Participants: Shelley Quinn (Host), Andrew DePaula & Scott Sassonne
Series Code: TDY
Program Code: TDY015078A
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00:01 I want to spend my life
00:05 Spend my life. 00:07 Mending broken people 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Removing pain 00:23 Lord let my words 00:27 Let my words 00:30 Heal a heart that hurts 00:34 I want to spend my life 00:40 Mending broken people 00:45 I want to spend my life 00:51 Mending broken people. 01:06 Hello I'm Shelley Quinn 01:07 and welcome again to 3ABN Today. 01:10 We're so glad that you're joining us 01:12 as you do each and every day. 01:13 And just wanna thank you for your prayers 01:16 and your financial support of this ministry. 01:18 Today, we have an exciting program. 01:20 We're gonna be talking about some exciting new technology 01:24 that God has seen fit to put into the hands of Adventists, 01:28 and this is patented technology nobody else has, 01:32 and you'll see why, as we go into this. 01:35 It is something that I believe God meant for the end times. 01:40 It reminds me of a scripture in, Daniel 12:4, 01:44 where the angel tells Daniel, "You, Daniel, 01:47 shut up the words and seal the book 01:51 until the time of the end." 01:52 Many will run to and fro and knowledge shall increase. 01:57 Of course, I believe here, he's referring to the idea 02:00 that as they're running to and fro studying, 02:03 that God's going to increase the light on their path, 02:07 but I also think that we can tell, 02:11 as we look around, we know 02:12 we're in the final hours of earth's history. 02:14 Because prophecy is being fulfilled everywhere we look. 02:18 And knowledge is increasing and I believe 02:22 its part of God's design, so that we can get the gospel 02:26 to all of the world before He returns. 02:29 Without further ado, let me introduce our special guest. 02:32 First we have Andrew DePaula, and Andrew 02:35 you are the president of a remarkable company, 02:39 called IntelliPaper. 02:41 Yes, ma'am, God has given me that privilege. 02:43 And it is very special. 02:45 Give me, if you had to tell me what IntelliPaper was 02:49 in 18 words or less, what would say? 02:53 I'm gonna put you on the spot. 02:54 We make paper USB thumb drives. 02:58 There you go. Paper USB thumb drives. 03:01 And people are out there are going, "What?" 03:03 We'll tell them all about it, shortly. 03:05 Yes, and we also have the CEO of the company who is with us. 03:10 And that's Scott Sassone. 03:11 Scott, how long have you been with IntelliPaper? 03:14 Been with IntelliPaper for a year now. 03:16 We have friends, common friends on the board of directors 03:19 who introduced me to this remarkable technology 03:21 and this remarkable opportunity 03:23 for sharing the gospel with the world. 03:25 Oh, wonderful. 03:26 Well and, Andrew, how long have you been working on this? 03:29 Oh, boy. 03:31 God gave me the idea for IntelliPaper 03:32 in January of 2008. 03:34 In 2008. 03:36 And we're gonna get to hear the whole miracle story 03:40 behind this incredible product and what the potential, 03:45 it's a mind blowing potential. 03:47 Truly, it is. 03:48 But before we jump into this story 03:51 and get to know these two gentlemen better, 03:53 we're going to have a beautiful song, 03:56 a beautiful song that is going to be done by pianist, 04:00 Johan Sentana. 04:02 And he is going to play "Be thou my vision." 07:09 Beautiful, I love his simple style on the piano. 07:12 It's just very, very gracious. 07:15 Well, if you're just joining us, 07:17 today our special guests are Andrew DePaula 07:19 and Scott Sessone. 07:21 And I had the great pleasure 07:23 of getting to know these two gentlemen yesterday. 07:25 We spend a good deal of time in meetings 07:28 and I think you're gonna love them 07:30 as your brothers in Christ just as I do. 07:33 So before we jump into the remarkable gift 07:38 that God has put in your hand, this remarkable tool. 07:42 Let's get to know you a little bit better. 07:44 Why don't you share 07:45 a little of your background, Andrew. 07:47 Alright, Shelley, so I was born in the US, 07:51 but, you know, that's all I can really claim. 07:55 I grew up in West Africa. 07:57 My parents were missionaries and so I spent 08:00 the first 18 years of my life overseas, between, 08:04 you know, the years in Africa which were about 12, 08:07 little bit of academy in South America 08:11 and then I spent a little bit of time in Europe 08:12 before coming back to the States for college. 08:16 And, you know, it's interesting, 08:18 people talk about missionary experience 08:21 and they're like, "Oh, what was that like," 08:23 and I would never trade that for anything. 08:25 Did you develop a personal relationship 08:29 during this time, or was it-- 08:31 I mean, with Jesus. 08:33 Was your relationship, 08:34 at what age did it really become personal 08:36 and not just something 08:37 being handed down by your parents? 08:39 You know, I had sort of three steps in that process 08:43 that I can look back at, specifically. 08:45 The first one was when I realized 08:47 for the first time at the age of 11 08:49 that God was real. 08:50 Okay. 08:52 And that was a miracle, 08:53 if you don't mind I'll share just briefly. 08:54 Sure. 08:56 I had a temper. 08:57 I was the oldest of three siblings 09:00 and I was a bit of a bully. 09:01 I'm sad to say. 09:03 And so, you know, it wasn't anything too serious, 09:06 but, you know, my brother and sister 09:08 would get on my nerves and I'd whack them 09:09 or you know do something not nice. 09:12 And my mom you know was trying to get me to stop this 09:15 and she kept telling me, "You know, Andrew, 09:17 you can't change your own heart, 09:18 God is the one that's got to do that." 09:20 Amen. 09:21 And she's like, you know, and I'd be sorry, 09:26 you know, I'd meet my mom at the door, 09:27 I was like, alright spank me, I was bad. 09:31 You were quite different than I was. 09:33 You know, you can't help yourself. 09:35 You can't help yourself 09:36 when you're trying to do things on your own. 09:38 And my mom would tell me, it's like, 09:40 "Son, you can't, you can't do this on your own. 09:43 You got to ask Jesus for help." 09:45 Its like, "When those feeling start to come 09:46 send up a prayer." 