books
00:46:07.52\00:46:12.01
that changed my life.
00:46:12.04\00:46:13.07
I listened to sermons growing up
00:46:13.10\00:46:14.34
and I don't know how many
00:46:14.37\00:46:16.09
and when you grow
up as an Adventists,
00:46:16.12\00:46:17.88
how many
evangelist I just thought
00:46:17.91\00:46:19.29
they were great
but it was the books
00:46:19.32\00:46:22.11
and of course I
know it was Holy Spirit,
00:46:22.14\00:46:23.84
it was a right timing
but I just have a burden
00:46:23.87\00:46:26.37
for the publishing work.
00:46:26.40\00:46:27.43
I just feel that we have an army
00:46:27.46\00:46:31.95
of people that are
Seventh-day Adventists
00:46:31.98\00:46:33.83
and other Christians.
00:46:33.86\00:46:35.14
We have an army,
but we need to supply
00:46:35.17\00:46:37.71
that army with guns,
00:46:37.74\00:46:39.27
I mean, if you know
what I'm trying to say.
00:46:39.30\00:46:40.95
I mean you go to war
and you're not gonna just
00:46:40.98\00:46:42.43
send a bunch of people in battle
00:46:42.46\00:46:43.49
without a weapon.
00:46:43.52\00:46:45.90
Ammunition. And ammunition.
00:46:45.93\00:46:47.66
Here you've got books that
00:46:47.69\00:46:49.48
you might not get anywhere else.
00:46:49.51\00:46:51.89
They talk about the
Three Angles' Message,
00:46:51.92\00:46:53.32
the present truth
00:46:53.35\00:46:54.59
and you've got
these boots on the ground
00:46:54.62\00:46:56.41
so to speak but it is the 3ABNs
00:46:56.44\00:46:58.87
and the
Remnants or Amazing Facts
00:46:58.90\00:47:00.10
and other ministries
they get the message out
00:47:00.13\00:47:02.72
but it takes the army
of workers to go there
00:47:02.75\00:47:06.19
door to door or however they go
00:47:06.22\00:47:07.87
to get these books
and so that's my passion,
00:47:07.90\00:47:10.53
has always been.
00:47:10.56\00:47:12.40
Do you have any idea
how many millions of pieces
00:47:12.43\00:47:16.76
of literature and
books that you've printed
00:47:16.79\00:47:21.72
and marketed over
the last 30 years?
00:47:21.75\00:47:23.86
You know, probably if I--
00:47:23.89\00:47:25.60
you know maybe if
I did it sound like
00:47:25.63\00:47:27.34
I was bragging
'cause you know it wasn't me
00:47:27.37\00:47:29.10
but I mean if you just
think of the Ten Commandments
00:47:29.13\00:47:31.12
Twice Removed, seven
million in the last year
00:47:31.15\00:47:33.69
so we print over seven
million of the full blown
00:47:33.72\00:47:35.50
Great Controversy and
send out a million to New York
00:47:35.53\00:47:39.16
and you get
donations and we just sent out
00:47:39.19\00:47:41.21
to San Francisco
and there was two
00:47:41.24\00:47:44.87
national news
medias that called me up
00:47:44.90\00:47:47.40
and ask why are
you sending this,
00:47:47.43\00:47:49.14
I mean to people
that don't want it.
00:47:49.17\00:47:50.83
And I was able
to witness to them
00:47:50.86\00:47:52.82
and I don't know we've just--
00:47:52.85\00:47:54.31
I don't know it could be
00:47:54.34\00:47:56.12
maybe close to a 100
million or something,
00:47:56.15\00:47:57.65
I don't know.
It's been a lot, a lot.
00:47:57.68\00:48:01.29
A 100 million and you
just said that so causally.
00:48:01.32\00:48:03.92
Yeah, well, I was
thinking it probably
00:48:03.95\00:48:06.04
wasn't that you know something
00:48:06.07\00:48:07.65
that's there
that's in people's homes.
00:48:07.68\00:48:10.13
You've all heard
the stories of somebody
00:48:10.16\00:48:12.07
who picked up a book 20 years
00:48:12.10\00:48:14.45
after it'd been
there or their folks die
00:48:14.48\00:48:17.27
and they get, you know,
cleaned it out the house,
00:48:17.30\00:48:19.56
they put these books
away and then they pull out
00:48:19.59\00:48:21.91
one of the books,
The Great Controversy
00:48:21.94\00:48:23.66
or Steps to Christ or whatever
00:48:23.69\00:48:25.73
and then you know give
their hearts to the Lord.
00:48:25.76\00:48:28.24
So it's there so
what you put out,
00:48:28.27\00:48:30.23
let's say it's a
100 million books
00:48:30.26\00:48:32.43
and pieces of literature,
00:48:32.46\00:48:34.86
you will only know in eternity
00:48:34.89\00:48:37.22
how many souls,
you with the books,
00:48:37.51\00:48:39.79
you know all the people
that you've worked with,
00:48:39.82\00:48:42.10
have to be in
hundreds of millions,
00:48:42.13\00:48:43.60
I know Steps to Christ,
00:48:43.63\00:48:44.70
there's millions and
millions and millions of those
00:48:44.73\00:48:47.40
that have been given out,
had been sold around the world.
00:48:47.43\00:48:50.67
So really only in eternity
00:48:50.70\00:48:53.13
will we have any idea
of the literature work,
00:48:53.16\00:48:55.34
literature
evangelism the amount of souls.
00:48:55.37\00:48:57.98
You don't always get
the amount of attention
00:48:58.01\00:49:00.07
that the good
preachers get, you know,
00:49:00.10\00:49:02.12
all the Marks and the Dougs
and all of these C.D. Brooks
00:49:02.15\00:49:05.41
and all these folks
are getting out there,
00:49:05.44\00:49:07.54
but in the long
run it's all the same.
00:49:07.57\00:49:09.66
It's all part of the work.
00:49:09.69\00:49:10.75
It's all the
finishing of the work.
00:49:10.78\00:49:13.31
We only have a
couple of minutes here.
00:49:13.34\00:49:14.84
We're gonna go to break
and well we have an address
00:49:14.87\00:49:18.75
that maybe a folk
want to contact you,
00:49:18.78\00:49:21.56
I like to be able to
put up an address in a bit
00:49:21.59\00:49:24.00
and how to do that
but what we want to do,
00:49:24.03\00:49:26.76
I think we want to go to break
and then we're gonna come back
00:49:26.79\00:49:28.85
and have-- we're
gonna go to a new break
00:49:28.88\00:49:31.04
and then we're gonna come back
00:49:31.07\00:49:32.33
and have just a
few minutes to close.
00:49:32.36\00:49:35.01