09:48 So one day I remember, I actually remember 09:50 exactly where I was in the house and my sister, 09:53 I think it was, had done something 09:55 and I'm getting ready to haul off and, 09:57 you know, clobber her and then my mom's words, 10:00 you know, go back through my head and, 10:01 so I sent up a prayer, 10:03 you know, like Nehemiah in that instant. 10:06 And it's incredible, all of a sudden it was gone. 10:10 That just, you know, that irritableness 10:12 that wells up inside of you was just, it was gone. 10:15 Just like, gone. 10:17 I had to sit down and I realized in that instant 10:21 that God was real. 10:23 Praise the Lord. 10:24 And that, you know, all of this stuff 10:25 that I believed, but it was only because of my parents 10:28 and my upbringing was actually real. 10:31 So fast forward to academy and I, 10:37 you know, moved away from home, went to a boarding school, 10:40 in one of our Adventist boarding schools 10:41 in South America, in Brazil, 10:43 and, you know, I'm uprooted from my family. 10:46 I'd never been away from home before 10:48 and so I took this step and choose 10:51 to transfer my anchor from my family to my church. 10:55 So I studied and I became a baptized member 10:59 at the age of 14. 11:00 But, you know, you're young, you have friends, 11:02 you have life, it's exciting 11:03 and all this different things happen 11:04 and so you kind of coast along and then I guess, 11:07 you know, what I date my present experience 11:09 from as an experience 11:11 I had between my first and second year in college. 11:13 I had a summer camp in Arizona, 11:15 where I was just telling Scott about this, 11:19 the whole structure camp was geared to help these, 11:23 you know, young campers experience God 11:27 and make a decision for him. 11:28 Now I was a councilor at this camp, you know. 11:30 Helping with the staff and stuff. 11:32 That summer, in addition to reading 11:34 "Desire of ages" for our morning devotionals, 11:36 I was involved in the summer camp 11:38 and I saw God changing kids left and right. 11:40 And just observing that happening changed me. 11:43 And, you know, coming back from that experience, 11:46 back to Walla Walla for my second year, 11:48 I decided, you know, I gotta get serious 11:50 about my Christian experience and my relationship with God. 11:54 So did you ever consider being pastor 11:56 or did you feel like you were called in any of that way? 11:59 You know, that was my quandary. 12:00 I mean, I came back, 12:01 you know, wanting to do something for God, 12:03 you know, on fire for him, 12:04 but I never felt like my talents were in, 12:07 you know, what we often call the sacred professions, 12:10 you know, preaching, teaching, nursing, doctor, 12:14 you know, those kinds of things. 12:16 And I wrestled with this, 12:18 I remember distinctly, for months. 12:20 And finally I just threw up my hands and said, 12:22 well, you know, I guess 12:23 I'll just be the best engineer I can be, 12:25 'cause that's what I, you know, I was training to be. 12:28 And serve God, you know, as a lay person and in, 12:32 you know, whatever support capacity I can, 12:35 'cause I'm not cut out to be any of those other things 12:37 that, you know, we so stereo typically associate with, 12:40 with evangelism and outreach and what not. 12:43 But God had very different ideas. 12:45 Boy, he did, indeed. 12:47 So he took your training 12:48 and we'll come back in just a second 12:51 to see how God kind of redirected him 12:54 into the area of technology and what he's done with that. 12:58 Scott, tell us just a little bit about you. 13:01 Thanks, Shelley. 13:02 And I'd like to add in the context 13:04 of what I've just learnt about my colleague here. 13:06 We been working side by side for almost a year now 13:09 and these are some fresh insights into the life 13:12 and character of a guy that I've come to know 13:14 and respect here. 13:16 How old were you when you had that little epiphany, 13:18 with regard to your relationship to Jesus 13:19 before academy? 13:21 Eleven. 13:22 Eleven, so praise the Lord, right? 13:25 That there is a gospel, there is a Savior, 13:26 there is a God out there that can reach even-- 13:29 An 11-year-old. Amen. Eleven-year-olds. 13:31 I come to you from beautiful South Lancaster, 13:32 Massachusetts, where I'm happy to report 13:35 that Christian education is alive and well. 13:37 Yes. 13:39 My wife is an educator over Browning Academy. 13:42 We began a Building for Eternity campaign 13:45 for South Lancaster Academy out there. 13:47 And much of our lives have revolved around 13:50 helping young people, right? 13:52 Develop that relationship with Jesus, 13:54 knowing him personally. 13:55 Like Andrew had there, 13:57 leading up to his experience in the academy. 14:00 I was raised in another God-fearing family, 14:03 not of this denomination. 14:05 Where my mama taught me early on to have respect for God 14:09 and that seed was watered year over year over year 14:11 until the Lord brought somebody right across 14:13 the path of my life at a hallway at work. 14:16 Who simply asked, "How are you doing, Scott?" 14:18 I wasn't doing well at that time, 14:20 but I gave him the pat answer, "I'm doing fine." 14:23 And he grabbed me by the shoulders and said, 14:24 "Scott, you don't look like you're doing fine. 14:26 How are you doing?" 14:28 And that Christian fellow, Paul Smith, 14:30 and his God-fearing wife Dolore were my first step back 14:34 to the rest of my life here as a member 14:36 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 14:38 Praise God. Yes. 14:39 Now you also, you got an engineering degree from MIT? 14:43 I did my post-graduate work there 14:44 and that's the hallway where Paul Smith grabbed me 14:48 and, you know, in the middle of an academic institution 14:51 that excels in, I'll say intellectual pursuits. 14:54 God has a bastion of Christianity there with, 14:57 I'll say, the complete intellectual pursuit 15:00 that extents to the spiritual, right? 15:02 It'll combine what we know 15:04 and do here in this world with the spiritual. 15:06 Absolutely. Absolutely. And the world to come. 15:08 Well, now let's talk about IntelliPaper. 15:13 Let's talk about the direction God took you in technology 15:18 so that you could found IntelliPaper. 15:20 So I graduated from Wall Walla 15:22 with an electrical engineering degree, 15:24 you know, I met my wife there, I mean you can call it 15:26 Western Wedding College after all. 15:29 Along with a few other nice things 15:30 and I mean, it was a great school. 15:32 I loved my experience there, but, 15:34 you know, I'm a circuit board, circuit designer. 15:37 Digital electronics was, you know, 15:38 what I was in love with and I worked a couple of years 15:42 right out of school in the field 15:44 and I used to tell my wife that I go to work to play. 15:47 'Cause I love doing that. And so moved to Portland. 15:53 Ended up working at our Adventist hospital there 15:55 doing some information technology related stuff 15:58 which, you know, when you have an engineering degree, 16:02 you get a lot of background and training 16:05 in a lot of different supporting areas 16:07 and so I'd picked up a lot of that stuff 16:09 and so I was able to work there. 16:11 I feel like God was still, had me in school, 16:14 'cause, you know, later on, a lot of these skills 16:16 would really come to be useful, 16:18 but I learned all about telephony, 16:20 learned all about networking, learned all about Unix server 16:25 and system administration. 16:27 And then, through an incredibly 16:29 providential set of circumstances, 16:30 God called me 16:32 to the Upper Columbia Conference 16:34 where I was privileged to work with bibleinfo.com 16:36 Now that was not an easy decision, 16:38 because, you know, here I am making good money. 16:41 Yes. 16:42 In a, you know, a profession that, 16:45 you know, pays reasonably well 16:48 and so I ended up taking probably a 50 percent pay cut. 16:51 But, you know, we don't have time 16:54 for the whole story of that part of it here, 16:56 but God closed a whole bunch of doors 16:58 and gave me the boot. 17:01 Encouragement 17:02 Encouragement to get over to that job 17:05 that he wanted me to get there and through the first-- 17:08 Now tell us bibleinfo.com the one that was? 17:12 Yeah, so bibleinfo.com is a website ministry, 17:15 still exists today. 17:16 You can go there. 17:18 At the time, 17:19 it was one of the premier Adventist websites 17:21 where you could get Bible information. 17:23 Topical Bible studies. 17:24 Topical, yeah, so, what does the Bible have to say about. 17:27 Death. Anything. 17:29 And there would be a short collection of verses, 17:31 little bit of glue text in between. 17:33 Not only that, but they had a team of volunteers 17:36 that answered Bible question and prayer request. 17:38 It was a really, really powerful ministry. 17:41 And so they needed, I mean they'd grown, 17:44 you know, it came out of an idea for an 800 number. 17:48 You know, Bible information line they use to call it, 17:50 that was a response to, I think, 17:53 the Waco incident in Texas and some of the bad press 17:56 that Adventist were getting at the time. 17:58 And, you know, this had grown little by little 18:00 and by the year 2000, 18:02 which is when I was called to work there. 18:06 They had grown to the point where they couldn't outsource 18:09 their technology anymore and they needed someone 18:11 to really come and, you know, help the ministry grow 18:14 by laying a good, solid, technical foundation. 18:17 And so that was the call that God gave me 18:20 and it made it very clear 18:21 that that's where he wanted me to go. 18:24 To the point of even picking the house 18:26 that we live in for us and number of other things. 18:29 So at bibleinfo I began, 18:31 of course, to do the work assigned to me 18:33 and I don't think that it was more than a year, 18:36 I feel in love with using technology in ministry. 18:39 Yes. 18:40 I mean, here was a place where I could exercise 18:43 my talents, my skills, that I felt 18:46 that I was blessed with by God, 18:49 in a way that directly affected the salvation of people. 18:52 I mean, I would see it everyday, 18:53 you know, I'd write code and it would go out 18:55 on the internet and do something 18:57 and then here would be someone 18:58 that would make the decision for Christ as a result of, 19:01 you know, at least facilitated by, 19:03 I mean the Holy Spirit does the work. 19:04 But facilitated by this code that I've written 19:07 or these servers that I've put together, 19:09 or, you know, a whole host of stuff like that 19:11 and that just-- 19:13 So you found out that you were in a sacred profession. 19:14 I was. I was at a sacred profession after all. 19:17 You know, as an engineer. 19:19 And so, you know, fast forward a couple more years 19:24 and one day God gave me, I was leafing through a catalog 19:27 and I saw these, you know, CD, recordable CDs, 19:33 you know, they have the round ones 19:34 and whatever, that's normal, but then 19:36 there were these square ones, I'm like oh, that's cool. 19:38 So I ordered a few just for fun and ended up 19:40 putting the entire website on these CDs 19:43 and we ended up with a little business card 19:45 that you could hold in your hand and give away 19:50 but it had the whole website on it in all the languages, 19:54 and including six languages of the Bible. 19:58 And it was a hit, it was an instant hit. 20:02 We decided, you know, this is a great sharing tool and so. 20:06 I think we've got a picture of that, 20:07 I just want the people to see, there it is. 20:09 Absolutely. How tiny that was. 20:10 So, you know, these square CDs, 20:11 you know, you could fit them I your pocket, 20:13 but you can, you know, they would fit in a tray, 20:16 right in the computer and then you could read 20:19 the whole content of the website. 20:20 They were kind of conversational, 20:22 conversation builders as well, 20:25 because they were tiny and unique. 20:26 They had a pizzazz, a draw that was not, 20:32 it was more than just the fact that it was a CD. 20:34 I could give these things away, back in the day, to anybody. 20:38 I mean, I'd have them in my pocket 20:40 and then I'd sit next to someone in the plane, 20:42 or at the grocery store, I'd make conversation 20:44 and people would take these 20:46 that would probably have never taken a GLOW tract 20:48 or a brochure something like that, 20:50 'cause there's, you know, a lot of barriers 20:52 that people build or have around them, 20:54 about sharing tools. 20:56 So we decided that we were gonna make this available 20:59 to the membership and so we put together a program 21:01 and little bit of marketing effort 21:03 and we were giving these, making these available 21:06 for a dollar a piece to members 21:09 and they were going like hot cakes. 21:10 And I remember ordering them, 21:12 you know, 20-30 thousand at a time 21:15 and, you know, two months later we'd do it again. 21:18 And one day I called up 21:20 to order the next 20-30 thousand 21:23 and the manufacture in Hong Kong said, 21:25 you know, "I'm really sorry, 21:26 but we can't make these anymore." 21:29 And they told me a story that I couldn't believe, 21:31 it was a squabble between two companies 21:33 that claimed to own the patent on the square CD 21:36 and so they had to shut down manufacturing 21:38 while they sorted out this fight, 21:40 while technology moves on and I never heard 21:43 what happened, but, you know, CD trays went away, 21:46 I mean, now you're hard put to find a CD drive 21:48 in a computer anymore and I was disgusted. 21:51 I was just totally disgusted, because I felt 21:53 like the devil had pulled the rug out from under us. 21:56 And just when we had something 21:57 that was really gonna work well, it was all shut down. 22:02 Yes. 22:04 What you didn't know is God's really giving you a boot. 22:08 And we know that God does some of his best creative work 22:10 out of nothing. 22:12 And now Andrew and his ministry 22:13 basically didn't have the medium. 22:15 They had nothing with which, 22:16 to help equip the folks to share the gospel. 22:19 And out of that nothing came an idea. 22:21 Yeah. So fast forward four years. 22:23 All this time this has been bugging me. 22:26 Four years, it's been bugging me. 22:28 So I like new technology. 22:31 I like keeping up on the latest and greatest things 22:33 and one of the places I've had the privilege 22:35 of going a few times is CES, Consumer Electronic Show. 22:39 It's in January every year and it's this huge convention 22:43 where you can see anything that has to do 22:47 with consumer electronics of any kind. 22:49 Even things that will never be on the market, because, 22:52 you know, they're there just as a show-and-tell, 22:53 maybe they don't get traction or whatever, 22:55 so I mean, just everything is there. 22:57 And usually if you see something there it's-- 23:00 An engineer's dream vacation, huh? 23:02 It's a playground. Yes. 23:03 Disney land for engineers, there you go. 23:05 There you go. 23:06 You know, you get and six months down the road, 23:10 you know, you might see it on the market. 23:12 You know, you saw it first in CES. 23:13 So I went specifically that January to find USB technology 23:19 that I could buy for less than a dollar. 23:22 A USB, just standard USB thumb drive that we have 23:26 and use all the time. 23:28 I, you know, we had the financial model 23:30 for this worked really well, 23:31 you know, we were able to purchase them 23:33 for sixty-ish cents, you know, in bulk. 23:36 We were able to sell them for a dollar to the members, 23:39 cover the costs of distribution. 23:40 We didn't make any money on them, 23:42 but it broke even and it worked really well. 23:44 And so that model, I knew intuitively 23:47 that we needed to find something, 23:49 if we were going to use USB technology, 23:50 because at that time, back in '08, 23:52 USB thumb drives were starting to show up 23:54 in giveaways and different things. 23:56 And they're cool, you know, they're new they're neat, 23:58 you know, they were replacing the floppy disks, 24:00 you know, they weren't using those anymore. 24:02 And so I though, shoot, 24:04 if I can get a 100,000 of these, 24:08 you know, at 75 cents a piece or something from China, 24:12 then we can load bibleinfo.com on all of these thumb drives 24:15 and share them like the leaves of autumn 24:17 and the whole model works all over again. 24:19 It's got the same wow factor, the same cool factor. 24:23 Well, I canvassed everybody 24:25 that had anything to do with USB at CES. 24:28 I think I must have walked 20 miles. 24:30 My wife was with me and we were both foot sore 24:32 by the time we were done. 24:34 I mean, we visited SanDisk, we visited, 24:36 you know, all of the big names and all the little people 24:39 from China that were, you know, they have pavilions 24:41 just full of these vendors, and what I found out was 24:46 that USB technology could not be purchased 24:49 for less than three dollars a unit, period. 24:51 Which was cost prohibitive. Which was cost prohibitive. 24:54 Which actually turned out to be good news. 24:55 Yes. 24:57 So I'm back in my hotel room, just totally disgusted 25:01 and disappointed and fiddling with my name badge 25:05 and there's lump in it. 25:07 I'm like, this is weird so I tear it apart 25:09 and there is a chip inside 25:10 with little antennas on both sides, 25:12 it was an RFID tag. 25:15 They've been tracking us through the whole show. 25:18 Through our name badges, you know, you register, 25:19 they know who you are and so, you know, 25:21 they know which booths you visited and everything 25:24 and in that moment it hit me, I'm like, 25:26 if they can do that with a name badge, 25:28 why can't I make a USB drive out of paper. 25:32 And so that was the God moment. 25:34 That was the epiphany that launched, 25:36 you know, what's been now almost a eight-year journey 25:38 of building IntelliPaper the company. 25:40 So you, the Lord gives you this idea 25:44 and when we're talking about a USB that's out of paper, 25:47 it's kind of think of it like it's cardboard. 25:52 Actually you've got something. Yeah, I've got one. 25:54 Here is a business card 25:56 that's a standard paper business card, 25:59 but if I fold it in half, like this. 26:03 Let's see if we can get camera in on this? 26:05 Yeah. 26:06 I think you're gonna have to lift it up, 26:07 the flowers are in the way. 26:09 So you're taking your standard business card. 26:10 So I take my business card and I fold it in half, like so, 26:16 and now I can plug it in to a USB port 26:18 on a computer, just like. 26:19 Do you have this on a something? 26:22 We got some B-roll actually that. 26:23 Let's look at that. Then again they can see that again. 26:25 Look at that footage. 26:26 So you can just turn a business card into-- 26:29 Or any paper card for that matter. 26:31 Oh, any paper card. Here we go. Yes. Here we go. 26:32 This is a one of IntelliPaper's products The Great Hope. 26:36 And you can see that as you bend that, 26:40 you can end up with a USB. 26:43 And that just is amazing. 26:45 And so it will probably get plugged in here you'll see how. 26:47 Plugged in. 26:50 And you can think of this kind of like a key 26:54 that then unlocks this vault of treasures 26:57 on this great hope. 26:58 You can download the-- 27:01 Almost any kind of content that you can produce 27:03 and put in that vault, you can share with other people. 27:06 So this particular, when you have this product, 27:09 you have the PDF file. 27:12 You can then download the audio. 27:14 The Great Hope is one of the sharing books 27:15 that we've had for a while and so what we've done 27:18 is we've distilled it to a card, you know, 27:21 so here is a pack of them right here 27:23 and we on that we have the PDF, the Kindle file, 27:27 the epub file and the MP3 audio files. 27:32 That's amazing. 27:34 All in one paper card that can be easily handed out. 27:36 That's amazing. 27:38 Okay, so kind of let's back up a just a minute, 27:39 I think we jumped up, but the, so, you, 27:44 God gave you the idea 27:46 of how to do this incredible product. 27:49 You began the business. 27:51 Tell us about 27:52 some of the beginning of the business. 27:56 Well, so when the idea was given to me, 28:00 you know, you're an engineer, you go to school and you learn, 28:04 you know, a broad range of topics. 28:07 You know, you're not a specialist 28:08 necessarily in any particular thing. 28:10 Well, this particular product needed a few specialties 28:14 that I wasn't, you know, up on. 28:16 So I have spent an entire year researching that. 28:20 One of the first things I needed to determine 28:22 was whether the cost would work. 28:24 You know, I knew from the experience bibleinfo CD 28:27 that we had to, we had to be able to make these 28:30 for less than a dollar. 28:32 In volume, in time, you know, scale and all that. 28:35 And so I spent a long time researching the components 28:39 that would go into this, what they would cost, 28:41 the raw material, all of that. 28:43 And when I finally convinced myself 28:46 that this was a viable idea, then went to, 28:51 there is a program in Washington State 28:52 called the innovation assessment program 28:54 that's run through Washington State University, 28:56 and so they'll take your idea 28:58 and they'll do some market research 29:00 and they'll do a patent search and they have a team of experts 29:04 and it's all under nondisclosure, evaluate it 29:06 and then they grade, they score it. 29:08 And if you're, if you get the speck is 29:11 if you get 50 percent or higher, 29:13 that's market valuable. 29:15 IntelliPaper scored 75 percent on this. 29:17 Wonderful. 29:18 So on the strength of that, I filed for two patents 29:22 on the idea and this was, you know, the incredible thing, 29:24 Shelley, because when I went into this space 29:27 and I started researching it I said, I can't believe 29:30 no ones ever thought of this before, 29:33 and, you know, the patent search came back etcetera, 29:35 there was a gapping hole in the IP space where, 29:39 you know, this is now squarely plugged of course 29:41 with our patents, but nobody had done this before. 29:46 So on the strength of that, I filed two patents 29:48 and then I began working on the technology. 29:50 It took us three years to get a first working prototype. 29:54 And so the summer of 2011, I held in my hands 29:59 for the first time, real working business cards 30:02 that had all the pieces. 30:04 And one of the key components that we had is, 30:07 you know, every chip, every chip that is made is, 30:13 you know, starts as a silicon wafer, 30:16 and here is a silicon wafer of our chip. 30:18 There's 5,500 little chips and I think we a picture of, 30:21 you know, how small they are, that we can show briefly, 30:24 they're next to a penny. 30:26 That's amazing. 30:27 There's 5,500-- 30:29 More than 5,500. That is amazing. 30:33 And you cut these by hand? No. No. No. 30:36 I thought you told me that you were trying to automate them. 30:38 No, this is standard chip technology. 30:42 All the other electronics we have, cameras, televisions, 30:45 phones, everything have silicon chips in them, 30:48 and they all start their life as these wafers. 30:51 But we had to pull 30:53 special finishing technologies together. 30:57 We had to work with the manufactures 31:00 to create these minuscule little chips, 31:03 for us to do very precise specification, 31:05 so that, you know, they could be put into paper 31:09 instead of, you know, sorted down on a circuit boards. 31:11 Right. 31:12 And we don't need to get too, 31:14 we've go people out here going, "What's a USB?" 31:17 We don't want to get too technical, 31:19 but do answer that question for a moment, 31:22 'cause I know they're people, you'll see 31:24 that there is such an incredible opportunity 31:27 for ministry in this. 31:29 What is a USB 31:31 and then why is it exciting that this is a paper USB? 31:35 So USB stands for universal serial bus 31:39 and that's a technical term that simple means, 31:41 it's a plug that every computer has that you can put stuff in 31:47 to transfer data and information. 31:50 And so... 31:51 So these are also known as flask drive, they're known-- 31:53 Yeah so into the USB plug on a computer, 31:57 you'll plug in a USB device. 31:59 Non we're used to flash drives or mice or keyboards, 32:04 or, you know, camcorders, or hard drives, 32:06 or whatever you want to transfer information. 32:09 So the flash drive being the common thing 32:11 that many people use, it's a little USB stick, 32:15 now we can have them on a paper card 32:17 and not only is this very inexpensive, 32:20 but now I have something tangible 32:22 that I can give anybody 32:24 that can have whatever content that I want on it. 32:27 So, let me just make this comment. 32:33 intelliPaper, is a business that has a secular side to it, 32:38 they're doing business with people like FedEx, 32:41 and in various secular applications, 32:44 but you're also doing something on the-- 32:49 What they're trying to do the business module is 32:51 to get the secular to support the ministry side. 32:56 but if I am a business owner, 33:00 say I have my business cards made through you, 33:02 and let's say that I make a widget, 33:07 and it's really a unique widget, 33:09 but I have these business cards made 33:11 that I can fold up hand out, and some body can fold this up, 33:15 plug this little USB into their computer 33:20 and all of a sudden, my entire presentation 33:22 of the widget, a demonstration, audio, video, 33:26 everything is accessible through this little key. 33:32 Intelligent piece of paper. 33:33 It's an intelligent piece of paper. 33:35 Think of it like a catalog, you know, back in the old days 33:39 before computers, you know, you get the Sears catalog. 33:41 You could have your catalog 33:42 if you were a business owner on this. 33:44 That's right. 33:45 Also, now instead of giving someone just a paper card 33:46 with your contact information, you give them a tangible token, 33:51 key to an entire experience 33:53 that can tell them anything you want them to know. 33:56 That's amazing. 33:57 And the good news for the business person 33:58 is in addition to giving that information 34:00 to whoever it is they want to share it with, 34:03 the business person can also know 34:05 when that person connects. 34:06 Whether it's via the USB, 34:08 we actually gave you three options, 34:09 when it comes to communicating. 34:11 Via the USB, via the quick response code, 34:15 so if you want to do it live and interactively in person, 34:17 if they've got a smart phone or a tablet, 34:19 they can scan it immediately 34:21 and begin to have that experience 34:22 while they're there with you 34:24 and that can help you start to share the message, 34:27 perhaps in a little easier, little more effective way. 34:29 And then there is a third option 34:31 we call near-field communications as well. 34:33 Yeah, the radio frequency wireless. 34:35 Oh, things are getting, boy, when the Bible says 34:38 knowledge shall increase, it's amazing. 34:40 So you found out that there was a whole-- 34:42 that so now have, how many, 17 patents? 34:46 We've been blessed with 15 patents. 34:47 Issues patents and there's more on the way, 34:49 we're working on a fairly large IP portfolio. 34:53 That is so amazing. 34:54 So now let's take it to the idea of how, 34:59 let me see one of your Great Hopes. Thank you. 35:02 So now you've got some thing that, 35:07 have you every tired to give away a book to somebody 35:09 and they're going, "No, no, no thank you. 35:10 I don't want the book." You know. 35:12 Or a GLOW tract or something, 35:14 "No, no, thank you I don't want a GLOW tract." 35:16 You go up to somebody and tell them, 35:19 "Would you like this? 35:20 This is a book about final days" or whatever, 35:23 and somebody is picking this up and saying, 35:25 "What do you mean this is a book? What?" 35:28 And if they understand 35:29 that all they have to do is to bend this 35:32 and then this little USB drive comes out, 35:35 people will take it just out of curiosity. 35:37 Tell us about the man on, this is so funny, 35:40 on the way down here in the airplane. 35:42 You really want me to tell you that story? 35:43 I do want you to tell that story. 35:45 Alright, so I'm on the-- 35:48 Well, first of all, I can give these to anybody. 35:50 I mean, just like I use to be able to give these to anybody, 35:53 I can these to anybody 35:55 and there is a curiosity factor here that is unparalleled. 35:58 So my favorite, you know, because I'm in the business 36:02 is I will sit next to someone and I will, 36:06 you know, be making small talk with them 36:08 and they ask me what I do, and so I say, 36:10 well, I'm involved in making USB drives. 36:13 And I hand them this and they're like USB drives. 36:15 And so I say, yeah, we make them out of paper, 36:17 and I hold it like so and I crack it and fold them, 36:20 and the, they're just incredibly amazed. 36:24 So I'm sitting next to this young fellow 36:26 from Portland, and, you know, he's typical young adult, 36:32 kind of scruffy looking, you know, dressed a little bit. 36:35 Nice enough but he was tired 36:37 and wasn't really interested in making small talk that much. 36:39 And he probably isn't gonna take a book from you, is he? 36:41 No, he is not going to take anything from me, 36:44 in the traditional sense. 36:46 And so we got to talking and I asked, 36:48 you know, he wanted to know what I did 36:50 and so I make paper USB thumb drives. 36:53 He like-- 36:54 And so I showed him, just like I did now 36:56 and he grabbed it out of my hand, 36:58 he grabbed it out of my hand and he says, 37:01 "Dude, this is like dope." 37:04 So he... 37:05 He meant that in a good way. 37:07 Yeah, so he took it and-- 37:08 He took it and he pulled his wallet out of his pocket 37:11 and, you know, reverently stuffed it in and he's like 37:14 I got to show this to all my friends. 37:15 Yes, now that's incredible. 37:17 And so on here, he's got a kindle version of the book. 37:19 Yeah so no I just gave this young man 37:22 "The Great Controversy." 37:23 Yeah. Is that not amazing? 37:24 And it can be downloaded audio, kindle, a PDF. 37:27 In all the formats that he might be, 37:29 he would be most likely to read it in. 37:31 And in on the context of the times 37:33 in which we live now, given the election cycle 37:36 that's happening in our country right now, 37:38 what could be more relevant than a religious 37:40 and political history of the universe 37:43 and the great controversy between good and evil, 37:45 perhaps as we're seeing some, 37:47 you know, serious decision being made 37:49 for the future of us and our country, 37:51 over the coming year. 37:52 I know that, this is kind of, you know, 3ABN is, 37:55 we're meeting with these gentlemen yesterday, 37:58 'casue we're exploring some ways 37:59 that we might work together 38:00 and they're both members of our "Go" Evangelistic Team, 38:03 so we're looking at 38:05 how we might do something's together. 38:07 But I know it's kind of difficult 38:10 to get this in your mind at first. 38:11 I remember the first time at ASIA, 38:14 number of years ago, when you were first out 38:16 with your first card, it was just like, 38:19 I kept looking and saying, it'll do what? 38:22 We want to show you a little video roll 38:25 that they brought that I think is really cute, 38:27 and it'll just show you how the potential is unlimited. 38:31 You may want to use this for your personal business, 38:34 for your personal ministry, the potential is unlimited 38:38 with how these cards can be used. 38:42 Intellipaper's newest product line is SwivelCard. 38:45 Produced in rural Edwall, Washington State. 38:53 What you can't do with a regular Valentines Day card 38:56 you can do with a SwivelCard. 38:59 A SwivelCard is a smart card, with a chip and QR code 39:03 and wireless technology build-in. 39:05 You can plug it into a USB port, 39:07 scan the QR code, or hold your cell phone to it 39:10 for wireless connection. 39:12 It's been a family business from the start. 39:14 My wife has been very involved 39:15 and my son, Stephen programs chips in the summer. 39:18 We've also always worked to be environmentally friendly. 39:20 We use components like cellulose 39:22 and biodegradable adhesive. 39:24 We also help the community, 39:25 we're the only tech company in Lincoln, County 39:27 and half our crew is local. 39:29 We provide jobs from light manufacturing 39:31 through senior engineering and that's gonna grow. 39:33 SwivelCard helps the individual and the corporation 39:36 both to romance others in a uniquely compelling 39:38 and valuable way. 39:42 You know, if you could just let your imagination run wild, 39:45 I didn't get any sleep last night 39:47 after talking with these gentlemen all day yesterday. 39:50 Thinking about potential of a product like this 39:54 and God has put this in your hands. 39:56 And you've seen miracles at intelliPaper. 40:01 Very similar to, you said that you read 40:03 the Mending Broken People story of 3ABN, 40:06 he said, oh, I so identified with that. Tell us a few. 40:10 Well, so, you know, it's not an easy journey 40:13 to start a company. 40:15 I've never started a company before and so, 40:18 you know, I did the only thing I could do and I'm like 40:20 Lord, if you really want me to do this, you got to help me. 40:24 And one of the things that I've been convicted of 40:28 is that every aspect of the business 40:30 needs to be taken to God at any point of time. 40:32 Amen. 40:33 And so, you know, it's my habit, 40:35 on a daily basis to bring the business 40:37 and all of it's cares and needs to God. 40:40 You know, however complex or mundane that might be. 40:45 And I remember, I mean, 40:46 there's so many miracle stories. 40:48 I keep a journal and there's just dozens and dozens of them, 40:50 but one in particular that I remember is we were... 40:56 gearing, it was a week before payroll 40:59 and, you know, by then, I had a small crew 41:01 of just a few people working, and we didn't have enough money 41:07 for payroll and so, you know, Monday comes along 41:10 and I'm like Lord, what am I suppose to do? 41:12 I'm supposed to pay these people on Friday, 41:13 Tuesday, Wednesday, I'm praying. 41:16 Thursday morning I'm praying still nothing 41:19 and so, I, you know, finish my devotions, 41:22 go down to the shop and, you know, start working. 41:24 It was sort of in the back of my mind, 41:26 wondering, what am I going to do, 41:28 and a friend of mine shows up, just some one just unannounced 41:32 and, you know, of course, he's a friend 41:34 and we started talking and walked back up to my office 41:36 and he sits down in the chair there in my office 41:39 and he pulls something out of his pocket 41:41 and he hands it to me, and that's a check for $25,000. 41:46 It's like, wow, 41:48 and I'm at payroll, needless to say. 41:52 Yes. 41:53 And, you know, that's just one example 41:55 and we have another one that was flood related, 41:59 that was just incredible, 42:01 that I could, I could tell you about. 42:03 We've got some pictures actually. 42:04 Sure. 42:05 So one morning, the weather was acting weird 42:11 right at the end of the winter and I'm, 42:13 you know, one morning I step out of my office 42:15 about noon and we'd had a bunch of snow on the ground 42:18 and that it had rained and whatever 42:20 and melted fairly fast. 42:22 And as I step out of my office to go home for lunch 42:24 and I look at the creek with is just across the road 42:27 and it's almost to the top of the bridge. 42:30 And I'm like, oh, dear, this is gonna, 42:31 this is gonna, this is gonna, flood. 42:33 Not looking good. Not looking good. 42:34 He's out of the garage, okay, 42:36 he's in the manufacturing facility now with the team 42:38 with the business is up and running. 42:40 Prospects have never looked better 42:42 and the water starts rising. 42:44 And the water starts rising. 42:45 So I walk up to the house 'cause just, 42:47 you know, I live just a couple of blocks up 42:48 from this facility where we work 42:50 and I walk up to the house and call back down to the fab, 42:53 I was like, "Guys, get everything up off the floor." 42:56 I said that creek is gonna flood 42:57 and we need everything up off the floor. 42:59 Now I had no idea what it would be 43:01 and so I ate lunch and I went back down 43:03 and as I walk back around the corner, 43:05 the water's coming down the road and an hour-- 43:08 This is a matter of an hour. 43:10 This is a matter of 45 minutes or so, 43:12 and an hour later, we in 28 inches of water, 43:15 and there's a picture that they can show. 43:17 Unbelievable. 43:18 Here is a picture of our fab, in 28 inches of water. 43:22 When you say your fab, this is your manufacturing-- 43:24 This is the manufacturing facility, yes, that's right. 43:27 Where we make intelliPaper. 43:29 Now this isn't the building we're in now, 43:31 but you can see there, 43:32 this is a shot through one of the windows that-- 43:34 Unbelievable. 43:35 We broke out, actually, to go in, you know, 43:37 the water is like a foot higher outside, 43:39 than it shows in the picture. 43:41 The water eventually rose 43:42 to just touching the bottoms of the tables. 43:45 Unbelievable. 43:46 And, but we lost nothing in all of that. 43:49 And so, you know, we cleaned up, we, we, 43:52 you know, moved out 43:54 and so then now we're wondering, 43:55 you know, what ware we gonna do? 43:57 You know, manufacturing is halted, 43:58 we had a job on the line, we had several more orders, 44:01 you know, in the pipeline. 44:03 What does a company do, you just halt it like this. 44:05 So the board met, we prayed about it and we decided, 44:09 you know what, we don't see our way clearly forward, 44:12 but we're gonna move forward in faith. 44:14 And so, you know, we made a decision 44:17 to relocate the business, 44:19 we didn't have the money to do it 44:21 but, you know, we're just gonna step forward in faith 44:23 and God, things came together. 44:25 God's grace. 44:26 There was an architect friend that, you know, came and said, 44:31 "Look, how can I help?" 44:32 There was a contractor that came and says, 44:35 "Look, I'm willing to help." 44:38 And when it was all said and done, 44:40 the move cost us about a $100,000. 44:43 That flood cost us about $100,000 that we didn't have, 44:46 by the way, but not only were we back up 44:50 and running in three and a half weeks... 44:52 Unreal. 44:54 The, you know, one of the guys that was on the projects said 44:57 he'd never seen something like this go together so fast. 44:59 We brought in modular units, and, you know, 45:01 we leveled the piece of land, brought in module units. 45:04 Pulled in new power, did plumbing, 45:06 did all this stuff and three and half weeks later, 45:08 we resumed the job that we had been on 45:11 the morning it flooded. 45:12 That's amazing. 45:13 And by, I think the flood was in February 45:16 of that particular year, 45:17 and by June, we paid bill, completely. 45:21 Praise the Lord. 45:23 That's amazing. That's just, it's incredible. 45:24 You know, I want to give people and opportunity at home, 45:27 and first, we want to put an address out, 45:29 but I just want to kind of review this with you again, 45:32 because, like I said, 45:33 it's so difficult to get this in your mind, 45:36 but if you have a business, or if you have a ministry. 45:39 Let's say that you have life style center, you can take, 45:44 well, you can order through them, these cards 45:47 and whatever information you want available on here, 45:50 video, a demonstration of your product, 45:53 your catalog, your, maybe it's a marketing tool. 45:58 What this is actually is 46:00 as someone takes your business card, 46:03 they bend this up and they insert this little USB drive, 46:07 this cardboard USB drive into their computer, 46:11 it's like this is a key that has, unlocks this vault, 46:16 this cloud based vault of information, 46:20 and it can be downloaded in any-- 46:23 of a number of different formats. 46:25 So it's such an amazing tool. 46:27 If your mind can just go crazy with this 46:31 as you think about it. 46:33 Whether you are, if you want to do this, 46:35 I know you have FedEx that has used this. 46:37 You've got a number of commercial-- 46:39 Educational institution as well. 46:40 Educational institutions. 46:42 Hospitals have used these tools. 46:45 So if this is something that you want to look into, 46:48 and we want you to know how you can get in touch 46:51 with intelliPaper, or Andrew personally. 46:54 And here's the information. 46:58 To find out how intelliPaper can work for your ministry, 47:01 you can write to them at 2525 East 29th Avenue, 47:05 Suite number 10B dash 388, Spokane, Washington 99223. 47:11 That's 2525 East 29th avenue, Suite number 10B dash 388, 47:17 Spokane, Washington 99223. 47:20 You can call 509-343-9410. 47:24 That's 509-343-9410. 47:28 Or you can visit them online at intelliPaper.info. 47:32 That's intelliPaper.info. 47:43 It is mind boggling, this technology, 47:45 but it is so exciting to know 47:47 that God has put it in your hands, 47:50 Andrew, because-- 47:51 Not just because you are a Seventh-day Adventist 47:53 and you've got a corner on the market 47:55 but because your using really, truly, 47:58 Biblical principles in developing your business. 48:01 And we're so grateful 48:02 that not only are you looking at the secular, 48:05 but their business model is to develop the secular, 48:08 so that it can eventually be supporting 48:10 the ministry side of this. 48:12 One of the ways 48:13 that we want to support the ministry side of this 48:15 is by providing evangelistic tools. 48:18 And so this is one of the first ones, 48:20 you know, The Great Hope, as a sharing book. 48:23 I can give these, like I said, away to anybody that, 48:26 you know, many people. 48:28 Especially young people 48:29 and technologically savvy people that, 48:31 you know, are just so jaded with, 48:33 you know, traditional outreach methods, 48:36 but they'll take this and so, you know, we're working, 48:40 exploring ways to distribute this 48:42 and so, you know, get in touch with us. 48:45 I would encourage people to get in touch with us 48:47 and to explore how we can together work 48:51 at distributing the gospel on this new technology. 48:54 Amen. It is just so exciting. 48:56 I think that Scott said a while ago, he said, 48:59 when we were showing the break he said, 49:01 "We've got from that flood 49:03 to flooding the world with this." 49:06 Well, now we have again Johan Sentana, and I just, 49:09 as I said, I appreciate his style on the piano 49:11 and he is going to play for us, "Let all things now living." |
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